The reasons my husband gave for not getting a pet

[Slowslowlavaflow]

This is totally lighthearted. We are too busy to provide a loving home to a pet, so it is not an option in any case.
I was feeling playful this lunchtime and our 6 year old son and I tried to convince H we should get a pet. Below are the reasons H gave for not getting one. I think he was feeling playful too.

Cat - It will eat your money tree, and knock over your Kopparberg so you will have to wash the carpet at midnight so the house doesn't smell like a bar. It will probably eat our marinating chicken when I'm busy having a poo too.

Hamster - It will escape, chew electrical cables, and blow our fuses. We will find it dead in a corner and our son will be traumatised.

Dog - I like dogs, but your sister is deathly afraid. Do you want to kill your sister?

Fish - Water! We cannot play balloon volleyball while sitting on the sofa anymore. What if we knock over the tank?

Miniature pig - We eat too much bacon! We are not hypocrites.

Another baby then - Are you tripping or something?

Another Saturday of silliness.
What silly reasons have you, your partner, or children given for and against getting a pet?

Cats don't need much and they provide cute fluffy foot rests.

I'm so sorry, I'm having an utter sense of humour failure from reading that.

Lovely pic from @ilovebagpuss though.

Hamster - It will escape, chew electrical cables, and blow our fuses. We will find it dead in a corner and our son will be traumatised

This is 100% true.

@AutumnCrow Such a shame. I thought they were silly and had a good laugh at him trying to avoid us getting a pet.

@Slowslowlavaflow he's right 😀 our cat is such a pain very aggressive and only nice to us when he is about to be fed ! Hamsters are terrible at escaping we had one years ago it was gone for days . Give me a dog any day but only if you have the time of course 😀

Hamsters are also very bad tempered. Probably fucked off at having such big teeth as I imagine they are uncomfortable.

A cat won't eat a money tree it will just pee in it and the trunk will rot and it will die. Which is what my kitten did. I still have the cat.

He doesn't steal marinating chicken, he prefers his plain. But we put it in the fridge, where normal people put chicken before cooking it.

The other pets and notions are bonkers.

That is a quality cat. I'm very envious!

My fluffy foot rest is a dog

However rats are good pets and respond to their name, snuggle on shoulders and whisper sweet nothings in your ear. They go to the toilet in one place and can be trained to do tricks for treats.

Dgc hamster escaped in the car on the way home from pet shop. It chewed through the car electrics before it was found and died 3 months later after costing £300 in car repairs.

@ilovebagpuss Very fluffy. Best reason to have a kitty.
@AwkwardPaws27 Has it happened to you?
@mycatsanutter Your username check out. 😂
@Honper Haha.
@TroysMammy Miniature Goat was also an option.

@Slowslowlavaflow sounds like the daft conversations we also have 😂

@thistimelastweek Fluffyyyy too.
@TroysMammy I'll pass that one by H. I have also heard good stuff about rats. Not the giant ones in the London Underground mind you.
@Gawpygertie Oh my. Most expensive way to go? Poor thing and your poor finances too. Did you try again?

Me too.
But to be fair I don’t mind that sort of humour funny

@Gawpygertie omg £300 ! Hamsters are a pain , my son had to take all the plinths off in the kitchen once to find ours . Honestly our cat is horrendous I had lovely memories of having cats when I was a child and when we got asked if we would take on a rescue one we thought why not ? It runs down the landing after me to put both its paws around my leg so he can sink his teeth into me , for no reason at all 🤷‍♀️

@GinBlossom94 Ah. So glad to find kindred spirits. Good to know we are not alone in having such silly conversations. We laugh easily, which makes for happy laidback people.

Me too.

And yeah, we’re also ’happy laidback people’. 😂

Hamsters do eat cables and stuff by the way, what’s so silly and crazy fun about that conversation…

Would he consider a house bunny? Or even an outdoors bunny.

It was dil bought the hamster for dgs.
Pets at Home eventually gave half the money as they had put hamster in only 1 box apparently normally they use 2 or 3.
Bizarrely she bought a cage so why the hamster wasn't put straight in I don't know.

They never got another hamster.

I’m so glad my children got to grow up with pets. And I dearly love our old dog and old cat who are both snoring away next to me.
I’ll never get a hamster again though..

Hamsters are adorable! Although there is a good reason reason for my one being nicknamed Grumpy.

Oh that’s such a cutie… 😍

Ours escaped and ruined half the house.