➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

We have been trying to tell you, for years, that a routine/list type thing would help you.

Yeah I know and even my brother has mentioned before that we (my mom and I) need a schedule and I do think it would help me to have stuff more planned but I’m just really bad at that sort of thing and doing it for myself. But maybe the therapist can help with that too.

 

[FortCluck]

We have been trying to tell you, for years, that a routine/list type thing would help you.

Make her a poster size list and ship it to her. One that she can use dry erase markers on and check everything off then erase it

 

[ShrekDawg]

Make her a poster size list and ship it to her. One that she can use dry erase markers on and check everything off then erase it

I think I have something like that somewhere!! It’s like a white board thingy haha

 

[FortCluck]

I think I have something like that somewhere!! It’s like a white board thingy haha

Write stuff on it and check it off. Like daily chores or to do list

 

[ShrekDawg]

Write stuff on it and check it off. Like daily chores or to do list

I’m horrible at that kind of stuff. And kind of feel like a five year old or something having to write out my chores and a daily schedule/exactly when to go to bed and wake up and stuff.

I think having a dog would really help with this stuff in terms of like coming up with a schedule naturally since they are obsessed with routines and bug you like clockwork when it’s walk time, meal time, wake up time, etc.

And I’d gladly do it for a dog.

Plus of course making me happier.

But of course I know I can’t get one right now. Even though I think it would help me be more motivated to do other stuff but I’ll wait hah

 

[FortCluck]

I’m horrible at that kind of stuff. And kind of feel like a five year old or something having to write out my chores and a daily schedule/exactly when to go to bed and wake up and stuff.

I think having a dog would really help with this stuff in terms of like coming up with a schedule naturally since they are obsessed with routines and bug you like clockwork when it’s walk time, meal time, wake up time, etc.

And I’d gladly do it for a dog.

Plus of course making me happier.

But of course I know I can’t get one right now. Even though I think it would help me be more motivated to do other stuff but I’ll wait hah

Your chickens should require some of the same. Feed, clean, and water.

Fish you need to feed daily and clean their tank but they don't really let you know

My dog Molly will stay in bed all day long and not care about food or going out. She has been there through my surgeries and stuff the boys would bring her out and feed her but she never bugs us to do that stuff.

I do have a normal schedule. I usually am up at 430 to take a pill I have to take. Then I plan my day to what I need to do. Usually when everyone leaves I start doing farm chores. Then everything else follows.

 

[sdm111]

 

[NanaKat]

Rain rain go away...come again some other day!
It has been a cold rain since about 3:30 am.
The duck is happy, but the chickens are huddled in their coops.
They came out when I went out to top off their feeders, but zipped right back in side.
It was a cat in the lap kind of day

 

[ShrekDawg]

Your chickens should require some of the same. Feed, clean, and water.

Fish you need to feed daily and clean their tank but they don't really let you know

My dog Molly will stay in bed all day long and not care about food or going out. She has been there through my surgeries and stuff the boys would bring her out and feed her but she never bugs us to do that stuff.

I do have a normal schedule. I usually am up at 430 to take a pill I have to take. Then I plan my day to what I need to do. Usually when everyone leaves I start doing farm chores. Then everything else follows.

They don’t though cause I have a huge food container and water for them so they don’t technically need checking daily but I have been anyway to collect the eggs lately and refill the water because they seem to go through tons of water lately. Also I’ve been trying to let them free range more lately. But even all of that stuff still doesn’t take that much time. Few minutes at most. It’s not like going for a long walk outside or anything.

The fish I feed first thing in the morning when I wake up. I wake up, open the curtains, and say hi to/feed the fish.

And that’s true! Gator probably would have slept all day if we let him. But I love tiring them out so even if they don’t necessarily ask, it would be a reason for me to get out.

Also, all that said, for as lazy as Gator was, he still woke my dad up at the same time every morning and when we were walking him regularly, he would come bug us at walk time every night. In fact, he used to try to push it forward by a couple minutes every day

And Franklin and Libby are even more like clockwork about waking up at the same time every morning and they start to move around at a specific time in the afternoon when they know it’s usually walk or play time.

And how some dogs wait for the school bus every day.

So I think dogs can learn and some dogs are pesky about it lol

But of course wouldn’t rely on that but I’d create my own routine of getting up at the same time every morning and walk the same time and stuff haha

And oh wow 430 is early!

I don’t think I’d get up quite that early but do need to start getting up a bit earlier haha

Been working on that.

 

[ShrekDawg]

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Thanks for leaving it at that this time hah

But that said, this is actually different this time. I really have been working on myself and changing things. Maybe not exactly what you guys want me to but I think this is way more important and I need to do it first before anything or at least simultaneously.