| Pets are therapeutic. | | | | Arthritis while living in my home, pet lambs, pigs, as |
| There is nothing like a pet to improve your mood, it | | | | well as Donkeys, rabbits, mice, birds, dogs and cats, |
| does not matter if it is a dog, cat, horse, donkey, pig | | | | we even had foul such as a very noisy cockerel |
| or elephant. | | | | called red that my hubby came home with out of the |
| The fact is that animals give out love and warmth, | | | | blue one day to prevent him from ending up in a |
| and one always knows that the affection given out | | | | cooking pot. |
| by a pet is not motivated by greed or for that | | | | The funny thing is that although I have no animals of |
| matter lust, it is pure love and affection with no holds | | | | my own right now, I cannot even walk down the |
| barred. | | | | street without some-ones pet making a B-line for |
| We lost our beautiful Border Collie Tarbra in 2007, | | | | me, I do not even have to look at a dog for it to |
| and we will never really stop missing and loving her. In | | | | start dragging its poor owner towards me, like I was |
| March 2009 we lost our old cat Brando and the | | | | a long lost friend. One woman who had a rescued |
| house turned into feeling like an empty shell, and yet | | | | dog near and enough accused me of being the |
| somehow in a strange way, both Tarbra and Brando | | | | horrible owner who had initially dumped the dog, of |
| are still with us and probably always will be. | | | | course I was not but she took some convincing as |
| I went out into our garden this morning to hang out | | | | apparently this dog would not go near anyone |
| our washing on the line, and within minutes our | | | | normally, but was all over me, as I pointed out to her |
| neighbours cat Sooty was there brushing up against | | | | I obviously had not ill treated her dog or for that |
| my leg for a fuss, she does this every time I hang | | | | matter any animal. |
| the washing out or go and sit in the garden for any | | | | It was because animals can instinctively feel my love |
| reason, Sooty loves it when it is sunny and I sit out | | | | for them that many of them automatically came to |
| on my garden lounger, she jumps up and climbs all | | | | me for a fuss. Donkeys are the funniest I can sit in a |
| over me, and just loves having her back scratched | | | | car by a field of Donkeys and without opening my |
| gently, then she goes to sleep on top of me still | | | | mouth, in a matter of virtually no time at all the |
| purring away like mad. | | | | Donkeys make a straight line towards me making a |
| I love watching Sooty when she plays in the long | | | | heck of a racket, it is as if they think I am another |
| grass, springing around chasing insects which for | | | | Donkey in their mist. Do I love Donkeys, you bet |
| some reason she never seems to catch, rolling all | | | | yea, if I had the property and the funds to do so I |
| over the place ending up on her back brushing herself | | | | would have a Donkey sanctuary in a flash! |
| against my feet and legs waiting for me to rub her | | | | Pets really are therapeutic, we now have a Border |
| tummy giving out little mews of joy, and I do not | | | | Collie Puppy called Foxie, because I cannot survive |
| think anyone could resist patting her, least of all me. | | | | this life without having animals around me to love and |
| I have had all sorts of pets living in my home over | | | | be loved by. |
| the years, from my pony Ben who I Treated for | | | | |