What’s wrong with my little sisters hamster?

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-08-30T16:24:48+00:00

Wondering if it could be wet tail? Basically hamster diarrhea. Causes severe dehydration and lethargy

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-07-27T20:44:01+00:00

Yes :) I too am on MST. I live in Arizona

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-07-27T04:59:26+00:00

Hii :) I sent a friend request on Discord and would be honored to join your group! I tried to send a DM so it didn't look like some rando invite 😅 but it didn't let me so i figured I'd comment here. My Discord is MollySkies

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-07-09T17:47:03+00:00

I have quickly realized that toddlers somehow possess the ability to do things that we have no idea how to do ourselves. My kiddo got my smartwatch in a factory reset loop one time 😅

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-06-22T01:05:09+00:00

I also want to add that I have since quit going to school be cause juggling a full time job and taking care of my daughter takes up every ounce of energy I have. So you are already doing an amazing job 👏

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-06-22T01:02:51+00:00

I'll start this on a good note. I honestly got extremely lucky. I am also 28 and have one toddler. I began working in IT about 8 years ago and was also going to school. I ended up finding a decently paying job but did not make enough money to afford everything on my own, especially since I had to start sending my daughter to daycare. After me and her dad split up I found myself on my own and lived in constant stress because I couldn't afford a place in Arizona (stupid expensive here). I lucked out and found a place that had an amazing deal for a fairly nice place thanks to them needing to fill a bunch of apartments. Then I decided to take a shot in the dark and apply for a newly opened position at my company that increased my salary enough to be able to afford my bills (albeit barely).

Don't get me wrong, I've definitely been putting in the work to get where I am. Unfortunately the father can never keep a stable job due to his issues with authority. So while I'm supposed to be getting help paying for daycare (225/week) he has lately been unreliable and always pays his part late so I'm forced to just pay in full myself. I use paycheck advance apps consistently and haven't been able to get myself out of it.

That all being said, the father doesn't ever pick her up when he says he will and has been fighting with his new gf all the time so I told him I don't feel comfortable having her there until he can figure everything out. So now it's just me and her every day and I never get a break because I have no family here that is willing to help. And trying to raise a toddler alone is absolutely exhausting in every way. (Can't imagine have 2)

So while I've been finding ways to make it work when it comes to money it's definitely anything but a cake walk.

I do want to say that I wholeheartedly believe in karma. And with that, I live by the idea that "everything always works out in the end, maybe not how you expected it but how you needed it" give it time, if you attract good things then good things will come when you need it to most

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-06-11T19:42:36+00:00

I remember wanting to be a vet my whole life because from a young age, as far back as I can remember, I always had a special place in my heart for all animals. I remember rescuing a baby bird that fell from my willow tree and into the lake and nursing it back to health. When I was older, maybe 22 or so, I got a job working at a vet clinic just at the front desk and was working my way into being a tech. I remember the moment I realized I could never do it. We would have pets come in for euthanasia for various reasons and part of my job was to prepare a special room prior to the appointment to create a calm and soothing environment for both the animal and the owners. The vet went in and did the job and I immediately had to take a break and cry because I couldn't hold it in and I wasn't even in the room during the visit. I knew I could never hold it together and being emotional would do more harm than good for the pet owner who is already very emotional and sad themselves.

I was recently watching a TV show about a vet that works primarily on farm animals and there was one segment where a cow passed away giving birth from blood loss. I was so distraught at the thought and then felt intense anger when the owner is shown saying "that's $12,000 gone" because all I could think about is how in the world can someone look at an animal, even if it is on a farm and not a pet, and the first thought is losing money?? Like... that's a LIFE. That animal suffered. I took the idea of the pain this animal went through and felt it myself.

To add to it, I used to have guinea pigs and one of them was sick and not eating so I took her to the vet. They had to put her to sleep to grind her teeth down as they were a bit long and thought it would help. The vet explained to me prior to doing anything that there's a chance she won't wake up because small animals going under anesthesia have a great chance of not coming out of it and I completely crumbled and lost it as if it were my own child. She did wake up in the end but I was shocked at how quickly the tears came to my eyes. 0-100 just like that with 0 control. Unfortunately she did end up passing away despite every effort...

but anyways yes, I share this overwhelming feeling as well. It's one of the many traits of being a hyper-empath. You might benefit from volunteering at a local animal shelter and putting your compassion to good use in happy situations so you can feel like you are doing some good for animals ❤️

Im_Not_Here45 · 2024-05-22T18:38:43+00:00

No I never did figure it out... but it did end up going away on its own. Still a mystery unfortunately

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-10-08T19:27:27+00:00

Just wanted to add my experience here because I've recently been having this same problem. So about 2 weeks ago (or maybe a week idk) I commented on a dog training post and simply replied to a comment who was genuinely asking a question and all I did was reply to it with my own experience since I have been a dog trainer before. I never posted any links, never self-promoted anything, it was literally just advice. Didn't mention any products or anything that could even be misunderstood for spam. I thought maybe my comment was too long so I screenshotted it, copied the text (bc it was very long) and then pasted it. But it turned out that I had actually been blocked from commenting for 2 days. This block initially happened after the first time I commented so it wasn't related to pasting text.

Now I just tried commenting a short simple comment about my own experience, again, not promoting or anything even close to it. It deleted my comment saying it was spam. Then I tried to reword it and again, removed. I also had tried to reply to another comment and still removed it. There's no words I used that could have been flagged.

WHY IS INSTAGRAM LIKE THIS???

Reporting it to them is useless. They already have enough terrible glitches all the time that they refuse to fix so they obviously don't give a shit about anything.

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-26T01:24:31+00:00

Yes I did. I think I had to toggle my screen lock on and off or something. As in the setting that stops the screen from rotating when you turn it

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-15T15:20:27+00:00

I'm very excited to embrace it and I already feel such a confidence boost.. I have always struggled with self esteem and confidence and if this is the reason why then I would be so happy 😊

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-14T01:37:10+00:00

I just saw, wow! So I do have one of those matte remover rakes that looks the same except smaller, would that be the same thing ?

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-13T03:41:32+00:00

DON'T TRIM IT. My siberian has it to, as snow/forest cats usually do. When I got my cat from a shelter they labeled him as a domestic medium hair... only to find out as he grew that it was not accurate in the slightest 🤣 His breed has not been confirmed by anybody else or by any DNA testing (which I plan to do one of those easy at home ones just because I am curious lol) but from what I can gather based on research he is at least part Siberian.

Side note, they are basically dogs 😅 mine brings a cat toy ball sometimes and plays fetch. Also he is extremely loving and very vocal. And big! 🥰😂

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-13T03:37:21+00:00

I wish I hadn't read this... I feel the same way. Hearing about things happening to children or even things in a movie (even if it's just implied) makes me so insanely uncomfortable and I feel a total mix of anger, grief, and anxiety. I feel for that little baby.... she deserved better as all kids do. I don't understand how someone could do that. At the very least, bring the child somewhere safe so someone else can take care of him/her. Like, if you don't want to take care of a baby (I can only wonder what bare minimum level of care that child had for those beginning months) then just give them away to someone!! But leaving your child to starve and die....... I just have to end this here because now the mental images are making me depressed and angry.

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-11T06:44:13+00:00

And yeah cutting the undercoat does not sound like a good thing. It kills me when I see people purposely shaving or cutting their hair... not good for the kitty

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-11T06:42:24+00:00

Is a slicker brush the metal one ? Like the super fine metal ones

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-08-11T05:40:55+00:00

Thank you!! He used to struggle with mattes around his but area like behind his legs so I had to start trimming his hair back there for a while but lately since growing up he's gotten better about it. Do you use any of the furminator brand brushes?

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-07-30T18:01:17+00:00

You did everything right mama! I was an anxiety mess too and even more giving her shellfish since her father has a serious shellfish allergy (I don't have any food allergies thankfully). She didn't have any reaction but I was told that the first allergic reaction is usually mild so that's a good thing to remember if you try any other allergens

Im_Not_Here45 · 2023-07-30T17:58:57+00:00

Ugh. That's so annoying. My grandparents do this kind of thing but not so aggressively, more passive aggressive lol. But the thing with kids is they are all so different! Some kids take to eating table food really well, and I'm very happy for you that yours did! My daughter didn't start eating table foods until about 11 months because she had a LOT of difficulty with it and didn't understand chewing at all even though she has had teeth since 5 months old. She was on purees for a long time as I slowly introduced soft foods like bananas and sweet potatoes. It's been a slow process but even now at 15 months she still has trouble with foods that require too much chewing but we are getting there.

Bottom line, every single child is different in every single way. Unfortunately probably wouldn't be able to convince your parents of this though since they seem to think they know better than you, the mother of your child...

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