What was your first companion animal? Can you describe the circumstances leading to it (i.e. how'd it happen)?<br><br><br><br>
Mine was a mistake. She was a fluffy white kitten that my godmother picked up from a woman whose cat gave birth regularly. I was maybe three years old, obviously much too young to care for a critter or to appreciate what it meant to care for one. We named her "Blanchette" and although she was delivered on my birthday, she became "mine" and my older sister's.<br><br><br><br>
Within a month, my family discovered that I had severe allergies to cats. I broke out in terrible hives / a rash all over my body, and that was the end of Blanchette.<br><br><br><br>
The last animal my family took in, with two budgies and a couple of goldfish inbetween, was a purebred Pom who'd been abandoned after a young child had dropped her and she'd broken her two front legs. I was around 10-11 and she spent four years with us until progressively worsening seizures took her life.<br><br><br><br>
Here's a scanned photo.<br><a href="http://cdn.veggieboards.com/b/ba/ba2fcdde_vbattach27.jpeg"><img alt="LL" src="http://cdn.veggieboards.com/b/ba/525x525px-LL-ba2fcdde_vbattach27.jpeg" style="width:525px;height:417px;"></a>
Mine was a mistake. She was a fluffy white kitten that my godmother picked up from a woman whose cat gave birth regularly. I was maybe three years old, obviously much too young to care for a critter or to appreciate what it meant to care for one. We named her "Blanchette" and although she was delivered on my birthday, she became "mine" and my older sister's.<br><br><br><br>
Within a month, my family discovered that I had severe allergies to cats. I broke out in terrible hives / a rash all over my body, and that was the end of Blanchette.<br><br><br><br>
The last animal my family took in, with two budgies and a couple of goldfish inbetween, was a purebred Pom who'd been abandoned after a young child had dropped her and she'd broken her two front legs. I was around 10-11 and she spent four years with us until progressively worsening seizures took her life.<br><br><br><br>
Here's a scanned photo.<br><a href="http://cdn.veggieboards.com/b/ba/ba2fcdde_vbattach27.jpeg"><img alt="LL" src="http://cdn.veggieboards.com/b/ba/525x525px-LL-ba2fcdde_vbattach27.jpeg" style="width:525px;height:417px;"></a>