do you have a pet?
if so what makes the best pet?
and why.
do you have a pet?
if so what makes the best pet?
and why.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Dogs make the best pets because they love you the most. I used to have this giant greyhound. He was sweet and really dumb. I would fake throwing a ball into the sky and he'd just look up there for minutes waiting for it to come back down. Other times, when we were playing rough, he'd rear up and punch me with these massive front legs until I dropped the ball. We loved to play keep the ball away from one another. It was a full contact aerobic workout. But when we weren't playing, he was gentle to the point of timidity. One bad day he died. After that my wife and I started traveling too much to have a dog. But he still turns up in my dreams sometimes, usually just as a dream gets bad and seems about to turn into a nightmare. Then I see him and wake up. Good boy.
Last edited by Pompey Bum; 09-09-2016 at 06:52 AM.
We have a cat. It can curl up by you and give you a sense of companionship.
I've also had chickens in my youth. And a dog. I liked both species about equally well and they seemed to like me. Unfortunately, they did not get along with each other. I mean I can see why the dog could not stand the chickens. They had nothing much to do except torment him since he had to be on a chain and they didn't. The inevitable happened and he got off his chain. After that the number of my pets diminished.
Arf! Arf! If patterns of consciousness survive, will they be there to meet me? They need me now, and perhaps I will need them as much later. Of course I talk to them in particular voices and they learn to talk back in dogese.
We have a cat, quite intelligent animals.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Something I learned recently was that domestic pets like dogs and cats often understand words a bit like humans do.
Same goes for parrots, of course, except they can actually pronounce words...
I'm a cat person, though I've never owned one. I find dogs far too emotionally needy.
I do mean to get a cat at some point, but only once I own my own home - landlords tend not to be thrilled at the idea of pets.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Even if you own your own home (town house, condo, etc) and you are under a home owner association (HOA) you may have a pet restriction. Our daughter can only have two pets even though she owns her condo, for instance, and the size of the pets is restricted also.