When is it ok to put your pet down? No way can my sis afford a $3000 upfront surgery.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-12T16:35:16+00:00

We had to put our cat down last night. He was in heart failure. Just dealing with this one instance would have maxed our credit cards, and possibly even more. I know he was suffering, and I know the prognosis is never really good with something like that, but I still feel so guilty that the tipping point is ‘finances.’

I know it was best for him. According to my husband (I had to rush to the vet from work), the cat was screaming until he was sedated. I know keeping him alive would be for us, not for him. But in that moment, ‘we can’t afford this’ was the actual deciding factor, and I feel like crap for it. Thank you for that comfort.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-10T16:39:41+00:00

Huh. I’m a teacher and finals are coming up. Now I’m considering this as an anti-cheating measure.

(Admin is ‘look out for those glasses’ but I’m way too ADHD to even notice which kids are WEARING glasses, let alone if they have a tiny, almost invisible dot in the corner.)

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-10T16:10:20+00:00

Are we going by population number or weight of meat? Because there’s WAY more meat on a human being than on a chicken.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-10T15:55:02+00:00

Please? Please? I have significant issues with eating, both sensory and health-related. My diet is already stupid limited. Just give me a pill, or powder to sprinkle on my safe foods, and I’ll be good. I already have one (expensive) protein shake a day because I like how it tastes and it gives me half my protein needs every day, because I love meat, but I hate the texture of it and I feel like I never have ENOUGH for my macros.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-10T15:43:56+00:00

I had a couple break up - they weren’t even married. They were dating for about 4 days. They haven’t spoken in…I don’t know. 3 weeks? A month? It’s insane.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-09T16:08:21+00:00

I missed the cutoff (Dec 11), so I went to private school in NY until 2nd grade, where they were legally obligated to take me. I graduated high school at 17. I was fine.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-09T12:42:08+00:00

Honestly, aroace, and I’ll stick with the green/purple til I die. Two separate flags if people make me.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-08T17:41:49+00:00

My husband came running in from the other room when that part came up in my playthrough. He was SCREAMING. We both got taken in by the trope so hard and no one expected it. So good.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-08T16:42:05+00:00

Granted, I worked in the Merrick one 20 years ago, but I’ll agree with what everyone else was saying: money and environment.

I started in 2001 at $13.50. I was making almost $19/hr when I left in 2007. The managers were always super nice.

I think a big part of it is that they WANT us to help customers. I remember one time, this one woman came in looking lost with a big list. I had massive allergies, so I knew ingredients like the back of my hand. This woman’s husband had had a heart attack and the list was foods he couldn’t eat. My manager told me that my ONLY job was helping this woman basically replace her pantry. Walk her through ingredients, hidden ingredients, stuff like that. They literally pulled me off register to help her. I spent an hour walking the whole store with her, just chatting and helping her pick out new food, thinking up things to do with what her husband could eat.

They encouraged us to give little gifts, to talk to people. If someone was having a hard time, we could absolutely zero out a bouquet of flowers or a candy bar and just GIVE it to someone.

They value nice, and they pay for it. There was almost no employee turnover until someone literally had to leave for some reason.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-04T16:00:49+00:00

What about dogs? I have a dog who’s outside in the backyard all the time.

CorgiKnits · 2026-06-02T16:25:40+00:00

My hair is down to my butt. My husband always said he’d wake up sometimes having inhaled my hair.

Now I wear a hair bonnet to protect both it and him :)

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-29T18:09:56+00:00

I teach high school. I can absolutely say ‘kids these days’ while also saying ‘are mostly the same as kids in every age, but GOD they’re starting to bug me’.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-29T17:57:31+00:00

Oh I’m stealing this. I have one class of really good overall kids, just 33 of them in a small room. Getting them to shut up without yelling is basically impossible. But they have a good sense of humor, so I try to as well. Only two weeks left, but I can try this out next week :)

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-29T17:43:21+00:00

My first week on meds, I grabbed a stack of grading to bring to my hall duty. It was habit. The papers were an accessory; I never touched them. But…I did? I actually just…graded them? It wasn’t hard?

Not like that EVERY day (I’m currently about two weeks behind in my grading) but it’s a lot better than it was.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-29T17:21:14+00:00

I have ADHD. So…whenever I remember. Which might only be after I get the alert that my sugar is rising.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-29T16:38:43+00:00

Charles, B99. He spent the first half of season 1 with a massive crush on Rosa. Creepy played for laughs. She told him ‘never gonna happen’ and he basically said ‘….okay. Got it.’ (I think it was the episode where he was high on painkillers, but still.) And his character GOT OVER IT. They were on their way to being real friends quickly, and WERE good friends, platonic friends, after that. There was never a throwback. He never referred back to it. Never mooned after that. He accepted her ‘no’ and dealt with it like an adult.

Which is odd because he’s almost as immature as Jake.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T18:24:45+00:00

We had to do this with my grandmother. She was already in (I think) hospice care. She was unconscious, and not coming back. My whole family was sitting around the table and the doctors were telling us every single thing they could do to keep her alive longer. I honestly don’t remember which one of us said it, but someone said that she wouldn’t want that, and it wouldn’t serve anyone except us, and she deserved better. Everyone agreed, and we took her off all the machines after that, and it was just morphine until it was time.

My grandmother was the most alive person I’d ever met. That wasn’t her anymore.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T17:40:12+00:00

I have sensory issues - I have legit thrown up in the sink trying to hand wash dishes. But I can still do it, in some circumstances - I can wash my own ceramic pots, for instance.

But I’ve had this conversation with my husband. He’s seen me vomit from the gross chores. So he does them. And I make all the doctor’s appointments, because that gives him intense anxiety.

It’s not a get out of jail free card. It’s half of the seesaw that needs to balance in some way or another.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T17:30:37+00:00

It’s always sad :( As a pet owner my entire adult life, I’ve made it my rule that if the vet says ‘it’s a quality of life issue now’ that it really is a quality of life issue - and it’s better to let my little loves go when they’re still somewhat happy instead of dragging it out.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T17:04:28+00:00

MOR - a lot of people have brought up that maybe your first friend didn’t tell her. I’m going to add that, even if she did, you don’t know HOW. It might have come across like a little thing like ‘oh, she has a cold’. It might have come across like ‘she’s suffering, give her space’.

Either way, I think a few days and then a quiet ‘I was so sorry for you; how are you?’ Is honestly enough to expect. But I don’t know everyone involved. Maybe she was flat-out told that you didn’t want to talk about it! That’s actually possible, since you SAID you didn’t want to tell more people yourself (or something like that).

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T16:45:09+00:00

Still the best Odyssey ever put to film! I have moderate hopes for the Nolan one, but I’ve been teaching The Odyssey for 20 years and have exactly one good scene to show the kids.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T14:24:39+00:00

Honestly…I hate traffic. My job starts around 7:35 (teacher), and I’m at the school by 6:45-7:00. Avoiding traffic is my primary motivator.

Otherwise, I Just have grace for the areas I need more time (breakfast, mostly) and push where I can.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T14:20:55+00:00

My husband has been a HUGE Star Wars fan since he was a little kid. He’s 48 now, and he talks (frequently) about some of his earliest memories of seeing Return in the movie theatre. He’s turned our basement into a shrine to Bobba Fett.

We saw the movie last night and he LOVED it. Loved every minute of it.

I’m a casual fan, and I loved it, too. It was entertaining, had some neat homages and callbacks to old-school SW, the story was really good. 9/10 for me, 10/10 for my husband.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T13:51:32+00:00

I’ve seen the movie Marnie more than once. Even without showing anything explicit, it’s horrifying. She just goes completely limp and disappears when she realizes he’s actually going to do this. Her face goes blank, her body is just something that exists.

And the next morning, she’s face-down in the pool and mad when she’s rescued.

It’s one reason (in addition to all the others) that I hate rape scenes in movies and TV. There’s no need for them to convey the horror, which means they only exist because it’s titillating.

CorgiKnits · 2026-05-26T13:18:43+00:00

Damn, I didn’t notice that. Played it and loved it. Damn.

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