From a Pet-lover of SL Animals

[Petronilla Whitfield]

(10-18-2013 06:55 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  You obviously misunderstood my intent.

And, let's be honest here, how many of you have actually kept ANYTHING out on display for an entire 16 months? Come on. Admit it. You move, you redecorate, "That Pink and White clashes with the new upholstery but don't I have a Cream Lynx which would be SO CUTE on those shelves?"

Sixteen months? Ha! My very first SL pet, Boo, a VKC yellow lab, has been continuously out on my property since I brought him home about six years ago. He has been in inventory only when I need to move him someplace too far to walk, and then only the length of time it takes me to teleport and re-rez.

To me, the concept of a *pet* in inventory just doesn't compute. An object, a decoration, a toy? sure. But my pet, I think, is an animal that lives with me--a flesh animal or a virtual animal, either way, a pet lives in my home interacting with me, not hidden away in a box or in an inventory.

I'm not criticizing those who keep kittycats in inventory. I'm just saying that your disbelief than anyone might actually keep a pet rezed in SL for more than sixteen months is ill-founded.

Boo, by the way, is made of old-style prims. Not mesh, not scuplts--prims. But as long as I am in SL, Boo will have a home there too.