• smh@slrpnk.net
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    13 hours ago

    It’s also off-putting when veterinary staff do it. I get that it’s easier than remembering the human client’s name, but I’m not my dog’s mom, for several reasons:

    1. I’m not a woman. Y’all are just misgendering me.
    2. He’s a son of a bitch, not a human
    3. If he was the son of a human, that human was my grandma. I took him in after her death. That makes him my half-uncle.
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      12 hours ago

      I know vet techs who would love it if you introduced yourself as your dogs’s half nephew. That’s hilarious.

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        11 hours ago

        Vet tech got real pissy because I said my cat was more of a lazy roommate.

        I’m not the father. It did not come out of me.

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        12 hours ago

        “Hi, I’m here with Elvis. He’s my half-uncle on my mom’s side.”