I hear so much about “bucket lists.” I decided to come up with one of my own.
While I started writing my bucket list, I realized my “must do before I die” list has everything to do with animals. Those who know me will not be surprised, as I’m the one who prefers having ground hogs in my backyard to a garden; the one who stops to pet each and every dog I meet in passing; the one who longs to someday live on a farm; and the one who always has cat hair on her clothing.
So, here it is — My Official Bucket List (with the ones I’ve done already striked through!)
Ride a camel
Hold a koala bear
Ride an elephant
Own a ball python
Hold a baby pig
Swim with a dolphin
Own a pocket-sized poodle
Own a Chihuahua
Own an Italian Greyhound
Own a ferret
Come face-to-face with an eel while snorkeling! (which is why I no longer snorkel!)
Ride a horse on the beach with my husband (how romantic is this one?!)
Milk a cow or a goat
Eat frog’s legs (didn’t like them, tasted too much like chicken)
Hold a monkey
Watch a cat give birth
Watch a dog give birth
Hold a baby squirrel
Pet a baby tiger (make that “pet every cute baby animal there is on this planet!”)
Smuggle a grasshopper from Florida to New Jersey (I did that when I was 9, and the grasshopper lived in New Jersey until the end of the summer!)
Ride a horse, English-style, Western-style AND bare-back!
Teach a pet a trick (make that an impressive trick, I don’t think teaching a cat to go crazy for Super Goo counts!)
Continue to treat my cats with such love that they live until at least 20! (They are 16 and 18 now!)
And a few things that weren’t on my animal bucket list, that were not so cool
1. Got bit by a pig
2. Got bit by a squirrel
3. Got thrown from a horse
4. A pony stepped on my foot when I was 10 (a pony !! and it hurt like hell!!)
I love your list and I’m impressed with some of those like the snake. I’m not that adventurous. Riding the horse on the beach is more my style!
I’ve got to say an animal bucket list is genius. I love what you wrote. I will have to work on mine now that you’ve got me thinking.
Aww, thanks Joan! I can’t wait to read yours 🙂
Great list. I hope you do every one! My sister once got corralled by a mean goat ha.
Ooh, crazy about the mean goat! I actually had a goat snuggle me! I never realized they were so affectionate until Dennis and I stayed at this hotel in NH — they had a little farm in the back of the hotel. I’d get up every morning and feed the goats. They were adorable!
This is a really cool list. It’s impressive that you’ve done most of them already. I love this post! Anything with or about animals makes me happy happy!!!
Thanks Gina! I thought it was cute too. I’ll have to email you my dream about animals last night. It was adorable!
Hehe — love this. And we have more in common than I even thought, fellow Leo — yep, I always have cat hair all over, pet all the dogs (or cats I meet), love farm animals….etc. One of the best days I remember was my visit to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen when I was out your way in ’07. If you haven’t gone, I recommend it…quality time with pigs, goats, sheep, cows, bunnies, and more. It was lovely. 🙂
Julie I am INSANELY jealous!!! I always wanted to go the Farm Sanctuary — and it’s so close too!! I just never got around to it. Maybe that will be another thing to put on the animal bucket list! Email me some pictures if you feel like it 🙂
Haha – you smuggled a grasshopper from Florida to New Jersey. A lot of these would be on my animal bucket list, but not that one. My favorite one here, one that I doubt I’ll ever do, is hold a koala bear. That would be awesome!! Celeste 🙂
Amen to that! I’d love to snuggle a koala bear, or any little bear cub 🙂
Oh, eat frogs legs wouldn’t be on my list either!!!
You’re not missing anything 😉