FFFC

CoozieInMyPurse · June 2014

I cannot wait until our oldest dog dies so that we can start fixing up up all the crap he's destroyed. We will have to replace the entire back door and frame, plus siding where he has chewed and scratched in his efforts to get inside when it storms. We can't sell our house until he is gone and all that damage is repaired, which means that I have to live in the house my H bought with his ex for the foreseeable future. The dog is 13 or so years old. DH FINALLY made a vet appointment for tomorrow after putting it off for YEARS because he doesn't want bad news about the dog.

ETA I will be sad when the dog goes; he's a sweetie. But I'd love to have a door knob on the back door again (he's eaten through two).

countrygrl5533 · June 2014

@Wine&Cupcakes....Now you have me nervous it's me. lol. Although, I'm pretty much the same online and IRL so.....not something I really worry about.

I actually really like to clean. I'm a freak of nature that way. I used to clean houses in college for extra money. And organizing! I love it! I would love to be a professional organizer. I would go back to cleaning houses too if I didn't have a 2yr old to drag around with me.

My FFFC: I like to grocery shop early in the morning before all the crazies are out. Our grocery store gives kids a free cookie. So DD's breakfast on grocery shopping days is Cheerios and a cookie. Then we come home and I plop her in front of the TV so I can put everything away and balance the checkbook in peace. Mother of the year, right here.

wishiwaspreggo · June 2014

WestCoastGirl05 said:

wishiwaspreggo said:

I am one of those women who blames her foul temper on hormones X_X

**snip**
I totally do this too. DH and I were having a disagreement the other day, and I went all 13-year-old girl on him and slammed (and I do mean SLAMMED) the bedroom door. My 10lb shi-zhu freaked the fuck out and pissed all over the kitchen floor - I may have stayed in our bedroom while DH cleaned it up. It was really not a shiny moment for me. I rarely ever get that upset, there's a lot more backstory to that moment that I wont go into. But I def. blamed my hormones. Of course I apologized, and owned up to my ugliness - but know that you are not alone in this sister!

LOL Glad to know! You should buy him his favorite takeout dinner. That's how I apologized to C after I picked a fight with her while hormonal. And as a general rule I preemptively apologize to her before starting my progesterone. I'm just not myself and I know it.

shlittertoots · June 2014

I bought LO a backpack for daycare yesterday (I read the UO thread afterward...)--and as an added bonus, it comes with a harness/leash. I'm totally clipping a leash to it as soon as she shows sign of being a runner in crowded places. I give no fucks.

And she's going to look fucking adorable when I'm reeling her in:

airidh80 · June 2014

slappalicious said:

Wine&Cupcakes said:

This is super frustrating. An easy blood draw can answer this question for you. Also keep in mind that thyroid irregularities can impact fertility as well, so double the reason to go get tested. I totally see your point of view though. Hang in there!

Edited to add: sorry, the nurse in me just got, well, all nursey.

I get it checked every year. I think it's borderline with my TSH being 3.5, my doctor thinks it's perfectly fine.

And I appreciate your nursey!

*lurker*

It sounds like your doctor is following old guidelines - current guidelines dictate that a normal TSH range is between .3-3.0. That would put you over the normal range. And FWIW, symptoms of hypothyroidism can vary wildly from patient to patient. Every woman in my mother's family (except for me) has thyroid issues, and the only thing they have in common is weight gain.

WestCoastGirl05 · June 2014

wishiwaspreggo said:

WestCoastGirl05 said:

wishiwaspreggo said:

I am one of those women who blames her foul temper on hormones X_X

**snip**
I totally do this too. DH and I were having a disagreement the other day, and I went all 13-year-old girl on him and slammed (and I do mean SLAMMED) the bedroom door. My 10lb shi-zhu freaked the fuck out and pissed all over the kitchen floor - I may have stayed in our bedroom while DH cleaned it up. It was really not a shiny moment for me. I rarely ever get that upset, there's a lot more backstory to that moment that I wont go into. But I def. blamed my hormones. Of course I apologized, and owned up to my ugliness - but know that you are not alone in this sister!

LOL Glad to know! You should buy him his favorite takeout dinner. That's how I apologized to C after I picked a fight with her while hormonal. And as a general rule I preemptively apologize to her before starting my progesterone. I'm just not myself and I know it.

I actually stopped at the grocery store and picked up ingredients to make his favorite cookies, but take out is also a great idea that I'll have to keep in my arsenal!

@mayaruth81 that backpack is adorable! I would give abosutely no fucks about using it either!!

divinemsbee · June 2014

LinnyDan12 said:

@MsRexManing I love that my DH is in grad school 2 nights a week. They are my favorite nights because I'm home alone.
My FFFC sometimes I think about our life being child-free. I can't actually picture myself pregnant or with a child. I don't know if I'm just trying to convince myself that it will be ok if it doesn't happen, or if something. Some parts are nice- quiet and tidy with less worries about money, but other things aren't so great- my DH doesn't like to travel or go out, so I can see myself being really bored and empty.

I'm right there with you. ((Hugs))

I actually asked H last night that if 'this' was it, just us and our dogs and cat and our house and our garden, would he be happy with our life and stay with me. He said of course. It's getting a lot harder for me to see light at the end of the tunnel. I've been benched for months and I really just can't see my way out of it. I am so sick of 'wait and see' I just want something done. I've been waiting and seeing for over 5 months now.

I like my doctor, and I realize I'm not her only patient, but if you say you're going to get back to me later in the day, then get the fuck back to me. Not to derail, but the update on me is that after a round of BCP that was supposed to knock me back down to normal and only ended up turning me into a raging lunatic, my hCG is at 5.5. I'm assuming this means another ultrasound and possibly a D&C. If it meant that I could be cleared and have some sort of answer I'd walk in there today and do it with no pain meds and I am dead serious. I'm terrified it's a tumor or something else and I'm going to end up benched for another 6 months or forever. Realistically I know that everything my doctor has done was absolutely how it should have been done, but it seems like everything has taken so long and I don't know why we weren't exploring these possibilities a month or two ago.

Ok, now to read the rest of the thread, sorry for the rant.

PuppyLove84 · June 2014

I'm sorry @divinemsbee‌. Hugs!

My confession is that one of my coworkers was exposed to an infectious disease and I was not, and I am a little jealous of her. She's totally fine but everyone has been stopping by to talk to her and ask how she's doing, and I'm a little jealous of all that attention. Yes, I am jealous of someone who could potentially DIE because she's getting more attention than me. I am clearly a stupid middle schooler. I am ashamed of myself.

Wine&Cupcakes · June 2014

countrygrl5533 said:

@Wine&Cupcakes....Now you have me nervous it's me. lol. Although, I'm pretty much the same online and IRL so.....not something I really worry about.

I actually really like to clean. I'm a freak of nature that way. I used to clean houses in college for extra money. And organizing! I love it! I would love to be a professional organizer. I would go back to cleaning houses too if I didn't have a 2yr old to drag around with me.

My FFFC: I like to grocery shop early in the morning before all the crazies are out. Our grocery store gives kids a free cookie. So DD's breakfast on grocery shopping days is Cheerios and a cookie. Then we come home and I plop her in front of the TV so I can put everything away and balance the checkbook in peace. Mother of the year, right here.

Hahah! I promise you its not! It is really amazing how much little tidbits of information add up...that being said, I'm less afraid of people finding out about me from IRL than I am about crazy interwebz stalkers who will call my boss or show up at my doorstep.

divinemsbee · June 2014

I am the queen of distractions of having to have multiple sources of entertainment at once and I just got a smart phone. I've always been the person who has two TV stations/shows picked out so that when one goes to commercial I can pick up with the other one (can I tell you how much H enjoys this? Not at all would be the answer). I'll also do this while reading a book or magazine. And pay decent attention to all of them. I tend to have a book or magazine in the living room, a separate one in the downstairs bathroom, and another in the bedroom. It's one reason that we don't have a TV in our bedroom. I may have an issue.

As the worst SAHW in the world, I would love someone to come in and deep clean once a month. I keep the house okay (but H is the king of clutter, so I take no responsibility for the Legos on the dining table), but I hate deep cleaning with the fire of a thousand suns. Washing my blinds sounds like my idea of purgatory. And we have three shedding animals (4 if you count H) and a house built in 1919 that produces dust by itself. I'm lobbying for a cleaning person to come in and do things like scrub grout.

Wine&Cupcakes · June 2014

PenguinMG said:

Wine&Cupcakes said:

I just figured out that a new poster on this board is someone I know IRL. Oh how I love being a fly on the wall...

My confession is that I'm paranoid and totally just went through all your posts to see if it could be me. Honestly, the one person I know who lives in your area of the country has a very similar wedding anniversary as you, but I *think* a week later. I'm bad at calendars though, so maybe. :-SS

Hahah! Not you either! But yea, I caught a random post and it mentioned something and when I investigated further, the stars aligned. Then, of course I spent an hour going through all of this persons posts to confirm my suspicions and as it turns out, I'm 10000% right. Crazy. But then again, I look back at my posts, and while a crazy stranger couldn't figure me out, someone I'm friends with on facebook or something could easily put the same pieces together with a hunch.

Again, I'm more afraid of the internet cray cray's versus real life peeps. The real life peeps already know how to find me, and would have already killed/stalked me. The internet peeps are wildcards in that regard.

nannabee21 · June 2014

A coworker of mine went to Gatlinburg and brought me back a box of taffy. I LURVE taffy!! My FFFC is that I kept the box in my work bag since H never looks in there and I ate it ALL over then course of a week. He never knew I had it. It was good. No shame.

Edited because I posted too soon. Oops.

janda426 · June 2014

@MrsRexManning‌ @NellyBluth‌ Apparently i was misinformed by multiple websites on what a chemical pregnancy actually is and told someone the wrong thing. I'm still confused. Cram liked all the comments correcting me so I assumed it was about that. I explained myself though in the original thread and didn't think a "confession" about it was necessary.

ETA if if wasn't just about that then I'm being a drama llama and over reacting.

divinemsbee · June 2014

I have an actual confession this week (and yes, I'm being a PW):

I've been venturing over to a few different boards and lurking, one of which is the Adoption board. Again, realize that nothing is set in stone for me right now, but I've had a long long time to think about all sorts of outcomes and I thought I'd look around. There's a ton of info on there and the ladies on that board are really cool. However, I have realized that I don't think, at this point, I'd be able to deal with an open adoption. I don't know if I ever could do that. I realize that it's been found to be better for the child and family, so it makes me feel like a bad person for saying that I don't think I could ever do it. I think I could handle pictures once a year and maybe letters, but I don't think I could handle trying to arrange visits and having a birth family know where I live.

That might mean that adoption would be off the table for us if it came to that. Because I think a lot of birth mothers are looking for an openness that I don't think I could handle.

themrsJRD · June 2014

@wishiwaspreggo @notthefather

Yes. I'd like to have killed him for that. Even typing it out pissed me off- poor him, when I see him in a bit he will have no idea why I'm so annoyed.

KingLED · June 2014

janda426 said:

@MrsRexManning‌ @NellyBluth‌ Apparently i was misinformed by multiple websites on what a chemical pregnancy actually is and told someone the wrong thing. I'm still confused. Cram liked all the comments correcting me so I assumed it was about that. I explained myself though in the original thread and didn't think a "confession" about it was necessary. ETA if if wasn't just about that then I'm being a drama llama and over reacting.

Maybe that's what she's talking about, but there really has been a lot of misinformation being posted lately and no one seems to care. Also, basing your assumption that she's talking solely about you because she liked all the comments that were correcting misinformation seems a bit overboard. Had I read the rest of the thread I would have done the same thing.

Maybe I just never though of Cram as being that insanely passive aggressive, I don't know.

BillyHorrible · June 2014

I don't think you need to be married to TTC or have kids, but I don't get TTC when you're engaged but not married. Why not just wait a couple months?

This is probably coming from the fact that I wouldn't want to worry about being sick on my wedding day, am too vain to want to be a giant pregnant lady in a wedding dress, and can't even begin to imagine planning and dealing with a wedding with a newborn.

janda426 · June 2014

@EllyD14‌ yeah I said I was being a drama llama so I'm aware of my over reaction.

divinemsbee · June 2014

BillyHorrible said:

I don't think you need to be married to TTC or have kids, but I don't get TTC when you're engaged but not married. Why not just wait a couple months?

This is probably coming from the fact that I wouldn't want to worry about being sick on my wedding day, am too vain to want to be a giant pregnant lady in a wedding dress, and can't even begin to imagine planning and dealing with a wedding with a newborn.

I can kind of dig this. But I do think that it's important to remember that for some people engaged doesn't equal planning a wedding within the near future. Some people get engaged for years. I also don't think marriage is important so much as having a solid relationship to bring kids into, but I also don't get it if you're 4 months off from a wedding that you've put a lot of planning or money into. I mean, I get that happy accidents happen, but I personally wouldn't have been TTC or even NTNP at that point.

Personally, I had a pretty traditional wedding (church, bridal gown ordered 5ish months ahead, all that jazz). Once I ordered the dress, there was no way I wanted to have to deal with the alterations or trying to find another one or re-planning things, so we were pretty careful. We did stop using BC (withdrawal and condoms) the cycle right before our wedding so I would have been 4ish weeks on our wedding day if that had worked (instead CD1 was our wedding day, romantic

). It just seems like a hassle. However I can see that for some weddings and people it wouldn't be a big deal.

SpartanChick88 · June 2014

I just licked all the goat cheesey dressing goodness off the side of my salad bowl. I burned 650 calories this morning - I can drink the bottle of dressing if I want to! Not sorry even a little

BillyHorrible · June 2014

Trickyjedi said:Because maybe some of us realize that it might be more difficult to get pregnant and want to take every opportunity that we can get. I'm getting married in the near future and if my timing lines up I most definetly will be trying to get KTFU before the wedding.

Follow up questions, because like I said, I'm not against it, I just don't understand:
1) Are you engaged now?
2) Is having a big wedding important to you?

Having a kid before getting married isn't a big deal in my book, and I don't think everyone has to have a huge wedding. So personally, I'd prefer to either have the kid before even worrying about wedding planning, or if being married first was more important, I'd either do a courthouse marriage or a small quick wedding and then start TTC.

lizzyp9112 · June 2014

@BillyHorrible, I see where you are coming from. Wedding planning (and selling my house/moving everything to DH's house) was a really stressful process so if we were TTC or I was KU at that time it would have just made it more difficult.

No judgment whatsoever if someone is TTC pre wedding or if they at KU at/before the wedding-- I just would not have been able to handle the stress!

CoozieInMyPurse · June 2014

fuzzylogic said:

CoozieInMyPurse said:

I cannot wait until our oldest dog dies so that we can start fixing up up all the crap he's destroyed. We will have to replace the entire back door and frame, plus siding where he has chewed and scratched in his efforts to get inside when it storms. We can't sell our house until he is gone and all that damage is repaired, which means that I have to live in the house my H bought with his ex for the foreseeable future. The dog is 13 or so years old. DH FINALLY made a vet appointment for tomorrow after putting it off for YEARS because he doesn't want bad news about the dog.

ETA I will be sad when the dog goes; he's a sweetie. But I'd love to have a door knob on the back door again (he's eaten through two).

Why is your dog outside when it's storming?

Is it unusual to keep dogs outside when you aren't home? He is old and kind of incontinent, so he stays outside when we aren't home and sleeps out there too. There is plenty of cover, water, etc. We live in a part of the country with frequent pop-up afternoon thunderstorms during the summer (and other parts of the year). So we aren't always home when a storm comes up to let him in. If we are, he comes in, obviously.

ETA details.

KingLED · June 2014

DarcyHermione said:

bibliothecary said:

Written before going to desk:

FFFC: The library desk has two computers. I always get there early so I can choose the computer on the left (that way, my desk partner can't casually see what I'm looking at).

Written 15 minutes after arriving on desk:
MOTHERFUCKER. I'm on with the bitch I hate (she's tried to get me fired repeatedly over completely ridiculous things). She's watching me like a hawk. FUCK ME.

I have a preferred computer too. I like the one on the right. We should just start a library together.

Tell the bitch to go shelf read.

I would definitely go to that library. Sign me up.

lizzyp9112 · June 2014

@Coozieinmypurse... yes, I would say it is unusual to leave your dog outside when you are not home.

BillyHorrible · June 2014

CoozieInMyPurse said:

Is it unusual to keep dogs outside when you aren't home? He is old and kind of incontinent, so he stays outside when we aren't home and sleeps out there too. We live in a part of the country with frequent pop-up afternoon thunderstorms during the summer (and other parts of the year). So we aren't always home when a storm comes up to let him in. If we are, he comes in, obviously.

It is. Not just unusual, but dangerous. There are all sorts of stories of people stealing dogs from yards. Or if he's a barker and your neighbors don't like it, I've heard of people throwing poison over the fence and dogs dying. Not to mention if he somehow got bit by an animal that made its way into the yard (I don't mean a lion or a tiger, but snakes, bugs, or rodents, or even a neighbor's dog). If you're not there, and something bad happens, you could easily come home to a dead dog in the backyard. If he's old and incontinent, why not just leave him in the house in a tiled area gated off from the rest of the house. I bet he'd just sleep all day anyway.

CoozieInMyPurse · June 2014

lizabethc said:

@Coozieinmypurse... yes, I would say it is unusual to leave your dog outside when you are not home.

Wow! Really? That kind of blows my mind. It's a fenced yard. Plenty of water, shade, fans in summer, a warm spot in winter. He's a 90 lb dog and our 40 lb dog stays outside with him as well (but sleeps inside). The only dogs I would keep inside while not at home would be something under 15 lbs. And I truly doubt we will ever have one of those.

wishiwaspreggo · June 2014

Another FFFC: I'm getting Taco Bell for lunch.

countrygrl5533 · June 2014

CoozieInMyPurse said:

Is it unusual to keep dogs outside when you aren't home? He is old and kind of incontinent, so he stays outside when we aren't home and sleeps out there too. There is plenty of cover, water, etc. We live in a part of the country with frequent pop-up afternoon thunderstorms during the summer (and other parts of the year). So we aren't always home when a storm comes up to let him in. If we are, he comes in, obviously.

ETA details.

That's completely normal here and you see it all time. Most of my state is rural so outside and farm dogs are a common thing.

My parents' dog has to be outside when they aren't home. He has a bit of a destructive separation anxiety thing going on and is not a small dog. If they leave him in the house, he destroys everything, even breaks windows to get out and run. If they leave him out, he's super chill. He has a dog house that he goes in if it rains. Or on top of if he is feeling his inner Snoopy. lol

lizzyp9112 · June 2014

CoozieInMyPurse said:

lizabethc said:

@Coozieinmypurse... yes, I would say it is unusual to leave your dog outside when you are not home.

Wow! Really? That kind of blows my mind. It's a fenced yard. Plenty of water, shade, fans in summer, a warm spot in winter. He's a 90 lb dog and our 40 lb dog stays outside with him as well (but sleeps inside). The only dogs I would keep inside while not at home would be something under 15 lbs. And I truly doubt we will ever have one of those.

I saw your edit after I posted where you clarified there is plenty of water/cover/etc. This probably depends on where you live. We are in the city and that kind of thing would not fly (mostly because of the barking!).

MamaBina · June 2014

My confession: Sometimes I think almost all of my family members have the personality of a turd on a cupcake. And by sometimes I mean all the time.

CoozieInMyPurse · June 2014

fuzzylogic said:

CoozieInMyPurse said:

fuzzylogic said:

CoozieInMyPurse said:

I cannot wait until our oldest dog dies so that we can start fixing up up all the crap he's destroyed. We will have to replace the entire back door and frame, plus siding where he has chewed and scratched in his efforts to get inside when it storms.

Why is your dog outside when it's storming?

Is it unusual to keep dogs outside when you aren't home? He is old and kind of incontinent, so he stays outside when we aren't home and sleeps out there too. We live in a part of the country with frequent pop-up afternoon thunderstorms during the summer (and other parts of the year). So we aren't always home when a storm comes up to let him in. If we are, he comes in, obviously.

@CoozieInMyPurse

It's not exactly safe for them. They can eat things that can poison them, get injured (squirrels are real assholes), be stolen (I live in the city, though, and people actually do this, mainly for dog fighting baits), or be caught in inclement weather. Is there no shelter provided for him if he does get caught up in these frequent pop-up storms?

We crate our dog when we aren't home, unless the weather is going to be super-nice, which is all of five days of the year here, it seems. She's always a lot more stressed on those days when we leave her out, though, so leaving her in the crate is our best option. She just sleeps.

I do know plenty of people that leave their dogs out all day, every day, even when it's over 100 or under 30 and that I judge hardcore. Leaving them out when the weather is nice isn't as bad to me, but there is still a chance of something happening to them.

We had an old bassett hound named Sally when I was a kid. Our dogs were all outside dogs, but many were street rescues and we didn't have room in the house. Someone threw a poisoned/rancid piece of meat in our backyard, she ate it, and died. I will never leave a pet out all the time because of that.

I'm sorry to hear about your dog, but I've never had an experience like that. We live in a nice, safe area. I've never heard of anyone around here having an experience like that. He doesn't get stressed unless there is thunder, which he hates. In fact, my H got the dog after he showed up at his house following a thunderstorm. Couldn't find his owners. I feel comfortable leaving my dogs outside and that habit won't change.

lizzyp9112 · June 2014

@fuzzylogic, YES to crate training. We crate trained our two dogs (a 25ish pound Australian Shepherd mix and a 50 pound black lab mix) since they were little pups. The Aussie does just fine out of his crate and in our basement when we are gone, but the Lab mix loves his crate. Last night we were watching TV and he was napping in his crate with the door open

.

I love to see him feel so safe and comfortable in his crate!

countrygrl5533 · June 2014

fuzzylogic said:

Why don't more people crate train their dogs? It's not hard, it provides them a safe place, and they just sleep. My 75lb lab does just fine with it. My sister's 90lb greyhound and 70lb GSD mix do just fine with it.

Maybe you could provide a doggy door, at the very least?

My parents' dog destroyed multiple crates. It is better for him to be outside. But again, rural area, farm dog. A very, very common thing here. Wouldn't happen if they lived in a neighborhood.

beepity · June 2014

fuzzylogic said:

CoozieInMyPurse said:

fuzzylogic said:

CoozieInMyPurse said:

I cannot wait until our oldest dog dies so that we can start fixing up up all the crap he's destroyed. We will have to replace the entire back door and frame, plus siding where he has chewed and scratched in his efforts to get inside when it storms. We can't sell our house until he is gone and all that damage is repaired, which means that I have to live in the house my H bought with his ex for the foreseeable future. The dog is 13 or so years old. DH FINALLY made a vet appointment for tomorrow after putting it off for YEARS because he doesn't want bad news about the dog.

ETA I will be sad when the dog goes; he's a sweetie. But I'd love to have a door knob on the back door again (he's eaten through two).

Why is your dog outside when it's storming?

Is it unusual to keep dogs outside when you aren't home? He is old and kind of incontinent, so he stays outside when we aren't home and sleeps out there too. We live in a part of the country with frequent pop-up afternoon thunderstorms during the summer (and other parts of the year). So we aren't always home when a storm comes up to let him in. If we are, he comes in, obviously.

It's not exactly safe for them. They can eat things that can poison them, get injured (squirrels are real assholes), be stolen (I live in the city, though, and people actually do this, mainly for dog fighting baits), or be caught in inclement weather. Is there no shelter provided for him if he does get caught up in these frequent pop-up storms?

We crate our dog when we aren't home, unless the weather is going to be super-nice, which is all of five days of the year here, it seems. She's always a lot more stressed on those days when we leave her out, though, so leaving her in the crate is our best option. She just sleeps.

I do know plenty of people that leave their dogs out all day, every day, even when it's over 100 or under 30 and that I judge hardcore. Leaving them out when the weather is nice isn't as bad to me, but there is still a chance of something happening to them.

We had an old bassett hound named Sally when I was a kid. Our dogs were all outside dogs, but many were street rescues and we didn't have room in the house. Someone threw a poisoned/rancid piece of meat in our backyard, she ate it, and died. I will never leave a pet out all the time because of that.

All our dogs growing up were "outside only" dogs. They had fenced areas with a dog house and straw to stay warm in the winter (Western Michigan). Everyone in my extended family did the same. Yes, they got out. Yes, some were hit by cars and died. I consider myself a dog lover but to me they are "pets". Our dog now (my H and I together) is our first "inside" dog and I wouldn't leave him outside. I guess my FFFC is that although I love dogs I am not as "attached" as some people. I don't think there is anything wrong with having an outside dog as long as they have access to shelter/shade and fresh water. Even if they're "out" in a storm.

Edit: crappy iPad wall of text.

countrygrl5533 · June 2014

WhoCanItBeNow said:

countrygrl5533 said:

fuzzylogic said:

Why don't more people crate train their dogs? It's not hard, it provides them a safe place, and they just sleep. My 75lb lab does just fine with it. My sister's 90lb greyhound and 70lb GSD mix do just fine with it.

Maybe you could provide a doggy door, at the very least?

My parents' dog destroyed multiple crates. It is better for him to be outside. But again, rural area, farm dog. A very, very common thing here. Wouldn't happen if they lived in a neighborhood.

Good God, stop being fucking dense.

How is that dense? Outside dogs are a common occurrence here so just explaining that while crates are great, not every dog needs one.

holliberry28 · June 2014

I wish I was able to stick to one glass of wine last night, but no - ended up drinking the entire bottle or red paired with a large bag of Pirate's Booty! Now struggling at work

ToryKate · June 2014

wishiwaspreggo said:

I am one of those women who blames her foul temper on hormones X_X

To my credit, though, I usually recognize my flare ups and keep my thoughts to myself. I have severe progesterage since I'm back on suppositories and I was thisclose to going on a tirade on Facebook yesterday. My friend posted about getting a hermit crab from the beach for her kids but they killed it so she was going to go out and find a turtle. Like, a wild turtle.

I wrote this long comment shaming her for killing wildlife for her kid's entertainment and then when I reread it I decided I was overreacting and deleted before I posted.

I would have said something to her. It is sick to abduct and kill (intentionally or not) a wild animal just so your kid can be happy for 2.5 seconds. That makes me so ragey. I hate people like that. What message does that send to those kids? "your happiness, the same level of which could be attained by letting you watch an extra 5 minutes of TV, is more important the life of an animal"

BillyHorrible · June 2014

beepity said:

All our dogs growing up were "outside only" dogs. They had fenced areas with a dog house and straw to stay warm in the winter (Western Michigan). Everyone in my extended family did the same. Yes, they got out. Yes, some were hit by cars and died. I consider myself a dog lover but to me they are "pets". Our dog now (my H and I together) is our first "inside" dog and I wouldn't leave him outside. I guess my FFFC is that although I love dogs I am not as "attached" as some people. I don't think there is anything wrong with having an outside dog as long as they have access to shelter/shade and fresh water. Even if they're "out" in a storm.

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Wait, SOME were hit by cars and died? Like more than one? And that didn't convince you that keeping them outside was a bad idea? I don't think you can call yourself a dog lover. And frankly, it's clear you don't view them as "pets" either. More like wildlife. Deers and rabbits get hit by cars. Pets rarely do when they have responsible owners.

kelley72 · June 2014

BBnut why such a late start

since I tested negative, I bought a pack of cigs at lunch.. ugh now I feel sick bc I smoked three!

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DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests

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DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests

DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!

7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!

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