BabyGrace
Refugee
allow me just this one rant please?
my neighbors, who are actually lovely people have the fucking loser of a son, he's 32 and still at home with no job and one hell of a drug habit that is slowly (or not so slowly) turning him into even more of a loser. not that I have a problem with this, if he choses that lifestyle, well, that's his choice and if his parents chose to support him no matter what, that's their choice too and all I can say is they are really good people.
but what I DO have a problem with is how he treats their animals when his parents are away (or even just not paying attention). They have three pregnant horses right now and he refuses to clean their stalls (because, heaven forbid, this might require work!), and leaves them so dirty that I am sure they could get hoof diseases from the conditions (not that I know much about the care of horses or anything, but I do know those stalls are disgusting). He also forgets to put the horses in during the day so that the flies won't eat them alive, he screams at them and I've seen him use a whip to get them to do stuff (actually I think he's terrified of them) and, get this, he forgets to feed them! If my mom and I werent around to feed them right now, I have no idea how they'd get food, and I worry about when we won't be around.
Then there's their cats and dogs. He actually loves these smaller animals, and does a relatively good job of taking care of them most of the time, other than forgetting to put down water for a mother cat and her four kittens that are over there right now, leaving the poor mom fairly dehydrated since there isn't too much other water around for her right now, and she's nursing the kittens which really drains her. So I started bringing her some milk to fatten her up, and got them some water and I started visiting them a coupla times a day to somewhat domesticate the kittens who are fairly wild at this point because they aren't getting much human contact (their cats are sort of barn-cat, sort of domestic - not fixed of course).
But here's what really got me. I was over there visiting them earlier today, and he comes around and strikes up a conversation with me that was so random and disjointed I could barely follow it (but that's besides the point), and he starts telling me about how he and his buddies hang out in his car or one of the closets in the house and smoke all this shit, which I knew already, but then he starts telling me how this one shithead 26-year-old friend of his saw the kittens and asked him when they could put them in the car to get them high too. And they regularly takes the cats and the dog in the car with them and gets them high, and the cat is like all stretched out on the dashboard, with it's tongue hanging out, and he seems to think this is so hilarious.
Now I realize some people would just say, "big deal, the cat's getting high, so what, it won't hurt it" but I really have a problem with this and I am totally powerless to do anything about it, besides calling the ASPCA or something ridiculous like that. I could just see it: "um yeah, my neighbor is getting his pets high, come do something about it"
If I was a bolder person I would punch him in the gut or something but instead I just have to sit there and listen to it and nod and be like, "yeah, uh-huh, yeah" and it INFURIATES ME!!
What a fucking bastard. Too bad posting this doesn't make me feel any better
Sorry for over-reacting, but I can't stand it when people do stupid shit like that to their pets for no reason. But I'll shut up now for now, thanks for giving me this posting space
my neighbors, who are actually lovely people have the fucking loser of a son, he's 32 and still at home with no job and one hell of a drug habit that is slowly (or not so slowly) turning him into even more of a loser. not that I have a problem with this, if he choses that lifestyle, well, that's his choice and if his parents chose to support him no matter what, that's their choice too and all I can say is they are really good people.
but what I DO have a problem with is how he treats their animals when his parents are away (or even just not paying attention). They have three pregnant horses right now and he refuses to clean their stalls (because, heaven forbid, this might require work!), and leaves them so dirty that I am sure they could get hoof diseases from the conditions (not that I know much about the care of horses or anything, but I do know those stalls are disgusting). He also forgets to put the horses in during the day so that the flies won't eat them alive, he screams at them and I've seen him use a whip to get them to do stuff (actually I think he's terrified of them) and, get this, he forgets to feed them! If my mom and I werent around to feed them right now, I have no idea how they'd get food, and I worry about when we won't be around.
Then there's their cats and dogs. He actually loves these smaller animals, and does a relatively good job of taking care of them most of the time, other than forgetting to put down water for a mother cat and her four kittens that are over there right now, leaving the poor mom fairly dehydrated since there isn't too much other water around for her right now, and she's nursing the kittens which really drains her. So I started bringing her some milk to fatten her up, and got them some water and I started visiting them a coupla times a day to somewhat domesticate the kittens who are fairly wild at this point because they aren't getting much human contact (their cats are sort of barn-cat, sort of domestic - not fixed of course).
But here's what really got me. I was over there visiting them earlier today, and he comes around and strikes up a conversation with me that was so random and disjointed I could barely follow it (but that's besides the point), and he starts telling me about how he and his buddies hang out in his car or one of the closets in the house and smoke all this shit, which I knew already, but then he starts telling me how this one shithead 26-year-old friend of his saw the kittens and asked him when they could put them in the car to get them high too. And they regularly takes the cats and the dog in the car with them and gets them high, and the cat is like all stretched out on the dashboard, with it's tongue hanging out, and he seems to think this is so hilarious.
Now I realize some people would just say, "big deal, the cat's getting high, so what, it won't hurt it" but I really have a problem with this and I am totally powerless to do anything about it, besides calling the ASPCA or something ridiculous like that. I could just see it: "um yeah, my neighbor is getting his pets high, come do something about it"
If I was a bolder person I would punch him in the gut or something but instead I just have to sit there and listen to it and nod and be like, "yeah, uh-huh, yeah" and it INFURIATES ME!!
What a fucking bastard. Too bad posting this doesn't make me feel any better
Sorry for over-reacting, but I can't stand it when people do stupid shit like that to their pets for no reason. But I'll shut up now for now, thanks for giving me this posting space