Love my friends dogs :)
Tropical fish and cats being the same effort is absolute madness.
Have you tried setting up a saltwater aquarium? I cry just watching tutorials.
Even freshwater tropical fish can be a PITA.
Wait until you pay the credit card bill it all went on! Ongoing maintenance is not too costly, but the initial set up is easily $1000+. And that does not include the fish, live rock, invertebrate, etc. I have no regrets starting a saltwater aquarium (I started it in 2010), but I needed to be at a place in my life/career where that was feasible.
so for some reason ‘sea monkeys’ triggered a giggling fit to tears
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
Okay Lemmy, this is a reddit post and it’s horribly wrong (naturally). Can we fix it?
Right? Cats are very low effort. They can basically live on their own and have a good habit of staying clean and only pooping in the litterbox. Chances are they’ll either be sleeping or lazing around the house. Putting them next to dogs which need WAY more attention is off.
Indeed all sorts of things are off… I have to assume that ferrets are at least as much fun as cats… And then to claim the cats and dogs (and most other animals) are on the same line of effort vs fun?
Cats are waay less effort than dogs, do you have to walk your cat every day? No.
You feed cats, let them in and out to poop, what else is there to do?
Dogs, dogs are great, but they’re needy, they want constant attention, know how to whine, bark, beg, eat lots more. Dogs are waay more effort than cats.
This chart should be titled “Chart with multiple things wrong with it”… Then to claim it’s official on top of all this.
let them in and out to poop
:concerned face:
parakeets should be up there with dragons
My bird yelling at me for 3 hours because he’s jealous I looked at my other bird for a second
Damn I wish I had a dragon to ravage the world with
I found the odd one out: tamagotchis aren’t pets, they aren’t even real
Pay no attention to my downvote I just think its funny to argue they are real.
Maybe they are for you…
…in that case you are delusional. Seek help
Parakeets are also on there and they’re not real either.
Not exactly. They are governmental drones but as such a very real threat
Neither are dragons.
Cats should swap place with parakeets on the effort axis. Salt water fish should be higher effort than babies.
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.
Where is rock?
Parakeets lower than rabbits and cats all the way to the right, to the right of ferrets?? Did this author ever even have pets? Or met animals?
Can confirm. My brothers dog is my best buddy and all I do is play fetch, give him treats and scritches.
Fixed version:
Kindly request we add chickens.
I think it would be equal fun as ferrets but the effort of a cat.
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.
Fortunately I don’t see too many people sticking dogs in bowls.
Yeah, all that stuff about filtration systems and big tanks sounds way more expensive than just buying a new goldfish every couple of months.