A List of "Suggestions" from My Animal Overlords

"We, the Bunificent Overlords of the Bunagerie have magnanimously decreed in the interest of the Expanded Consciousness of all Dependent Kind, which heretofore languished in the Darkness of Ignorance but now bask in the Glory of Our Shining Example...."

(*Sigh*) They go on like that for a while, I think it's a part of the Animal Overlord Handbook or something… let me just sum up, then, shall I?

What they're trying to say is that they feel like I'm the only person on the Athens Patch with anything much at all to say about their pets. With all the excellent animal pictures flying around the place here, I think they expected more back and forth along the lines of "Who wants a bunny when you can have a DOG?" or "You know, there's good eatin' on one o' them rabbits," or "Bunnies are such hard work, I prefer my cat."

I guess they thought maybe I'd be getting questions about where I got all these silly animals, and what I spent to get them, and how I can possibly afford the upkeep on the zoo that we've got. There was the one question about which type of rabbit to get, and the one about how long they live, and then one about whether the bunny in the picture was really pink… but we can't expect Ms. McClatchy to do ALL the work around here, can we?

My furry masters were hoping I'd be able to tell them a few of your short stories here and there, like the one about how "The neighborhood cat was bullying our cat," or the one where "We put out a bowl of cat food once and a family of raccoons showed up!" You know, stories about people's first pets, or how they'd always wanted one but have never found the time for it, or how you got a pet for your kids but your kids got bored and now it's YOUR pet, and you're not sure just what to do with it.

So what do you say, Gentle Readers: am I the only animal lover here, or do the rest of you just hate your pets? For that matter, even if you DO hate your pets, the Bunificent Overlords of the Bunagerie are magnanimous and forgiving creatures (as long as they get their carrot tops and dandelion greens) who just want to hear your stories.

Horses, pot-bellied pigs, parakeets, it doesn't matter to me… uh, THEM…, just sound off about why you love them, what you've learned from them, and all the creative ways they make you laugh and drive you crazy.

While you're at it, maybe we could touch on the reason why we feel the need to treat them like little fuzzy people.

Please! Give me SOMETHING to take back to my masters, or we're all DOOOOOOOOMED!

- PT

Do you have pet-related questions, comments, concerns, complaints, briefs, documents, declarations, or otherwise? If it has to do with pets, Pat wants to hear about it below!