Yes, animals are good to keep you company.
One thing I did like in England was that the places where you could advertise kittens and puppies insisted that they were at least 9 weeks old! That has the additional benefit of keeping the bitch or the queen from being bred again too quickly. It upsets me when I see people here selling 4 or 5-week old kittens or puppies - just because they're eating food doesn't mean they're ready to go! I had a cat who always suckled the blanket for being taken away from her mother too soon - she was the runt of the litter though - and improved after having kittens, but you really shouldn't be able to see the blue eyes of kittens when you're buying - those are too young!
Always good to find online friendships. :)
What part of Canada? I joined the Mormon Church when I was in NE Washington - and our church was actually held in Grand Forks, BC, one of the few international units in the world for the LDS. Most members don't even know they go as small as what we had! Great place though - had I had permission to stay in Canada, I probably would have. (But then, I wouldn't have met my husband.)
Chat later, I must get off.
That's a great rule; 9 weeks old is as young as they should be. Your poor little runt, suckling the blanket :( missing his momma. And yes, it's a good general rule of thumb that their eyes shouldn't be blue.
We are from Ontario but lived most of our life in the Vancouver area. I didn't know about the church in Grand Forks, although not being Mormon, and having no reason to go to Grand Forks, it's not much of a surprise that I did't know ;) BC is a beautiful province though; I can see why you wanted to stay...but then, there's the husband thing :)
I visited Vancouver for Expo 86 - ran into my (married) math teachers there, strangely! Amazing place! Even by Pacific Northwest standards. The first time we were up there, we camped to the northwest of Vancouver, near a very tall, but narrow waterfall - and to the sound of a train's steam whistle several times a day! Past several road barriers obviously put down during adverse weather.
Yeah, actually I believe that little (church) unit is quite a new group anyway, so it's unlikely it was there when you were around anyway. But Grand Forks must seem a very, very long ways from Vancouver. I lived several years in the other Vancouver that Washington is sandwiched between.
Expo! That's when we arrived there as well:) And running into you math teachers is strange:) And I think I know exactly where that campground is...Bridal Falls :) We used to camp there and I'd take my dog up to the waterfall; it really is beautiful!
So awesome! I was hoping you might know where it was. :-)
Looking at it now - nope, that's not the waterfall. This one wasn't so spectacular, but rather narrow and very tall - taller than anything I think I've seen. The campground was across the highway from it though. But still, fun to look. I learned this week of the huge abundance of parks in BC, at all levels - just everywhere! (Someone was doing a photogame on places, and the best I could do was to guess it was taken in coastal BC - it definitely looks PNWish... the clues he gave us were - Canadian park... that's it!)
haha Canadian park doesn't narrow it down much at all ;) The abundance of Provincial Parks and Campgrounds is one of the things I loved about living there!