It doesn’t matter if it was a pet, a child, or someone else, just that you were taking care of them.

  • toomanypancakes@crazypeople.onlineOP
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    12 hours ago

    It was a pet in my case. This was pre-covid, so I wasn’t working at home, and I had this wonderful husky mutt. He loved food, and had a history of what we called “counter surfing” where he’d snatch up any unattended food left on counters.

    That was mostly when he was younger though. He’d gotten a lot better about it and we thought we could trust him again. So one day he gets left alone inside for a bit, which everyone would soon come to regret. My idiot boy decided with his brain cell to break into a cabinet and gorged himself on two full pounds of raw white rice.

    Thought he might have had a stroke when I first saw him, he was on his side, bloated and unable to get up. Rushed him to the vet and they took the funniest xray that technician had ever seen. Dog was totally fine, just uncomfortable for a while until he could poop out the rice.

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      11 hours ago

      I love the constant dichotomy presented by dogs. They do so many intelligent things, but then will do the dumbest shit possible like eating 2 pounds of uncooked rice.

      Like, bro. We both know you’re smarter than this.

    • AskewLord@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      my dog cat 2lbs of cat food once. happiest day of her life probably.

      but oh my god the amount of horribly thinky farts and poos the next couple of days.