Someone: “I want a cat/rabbit/other animal that will be super openly affectionate, go for walks, play fetch, not mind being handled rough, never be shy, and also I don’t want it to claw me or the furniture(so I’ll probably get it declawed) and I don’t want to ever clean a litter box or cage.”
Me: “Hey there’s this great new type of animal you might be interested in:”
Someone: “I want a dog but I don’t ever want to take it for walks or exercise it very much or let it outside and I want it to be fine with being left alone for longer periods of time and also never bark.”
Me:
Someone: “I want a cat or dog but I want to only feed it a vegan diet.”
Me:
Someone: “I want to have a pet but I basically never want to interact with it.”
Me:
Someone: “I want to get my kid a cute pet for Easter/Christmas!”
Me:
Get a pet that fits your needs. Don’t get a pet then try to force it to fit your lifestyle. Just because you saw a person walking a rabbit once doesn’t mean you can expect a rabbit to just be a dog. Just get a dog!
Ok, so I did not expect this to get nearly this much attention when I threw it together in like 10 minutes, so I’ll make an addendum to make some things more clear/include some good points made by people in the reblogs.
1) There’s no such thing as a “no maintenance pet”. It doesn’t exist. Every pet you own is going to take attention, effort, money, etc. No matter what species or breed it is. Just because something like a fish may not need you to personally interact with it and give it affection as much as, say, a dog does,it doesn’t mean you aren’t going to have to do things like keep its tank clean, feed it regularly, make sure it has stimulation in its tank to keep it occupied and happy, etc. If you don’t want to take care of a pet, don’t get one.
2) Every species of pet is different. Just because one kind of rodent or bird can eat a vegan diet, doesn’t mean ALL of them can. No matter what kind of pet you get, you need to do your research beforehand to make sure you give that pet the individual care it needs. Don’t assume anything.
3) Every breed of pet is different. If you have a very sedentary lifestyle and don’t like to exercise, you probably shouldn’t get a high-energy breed of dog like a husky which requires a ton of exercise a day. If you don’t want to deal with frequent grooming and possible matted hair, don’t get a poodle.
4) Every individual PET is different. Pets are living creatures. Every single one is unique and has its own needs. There are certain generalizations you can make based on species or breed, but in the end every pet is going to be an individual. Just because you got one greyhound that was fine with chilling in the house all day, doesn’t mean every one you ever own will. Just because one rabbit loves cuddling and being close, doesn’t mean the next one might not be skittish and prefer more solitude. Cater to the wants and needs of the pet you have, not the one you expect.
5) Possibly the most important one: There is no such thing as a pet that fits your lifestyle perfectly. YOU are going to have to change what YOU do in some way to accommodate it. No matter if you get a pet that fits the description of your life to a T, you’re going to have to do things you might not normally do in order to care for it properly. You may be a total neat freak who hates touching any kind of filth, but, if you own a pet, you are going to have to clean up after it, regardless of what kind you get. And if you’re not willing to make changes to your life to accommodate caring for a living being, DON’T GET ONE.
Once again, stuffed animals are a thing. And there’s absolutely no shame in realizing that that’s all you really want. Something to look cute and hug but not really need to care for. Pets are a commitment. You don’t need to make that commitment if you don’t want to. But don’t think you can own a pet without making it.
(also yeah, absolutely never ever declaw your cats. It’s super bad news. DO NOT)
you learn a lot about the human race once you become a cashier somewhere
I used to work at Blick, and the biggest bags we had were about 48" long and designed to comfortably fit the large, 32"-long boards. They didn’t have handles, they were just big sheaths to cover large paper and boards.
Blick also sells drafting tables. I had a guy buying a large fancy drafting table for his daughter’s college dorm room (which had a furnished desk, but it wasn’t “nice” enough for her, and she wasn’t studying art or architecture—they just wanted to switch out her desk).
The desk was packaged up in a very large, very heavy box. I had brought it out on a dolly, which I said I’d use to wheel it out to his car for him. He refused and said to “just put it in a bag.” I said it wasn’t going to fit in a bag and was very hard to carry. He insisted: “I’m good, I can carry it myself. Just give me a bag.” I showed him our large bags and demonstrated that they wouldn’t fit over the entire box—and also, they didn’t have handles, so you’d have to just lift the box up in a bear grip anyway.
He said, “Well, you’re supposed to be an artist, right? You could just attach two bags together to make one bigger bag and then cut some handles in it. Easy.”
I tried explaining that the plastic would just rip, there wasn’t any good way to get the desk in a bag, it’s easy enough to just wheel the box out on the dolly it’s currently sitting on. I offered to give him several of our big bags anyway, if he wanted them, perhaps to line the inside of his car to protect it from the box if he was worried about something scratching or rubbing or any shmutz on the box.
He angrily told me to just give him the bags and a stapler and he’d do it himself. I just fuckin figured… why not? So I let him take the dolly and the box over to the side. He did eventually construct a frankenbag! He made a big ol’ frankenbag with two ripped-hole handles and laboriously got the giant box to fit inside.
Then he tried picking it up and it ripped apart along the staples. So he ripped the frankenbag off and just left it lying on the floor near the register. Then he got angrier and huffed and puffed and carried it out in his arms, having to stop every few steps to set it down and readjust his grip over the sides. It had also been raining and the sidewalk was very wet, so his box was also getting wet each time he set it down.
I just fuckin let him do it, he clearly did not want my help, and he was a manly man’s man who knew what he wanted…
I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i don’t want a lawsuit”, or “i don’t even look at women anymore cause everything is sexual harassment”. this is a particular brand of rape culture, men acting as if women are overreacting, as if men don’t have the basic social skills to know the difference between wanted and unwanted advances, as if women simply setting boundaries is “cramping their style” and “emasculating” them, as if the rules of respecting women are super confusing, so confusing that they’re supposedly forcing men not to interact with us altogether.
this is an act they’ve been putting on for decades: playing stupid, pretending not to know better and then getting upset when we tell them what “better” is. if that doesn’t show you how emotional and emotionally manipulative they are, i don’t know what does.
I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i don’t want a lawsuit”, or “i don’t even look at women anymore cause everything is sexual harassment”. this is a particular brand of rape culture, men acting as if women are overreacting, as if men don’t have the basic social skills to know the difference between wanted and unwanted advances, as if women simply setting boundaries is “cramping their style” and “emasculating” them, as if the rules of respecting women are super confusing, so confusing that they’re supposedly forcing men not to interact with us altogether.
this is an act they’ve been putting on for decades: playing stupid, pretending not to know better and then getting upset when we tell them what “better” is. if that doesn’t show you how emotional and emotionally manipulative they are, i don’t know what does.
I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i don’t want a lawsuit”, or “i don’t even look at women anymore cause everything is sexual harassment”. this is a particular brand of rape culture, men acting as if women are overreacting, as if men don’t have the basic social skills to know the difference between wanted and unwanted advances, as if women simply setting boundaries is “cramping their style” and “emasculating” them, as if the rules of respecting women are super confusing, so confusing that they’re supposedly forcing men not to interact with us altogether.
this is an act they’ve been putting on for decades: playing stupid, pretending not to know better and then getting upset when we tell them what “better” is. if that doesn’t show you how emotional and emotionally manipulative they are, i don’t know what does.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
