If you aren't an animal lover - why?

[Bob Slydell]

I've always been allergic to animals, so dogs, cats, guinea pigs, etc. were always pets I couldn't have. Goldfish was about it for me. Doesn't mean I don't like playing with other people's dogs, just that it would be hard for me to have one in our house.

Granted, if tomorrow, DS said, "Dad, can we get a puppy?", I'd probably call my Doc and get put on some sort of once-a-day allergy pill like Allegra.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

Hmm, I have severe allergies to dogs and cats, so I have a Maltese and a Yorkie....no shedding, no allergies, and no doggy smell. I am allergy free around my dogs and we don't have a shedding problem.

I wish I wasn't allergic to cats, because I love them too, but I have terribly bad allergies as well as asthma, so I can't.

My dogs rock the house. They are the coolest little creatures and they love people and children. They don't even care if small children get a little rough with them (although I do). I just watch very closely when a child is petting them.

I didn't get to grow up with pets because my dad was one of those "non-pet people". Turns out he actually does like pets a great deal, but since he wasn't raised around them, he just didn't know how great a pet can be. My kids are going to always have dogs in their lives (when I have kids, that is).

 

[WeluvDisney2]

Originally posted by oogieboogie
The only animals I like are dogs, but I would never get a dog because I could never pick up their poop. I don't really like cats, I tolerate them but I'm allergic to cats, so the only one I tolerate is our cat and the only reason we got our cat was because DH wanted a cat (he's a cat person)

Other than that, I grew up with a zoo in my house and that's enough to put me out of wanting or liking any kind of animals forever. Among the many animals my family has had over the years of my childhood include a pair of tiger cubs, a black bear, 4 monkeys, 13 dogs, 3 parrots and 2 cockatoos, 500 chickens (my mom had to have her own eggs and poultry meat), 1 goat, 1 baboon, 1 deer, 2 giant monitor lizards, and a huge assortment of stuffed animals around the house (my dad hunts). Ugh!

LOL!! oogieboogie, can I ask where you grew up??

 

[oogieboogie]

Originally posted by WeluvDisney2
LOL!! oogieboogie, can I ask where you grew up??

I grew up in Indonesia, in southeast Asia. Back then, my dad loved to hunt and sometimes during his hunting trips, he would come home with a live animal - thus adding to the zoo!

Probably explains why I'm so dysfunctional nowadays!

 

[Alice28]

I like animals- cats, dogs, I like to go to the zoo and watch the animals and I appreciate them as God's creatures. However, I just don't *love* them. I had a kitty for 7 years, and then my husband adopted a dog and it terrorized the poor cat. She ran away and I felt awful about it. The dog was very unruly and unfortunately we had to give her to some friends for adoption for a number of factors. I think right now I am so busy with my kids and such that I feel I don't have time to devote to training a dog/puppy. I also have a hard time dealing with the fur/hair as I am allergic to it. And scooping poop. Not severely, but enough where I am always congested, etc. when we have pets in the house.

 

[WeluvDisney2]

Originally posted by oogieboogie
I grew up in Indonesia, in southeast Asia. Back then, my dad loved to hunt and sometimes during his hunting trips, he would come home with a live animal - thus adding to the zoo!

Probably explains why I'm so dysfunctional nowadays!

Wow, were any of them tame enough to have as pets?
My grandfather had a farm, and I remember all kinds of crazy stuff when we were growing up. My cousins getting bunted by goats... my uncle (a teenager at the time) chasing us with a chicken foot after the chicken was killed for dinner. He would pull on the tendons and make the dead foot grab at us. (Gross!) Of course we would scream and run. There was the really great stuff to, like baby kittens and baby chicks.

 

[oogieboogie]

Originally posted by WeluvDisney2
Wow, were any of them tame enough to have as pets?

yeah, pretty much. Since most of them were babies, they learned to tolerate us humans. The black bear we had would actually sleep in my sister's bedroom on the floor next to her bed. When we moved to another city we gave them up to the zoo since we couldn't take any of them except the dogs. It was a sad sad day.