What would we do without our pets? These past six weeks of isolation (an astounding period of time for such a peripatetic society) have felt more like six months, and the norms through which we find support, connection and release from our darker impulses and deepest longings, have collapsed. They are reconfiguring in ways that not everyone is technologically nor emotionally equipped to handle. Teachers have to teach children who may not see or hear them. Therapists have to help lonely and desperate people whom they can only hope they can reassure through a screen. Families are having to let go of loved ones who are dying alone. Where do we turn?
In our house we have a lovable 17 year old blind, deaf and incontinent cockapoo. We love her to pieces and she can barely hold the weight of that love right now. But we can hug and stroke her when we can't do that with our kids and friends.
Adoption of animals is on the rise. Laurie and I met this cutie on the street when we had our "social distance" walk to discuss the blog:
And we have a new grand-kitty adopted in the midst of quarantine over the internet:
Abandonment is also on the rise as poverty and unemployment hits many homes. So here's how you can help by adopting your own dog or cat baby or making a donation to: Animal Care Centers of NYC - https://www.nycacc.org/. The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - https://www.aspca.org/nyc.
But it does not have to be a warm and fuzzy creature. We take great solace from our birds and fish......
In our house we have a lovable 17 year old blind, deaf and incontinent cockapoo. We love her to pieces and she can barely hold the weight of that love right now. But we can hug and stroke her when we can't do that with our kids and friends.
Sammy
Adoption of animals is on the rise. Laurie and I met this cutie on the street when we had our "social distance" walk to discuss the blog:
And we have a new grand-kitty adopted in the midst of quarantine over the internet:
Frankie posing with the Sunflowers
She has the adorable habit of sitting under the sunflowers in my son's apartment. This 9 year old perpetual kitten was the runt of her litter and has made self-quarantining in an apartment, in the hard hit borough of Queens, NY, much more bearable.
Not to be outdone there is the stylish Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, another shelter kitty living in Brooklyn with our daughter:
Jackie-O, our other Grand-kitty
Abandonment is also on the rise as poverty and unemployment hits many homes. So here's how you can help by adopting your own dog or cat baby or making a donation to: Animal Care Centers of NYC - https://www.nycacc.org/. The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - https://www.aspca.org/nyc.
But it does not have to be a warm and fuzzy creature. We take great solace from our birds and fish......
The basement goldfish keep me company when I do the laundry.
In the salt water tank the damsels are our constant entertainment.
Once when a cable station was preparing for new content, they trained a camera on their fish tank and left it there to fill in the airtime.
When the actual cable show content was broadcast they received so many letters asking for the fish tank back that they had to comply.
Where else can you go when you aren't allowed to go anywhere?
An then there are the birds who don't let anyone determine what they do and where they go...
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