Pet owners or pet parents?

[Tobi]

Yes we have different relationships with each one of our animal friends. Maybe Koori Crow thinks I am a kind of adopted parent! Toby dog was like my little brother. Once when I saved a tiny baby mouse (from a Mouse-nest-massacre by Toby!) that felt like a baby. I had to wake up every 2 hours in the night to feed it, and carried it in a little pouch filled with dried grass next to my chest all day long, to keep it warm. It got old enough to open its eyes. Then sadly a couple of days later it passed away. I cried hard at its passing.