Pets and dating

[FP]

An answer to Kay Hymowitz's latest book perhaps?


"Pets as Bedmates"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/garden/17pets.html?_r=1

"EVERY night for the last year, Kathy Ruttenberg has been taking a bath, putting on pajamas, turning on CNN and getting into bed with a little pig named Trixie.
Randy Harris for The New York Times

Kathy Ruttenberg with her potbellied pig, Trixie.

"She's a great cuddler if you lie still," said Ms. Ruttenberg, a 53-year-old artist who lives near Woodstock, N.Y. "But if you're restless, she gets annoyed, and her hooves are very sharp." "

"Most gentlemen callers don't even make it to the bedroom. One bolted when Ms. Ruttenberg, who has a total of 160 animals on her sprawling mountainside property, let a baby goat into the living room after Trixie, the pig, had already joined the visit.

"I thought he would find a little goat charming," she said. "But after the pig, it was too much for him. Especially as the goat, Iris, was leaving droppings on the floor."

Another date fled, after some wine and a soak in the hot tub under the stars, when Oola, one of the resident pigs (black, 150 pounds) charged and tried to bite him.

"And then, the last guy I had in the bed was freaked out by the rabbit," Ms. Ruttenberg said. "He's huge, and he got territorial seeing this guy in the room, so he started thumping and picking up his dish in his mouth and tossing it in our direction." "

[The Biscuit Queen]

Interesting. I know we do not let any animals sleep with us, but that is Dave's choice, not mine. Those women who allow their dog, pig or rabbit to be territorial in the bedroom are poor leaders for their dogs, and the men would be smart to steer clear. I feel very bad for the one man who has to sleep in the spare room because the cats get too rowdy, especially considering he didn't like animals to begin with. WHy would you marry someone who would have so little respect for you?