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This whole graph is wack except friend’s dog.
Seriously… a dog is not 80% the effort of a horse. It’s not even 10%
Maybe its a log scale?
Dog scale
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Okay Lemmy, this is a reddit post and it’s horribly wrong (naturally). Can we fix it?
Goldfish require a ton of effort. They need huge tanks, water filtration systems, chemical balancing (nitrate buildup can kill them pretty quickly), and regularly scheduled feeding times. Dogs on the other hand just need to be taken outside every few hours and fed two or three times a day on top of the occasional vet visit.
Not if you stick em in a bowl and let them die in a few months.
Yeah, all that stuff about filtration systems and big tanks sounds way more expensive than just buying a new goldfish every couple of months.
Fortunately I don’t see too many people sticking dogs in bowls.
Am I owning cats wrong? Cats are easy as fuck. You just take care of Vet/Food/Poop they do the rest
Hell yeah cats are a piece of cake to look after. You can’t completely neglect them but they do largely take care of themselves.
The hardest part about owning cats is when you put the complicated cat scratching post/bed thing together.
Imho dogs are easier than cats. Cats vomit all over the place in weird spots so it’s a constant cleaning struggle. Dogs, once trained, are pretty straightforward
What kind of weird sick cat did you have?
Pretty normal for cats to cough up hairballs a couple times a month
Depends on the breed. Multiple times a month is not usual for short-haired breeds
Depends on the cat. We could probably leave our cat completely alone for two weeks straight if the food pail was left open, not that he’d be happy about it.
Cats should swap place with parakeets on the effort axis. Salt water fish should be higher effort than babies.
Why your cat so far to the right? They are a lot easier to look after than dogs. You have to walk dogs 53 times a day or at least they think so.
The cat doesn’t care, a good day for a cat is when they spend 75% of the time on your bed.
I’m gonna go ahead and say the scale is logarithmic, because the jumps from cat to dog to baby/horse to dragon are all depicted about the same and are definitely not
I have a friend who’s gotten into hermit crab rescue with his wife, and if you’re only expending the effort shown on this chart, congratulations you’re an abusive pet owner.
so for some reason ‘sea monkeys’ triggered a giggling fit to tears
The snake is way too low on the fun factor. Just try letting it out when everybody’s at the house drinking, and watch the hi-jinx!
I had a girlfriend who had a snake, It didn’t really bother me in and of itself, but I just found the whole food situation to be disgusting. It was either eating live grasshoppers (those things are creepy as hell) or dead mice.
I was quite happy to hold it though, at least once I was assured that it wasn’t going to constrict my arm off.
Where is rock?
Somebody’s never had a goldfish, I see
I’m pretty sure birds take way more effort than dogs and cats.
I’m pretty sure, as a dog owner that ferrets are both more effort and more work than a dog.
Nice idea but this graph is just wrong
The scale on this graph cant be accurate.
Its not a similar jump in effot between a parakeet and a cat as a cat and a horse.
Perhaps it’s logarithmic. Which makes the magnification needed to see sea monkeys even more impressive.
Bunnies are the best!
But not really less effort than a cat unless you just keep them in a cage, which you shouldn’t do. We had a house rabbit, and I really loved it, but rabbits like to (need to) chew, and bunny-proofing your home is a huge pain. But otherwise they’re kind of similar: easy to litter train, very individual personalities, etc.
Mine have that oxbow compressed hay house! I find packing tape on corners they like to chew on stops then from doing so
Good ideas, but probably not adequate for things like electrical cords.
That thing depicted there looks like a 7-9mo old baby. That’s when things get fun, but still a lot of effort.
12-16m is when shit gets real. theyre mobile.
thats just the hormones telling you not to chuck it then and there the real fun begins circe 17years in
