• Etterra@discuss.online
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    7 days ago

    That’s a filthy lie and you know it. That cat will be singing you the song of its people well before 6am.

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        6 days ago

        Lucky you. The past few days one of my cats will start purring directly into my ear, tickling my face with his whiskers, and walking all over my chest at 4:30am, when their automatic feeder won’t go off until 6am

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    7 days ago

    Lol no. not at all. a lot of cats go insane around 3 or 4am. Like insane zoomies and rough housing and nonsense. Dumb memes are fine if they are funny but this is dumb and not funny. Thumbs down.

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    6 days ago

    My cats know that I get out of bed very quickly when they start VOMITING ON THE CARPET AND ONLY THE CARPET EVERY MORNING.

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    7 days ago

    I’ve had dogs my entire life and never had this experience once. Own dachshunds, they’ll never go out in this weather

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      Try owning a husky. Every time it snows: OUTSIDE OUTSIDE OUTSIIIIIIIIDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. OUTSIDE. WE LIVE OUTSIDE NOW. NOOOOOOOOO DON’T TAKE ME BACK IN WE LIVE HEREEEEEEEEEE.

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      You’ll just be cleaning up the poop indoors because the daschund will pretend to forget any house training it has. Source: have owned 3 daschunds.

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      That is my ultimate goal in life once I have my own house! How difficult is it to take care of that many at once?

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    7 days ago

    I’m so glad all cats I’ve had have been free feeding and self limiting. Makes it so much easier, just fill the bowl and they eat when they feel like it. I’ve known cats that that was impossible though. Mother’s cats were little hoovering machines.

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    7 days ago

    Oh hells no

    Not because I don’t want to, it’s because my wiener doesn’t want to

    In weather like that, she’d be outside no more than 5 meters, and done in under 30 seconds and back inside again

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      7 days ago

      My tiny old man dog refuses to set foot out the door into the snow. He uses a pee pad in the bathroom like a sensible pup. This also comes in handy at 3 am when he needs to pee but is too polite/quiet to wake me.

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    7 days ago

    I don’t know why people don’t just litter train their dogs so that they can take care of themselves during work and sleep hours. If they have nowhere to go in the house, they’ll go by the door if you’re lucky, or somewhere hidden so that you have to hunt around for where the smell is coming from while they writhe with guilt and anxiety. Wood pellets are your friend.

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    7 days ago

    My dogs hate the cold and heat just as much as I do. They only want to go for walks when the weather is nice.

    And they’re cowards most of the time, but they would fight to the death to protect our home.

    Cats are good pets. Dogs are better people than humans.

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    I love dogs, but this is one of the reasons why I won’t have another one.

    I had a cat who developed dementia at 17. At that point, she started waking me at 5 a m. daily to feed her. For her entire life before that, she had always stayed in bed until after everyone was up and about. That last 18 months reminded me a lot of having a dog.