i love that I'm an animal friend and can't remember the last time a dog didn't like me.
got to hang out with a 3 legged cat today and she barely knows me but THREW herself at me for affection. She has skin problems and I really hope they get better but she's my friend's cat and I can't afford to be like "I'm taking her to the vet for you." I think they're getting better but idk.
I would really like to work with animals but I really just want to play with them and give them love all day and not clean up their poop and stuff. also I would like to get paid more than $5 an hour
If they are dogs that are housebroken and not incontinent, you do get pretty strongly desensitized to the poop such that cleaning up after them is much less of a pain than one might imagine. idk about cats and litter boxes.
If you scoop the cat's litter box a few times a day it's not an issue. idk why people don't do that. Scoop in the morning, scoop when you get home, scoop before you go to bed, never worry about odor or mess.
I’m Hexbear’s local veterinarian and I approve this message.
In case you need another reason to keep your house from smelling like cat shit:
Feline coronavirus (not that one, but a close cousin) is a relatively benign, very common virus that turns into a fatal disease called FIP after a few cycles of re-infection. The best way we know to prevent those cycles of reinfection is to clean feces from the litterbox at minimum every 18-24 hours, because that’s the length of time the virus has to hang out in the environment before it can reinfect your cat.
Fun fact:
Remdesivir was first (basically) developed to treat FIP.
i love that I'm an animal friend and can't remember the last time a dog didn't like me.
got to hang out with a 3 legged cat today and she barely knows me but THREW herself at me for affection. She has skin problems and I really hope they get better but she's my friend's cat and I can't afford to be like "I'm taking her to the vet for you." I think they're getting better but idk.
I would really like to work with animals but I really just want to play with them and give them love all day and not clean up their poop and stuff. also I would like to get paid more than $5 an hour
If they are dogs that are housebroken and not incontinent, you do get pretty strongly desensitized to the poop such that cleaning up after them is much less of a pain than one might imagine. idk about cats and litter boxes.
If you scoop the cat's litter box a few times a day it's not an issue. idk why people don't do that. Scoop in the morning, scoop when you get home, scoop before you go to bed, never worry about odor or mess.
I’m Hexbear’s local veterinarian and I approve this message.
In case you need another reason to keep your house from smelling like cat shit:
Feline coronavirus (not that one, but a close cousin) is a relatively benign, very common virus that turns into a fatal disease called FIP after a few cycles of re-infection. The best way we know to prevent those cycles of reinfection is to clean feces from the litterbox at minimum every 18-24 hours, because that’s the length of time the virus has to hang out in the environment before it can reinfect your cat.
Fun fact: Remdesivir was first (basically) developed to treat FIP.