🚀 go-pugleaf

caprina@cuug.ab.ca (Caprina) wrote:

>The very idea of deliberately keeping creatures around that like human 
>blood is twisted and disgusting! A pet is supposed to be a friend, not 
>aan enemy, and anything that eats you is an enemy, nothing more than a 
>lowly parasite!

No offense, but I have to *totally* disagree with this.  Granted, I would
never (ever) want to look at, much less own, a leech, myself.  But.  

I can't begin to tell you how many of my friends and co-workers not only
think but tell me *regularly* how strange and twisted and demented it is
for me to have a lizard.  All I have is one little ig -- no big deal, here
-- yet many of the people I know seem to wish I would trade him in for
something more acceptable to THEM, like a cat or a dog.   One person even
went so far recently as to say that I must have had the need to "nurture"
something.

I'm the last person on the planet who would judge someone else for the
type of pet they wanted to keep.  I reserve my judgement for the folks who
refuse to care for their pets (of any sort) properly.

Yvette.