Pets are so nice, and I think about them every day. But after the last 8 year period where I took care of them every day, I had to take a break and stopped getting new ones.

It's this one extra thing. A day has you beat down completely, you feel like you could just pass out on the floor, but the pets need the full program with cage cleaning and everything. Vet appointments that can hit any time. A dying, suffering pet and the vets are closed on weekends and holidays (we have no clinics here, just ONE emergency vet for 250,000 people).