As I’m sitting waiting to go into the dentist, I notice a sign on the door that I’ve not seen before. In big black letters it reads NO PETS.
That got me to wondering; with as much drama as is going on in our world, how long before my dentist gets in trouble for his sign? A lot of us pet owners view our pets as children. Members of our family. Even closer to us than some of our family members. We dress them up in clothing. Feed them special meals. Let them sleep with us. Take them everywhere we go. Some have developed deep emotional bonds with our pets that we can’t seem to develop with people; maybe shouldn’t have. But alas.
Point being they are more than just a pet. They are companions. They let us cry in their fur, then lick the tears. They rump and play giving us hours of entertainment. Yes, they have the ability to drive us up the wall. They run away. They (like humans) can break our hearts. But unlike humans, it’s not intentional. They are (after all) animals.
Personally, I’m glad my dentist will not allow our fur babies. There are places all that fur shouldn’t go.
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