Love and Pets
Most of us love our pets and we pick them for their looks, breed and personality and the loyalty and devotion among other traits and possibilities. Most people think it will be until death do you part.
But did you ever get a pet that was hard to like or even tolerate to the point that you were very unhappy and maybe decided to find him/her a new home. I have not had a lot of pets, I have lived with the pets of family members and I still remember finding myself loving them more that the real master/mistress or owner.
I think that most of the time pets are predictable, and I hope you will tell me more about this,if you know about the breed and animal. Did you ever think that picking a mate might be like choosing a pet?
Do we choose a mate and expect not to deal with feeding, some destruction of property,and a need to rush back because they are missing us? Do we expect to leave a pet alone and not to return and find that the pet has a new favortie? Some people get pets and find true love, but if you treated a man/woman like you do your pets, would it be easier to find true love?
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Chief advantage of pets over mates: Pets can’t talk!
Thank you Rose, lovely blog.
laurie, thank you. I appreciate your support.
Rose over my life I have had 3 pets I dog 2 cats my latest cat was a stray who has taken over my house and whenever I put her food out she will look at me and jump up as if to say thank you before eating. The dog we had which was our first pet would when me my brother and my dad were play fighting would run around trying to join in but didn’t know which one to protect. So I have no idea of a pet who was unlikable. The word pet is a wrong way to describe them they are companions who we talk to they understand when we are down and through their affection help us get through the tough days. Pat
pets also show you love no matter what, and your right laurie they don’t talk back. loved your blog roseinbloom
All of your questions aim on the term ** Treatment **! You get back what you give.
Patak is fully right with his words. Michael
” Some people get pets and find true love, but if you treated a man/woman like you do your pets, would it be easier to find true love?”….
Well,Rose… I think to be able to answer your question ,first we need to know what “true love ” is …and ,I’m sure that this will mean different things to different people .
I don’t know what you mean by the expression “to pick a mate ” ,because I never went out deliberately mate picking , the men in my life …there were not many ,but the few I had they kind of picked me first , and things continued on from there …neither did I ever had to chose a pet as they were all given to me by different people at different stages of my life …
Presently I have an old dog ,I have had him since he was 2 years old ,he is now nearly 15 . I love my dog and he loves me ,I treat him very well ,but he is not my true love … And although I treat my dog very well ,he is still a dog ,eats dog food ,sleeps on the floor and goes to walk on a leash ..so. .definitely no..
I wouldn’t like to be treated like a pet , that would not bring the best out of me !
Now, about “true love “… What is true love ? Is it possible to live a happy fulfilled life without having found that elusive true love in our lives ?
Love presents itself to us in a myriad of ways , and there could be a myriad ways of experiencing and/or expressing true love .
I haven’t had a mate for a while now, however I’m not without love …I could even say that I enjoy my life …and everything I do ,I do it with love …perhaps this is what true love is …the ability to find love in everything that surrounds me …
nmod, I love your very honest and thoughtful reply. I am in a big hurry, and I wrote my blog quickly just to start people thinking and talking. First what is true love, I meant a love that has satisfied the people in it for whatever time it is. Just that and nothing more. One thing that does strike me is that you were chosen and also you did not choose your pets. For women of our day, men chose us; we could reject, but we were chosen. I was chosen.