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How do you explain it to non-pet people?
The cats have peed on my sofa again SIGH. Just before my MIL visited.
She's a wonderful woman (in some ways a lot nicer than my own mom), but she's not a pet person. She asked me (in re. the peed on sofa) when enough was enough and I would "decide it wasn't worth it." I said something along the lines of 'If I got rid of the cats because they did inappropriate things, how much destruction would I let the boys do before I got rid of them.' She look disturbed, and pointed out to me that my cats *were not* children. I know that. My critters are critters, my kids are kids. But... This is where I'm stuck. I long ago came to the conclusion that there were two types of people in the world: Animal people and non-Animal People. Animal People understand some things instinctively; like why you don't ditch a pet because they are inconvevient. But how do you explain it to someone who doesn't get it on the instinctive level? If I talk about commitment, people like my MIL point out how much my life has changed since I got the cats (they've been with me longer than my hubby), and nobody would "blame" me if I "admitted" I needed to let them go. If I talk about love, they just look at me like I'm nuts. I am an Animal person surrounded by non-animal people. I need to find a way to communicate with these aliens in my world ;-) Marie |
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