Just I came from outside and it is cold

I feed the birds in the garden.

No much birds seen this morning here

Only one dove and 2 crow's

I don't have pets

Tomorrow our schools  are full of animals.

Children may take their pets to school.

When I was young  I took  some snailes with me to school, because  we had no pets in house either.

For me

With africam it is every day  --  animal day

What a wonderful idea to have a World Animal Day.  

I got my love of animals from my mother's English side of the family.   My father did not care for animals.   I was mad for dogs as a child but never had one, not even to this day.  But I did manage to get a turtle at age 10 and brought home a cat at age 14.   But my mother fed that cat and it was her cat and I wasn't that keen on it. 

When I was 25, my sister moved to Kingston and got herself a kitten.   Shortly afterward she upped and went back to Guelph, leaving me to look after the cat until she could get it.   After five days I was in love.   My sister never got the cat back.   His name was Brutus and we adored each other.   But alas, he was not a streetwise cat and I was a first time pet owner who didn't know much, and poor Brutus was killed by a car at the tender age of nine months.  (I still go to his grave when I go back to Kingston)

But Brutus' legacy lives on in a life of animals.  I have never been without a cat since then.   I brought three out on a place when I moved to Vancouver.   I had a few ferrets.   I realized after Brutus just how much I liked animals and looked for a job at the Stanley Park petting zoo and got it.   I was there for 13 years.  Animals have been my living, my comfort, my laughter and my companions.  Animals have made me friends and have brought me to Africam.  Sitting quietly with animals is my idea of nirvana.   A world without animals would not be worth living in.  

MT STORY IS OF TWO DOGS

i  wanted a golden lab for a companion

i drove 50 miles to a  dog -cat  shelter

a female had given birth to  10 pups

they refuge charged $50.00

i wanted a male -  their were 6 males

i sat in a room with all the pups  some came to

me -some scraped with each other - several

chewed on the tires of my wheel chair

but one - sat back and watched it all

after an hour - i went over to him - picked him up

looked him in the face said- you wanna come-

and i took him -  NAMED HIM  LYRIK

i got him nutered and off we went

he went to 7 states- 3 provinces and two territories

with me over a 10 year period - he was my pal

he developed a brain tumour and i had to put him

to sleep-

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i wanted a white or black german shepherd

i looked for  6 months- then saw an add in paper

white shepherds for sale- 200 miles south

near the boarder- they had one left a female

$200.00 i bought her - took her home'

NAMED  HER    TARA

had her spade and off we went

she was with me every where i went

- again like  lyrik-  7 states- 3 provinces and two territories

never barked at any animals except one-

it was a moose and it touched the hood of the truck

she barked- i said  no ! and that was it

both dogs would sleep in overhead sleeper of camper truck

at night if the grizz was their- if some one else was with me

they slept on floor -

both dogs were in jet boats -canoe's-

and one in airplane with me

at age 14 she just  got old and worn out

i had to put her to sleep - a great friend and companion

now i just have ALF LOL

TRUE STORY