For the past week or so, my dad's been really passive aggressive about how I've been taking care of my pets. The turtle tank is too dirty. "He doesn't stay underwater because he's having a hard time breathing." Turtles breathe AIR. I can't even tell you how many times I've said that to him. Apparently, it means nothing. I can explain to him all I want about how to take care of this turtle, and he doesn't listen. It's always been that way. But the second anyone else with some "expertise" tells him otherwise, it's fucking law.
He even took the time out today to clean the tank for me. You want to know what he did? He dumped the old water into the toilet, and put new water in from the tap. He even cleaned the filter by dumping out all of the pennies used to keep it submerged, and removing the tape that keeps the top on so that all of the carbon stays inside, and the air tube attached. FUCKING GENIUS. I wonder why I've been doing it the complicated way all of this time when I could just do that?
So, I had to clean it all again myself anyway. Completely unnecessary, and a waste of my time.
And of course it doesn't stop with the turtle. Every time he walks into my room to see the rabbits, EVERY TIME, he says something about how it smells in there. OF COURSE IT FUCKING SMELLS. They're rabbits. And not only that, he hasn't gotten the initiative to buy litter for them, which would absorb most of the smell. And it's not like he ever proposed any other sort of brilliant idea to take care of it. No. He's just got to comment about it.
It's driving me fucking crazy. I'm so pissed off at him all the time, which isn't exactly fair to him because otherwise, he does a lot for me, and I am grateful. I'm just tired of feeling undermined, and ignored. I know what I'm talking about, but as far as he's concerned I'm just talking. And maybe it's OCD, maybe it's the same for everyone, but I can't stand it when someone else does something important like this for me. It's never up to my standards, because obviously, they're not me.
I actually want to spend time at my mom's house. But I know that if I do, the only person left to take care of Minx & Othello, and Frankie, is my dad, and he'll just fuck everything up.
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why not tell your dad that your pets are your children and that if someone else came in to his house and messed it up would he like it? Honestly I think you're more upset about him doing something that makes the turtle less reliable to you than you are that he did it wrong. Granted, yes, he did do it wrong, but that's a minor detail. If he doesn't care about this, simply make a directions sheet for cleaning the tank and tape it to the wall, that way he has no excuse to fuck it up and if he does then you can rightly argue with him and, eventually, he'll stop and just trust you to do it.
Also, tell him that if the turtle or the bunnies die you want it to be your own fault, no one else's. and that if the turtle does die after he cleans the tank or the bunnies get injured (god forbid) due to something he's done you can argue with him again.
I'm sorry that he doesn't understand the smell or breathing issues :[
As I said, when I get money, I'm getting you an electric air freshener and/or litter
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