When being broody begs you to broaden your brood.

Im sick nd blogging from bed. It is absolutely the wrong way to have a day off work, needless to say thinking about the backlog is already increasing the dull thud in my face from my blocked sinuses to a banging force. I tried to study a little, given that I am not at work doing my job I thought the least I could do is a little study but my headache says no.

But enough about that. My head hurts and I just can't face a blog about education today I want to talk about pets. As I lye here with my baby beside me, i think to myself pets make even the cruddiest of days just a little bit mofe pleasant!
As those of you who know me already know, I am a mother to Paco, my 5 month Shih Tzu who is the light of my life( sorry Tiago). And after a strange dream where this little munchkin of mine morphed into two animals, himself and a little black cat named Picnic, I cant help but wonder if I am ready to take on a second pet. Coincidentally, whilst Tiago was at Paco's vet clinic on Saturday, there was a cat for adoption who fits Picnic's description exactly.
My immediate thought was, stop what you are doing, throw on a dress and get that cat! It was destiny, fate, a sign from God, that this cas was in YOUR dream, Hayley, it is your responsibility to adopt him. Think of how much less lonely Paco would be while you aren't there...

However there are questions to be raised. Is there room in your house for another animal? How will Tiago feel about having two babies at home? You live on the second floor, how do you avoid the cat from jumping out? And the biggest of all, where will the kitty litter and dinner bowls go?
You see I don't exactly live in an apartment the size of a mansion. I don't live in an apartment the size of small house. So I decided that some research was in order. I went to my biggest research tool(google)and researched two very important facts: Average apartment size Japan and Pets Japan.
I discovered that with land becoming so over valued in Japan, the average person has no way of acheiving the common dream of being a homeowner! So in order to reach their dreams the Japanese are buiding smaller and smaller homes which, they aptly call - Ultra-Small-Homes.
These homes are built for two people and they are built on a piece of land the size of a carparking space ( all be it that it is an American car parking space and they do usually drive big cars...). Now that is a small house, even if they do build two stories. After reading this information I thought that the last thing that the Japanese would want in their car space sized apartments would be a pet, how wrong I was. 52% of the population has a pet in Japan. Pets range from small dogs, cats and turtles to tropical fish, hamsters and surprisingly so-ferrets!
If the Japanese in their car space sized homes can have a dog, then I in my 7 cars space sized home can have a dog and a cat. 
Put on your dress Hayley, grab your boots. It is off to the vets we go. Picnic, mummy is coming to get you!