A cute fluffy creature lived in our apartment for exactly one day.
As a rule, parents buy an animal for a child only when they understand that his request is no longer just a child’s wish. A person has a real desire to love, to give, and he is able to realize it. Adults adopt pets for a variety of reasons. For example, my husband and I took a cute ginger kitten from my grandmother on the subway spontaneously. We walked by and could not resist the fluffy lump, and it was a pity for my grandmother. At that moment, we did not ask questions like “can we?”. The kitten is not a child, he himself can eat and drink. We have an apartment, there is enough space.
On the first day with the new tenant, everything was fine: at night he rustled under the bed, periodically mewed. But in the morning I realized that I had made a mistake. As if I received the same nursery, when I said “I want!”, But I don’t know what to do now, and most importantly, I don’t want to.
My husband left, I stayed at home. The red-haired lump did not allow even a step. As soon as she sat down at the table, the tailed one began to climb up the leg, squeak, scratch. The closed door did not resolve the issue, the cat scraped, yelled, howled and began to seem like some kind of monster.
By evening, his fate was finally decided. I washed the dishes, and the redhead decided to climb on top of me like a tree. I started with my leg, climbed up to my lower back and at some point dug my claws so that I jerked from pain. There was a knife in his hands. I washed it, and when I twitched, I cut my palm, and it snapped in my head that the cat was a very big mistake.
A new home for the pet was found a couple of hours later. It was lucky that a classmate just wanted to take a cat for my mother, he went to him, and I exhaled with happiness. Then it dawned on me that in my case, if I really start someone, then only an animal that can entertain itself, and will need me in exceptional cases. And I will look at him and rejoice.
After a while, two degus appeared at our house – South American rodents, which are called Chilean squirrels. Outwardly, they look a little like squirrels, but they are cute and you cannot call them mice. Why degu? We just searched the net for reviews of the most problem-free animals, and they got among them.
Degu are vegans. They eat only dry food and only some greens and vegetables. When they live as a couple, they are not bored with each other. They do not smell, and if they litter, then only hay from the cage. And what was important for such an egoist like me, they do not need you at all when busy.
You come home in the evening, when you turn the key, the squirrels make a welcome sound (the degus have more than a dozen of them, including an alarm signal) and are glad that you are at home. You approach the cage, and they are already jumping on their hind legs, pushing each other away, and are waiting to be treated. You hand over the cherished pumpkin seed – and the happy sisters scatter to eat.
Every night we go to bed to watch the show, roll up a huge cage the size of a closet to the bed, release squirrels, and they happily jump around collecting treats. They bury it in the same way as forest squirrels, funny moving their paws and sprinkling tasty treats with everyone that comes across.
If they got tired of running, they went back home and lay down in a couch, hay house or hammock. We decided to go to bed – we just closed them, pushed them aside, and they began to pack themselves.
This is not at all a stupid rodent, as is commonly believed. They recognize your voice, understand when you swear, if they take it into their head to chew on furniture, and you are against it. They care if you are or not, but they do not cause inconvenience. For me, this is an ideal animal that brings joy, because I am the kind of person who is used to and loves to manage my time and space myself.
Experience with a kitten personally showed me that even if you are under 30 years old or more, this does not mean at all that you can do anything, are ready for anything and cope with everything. The number of animals thrown out of the house, which were taken like my ginger cat, is quite large. Therefore, you always need to think twice, if not three times.