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That's not very healthy... I'm a bit concerned. I like you, and I'm not judging you or your family, but dog poop is nasty, toxic stuff and you should probably make an effort to house train the dogs before your health is damaged. You could get very sick living with poop caked everywhere.

See they their dogs and I can’t touch them cause germs and they don’t listen to me. My mom hardly leaves her chair due to her illness, my sister works multiple jobs. They really shouldn’t have done more then two dogs. I worry we end up with this puppy staying too the last one they kept due to not actively trying to sell him and they’ve seemed to stop trying to sell this one too. Once they get fully grown people won’t want them. Since they no longer get to experience the puppy phase.
It’s not cakes just randomly all over the hall way leading to my sisters room is the worse. She walks bare feet too >.< only the Mom dog is kinda trained. The boys go out and play then come back in and poop.
We’ve gotten into lots of fIghts about the dogs and poop. They alway like we don’t judge you on buying guns or video games but I’m like but those are living things. My things won’t poop, pee or feel neglected. It’s why I never bought a dog myself. Funny enough they wouldn’t let me get a cat. One of their cats likes me though, so atleast there’s that. Short of moving out which would be family ending and probably leave me homeless as well as them and end up with the animals having to be put down i dont know what to do.
My opinion doesn’t matter to them. My moms an animal collector she gets animals then gets bored of them. Like her turtle.
To make matters worse currently half are kept in kennel half the time cause the two females are in heat so the males are fighting each other viciously. I just hide in my tiny messy room

Janitors clean the bathrooms . I can not and will not clean bathrooms and so I can’t be a janitor. The ones at more work orknalso clean vomit both human and dog, poop both human and dog, they have to do other nasty things too. All janitors have to do nasty things.
I cleaned for a while during summer at the university and the things the jantotold is about that they had to clean on a daily basic were horrific. God bless them i dont know how hey do it.

My room is clean if germs it’s just cluttered with clothes and blankets as well as stuff that I have no where to store it besides in boxes in my chest. I have a box of important items, box of shave stuff, box of coins etc

I’ve tried working I tried losing wieght a struggling battle when people like you depress me cause me to over eat.
That’s about all I can do. Why can’t you accept not everyone can be middle class income not everyone can handl full time work.

You clearly have no respect for the ops thread

Could you get help finding better housing? No disrespect, but I think you need help. I don't know much about your situation, but could you get supported housing? I lived in supported accommodation for a while, it was good for me and gave me a bit of independence.

To get housIng takes years. I tried once to get it so I could move if I ever needed to but it caused a huge fight. So if I moved out it’d be 2-5 years before I’d get housing aid and they not accepting applications currently.
I could not afford to rent a place alone in my $700 income without housing aid most places for a single apartment cost $700 alone.

Not all cleaning jobs require cleaning bathrooms. Construction site cleanup, window washing, pressure washing etc etc are all cleaning jobs that don't require cleaning bathrooms ever. There's pretty good job security in cleaning, too. Everything has to get cleaned regularly. There are job options w/ plenty of relatively easy solo work cleaning that doesn't require cleaning bathrooms or dishes.

Your room is not clean if it has dog excrement all over the floor. Simple fact. Just for the record, my room (and bathroom) gets cluttered/dusty as I don't keep on top of that type of cleaning as I should but it's cleaner than poo on the floor clean that's for sure. I let my room/bathroom/car get dirty, but I am extremely hygienic when it comes to myself. Anyways, my point is, I'm not a perfect cleaner by a long shot so can relate to letting a room get messy.. but there is no way you can call a room with faeces on the floor clean. None. Zero. It's not clean and it's not free from germs. It's literally unhealthy, as someone else pointed out.

So keep trying to get healthier. Getting healthier doesn't happen by quitting dieting & exercising.

It's not possible for me, or anyone else for that matter, to depress you. Only your thoughts can make you feel depressed. If you're thinking negative depressive thoughts in reaction to my posts, those are your thoughts & your emotions - I didn't put them in your head. You could read my self improvement posts and get frustrated, or mad, or depressed, or you could be amused by them and laugh - any number of reactions. It's your depressed mind reacting with negative depressive thoughts to my posts, not me "making you," depressed. Read/Listen to the audiobook "Feeling Good," by Dr. David Burns & you'll give yourself a very good foundation of knowledge to learn & grow from - & to feel good, too.

I'm not really a depressive eater so I don't really relate too much to that. I get stoned and munch out on junk food sometimes.. that's not exactly good for me, but, I make mistakes and then start fresh the next day and treat my body right, eat healthy food, drink water, do my workout, maybe go for a run etc. I don't just give up and eat munchies every day like I don't have bigger better goals in life that are going to require me to be mentally & physically fit. Maybe try replacing stress eating with some other thing if that's possible. When I feel really stressed I put my shorts & shoes on, put headphones in my ears, and go for a 7-9km run and then feel WAY better than if I ate a cake or something. Pick some healthy & active outlet for your stress and do that instead of overeating. At least try to.

I still don't have a middle class income at the moment. I couldn't handle full time work in the past. Now I can handle more than full time when the work is there to do. I saw a union posting today that I'm going to inquire about to see if I qualify for this short term assignment.. I'd have to go out of town and work 84 hours in 7 days, but I'd make more than $3,000.00 to do it. Worst case they can do is say "No, sorry, you don't have the experience/skillset we need for this." 6 years ago I could barely work part time and was as miserable as you are, now, after a lot of hard work I'm going to inquire about heading out of town to do 84 hours work in 7 days to make $3K. A lot can change over time, sly, if you're determined to change it.

What makes you say I have no respect for the op's thread? I'm just participating in the thread concversation as it unfolds. Further, thanks to your sharing, the op can learn what can happen when people have animals that they shouldn't have. It ends up being unhealthy for both the people and the animals and is definitely unfair to the animals. Maybe the op will be inspired by your sharing to find new homes for some of their pets sooner rather than later before their living situation becomes unmanageably unsanitary.

What a coincidence, you have many years left to live! You have time. Get on the waiting list once they're accepting applications. Even if you have to wait 2-5 years, at least in 2-5 years you'd have subsidized housing of your own and could afford to be independent. Living on your own may or may not be totally advisable.. I don't know how well you manage day to day life skills like cooking etc, but from your posts it sounds like you're in a biologically unhealthy environment, as well as a toxic codependent financial relationship with your family. The healthiest thing you could do for yourself is work towards independence & move out on your own. How they come up with the budget shortfall is their problem, sly, not yours. Staying long term doesn't sound like a psychologically healthy thing, nor a physically healthy one considering the whole dog poo thing. It could literally make you sick, or worse.