Namaste Fares,
thank you for the interesting thread.
Fares said:
had one until quite recently. i decided to leave after they made it quite uncomfortable for me, both in a health sense and a religious sense. however, see the number 5 answer for an update
at the moment, there are two felines living at the house, Henry (a handsome, regal male) and 7 (an all black polydactyle Maine Coon female).
Sammy, the English hounddog recently ceased to mainfest and, being a rescue, we were happy to allow him to live out his final days in warm, compassionate comfort. i miss him dearly.. i found him on a rainy Thanksgiving evening on my way home from the aforementioned job. i pulled over and got out of the car and crossed the road and called for him, he walked right up and we connected in the way that dogs and humans can. sorry.. rambling a bit there..
3) If you have Brothers and sisters.
yes, 9 of them
4) What are you studying.
Kum Nyey, a form of Tibetan Ayeurvedic medicine and yoga. just recently started on that, though so i have no skillz yet.
to open my own computer/IT consulting/PC building business, buy a big tract of land in some place like Wyoming or British Columbia, retire, donate the land to a Tibetan monestary and live out my days on earth in the company of the Sangha.
6) Are you Married and do you have kids.
yes, i'm married to my Dharma partner and we recently discovered that we are pregnant

so, we don't have any childern yet, but they are just around the corner, as it were. due date is December 25th. yes, i do appreciate the irony
metta,
~v