Heartwarming Tumblr Stories Reminding Everyone To Not Take Pets For Granted

It's important to sometimes take a step back and remember how important you are to your pets. We all take them for granted sometimes, forgetting just how much joy and love they bring into our households. We can't help it - we're as used to them living in our house as we're used to our own human family members. 

To warn everyone, tumblr users decided to boost a post that remind everyone how important our pets are to us and we are to our pets. They might be tiny, but they love you so much, and you are their whole world. 

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    Font - phalaenopfish Follow Please don't take your pets for granted. Even if you're frustrated that your dog has been barking all day or your bird has been screaming for attention, remember you are all they have in this world. Give your fish that extra water change. Give your dog or cat that tummy rub they've been begging for. Chop up some fresh fruit as a treat for your rodents or reptiles. Just spend some time with them. Be compassionate to your animals. They are living creatures that are aliv
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    We know that pets can be frustrating sometimes, but you also need to remember that giving them love and attention is part of what you signed up for. When you're getting a pet, you are getting a living being, not a toy, and it's important to remember to treat them as one. Give them the love that you promised to give them that first day they came into your life.

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    Font - heavenlorenz Follow I forgot this some days. I have five cats. My only female is a complete Momma's girl. It doesn't matter where I am in the house, she's my shadow. She waits up for me until I get home from work. She loves me. Sometimes, I admit, I get annoyed with her and shoo her away. Until she whines at me. Then I feel absolutely horrible.
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    t's also important to remember that mistakes are okay too. The last thing that we want is to upset our pets, to be the cause of their sadness. But sometimes, it'll happen no matter how much yo don't want it. From then, it's just a matter of how you handle it - say sorry in a way that they will understand, pet them, give them a treat, and give them a kiss. Your pet won't hold a grudge against you.

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    Font - snatcherheart Follow My dogs are a part of me (I literally have them tattooed on my left arm so they're with me wherever I go for life). Each night I cuddle them, I talk to them, I make sure they're got their comfy spot under the blanket with me. I don't know how people couldn't be compassionate to them. My chest hurts whenever I think about losing one of them. I'm their everything and they're quite literally my everything because I don't have much else.
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    Font - kallisti55 Follow Sure, kitten threw litter everywhere again, but he's little and litter is kind of a toy for him. And sure, he's so hyper he makes big cat look like she's basically an old, wisened turtle since she doesn't have nearly as much energy, but that's what kittens do. My cats have their quirks and it's fine. They depend on my family for food and shelter, we have a responsibility to them. Pets are living beings and pretty much family members.
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    Organism - bectheanxiousravenclaw Follow I was starting to get annoyed that my dog kept smacking me with her paw while I was eating dinner and then I saw this and now I'm in the floor cuddling her. So thanks for this post because my baby girl needed love
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    Dog - what-louie-likes Follow I work nights and during the day while i'm trying to sleep, Snickers would wake me so he can go outside to bark, see the stray cats (not the band), pee or poop. Or wake me just to eat. I get annoyed but I need him and love him as much as he does me. Love Pets and Happiness
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    Rectangle - subbyboymax Follow When I get home l'm gonna go out and clean my chicken's coops and l'll give my doggo a huge hug and lots of cuddles. I feel like the stress and anxiety has been getting to me and I feel l've bee putting off the little things that matter.
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    Font - ephemeral-cadence Follow l'd literally never lived w/out a dog until senior year. When I hit my wisdom teeth out, I just cried abt how much I wanted to pet a dog but there wasn't one at home. We still went 2 years w/out getting another dog, & then it was mostly bc my crazy aunt found out & there's no stopping her. Since we got Max, I think my parents have realized how important it is for our family to have dog. He's broken me out of panic attacks & is an immediate source of positivity whe
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    Rectangle - missashleyjean Follow Spending my birthday cuddling my dog instead of going out to dinner because she's afraid of the thunder and wants to me in my arms.
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    Rectangle - ohana Follow Darcy sleeps between me and my bf against my back and I fucking hate to share the bed with someone else (because l'm a little oven, I'm always super hot) but now even when I feel like l'm in the desert I can't sleep without him.
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    Font - sweet-songbirds Follow I dropped off my cat babies back home when I left for the hurricane, since l'm moving back from college in a few weeks and didn't want to put them through that more than once. I've been without them for just two weeks, but every moment l'm missing them. I miss their purr and their meows and they're incessant fighting and I cant wait to see them again.
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    Font - bens-moms-are-lesbinems Follow Learned this when I lost my baby. Now even though my new cat is a brat and she runs around like the cucuy is after her, I still love her as best and as fully as I can. I pet her and I feed her and clean her room as best I can and I just love her. I don't want to remember loving her from a distance like I do with my other cat. She's my baby and she never knows any better. I'm patient with her when she gets scared because all she knows is that she's scared. No
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    Font - losmokesblunts Follow And if you aren't going to love something that soley depends on you for everything to survive pls don't get that "pet." I've taken in so many animals from people who've neglected and mistreated something they thought was cute for the first 3 wks and it's really sad. 598,266 notes
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