ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social

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Dogs don't have alphas; Cats aren't sociopaths.
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Freedom ain't NOT free.
Occupied Dakota Territory/ Minneapolis
(she/her; autistic)
Special interests: 🐘🐶🐱 animal behavior, anthrozoology, anthropology, ethnology, & being a bummer about cute animal videos.
I'm a professional, accredited, force‐free, R+ pet trainer using a gift economy where folks give any amount at any time.
Profile pic: illustration of me, my cat, & pitbull by Ethan Kocak.
Header: "The Wounded Table", Frida Kahlo

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18+ Frances_Larina, to random
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Kids, remember this the next time you decide to follow an influencer-fueled trend. Know what changed? Spoiler: having kids makes your life more complicated and chaotic and it's not worth the anxiety to try to stay image-perfect.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/30/how-marie-kondo-changed-her-mind-about-mess

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@Frances_Larina I remember trying to teach my kids to declutter using her method but it all went out the window because everything brought them joy-- even literal trash on the floor.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to animals

He's asleep.

#DogsOfMastodon #FediDogs

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ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random

Remembering how I got fired from my daycare job in my early 20s for being sick too much but also because I didn't act neurotypically with the kids. The kids liked me most, so what does that tell you?

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

I didn't fuckin' micromanage their play.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

Kids don't like anything but parallel play anyway at the age I had, which was my style with them.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@0batty_b🙏

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random

Antique clothes are so small not because people were smaller but because the extra small clothes were worn less so they survived.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@enby_of_the_apocalypse yeah, they were smaller that long ago. I was talking about antique clothing in antique shops that is like 100 years old. I learned it from a professional theater costume designer.

riotmuffin, to random
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At what age does a kid cease to be a “baby”? Pls explain your answer

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@riotmuffin never. They are always someone's baby.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@riotmuffin but in the kid biz, yours is called a "waddler". Infant then baby then waddler then toddler rooms at daycares...

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@riotmuffin in my short stint as a daycare worker, I got hand foot and mouth disease repeatedly (my fingernails would fall off from it), and I learned about "waddlers". I had the waddler room.

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Someone I know is having a baby, and I ran into their spouse. We were talking about how the due date is close, and I said I recommended something like mealtrain dot com (preferably something less corporate) where friends and family can sign up to drop off meals on your porch or sign up for other things/chores without disturbing the new parents. He looked at me, perplexed, and asked why they wouldn't be able to cook their meals after having a baby.

Oh.

Oh, no.

Nevermind. Good luck, dude!

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@cam and no parental leave. He took personal vacation for a few weeks, and I quit my job because they gave me no time off and no leave outside of the mandatory federal unpaid disability protection for 6 weeks.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@jargoggles I cried after ordering pizza for the millionth time. This was before door dash and our new age of gig stuff.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

Just in case people are wondering,
Babies and people suck at breastfeeding at first so it's like 45 min feeding, 45 min not, alternating. Then you might have to soak injuries in the tub 15 min every hour. You are probably changing a diaper every hour. Your pets are psycho. The one not feeding or soaking does all chores and cooking. You have 10x as much laundry at best. Sheets/towels are fucked daily. Maybe you do formula and have to prep all that nonstop. Your hands are full with a screaming baby while the spouse is soaking and sleeping and more. We literally didn't have time to shower. We stunk.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

And everyone stops by nonstop.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

I saved sheets by sleeping on doggie pee pads

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@autolycos that looks good!

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

And I don't know about y'all but I was breastfeeding and was like the cookie monster with food

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

Oh, and then there's a toddler who wants attention, too.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@paninid Yeah! With our second baby we were like, "oh yeah, people forget or else they would never do it again!"

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs,

@paninid some comedian I heard once described having babies as being like drowning but then someone throws you a baby.

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