[Today’s run: 4 miles]<\/p>\n
I get along ok with animals.\u00a0 When I was a kid we had dogs and a cat and a couple of pigeons.\u00a0 And I think I got along ok with them.<\/p>\n
My wife is an animal person, she really likes animals.\u00a0 Since we’ve been married we have had dogs, cats, birds, lizards, horses, and various rodents.\u00a0 And since moving to Mississippi we now have bees and chickens.<\/p>\n
I’ve never had an animal for farming purposes until the bees and chickens.\u00a0 So my attitude up until now has been that these critters are more-or-less my responsibility to feed and pay the vet bills and get the dog license, etc. etc.\u00a0 But with farm animals I think there is supposed to be a payback of some sort where the animal is good for something more then sitting around and eating.<\/p>\n
We have had the chickens for about a month now, maybe less than that.\u00a0 And one of them is now ill and living in a cage in the house.\u00a0 We are feeding it from a dropper and hope it will come around.<\/p>\n
I think if I were a real farmer I probably would have been eating it for Sunday dinner already.<\/p>\n
But who knows.\u00a0 Maybe it will perk up and be a star egg-laying chicken.\u00a0 We can always eat it for dinner sometime later.<\/p>\n
Back to being an animal person:\u00a0 I am not one of those.\u00a0 I would be perfectly fine to live in a house with my wife and no dog and no cats and nothing else.\u00a0 Animals on the outside and people on the inside.\u00a0 That would be fine with me.\u00a0 It’s not that I don’t like them, I would just rather someone else took them to the vet and paid for the food and did all of that stuff, someone who is lonely or enjoys extra doses of chaos in their life.\u00a0 I’m fine without.<\/p>\n
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