Thank you for the kind and insightful words. People seem to be applying the life formula to you too...you must leave your pets and go on vacation because that's what people are supposed to do...it's really quite a ridiculous notion when you think about it that everyone must go on vacation...perhaps in time you may even find a bit of humor in how myopic some people around you are being.


I also want to say I commend you for such considerate care of your pets. A trend I have noticed in my area is young people who work full-time buying dogs and keeping them locked up in a small cage for 10 hours a day so that they can get home and have one hour of play with the animal before it goes back in the cage again. One former colleague could not understand why her new dog had started barking wildly and appeared distressed for hours after she got home like he had lost his mind..."he didn't do that when I first got him...I don't get it." It didn't occur to her that being confined to a small cage for ten hours a day, six days a week was making him mentally ill. I personally would love to own a German Shepherd but I lack the time and energy to properly care for an animal so i don't have one. Sidebar, sorry! Props to you for supporting your clan...hub and pets!