PETFINDER.COM

Petfinder.com.............I just got home from school/COM101 class. Someone was talking about this website. So now i've been on it for an hour. I am so tempted to get another cat. This is the first time in my life that I am PET-LESS. I had two kittens that only lived to be 7 and 9. They were from the same litter. I named them Timmy and Emily because I don't know, the names just suited them. First Timmy died. Right in my arms at the VET. One minute he was fine. Next minute my poor Timmy was laying on the ground as limp as could be. I rushed him to the VET only to find out he had a blocked uretha and he was on the verge of a heart attack. I was in shock. I had no idea he was even sick. The VET asked me if he was using the litter box. He went into it all of the time and I cleaned it. I did not notice that he was not urinating. To this day I feel guilty for not knowing that he was sick. Then Emily. Two years later she stopped eating. Not all at once but slowly she wasn't eating as much. I took her to the VET and she had kidney failure. That was another shock. My poor Emily. Then my Mothers cat Tommy. He was the family pet. We had him for a total of 18 years. He basically just got very old and his organs started to fail. We put him to sleep because I couldn't bare watching him suffer. The poor baby would try his hardest to eat. But he couldn't hold anything down. Not even water.
Anyway. So now I feel like I want another pet. But is it to soon? Do I have the time to devote to a new pet? A dog? Definetly not, they require much more care than a cat. A cat can be left alone longer than a dog, you don't have to walk a cat and they are more independant by nature. I would love a dog. But my lifestyle is not adequate right now so I think it would be selfish to get one now. Someday. But not now. Oh boy. I really would love to get a new kitten. I am partial to long haired cats. Maybe i'll just leave well enough alone and wait until I am more stable. After I'm done with school I mean.
Oh well. It was fun looking on Petfinder though. All of these poor babies really need homes. I wish I could adopt every last one of them!!!!