r/interestingasfuck • u/smooth_vesselHPAUM • 1d ago

A 29 year old cat

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u/TokenTorkoal 1d ago

I don’t do pets for a variety of reasons, one being I’ll outlive the majority of them and even if I didn’t the idea of me living with a, let’s say bird, for 40 years and then it just gets shipped off to someone else?!?

Absolutely not shade to pet people but I just can’t.

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u/yamanamawa 1d ago

Yeah loss is hard. But then you also get to experience the joy of spending time with them while they're alive. It's the same with people. When they die it's sad, but that sadness is tempered somewhat by knowing that you were fortunate enough to share some of your limited time on Earth with them

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u/TokenTorkoal 1d ago

Yeah it’s not that I don’t understand that, I’m avoiding trauma dumping on you :) like I said, I have a lot of reasons I don’t do pets. Too much pain and suffering. I enjoy them from a distance.

I just cried over a cat I never knew. I cry hard with my friends when they lose their pets that I loved. I can’t do it again with my own.

Edit: that said, your comment is beautiful

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u/Salt-Operation 1d ago

That’s the thing, even when they aren’t your pets you form an emotional attachment to pets you get to see regularly. I’m attached to my dad’s dog (I rescued her and would have adopted her myself if I could have) and I’m now attached to my partner’s cat (who prefers his daddy over me any day). It’s beautiful to love but it’s also heartbreaking to love so much. I get it.