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I let Apple stand and stare at the fence, waiting for his boyfriend (the neighbor chihuahua) to come out so they can have a barking contest at each other. I know I should (and could) train him to not do that, but he seems to enjoy it so much. I will let him bark for a while and then make him come inside.
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Pew! Pew! posted:I judged people with dogs that have crops and docks without thinking. When I worked at Petco, I adopted/bought: -Babby Robo Hampster (omfg nothing should be that cute); kept for ~5 months because I moved from my tiny rear end apt into a tiny rear end bedroom in a house I rented=smelling bedroom -2 tree frogs, kept maybe 2 months. I couldn't figure out how to keep the substrate moist enough from sticking to their skin so they never came down to eat. So they got skinny. I guess I figured I was a bad frog owner and didn't want them to die so I gave them away -lineolated parakeet. Bought him/her from petco because she was on clearance (yes, I know) and I figured I could fix her from being broken (since she was at our store for maybe 2 years and before that came from another store). Nope. My expertise is limited to budgies and only budgies. I fed her bad food and never trained her. She was terrified of me so I rarely took her out. I found a good home for her on craigslist, of all places. Her new mom used to breed and raise them. She probably bred her but meh. I would get emails from her telling me how much fun my ex-bird was having with her new bff, a green linnie named Apollo. -Ocean, the budgie I adopted because a kid I worked with was going to take her and he was realllyyy bad at keeping animals. Plus I felt bad because he was found outside during winter. Had him just about trained. -finches, 3 other budgies; gave away because I got pnemonia and it was probably from having 7 birds in the house  and now I have REALLY bad bird allergies so that helps to insure I won't get another for a very long time-a puppy because I was stupid -the one that hurts the worst: my cat Maggie. I got her because I finally got my first apt. It was really awesome, just me and her. I moved into a house on a very busy part of town that had a doggie door. She was also declawed (came that way). I thought it would be cruel to keep her locked up in a tiny room all day. She used to sleep under the covers with me and always slept on her back with her paws up in the air. I now understand what I was doing. I was going through a whole shitload of problems and I figured that if I loved and cared for All the Abandoned Animals then all my problems would magically go away. Nope, it didn't work. It took a long time before I realized that the only way I would be happy (animal wise) was to only keep a few and spoil them rotten. I haven't adopted or bought anything since I got Riley, 2 years ago. I have even been volunteering at the local shelter clinic and I haven't gotten anything. I feel I do enough loving on them while they are at the clinic. So go me I guess 
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Never living that down. Also I was pretty dumb when I first joined and I still feel like I'm pretty dumb about Dog Things next to some PI regulars, but I'm more of a small animal person anyway. I considered bringing multiple dogs into a household with a small child (the dogs being Corbin and I was considering a shiba inu at the time 
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I'm glad I've mostly stopped (now I'm even super reluctant to go to pet stores and the like) but it was still pretty bad at the time. 
