How does your pet enhance your life?

Animals especially for young people make them better people as they grow up. I too have to have pets and wild things about me. I also have to grow things. I would go mad without the companionship and growth that my pets and plants go through. We hade 5 cats and now have only 2. Don't know what happened to 3 of them during the fire. We know we lost the bunny, and feel soooo bad about that. The Ozzie cat that was burned as I was has been so good about his recovery that I have done better also. I am so attached to him and am glad that I don't have to wonder whatever happened to him. Bad enough knowing he had to suffer a bit. I still apologize. Thanks for starting this discussion. I will see how other pets are for their friends.

I have pet cat in our house. That cat enhance my life very much.That cat brings me joy every time i went home. And besides i played with it. It can never explained how much i am happy being together with my pet.

pets brings so much happiness, entertainment and love, my dogs are like my babies i treat them like human and even my cat (well he not mine i have just adopted him since my little brother inlaw left him here) but i have had birds which its funny because they can talk our budgie sit on your shoulder and walk and fly around the house and when he past away he was about 7 yrs old i was just lost. i lost my little dog march this year and my life still hasnt gone back to normal we are missing her like crazy even my other dogs are feeling the same way.

All we have are 3 dogs 2 chows and an American Spitz . The Spitz is mine. We bought him for my daughter but she didnt keep her bedroom door open for him so he slept with me and he ended up mine . THought we had lost him one time in our travels, we had spent the night in a motel and let him out that morning to do his job And got all ready to go and he hadnt come back . Thats was when there was no lease law so he got to roam. Well we went up and down streets calling and me clapping my hands for that was his signal to come back. 45 min later my hubby said one more time and we are gone we cant stay around for ever so I got out in the middle of the street and clapped and clapped and was about ready to turn and go and way way down the road I saw a little white spot that was getting bigger and bigger told hubby here he comes, when he got to me he jumped at me liked to have knocked me over and boy at the kisses we got lol we were all togethre again and all was happy. He is now 14 1/2 years old the o;ldest of the 3 and lays arounbd alot and I have to push him out the door in the morning but when it is time to come back in he is all hapy jumping and running to gt back in the house and he is now setting under my chair and I can hardly move for running over him lol

I love all of my animals. I have 5 dogs, 5 cats and 1 rabbit. We are getting ready to get another rabbit. She is the sister of the one we have now. My brother-n-law and his wife have her and they are the ones who gave us the one we have now. We want to get her because we want the sisters together and also their baby kind of tortures her and they are ignorant enough to let him do it. My animals are like my children. I don't have any kids so I call my dogs, cats and rabbit my kids. My husband doesn't like cats but he loves me and knows how much I like them so he puts up with them. Of course they are outside cats just like 4 of our dogs are. The rabbit is in the house for now. Jasper is our second to oldest and he is our biggest. We have had him the longest, since we have been together, 9 years. He is a big baby and loves everyone except for strangers until he gets to know them. Scotty is the oldest and the smallest. He is our only house dog. He is really small and 11 years old. We have had him for 6 years. The people we got him off of were abusing him and their daughter-n-law, which is my husbands cousin took him and gave him to us because she knew we would take very good care of him. He follows me around everywhere. He is a very good watchdog and he is also trained to stay in the yard. Of course when people show up I make him come in so he won't run after them. He is a very good dog and listens to me all the time. Fluff is my oldest female and the mother of my other 2 females. We just recently got her and her oldest pup fixed a couple of weeks ago. She is 6 years old and a very good dog. Freckles is Fluff's oldest pup and she is the one we also got spayed. She is almost 3 years old and thankfully will never have puppies. She is my baby and loves for me to come outside and sit beside her on the grass. She jumps on my lap and snuggles against me. She is very lovable to me, my husband and our 10 year old niece but anyone else goes near her she is quick to bark and growl. We had to buy a muzzle for her when we took her to get spayed. The weird thing was that she didn't try to bark or growl one time at the vet or anyone else there. It is just people that come around our place that she growls at. And finally Sami is 4 months old and is the baby of the family. She is also Fluff's puppy. She will be going in to get spayed in a couple of months. She is also trained to stay in the yard. She was actually very easy to train. I keep a close eye on her though since she is still a pup and might wander off. The only time she gets to run loose is if we are home. She is a very hyper dog but she is my baby. :) My cats are all outside and they all know their names. They come to me when I call them. We are taking 2 of them in next month to get spayed and then I will have 1 more to get spayed. I did have 1 cat who was my favorite. She jumped in our car window when we accidentally left it down one night while we were sleeping. My husband got in the car and went to the store the next morning and didn't know she was in there. When he got to the store and opened the door to get out she jumped out and took off. I haven't seen her since and that was last winter. I miss her still. She was my baby. Hopefully one day she will find her way home again but I doubt it. My rabbit's name is Cinnamon and we are still trying to get her used to us. If I didn't have my animals I would be sad. I am very attached to all of them. I love to go in the pet store and look at all of the birds and fish. We used to have an aquarium but the fish started dying on us so we gave them away. I would love to have more fish but I am scared they will dye on me again. We really don't have any room for them right now though but maybe when we make our trailer bigger as we add more rooms on like my husband plans to do. Sorry for the long reply but when I get started talking about my animals I can't seem to quit. :)

First of all, I can't even imagine how frantic you must have been to not see your dog. We also have a fenced in yard and there are times when someone has left the gate open. Thankfully, neither one of my dogs are the type to roam and they stayed in the yard, even with the gate open, but it always stops my heart when I see that the gate is open and I know they are outside. My dogs are not my life, but they do enhance my life. From them I get nothing but unconditional love. They also sense when something isn't right and they want to be a comfort the only way they know how. Like you, I've had pets all my life and I could never imagine being alive without having a pet. I have friends who say that they will not get any more pets after their old ones die because they want the freedom to come and go as they please, but I'd rather have the small inconvenience of having them in my lives, than have freedom and a life without knowing that love.

i fell the same way about my dog, if he was to go, i dunno what iwould do becasue he has changed my way of life soo much and now i am used to it... when my dog ran off i hasd no idea of it, becasue it was 8am and only my mum was awake, she noticed he had gone, so she called him and he didn't come back, she went to go back insdie and he came running back in the fence...which had a hole in it from where a rottweiler had knocked timber out of it... my mum only told me later and it made me realise how much the dog means to me and what would have happend if he had not come back..if he had gone further than the park behind me and run away for good. it also made me realise how lucky i am to still have him