On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> BTW, at least around here, the national chain pet stores also feature
> rabbits at Easter, so you wouldn't be safe going there, either. Of
> course, I suppose it's even worse for the rabbits, many of which won't
> live to see Mother's Day . . .
The bigger chain stores, though, have the advantage that the rabbits are
far enough from the checkout counters that I don't have to subject myself
to breathing too close to them. (Not that I've gone to the pet store in
months, anyway; Dan's been the one to buy the dog food recently, and
that's all we really need from there. Pet toys have been ordered from
catalogs recently and NOT bought at the store.)
> (2) I used to be so allergic to cats that I could hardly go into a
> house where cats lived, even if the cat was outside at the time. If I
> handled a cat, my nose, etc., would fill up with mucus to the point
> where I could not breathe except through my mouth, my eyes would turn
> red and pour tears, and my face and neck would turn red and swell. I
> would have to immediately take my medicine, then a long hot bath and
> put on all clean clothes (letting my mother handle the old ones until
> she washed them). Eventually, however, I grew out of it, and for most
> of the past several years have had two cats living in the house with
> me. Perhaps you will get lucky, too.
Your cat allergy sounds worse than my rabbit allergy. I'm almost hoping I
*don't* lose it, because I frankly don't want to lose the excuse to not
have any mammalian pets around besides dogs. :) But it would be nice to
have my own cat allergy abate some, so I could go to Jerry's and not be
miserable every time Molly got within 5 feet of me. (Molly is named after
a character in _Neuromancer_. Not a bad person to name a cat after.)
Julia
