I had to say goodbye much too early to the pets I’ve tried to have and I couldn’t deal with it anymore. I love animals though, so now I volunteer at a wildlife rescue, so I get seemingly infinite animals. I get more chores than love, and ironically I say goodbye to more of them than I ever would pets, but they’re my patients now, not my best friends. But I get to enjoy a ton of animals, some that I never even knew existed, and I still get to feel I did good by them like I did with my rescue pups and kitties. We treated over 4200 animals last year! Overall, it’s a pretty small commitment for all the neat things I get to be a part of.