[SparX]

XD
you got angry at your mom, so you went super productive to shove it in her face XD
That was me also for a while except instead of school I had taken time off to get mentally well and my dad always made mention on how I never did anything and my brother got on me for even being on foodstamps and it was like wtf.
at one point my brother made a statement on my 21st birthday about how can I afford dogs if I have ebt what do I feed them steaks and laughed at me (At the time I was doing temp labor to pay for everything and wasn't making alot but enough to get by) and it pissed me off so bad that week my dogs starting eating better then me, I put them on a healthier diet where I would buy chicken and pork and beef in bulk and chop it up and mix with rice and and a ladle of their food, because he can suck his own phallic endorsement.
We ended up eating the other half of the meat I chopped up for them for our dinners and just had casseroles XD

[Glitch]

That makes me think of the lady I bought Digit from. She hadn't vaccinated him or de-wormed him or anything at all because she believed that cats don't need any of that stuff. She had been feeding his momma pumpkin for the worms she said. I had made a comment about her asking price being pretty high for a cat that she hadn't even had looked at by a vet. She fired back with "if you can't afford my price, maybe you shouldn't have a pet!" What if he had a heart defect or something, and she never took him to get looked at? Then she wanted $80 for him. I mean, I paid it because I wanted him, but really. . .

That's my snobbish animal breeder coming out. XD I had to take so many puppies to the vet for my mom to get checked out before she sold them. I don't know if you know this, but taking 3 puppies by yourself to the vet is very hard! They all want to be in your lap and cry like crazy xD

[Glitch]

Animals are very therapeutic. You should have said that D:

[SparX]

The only reason to charge money for an animal is to cover expenses of medical bills, personally. or a SMALL rehoming fee (10-25) so you know they are willing to pay for it and not get rid of it cuz it was free.
I've had to give a few of my cats their first shots myself, getting it from the local feed store with some needles and steeling my soul up and doing it....
god I hate giving my pets shots .-. and if you get the animal directly from a breeder, you have to look at the fact the spent how many months taking care of the mother with vet visits and all that? reputable breeders have a need to have a price on their animals because if not they can't offord to take care of the others, much less come back from the thousand some odd they just put into a litter of anywhere from 3-9 animals!

The most (I) have ever payed was $10 for Hax.
My parents however bought a purebred german boxhead when I was a baby, and studded him out and got a puppy instead of the studding fee, which was about appropriate? but Milo (millenium) was the last of Thorsons breeding and I haven't been able to find any of his sons in the area to get back onto the bloodline T.T I miss having Rotti's alot, their so cuddly and loving with those wonderful marking XD
but yes I totally get where your coming from XD

[Glitch]

I don't even get my started on purebred animals. That's what my mom breeds, purebred Bernese Mountain Dogs.

The below is graphic:

I will never be an animal breeder. I've had enough. xD My mom did have some little jobs at vet clinics so she could get medications cheaper. And then she'd do the shots and a lot of the animal needs at home. Since I was 13 years old she would make me hold the puppies so she could remove their declaws. What kid wants to hold a puppy so their mom can cut off their extra toes?! I swore the puppies were howling "nooooo nooooooooo." And it was even worse when the toes would fly up and hit you in the head. I almost fainted once. She still took them to the vet to have their hearts looked at and their hips x-rayed though before she sold them. I'm way too good at pinching blood vessels in puppy legs for my own comfort.

So anyway. Digit is not a purebred by any means, and he has all these extra toes (which is why I wanted him xD) But judging from the woman's home, she just had a few cats and they did all of the work. He just got his first vaccines and rabies shots and everything when I got him fixed.

[SparX]

Eeeeeek.
and as for dew claws AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
unfortunately lucy and molly still have theirs because I couldn't afford to get it done at the same time as the fixing, but it doesn't snag on stuff soooo?

[Glitch]

we just did the back legs, they use the front ones to grab stuff.

[SparX]

18 people in 6 hours comes out to 3 people an hour not counting the 4 people who came in that weren't patients and had questions about medical T.T
this wouldn't be so stressful If I wasn't the only person here and if we had a doorbell ringer so I knew when people were coming in T.T
and if each person used their 20 minutes for service fully that would put me at a full hour wasted on all 3 of them oh dear god

[Glitch]

i just lost a potential customer. She wanted to know about hemp oil and I was like "I'm sorry we don't carry that, it is illegal in the state of oregon." so she says "well . . .do you have any information on it?" and so I said "again, no, unfortunately, since we aren't allowed to carry it." So she rolled her eyes at me and left.

Brady told me how I could have handled it better ._.

[SparX]

We don't carry hemp oil either .-.

[Glitch]

Ah see I wasn't sure about Washington! ya they wrote in newest law that the only hemp thing we can sell are "products such as t-shirts."

[SparX]

I'm not sure as a law to it but it doesn't make much sense to have it in our store if it's just hemp with no effect really.
Even liberty lotion is/was hemp oil AND cbd.
technically I found a hemp product we have buuuuut
XD it's hemp-wick XD

[Glitch]

that probably counts in "products such as t-shirts."

[SparX]

paraphernalia yeah
but what's weird is rec stores are not allowed to sell merchandise with their logo on it in the store >.>
they can create a separate store but not sell it in the store
which is weird, personally

[Lawtan]

I think I have actually seen Hemp stores around here...will have to double check.
I think other plants are more useful, personally...

Also, mom worked in a shelter as a young adult. Bad stories... Current dog suffers from kennel and abandonment trauma. I think I scare him as I have difficulty functioning sometimes due to my own issues, and he doesn't understand.

[SparX]

Hemp and Mj are both from the Cannabis species, but are completely different plants if that makes sense.
Both contain cannibinoids, but thc is not found in hemp while it is found in Mj, but cbd can be found in both.
my big thing in 6th grade was wanting to be an herbalist and I had this great big book of herbs and what to do with them and spent weeks making dandelion tea and feverfew salves to name a few so I can completely understand where you come from there law XD