• @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      The threshold that someone considers “too many animals” is always the number they have plus one.

        • Freeman
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          91 year ago

          For us it’s feet

          Pet feet cannot outnumber human feet, full stop. Otherwise you lose control and are no longer in charge.

          It’s a working theory but so far has been accurate.

          • @kenbw2
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            111 year ago

            I see a couple of flaws

            1. Nobody who lives alone is allowed a pet
            2. If you have a toddler, in this rule that enables you to expand the number of pets, but I’d say a toddler adds to rather than eases the load
            • Glyphicus
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              121 year ago

              A person living on their own could have any number of fish, a single bird, any number of snakes, etc.

            • Freeman
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              31 year ago

              More a loophole or feature. Fish are easy to take care of same with snakes. You can feed em and head out of town without worry etc.

              Bird has two legs.

              It’s not an actual rule we every invented and then followed. But more, one we ended up realizing waaaay after the fact.

          • @Rineloi
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            21 year ago

            Soooo, what about pet snakes?

            • Freeman
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              That’s a divide by zero issue. Snakes and fish don’t count against quota.

    • @[email protected]
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      Depending on the pets, sometimes two can be less work than one. They entertain each other and play together, resulting in less destruction and less demand for attention from their owner. That probably all goes out the window with more than two though!

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      For guinea pigs 2 is the minimum. They get depressed if lonely. They are not that demanding though and more piggies is barely more work

    • @riodoro1
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      11 year ago

      You serve them obediently.

  • Don Promillo
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    211 year ago

    Cut his balls off and he can stay with us.

    Context matters…

  • @NeilH
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    121 year ago

    I LOVE gray cats. I’m allergic but if I had one it’d be this exact type.