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dire wolf corgi

It's a high content wolfdog and no they don't make good pets, neither do medium contents. Low contents why the fuck even bother.

>>2094607
Try a dog shampoo with oatmeal, it's soothing to the skin. Make sure you use a moisturizing conditioner like with coconut oil. Brush him out and fully dry his coat.

Skin problems can be caused by allergies. Allergies to specific proteins are more common than grain allergies.

>>2094607
The dog doesn't look well cared for. The answer is to first put it on a high quality dog food and bath it with oatmeal shampoo as suggested, once a month. If the problem persists you should take the dog in to consider allergies. Though, it looks and sounds like a grooming and nutrients problem.

>>2094672
How do you know if a dog is well cared for?

I'm not OP but I'm always worried I'm fucking up my pupper

>>2094123
>My question is just HOW BAD an idea is this, mildly stupid or she gonna die stupid?

google.com

gentamicin sulfate safe human

What makes a kitty cat pee blood? Do some cats just do this with no issue? My cat has done it off and on, and I have had him treated. But he seems to have nothing wrong, I just give him some special CATCH ALL urinary problem food and Boom he's better.

I figured something like peeing blood would be a bigger issue, and my google searches would agree. The vet agreed too, but he never has any worse issues.

I live in the sticks though, and this is a simple country vet.

So do some cats just pee blood sometimes like it's no biggie? Boy cat by the way, pretty young too. And absolutely healthy seeming otherwise.

>>2094438

Vet student here. Blood in the cat's urine is NOT normal. Without any further diagnostics, I couldn't really say exactly what is wrong, but what I would say is that cats often present with urinary crystals and this COULD be the case here.

I would be tempted to go find another vet/go back to your vet, get some diagnostics done (e.g a urine analysis) to rule out an infection and discuss renal diets on a permanent basis to see if that would help at all.

Cats hide pain extremely well, your cat may look six hundred percent healthy on the outside whilst being in pain.

>>2094123

Given its a corticosteroid and an antibiotic, not her best idea. I'd be tempted to give poison control a ring and see what they say. It can also cause birth defects in pregnant animals, so hope you guys aren't trying for a baby.

Please guys, don't use veterinary drugs on yourself.

>>2093527
there are hundreds of stories like this. birds are dumb anyways. my conure always wants to rub her cloaca on me and its disgusting. this morning i opened her cage and she flew at my face biting the shit out of my neck, screaming, and grinding her cloaca on me leaving this nasty slime trail. why did i ever agree to take this bird. it was a rescue.

maybe i give it to OP and he can give it the whisper of death for me like he did to his other victims. regular dr kevorkian over here.

> be me
> have sweet orange/gold cresty
> roommates cats a shit
> break into cresty enclosure and chase him
> find gecko under bed a couple days later
> dropped his tail and has some wounds but still kicking
> couple months later
> cats get in again
> gecko nowhere to be found
> 8 days later this mother fucked just shows up in the foyer, dry as a bone and clinging to life
> plot twist
> revive him back to health, let him destress for a while and give him to a friend
> still see him every and then when I go to buddy's house
> bro is chill as fuck and has a cool scar from where the cats got him

My relationship died. Can I have support also?

>>2093409
clean your living space for once

What's a Turk doing in your living room?

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>>2093409
Give her food, she'll clean up your trash

All snakes require some amount of supplementary heat.

Look for used reptile setups/aquariums.

These things are so, so cheap. I know because I've had to sell a few Exo Terra setups. You're talking $400 in cage/decor/heat/etc for $50.

It's a great sham of the pet trade. This stuff is overpriced like crazy. Lighting and radiant heat panels are about the things that have realistic new/resale prices. I am staring at 2 PVC cages (one $500, and one $350) here in my living room. I'll be lucky to get $75 for either of them. Exo Terra cages - let's say 18x12x24, that's a $200 cage - $30 or so used.

Never buy this shit new unless you're deadly serious about keeping it forever. Take it from a 20 year vet of the trade.

>>2093078


Thanks, I thought about buying used as the prices for new cages etc. Are horrendous.
Since snakes also need heat lamps that's going to get hard. I'm paying already 2 bulbs with combined ~ 80 watts and wouldn't want to pay electric bills for an additional pair.

Guess another reptile won't be manageable.

>>2092768
He's banned from here for good

>>2092772
That doesn't help us because he is constantly shitposting about insects on our board so what the fuck /an/ your cancer spread to our already cancerous board!

until he has a global ban just filter him

Cats eat your asshole at night and rape mom and dad

Ducks and dolphins love rape. Ducks so much that their cock is as long as their body with sharp spines and the females have fake vaginas to prevent undesired mating.

>>2092319
You are my favorite animal OP...


ummmm

These two are both fun articles:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19388_6-things-you-wont-believe-animals-do-just-like-us.html

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-sociopathic-assholes-disguised-as-adorable-animals/

I personally like this little tidbit


>Bengal finches not only have rules of syntax when it comes to songs, but they also get mighty pissy when other finches break them.

>Researchers at Kyoto University recorded the tweets, chirps and chi-chi-chu-wee-reeeees of a group of finches, then played the songs back to a different group. After a while, the scientists pulled a fast one by taking the same songs and jumbling them up -- forming new "sentences," if you will. In most cases, the finches didn't seem to care. But one version of the jumbled song made the finches go bananas.

>They started screeching angrily -- the kind of call usually reserved for intruding enemy finches. The scientists tried playing the same sound sample again with another group, and they got pissed, too -- virtually every finch that heard it, in fact. The scientists had accidentally created the finch song version of a your/you're mistake.

>In case you're thinking that maybe they had just accidentally created a finch song that naturally sounds violent or threatening, they played it for a group of finches that had been raised in isolation -- they never lived with finches in the wild. They were fine with it. They didn't screech.

>But then when those same finches spent two weeks with the first group, the ones that went apeshit at the sound of the song, soon they started getting pissed off at it, too. Being around the other finches taught them the rules of their "grammar," and taught them to get enraged at those who misuse it.

Go for anything at the local pound, special breeds tend to be overly expensive inbred shits while pound dogs are cheap and need the love and attention more than anything

>>2091270
I want a solid dog that has been handled, socialized, and started training by its breeder as a puppy, pre 8 weeks. First 12 weeks are super important. Fuck this hur dur moral mutts bullshit.

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A non shedding coat is always a huge plus. Since you seem to want a large dog, the Bouvier des Flandres would be perfect.

>>2084770
Not sure. Aren't slime molds supposedly really intelligent, and good at problem solving?

Not sure what kind of enclosure you plan on putting them in, but I'm pretty sure they can escape from anything that isn't airtight, infesting the rest of your home.

No idea what they eat. Probably everything.

Try sucking a dick

I'm no expert, but try to mimic the conditions you've seen it occurring in in the wild (most likely humid and shaded). Maybe try to contact a mycologist or something to identify it. You'll want a growth medium for it, see if you can get hold of some agar gel (you may be able to make a substitute in the kitchen at home) and a petri dish. Make mazes out of card and shit in the petri dish, watch it navigate them and stuff.Keep the petri dish closed to retain humidity and prevent the colony from spilling over, just use an elastic band or something. Not sure how anoxic conditions affect their growth though

>>2095216
Try adding some pumpkin to his food and give him probiotics if you are concerned.

Mine only goes once or twice a day. He is fine but that does not mean that your dog is automatically fine too. Call your vet and see what they recommend

pumpkin & kefir or natural yoghurt helps digestion

OP is not a human being but an empty shell that once held hopes and dreams

>>2095016
interesting little tidbit for you:
in America, the names of insects are deliberately separate or conjoined based on this fact. Honey bees ARE bees, so its two words. Dragonflies are not flies, so it is one word. House flies, Dobsonflies, etc all follow this rule. In Europe they don't give a shit so its honeybees and whatnot.

>inb4 some butthurt european starts rambling about Celsius or Kinder eggs because they take this as a personal attack on their way of life

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>>2095048
Useful.
>Dobsonflies
JESUS CHRIST HOW HORRIFYING

>>2094855
You would have loved any other dog just as much. Thanks for contributing to the awful problems that lead to millions of dogs leading torturous existences.

>>2094858
He was a rescue. The negroes that had him moved and left him to starve.

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>>2094863
Oh, good job then.

>>2094830
Sorry, your love was not wasted. It meant alot to your pupper. Nothing can take that from you.

Sorry OP but slightly related - do dogs have blood types? Like say my dog lost a lot of blood for whatever reason - would she need specific dog blood? Do vets have backup dog blood?

>>2094842
No idea. All I know is my dog started losing blood throughout the night and we weren't able to get him to the vet fast enough in the morning (further away).

What I would assume though is that your first priority would be to stop the bleeding, just so that he doesn't lose more than he already has. After that, it's a coin toss.