This post is inspired by Question #11 on this list.

I have grown up all my life with pets. Currently, Joe and I share our home with Precious, the delightful sixteen year old dilute tortie pictured in this post. I had both cats and dogs when I lived with my parents and hope to add a dog to our family at some point in the future.

I have never considered any of my pets familiars. I have met many people who seem to think that merely being a witch means that any pet they have is a familiar. To each their own, but that’s not how I see it personally. For me to consider an animal a familiar, that animal would have to enhance or aid in my Craft in some palpable way to me. That’s never happened.

But even if she’s only a pet rather than a familiar, you gotta admit that our current fur-baby is downright adorable, right?