I have had a number of pets through my life. I remember when I was very little (3-5) we had a cat that had kittens. I remember that one of the kittens climbed into the engine of the car during the worst of the winter, and my dad accidentally killed it when he turned the car on. Then when I was about 8, my cousin and her parents moved out of state so left us their cat Beauty. I had her until I was 10-12. She left one day and didn't come back. Then when I was 13 I got a dog, had her for a number of years, til I moved out, and she went to a friend of mine. Then I had a cat several years later, a roommate of mine decided to keep her when I couldn't. Then when I got married my idiot of a husband wanted a dog, and at the time, I wasn't much of a dog person, but I agreed, then when the idiot left, he took the dog. Finally on my own again, I had three cats, that I, unfortunately, had to give up when I moved out of state. I moved in with my stepmom to help her out (she was dying, on hospice). She had "The Idiot Dog". Now that wasn't his name, but that is the name I gave him. His true name was Ezekiel Galileo (the idiot dog). When I first moved in, he was only about 3 or 4 months old and had NO boundaries whatsoever. He ate all of mom's shoes, my china doll, my backpack, a couple of library books, the teddy bear I have had since I was three weeks old. I do believe the teddy bear is the one that hurts me the most. But I believe the funniest stories is this one: Mom was a diabetic, and I had done the mail order monitor and supplies for her. We get it, and I open it, work with it, and then we have to leave to take her to the doctor. I left it on the living room coffee table, that is where we had always left the other one, so no big deal. When we got home a couple of hours later, the idiot dog had eaten the meter, the strips, the box, fortunately, he had left the needles alone (THAT would have been a serious issue!). Now, this meant I had to call the company. How do I explain this to them? Yep, I called and explained it to them, the person actually did not laugh at me, trust me, I was doing enough laughing myself.
It is several years later now, I have three cats and two dogs, they are my babies. But Zeke will always have a special place in my heart.