Critter Crazy!I don't know what it is about this time of year, but March and April always find me getting into EMCM (Elly May Clampett Mode). In short, it is extremely dangerous for me to visit pet shops and the local humane society website. I am crazy for critters!
I long to add more fuzzy and feathered babies to our home, and this year finds me wanting a pair of parakeets. The only two things standing in my way are (1) I don't know how I would deal with parakeet chatter while I have a migraine (I could always put them in another room...), and (2) finances. Bird cages and healthy birds are on the pricey side. Oh, and a third problem is that Maggie McGee Kitty might not ever get another wink of sleep if there are birds in the house!
She'd be thinking "Feathers!" and also probably "Oh goodie! Poultry!
). Oh, and I hear that birdies have a penchant for hiding behind bookcases (of which we have a fair number in this house!).
Did I mention that I would also loooooooooove to add a Golden Retriever and/or a Golden Lab to the family?! Gah! I am crazy, crazy, crazy! I would so love to have a big, golden dog to take for walks around our neighborhood. I am in bigger dog fancying right now. Typically, I like little dogs. (I hope that Kermit, the Portage County Humane Society doggie that I was in puppy love with late last summer got a really good home! He was suuuuuuuuuuuuch a sweetie pie, and I remember a bunch of you praying for me to get him myself, but it was a "no-can-do" situation at the time).
It's a good thing I am still dealing with influenza and not quite well enough to venture out of the house, otherwise there would be the distinct possibility of my going on a pet store binge. I would at least come home with a box full of cat toys. Oy! If you all knew how many cat toys we already have for Maggie, you would think I was totally crackers. (Keep in mind that Maggie inherited a number of toys from Miss CJ and from Mr. McFierceson, *and* that I gave her more to get her more interested in life after Mr. McFierceson died last year. It was either invest money in cat toys and time in playing with her, or else getting another kitty).
Maybe I will keep Maggie and mostly myself happy by having my dad pick up some wild bird and nature DVDs from the library. And, by window shopping for a two or three story cat condo. And by shopping online at Hancock Fabrics for some fun fur or whatever it's called to fix Maggie's favorite cat toy - the teaser wand (a two foot pole with a long strand of elastic which has a loud (!) jingle bell and several feather-like strands of fake fun fur to tantalize a bird-loving kitten).
If I were a "normal" healthy person, and if I won the lottery, I would buy out the pet shops and be a crazy lady with a houseful of birds and bunnies, guinea pigs and maybe even ferrets... and especially lots of kittens and puppies. What can I say? I am 44 and have no human children. The maternal instincts simply MUST find some kind of outlet. I have such a lot of love to give. I need some more fur and feather babies!
I think I will go visit the humane society website. Perhaps I have a date with destiny...
Critter lovers, unite!
Love in Jesus to one and all! Hug your kids and your fur kids today!
-Miss Chris
Mr. Kiki Thomas McFierceson, January 31, 2006.
Puddytat Paw of Mr. McFierceson. He had such sweet feet. RIP, Sweetie.
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