by Carla Heimerl

Created on: May 30, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

O, you know who you are! All you women out there with "baby hunger"! Because of one thing or another, either you ended up with no children of your own, or your children are gone and out of the nest, and their is a deep and longing void in your life.

Instead of moping around and feeling all unfulfilled, it's time to pull yourself together and do something about it! You need a "baby substitute" and you need it fast, so that you can once again function like a normal human being.

Being childless myself, I have had plenty of baby substitutes over the years. I have rescued countless guinea pigs and given them sanctuary. Stray cats always tug at my heartstrings too. I have an entire barn devoted to stray cats! Add to the mix, a few sick rabbits that no one wanted to care for because it took daily maintenance to keep them alive. My latest bunny is a little Holland Lop who has a chronic eye problem. This poor little guy needs antibiotics everyday, and needs his eye cleansed twice a day. This started two years ago. This rabbit is now 7 years old, but he hangs in there, so how can I not help the little guy out? It's what women do who have an over supply of nurturing emotions.

We live on a farm, so we always have a variety of dogs running around. These are "dog's dogs"! They love humans, but they love other dogs more, and they have a pack mentality, and I might add, their own little world and all that implies. The only time they end up in the house is in the middle of winter when the barn is a little too cold for them, or whenever they can sneak into the house for some treats, which is at least once a day.

I always tried not to get too emotionally attached to any of these dogs, because I did not want dogs in the house and the house training accidents. Usually these dogs sleep in a dog crate on the nights they come in from the cold, and in the morning they can't wait to get outside again to make sure the squirrels are off the yard. They have a tough job, but someone has to do it, those squirrels would take over the yard if the dogs did not patrol them everyday.

All was good and well in my little zoo of a world. I had my animals in the barn, and I had my nice, neat, clean, clutter free, childless, animal-less house. Like many other childless women, I am fussy about my house. I don't like clutter or accumulations of any kind. Everything is put away in it's proper place where I can find it again when I need it. My home was a place of calm and peacefulness, and looked very much

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