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Pet or 'perfect' garden?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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Up until recently we've always had pets - dogs or cats or both at the same time. Old age or illness has left us petless for a couple of years now.

Freedom, no s###t inside or out, no brown patches on grass, no cat hairs in laundry basket , fleas, tricks or companionship, exercise unconditional welcome?

Btw, my brother, for once, had a profound thought:

When you take the dog out, you go to the park. When you leave the house to go to work, the dog assumes you have gone to the park without them.

Every time you come home ,you are forgiven!

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Tulip18Tulip18 Posts: 23

    I wonder if the cat thinks you've gone to the vets without him when you go out to work and thinks rather you than me! ?

  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237

    I think my cats just used to think "Yay! No-one to stop me walking all over the kitchen worktops"

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Good point, Daisyimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    SG, that's the difference between dogs and cats as we see it.

    Asses and donkeys are seen as stupid because they won't do what we want - I see it as a sign of intelligence

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I have no desire for a pet or a perfect garden. image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I know what you mean.. the elderly lady next door used to call Willow, the overseer as he used to follow me round and inspect my work.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Never had a perfect garden - don't believe they exist - and have had pets for 40 years.   Love it when they come out to play with us.  It's their playground too.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601

    I would like a perfect garden. I'd like a clean house, too. But my pets have been my best friends all my life; it is never lonely when they are around; there is always a reason to get up and start the day and a dog gets you out and about. I like to have someone to care for and to be glad I'm around. Heaven knows, the animals are a lot easier to please than the kids!

  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

    Any other life form , be it dog , cat , fish or whatever is worth taking care of in this crazy world .

    Any living organism , though rarely human , gives me consolation !

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