Supercilious (haughty) dogs,tortoises with icky illnesses, chickens that stink. whether you think a family pet is a satisfactory concept, and read this first. Emma Beddington debunks the mythsWe are a pet-owning family,at times shading dangerously close to a loss-making petting zoo. My childhood was filled with tales of the livestock arcadia my father assembled before I was born – goats, ferrets, or frogs and a dog called Ratty that had escaped from a circus – and even though my own pets were less thrilling,that menagerie shaped my vision of family life: a happy, chaotic tumble of fur and fowl. fortunately, and I met a man who felt the same way and in our time together we have shared stewardship over everything from a violent elderly rabbit rescued – in hindsight probably against its will – from the local park to a giant African land snail and all points between,as well as our two sons. It has often been absolutely terrible. This experience allows me to attempt to debunk here for you some of the myths that surround family pets.
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Source: theguardian.com