Quote Originally Posted by foxoftherose View Post
I really hate to hear that. I'm the same way, I could never live anywhere that didn't allow animals. Is there nobody who will babysit for you?
I'm just going to leave her with my parents like I did last year - at least I can check up on her and see her when I come to visit. I just was looking forward to her keeping me company at college. Plus, despite my sister technically caring for my Beardie fine maintenance wise the past year, apparently she never paid her any attention or anything like that, which makes me sad 'cause I'm becoming paranoid about how much longer realistically she will live being 8 years old now.


Quote Originally Posted by angllady2 View Post
You have my sympathy dear.

It is good that you don't waste time and money as your friends do, that will make graduating come that much sooner.

It is too bad about being rushed into the lease, sometimes things don't go our way. Perhaps you could find a shelter or even a vet office you could volunteer for ? They are usually glad to have help walking dogs or doing light cleaning tasks. It's not the same, but it might help the time go by faster.

Gale
That's a good idea. I was thinking about checking out the local pet shop and possibly offering to volunteer there to help clean cages and maybe score some time holding the animals - I used to do that way back in middle school and it was really rewarding for me. It'd be something, at least.

It's kind of ironic now that I think about it because the whole reason I really got into herps was because I grew up on a lot of property and we always had tons of animals: emus, horses, dogs, cats, parrots, snakes, you name it. But when I was 11 we moved to a rental and per that lease we could ONLY have caged animals, so my mom bought me a snake, and then it just escalated from there since I could have as many reptiles as I wanted without being in violation of anything.