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Please tell me all teenagers are this stupid and inconsiderate

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Submitted by Redredwine on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 3:14pm

I have five fur-babies. Cats and dogs. They are not just 'mine' but everyone's...there's enough for one fur-baby per person in the house. That's a lot of people, right?

Then why am I the only one to remember to take care of them?

Every now and then I specifically ask a skid or my own kid (all teens) to take care of the pets...either to just make sure to let out the dog (and, apparently, I have to tell them to let the dog back in, too) or to do that and feed everyone. It's like 5 minutes of effort. THEY NEVER REMEMBER TO DO IT. (DH is almost as bad as the skids/kid.) I remind, I ask, I even explain why it's necessary (maybe I'm working late, maybe I have an appointment after work). I check with them. I leave them a text. Nothing. It's at least 40 minutes of running around to go home to do it.

WTF? Are they that self-centered and forgetful that when all five animals come running up to them when they get home from school that it doesn't trigger a single GD thing in their head about taking care of the pets? How the f-ing lazy can you be? Yesterday I specifically asked my kid to do it. He did not. I had to be somewhere so I had to leave work early. NOT GOOD. Boy did I give him the business.

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Submitted by NoWireCoatHanga... on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 3:27pm

My SD15 as much as i dislike her is super good with animals. She always walks and feeds the dog and gives him lots of care and attention when at our home.

I am a big animal lover. My 1st grader got a hamster at her dad's house and she told me it died because no one remembered to feed or water it. I was HORRIFIED. It didn't happen at my house but I lectured her so hard and was so mad that that poor helpless animal was stuck in a cage with no one to water it and how it must feel to die to thirst that she cried and cried and I didn't care. I won't let her have one at my house .

My 7 year old's dad got her another hamster for Christmas. Or maybe its a gerbil. Anyway, its names is Gibbles and you better damn well believe she feeds and waters and cleans its cage at her dad's house now after the lecture I gave her. We went out of town over Spring Break and she called her dad every night to make sure he or SM was feeding and watering Gibbles.

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Submitted by EvilAngel on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 3:29pm

Yes they are all that way. Thunderfoot can't even remember to put her hamster back in its cage after she puts it in the excersice ball. I would dare ask her to watch or care for my beloved Buckwheat!

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Submitted by mommy0104 on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 3:30pm

Yeah, pretty sure all teenagers are all either stupid, inconsiderate or both! I, myself, have a 14 year old bio-son and have come to understand why so many people use the phrase "teenagers suck"..now, he's not a horrible kid...but he has morphed from a sweet compassionate little guy, to a mouthy know-it-all who thinks I'm the dumbest person alive..and I was a stupid inconsiderate teenager from time to time..I think it's just something in the brain that triggers the moment they turn 13 lol Smile

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Submitted by fedupstep on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 3:41pm

I didn't even have to read your blog...only the title...to answer Yes, they are. Smile

This is exactly the reason we don't have any pets. I know that I will be the one that will do everything after the novelity of it wears off.

SD16 has been begging for us to get a pet. She has 5 at BM's that she complains about taking care of. DH has said one day he will just come home with one. I told him if he does, either him or the animal will be going back to the pound.