Heya all after some advice,
I am 24 and 14 weeks pregnant with our first we live in a ground floor 2 bed flat with almost half an acre of PRIVATE garden and we have a lot of animals.
Both sides of our family and some of our friends are becoming incredibly rude about the sheer number of animals we have and that we will apparently have to get rid of them all.
Certain family members are even choosing which animals they would take and state that they need them sooner rather than later with every visit.
They even claim that my ferrets will kill the baby . . . do they think im dumb? they live outside in specially designed run's and are taken for walks every other day.
Did they think they would live in the cot with baby or something?
I wish i could say they were joking but they aren't.
I am not intending to work when the baby arrives for at least the first 2 years so see no trouble with the animal/baby ratio and fitting them around each other, none of the animals are on a schedule so when baby comes they will have no problem adjusting
I have tried explaining things to them politely several times which didn't work, i have even started refusing to listen and walking out of the room when they bring up the topic but they wont quit
My next and final stage unless anybody has any other ideas is to ban them all from visiting and even seeing the baby when it arrives if they cant keep their mouths shut.
The one and only good thing about this is that it is sure fire even though family and good friends have access to our home at all times via keys they won't risk my boys (dogs) without me or Zack there.
The Zoo as it stand's:-
Black Labrador, freak of nature giant
German Shepherd, freak of nature giant
Polydactyl cat, half and half feral
Cat and her 2 son's
Agouti and dumbo rats x 2
Hamster x 1
3ft Tropical fish tank and occupants
Red eyed white ferret
white mitt blase ferret
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charliezack · 02/10/2013 12:07
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