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violet_yoshi
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04 Dec 2007, 10:26 am

Nothing against dogs, but have you thought of a cat?


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04 Dec 2007, 12:34 pm

violet_yoshi wrote:
Nothing against dogs, but have you thought of a cat?


We have lots of pets around here, including cats. My daughter doesn't care about them except when they stim together with cat toys.

I have an autistic friend, though, who said her best friend was a cat when she was a child. She said that the cat helped her a lot.

The only other potential pet I ever saw my daughter really like was snakes. I don't want snakes. I'd have to feed the big snakes rodents which would be hard from me and the little garter snakes would hate me if I let my daughter hold them too much.


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