I\u2019ve learned a lot about patience over the years with my\npets. I\u2019ve loved all of them, but they could drive me nuts at times. My cat Gabby\nis currently teaching me about patience. No matter how much you love your pets\nthey will always get on your nerves occasionally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nGabby is always crying at me. Every time I get up she cries\nat me. In fact, every time I roll over at night she cries at me. Sometimes\nshe\u2019s just talking to me, but most of the time she wants something. Usually\nit\u2019s food. She gets very upset if she can see the bottom of her food bowl even\nthough there is still large amounts of food pushed onto the sides. She wants it\ntopped off at all times. I\u2019ve had to learn to be patient with her requests and\nlove her even when she\u2019s being pushy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Out pets teach us about love every day. They love us\nunconditionally no matter what we do or who we are. Gaining an animal\u2019s trust\nis such a special bond, and we\u2019re rewarded wholeheartedly with their love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have so many special memories of pets I have loved, and\nhow they have loved me back. I had a white fluffy cat when I was growing, and\nshe would always come lay by me whenever I was crying. I had a dog that I would\ncuddle with every night. She\u2019d let me cuddle with her even though she didn\u2019t\nlike it (I could tell because she would groan, or sometimes move, when I put my\narm around her). I had a bird that would sit on my shoulder and snuggle in my\nhair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laughter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My pets have given me so many funny memories, and every one\nof them brought a smile to my face every day they were with me. I could go on and on with funny memories that\nmy pets have left me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a dog that used to collect rocks and would jump in the\nair to get branches off the trees even though the ground was already littered\nwith sticks. I had a horse that would hold water in his mouth and spit it onto\nyour head when you bent down to get him an apple. I had an orange tabby cat\nthat like going for car rides. I had a bird that hated thumbs. I had ducks that\nknocked on the back door for lettuce daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Loss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Losing a pet is never easy, and I\u2019ve lost quite a few pets\nin my lifetime. I learned how to mourn them, and how to move one while still\nkeeping them in my heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Phoebe was 13 when I had to let her go. Her mind was still\nclear, but her body was failing her. She could barely walk, she was\nincontinent, and she was in pain. I would have taken care of her forever, but I\nrealized that it was time to let her go. That was the hardest decision of my\nlife. Once I decided, it took me almost a week to actually take her to the vet.\nI just couldn\u2019t do it. I eventually realized I was just letting her suffer, and\nI finally let her go. That was 4 years ago, and I still carry her dog tag on my\nkey chain. I think about her all the time. She was my best friend and I\u2019ll\nnever forget her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The hardest loss I suffered was my last dog Phoebe. Growing\nup we always had family dogs, but Phoebe was my dog. My parents brought her\nhome for me one day, and she was so small, yet so destructive. She chewed up\nthe all the linoleum floors and had an obsession with eating my socks. She\nbarked at everything like she was the bravest dog, but she was the biggest\ncoward. She was extremely brave when she was standing behind me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s always painful to lose a pet, but I can\u2019t imagine my\nlife without one. They bring so much joy to our lives while they are with us,\nand they are companions that are always there for us. I can\u2019t imagine my life\nwithout a pet in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve always had animals in my life. For part of my life I grew up on a farm. It wasn\u2019t a farm where we ate the animals, it was more like a petting zoo. I learned a lot about animals growing up, such as patience, love, laughter, and loss. 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