People with loads of pets = in need of love and affection - discuss

[TheVillageIdiot]

People who acquire pet after pet, is it because they have some unfulfilled need in them to be loved and/or wanted/needed. Do they gther pets sub-consciously because they don't feel adequately love from else where

That's it really - open to the floor...

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I have noticed a lot of very attractive older women are big into animals (think Celia Haddon,Brigitte Bardot for starters, as well as the woman who runs a refuge in my town). maybe because they've been shat upon by men.

Even weirder than loads of pets is a penchant for soft toys. Ver very odd.

Not sure about loads of pets, but I know plenty of childless people (married and single) who dote on their cats.

erm.....aimed at anyone in particular???

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hang on i have had loads of pets, its not coz i lack anything other then the word NO take the damn thing away and give r.s.p.c.a a call!

Not aimed at anyone why?

Just a discussion frm earlier, interested in opinions.

ok.

i think people who have lots of animals just simply have the need to love as much as possible

I have lots of pets for the children (2 rabbits, 2 dogs, pony and chickens. well the chickens are for eggs, they aren't pets). Pre children I didn't have any. So I don't think I am using them as a love-substitute!!

But I agree, lots of stuffed toys in adulthood is plain wierd

i adored my car pre-children. he was my baby, a oain in teh arse and mad as a hatter, but still my lil puddy tat.

but when we had dd1, and it became apparently that cats were causing her skin problems to become worse we had to re-house him.

I tried 2yrs ago to keep a cat, had a lovely little kitten tha tthe children loved, but it affected both girls. Fortunatly we knew that we'd be able to give the kitten to a friend of the people we got the kitten from.

car=cat

Well we have a dog, 4 cats, 2 cockateils & 3 love-birds, & get no love and affection from any of them!

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dd1 friends have ponies. i feel so poor

I have some mice. They don't know that they're pets, though.

i have hamsters and tropical fish. dont get much affection from them lol.

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cod, they dont have one pony, they have several.

i realy should mix with the parents more

sorry should've been clearer, i meant an excessi e amount. wOULDN'T COUNT PONIES OR CHICKENS. Sorry for caps , dd climbing on me and heavy

oops, sorry cod, you didn't know abou tthe pony! new thread perhaps?!

i know someone with about 10 rabbits, 4 cats, gerbils, hamsters, mice, rats. she also had quails and chickens at one point.

sorry meant wouldn't count ponies or chickens as pets

i have 8 fish, 2 gerbils, a rabbit, a dog and a cockatiel. love them all to bits. better now DH helps with them more, the responsibility isnt on me so much. but im the one who loves them the most

ponies start a new thread pah!

listen, I live in the middle of absolutely bloody nowhere, surrounded by fields as far as the eye can see. If a pony living at the bottom of the garden saves me a few hundred trips in the car to find entertainment elsewhere then that is a GOOD thing methinks. For the environment and my sanity.

Anyway the manure is FABULOUS for my roses