I've always liked cats a lot, and I've owned a few great cats in the past, but my wife has some kind of fear/aversion to cats that I haven't figured out how to work around.
My most beloved fuzzy friend of the last 30 years was my black Lab, Dewey ...as in "do we" want a dog or don't we; we did and it was a long love affair for over 15 years until I sadly had to have him put to sleep by the vet while I hugged him and cried.
Now that I have two young boys at home, 10 & 11yo, who want a dog and a cat and a duck, so far we only have Franklin our pet red-eared slider turtle ....not so fuzzy and cuddly as a cat or dog, but we are attached to him now anway, and after over 6 years with us his shell has grown from about under 4" long to almost 10" long and he seems very healthy from what we can tell. If he was big enough, I think he'd eat us all.
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