Annoying Things People Do To/With Your Pet(s)

[Lostfairy]

I don’t have my own pet but I walk this little sweet Yorkshire Terrier-Pomeranian mix dog. Her name is Mocha and my family is friends with her owners.

Anyway, one time I was holding Mocha’s leash and going for a walk with her and my sister. We’re going down our street all calmly when all of a sudden, this big black dog that I’ve never met or seen before charges out of its home and goes straight for us. I don’t like having big dogs run at me when I don’t know how the heck they act around Mocha or people in general. So I admit, I let out a scream by accident. This dogs owner comes out all slowly, just going reeeeeeallllll slowly after her dog. The dog has reached us and I quickly pull Mocha into my arms to keep her from being trampled. (She’s tiny compared to this dog and idk how she is with new dogs) The dog runs around me and my sister and leaps onto my legs, trying to get to Mocha. I’m guessing it was happy to see a dog and that’s nice and all but HELLO, I DO NOT KNOW THIS DOG AND I AM KINDA PANICKING. So me and my sister are calling at the owner, trying to ask her to get her dog off me (I love it when dogs leap a bit on me but I’ve heard that there’s some more aggressive dogs on our street) and the lady just keeps SLOWLY MEANDERING TOWARDS US, and calls back in an annoyed tone of voice “He’s friendly, he’s nice, don’t worry.” But like wow, thankssssss for helping two girls who are panicking. Finallllly, she reaches us and grabs her dogs collar and drags him away. But I was shaking so hard cuz yeah, it wasn’t very fun. I felt bad for Mocha too, she almost got trampled by the dog.

Don’t get me wrong. I love dogs SO SO MUCH. But something about this dog made me feel uneasy. Idk. XD Again, I didn’t know how Mocha would act around a new dog or the dog would act around her and all that stuff.

[KookieKrumblez]

When my family talks cute to my pets

[caught in your frost]

When my brother leaves out food in our room in which my rabbit can easily get to. He's left out:
-sour gummy worms
-regular gummy worms
-coconut flakes
-a giant bag of halloween candy, mainly chocolate
-sour cream and onion chips
-barbecue chips

Then he gets mad at me when she eats them. Like no, it doesn't work that way. You could've killed my rabbit by leaving your food out. I'm not saying you can't eat in the room at all, just put them somewhere she can't get to them. Simple as that.

...did I mention that he's 25 years old?

[Senbon Panda]

When my sister pulls my dogs ears and sits on her...

[Ruffimutt]

My extreme pet peeve with pets is when people buy a pet and then abandon it because its no longer 'cute'
like why.

Also people who say animals don't have souls and/or feelings annoy me  

[AtlasHyperion]

People who know nothing about horses who try to tell me about horses, sigh.

[Swirlshine]

Something that REALLY annoys me is when my 7-year-old brother shoves my dog Beauty away really hard, or yells at her for literally just standing there. He does it on purpose, for attention. I don't know why he thinks that, of all things, is the thing to do to be noticed.

[srel]

Ugh my brother suffocates my poor dog Ruby for no reason!!!!! 😭😭

[Catsplat18]

My family likes to go on vacation a lot, whether just for the weekend or for a week (like during spring break from school, for example). So we must often hire petsitters. My first choice is always my neighbor and friend– let's call her "Taco." Taco is great! She herself has had Syrian hamsters, guinea pigs, a rabbit, leopard geckos, and countless fish. She knows a lot about animals and is good at taking care of them.

Now, I have a parrot (a green-cheeked conure) and a cat. I also used to have a fish tank, but I got rid of it... we'll get to that soon.

So, I love having Taco petsit. BUT, once I went away for two weeks, and Taco could only come the second week! So, the first week I hired an old "friend." She used to be my friend, but we went to separate middle schools and she changed for the worse. We'll call her "Dumpy McDump." So, I told Dumpy McDump what to do and left her written reminders. SHE FAILED. When I came back after two weeks, my fish tank was a complete disaster.

I had had three guppies (which were rare colors, btw), two albino corydoras catfish (I used to have three but one died and I didn't have time to replace it), two snails (one nerite and one unknown), and a dwarf gourami. When I got back, the water was disgusting, algae and MOLD was all over... everything, and half of my plants (Amazon sword) were rotting, adding to the mold problem. Uneaten moldy fish food coated the bottom of the tank. Oh yeah, and one of my snails was missing, along with two of my guppies and one of my catfish!!! Not to mention my gourami had fin rot!!! Obviously, I was furious.

My petsitter for the second week, Taco, walked over to my house with her mom to explain what had happened. Apparently, they found the tank like this! That means that Dumpy McDump, the petsitter for the first week, totally ruined everything! So Taco and her mom explained how the tank was all moldy and had dead fish. They had removed my dead snail, a dead guppy, and the dead catfish. But that left one guppy unaccounted for. It turns out that it had died and was INSIDE THE FILTER, ROTTING AND MOLDY. I don't blame Taco for not removing this one- I had told them not to mess with the filter.

But, basically the entire tank was screwed, unless I managed to buy two other, smaller quarantine tanks (one to hold the remaining guppy, catfish, plants, and snail, and the other for the sick gourami- not to mention I'd have to medicate the gourami for fin rot) and then completely re-do the original tank. Or maybe restart completely and buy a larger, better tank.

Well. Parents are parents, and my parents don't like fish. So I had to get rid of my entire tank and kill the remaining animals and plants by shocking them (plunging them into freezing water for 30 seconds or so. The other "humane" method is smashing them with a mallet through a plastic bag, but I couldn't bring myself to do that, even though it would probably be a slightly faster death).

It was horrible to come back from vacation and have to deal with that. Taco did the right thing by trying not to interfere, besides removing the dead fish. I don't blame her at all. Plus she has her own pet fish (several betta [in separate tanks obviously] and a bunch of neon tetras along with a snail or two), so she would know how to take care of mine! I still don't know the truth about how Dumpy McDump could've ruined the tank like that (SHE DIDN'T EVEN APOLOGIZE). I have a feeling she overfed them (which would explain the mold and excess food), but seriously?! I literally left written instructions on how to feed the fish!! WITH A WARNING TO NOT OVER-FEED!!! UGH.

Oh, and that's not even the end of this horror story. Anyway, Taco helped me disassemble the tank and send the animals to heaven, and after that, she told me the rest of what she had seen!

Kiwi (my parrot) is fed one almond a day as his breakfast. He also always has his pellets and water available. I always leave a container of almonds, his bag of pellets, a bag of Nutri-Berries (treats/snacks), and a container of seeds (treats) for the petsitters. Unfortunately, I can't leave fruit or veggies out (they will rot), and my mom refuses to let me keep some in the fridge for the petsitters. I always tell her that parrots NEED to have fruits and vegetables, but my mom says "it's fine if he doesn't have them for a week or two, we're going on vacation and it's too much hassle for the petsitters to get some from the fridge, blah blah blah." It's very annoying! Kiwi doesn't get a nutritionally balanced diet when I go on vacation! UGH!

But anyway, I also left several notes about how to feed Kiwi and stuff. Well. Taco told me about how when she came in the first time, Kiwi's bowl was full of seed shells and uneaten almonds!!! That means that Dumpy McDump had been giving Kiwi MORE than just one almond a day (which is why there were so many wasted ones- he's a small bird! He's not going to eat two almonds in a row!!!), and SEEDS AS HIS SNACK. NO, NO, NO. Luckily, he was still eating his pellets, but OMG!! Seeds are literally a TREAT! NOT FOOD! Oh yeah, and his actual snack, the bag of Nutri-Berries, was unopened. REALLY?! I TOLD HER TO OPEN THE BAG!!! OMG!!!! Luckily, Taco had fixed everything- removed the seed shells and uneaten almonds, opened the bag and gave him his real snack, stopped giving him the seeds, etc.

Okay, the horror story is almost over. BUT, Taco told me how Shiloh (my cat)'s litterbox wasn't cleaned out!! She guessed that Dumpy McDump cleaned it ONCE in the whole week that she was there. HORRIBLE. My cat is a BIG CAT, and he eats, poops, and pees A LOT. Maybe for some smaller cats it's okay to clean the litterbox less frequently, but Shiloh's litterbox has to be cleaned every other day. And again, this was WRITTEN DOWN. And btw, "cleaning" just means removing the pee and poop clumps. That's it. Takes less than five minutes to do that, put the waste in a bag, throw out the bag, and then wash your hands.

To recap:
1. Dumpy McDump ruined my fish tank and killed several of its inhabitants.
2. Dumpy McDump messed up my parrot's diet.
3. Dumpy McDump failed at cleaning my cat's litterbox.
4. Dumpy McDump left all of these problems for my good friend Taco to take care of!!!
5. I HATE DUMPY MCDUMP

OH AND GUESS WHAT

My parents made me pay Dumpy McDump, even though she completely FAILED at her job...
...and when I went to give her the cash...
She smiled at me.
She said that she loves my pets.
She said that...
*deep breath*
THAT SHE TAKES BETTER CARE OF MY PETS THAN ME AND THAT THEY LIKE HER MORE THAN ME.
...
At this point I was ready to punch her in the face.


Another fact about Dumpy McDump:

She used to have two guinea pigs. A male and a female. Not fixed. But they didn't breed. Why? Because the male was a cuy. Yep, that's right. A MEAT GUINEA PIG. Cuys are bad pets- mean to normal guinea pigs, hard to tame, and not even meant to be pets! They're bred for food! Not companionship! Anyway, the male cuy savagely attacked the poor female, so Dumpy McDump got rid of him. Okay, good choice. BUT THEN, she never got another guinea pig! The poor female lived a sad, lonely life. And a short one, too. Only five years. Dumpy McDump claimed that she had had a happy (obviously not), LONG life. WHAT??!! Taco, on the other hand, had had two guinea pigs- both lived for over ten years. They died within a month of each other. I have another friend who had a guinea pig that recently died- it had lived for over nine years. They promptly got another one to replace it, so that its friend wouldn't be all alone. As you can see, Dumpy McDump's guinea pig lived for HALF of it's normal lifespan, and all alone and sad.

If you read all of this, I applaud you. You are a cool kid.

[Mistfox]

My family likes to go on vacation a lot, whether just for the weekend or for a week (like during spring break from school, for example). So we must often hire petsitters. My first choice is always my neighbor and friend– let's call her "Taco." Taco is great! She herself has had Syrian hamsters, guinea pigs, a rabbit, leopard geckos, and countless fish. She knows a lot about animals and is good at taking care of them.

Now, I have a parrot (a green-cheeked conure) and a cat. I also used to have a fish tank, but I got rid of it... we'll get to that soon.

So, I love having Taco petsit. BUT, once I went away for two weeks, and Taco could only come the second week! So, the first week I hired an old "friend." She used to be my friend, but we went to separate middle schools and she changed for the worse. We'll call her "Dumpy McDump." So, I told Dumpy McDump what to do and left her written reminders. SHE FAILED. When I came back after two weeks, my fish tank was a complete disaster.

I had had three guppies (which were rare colors, btw), two albino corydoras catfish (I used to have three but one died and I didn't have time to replace it), two snails (one nerite and one unknown), and a dwarf gourami. When I got back, the water was disgusting, algae and MOLD was all over... everything, and half of my plants (Amazon sword) were rotting, adding to the mold problem. Uneaten moldy fish food coated the bottom of the tank. Oh yeah, and one of my snails was missing, along with two of my guppies and one of my catfish!!! Not to mention my gourami had fin rot!!! Obviously, I was furious.

My petsitter for the second week, Taco, walked over to my house with her mom to explain what had happened. Apparently, they found the tank like this! That means that Dumpy McDump, the petsitter for the first week, totally ruined everything! So Taco and her mom explained how the tank was all moldy and had dead fish. They had removed my dead snail, a dead guppy, and the dead catfish. But that left one guppy unaccounted for. It turns out that it had died and was INSIDE THE FILTER, ROTTING AND MOLDY. I don't blame Taco for not removing this one- I had told them not to mess with the filter.

But, basically the entire tank was screwed, unless I managed to buy two other, smaller quarantine tanks (one to hold the remaining guppy, catfish, plants, and snail, and the other for the sick gourami- not to mention I'd have to medicate the gourami for fin rot) and then completely re-do the original tank. Or maybe restart completely and buy a larger, better tank.

Well. Parents are parents, and my parents don't like fish. So I had to get rid of my entire tank and kill the remaining animals and plants by shocking them (plunging them into freezing water for 30 seconds or so. The other "humane" method is smashing them with a mallet through a plastic bag, but I couldn't bring myself to do that, even though it would probably be a slightly faster death).

It was horrible to come back from vacation and have to deal with that. Taco did the right thing by trying not to interfere, besides removing the dead fish. I don't blame her at all. Plus she has her own pet fish (several betta [in separate tanks obviously] and a bunch of neon tetras along with a snail or two), so she would know how to take care of mine! I still don't know the truth about how Dumpy McDump could've ruined the tank like that (SHE DIDN'T EVEN APOLOGIZE). I have a feeling she overfed them (which would explain the mold and excess food), but seriously?! I literally left written instructions on how to feed the fish!! WITH A WARNING TO NOT OVER-FEED!!! UGH.

Oh, and that's not even the end of this horror story. Anyway, Taco helped me disassemble the tank and send the animals to heaven, and after that, she told me the rest of what she had seen!

Kiwi (my parrot) is fed one almond a day as his breakfast. He also always has his pellets and water available. I always leave a container of almonds, his bag of pellets, a bag of Nutri-Berries (treats/snacks), and a container of seeds (treats) for the petsitters. Unfortunately, I can't leave fruit or veggies out (they will rot), and my mom refuses to let me keep some in the fridge for the petsitters. I always tell her that parrots NEED to have fruits and vegetables, but my mom says "it's fine if he doesn't have them for a week or two, we're going on vacation and it's too much hassle for the petsitters to get some from the fridge, blah blah blah." It's very annoying! Kiwi doesn't get a nutritionally balanced diet when I go on vacation! UGH!

But anyway, I also left several notes about how to feed Kiwi and stuff. Well. Taco told me about how when she came in the first time, Kiwi's bowl was full of seed shells and uneaten almonds!!! That means that Dumpy McDump had been giving Kiwi MORE than just one almond a day (which is why there were so many wasted ones- he's a small bird! He's not going to eat two almonds in a row!!!), and SEEDS AS HIS SNACK. NO, NO, NO. Luckily, he was still eating his pellets, but OMG!! Seeds are literally a TREAT! NOT FOOD! Oh yeah, and his actual snack, the bag of Nutri-Berries, was unopened. REALLY?! I TOLD HER TO OPEN THE BAG!!! OMG!!!! Luckily, Taco had fixed everything- removed the seed shells and uneaten almonds, opened the bag and gave him his real snack, stopped giving him the seeds, etc.

Okay, the horror story is almost over. BUT, Taco told me how Shiloh (my cat)'s litterbox wasn't cleaned out!! She guessed that Dumpy McDump cleaned it ONCE in the whole week that she was there. HORRIBLE. My cat is a BIG CAT, and he eats, poops, and pees A LOT. Maybe for some smaller cats it's okay to clean the litterbox less frequently, but Shiloh's litterbox has to be cleaned every other day. And again, this was WRITTEN DOWN. And btw, "cleaning" just means removing the pee and poop clumps. That's it. Takes less than five minutes to do that, put the waste in a bag, throw out the bag, and then wash your hands.

To recap:
1. Dumpy McDump ruined my fish tank and killed several of its inhabitants.
2. Dumpy McDump messed up my parrot's diet.
3. Dumpy McDump failed at cleaning my cat's litterbox.
4. Dumpy McDump left all of these problems for my good friend Taco to take care of!!!
5. I HATE DUMPY MCDUMP

OH AND GUESS WHAT

My parents made me pay Dumpy McDump, even though she completely FAILED at her job...
...and when I went to give her the cash...
She smiled at me.
She said that she loves my pets.
She said that...
*deep breath*
THAT SHE TAKES BETTER CARE OF MY PETS THAN ME AND THAT THEY LIKE HER MORE THAN ME.
...
At this point I was ready to punch her in the face.


Another fact about Dumpy McDump:

She used to have two guinea pigs. A male and a female. Not fixed. But they didn't breed. Why? Because the male was a cuy. Yep, that's right. A MEAT GUINEA PIG. Cuys are bad pets- mean to normal guinea pigs, hard to tame, and not even meant to be pets! They're bred for food! Not companionship! Anyway, the male cuy savagely attacked the poor female, so Dumpy McDump got rid of him. Okay, good choice. BUT THEN, she never got another guinea pig! The poor female lived a sad, lonely life. And a short one, too. Only five years. Dumpy McDump claimed that she had had a happy (obviously not), LONG life. WHAT??!! Taco, on the other hand, had had two guinea pigs- both lived for over ten years. They died within a month of each other. I have another friend who had a guinea pig that recently died- it had lived for over nine years. They promptly got another one to replace it, so that its friend wouldn't be all alone. As you can see, Dumpy McDump's guinea pig lived for HALF of it's normal lifespan, and all alone and sad.

If you read all of this, I applaud you. You are a cool kid.

Dumpy Mcdump sounds like an absolute idiot, I’m glad when I’m away my granny looks after my cat and my other one looks after my do