My precious dog, who doesn’t have much time left, and I spend my days dreading losing.
She’s been with me since I nearly killed myself in college, pulled me out of depression, through graduation, the first date with my wife, our wedding, covid where I feuded with my family for 2 years and had almost nobody, and a move across the country.
We’ve got 3-6 months left together, and I don’t know who I will be with her gone.
My best buddy for about 18 years now: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/865d0600-ffe6-4118-b188-1fab5a6bc943.jpegWhen I lay on my bed and she’s sitting at the other end, I say to her, “you wanna sit next to me?” And she immediately starts walking toward me to give my arm a head-bump and receive a neck massage.
Living? Kimchi the cat, Kim Chiara Obscura. Endless kitten, gorgeous and playful and sometimes cuddly. We have 2 dogs, 2 cats, love them all but yeah she is my favorite. Luckily we have 4 humans too who each have a different favorite.
Of all time? Tie between the enormous Shepard - Akita mix dog we had, Loki, who was an utter delight and the cat who lived to 23, Max. One time my ex stood for an hour with Max on the counter, letting him sniff each of the spices individually. Opening each jar, sniffing, closing it. He always wanted to taste anything we ate and wanted us to share what he caught.
If I could have only one pet, a cat is what I’d get. But if I can have two, I would have a dog too.
my previous golden. I love the current one but my last one was so gentle and loving even by golden standards. We literally had people say they were scared of dogs but ours was an exception.
I remember playing a not too old mobile game called Super Starfish, where the characters are based on real life sea creatures.
A lot of them look really adorable, I want them as pets, especially Jooso (the yellow-orange koi fish), Bluberri (a blueberry colored tropical fish), and Mantee (a very colorful mantis shrimp). Garnette (one of the octopi) also looks kinda nice. And so does Don (based on the megalodon shark).
It is a biv downside. From my experiencev they also start to have health issues halftime through and these can be pretty bad. Happy for people who don’t have issues with it but I couldn’t go through what I did again.
Still miss my boys though, they were lovely. I wish I had a friend who has rats to experience the joys again a little.
I don’t even know why we’re having this thread. I love my old-man bird. I’m fond of cats when they aren’t making me sneeze or shredding my hand because scritch #87 was deeply offensive compared to #86. Fish can be interesting.
The answer, however, is dogs. People who disagree are entitled to their opinions, but their opinions are deeply flawed.
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