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Can anyone help me identifying this duck?

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Dog hiking/camping general.

Thru hiking the Appalachian trail with a dog. Anybody done it? She's a healthy dog, mix of a hunting breed and herding breed. I think she could handle it but I want to hear from others who've done it.

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Hi /an/

I need some advice. My girlfriend and I finally moved into a housing situation that would allow a dog. We've wanted a dog for years but did not feel right keeping one in a small 1 bedroom apartment. We moved to a larger house and have researched numerous breeds and decided to "rescue" a dog from a shelter or rescue group.

After a few months we finally found a dog (Lucy), happened to be a puppy, who was up for adoption. We got her on Sunday and it is now Wednesday. She has been acting like a normal puppy the entire time however this morning we had an emergency.

In the morning, she puked liquid (no food) and had a large 3" lump on the side of her neck. I have been by her side every minute that we have had her, and this lump appeared extremely fast and over night. There were no signs of this lump at night prior to this morning.This was only 3 days after we got her from the rescue group. She acted normal but I immediately took her to a vet that was recommended by a friend. We were going to take her on Friday or Saturday, but decided to make an emergency visit today. 13 weeks old

During the visit, the vet used a needle to take a sample from the abscess to analyze. She said that it was majority white blood cells (puss) and that it was likely some sort of trauma wound like a cat nail or thorn or something. She recommended draining the abscess or I could take her home and monitor it.

Per vet recommendation, i decided to go through with the abscess draining procedure and she ended up having more blood than puss in the abscess. I now have a puppy with a cone on her head and a tube for the abscess to drain out. Anti-biotics, pain killers, etc.

She is still very active almost more active than before. I just wanted to see if /an/ had any 2nd opinions and I can provide more details. We love Lucy very much and want her to be a part of our lives forever.

Was this the right decision?

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What kind of breed of animal would be best for esports? I was thinking about this last night and so far I've determined that a beagles would be the best at Madden 25 (that's the version I have for the xbax) but I'm open to suggestions on other esport animals

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Can someone do a little research for me out of curiosity?

What is the total deaths per year resulting from housecat related accidents and attacks compared to American mountain lion maulings?

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In a few days i'm gonna pick up my new hedgehog. Anyone here have one as a pet? I would like to know your experiences and tips about keeping one.

Can't fucking wait to get mine.

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I need some serious advice I hope someone here can help me

I'm kind of a noob shepherd and one of my ewes is pregnant, the water sac emerged a day ago but has not ruptured, and the birthing appears to be stalling.

I'm not sure this is a mispositioning problem because she hasnt actually gone into labor I dont think, her water hasnt even broken, just the sac has emerged and is visible

Does anyone have any experience with sheep and know what's going on

Pic is one of the rams

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Anyone else never going to eat an animal again? I may even stop drinking milk. I've had too many experiences with animals, they're my friends. This chicken I petted, I felt bad that billions of chickens are enslaved and murdered every year for low quality meat. Then this ferret at a zoo in another country, it was so nice, I petted it and as we left in the van it ran out of the zoo just to hug me goodbye... I WILL NEVER eat meat again, I want animal welfare, I don't mind if you eat meat but you should stop.

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So I'm looking to get a new puppy after getting past the death of my German Shepherd, who unfortunately died of cancer despite my best efforts finding a good breeder. I was thinking of finding a Golden Retriever breeder, but don't know enough about the breed to start. I can't find whether or not there is an actual working and show breed, or if they're all one breed. I know there are English, Canadian, and American golden retrievers as well, but don't know the real differences.

I live in Vegas, don't mind a few hour drive to pick a dog up, otherwise I can ship it. With most dogs I dislike how the AKC breeds in genetic defects, so I'd like as much of a "working" breed as possible.

Thanks!

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The shit is away all the time killing local birds and only comes home to get your welfare.
Isn't that actually picture book cucketry?

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Hi /an/.
Pic Related is my pupper Sammy. He's about 2 years old, and he's a Boxer-Pit mix. (pic related was taken months ago)
Today my family and I took Sammy to the vet because he was experiencing constipation, loss of appetite, weakness, pain in his abdomen, and he wouldn't drink any water.
He would however eat steak, porkchops, and chicken; human food.
One of my family members has been giving him gatorade with a syringe-turkey baster deal so he's been being hydrated.
Apparently last Friday was the last time he has pooped, and it was bloody/messy from what I was told.
It's been a couple of hours since we dropped him off at the vet, they've done X-Rays and all the tests and apparently he has Parvo.
I believe they're moving him to an /an/imal hospital to have him treated with IVs and the like.
They said we'd know the result in 48 hours.
We're not 100% on where he contracted it from, but we think he got it from the cat.
I've read around and some places say that it can originate from cats.
About 1-2 weeks ago he had been getting into our new cat's litter box, and eating cat litter. Some of you may remember the thread I made concerning my hyperactive cat messing around with wires and crap under my desk. (The cat's name was Pickles but has since been renamed to Toki)
There are also stray cats that hang around the backyard of our house. (we have a pretty decent sized yard, 3 trailer houses in total are on our property.)
Sammy had dug a pretty deep hole in the front yard to, we've also put this on the list of possible contractions.
The cat and the dog eat and drink after each other, which will be put to a stop if Sammy makes it through this.
He seemed to be recovering over the past day or so. He drank some from his water bowl.
Sometimes there's a pack of stray dogs that come here in the winter, but they haven't been here since October
I come to /an/ to ask what I should do, what I should expect, and what you think he contracted it from.

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my aunt posted this on Facebook. The guy was eaten whole. Is the lizard gonna die?

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I've had freshwater aquariums my entire life. Now I'm looking at sarting up a saltwater aquarium. What are some good fish to start with.

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well, they're big.

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How the fuck do I stop my bitch from being such a slut/nympho? Every fucking time we start playing in bed (because im a lazy mofo) she puts my head between her legs and starts humping. She only does this to me and not the other people, or even other dogs. She only humps me. I give her a smack on the head every time she tries but I don't like smacking her, and a few seconds later she goes back to humping. I'm done with this "humping = dominance" crap that people/vets say, since she obviously doesn't like getting smacked, which means that humping is a greater pleasure than getting hit being bad is.