[fly_so_free]

"Whenever I go in to a home with no pets it just feels empty"

Empty and kind of cold too. I can't help it, but, if someone tells me they don't like animals, I automatically don't trust them, or I just think they are uptight, not really someone I'd want to know. I'm kind of an "Ellie Mae Clampett" too though LOL.

[Salamander]

If someone tells me they 'don't like animals', they don't ever have to worry about hearing from me again.
[Yes...I ~am~ that "unreasonable"].....:)

Years ago we had a "very good friend" come into the living room one day.
My beloved elderly dog walked over to where he sat, wagging her tail and nosing his leg just to say "hi".
He shoved her away hard enough to upset her already iffy balance.
I'll never forget the cold look on his face or the shocked look on hers as she experienced the only unkindness she'd ever known in her life.

Up until that moment, I loved the guy like a brother.

Ain't had diddly to do with him, since.


Same goes for who my dogs like or dislike.
I have Ibizan Hounds and to say they're "offish" is the understatement of the year.
They want nothing to do with anyone outside of the "pack".
Yet, the night they met the man who would later become my husband, they mobbed him like he was long-lost kin.

Within the space of 10 minutes I knew I'd found The One....;))