According to my mother – At the age of three years old I helped our family cat with her delivery of her litter of kittens in the early hours of the morning. I sat patiently beside our cat and as one of her babies arrived I would gently clean up the wet matted kitten with fabric nappy/diaper. Since then I’ve grown up with pets and have never been too long without an animal companion by my side.
If I had things my own way [and the land] I would probably end up being along the same lines as the fictional ‘Doctor Dolittle’ omitting the male gender and medical practice. (Smiling to myself as I imagine myself with the chaos surrounding Rex Harris who portrayed Dr. Dolittle) I know that my husband would agree with my ‘Dolittle’ description.
Presently my husband and I have in our care three dogs, one cat and an aquarium of tropical fish. Periodically, he reminds me that these are to be the last of our pets as we both would like to resume our travels – having raised our four children and many domestic animals over the years. So this is now to be time for us – to be placed in the forefront – so no more animals.
So we shall see… We have done it once before but it only lasted about 9 months before I found myself once again at the animal shelter.
Of course in our home the cat definately rules both the home and garden and will rival any creature who tries to show her otherwise [such as her canine family and all feline intruders] then following closely in second place is my baby girl – our beautiful Border Collie, she is the youngest of all of them followed by our mixed breed Golden retreiver-German Shepherd who is the old gentleman home protector; last but not least is our golden lab who is just a darling so loving…
I can’t imagine my home without an animal it just wouldn’t seem normal after a lifetime having them around me so, when they have gone I will compromise by having only a cat for myself to keep me company.
“I ask you – What good is a magickal person without some kind of animal for companionship anyway?” [smiling to myself]
This is the written property of R.L.W. who is the woman behind the blog ‘A Twist of Magick’…
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