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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
| PROMPT: Pets Do you like pets? Why do you think some of us love pets more than anything? Did you ever have a pet that impacted your life in a big way? ![Merit Badge in BCoF 2
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Congratulations on your virtual blogging adventure!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-BCoF_2-1901868_14.gif) Hi!Interesting that this prompt should come up. I recently read an article about pets and people. I have pet parrots, cats, and dogs. Pets have always been a part of my life. A cocker spaniel named rags was my mother's dog when I was 3 years old or so. We took rags with us as a family. Rags died the year I graduated from high school. By then I had a cat and a dog of my own. I took them with me after I married and moved to another state. My pets are family. I'm always startled when dogs are left in shelters because their owners can no longer care for them. Or when people put a cat out at night and say, "it can take care of itself." Cats need care. They are a special kind of pet. They need independence as well. People who start and care for cat colonies are special too. A cat colony will keep rodents down to a number that is tolerable. Cats have special abilities in a scientific way. They are able to interact with people to give health benefits. Scientists are learning more about these benefits and some articles are being published that will begin to teach people about how cats benefit human society. What I read recently was that pet people are often introverted people. What I read also said families will often use pet lovers as scape goats for the family. In my case I was raised on a farm where there were always some kinds of animals. As a young child I was allowed to have a cat of my own. As long as I kept it in my room. We had a barn, so when I was in school the cat was put out for the day and went to the barn for shelter. All the creatures I have interacted with have impacted my life in one way or another. They were the mother I never had. They gave me love, kept me warm in a house as a child, that did not have an internal heating system. In some instances, they were my protector against danger. Even horses I kept were my special friends. Because of my friendship with animals and birds I learned that male humans are jealous of females who keep pets. Sometimes boyfriends, husbands, fathers, uncles, and cousins will take a relationship between a female human and an animal and belittle the relationship or even put the pet in a dangerous situation to break the relationship. People will often refuse to believe that communication between animals and humans often is stronger than communications between human siblings or children and parents. Genisis 2:18-20 Animals created as companions to man. The Bible has a lot to say about the relationship between people and animals. Always treat an animal as if it understands your language. They understand more than people give them credit for most of the time. |
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