Venting moment: So I'm at work calculating the cost of my heated night box for my Leopard Tortoise as well as the cost to redo our fence in the back yard since it's about 20 years old or more and rotting. Well I'm surfing lumber stores near me when my co-worker says, "Why don't you just use chain link? It's cheaper." I tell him I have a tortoise and I would have to sight block everything, plus all the neighbors could see her and I'd worry someone would take her. I want the privacy fence." Not that they can't take her with the privacy fence, but why advertise? He said, "Well why don't you just put her in a 4x4 area and save the money?" I sigh and inform him that for one, it's way too small for her, and two, why confine her when I can give her the full quarter acre of fenced yard to roam in safely? His response? "She's just an animal. She won't care." I wanted to argue... I wanted to tell him he was an awful person... But I just nodded and dropped it. Frustrated. The best part is, he's been trying to convince me to help him get a Bearded Dragon... Because he doesn't think they need UV lighting, or live food (he's not going to touch bugs) or anything like that... I'm amazed he has a child that's not malnourished or something. Then he's like, "You need to have a kid to give you something more important to worry about." Come on, man.... This is going to be a long day....
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