Animal people - Help me understand

At this point they should be weaned. Seven kittens is a heck of a litter for a cat.

 

Love my two cats. They're great companions and fairly low maintenance. They don't love it when I travel, but they tolerate it, and the two get along fine and keep each other company. They're older now, 14 and 13 I think, and have been healthy indoor cats for as long as I've had them. I do not lead a lifestyle conducive to owning a dog. I travel way too much and spend too much time away from home in general. It would actually be totally irresponsible for me to get a dog.

 

I am a cat man

 

That's why I never had a dog until I "inherited" one by marriage. But with two of us --- and the opposite hours we work --- our two dogs get tons of companionship. And they get along wonderfully with each other and our two cats.

 

Our cat just recently started going outside. He just hangs on our porch and doesn’t leave the front yard.

I tried to get him to come in the other day, and he went crazy. I went to let him back out, and I saw that he had a friend — another neighborhood cat had just started wandering over to our place to play with him.

Then, my daughter made the mistake of feeding the neighborhood cat, so I’m not sure he’ll ever leave now.

 

There are dog sports. I've been into agility for almost 20 years. I'd compare it to autocross, where you set a line to obtain the fastest time over the course. I've competed mostly with Australian shepherds, but my latest dog is an English shepherd -- think oversized border collie. It's great fun for dog and handler.

 

Yeah ... we can see that.

(For those who don't know ... above is Greg Good, known as "Catman" at Carolina Panthers games. He died not too long ago. Octave just offered a jarring reminder.)

 

In the big picture of your life's happiness, it's more important you overcome your shyness than it is your feelings about animals.

To demure from asking out a smart, accomplished, cute, easygoing woman because she and her daughters are Herbalife distributors and patchouli-reeking Phish phans big into pets and stray animals is not the way to go.

 

Hope she has an affection for Bluetick Coonhounds.

 

She went to UAB (and Samford for grad school) but is sports agnostic. Sorry @Neutral Corner

 

<shrug> I'm used to it. We get the students who have been UA or AU all their lives. Grad students who got their bachelor's degree somewhere else. People who are there for career education, not the Joe College frat and football thing. While I know some kids who grew up UAB, the majority of the UAB fans I know actively chose to be at some point. Some, of course, are traditional graduates who did the college thing there.

I know lots of folks who earn a living on a UAB degree but never go to a game.