Hey, thanks for asking - we got another cat of course (so, back to four), he is a pale orange medium-longhair of undeterminable age and about ten cats' worth of personality. Aside from he wouldn't eat for the first two weeks except at the vets', and the fact that he now has me brainwashed into taking him for long walks on a leash twice a day
, he's working out great, has completely won over the other cats. (Although now one of THEM has me taking him out for a short walk once or twice a day, TOO. Sometimes I'm not sure we DIDN'T get a dog or two
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I want to give things at least another couple months to settle down, and then I will be sort of keeping my eyes open and being ambiently "aware of dog opportunities", but not working under any sort of a deadline, you know? The idea being we are definitely getting a dog but are relaxed about timetables and will camp out til one grabs us the right way, so to speak.
BTW, to return sort of to the topic, I didn't have much trouble talking my small-animal vet into seeing one of my first hens when she was badly eggbound a couple years ago -- I suppose it was probably about 50% being nice to a client with multiple pets that have been using the clinic, and about 50% sort of 'what the heck' curiosity, but he was good about it and didn't even charge me anything.
Although the receptionists there now know me as the woman who brought a chicken in a computer-printer box
I am pretty sure my hrose vet would see a chicken too if push came to shove, but since his advice would probably be "make soup" I'm sticking with the small animal vet for the flock for now
Pat
I want to give things at least another couple months to settle down, and then I will be sort of keeping my eyes open and being ambiently "aware of dog opportunities", but not working under any sort of a deadline, you know? The idea being we are definitely getting a dog but are relaxed about timetables and will camp out til one grabs us the right way, so to speak.
BTW, to return sort of to the topic, I didn't have much trouble talking my small-animal vet into seeing one of my first hens when she was badly eggbound a couple years ago -- I suppose it was probably about 50% being nice to a client with multiple pets that have been using the clinic, and about 50% sort of 'what the heck' curiosity, but he was good about it and didn't even charge me anything.
Although the receptionists there now know me as the woman who brought a chicken in a computer-printer box
I am pretty sure my hrose vet would see a chicken too if push came to shove, but since his advice would probably be "make soup" I'm sticking with the small animal vet for the flock for now
Pat
