What happens when people go back to work and kids go back to school and have to leave pets at home?

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Sunday June 06, 2021 · 5:29 AM PDT

2021/06/06 · 05:29

I’m retired. “Back to work” for me doesn't apply unless you count going to Waterfalls, the coffee shop at the senior community where I live.

Before the pandemic shut our campus down what passed for work for me was going to Waterfalls and if nobody else was there looking at the Internet and reading comments and responding to them on whatever diary I’d posted on Daily Kos earlier in the morning.

When people came in I’d close my laptop so people who wanted to join me wouldn’t think they were interrupting me. Some residents used to call the coffee shop my office.

I also used to bring my Westies, Mac and Duff, with me and tie them out front where lots of residents and staff would pet them.

During the pandemic we had many new people join staff and new residents move in so now that I am bringing them again I’ve been posting the sign in my illustration on the bench where I tie them letting everyone know it is okay to pet them.

During the pandemic many people worked from home, some lost or had to quit their jobs, and with schools closed children took their classes via Zoom.

Who benefited from this?

The answer is obvious.

Cats, dogs, and other pets like some birds who thrive on human interaction, who had previously been left alone during the day but overnight, for reasons they couldn’t understand, had their family at home.

Pets are great therapy for people.

Now we may have pets that when human life returns to normal may need therapy for themselves.

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