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@Cupcake Why do you pay to have this done? I've always bathed and cut my dogs' nails myself.
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Why do you pay to have this done? I've always bathed and cut my dogs' nails myself.
I'm guessing it's because her greyhound is a greyhound. They are the skittish type.
I have a cat. He gets IAMS food for indoor cats with hairball issues. I never give him any treats. I clean his litterbox out once a week. I took off his front claws. I'm not home or I'm taking care of the kids 14 hours a day, and then I am out or sleeping for the rest. I maybe spend 5 hours a week with him.
He crawls up when I'm RPing or watching Netflix/Hulu right next to me, and if I'm not paying attention he will lick my hand until I pet him. He knows I don't like him on the bed, so he never jumps on it.
He lets me hug him. He purrs when I let him up on my shoulder or tummy.
My cat loves me, despite the fact that others have the gall to say I treat him awful because I buy store-bought food, don't spend 4 hours a day with him, and don't clean out his box every day.
Like, fuck you.
Fuck you.
I got my cat from a shelter when he was a kitten and very sick. He loves me.
Animal snobs can fuck right off.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede Amen.
The rescue we got our cats from was being absurd at us despite the fact that they were adult (3-5yrs), and were sisters that had to go together as a pair, and had been with them for over half a year.
We were told the fluffy stupid one was purely decorative. She hates all people, they insisted.
She prances down the hall singing like a flurfy Disney Princess of Cats, and the humans all rush to do her bidding. Which usually means 'sit still enough to be headbonked and trilled and rubbed on constantly'. She insists on hugs, being near us, sleeping sometimes on our heads in bed. Will wake us with a need for snurgles. She sits on the back of my chair at the computer, and randomly interjects chirps, headbonks, and swishes of mop-tail-to-face while purring with epic smugface.
Clearly, she hates the shit out of us people-things. (She is still skittish as fuck around other people, but we are apparently cats now. Or her people. We dunno. We're sure she doesn't know, either.)
Yep, we store-food-buyin' cat owners are totes the worst.
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I clean my cat's box once a week. Mostly because I can't handle kneeling down to do so more often. I need one of them fancy self-cleaning boxes.
I get a higher-end store-bought food. I actually tried an even-fancier food once and... she got sick. Really sick. I have an un-opened bag of it still. $20 for a 7lb bag and I have nfc what to do with it.
This, for a cat who was born a stray that I hand-raised. Who gets her yearly vet visits and shots and is absolutely loved and adored by the vet and has a clean bill of health. Who I don't brush her teeth at home because she flips out on me (I'm not gonna have my hands torn to shreds alright) and yet, at 8 years old, the vet said she has amazing teeth for her age at her last checkup.
So, y'know, people who concern-fuss at you over your pet? Can fuck right off. It's your pet. You're the one taking care of them day in and out. You know what's best for them.
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But what if I validate myself through being really great at something, and draw self esteem from pointing out to other people how I'm better than them???? So I study and research ways to do things the right way and, over time, begin to believe that anything less than what I believe is technically kind of cruel?? Kind of like how these kitchen counters are FILTHY AS FUCK and if you don't go over them with a fresh new store bought sponge (counter clockwise scrubbing every time) and the right version of 409, you're infecting your house and everyone you love and its NOT FUCKING CLEAN GOD DAMNIT ITS NOT FUCKING CLEAN. So I think to myself, if I love my dog, then my dog should have standards. You have standards, don't you? If you eat filet mignon then doesn't your four legged baby deserve just as much? Would you shit in a box? NO, which is why when it comes to cats the only acceptable answer is this custom litter box I sell on etsy for 125.99 and don't you tell me that I'm off base because I NEED THIS GOD DAMNIT.
Or they're just yet another American asshole who thinks they have the right to shame random strangers for not doing everything their way.
@Cupcake don't let these birches sorority bully you. Just be like "I have another arrangement. Have a nice day." and bail. You owe them nothing.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Tyche: I have a 68 lb greyhound. It makes bathing him myself difficult. As for why take care of his nails, greyhound nails require a dremel, and I don't feel comfortable risking hurting my dog when I'm notoriously clumsy with power tools.
Also, that money isn't just going to a store, but to the rescue for its kennel upkeep and so they can rescue more dogs.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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@Cupcake IMO, prioritise the nails over the bath: a warm wet washcloth does a lot for a smooth-coated non-oily dog. Barring skin issues that require a medicated bath, anyway.
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You have standards, don't you? If you eat filet mignon then doesn't your four legged baby deserve just as much?
I only have sex with extremely hot women, but I don't really give a fuck what they think about me.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I only have sex with extremely hot women, but I don't really give a fuck what they think about me.
Me too! Only difference is that I only care what they think about me if they think I'm awesome, because my 5 star rating is important.
If they think I'm 4 stars or less, then they just bein all uppity cuz I don't kiss em on the mouth
#SthrnGentlemn
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Ghost Do you work for Uber?
He/Him
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@Cupcake I don't know if this is a helpful suggestion or not, but depending on the kind of dremel you're used to... there might be a (relatively newish?) option. I say this 'cause I have tiny creepy child hands, and usually a dremel is just too big for me to successfully handle, and I feel like somebody gave me whatever the hand equivalent of two left feet is when I handle one.
...but there's a new(ish) one. Much smaller. Rechargeable. Under $100 for the kit, I would bet you could find one for $60 tops somewhere. Much smaller. Much, much easier to handle. No cord. It's about the size of the average battery-powered toothbrush, maybe a little fatter around the grip, but not much.
It might be worth checking out in a hardware store; a lot of them will have a demo unboxed to handle and test the feel. I seriously could barely ever use one (despite having to more than a little due to the kind of work I do sometimes) until I got a hold of mine, and despite being the most fumble-fingered creature ever with power tools (and having some fear of them, thanks 80s horror movies... ) I kept finding new things to do just to keep using the thing it was such a night and day difference from what I was used to.
Still might be too scary or might not help, but might be worth checking out to see if it might work out for you.
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@Ghost Do you work for Uber?
kiiiiiiiiiind of
Über got all weird about my viewpoint on what giving people rides means, KNOWM'SAYIN???
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man -
@Ghost Do you work for Uber?
kiiiiiiiiiind of
Über got all weird about my viewpoint on what giving people rides means, KNOWM'SAYIN???
Do you even Lyft, bro?
He/Him
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@Tyche: I have a 68 lb greyhound. It makes bathing him myself difficult. As for why take care of his nails, greyhound nails require a dremel, and I don't feel comfortable risking hurting my dog when I'm notoriously clumsy with power tools.
I had an 80lb chocolate lab, so I understand the difficulty. We used the bath tub for the lab. In the summer, I often used a kiddie pool outdoors, which was much fun for all.
Now greyhounds were invented long before dremels, so it's really not a required tool.
They do make nail clippers for large dogs, however using a nail file is often safer and more dogs will tolerate it,
but it takes longer.Also, that money isn't just going to a store, but to the rescue for its kennel upkeep and so they can rescue more dogs.
All things considered, it was YOU who actually rescued the dog, because you're the one paying for its upkeep (and on a limited budget).
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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I don't have a problem with paying for these services. If I had the means to take in more greyhounds I would, but I don't, and so as a result, I'm happy to give that money I spend to to take care of him and see it used to help other greyhounds. The point of my post was not abut complaining about spending the money or where it goes, but about the way that I've been treated by people who are part of the local greyhound rescue community.
As a side note, I emailed the lady who I had the nails exchange with, and she actually apologized sincerely.
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@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
I only have sex with extremely hot women
Welp, there go my chances.
Mine too!
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People get stuck up about the dumbest things, really.
I was collecting ball-joint dolls for a while, when I had a saner income. There was literally no choice once could make that wouldn't have somebody sneering down their nose at you, which is sort of hilarious, because there's already a serious level of absurdity re: the typical price tags on those things to the extent that it was impossible for me to take this seriously.
Y'all think pets are bad? Wait until you've sat through the third or fourth debate about whether keeping a chunk of resin -- no matter how expensive, no matter how customized (which is fun and creative and why I love the idea of the things personally), no matter how much time you've spent making it something unique and interesting -- in its box under your bed is cruel to the doll.
I can grok that some of the collectors are into certain Shinto and animist concepts, and can respect that well enough in a live and let live sort of way, but it didn't tend to be that crowd that'd go off on the 'you're a cruel doll owner' rants and tangents; these were people who were wholly aware they were talking about a piece of expensive plastic and trying to ascribe rights, gatekeeping minimum standards of everything from 'how much you talk to your doll every day' to 'how you should never forget to dress it in fresh clothes every day' and so on.
Lots of lovely, creative, amazingly talented folks in the group. Lots of perfectly sane folks, too! But, yeah... apply all the pet owner stuff to an object, ramp up the standard price tag, and stir.
