my executive dysfunction might kill my dog - eviltoast

She ate something she shouldn’t have and it’s blocking her intestines. She has to have emergency surgery tomorrow morning and this is all my fault. If my house wasn’t such a disaster, she wouldn’t be in this mess.

I honestly don’t deserve my pets because of this. I can hardly take care of myself. Idk why I thought pets were a good idea.

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    3 days ago

    Until you know what was eaten, try to stop beating yourself up.

    Dogs eat things. It’s in their nature. If they eat a sock and it blocks them up, that’s bad. But keeping all socks from them is tough. And they like to eat weird things.

    Your job is to give them a good life and to try to keep them safe. You can’t demand perfection from yourself, and if your dog could understand, they wouldn’t blame you.

    Finally, if you made a mistake, you can use this as a learning experience and do better in the future a bit. The alternative is closing yourself off to love out of fear.

    I did this. One of my cats got out on New Years and was hit by a car.

    Im the one who lets the dogs out, and he often snuck out when the dogs go out. I didn’t notice.

    I will always have to live with that.

    But I’m reveling in the love I get from my other pets, not pushing them away.