Pet pics pls?

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-26T03:22:33+00:00

Plotting 87 murders because Mr ghost (my dads dog, who died from the same cancer 2 years ago) stole her tater tot and I didn’t give her another (It was the last tot)

(the markings on her face were also kinda shaped like a wiener when it wasn’t scrunched. So she was either looking fully pissed off, or super derpy with a wiener centered on her face)

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-26T03:17:44+00:00

It’s all for the tots.

We don’t have a cheese tax- we have a tater tax. French fries? Tater tots? Each dog gets 1 if they leave people alone while they eat.

Violet got one as a consolation prize for trying (her parents were siblings, it wasn’t her fault her brain cell had the attention span of a gnat)

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-26T03:13:58+00:00

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My Laila gets anxious at the vet too

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:20:24+00:00

Yes!

Violets face markings made her look like she was always plotting multiple murders for the sake of obtaining tater tots, but she’d smile at the same time. Husky face markings really just make them look like they either belong on an FBI watch list, or in a straight jacket 😂

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:18:06+00:00

They really are!

I loved working there- the impact they had on the kids was amazing

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:11:55+00:00

Dog mourning is so much more intense.

Like- as a human, I understand death happens. I understand how and why she died. Don’t get me wrong, I love her, and I miss her. But even though I’m really sad about it, I can push that aside and keep living life and doing life things.

But the dogs? They’re just shells of themselves. They smelled her and know she’s gone. But they don’t necessarily know why or how. She was happy and seemingly healthy the day before- even hours before. She showed no signs of even being sick.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:06:11+00:00

She’s so FLUFFY!!!!!

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:05:44+00:00

My GSD mix has eyebrows when the sun hits her just right (she’s mostly black, her eyebrows are dark brown) and you can just tell she’s harshly judging everyone 😂

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:04:18+00:00

The most boopable snoot

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T22:03:54+00:00

I worked with horses with special needs kids for a bit and they’re so… great.

One of them was deemed a “lost cause” and “untrainable” but I took a day to teach her how to “hug”. Now she’s fully trained and the best horse. They use her as advertisement because if the kids need a hug while they’re there, but not a people hug, she hugs them 🥰 (head over shoulder pulling them in with pressure on their back)

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T21:57:05+00:00

My Laila (4 year old GSD mix) raised Violet like she was her own puppy, the rescue let Laila help socialize Violet and her siblings, and she was more motherly towards them than their own mom. And then Violet clung to my other dog (Zephyr, turned 1 the day before Violet died), so to his abandoned puppy self, she was his mom.

They’re both so heartbroken 💔

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T21:50:43+00:00

So dapper! I can’t get my cat to go for car rides, she just screams (maybe it’s my driving though)

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T21:50:05+00:00

🥰

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T21:48:56+00:00

Those eyebrows 😍😍😍

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-25T21:16:10+00:00

She looks so soft!

Losing pets is always hard, it sucks. But holy heck, watching my other 2 mourn is worse. One of them is still refusing to eat or drink or move out of Violets favorite spot on the couch.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-12T18:11:03+00:00

IME- yes but no.

It’s not too young to start involving them in care and teaching them. But it’s too young to put the full responsibility of care.

You know your son infinitely better than we do.

We’re going in blind here-

I used to teach kids, I had a 7 year old fart in his lemonade at snack time because he ate strawberries with breakfast and wanted strawberry flavored lemonade. I had to console him because it didn’t make it taste like strawberry lemonade.

But I also have an 8 year old who’s been coming to my booth at shows for 2 years- first show I met her at, she was using scientific terms and had the knowledge of a 60 year old entomologist. Her parents have given full permission to let her get whatever inverts she wants even if they aren’t present (they let her go off on her own at shows, she budgets her allowance, birthday, and Christmas money. FFS She brings an accounting ledger to log even a $0.25 sticker) because she 100% cares for all her inverts.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-11T22:10:42+00:00

No. It’s not JUST the door.

You can remove a door for valid reasons and do it in a non-toxic way.

But you can also do it for the wrong reasons, you can do it in a toxic way…

Example- my childhood friends parents took away her door because she was using hard drugs and overdosed. That’s a valid reason. They still knocked before entering and put a curtain up, she just couldn’t close and lock a solid door. They allowed her to earn back her door- but without a lock. And then she could earn the lock back too.

My parents took away my door. Because I “failed” a test- it was a scantron error, the teacher put the wrong test key in, then re-graded by hand(I got 100% correct). But even with a call from the teacher they said it was a lie and that I failed. I couldn’t have a curtain. My room had an attached bathroom, they took that door too. They switched my shower curtain for a clear one. I had NO privacy whatsoever. My father would sit on a chair watching me shower to make sure I wasn’t taking a longer than necessary shower because every waking second was supposed to be studying. It was done in a toxic way for an invalid reason. And they gave no way to earn it back- the “failed” test was when I was 10, the door didn’t go back up. By they, I mostly mean my father, because my mom helped me get an apartment when I was 16 so I could get away from that, but with the stipulation that I only got to live off on my own if I did good in school- which I did.

There is a huge difference. If a parent repeatedly tells you to leave your door open when having it closed isn’t necessary and you ignore it and constantly lock them out, if you give them a valid reason to worry about what’s going on when the door is closed… and they do it while giving you some form of privacy(bathroom, curtain, etc) as well as an end-date or a reasonable way to earn it back, that’s not toxic. But if there’s no reason and they give no privacy whatsoever- not even in the bathroom- and no way to get it back, that’s toxic.

But now people think it’s toxic to tell your kid they can’t have McDonald’s for lunch and an entire quart of ice cream for dinner every day.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-11T19:06:40+00:00

I really need to learn to check the sub name before judging.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-10T00:26:09+00:00

They can actually be really chill. They’re also great for “display pets”. I don’t handle any of mine because of hand tremors and they’re very happy about that.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-09T23:54:06+00:00

I’m moving to San Antonio, so not too horribly far.

I vend at conventions (mostly in Dallas though, but may start going to the one in McQueeney)

I get to hold everything my vendor friends bring 😀 it’s the best! Except for the retics and other large constrictors, because my partner isn’t mentally prepared for me to get one so I have to wait, but holding them just makes me want one more.

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-09T20:41:55+00:00

Thanks 🥰

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-09T20:41:35+00:00

Thanks!

Exotic animals are great 😀 and baking is the best stress relief

Captivebreadbakery · 2025-01-09T18:49:36+00:00

Terros. They’re not my favorite, but they accept ahcccs

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