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Dogs. Cats. Parrots. Sheep. The Similarities of Those With #MultiPetMania Runs Deep

6/30/2015

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Happy Multiple Pet Day! This is a day to celebrate all things about life with multiple pets. Today is for those who currently or have in the past shared their lives with more than one pet. First off, I salute you! Pets are awesome. My life has involved more than one pet since I was six years old so I know that caring for multiple pets isn't always easy but it is forever rewarding. Second, I must ask, are we crazy? Why do we put ourselves through the difficulties of training, grooming, feeding and exercising so many pets? Why?!? Oh yeah. It's that rewarding part I mentioned earlier. And those rewards last a lifetime even if, sadly, our pets do not. Anytime I think of any sort of "happy place," it involves more than one pet by my side. The best part of our month long Multiple Pet Mania celebration has been learning that I am not alone. Every pet blogger who joined on our month long blog hop shared a story that is similar to something I have experienced. All of the entries in our Multiple Pet Day photo contest were familiar scenes from my life. The results of the Life With Multiple Pets survey also clearly exhibited the similarities multiple pet enthusiasts share. The majority of people who responded to the Life With Multiple Pets survey have lived with multiple pets as long as they can remember and believe the best part of life with multiple pets is a full heart. It is comforting to me that people who completed with survey with as many as six dogs, fifteen cats, four birds, a few sheep and goats, a couple of rodents, rabbits and turtles as well as dozens of fish and horses have so much in common. The types of pets we choose to keep may differ but the struggles we have to keep a balanced multiple pet budget and find vacation pet care remain the same, according to the survey. What I found most interesting about the survey results is how few respondents chose "very difficult" for any of the life with multiple pets challenge options. That must be the extremely rewarding part of sharing life with pets shining through again. Oh, lucky, lucky us!

Black and tan dapple miniature dachshund dog Wilhelm on the wrong side of the door from his siamese mix cat buddy Gryphon circa June 2010
Wilhelm and his pal Gryphon circa June 2010
All of the Multiple Pet Day photo contest entries made the judges smile. I mean, who doesn't like photos of pets? Okay. I know those people exist. So a more appropriate question is who doesn't like photos of pets and if reading this blog? Wait! Don't leave. Maybe the winning #MultiPetDay photos will help to change any disliking pet photo ways. First prize, $75 PayPal cash, goes to Crystal Lynn Kamm (@clkamm) for the creatively framed photo of her dog and guinea pig. Second prize, a $40 Only Natural Pet gift card, goes to Linda Szymoniak (@urdchan87) for her photo of two dogs tugging one watched. Jan from Wag n'Woof Pets put it best "that's how it is around here. Two dogs playing and one left out just watching!" Here too, Jan and Linda. Here too. Third prize goes to Beth (@eedevore) for her laugh out loud photo of the beginnings of a cat and dog playtime. I just love Beth's fur family. It reminds me so much of my own and I don't think that it's just because of the similarity in our name.

A photo posted by CascadianNomadsBethanyClochard (@cascadiannomads) on Jun 30, 2015 at 2:15pm PDT

Keeping multiple pets is an amazing and immersive hobby. I have had a lot of hobbies in my lifetime but none that I have been so passionate about for so long and definitely no other that is so rewarding. I knew all of this before Multiple Pet Mania month began but what had never occurred to me before is that fellow multiple pet hobbyists have more in common than any other hobby I have. There is something about sharing the struggles and triumphs of caring for and loving pets that unites us. I never imagined that I could love my life with multiple pets more than I already did but I now do. The rewards of happy, healthy pets and the rewards of sharing commonalities with so many amazing people also keeping up a multiple pet lifestyle makes my heart even more full.
Seven dogs- four Alaskan Klee Kai's, a rough collie, a cardigan welsh corgi and a miniature dachshund.
Is multiple pet mania genetic? The three Cascadian Nomads canines and the four Alaskan Klee Kais that belong to Bethany's dad.
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It has been so much fun celebrating Multiple Pet Mania Month! This month long multiple pet extravaganza, hosted by Cascadian Nomads, My GBGV Life and Wag'n'Woof Pets and sponsored by K9 Bytes, Merrick and The Umbilical Belt was all about life with multiple pets culminating with the first annual Multiple Pet Day, today, June 30th. Congratulations to all of the months winners and thank you so much to everyone who participated. We invite you and all pet lovers who share their lives with zero to many pets to keep educating and supporting each other and we'll see you again next year.
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Lauren Miller link
6/30/2015 06:55:54 am

Congrats to the winners!

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Bethany
6/30/2015 08:37:16 am

Thanks to your and your lovely girls for entering Lauren! Your multiple pet household is always fun to see.

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Linda Szymoniak
6/30/2015 08:57:50 am

Yay! The third dog "watching" in the picture is my deaf hound girl, Ran, who passed in April. I had some photos with her on the rope with the other two, but they were blurry.

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Beth link
6/30/2015 11:47:42 am

Thank you! We love reading about your pets' adventures, too! I'm so glad I'm not the only one with a herding dog that has learned that "No, no [insert name here]" is the unintentional cue to herd the cat.

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Emma link
7/1/2015 03:31:33 am

Awesome post, love the rhyme at the beginning too. Great idea you had and hope to do it again next year!

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Kitty Cat Chronicles link
7/2/2015 01:49:41 am

We enjoyed #MultiPetMania this month! It was so much fun to read about others who share their lives with multiple pets. ConCATs to all of the photo contest winners - those pictures are pawesome! Thanks for hosting such a fun month. We hope to see it happen again!

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