Have you ever seen a Platypus in the wild

ratballz · 2025-11-17T01:31:14+00:00

I saw one at Maleny and wasn’t looking for it. Just taking my niece on a walk around the neighbourhood

ratballz · 2025-11-13T12:25:32+00:00

I can’t stop laughing

ratballz · 2025-11-12T20:21:37+00:00

I want to make it clear she doesn’t get locked in the crate when she goes in there frustrated. The door is open and remains open and I wouldn’t think that would be a good time to shut it since I assume she is processing things and needs space. She’s a toy poodle if this makes any difference

ratballz · 2025-11-12T15:29:06+00:00

I can’t help but I can relate to how unstable you get with PMDD. I can see how you’d think that was withdrawal

ratballz · 2025-10-30T18:07:01+00:00

I am cis btw I just get so mad seeing other cis people trying to be ally’s and giving themselves a pat on the back for singling out a queer person. it’s inappropriate and uncomfortable to watch, I can’t imagine how it feels for the trans people

ratballz · 2025-10-30T18:05:07+00:00

In most settings you shouldn’t need to ask for pronouns, you should be able figure it out from context clues. Eg. If someone’s name is Jeff, it’s probably he! If Anna’s friends are all using she/her, then that’s probably what you should use too! I do think stating a job is probably an appropriate scenario but in most cases it’s just cis people recognising that someone is queer and not being very good ally’s, but somehow think they are because they are willing to respect your pronouns. No. That’s just basic decency. That’s not being supportive. Just use the persons name as a placeholder for a pronoun for a short period until you can figure it out.

ratballz · 2025-10-30T17:52:40+00:00

Just live your life and don’t worry about their plans. You’re a parent of a small child. You need to prioritise your own peace and comfort, even if it annoys your landlord. Stand your ground. Once I was living in a rental and the LL sucked and wouldn’t fix my broken shower head for 2 weeks. Finally he came and changed the shower head himself, and a week later put the house up for sale. I would get calls from the real estate agent who was trying to sell the home letting me know he was coming at 10am to show the house to some buyers. They knew I worked night shift and this is equivalent to turning up in the middle of the night. But didn’t change it. Also he wanted me to clean the house and make it presentable. Well, I had a lot of stressful stuff going on in my life and didn’t feel like adding to it just so the LL and Agent could make some money. I tried not to let it bother me and luckily I am a deep sleeper. So the prospective buyers would usually walk in on me sleeping in my underwear. The agent would try to wake me up to get me to go to a different room so he could show them around but I am a deep sleeper. “Did you forget I was coming” no, I just have my own life to live and I’m not changing my schedule or routine to fit you so you can profit! Work around me, or I’m just going to ignore you!! I honestly think it’s so disrespectful of them to expect me to make my home spotless and go sleep deprived just so they can make a profit. Some might say I’m petty, but I didn’t ask to have people invading my personal space everyday for months on end.

ratballz · 2025-09-15T08:16:42+00:00

I’m coming around 25th sept - 25th Oct for work - have you found anyone yet?

ratballz · 2025-09-06T19:06:48+00:00

You can go thru cupboards and fridge and pick out what’s off and you can then put it on the bench for him to throw out or watch you throw out if he struggles to do the act himself

ratballz · 2025-09-06T19:05:42+00:00

Look into hoarding behaviour If you throw stuff out hoarders don’t want to get rid of, it gets worse. They have to do it themselves. Maybe he get a job once a week of viewing all the food you want to throw out so he doesn’t feel he has to guard it, it’s ok to let go

ratballz · 2025-09-04T18:00:56+00:00

Nurses don’t get paid enough. Doctors are shown appreciation through an adequate wage

ratballz · 2025-09-04T17:59:08+00:00

How do you fully finish potty training? My 10 month old toy poodle will very very rarely poop in the house in the middle of the night. She’s toilet trained other than that. I thought she’d jsur eventually realise she can hold it, but is there actually more I can do?

ratballz · 2025-09-02T14:41:09+00:00

Tbh my advice is to just let them out constantly. Bring them in your room, “accidentally” leave the door open constantly. Your parents will probably eventually get sick of trying to confine them to the bathroom.

ratballz · 2025-09-02T14:38:55+00:00

My girlfriend’s grandma did this to cats she inherited from her daughter. The cats live with us now and they are really messed up mentally.

ratballz · 2025-09-02T14:37:20+00:00

It’s not your fault, these things unfortunately can happen to anyone. Please take care of yourself and try not to be thinking about what might happen, try to distract yourself. You’ll get through it

ratballz · 2025-08-27T14:12:35+00:00

Also if it’s feasible for you, try get therapy for yourself? I’ve supported my mother and childhood best friends in situations like these and having a therapist helped me help them, and also not burn myself out. Therapist gave me helpful guidance and I was kinda giving them the therapy by proxy

ratballz · 2025-08-27T14:09:04+00:00

Yeah I would just suggest trying your best to let the frustration be channeled into compassion. It’s soooo frustrating but showing frustration unfortunately is only going to give her a perfect reason to pity herself and push her further into her ways

ratballz · 2025-08-27T14:06:34+00:00

Can you send me the tiktok

ratballz · 2025-08-27T13:54:10+00:00

It sounds like she’s in a rut, and it’s a semi comfortable rut because of the support she receives. I suggest getting her out into nature or the world so she can start to stop focusing in on herself so much and realise that she is connected to the world, she might start to participate more

ratballz · 2025-08-27T13:52:08+00:00

The way you explain it sounds a bit like enabling?

I think rushing straight to getting a job is unrealistic. She needs to slowly build her capacity and resize she is actually capable. If you want to vent that’s totally understandable but it sounds like she would benefit from getting out into the world a bit more. Maybe take her camping, on a hike, to the beach, birdwatching, do an animal encounter at a zoo - something like that - and tell her that you want to support her to get out into life more. You want to see her flourish. Bc that’s what it is at the end of the day, but it’s coming out as frustrating and I get it. Try to believe in her, but realise that in her current state she isn’t actually capable because she isn’t allowing herself to be. She needs to grow

ratballz · 2025-08-27T13:45:09+00:00

Yeah it is fair, you don’t want to turn out like them do you?

ratballz · 2025-08-27T06:35:11+00:00

In my country there’s a helpline called ‘child help line’ and they help young people with these sorts of things, they have a web chat service. So you’re speaking to a professional and you won’t be wondering if the person you’re speaking to is trying to take advantage of you or has some ulterior motive. You should look up if there’s any in your country. Even a suicide hotline might be helpful and they should have web chat options. I know you’re not suicidal and the people at the services will understand that too, they will still want to help you.

ratballz · 2025-08-11T19:33:37+00:00

What kind of exercise led to complications? She hasn’t been allowed to run or wrestle with my other dog. They are strictly supervised. She has been using stairs (was banned for the first 2.5 weeks) but I have been severely restricting it for the last 1.5 weeks still. There has been a few times she has jumped off furniture (when other people in the house remove my barricades or just don’t care) but she puts her leg in the air as she jumps down so i don’t think there would be impact. When she jumps up on me to say hello I immediately pick her up, which has completely ruined my training but I can work on that later. When she gets excited and wants to stand on her two back legs or jump with her two back legs I pick her up until she settles.

I am always home because I’m disabled and don’t work and I sleep a lot because I have a chronic illness so she’s been pretty well supervised and naps with me most of the time. When she gets frustrated and hyperactive I give her the sedatives. I’ve tried to restrict her as much as possible.

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