As people,
we have long been influenced by the pets in our lives.
My husband
and I rescued our first cat in 1981 when “Ke Ke” showed up at our back door on
a rainy night. I fed her … I didn’t know better … and thus we found ourselves owned
by a cat. For a LOT of years. We rescued our first dog in 1990 when our oldest
daughter took a summer “job” at the local shelter. “Come look, come look,” she
said to her father when he went to pick her up on her first day. He looked. I
looked. We “bought.” We had Aimee for nearly 17 years. Then there was Oreo …
and Hope and Angel … and Poods. Pets have been a part of our day to day
existence for 35 years. We have albums of photos to prove it. And these bits of
fluff and fur are as much a part of our family as the kids and grandkids.
