*rushes in* I’m so sorry I’m late!!
I think I mentioned I normally work nights at a bar/pub.? I’m on days shifts this week covering someone who’s on holidays, and it threw me so totally off that I forgot what day of the week it was!
Anyway, I had this post already written , I just hadn’t schedulesd it to publish, so I’m so sorry for being late. My brain doesn’t work so well during day shifts. * blush*
So..here goes… If it isn’t one, its the other.
Writing can be very solitary work. I tend to be a weird mix of people person and loner. I love my night job or waitressing/bartending because I love to deal with people. But, I also love living alone and being alone. I’m content with my own company. However, when I hermit away and write a lot, it can get very lonely and depressing. I think most writers will agree with me that sometimes spending too much time in our own heads isn’t a good thing. Thats where pets come in.
Most writers I know have a pet of some kind. A cat, dog, bird, or some live thing that keeps them company while they write. Someone that helps them get out of their own head when they need to.
I have 2 cats. They don’t always get along with each other, or with me to be honest, but I love them. They greet me at the door every night when I come home from work, and when I’m at home writing hard, they tell me when it’s time to play because I’ve been working too hard. And like writing, I have a very strong love/hate relationship with them both…depending ont he day. 
Today I love them.
Let’s take a poll…Do you have a pet?
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I have one cat, a gray tabby, with a fondness for the sound of her own voice. seriously. She will walk through the apartment sounding like she’s either singing opera or trying to raise the dead. But she puts up with me, so it’s all good.
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*but she puts up with me*
Yes, it seems that way with cats sometimes doesn’t it?
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Two rescued cats, Jeri and Jak, and one Sheltie puppy, Cole. If you count the wildlife who reside on our land, then add three black racer snakes, a hummingbird, a pair of mated cardinals, a pair of mated sandhill cranes, various and sundry small birds, an expecting pair of red foxes and three gopher tortoises. Our newest residents just moved out yesterday (story and photos on my author blog tomorrow.)
Sometimes it’s like Wild Kingdom around here, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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As a reader of your blog, I’ve certainly seen some of your wild kingdom. In fact, it might be time for a new picture of Cole, he’s probably growing fast . LOL
I think rescuing/adopting animals is wonderful. Mystery (the one that looks like Sylvester from the cartoon) is a cat I was ‘watching for a friend’ who never came back for her. I’ve had her for about 5 years now. Scarlet, ‘the little one’ is a rescue kitty. I saw her in a shelter and feel in love. I’ve had her for just over a year now. I wish I could have a dog so much, but that must wait until I have a house, and a yard.
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I have my dog Lily, a miniature American Eskimo. There have been many times when I’ve been able to solve a plot problem on our walks. Also, if it weren’t for walks, I’d never leave the house.
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I love dogs. I wish I could have a dg. Part of me thinks, “It’ll be okay, I’ll walk him/her a couple of times every day” (I live in a condo) but the part of me that grew up in a house with never less than three large dogs knows that’s just not fair to them.
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I have two Yorkies. Harry is blonde and sweet and cuddly, the perfect lapdog if it wasn’t for the other Yorkie, Spike, who doesn’t like anyone else getting attention and will let everyone around him know just how much he dislikes it with his loud mouth.
Spike is the male version of Sybil. One second you can be petting him and he’s loving every little stroke and then the next he’s ready to take off your arm. And he’s such a jealous, love the one he’s with so don’t you dare try to pet me, bag of hair. If I’m holding Spike and someone else tries to pet him, they might draw back a stump.
But truly they balance each other and I really couldn’t see one without the other, though, I have threaten Spike with giving him away for a friendlier dog, like a pitbull.
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It’s amazing how we fall so in love with them. (See Mystery’s scowl above) LOL
Yorkies, or fairly small. Do they interupt your writing/reading time to jump on your lap, Sheila?
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Yeah, they can interrupt me when I’m reading but I don‘t mind that so much. Over the years, nearly ten, I’ve learned that if I want to write or try and think of something to write that I wait until it’s time for them to go into their cages for a nap or bedtime. Way too much barking and growling and pet me, pet me, pet me noise going on while their up to even consider putting words on paper.
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I have a poodle, Harry, and three cats, Pookie, Mittens and Gracie. Harry, Pookie and Mittens all hang out in my office with me. Gracie is the loner, but she stops in to visit now and then and to get a head rub. Pookie wakes me up by 5 every morning and pesters until I go into the office and sit at the computer so he can be in my lap.
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Sounds like Poookie should be your agent. LOL
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I just have the one cat – Kira – but she’s large enough to be two. She alternates between being my sweet furbaby, and being a furry gray PITA. She’s horribly spoiled, but she’s such a neat person we put up with it. Originally she was a birthday present for my daughter, but she’s everyone’s cat now. (Or I should say, we all belong to her.)
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I think being a PITA is part of a cats DNA. Yet, they also get something that makes them irresistible when they want to be loved. You can’t say no. Or I can’t anyway. LOL
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I have a black Dobe we rescued who, at a little over a year old, the vet thinks, weighed forty-three pounds when we brought him home. He’s up to eighty-five now, healthy, happy and self-petting. If your hand is hanging over the edge of the couch or chair, he trots up and rubs his head back and forth under it.
I have a red Dobe who came to us as a birthday present for my oldest daughter, from one of the lawyers at the firm she worked at, when she turned twenty-one. However, that said, she’s in college, has a busy social life and is never home long enough to spend a lot of time with the dog so she has become mine for all intents and purposes.
I work often on the loveseat. Just more comfortable for my back. And while I’m working, they’re laying on me, one has her head on the keyboard, the other has his head across my shins so they’re always bruised.
I do have a cat. She lives with us. But the dogs think she’s a chew toy so she spends her days in one of the bottom cupboards in my kitchen, or on top of the fridge and upper cabinets. When the house is quiet and I can’t sleep, I’ll come out to the great room to work and she’ll come sit on my lap.
You know? I just realized, I’m never alone. Not really.
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*grin* It’s good to remember your never alone.
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I have a black lab, who looks something like a bear (technical term: she’s fat) and I’m convinced she was a sloth in a former life. She is a professional sleeper. She’s also one of the sweetest and friendliest dogs I’ve ever seen. You know the type; the ones that will invite burglars in and show them where all the good stuff to steal is and hold the door open for them so they can get out with more stuff. I love her though.
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You made me laugh. But I have to say, for all the bad raps Dobies get, they would do the same thing. Their almost non-existent tails go a mile a minute when someone comes in and they offer every toy they have. Guard dogs…yeah, right.
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LOL She sounds like a sweetheart. I bet she’s a good cuddler.
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Two dogs, one (border collie) who is a hermit herself most of the time (she believes she is the Queen of Sheeba and often sulks when her manservents do not perform as she desires regarding the prompt and frequent opening of the treat bucket), and the other (half Malamute, half Great Pyrenees) who is the snuggliest furball known to man, who also loves to sing. It’s very amusing.
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Half Malamute, half GP. I can imagine she has a lot of personality. I love animals that talk or sing. My one cat talks and growls all the time. I’m never sure if she’s talking to me, or herself. LOL
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I’ve always wanted a cat and finally got one this year
Her name is Serenity… and she’s as sweet as she can be 
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I have a horde of animals – it’s amazing I get anything done besides cleaning up all the hair in my hours
Total of 5 dogs – 2 Chihuahua’s, 1- Yorkie, 1 – Coconut Retriever (rescued while vacationing in St. Marteen), 1- American Bulldog (rescued after being throw out of a car) and one Cat that puts up with them all – and rules the roost and is usually found sleeping on my keyboard as your cats like to do….LOL
They definately keep me entertained that’s for sure.
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I have 2 cats (Batgirl / Smokey) – My sis has 2 cats (Sherbert / Nicholas). I have had cats since I was a little girl and I really don’t ever see myself without one. They not only bring me much comfort but they each have their own personality.
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I had a cat who passed away two summers ago, and a dog who follows me around constantly. Even now she’s laying in the patch of sun only four feet away. Where I am, she’s sure to be under foot.
But your photos crack me up. How is it that cats just know where to lay to be right in the middle of what you are working on? My cat used to do that too! I’d be working at a desk or table with yards of empty space, and she would lay right on top of my papers or books. It’s uncanny!
I miss this about having a cat.