wow, jdog, that's really tough! i'm reading this post with my cat on my lap. she's one of two cats we rescued from a no-kill shelter. we had both gone in expecting to get a kitten, but found two sweet adult cats that no one had adopted, so we decided to bring them into the family instead. i love my pets! i could never be a doctor or vet, but i def. respect those who can.

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LD, here is a story for you.  We will have to go a long way to make laws about pets...they are considered possessions.  But you talk about adoption.   My husband is infertile.  We started the whole process for artificial inseminition ( well I had to do all the test including a 22 inch catheter put in my uterus....sorry guys, don't mean to offend anyone).  Oneof the other tests was a psych profile on both of us.  I am eligible to do this procedure for 12 months...despit the fact that my husband and I split.  We love each other ...but he feels entitled and I believe we work for what we get in life....LOL we are the same social class and all...just cannot agree on work or home ethics...

Anyway...I refuse to go ahead because I believe that a child should have both parents...at least to start...since we can not gaurentee (sp?) that the parents will stay together.  It is my life dream to have a child...but I cannot do it morally without a father there.

I am turning 39 in the next couple of months...and I cannot imagine getting involved with a man, finding him to be right and marrying him before my time for having children is up.  I mean, I cannot see dating for a year since hubby and I have split, and then I would not want to except a marriage proposal until I had dated for at least 2 years...and then the time for the wedding...so I would be at least 43!!  I know women do it...and if I can...I will....but than is if a guy I like shows up in the next year!!!

Now, don't get me wrong...I believe I will find the right man....but here is where I am going...if I meet him when I am 45 and cannot have kids...even if he agreed an adoption agency would refuse me.  Oh I can meet the rooming thing ( one room per kid), in my mortgaged house, I can pull up enough salary for them...and as you will know you do not have to be married to adopt...but I have a disease they do not like....

I have a kitty named Yoda.  He came to me at 5 days of age (eyes and ears still closed) to be euthed.  I convinced the owner to sign him over to me instead.  I fed this little persian EVERY 2 hours ( they don't cry for it like a baby and you just go when then cry), 24 hours a day.  Everyone said he would die.  He has been with me 8 years now.  I worked 16 hours a day when I took him in (in a clinic so he could come with me...lol, in my pocket).  He got his name because when I fed him his baby bottle his ears waggled like Yoda from Starwars.  Tell me I would not look after  child...but the adoption agency would say no.  Is that fair?

But just anyone can adopt an animal.

JD

JD

K, I owe you an apology.  I got into your journal so much that I said things I should not have addressed on YOUR journal.  I am sorry I did that. 

JD

maybe bad hair fairies? 

oui, Angel, et merci! Emma dit merci aussi.

Actually, even that reddish isn't my natural color... Tis truly dark... I used to wish to be blonde... then I put on a blonde wig... *shudder* I admire people who can pull it off. I cannot. Not to mention the incedent where my hair was bleached beyond recognition (the purple incedent) some of it actually managed blonde. I hated it. I wish I could figure out how to make it all my natural color, besides waiting. I'm not so good at waiting...    But I've never found a dye that is close enough, not to mention the chemicals... I don't want to go there again. And henna is so ... imprecise that i'm afraid to try.

And thanks, Jdog... I love my baby. I owned her mother, and grandmother too. heh. she was an april fools kitty... the rest of her litter was born march 31 between 7 and 10... she was born april 1, right around noon. It was like her mother was saying... "okay, four kittens. HAHA APRIL FOOLS! there's a fifth.  " not to mention, I always loved calicos. As soon as she was out (before she was even cleaned off), I declared her mine. Had to fight for eight weeks to keep her... when we moved from SC to MO, We had to bring most of the cats to the cat rescue in town... including her litter. I hid her in my closet, since I was the one putting the cat and her babies in the carrier, nobody noticed. When we got back, I brought her out. " told you I was keeping her!"

Yeah, we had something of an overcrowding problem with the cats... every time we brought a female to the vet to get her spayed, she was already pregnant.. and we could never find homes for all the kittens, so they stuck around. By the time we moved, we had wayyyy to many cats. I think we had 10 adults, and 15 kittens. I am a cat lover, but... that's excessive. Now my parents have one of the cats, and I have my emma, and paul's voodou. it's funny(in a completely unhumourous way), they kept blaming me for the pet problem... when we moved we had three dogs, and the two kittens. My parents made me get rid of my puppy, and brought mom's dog with him to the pound. Since I've moved (almost 10 months) they've already gotten two more puppies. *shakes head*

OMG!  I'm crying my eyes out, you guys!!  I can hardly see to type.

K, I hope your guys business is a huge success.

I'm so sorry about your horse.  Absolutly heartbreaking.

Cadie, I never imagined you at 6'4" with your gentle musings. 

JD, thanks for sharing your experience.  I cannot tollerate hearing about animal abuse.

I just realized that I'm posting without having read everything-I hope this isn't too confusing!  I had just finished reading JD's post about being a vet.