Amy Lu's View

Happy “I Don’t Respect My Pets Personal Space Day” (officially known as National Love Your Pet Day). 

Or perhaps I should call it “My Pets Won’t Cooperate When I Want to Take Selfies With Them Day.” 

Of course every day is Love Your Pet Day. We love them in all their adorableness and weirdness, every day.

And not to sell our cats short when it comes to weirdness, or discount the weirdness of any of our previous pets, but StanLee seems particularly “quirky.” He is the puppy who has three “carry around sticks,” because he doesn’t chew his rawhide chew sticks but rather carries them about from room to room, burying them in our bed or “his office” futon, or dropping them in chairs, on the floor, etc. 

He has had one of these carry around sticks for at least two years. And it’s not because he has any qualms about chewing–he IS the puppy who graced our bookcase with permanent teeth marks, who loves to chew running socks–expensive running socks. Rather, he understands the adage that you can’t have your cake (chew stick) and eat (chew) it, too, 

Every time StanLee has received a new stick, he whines because (we think) he loves it so much that he just can’t stand it. He also (we think) deems the chew sticks so awesome and impressive that he will often get one to show off to a dog he sees passing by our bay window, and will also hide the stick after the display so no interloper dog can get it. 

I could go on and on about all the peculiar and silly and cute things StanLee does, as well as the antics of Pepper and Sprout, but since I’m blogging every day I’m giving myself permission to keep things short…and these anecdotes may need to be saved for future blogging. 

Every day is Love Your Pet Day, with the heartache being that there just aren’t enough days that we have with our pets to love them. Of course, we still love every pet we’ve ever had, even when they are no longer with us. But I WILL NOT GET MAUDLIN! I will just be grateful that we currently have three healthy, silly, annoying, adorable pets right now. 

I love them even if they resist my attempts at social media worthy photography.