Originally Posted by nor'easter
I'm curious about the purpose of this "survey" and what your plans for the results are, butterflywing. Since you brusquely refuse to read prior postings about this topic, it seems like you are not interested in what pets board members have and the phrasing of your study objective has little to do with what animals are owned by any of us anyway.
Originally Posted by butterflywing
I'm conducting a 6-week survey to find out which animal quilters relate best to.
Just because I may own a particular species of animal, does not indicate I "relate" best to that species at all. And what I own now, due to circumstances, does not mean that it is what I would prefer were the circumstances different. It is not necessarily relative to a change in "taste", as you put it. And if you are counting worms, should you not also count the mice I shelter in my garage, or the wild turkeys I feed all
winter? What about those who have no companion animals at the moment? I bet plenty of them "relate" fondly to some type of critter.
So, what exactly is the goal of this exercise?
i reason i didn't want to read the last pet post was that some animals were gone and some were added. i'm really just doing this out of curiosity, because so many quilters have chosen their pets as their avatars, indicating a special bonding. yes, some people love their pet worms and i have them listed in the 'survey'. barbsbus has 2000 worms.i also have a listing for 1 snake, 25 cattle, fish, a turtle and quiltykitty is claiming all the wild things of the world as being dear to her.
my intention was never to be serious. this was never meant to be a treatise on the subject of "quilters and their animal friends". i thought it would be fun and allow everyone to share their love of their animals with others who love their animals.
if you have taken it in any other way, i sincerely apologize.
by the way, yes, the turkeys you feed are certainly your pets. just because they don't live in your house doesn't matter. i also feed all the wild birds that come to my feeders and know some of them by name. they are surely my pets. you are certainly invited to share with us all anything you'd like to about your animal 'friends'. goats and horses don't live indoors indoors either. and shelter animals didn't cost any money. anything you care about and love is your pet. please let me know what your favorites are.
i have no plans for the results. should i have? what in the world would they be?