Animal probs...

If there is such a thing as being unlucky with animals, then my family is certainly the unluckiest. We've had a plethora of them throughout the years, but none seem to last as long as we'd dreamed they would. Between death, illnesses and strange disorders, one by one each animal has left us. I think we are much better off without them...but my daughter, poor thing, strongly disagrees. She's been begging for a kitten for months. For the time being we are animal-less in our house and that's okay by me. I pacify her with an occasional funny animal video, like this one, hoping that it'll satisfy her. It usually doesn't, and in a weak moment, the kitten at 4:57 could almost convince me to give in. And then I remember that sometimes animals are jerks { I mean that in the kindest sense of the word} -and anyway, it seems kind of unfair to them, what with the record we hold and all. (Warning: dogs doing the nasty, mid-video, sorry!} -Terri