Welcome to the weekly link up, Just Enough Info (JEI).  The internets can be a great source of community, and I’d love to get to know you better!  Feel free to share your answers in the comments or link up if you have a blog.

Pets

1. Did you have a favorite pet when you were younger?

Yes!  Yes times a million!

We moved to an acreage when I was ten.  I had spent the last five-ish years begging for a dog, but my parents insisted it wouldn’t  be fair to a dog to live in town.  So leading up to our move, we looked at the newspaper (I was raised B.C.– before craigslist) and found the perfect pet for our family.

She was part collie, part something else.  She never knew her father.

The result was a medium size dog with the coloration of a collie, but with less severe features.

Lacey.

She was perfect.  Which was convenient, because we didn’t have the knowledge or time to train a dog.

She always did her business in the tall grass on the acreage.  That meant no kid ever stepped in her poo-poo.

We had a long driveway to walk down to get to the bus.  Guess who walked with us every day?  Guess who somehow knew when the bus was coming home at the end of the day and waited at the end of the driveway for us?

Lacey.

She ate the cheapo-est dogfood we could find but never complained.  To be fair, she had lots of supplementation.  The table scraps of six children (plus all the ham bones a dog could want) were all hers.  She ate everything from peas to jello.  Stomach of steel, and the gentlest of manners, Lacey.  That’s pretty much an ideal combination for a pet.

She was hit by a car when I was in college and needed to be put down.  I still tear up when I think about losing this loyal friend.

 

2.  Do you have pets now? If so, what?

Nope.  But I do tell my kids we can get get a dog if we ever move to an acreage.  I worry that no other animal can ever live up to my first and only animal BFF, Lacey, though.

 

3. Have your kids eaten dog or cat food (either at your house or someone else’s)?

No comment.

(Which means yes.)

Why are they so drawn to it?!?!  Fortunately each of them have only been fast enough to nab some dogfood when we’re visiting dog people a few times.  Well, at least that I know of.

 

 

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