Where Bloggers Live: The Animals Who Rule My Heart

Welcome! “Where Bloggers Live” started out kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…with bloggers! We all like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes, interests, and lives, so every month this wonderful  family of amazing women shares their work-spaces, homes, towns, and thoughts, with posts based on specific prompts. It’s been so interesting over the years to see the different ways each of us interpret the topics.

When the Where Bloggers Live group chose “pets” as our theme again this year, I realized I’d already written the ultimate pet post back in 2022.

Since then, a lot has changed. For the first time in 52 years, I don’t have any animals at all.

Looking back through old photos, I realized just how many animals have wandered through my life over the years. Some stayed briefly, some stayed for over a decade, but they all left their mark.

I’ve had mice, hamsters, rats, birds, ferrets, fish, horses, dogs, cats, and a few animals that belonged to different familes but who somehow became temporary family members of mine.

If I’m honest, I had favorites: Jeremy Andrew, Princess, Robbie Stop, Kimberly Lynne, and Caleb.

Caleb has been gone for several years now, and for the first time since childhood I’m living without an animal companion.

But looking back through these photos, I realize how lucky I’ve been. I’ve had a lifetime of good animal companions and partners.

And lately I’ve been wondering whether there might be room for one more someday. If I’m not too old when I’m done with my traveling lifestyle, I hope to bring One More Animal friend into my life. That’ll be a good, “well, I can’t do THAT anymore…but now I can do THIS” boost.

Please visit my friends’ blogs to see their “children.”

Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Em at Dust and Doghair
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Leslie Once Upon a Time Happily Ever After 
Sally at Within a World of My Own