If there’s something all of us can agree on (well, most of us maybe) is that our pets make our lives ten million times better 
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Except when I have to clean cat litter or cat yack. Then, maybe, not so much. 
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A small price to pay, and you know it 
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Ask me why I have hard-surface floors.
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True. Except…
I have them in my kitchen and dining room. But the yack almost 98% of the time goes on the beige carpeting. 
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Thankfully, cats tend to… announce their yacking in a way that enables one (if nearby) to grab them and move them OFF the carpet, which they’ve generally chosen for the ejection.
Dogs just barf without warning.
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The day a hundred pound dog nabbed an uncooked prime rib from mother’s kitchen counter and demolished it in the middle of the living room rug will live forever in infamy, as will the day he caught a salmon and devoured it on the lawn.
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Our old dachshund Dagobert and a visiting other dachshund named Pretzel once destroyed my entire 7th or 8th birthday cake that had been placed on the dining room table.
We walked in to find them both standing over it and digging in. They had zero regrets.
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I can’t remember where I read this (could’ve been here!) but someone suggested an alarm clock that sounds like a puking cat. No one’s gonna sleep through that.
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Did you live on a river in Alaska or something? Our neighbors had three generations of black Labs, and the grandson was a very poorly behaved boy who once stood up on his hind legs to snag and eat an entire loaf of bread off the kitchen counter, faster than anyone could stop him.
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Of course it does. It’s a target. We just can’t see the bull’s-eye that they see. Which is why I had my wall-to-wall removed. And why I have “washable” area rugs. It’s a battle humans cannot win.
My little guy never, ever threw up - until he was 6 yrs old. Then he passes, as my vet refers to it, “vomiting 101.” Was I supposed to be a proud mom??
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My cat is almost 8, almost never throws up, maybe a tiny bit of hairball.
Never is fed dry food, used to feed raw ground chicken, now she gets cooked chicken.
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What a beaut! Is she very vocal? Our snowshoe never shuts up (like, never, unless he’s asleep) 
, and I hear Siamese are pretty talkative as well?
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Sign me up!!! May that is something some brilliant person can put as a ringtone sound for the alarm on their phone? I am still with a flip phone.
She IS a beauty and that cat tree, awesome! Color coordinated.
Our two Siamese growing up, “Bang Pow” (onomatopoeia) and Olympia were very, very vocal.
He’a one handsome cat dude!
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Beautiful!!! My first 3 girls were Siamese (1 lilac point, 2 blue points) and loved to talk. Since then I’ve had 3 Oriental Shorthairs (2 boys, 1 girl; the girl looks exactly like a tortie point and has beautiful blue eyes; the boys are and were very sweet, but the current one isn’t a talker at all- he just squeaks occasionally. The girls were all accomplished conversationalists, as was the other boy. I enjoy it - I know it’s an acquired taste.
One of my girls sounded like a goat. Her vet tech recorded her voice and used it for her ringtone.
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We lived on the shores of Lake Washington, across from Seattle. The dog stood on the dock, watching salmon, and dove for them with no success until he finally snagged one. What a mess.
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That’s pretty cool, actually.
He loved water. I could throw something in eight feet of water, maybe more, and he would dive and bring it up (usually). He was also terrific with a frisbee. A friend and I would run pass plays with the frisbee. Judas was the D back. Since he was way faster and could jump five or six feet high while going full tilt, the fact he was only 100 pounds was not an issue for him. He also was unclear on the rules.
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