TLDR: I have a lot of anxiety because of a lot of bad things going on at once while I got a ferret, how do I manage it?
Sorry it's long it's a bit of a rant, but I wanted to just get out.
I've done research for years before getting a ferret; I got the best cage, litter, food, etc. I work from home so I told myself I'd have the time to take care of one. I thought I was ready, I've never had anxiety before!
The time comes and I adopt a little 5 month old boy from this young couple, first night home and all I do is worry. I barely eat or sleep for a week, I've had him for a month and I still worry 24/7 that something is wrong. I'm losing a lot of sleep over this. I stopped going out with friends because I think of my ferret, alone in his cage, what if he got sick and I'm not there for him? I'm doing worse at work because I let him free roam my workspace and I feel guilty either putting him in his cage when he obviously wants to play, or letting him play alone when he's nipping at my feet for attention, so I end up interrupting my work to play with him. It's a new internship, I shouldn't be slacking off.
To add to the mix, my neighbour complained to my landlord that I'm making a lot of noise. What noise? It's a ferret... And my landlord came to tell me pets weren't allowed. Half the people in this building have cats or babies, a ferret can't be noisier than that! The landlord smokes inside the building and hasn't cleaned the laundry room in months, it smells rancid in the there so he has no right to tell me it's because of the smell. I wanted to get a second ferret to lessen the anxiety because then they could play together, but if my landlord finds out I adopted another ferret when I already told him the one I had was just a friend's that I was babysitting... yikes.
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