ksalvagno said:
I thought I was bad with 5 dogs, 3 cats and 4 rabbits in a 1600 square foot home! I'm glad I'm not the only animal nut here! I'm a sucker for rescues!
Speaking of rescues and charity cases...out of our animals:
1 Border Collie, from the humane society.
1 Lab mix, also from the humane society...same day.
1 Feist dog, showed up on the front porch hungry with bloody feet.
1 Border Collie, picked up off the side of the road
1 White GSD, part of an accidental litter (not by us!)...has a congenital defect called megaesophagus,
very special care required.
1 Sarplaninac LGD, free, because he was already 6mo and snappy with strangers (which we were, but we took him anyway)
1 DSH cat, wife 'rescued' him from a dopey friend of hers as a kitten
1 DSH cat, wandered into my garage as a kitten
1 Himalyan cat, wife purchased from a horrible breeder who's kid stomped at it until it was half nuts
1 Himalayan cat, given to my wife by same horrible breeder because said breeder just didn't have the time to deal with all the cats she was breeding...and because my wife knew the kind of situation the poor cat was probably in
3 goats, two nubi does and a boer doe, purchased on the cheap from family because they were moving to town and couldn't take them
...and then a whole bunch more goats which are afforded WAY more care (and subsequent $$$) than most sane folks would give a goat...
ksal said:
By the way, isn't that why it is called "fur"niture?
Why, yes, I think you're right. If it were meant only for humans, they'd have called it skiniture.
-- but...well, it must be worth it somehow...I suppose.
