#ik thingd are different and the cultural differences in how you treat animals are different but can i just say this is stressful bc

[shinkai-kaiju]

arguably the worst thing about having a pet in a family that has never had pets/everyone had them when they were younger in a different country, is the part where i have to explain "no this cat cannot have garlic yes i know your family fed your cats and dogs what they ate and it had garlic but im telling you that you were poisoning them even if they seemed fine and i would like you to not poison my cat" and "assume every leaf will make her combust violently yes i know your dog ate poisonous animals and lived but my cat is not built for that"