Mason, I work at a government agency. Apparently, my pet listens in on my phone calls and meetings. They started talking about my confidential phone calls to our our house guests to other day. This isn’t the first time they’ve done something like this. They keep repeating what they hear me say.
I’ve tried gentle reprimands, I’ve tried keeping them far away when I talk about work, but they still try to talk about my job and what I do to. So as a punishment, for the past three weeks I’ve been putting an inflatable gag in their mouth, it locks onto a head harness that almost immobilized their jaw. I only take it off when it’s time to eat. It’s been three weeks since I’ve let them have context with anyone else expect me, that way they can’t interact with my servants and houseguests.
I decided to give them a break from the gag today, but now they don’t talk to me at all. They’ve gone completely silent and I don’t know what to do. They’re usually so talkative
(I swear this is all fictional, I was inspired by something I read about the other day that featured a psycho governor who tormented his pet behind closed doors)
(holds you very gently anon. This is a safe space for whump love lmao you can drop whump in my inbox any time. we know it's fictional here you're good)
"Ahh yes, some pets are like parrots. They like to imitate the sounds around them. Sadly, because they don't understand what they're repeating they can give out personal information sometimes."
"It sounds like this pet is usually pretty well behaved, and the punishments are typically relatively light. So the experience of wearing a gag for so long is likely shocking and confusing to their system"
"Some pets need longer to learn than other - and it really sounds like yours isn't doing it maliciously. Most pets are just sweet little things that want to copy their owners and don't understand the intricacies of human life. Be consistent with how you treat them and how you punish them and the pet will come around. They'll understand that repeating what they hear earns the gag, and eventually learn that the behavior is not worth the punishment."
