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try and figure out which pet is the worst one in this thread. I'm thinking some kind of bird
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its u
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Sep 23, 2016 02:00
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rear end posted:its u
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Sep 23, 2016 02:19
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ArtIsResistance posted:try and figure out which pet is the worst one in this thread. 
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Sep 23, 2016 02:50
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Any sort of monkey or ape. If you have a monkey or ape as a pet I assume you either love feces or hate having a face.
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Sep 23, 2016 03:13
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I have several pet birds, and I have to agree that parrots are probably the worst pet. If you *really* think you want a parrot, foster one before you commit for life - they're loud, messy, and they're often utter dicks. Especially the large ones... cockatoos and macaws are loving assholes. To top it all off, they'll probably outlive you.
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Sep 23, 2016 06:20
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Dreqqus posted:Any sort of monkey or ape. If you have a monkey or ape as a pet I assume you either love feces or hate having a face. Yeah but that would only make sense since those people are shitheads
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Sep 23, 2016 10:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMSmk9ePWg *the house phone rings* "I WANT A DIVORCE I WANT A DIVORCE"
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Sep 23, 2016 11:00
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3789603 this poor guy is gonna have his hands full, its a drat biped.
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Sep 23, 2016 12:14
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The answer is an Orca is the worst pet
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Sep 23, 2016 16:32
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Keeping a colony of fire ants might be up there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnDOovsmfg
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Sep 27, 2016 17:48
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Pet robots. Not because they're terrible, but because they're still not good enough. Necoro, the robot cat, came out in the early 2000s. It was very expensive at the time. I had high hopes that future robo pets would be even better!  Now in 2016, these toy pets have gotten cheaper and more common, but they're not any better. Like FurReal Friends, Biscuit the Dog. It's still not a pet, and it still doesn't walk. I won't be satisfied with robot pets until they're intelligent enough to express pain and joy so well that their existence becomes a controversy over man's hubris and the rights of sentient robots. 
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Sep 28, 2016 18:16
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Ferrets are the worst pets. They're cute as hell, though.
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Oct 1, 2016 03:24
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Mogwai. You see the trouble those guys cause?
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Oct 1, 2016 23:21
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Wasn't there a guy who posted his pet monkey in PI and like a week later it broke out and ate all his wifes antidepressants Anyways the worst pet is definitely a house rabbit.
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Oct 2, 2016 04:40
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Tofu Terry posted:Wasn't there a guy who posted his pet monkey in PI and like a week later it broke out and ate all his wifes antidepressants the monkey got into his girlfriend's purse and ate 30 ambien (unfortunately for the monkey it survived this and had to continue being somebody's neglected pet) i bought him an avatar for his trouble
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Oct 3, 2016 04:49
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Knew my memory was a little off, but lmao. I hope the monkey's in a sanctuary by now
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Oct 3, 2016 04:58
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Mirthless posted:the monkey got into his girlfriend's purse and ate 30 ambien (unfortunately for the monkey it survived this and had to continue being somebody's neglected pet) I want this to be true AND false.
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Oct 4, 2016 19:36
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it's sea monkeys see u in the goldmine
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Oct 5, 2016 23:26
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BirdbrainedPhoenix posted:Ferrets are the worst pets. They're cute as hell, though. Incorrect. Ferrets are the shittiest pets, but they are pretty awesome when they're not intentionally pooping in the corner while making eye contact. Worst pets have got to be hedgehogs, but I may only be saying that because I can't get one (because ferrets).
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Oct 5, 2016 23:34
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I went to see a chimp rehab center in South Africa a while back and they told us about how one of the chimps had been kept by a super wealthy Dubai family who'd found it hilarious to shave her and dress her up in baby clothes and just generally treat her like a human baby. For ten loving years. poo poo was sad as hell.
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Oct 6, 2016 10:34
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Maully Millions posted:Incorrect. Ferrets are the shittiest pets, but they are pretty awesome when they're not intentionally pooping in the corner while making eye contact. Hedgehogs are awesome. They're incredibly easy to take care of, smart, friendly after a bit of socialization, and can live in a terrarium. The only downside is they're nocturnal so you have to be a bit of a night owl to enjoy them. What about teacup pigs? Breeders claim they'll stay small for ever and then they grow to completely impractical size of a normal pig.
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Oct 6, 2016 13:29
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Leviathan Song posted:Hedgehogs are awesome. They're incredibly easy to take care of, smart, friendly after a bit of socialization, and can live in a terrarium. The only downside is they're nocturnal so you have to be a bit of a night owl to enjoy them. Well, by pig standards they stay small forever. Pigs get fuckin' big. (Incidentally, credit to Paris Hilton for keeping her now-big pig and giving it the care it deserves) The Lord of Hats fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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Oct 6, 2016 17:41
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When I was a kid, we had a neighbor with a potbellied pig who would routinely escape and go root up yards around the neighborhood, then start screaming when the owners came to get him. So, pigs unless you can keep them contained or just hate your neighbors,
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Oct 8, 2016 00:14
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ferrets are the best pets when they aren't corner pooping or getting treated for insulinomas. rabbits are the worst pets.
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Oct 26, 2016 15:25
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I love dogs and work with them, but for me it's pugs, and improperly trained German Shepherds. Pugs are often desperately unhealthy, almost always wildly obese, and they're the toughest nail trims by far. It's like trying to wrestle with an angry squirming potato. Their personalities are ok and many are quite sweet, but they're all dumb as a bag of rocks and their constant struggle for breath unnerves me. No thanks. GS are lovely dogs when trained but lately there's been a spate of young, first-time dog owners buying a puppy (often with already apparent health issues; ie knock-knees) and then just...not training them. Or they think one puppy class is enough, and never do any reinforcing. I've been working with THREE such couples at my job recently, and one bit the owner, a highschool-aged girl, in the hand so hard she bled. She was just like 'yeah he does that.' I'd say 80% of our highly reactive dogs are GS where I work. I guess that's really way more about the owners then the dogs, but I decided a long time ago German Shepherds are at the bottom of the list (with pugs) as to dogs I'd ever consider owning. Good for you if you have one and care for it though! They are beautiful even if they're not for me.
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Oct 26, 2016 20:06
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porkswordonboard posted:I love dogs and work with them, but for me it's pugs, and improperly trained German Shepherds. Pugs are often desperately unhealthy, almost always wildly obese, and they're the toughest nail trims by far. It's like trying to wrestle with an angry squirming potato. Their personalities are ok and many are quite sweet, but they're all dumb as a bag of rocks and their constant struggle for breath unnerves me. No thanks. I love GSD's a ton and grew up with GSD mixes but yeah they're not right for everyone or even most people unless they have the time and energy to give a poo poo about training and working them. Same with any high energy breed. Agreed that ferrets are awful but hilarious, except when I owned 3 and my friend and I were irresponsible pet owners so they had the run of the house, and we found out one of them liked to burrow in the couch. I got a text saying "I FOUND A POOP GRAVEYARD. THERE IS POOP EVERYWHERE OH GOD"
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Oct 28, 2016 04:24
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^ That bit about the ferrets is HILARIOUS, good god. A Poop Graveyard sounds like a good username. But yeah, GSDs seem to rarely be owned by someone who knows what they're doing. When they are, they're amazing. When they aren't, they're not only annoying as gently caress but also super dangerous. It just makes me so sad to see a dog that would blossom in another environment being crated 9 hours a day, taken for one 10-minute walk, and grossly overfed/under trained. It's not specific to GSDs (high energy breeds all have this issue to some degree) but where I live they seem to be the poster dog for this sort of behavior between owner and pet, and unfortunately it's colored my entire opinion of the breed. Not proud of that but it's also saved my rear end a couple times when I blatantly disregard the owners (he's fine! He's just *anxious*) to muzzle the dog for a nail trim because gently caress no, being bit in the face once was enough for me.
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Oct 29, 2016 23:50
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Guinea pigs are pretty crappy pets, they are about as dumb as rabbits but squeak at all hours and are generally annoying as gently caress.
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Nov 3, 2016 15:05
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Cached Money posted:Guinea pigs are pretty crappy pets, they are about as dumb as rabbits but squeak at all hours and are generally annoying as gently caress. good coincidence, someone at work today wouldn't shut up about their 4 guinea pigs therefore I accept your nomination for worst pet
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Nov 4, 2016 00:13
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I honestly think horses are the worst pet. They're stupid, they're expensive, they are prone to sickness and injury, they get spooked at everything and anything and they are a lot of work and effort. Even the hardier breeds are still quite fragile. Horses are just the worst.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:05
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porkswordonboard posted:^ That bit about the ferrets is HILARIOUS, good god. A Poop Graveyard sounds like a good username. I just came home and the couch was gone. There was no salvaging it. The rescue I got my husky from in SF has a TON of huskies and malamutes because SF is a tech company cesspool and people get them because ~it looks like a wolf~ and don't realize that they need a lot of exercise and work, which isn't really compatible when you're a computer nerd who wants to stay inside mostly(not that they're all like that obviously). I lucked out and my pup sleeps approximately all day and is content with a couple trips outside, brief bursts of playing and a bone to nibble on. Otherwise he's out like a light. Laziest dude ever and isn't the typical destructive type, which is nice. I used to live with a guy who was your stereotypical moderately lovely GSD owner. Wasn't abusive but never did any kind of training with him, and he was an intact male that never, in months of living there, went for a walk(but there was a fenced in concrete industrial yard attached to the property that when the business was closed he was let out in, so that's cool, right?). He would regularly take off for days at a time and leave us with him with no explanation, but we kinda let that slide since our dogs were bros and hey, sometimes they watched our dog when we went out. He was just as neurotic as you'd imagine a pent up intact male to be, and felt the constant need to police everything, from the dogs playing(there were 7 dogs living at the warehouse, but 2 of them were kept separate), to also policing us. Like if I would tell my dog to leave something, he'd fly onto his feet and bark his head off. Or if people stood up too fast. Anything really. It was super obnoxious and basically reinforced my feelings about how most people aren't good for GSDs. Punk warehouse living spaces: not even once. Anyways, more on topic, birds are great but I don't think I could ever own one. Same roommate that I had the ferrets with I mentioned got a green cheek conure. We worked staggered schedules so I got home earlier than her, and the drat bird demanded attention the second I walked in. It was a constant melody of the bird squaking, the ferrets chewing on the cage, and her fat cat meowing. So I started taking him out just for some drat quiet and hanging out with him, where he would proceed to quietly creep down the couch and pull out the hairs on my neck, then run away tittering. And poop on everything. He would bite my piercings when I wasn't paying attention. Birds are buttholes.
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Nov 8, 2016 08:30
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Not the worst but I was working when Petsmart first stocked scorpions and it never seemed like a great idea.
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Nov 9, 2016 16:04
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Ema Nymton posted:Necoro, the robot cat, came out in the early 2000s. It was very expensive at the time. I had high hopes that future robo pets would be even better! Is that a robot pet, or an experiment to determine if the Uncanny Valley applies to animals? Jenner posted:I honestly think horses are the worst pet. They're stupid, they're expensive, they are prone to sickness and injury, they get spooked at everything and anything and they are a lot of work and effort. Even the hardier breeds are still quite fragile. Horses are just the worst. I don't suppose you've been to the "Bad With Money" thread over in Business, Finance, and Careers. Quite a bit of that thread is stories of people buying horses without having made the slightest effort to understand what the gently caress they were getting into.
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Nov 11, 2016 04:29
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I've seen people in the midwest with alligators for pets. Why??
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Nov 16, 2016 08:31
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Mom Party posted:I've seen people in the midwest with alligators for pets. owns, big teeth, scaly skin, bite strength, the list goes on
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Nov 17, 2016 02:03
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Perfect for my moat now that God Lord Emperor Trump is in power
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Nov 17, 2016 04:19
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I would have to say any kind ape. You have to put them in diapers from flinging literal poo poo at you. Plus chimps are super loving strong and could literally kill a human being. So they freak me the gently caress out. Second would be anything small, furry, and rodentia like. Having mice and rats was a royal pain in the rear end for no benefit.
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Nov 22, 2016 22:09
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I had Egyptian spiny mice and the only thing they ever wanted to do was bite humans or each other. We got to choose between them starving themselves separated or tearing literal gashes in each other together. I felt so bad but holy gently caress they were vicious little buggers.
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porkswordonboard posted:I guess that's really way more about the owners then the dogs, but I decided a long time ago German Shepherds are at the bottom of the list (with pugs) as to dogs I'd ever consider owning. Good for you if you have one and care for it though! They are beautiful even if they're not for me. obviously i crossed the road and my dog survived but drat  imagine having to go through that every single time you encounter another dog in public. i'm guessing she had to walk at night (it was about 11pm) because the dog was so aggressive and too big for her to control
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