I’m getting sick and tired of my mother asking me questions about animal care and then her following it up with,
“yeah but they don’t really need that. When I was a kid my friend/cousin/someone I knew used to keep ____ and didn’t do any of that.”
And then I try to explain to her the difference between “surviving” and “thriving” and she tries to tell me her friend kept tons of axolotls in a tiny tank with no chiller for years and they were babied and soooo fine don’t even worry!
Or she kept guppies in a vase on her table and they were obviously thriving because they kept having babies over and over.
Or when I tell her no birds are a “beginner” pet but if I had to recommend a bird I’d recommend a pigeon and she went on an entire rant about how parakeets are super easy pets and you don’t need to recall or flight train them and they’re a beginner bird.
Why ask me if you genuinely don’t want to listen to anything I say.