So right now I only own two gerbils and two dogs. We used to have a cat as well but he sadly passed away last year. We also have 15 chickens. Even though I live with my family, I take most responsibility for our animals and I love doing it. I can't imagine life without a pet. I love animals in a way that I doubt I could ever love anything else. This includes spiders, snakes, bees, frogs, etc. However, I frequently fantasize about having new pets. Recently I've been super interested in having a lizard friend, but also really want a chinchilla or a bunny. A bird would be cool too. Of course I would not house all of these at once, nor in the same space, but it always makes me sad to think I have to choose. I want pet mice AND a tegu but I would absolutely not be able to feed any lizard or snake dead rodents as a meal. I know it's totally unreasonable and in many ways irresponsible and impossible to have absolutely every pet I've ever wanted but it makes me so sad to think that there's something out there I'll never be able to care for. Like I want a gecko, a bunny, a chinchilla, a dog, a cat, a rat, a bearded dragon, a tegu, an axolotl, hamsters, fish, birds - even livestock like goats, horses, cows, pigs. I mean what kind of life is it if you don't get to hold a giant lizard at some point? Or try to teach a cockatoo how to say your name? Or brush a baby cow? Or decorate a fishtank? Or or or or or or there is SO MUCH I want to do and not nearly enough time, space, or energy to do it all. Certainly not all alone and certainly not in my 'free time'. LOL imagine coming home from a 10 hour shift and looking after fifty animals that all require different diets, exercise, and habitat requirements. Does anybody else feel like this? And how do you cope? When I didn't have dogs I'd go for CONSTANT walks downtown, even sometimes skipping classes, just for the chance I might see someone walking their pup and they might let me pet them. Those ten seconds would make my entire day. I wish I could do the same thing with rabbits and geckos but people don't usually walk their more exotic pets downtown. Sorry for the rant, I just needed to let that out. Maybe there are some jobs that can satisfy this great desire to love things? (And not in a weird sexual way, just to clarify. I mean just wholesome, wholehearted).
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