Shelter pets can be a real blessing

I say Amen and God bless Tamar Puckett for her wonderful March 6 letter pertaining to not cloning animals, especially cats and dogs. (“Cloning Animals: Consider adopting a shelter pet instead”). She works at PAWS in Lynnwood where we adopted Tesh, our wonderful ten-year-old white Brittany Spaniel mix in Sepember of 2001. She was going to be put down at another shelter and Lynnwood PAWS rescued her for us.

As Tamar said, and I repeat emphatically, “PAWS recognizes and understands the bond that can exist between humans and their cats, dogs and other companion animals. However, animals have unique personalities just like humans and develop behaviors and idiosyncrasies based on their circumstances and environment. These are aspects of an individual that cannot be replicated in a laboratory.”

Tesh is our third pet that we’ve adopted – and the oldest. We had agreed that two pets was enough (it’s so hard when you lose them), but Bobby our Manx cat and Sarah our Welch Corgie mix were so special – and now we have Tesh, our love.

Marysville