All my pets are under 10 pounds.

[conuly]

My bed is a queen. So how is it that any ONE of those animals is capable of taking up the entire bed, forcing me to edge around the sides if I want to sleep? They all are inexplicably too heavy to budge once they're settled, too.

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[conuly]

We also have three cats, one of whom has finally started coming in my room again these past few months. (She avoided the place after we got the dogs, which really annoyed me because she's my cat, not a family cat, but she's loosening up. So long as the dogs aren't in it.)