Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | Expensive Hobby - 12/19/2024 13:43 I agree with all of this. Also, it amazes me the hoops people jump through to have pets. I guess I don't like pets enough - if I didn't live on a farm where I could let my pets roam free, I wouldn't have any. I have 2 outdoor farm dogs. They see the vet once a year and will be culled if any major surgery is needed. They have insulated dog houses (that they rarely use) and multiple other places to get out of the wind, but when it's truly cold, they come into the heated garage to sleep. I'm of the opinion that dogs survived for thousands of years before people were around to give them a warm place to sleep. I can leave for a week and as long as the self-feeder is full before I leave, I will not give them a second thought (plenty of other water sources nearby). We have a couple barn cats too. They eat some dog food from time to time, usually drink from cattle waterers, and are mostly feral. Just the way I like them.
I absolutely LoVe dogs! Love 'em to pieces!! But I spent the first 65 years of my life with something/someone besides myself controlling what I did and when I did it........I'm 100% not willing to spend what little of my life I have left letting a dog control what I do, where I go, when I do what. We r4have so many reitred friends who have LWDs (little white dogs) whose entire existance depends on the needs and wants of the dog. I'm just not wiling to do that. So we have no dog, will have no dog, will like the friends and neighbors' dogs, but they go home at the end of the day and those friends and neighbors have to buy the food, pay the vet, pay the groomer, walk that thing 2-3-4-more times a day, and I march on to do the things I want to do. |
Anyone need a dog?
