Since everyone's solution to my pets being annoying is to give them away, the next time someone bitches about their kids, I'm going to remind them that adoption is always an option.
That's a damn good idea....only problem is my kids would find me and come back. lol. I understand where you're coming from. I don't understand the people telling you to give your pets away. Pets and kids are annoying as hell sometimes but we still love them and wouldn't give them away for the world.
I get that a lot. *twitches* And then those same people tell me not to bitch if I don't want to give them away. I'm honestly waiting for the first bad comment about their kids...waiting...waiting...
Crazy how difficult it seems for you to find pet minders. You'd think all those people who wish they had a pet but can't own one for whatever reason would jump at the chance to borrow someone else's for a while.
I know several people who just had to have a pet, and those were the same people who dumped them wherever as soon as they realized they either couldn't take care of them or the animals sometimes were a hassle. Grrrrr.
...my mother would always absently remark that if I'd been a puppy she'd have taken me back to the pound. Makes me very fond of the concept of no backsies.
Yes, the animals you spend your days with and live with and care for and love are clearly just some form of ambulatory furniture. Furniture that sheds and drools over other furniture, but since it's furniture, if you find after you've gotten rid of it that you *really* miss it, you can always just buy more of it on ebay.
My mother often looks at me and informs me about how I'm the black sheep and she never meant to get pregnant again and how she definitely knew I was the last one etc. etc. etc.
Until now, I had always thought that I was the furniture, but that cleared it up for me.
Well see, I consider my cat my child, so someone telling me to get rid of him just because he pissed me off would earn them a Boot to the head, and my foot inside that boot.
Sometimes you just need to vent. Complaining about how annoying your family is, doesn't mean you hate them. It just means you're grumpy and want someone to listen and help you feel a bit better.
Re: meeheehabbbaabbaanmitaJuly 23 2009, 02:43:01 UTC
I don't see how the two are separate.
I got my cat to love and cherish him as a family member. He may have fur, but he's still part of this family and to me family is not something you just give up on when times are tough.
So screw them, if you have some steam to blow off go right ahead and do so.
I just hope someone gives good advice next time. Because 'getting rid of the problem' is not solving the problem. It sickens me when people refer to living beings as objects.
A cat is not a toy, it is a living breathing being that needs care and occasional comfort. It is not something to throw away when it gets difficult to deal with.
Re: meeheehabbbaabbatir_synniJuly 23 2009, 15:10:04 UTC
I know someone who dropped off her cat alongside a road because the kitten was too destructive, i.e. she couldn't figure out how to keep the kitten from jumping on her coffee table and knocking stuff off. That was pretty much the end of that friendship.
You know, I've always viewed it as my gods given right to complain about my pets when it's gotten to the hair-tearing frustration level. But does this mean I want to get rid of them? I'd be off to that nice padded room in a lovely jacket with extra long sleeves if I was sans pets! How could anyone suggest that it's okay to just get rid of your furry, four-footed babies!? Sometimes you just need to go RARG to relieve stress, and then leap back into the fray. Good luck, and I love hearing about the exploits of other peoples pets
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My beautiful, darling Missy, when I was living with my sister, used to have the freedom to be an in and outdoor cat. Well, it was a beautiful night, so we decided to leave the front door open while we chilled in the living room. We saw Missy coming in, but it was dark, so it took us a moment to realize she had something in her mouth. It was a bleeding, weakly flailing, dying rabbit. Missy was bringing it inside so she could eat it like a proper kitty: in her food dish.
Let's see... I currently have four cats, and another four cats have passed on. All of them are/were indoor-outdoor, and many of them hunt. Of course several of them feel it's only right to share what they catch with us, their humans (my mom, dad and I). After all, the cats had so much fun chasing and catching the mice, rats, rabbits, gophers, finches, quail, lizards, frogs, shrub jays, snakes, etc, etc; don't we the humans want to play with them as well? While all these things ARE STILL ALIVE?!?
Once it was pretty late, way past Missy's usual come-in time, so, worried, I went outside and started calling her. It was dark, so all I could see was a Missy-sized shape coming toward me. I grinned and knelt, and then she came into the porch light. Proud as could be, she was bringing me a live bird. Until then, I never knew that birds leaked (or something) a clear, nasty fluid when they had fangs digging into them. Who knew?
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Crazy how difficult it seems for you to find pet minders. You'd think all those people who wish they had a pet but can't own one for whatever reason would jump at the chance to borrow someone else's for a while.
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Yes, the animals you spend your days with and live with and care for and love are clearly just some form of ambulatory furniture. Furniture that sheds and drools over other furniture, but since it's furniture, if you find after you've gotten rid of it that you *really* miss it, you can always just buy more of it on ebay.
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Until now, I had always thought that I was the furniture, but that cleared it up for me.
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Sometimes you just need to vent. Complaining about how annoying your family is, doesn't mean you hate them. It just means you're grumpy and want someone to listen and help you feel a bit better.
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You see, it's okay for them to vent about their kids but I'm not allowed to vent about my pets, because pets don't really matter. *twitches*
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I got my cat to love and cherish him as a family member. He may have fur, but he's still part of this family and to me family is not something you just give up on when times are tough.
So screw them, if you have some steam to blow off go right ahead and do so.
I just hope someone gives good advice next time. Because 'getting rid of the problem' is not solving the problem. It sickens me when people refer to living beings as objects.
A cat is not a toy, it is a living breathing being that needs care and occasional comfort. It is not something to throw away when it gets difficult to deal with.
*pats*
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Your turn! ^_^
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*waits*
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