Smaller is better, even if the man and the cat have to share a room.

"You mean the cat gets his own bedroom?" my husband wanted to know. Um, yes. And you have to share it with him. Before you deem me a crazy cat lady (and childless..that part is true), I can explain... We aren't having marital problems. And he gets the night shift with me in the main …

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Why I didn’t want a dog, and adopted one anyway

Two months into volunteering at Santa Fe Animal Shelter, I came home with a scruffy 18-pound mutt. I'll just foster him for a weekend, I thought. Give the little guy a shelter break. I mean..how could I not? The week prior to bringing him home, I'd walked him a few times, only to leave him …

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