# Re: Hot Tub Update

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Posted by LeviLovR on July 10, 2020 at 19:26:38

In Reply to: Re: Hot Tub Update posted by Kayne on July 10, 2020 at 14:00:54:

I actually had more animals than my neighbors did. When I moved here I had a mare and foal, Candy and her daughter Rose. I soon acquired two cats, Jasmine and Charlotte and an English Springer spaniel named Sampson. Six chickens - Bertha, Beatrice, Betsy, Clara, Cleo and Clementine and two ducks - Angie Duckinson and Sir Alexander Drake. I later acquired goats. Alexander was the most troublesome creature of them all! Too much testosterone for one little duck. He was constantly after pore Angie and she finally settled down on a nest to hatch some eggs. Alexander, looking for some action, took a liking to Cleo, one of the chickens and constantly kept trying to mount her. He eventually killed her as he was much too heavy for her. He expressed no interest in any of the other chickens. Then there was the episode of Alexander falling down the well, which is a whole story in itself. Duck soup was sounding pretty good about that time.

Always had animals growing up and it was always my dream to have my own farm. At one time I had nine goats and at one time I had four dogs. Yes, it was trouble sometimes, and always a lot of work, but also a lot of joy as well as a few tragedies mixed in. Would love to have goats again, they make great pets. Wouldn't mind having a nice little pony to drive and a few laying hens. I will absolutely NEVER have ducks again! After I lost my last dog I was animal free for a while. I now have a cat, named Oliver. Very easy to care for, very sweet and affectionate. At my age I no longer want to be taking care of animals, especially in the winter months and I worry what would happen if I got sick as I live alone. Plus I want to do some traveling. I could tell you lots of stories some sad, some funny but I am very grateful for the animals that came into my life.

One last thing. We had a very dear friend who was a school teacher and she had two gerbils in the classroom. When summer vacation rolled around no one would take them and she could not take them to the place where she was staying - absolutely NO pets of any kind. So they wound up coming to our house. My mother was not particularly pleased, she didn't want those "rats" in her house. There cage sat on a table right next to the phone and every time my mom got a phone call she would sit there and feed the gerbils sunflower seeds. She became their biggest fan. I came home from school one afternoon to find my parents down on the floor on their hands and knees looking under all the furniture, laughing their heads off. My cat had jumped up on the table and knocked the gerbil cage off onto the floor, which sprung the door open and set the two gerbils free. The cat, who had long hair, couldn't decide which one to chase so consequently there were shavings spread throughout the entire house as she darted after first one and then the other. She never caught either and it took us a couple of days to find both gerbils and get them back in their cage. When it came time for them to go back to school my mother was the one who was upset to have them leave. Go figure.

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