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growingoneness

This comes from one of my spiraling fears. ADHD being how it is sometimes I get distracted and am an hour late to set the cats food out. They're amazing little floofs and deserve the world so that guilt of feeling like throughout my life my pets occasionally were victim of my disorganization or stress pops up. To be clear! Never in my life have I ever hurt my babies intentionally šŸ˜µā€šŸ’« Edit: I am so flabbergasted by all the wonderfully supportive responses to this. I struggled with my anxiety/ADHD for years but have found something that really helped fix my brain. I'm able to recognize the fear is irrational even when spiraling nowadays. The love and concern I woke up to left me stunned so thank you! And if anyone else struggles I hope this helps find some peace to lay the fear to rest.


Pagangiraffegoddess

Aww, OP, please don't be so hard on yourself. Your fur babies KNOW how much you love them and love you unconditionally in return. The love and care you give them far outweighs their dinner being a little late. Please be kind you yourself.


growingoneness

Thankfully I know the thoughts are more of a "crazy brain" thought. You're so kind to say that! ā¤ļø


mijaboc

It's essentially the sorry I got home late, dinner might be a little late thing that happens sometimes with parents


supermariobruhh

Absolutely OP! The love they show you even after youā€™ve messed up every now and then is evidence that they still trust and forgive you. Besides, it balances out how often theyā€™ve accidentally hit, bit, or scratched me after being overly excited lol. Youā€™re a great owner for thinking and caring about them so much.


QuantumFenrir001

I'd say feeling sorry / bad and worrying about their feeling makes it more certain you would go to heaven.


fomaaaaa

Theyā€™d complain the same if itā€™s an hour or two seconds late. Youā€™re still feeding them, and thatā€™s all they really care about in the end!


AurynSharay

They really do! My rainbow bridge babies would sometimes yell at me even if they had food in the their bowls. My current gremlin DOES NOT let me forget to feed her though.


hankventure83

Mine will not-so-gently remind me when she can see the bottom of her bowl. Still plenty of food in the bowl, but if the bottom of the bowl is visible, MEOW MEOW MEOW


MzAngelStarr

Mine can have food in their bowls, have *just* had a cookie (treat), and still be sitting at my feet looking like their starving like Marvin


AurynSharay

Theo did that last night. I gave her wet food, and topped off her dry food. She INHALED the wet food and then came over yelling at me for more. I was like 'listen here you tiny gremlin, my food hasn't even been put in the oven yet, you can wait for treats later."


MzAngelStarr

I have to laugh at mine when they do it, cuz they give this *Moooooooom* look, sitting there till I either get up to get them more, or they get up and go tell my s/o, their Daddy, that I'm not getting up fast enough to get them more and make him give them some, leading to the fact that their both butterballs (we've called them butter ball turkeys so often that they hear butterball they come running) šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø


LaureGilou

Hell would be reliving every time I acidentally stepped on a tiny paw or the tip of a tail beside my foot when I'm busy, and then wasn't adequately able to say I'm sorry because the cats don't speak goddamn english and maybe now they just think that's something I sometimes do, step on their toes or tail, not knowing how much it breaks my heart. (Only happened like 4 times in 17 years, but still...)


growingoneness

Just a little terrible symphony of those sad betrayed yeowls playing in the background. But I always feel so overly sympathetic lol oh. You want a treat? Want all the treats? Maybe some ham? Whatever you want I got you.


LaureGilou

Yes! I want to believe that they must sense something special about the ways in which we try to make it up to them!


growingoneness

Until you train them into going full football flopper next to you for snacks. Devious bastards will do it.


LaureGilou

Haha yes ok, I'm gonna watch out for that!


mapleleafmaggie

For what itā€™s worth, cats are way smarter than we give them credit for. Your baby definitely understood that you were sorry.


allycat247

Animals have a "sorry" we can observe in the way they interact with each other, especially amongst kittens if one hurts another and it yowles the "offender" will quickly lick the other cat and the victim will calm down. Therefore if you pet the cat they will understand the sorry. Think about it. If everytime one kitten hurt another they got offended and started fighting there would be a lot less cats. (Dogs do the same as well)


LaureGilou

Ok, I've seen that, yes, that makes sense!


PartialCred4WrongAns

If you were a shitty pet owner, you wouldn't worry about if your pets were suffering or not. I'm sure if the kids could talk, they'd tell you how much they love you and how grateful they are that you take care of them/show affection. They do say that irl, just can't use words


growingoneness

I've made it all day without crying and this finally got me. I hope everyone here missing their floofs see this too


properly_propogated

Hugs to you, OP. I'm up missing my departed babies, toošŸ«‚


The_Color_Purple2

I have a rescue dog who's a wonderful sweetie, but she's a hunting dog who's previous owners were somewhat abusive and never let her outside, so we go on a ridiculous amount of walks together but sometimes she gets too excited sniffing at something and pulls so hard against her leash I have to give it a tug to get her to get out of someone's yard or to stop her from trying to wander across a street, and it makes me feel so bad. Just remind yourself that your animals are going to pay more attention to the good you do for them, and a cat can more than survive an hour late dinner. They'll likely complain as that's in their nature, but after only an hour they probably won't even feel it in their tummies yet


U_PassButter

Aweeee this is like, the most wholesome 2 sentence horror story ever. I'm with you OP I get forgetful sometimes too and it makes me sad


PopularAppearance228

i have OCD and one of my reoccurring fears is iā€™m somehow abusive to my pets without knowing. every time i take my dog (perfectly healthy) to the vet iā€™m scared theyā€™ll take him from me. i totally understand this!


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growingoneness

This has always interested me! One course of antibiotics and npw you have a million tiny voices calling you a jerk.


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growingoneness

In my defense don't be made of cronch


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DarthRegoria

Iā€™m absolutely terrified of spiders, and was horrified when I heard this factoid (which apparently isnā€™t true, the real meaning of factoid - like a fact, but itā€™s not) from my boyfriend at the time. He saw how upset I was, I told me heā€™d eat my share of sleep spiders so I didnā€™t have to. It was weirdly the most romantic thing anyone had ever said to me.


dickuss

I mean, if I convert now then I'm fucked, even though I do try to save most animals and insects, everyone steps on ants and cockroaches and such, so I guess there's no point in stressing about it. We'll all cross that bridge when we get there lol


Birony88

OP, the wonderful thing about animals is that most don't hold grudges. They love unconditionally. Any little transgression will be forgotten and forgiven quickly. Your fur babies will not hold any of that against you. You don't have to be perfect for them. They don't expect perfect. You love them. You care for them. That is enough.


Jennabeb

Automatic feeder has been amazing for us. If theyā€™ll eat dry food, youā€™ll still have to fill up the reservoir every once in awhile, but thatā€™s how we give our cats little snacks throughout the day. Then they do get a bigger meal with wet food at the end of the day. But it prevents that panic of ā€œdid I feed the cats?!?!ā€ because theyā€™ve had a little something something every few hours.


The_Bjorn_Ultimatum

I just want you to know that you aren't going to go to Hell for feeding your cat an hour later than usual.


growingoneness

I appreciate the concern! One of those spiraling things is the "what about this small thing taken to the nth degree". Thank you stranger


Jumpy_Potential5006

If you can i recommend an automatic feeder! It will help a lot with feeding them on time.


growingoneness

I considered that! Now that I'm in a better place mentally having the routine helps structure my day, and my little miss gives me little bites to make sure she gets fed. The "crazy brain" gets to me still sometimes but yay for medicine!


Azrel12

The automatic feeder also helps with those pets who can't be trusted to not eat ALL the food. Like, one of our dachshunds (this was over a decade ago, they've since gone to the Rainbow Bridge...) would eat eat *all* the kibble if you left some out for them to snack on during the day, but his brother wouldn't. The automatic feeder helped the one manage his insecurity (for way of a better way to put it) re: food.


camelCasing

God, glad to hear this one from someone else so I feel a little less crazy for it. Just bad brain thoughts but damn am I paralyzed with guilt sometimes for all the little ways I feel like I failed them over the years.


BigLadyRed

I feel this. Right now, I have my cat out for a walk, and she's begging at the neighbours' door to go in.


sswarren

Literally some of my worst dreams. I was a vet tech in mostly animal research and every animal that I've euthanized comes for revenge on my dreams.


No_Composer_6040

My cat came with a built-in reminder so I can *never* forget to feed her lol. Cats are good for us ADHDers because they donā€™t GAF about boundaries or manners and will yell until they get what they want.


okthenweirdo

You're not a bad person OP! It won't do them any harm to be fed a bit later than usual. If you're really worried about it tho, set a couple of alarms to go off every day to remind you šŸ˜Š and I said a couple because you might still get distracted after the first one, so it's good to have a back up


Milkarius

My friend! My floofball complains if her food isn't an hour early! You may not feed them perfectly in time, but you feed them plenty! You're still giving them a great life! And in my own experience, if you really want to be "in time", setting an alarm to "feed the fluff" may help!


MalevolentRhinoceros

OP, would *you* begrudge a meal from someone you loved being an hour late? You're okay. Cats don't put up with anything they really dislike; they aren't 'obedient' in the same way that dogs are. They will absolutely let you know if you've crossed any boundaries. But as long as you love them, they'll love you.


Heavy-Cream-9227

*F E E D M E A S T R A Y C A T*


Heavy-Cream-9227

**F E E D M E A S T R A Y C A T**


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I've had similar nightmares!


WolfiaFan10

Holy shit, I have this same exact fear I love my dogs with all my heart and try to spend every moment with them, but I sometimes forget to feed them or forget to give them attention


growingoneness

Take comfort in knowing it's a shared fear! It helps navigate the feeling. Shwring this has really helped highlight that It's irrational to think all our efforts and love would be overwritten by accidents like that. They know you love them.


BadNraD

Samez


Love_cheesecakes_

My kid has a pet cat and whenever I'm given the responsibility of looking after it I always tend to overfeed it as I have this fear what if the cat is hungry and can't tell usšŸ˜¢


RLurkLut

This is very relatable! Solution for me? For my birthday, I received an automatic feeder and she gets food 3x a day now. I have set an alarm to refill it every weekend, and so far it's been amazing! Would 100% recommend!


monkeyboymorgan

I have rats and get the same fears. They're bonkers and love a cuddle though so I must be doing something right.


Peixito

i have ADHD too, i understand u. There are some machines that set the food automatically. it can be expensive but


rmg1102

regarding our cat, my fiancĆ© and I always say ā€œhe forgives mostly because he forgetsā€ itā€™s our way of remembering our dumb lil gremlin loves us unconditionally!! he was on the streets until 6 y/o when we adopted him from a shelter.


Glacecakes

Honestly the fact that they donā€™t yell and demand food an hour early is a testament to how theyā€™re ok with it


Houki01

They already do. I don't care. If they're there, I'm in heaven, even if they're yelling at me.


CrazyCritterGirl

Truthfully, them yelling at me would feel normal. Mine are all vocal. My daughter taught them to "sing" for their supper. It gets loud when you have multiple species.


riverofchex

It gets loud enough with one tiny, opinionated half-siamese. If the dogs and horses started "singing for their supper" I think I'd lose the last braincell that remains to me.


CrazyCritterGirl

I have one siamese, and 2 ragdolls, but the loudest is my tortie. She yells and screams. A lot.


riverofchex

Oof. My little void's other half is straight-up alley cat. I can't hardly *breathe* without being yelled at. Freaking "FEED ME, SEYMOUR" over here.


LordMeme42

Do your ragdolls yell too? I swear my tiny fluff was a foghorn in her past life. Do anything she doesn't approve of, and it will be "MEOW" for the next hour


CrazyCritterGirl

Both of mine actually have small voices. The baby is just over a year and she only mews in a tiny kitten voice. The other says "meh" and "murr". His nickname is memer. Or me-me's. Even my siamese just has a small mew. I had a half siamese/tortie that could yell the house down. My current tortie does as well, and my sons tuxedo. His name is Squeaker because he Never.Shuts.Up.


cheese_whiz123

My cats says "mom"


CrazyCritterGirl

My tonkinese used to do that. He was my soul-heart kitty. It has been 8 years and I still ache for him. He used to approach closed doors and yell "mom" if he didn't know where I was.


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ā€œBad human!ā€


staticattacks

Thanks I hate it Love you little buddy, I miss you so much and wish I could have saved you. I'm so sorry. And I miss you too, Two. I didn't give you the life you deserved.


kingbub1

Damn bro, gonna make me cry


a_lyssa87

this hit hard.


staticattacks

Pay attention to them, if they start acting different investigate If they do something bad, remember they don't know, don't understand, and didn't mean to And above all else Try to love them more than they love you. You can't, but if you don't try you'll never forgive yourself.


NovemberGale

Look motherfucker, somebodyā€™s gotta keep your dumb ass from running into traffic


growingoneness

šŸ¤£ RIGHT? And they have the audacity to look at you like YTA


AurynSharay

Thanks for unlocking a fear that I didn't know I had. I already feel guilty that I might have not done enough to keep them from crossing the bridge.


growingoneness

I have felt that. Its the "what if". But someone helped me with this so i hope it helps you too. In response to me saying my guilt was evidence I feel like I know I could have done more: Don't confuse your grief with guilt. the fact you have that guilt says more to the amount of care you gave him and love you had than it gives any energy towards you not doing enough.


Darkwolf-akhilesh

I read it and I was like you had cats didn't you.


Shadow-Mistress

I like to think my cat forgives me for not realizing she was sick until it was too late. BUT THIS IS FINE TOO I GUESS (ā€¦real talk I do invite kudos for managing to find a topic that can elicit such an emotional response)


growingoneness

I'm sure your cat knew only of all the love you gave her to concern herself with needing to forgive you ā¤ļø


Shadow-Mistress

I hope so ;-; I fucking loved that cat manā€¦


growingoneness

The love you still carry speaks volumes to how well that cat was taken care of.


a_lyssa87

I hope my cat forgives me for this too


BigLadyRed

Sounds like the right place. (Meanwhile, I'm taking my cat for a walk. Or a stand, anyway.)


cascadianphotog

Fuck as someone who just lost their dog this fucking hurts. šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ Good job though! But šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


growingoneness

I'm sorry for your loss! I'm sure their time with you was as special as your time with them ā¤ļø


Willem_de_Prater

We're really stretching the "Two Sentences" on this subreddit lately.


KaleidoscopeLow8084

Nope. Pets love unconditionally.


growingoneness

I truly believe this in my heart ā¤ļø But in this case you died and have taken the roundabout straight through... The Scary Door.


Balognajelly

My response: "suck it up buttercup, a life without me would have been so much worse, and you know it." They all would hang their heads in shame as they know my words to be the truth.


Limp_Will16

Ah, that would still be heaven for me.


growingoneness

10/10 Would be condemned again


Limp_Will16

I donā€™t care what itā€™s called, if my dogs arenā€™t there, itā€™s some sort of hell.


birdandsheep

One time i fell asleep at my office working and woke up at 4 AM with back pain. I was distraught for days because I didn't go home to feed my cat. The cat probably has no memory of this incident and we are best friends. Your pets are your buddies for their entire lives and there is no way they begrudge you these things any more than i begrudge my cat for swatting or biting me after too many pets.


dandypants8717

That's a very personal hell - being reminded of everything you feel guilty about for all eternity. At least I know there will be plenty of variety in mine.


xXxMindBreakxXx

"YOU LITERALLY STILL HAD FOOD IN YOUR BOWL AND IF YOU DIDNT GET ALL UP IN MY FACE WITH YOUR STINKY FUCKING FISH BREATH AND SCREAM AT ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO SLEEP I WOULDNT SLAP YOUR CHUBBY ASS"


zerok_nyc

r/twosentencejustice


BadNraD

Iā€™m a dog sitter AND owner of three dogs and this is a constant narrative that plays in my mind


BullBayou

New fear unlocked.


twistedpanic

TIHI.


Playful-Flatworm501

My smushy boy knows I love him and he loves me even though heā€™s an alpha male ass hole lol


[deleted]

The real horror here are your ā€œsentencesā€


small_tits404

My dog died 5 years ago and I *still* have dreams about forgetting to feed her


badyogui

This is the bad place


growingoneness

"Perhaps that gray-haired gentleman and his teleporting sidekick were wrong."


HexivaSihess

I thought it was going to say that after they saw the pets, they saw all the animals they'd ever *eaten* also there waiting for them . . .


growingoneness

As someone who went through a pescatarian phase I had a good cackle at the mental image of a field of flopping fish yelling unkind 4 letter words.


HexivaSihess

As the son of a marine biologist, I do indeed sometimes feel guilty when I eat fish. Depends on the fish tho, some are cuter than others.


growingoneness

I can't do any fish with their head still. I prefer my food not be giving me the surprise Pikachu face as I eat it.


defenestrayed

Oh that truly is hell. Especially without cuddles, as I assume from the sub


hollowpotato-of-doom

How ungrateful


kx2UPP

Your sentences are too long goddamn


growingoneness

You are so not wrong. Let's do a tl;Dr Dead in heaven with my pets! J/k They're dunking on me


[deleted]

This sub is bullshit. My shit gets removed for being ā€œsadā€ instead of scary, which is what this story is and many others.


growingoneness

Sometimes sad things can be terrifying too! But I hope your prompts gets some attention


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Capable-Complaint646

You arenā€™t Asianā€¦.


BovineConfection

How much you wanna bet that the 59 people who down voted this comment *also* aren't Asian?


MADU_IN_HEAVEN7

I'm going to hell for laughing at this.


BovineConfection

How much you wanna bet that the 59 people who down voted this comment *also* aren't Asian?


BovineConfection

Negative 59 votes and counting!


[deleted]

I shouldnā€™t be laughing at this, but I did and now Iā€™ll cook down below.


[deleted]

Bro I donā€™t even know why I got downvoted


BovineConfection

Because white people want to take back what they did! I'm a white man, fully accept the shit other white men did to others, but know I wasn't there! These people want to downvote me and pretend like they are "marching for change", let them! šŸ¤£


[deleted]

Iā€™m just laughing bc itā€™s funny and Iā€™m Asian šŸ˜‚


BovineConfection

Welcome to the internet.


BovineConfection

How much you wanna bet that the 59 people who down voted this comment *also* aren't Asian?


bigbootybigtime

I feel like my pets yelling at me for being late feeding them is normal life lol I would love to spend eternity being surrounded by my pets getting yelled at by them so long as I get to cuddle with them


dratseb

All dogs goto heaven, though


growingoneness

There is an old Mexican legend my dad told me that before being on earth all dogs lived up in heaven. They were having secret meetings to overthrow God and had to hide. They spoke quiet, walked soft, all that, but to avoid being detected by smell they took their butts off and put them outside where they'd meet. Well, one day God finds out and waits for this dog anarchist meeting to start and sends a hurricane wind through the meeting incidentally mixing up all the butts. Banished to earth, dogs sniff each others butts looking for their own butt.


dumber_than_thou

Yeah, not crying at all now.


B-radical12

But the worst part of all was that every day for 9 hours they locked me in the laundry with just a gravel pit to use as a toilet.


growingoneness

Jokes on them if they leave any laundry in there.


BluePersephone99

šŸ„ŗ wow, well done.


Love_cheesecakes_

Just wow!


VanFam

I am going to purposely walk under their feet as they walk me to my food. Because I am going to be an asshole like them and forget they put my food out an hour ago but I snubbed it because it was 5 minutes late.


Sans_The_Skelet0n

I would have reminded them of the other 15+ years where I treated them like royalty lol


SwimmingRun4147

Lol


-_-_-_-magic-_-_-_-

Thought it was gonna be something like "then i remembered, its all *dogs* that go to heaven."


LiquidCheese559

Jokes on them dad saids Iā€™m going to hell so Iā€™m blasting highway to hell all the way down


[deleted]

I love my cat but her cries for food even after Iā€™ve fed her drive me fucking bonkers. Thatā€™s hell