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I need to vent about pet owners I know. First my sister and her husband.

They have gone through god knows how many dogs. A year and a half ago my sister had a lab name Potato that her and her previous bf bought together. Well, when they broke up he basically said, "She's your dog, Idc what you do with her." So my sister gave her to someone with the intentions of breeding her. Fine, whatever, that's what they were going to do in the first place.
Shortly after this my sister met another guy (won't go into details here but this is a fucked up story too) and they adopted a puggle from the pound and named him Chuckie. Chuckie lasted a month. And then my sister and this guy got pregnant and married and decided Chuckie was too much for them, so back to the pound he went.
Next, my sister and her new husband moved to Missouri to be closer to mom and because it's cheaper and well...idk really know why. There they got some puppies from the Walmart parking lot. Well, they didn't have a fenced yard and they lived on a highway so needless to say their puppies chewed through their ropes (because they were not allowed inside) and disappeared.
When my sister and her husband moved back to AZ they adopted two rott/pit mixes which they kept in their fenced yard. Eventually they noticed that one was becoming dominant over the other and not allowing her to eat or get attention. So they gave her away and kept the passive one.
They moved again. Adopted a 5 year old American Bulldog from a rescue. (Now rescues are pretty strict about who they give dogs to so I really have no idea how they got this dog.) Not long after bringing him home he got in a fight with the neighborhood pit (who roams freely for some reason) and ended up with serious injuries and a crushed leg. My sister and her husband live off her single first year teachers salary and have to support their child so rather then get this dog help they put him down.
After that, they got a rott puppy from god knows where. Her husband told me recently that their female rott/pit mix is now becoming dominant over the puppy and not letting him eat or get attention or play with toys. Needless to say I am sure eventually they will give their female away and keep their male and then probably get another dog.
I should add that these dogs live outside, have no training whatsoever (her husband actually said to me that he doesn't believe in training dogs, that he thinks they will protect you just because they are dogs and it's what they do) and when they come up to PHX (they live south of Tuscon) they leave their dogs outside the whole weekend with a big pan of food and a bowl of water. So wait....little male rott is not getting any food this whole time if their female is not letting him eat? DUH.
I am waiting for them to come home one day from visiting PHX to find that their dogs have savagely ripped each other apart and bled to death in their yard.
Uhm common sense? This pisses me off. A LOT. I wrote a 10 page paper last semester on wildlife rescue and rehab and what happens to animals that are neglected or abandoned this way. I don't understand why they think dogs are so disposable? Do they not have brains? Have they never been to an animal shelter? Have they never searched the INTERNET!?

Next,
A lady I babysit for has a big fluffy siamese? cat name Caesar. She also has 3yr old twins. She works 80 hours a week. Her kids live in daycare. The other day I picked them up from daycare and brought them to her house to watch them for a while. Her house smelled like cat piss. Her litter box was a solid mass of litter under a pile of dried shit. The cat had started using the floor around the box as a toilet. I clean it out, filled it with fresh litter, but could no nothing about the floor.
And Caesar? Mats. Dreadlocks. No normal fur on his body whatsoever. He had a shield of matted fur covering his back like a turtle shell. I tried to convince my bf that we should steal him and take him to a vet. The cat can't clean himself! His skin is going to rot underneath those mats! When she came home I told her what would happen if she didn't get him a hair cut. He will basically develop body sores under his mats because he can't properly clean his skin. His skin will rot right off of him. Her excuse was that no groomer would see him without updated vet records, and since he hadn't been to the vet in a while they would make her update everything which would cost a fortune. This is true. But, spend a couple hundred dollars at the vet or let your cats skin become infected?
If he hasn't been shaved and treated next time I go over there I'm stealing him.

All this reminds me that Baby needs to see the vet about her ears again. I need pet insurance.

I won't even go into my brother and his cats that have ripped giant holes in my carpet and ruined my couch and speakers and tv. If he doesn't do something soon I'm giving them away. He doesn't even pay any attention to them, why have them?

GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I hate stupid people. I hate that I'm related to so many stupid people. I also hate math. Rational expressions ftw! Yay simplifying, multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting, enormous polynomials! I am sure you all do this everyday at work so it is bound to be something I will use everyday for the rest of my life. FUCK MATH.