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look at this. they're like a litter of puppies.

Unfortunately you have to be consistent with dogs.. 3 days of training isn't going to stick.

I like clicker training. Start off by just making your noise (I snap my fingers, you can use a clicker, ballpoint pen, etc.) and give a treat. Don't expect the dog to do anything at first- he just needs to associate the noise with treats. When he's got that down, start giving him commands and whenever he makes any amount of progress, click and give a treat.

How does /an/ feel about raw feeding? And I mean real raw feeding; whole chicken carcass, fish, organs etc and not just ground beef from your local Kroger.

Did T-rex have feathers like a bird?

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Here's what I found in my shitpost folder.

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Maybe this could be zoomed in a bit more.

Feed when hungry? just feed an hour later and food becomes a lot more attractive

Well OP honestly I think the problem is that 40 minutes is just too long of a time to leave the food out. It doesn't give her a sense of schedule/urgency in eating her food.

I recommend leaving it out for only 15 minutes, then taking it away. Feeding twice a day is good.

That said, some dogs just don't have as much of an appetite as most do. As long as you know it's not a health issue, I wouldn't be too worried about it. When I was raising my puppy, she went through a period of being disinterested in her normal dog food. I did the 15 minute thing and after a little bit of this, she was back to being eager to eat.

The dog will get hungry eventually. If she doesn't eat after the 15 minutes, take the food away and don't offer it again until the next scheduled meal time. If you offer it more than that, she will know it will be there and so she doesn't have to eat it "right now." You want her to understand that food is only available at meal times. I know it can be hard to not offer the food again if she hasn't eaten, but just remember that a skipped meal or two isn't going to hurt her. She will just be hungry, which will encourage her to eat next time.

Good luck with her! She's really cute.

>>2194786
>I know it can be hard to not offer the food again if she hasn't eaten, but just remember that a skipped meal or two isn't going to hurt her
Not OP, but my dog vomits bile if he skips a meal. Apparently it's normal for dogs to do this if their stomachs are empty for too long; the bile irritates their stomachs if there's nothing else in there.

My dog's the type who always wants to hold out for something tastier and will only eat at the last possible second. I switch up his food often, but he always becomes disinterested in it after a few days, no matter how exciting it was when we first opened the bag.

OP, if your dog was previously fed a shitty diet, and she's still having anxiety issues after being with you for six months (and yeah, anxiety is probably contributing to her disinterest in food), maybe it's time to try bits and pieces of human food to entice her. Nothing too junky, but things like a scrambled egg mixed in with her kibble every now and then won't hurt. Sometimes I do a spoonful of greek yogurt, a spoonful of lowfat cottage cheese, etc. I also do chicken broth, but it seems like that wouldn't work since you've already tried making gravy with her kibble.

I also sometimes pretend to bake my dog's food bowl in the oven without turning it on. He gets really excited for this, but don't use it too often as she'll catch on pretty quickly.

>>2194689

I only kill ones that can't be removed otherwise, like gnats or things that appear in overwhelming numbers and/or can't be captured like flies.

For everything else, I have detention jars where they stay overnight until I can release them the next day, unless they happen to be caught early enough that I can just put them out that day.

Mosquitos, fleas and especially bedbugs are the only true assholes.
Everything else is harmless or at worst harmlessly annoying.

>>2194689
i just kill the parasites. mosquitos, lice, fleas etc. live in NZ though so nothing can kill me here.

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Only inverts I keep are Freshwater Shrimp various colours (pic) and snails, all aquatic, but I too plan on getting into terrestrial inverts like Centi- or Millipedes intobthe future.

There was this blueish looking centipede, but I forgot his name, that would be my first choice.

I keep a few species of isopods that I've been able to find in my backyard. Mostly Porcellio scaber and Armadillidium vulgare, but I have found some Oniscus asellus.

I'd like to order some some different species in the future along with some sort of roach.

I'm terrified of centipedes but have considered getting one as a pet just to de-sensitize myself toward them. I remember getting apple snails for my aquarium and initially thinking they were spooky-looking water-aliums and thinking neocardina shrimp were like like water-cockroaches but over time they just became kawaii creatures roaming around and trying to live their lives. Maybe if I own a centipede I'll accept them as bros.

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before buying them i read a peta article about how it was terrible to have them as pets
the only point that was true was that i would have nightmares about them being killed

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quack

>>2194639

I'm sorry. I dont even know what those are. I thought they were just ducks. I love ducks though. Comical as heck

Why would you need to pay for a vet visit if your dog is eating chicken bones?

>>2194491
They can choke on them, they can perforate the dog's insides. All kinds of whacky shit can happen to a dog if they eat cooked bones, specially tiny chicken bones.

What if you made some sort of tray on the trunks of the trees to catch them in, OP?

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>>2194497
I was thinking of doing something similar to a suicide barrier under all the branches, but I don't want birds and stuff to get hurt on it. Tought I'd ask around first in case maybe someone's doing something similar before. The pieces of chicken/bones always fall in a roughly 5 foot radius around the trunk of the tree, and the tree is maybe 30 feet tall at most. It only happens every month or so, so just when I think the problem is gone it happens again.

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Another one

where do you live?

Most edible mushrooms in north america need to be cooked in order for them to be safe to eat.

Very few mushrooms are edible in north america. Many edible mushrooms become toxic when their gills turn black.

Used pumpkin seeds to get rid of worms when clinic was closed, worked perfectly.

>>2194319
Brown recluse=pic related? The fuck?

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find some p good fap material here sometimes

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>>2194126
the fact that sharks have been around for far longer than mammals have existed?

>>2194126
Does he think boas are mammals too?

>>2194136
No. He's just a stubborn, autistic idiot.

>>2194106
You've been marked for death.

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I squished the red dot, this is what it looked like..

>>2194106
Doesn't look like an egg, might be so they can track you down

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How about a fancy pet heater?

>>2194048
Do you use senior cat formula food?
Giving her egg might be a good idea. Getting her more exercise should also be good for her.

>>2194048

Im sorry that I dont have an answer; I know little about cats.

Im just posting to say how cool it is that your kitty has had such a long life and that you are still taking such good care of her.

Thank you and be blessed.

<3

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>Brother Octavius what does a horse's face look like?
>Mostly like a human face, I guess. Eyebrows, hairline, whites in their eyes. Just the nose is different.

>>2194029
If it doesn't fear you just grab it and snap its neck. Takes all of five seconds.

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>>2194030
no. it's ferocious, the thing (a cat ?) just attacked me.

>>2194035
cute cade OP