• ryan
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    332 years ago

    Aw man, the feels. I wish I could have told my cat during euthanasia how much I love her and how everything was okay, I know she was in a weird unknown vet’s office and she was in pain but it was going to be over soon, and how much she transformed my life and made it better, and that I hope I did right by her for the eight years she was part of my life. Love you babycat ♥️

    • @dublet@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      I wish I could’ve told one of my late cats that all those vet trips were not me being mean. That all those horrible tablets and medicines were not being evil. But that’s he’s very ill and needs those to live longer.

  • @derrg@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago
    1. You make every day brighter with your presence.
    2. I love you.
    3. Please don’t lick your junk within earshot. It sounds gross.
  • @Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    102 years ago

    “When we pat the cushion, that means we want you to jump on the couch and join us. Why don’t you understand that universal sign for ‘come here’?”

  • Dharma Curious
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    222 years ago

    I love you all so much, I don’t know if anyone can understand just how much. You make my life better in ways I can’t explain.

    Jack, you’re 15, and I know it’s a long walk, but please stop peeing on any piece of fabric that lands on the floor. You’re a cat, and your pee smells like ammonia’s older brother who works out and doesn’t shower.

    Monty, I know the IVDD makes it difficult for you to play and move around as much as you want, and I just need you to never jump off the bed again. That will make things better. I will always be here to carry you.

    Mary, Maizie, you’re the babies, and I know you think you can jump off the bed, but just don’t do it, and you won’t end up with problems like Monty has. Also, stop pooping inside. You love going outside so much, you’re always excited. Why do you hold it, and poop in your evil little poop hiding spots? Go poop outside, please!

    Daddy loves you all, and tonight I will make you all shredded chicken and carrots.

    • Cruxus
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      52 years ago

      You should get some of those foam stairs for dogs, and train them to use them. Get a few, one for each accessible side of the bed, two for your couch.

      • Dharma Curious
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        12 years ago

        We have ramps up onto the bed for them to get on. But they refuse to use them to get down. :/ Monty, the oldest, will just wait to be picked up unless there’s some life threatening danger going (like I get up to go to the bathroom and don’t take him with me. Lol). But the girls just superman off the bed no matter what I do. :(

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          They just might not be used to them. The way we do it with our couch is to literally buy 4 of those foam stairs and place it all along the front, and give them no choice but to use those stairs. For your bed, if you haven’t already, you can train them to use the stairs going down using treats.

          I believe flat ground is more comfortable to them, so I do recommend stairs instead of ramps; do take me with a grain of salt, though, for I am no expert.

  • Herbstzeitlose
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    152 years ago

    Please let me trim your claws, it doesn’t hurt and you won’t get stuck on carpet or scratch up your face.

  • @Papanca@lemmy.world
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    332 years ago

    I would listen to them and let them tell me what they want, what i can do better. Oh, i would explain to them why i would take them to the vet. I don’t need to tell them how much i love them, we don’t need language for that :-)

  • @Severed_Fate@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    Another interesting question is what will be your reaction if in those five minutes your pet say they hate you for no reason

    • @Papanca@lemmy.world
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      I have had many pets and currently also live with two feisty forpus parrots. The female sometimes bites me (as every forpus owner will recognize) and i know very well why she does it; i am touching her aviary to clean, or to provide food or toys. It’s not that she hates me, but she is incredibly territorial. And i fully respect that, because i understand her. It’s not personal at all. She is learning though, nowadays she hardly ever bites anymore and she is starting to inhibit the impulse, for instance if she notices i didn’t want to touch her stuff but merely wanted to offer her a treat.

      (But if a pet would tell me they hate me, i would want to know why and fully respect it)

      Btw, i think chances are bigger that a pet would tell us: i’m so bored for a big part of the day, because i can’t read or scroll on a phone, rather then tell us they hate us…

      Edited to add: parrots are not really domesticated yet. It’s only been a couple of generations since they live in our homes, compared to for instance our dogs.

      • @Zikeji@programming.dev
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        42 years ago

        My dog is old and going deaf and blind. Anytime I leave him he whines, I had to leave him with a friend for about a week to attend a wedding and apparently he whined the entire time. I don’t know what I did to deserve this kind of love but I know he doesn’t hate me.

  • @FullOfBallooons@leminal.space
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    72 years ago

    You get fed every day at the same time. I promise I did not forget. Please stop knocking stuff off the desk in the afternoon and stop jumping on the bed early in the morning, it won’t get you fed any faster.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    82 years ago

    I introduce myself and my friends, tell the pets the rules, teach them a couple of tricks, and remind them their mommy loves them with all her heart.