Too many animals

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Okay, I hope I don't live to regret saying this publicly, but I think I'm an animal-hoarder. I have a dog, two snakes, two rats and four parrots. It's kind-of killing me. Every waking moment of every day I slave, looking after them, to the extent that I'm self-neglecting and not eating healthily because I literally don't have a free moment to think about my own physical needs. I'm only 30 and I feel like I'm going to die of exaustion. I'm covered in eczema (this tends to happen to me when I'm run-down and stressed) my hands are covered in dry skin from washing my hands after handling the animals as I'm terrified of cross-contamination, and I have no leisure time.

I did this once before, and I ended up having to rehome a shedload of reptiles and other animals because I went crazy trying to looking after them, and being admitted to a long-stay rehab ward for stress-related destructive behaviours.

It breaks my heart. I know what the right thing is, that I must rehome them, but they're what I live for. I feel worthless and that they matter more than me. It's my "job", my career. I can't give up on them even though it's killing me. And I feel like I'm a quitter, looking for an easy way out. I hate rehoming animals because I feel as though I have failed them.

I feel like this:



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As for your pet issue, could you rehome some but keep the others? Maybe just the rats, one s sks, and one bird? If I lived alone I’d probably just have one cat. And resist getting more as I can’t handle animals. My family started with one dog now we have 5 and they fight and my family yells at them a lot. I think they have too many dogs, they aren’t house trained either so our floor is caked in poop. I have to clean my room carpet with carpet cleaner as it’s smashed in. So I think people can have too many animals. Which seems to be your case but yiu should have some if it makes yiu happy, yiu just need to figure out the number you can handle, thst said rehoming sucks, we sold my favorite puppy from this litter, and I miss her. Now I’m getting attached to the last one we still have he’s so cute I’ll miss him too when he goes

I hope you can figure out a solution thst makes yiu happy but not overdoing it.

Fox hugs

Feed the rats to the snakes problem solved.

Seriously though that doesn't sound like that many animals to me, but if you cannot look after them then rehoming is a good option.

4 parrots sounds like a lot of work. I heard they each want a lot of attention. Do they help take care of each other, or do they argue? If they do not get along, you may need to have the troublemaker change households.
I had 5 cats and has to re-home one that was causing trouble. I feel guilty, even though she is just down the street. But, I am a lot less stressed now that my house is peaceful.

Don't think of it as failure if they have to be re-homed. Think of it as successfully finding a better home & life for them. You've done what you can to care for them, now do what's best for them and you and let someone else have them as companions.

*barf*

As for dog s**t coating floors & carpets.. that is beyond disgusting & not what I'd expect in the home of a self declared germaphobe at all. Sounds like germaphobia is a made up excuse not to have to do any dirty work or cleaning if one can call themselves a germaphobe and still live in a house/room covered in dog faeces.

It is what it is I have no control besides moving out which would be terrible for everyone. I wear slippers. They get ruined so I buy more. I keep mostly to my room.
I can’t touch the dogs cause dogs ar disgusting. Worse they plan to get another female to breed with one of the babies they kept. I’d rsther have no dogs in the house.
You should spend less time tearing apart people’s disorders as fake or real and more time on your own stuff. I’m quit germs phobic. I had to see doctors for overly dried cracking hands cause I wash too much. Now I use lotion right after. Like anything it’s on a scale. We aren’t like those who live in air controlled clean rooms, I’ve gotten bit better then I use to be but certainly no where near normal people.

Well, from your very posts I suspect that it's fake news if you're living in a home & room coated in dog faeces. No way a germaphobe would subject themselves to those conditions. They'd either glove up & clean (and/or train the dogs), or move, not just shrug it off and buy new slippers every week. Gross.

Even people who aren't germaphobes wouldn't accept such unsanitary conditions as "it is what it is." That's incredibly odd behaviour. Not just on your part, but every other person living in your household. I'm literally in disbelief that anyone would live with dog faeces all over their floors and just accept it like it was a few crumbs that fell off the kitchen table.

Further, in case you haven't figured it out.. a man who lives amongst dog faeces is not exactly attractive to the opposite (or same for that matter) sex & such living conditions (and the smells that accompany them that likely follow you wherever you go) are a major deterrent to potential dates/girlfriends. You'd think if your goal was to not be single you'd care about things like this.

Is the word germaphobia anything other than an excuse to make perfectly rational behavior look like a mental disease?

Which perfectly rational behaviour are you talking about?

I can’t touch the poop. And if I did I’d have to glove up wash my hands after and shower, every time . I’d habe to quit my job as cleaning u dog poop would be a full time thing with 5 dogs who each poop a lot each day. So since I am either at work or in my room put up with it. They aren’t my dogs I don’t likemor want dogs why should spend all my time cleaning up after their dogs?

You seemto like to follow me around and attack me by pointing it how horrible I am and how no woman will ever date me. Please in the future if yiu see me post just don’t read it either way I’m done, this is haven sndnthis is a post about the ops animals problem not my issues I just tried t comfort her

Avoiding germs? As in being clean and trying not to get infected, instead of recklessly doing whatever the one shaming you by calling you a germaphobe wants you to.

If one can live in a house & room coated in dog faeces one could very easily push a broom or a vacuum cleaner in a relatively sterile office environment by comparison. You've claimed before that you're such a germaphobe that you cannot do any cleaning work. I call BS if your degree of germaphobia allows you to live in a house & room full of dog faeces and you have no will to do anything about it. That makes it sound like one big fake news excuse not to have to do any cleaning or dirty work that any other person would do and then simply wash their hands afterwards.

You'd think at the very least you'd keep your own "germaphobe," room sanitary vs. cleaning up everything else because others are too lazy to do it. Obviously it's your choice to live in such filth, but my point remains that if you can tolerate that and shrug it off as "it is what it is," then you could very easily tolerate far less disgusting things like putting gloves on your hands and doing basic cleaning/janitorial work.

I wouldn't bother replying to it if you didn't contradict yourself so strongly or make absurd statements. You are the only one who posts about "how horrible you are," not me or anyone else. You're the one who lists your unattractive qualities ~daily, not me. You'd think after 92873982389237982739873289 rejections & criticism from women that you'd decide to start working on improving yourself in order to overcome their objections and become more attractive. Again though, also your choice. You make these posts on a public forum. You can expect a variety of responses to them. Not everyone is going to pat you on the head and say "There there, sly, you're the only one in the world who doesn't have to do any work to make yourself more attractive to a life partner - they're ALL wrong for not jumping at the chance to be with you!" I'm not a liar like that. I'll just tell you the way it really is. You want something in life? Work for it & earn it.

Don't go posting on a public forum that you live in the kind of filth that would have children taken away by CPS and animals removed by the SPCA if you don't want people to know about it nor comment on it.

There's a difference between basic hygiene and being a germaphobe constantly hand washing until your skin is ruined from soap & scrubbing. That's the difference between rational and irrational behaviour when it comes to germs.

Further, we Need exposure to certain "germs," and bacteria. Without it we aren't the whole balance symbiotic being that we are. Toddlers are supposed to play in the garden and eat dirt. If we kill all "germs," we do so to the detriment of our own health.

No more than toddlers whose immune systems can’t handle the germs they get are supposed to die for the good of the gene pool.

What's no more than that? Your half statement w/o a complete comparison is confusing.



We are approximately 111 Trillion cells.. you know how many human cells we are? Roughly 10 Trillion. By cell count, we're ~90% bacteria and most of those cells are in the digestive tract. It's said that we're water's way of getting around.. but really, we're bacteria's way of getting around. We NEED bacteria. We ARE bacteria - well, a symbiotic being comprised mostly of bacteria. Being germaphobic to the extent of wanting to kill or avoid all bacteria is literally suicide & thus definitely qualifies as a mental health condition, IMO.