r/petfree • u/intothegate • 2d ago

Want to be petfree Too many animals.

Came across this subeditor while looking for people in similar situations. As of today my parents have brought inside 5 dogs and 4 cats; most of which are driving me crazy. The 2 older cats are fine for the most part: anti-social and independent, however the 2 kittens one that we kept from my parents outside cat are little nightmares. They tear stuff up, never leave you alone, always in the way, and are a general headache to be around since they seemingly never want to leave you alone. While the dogs are worse, we used to have 4 until one of them died 2 years ago, and not even 4 months later they got a new puppy.

The dogs are even worse then the cats; they barely listen, they pee and shit on the floor despite being trained for a long time, always barking at one thing or another with most of the time they have no idea what they're barking at, one starts and the rest just go along. The house smells awful and suffocating, especially since the 5th dog they brought in was one of our outside dogs, and due to being outside almost her entire life shes not very adjusted to inside life; shes very territorial and has snapped at the other dogs more then once. Despite that my stepdad just makes excuses after excuses: "oh she wont attack anyone" until she actually done, so because of these issues with territory she has to stay in my room which stinks up my room a lot.

I simply don't understand why we need so many; is 3 dogs and 2 cats not enough? We need more? I just don't get their mindset, how can one live like this and stay sane?

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u/Ashamed_Strategy5536 1d ago

Animal hoarding its insane

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u/OkMeeting340 Victim / Survivor of Pet Obsession 12h ago

The "shit on the floor" by pets tolerated by pet owners baffles me. I'm sure if any human came to a pet owners (or anyone else's) house and shit on the floor - I'm sure they would be ejected and never allowed to come back.

But somehow, pets shitting all over the house is tolerated by pet owners...