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It almost looks like a large silverfish.

>>2011328
It's a wood louse.

brown recluse

Sorry for your loss. Inform petsmart and they will tell you what to do. I would probably look elsewhere if you are still looking.

>>2011339
I got a refund and im going to take the other one to a 24/7 vet

Unfortunately many pet stores have a company that ships these animals to them, and they suffer a lot of trauma during the packaging process. Maybe you just got unlucky and managed to pick one with hemorrhaging in the brain or some shit.

It could

>>2009934
Weimaraner. They're often used for hunting.

>>2009939
mhm thanks. not soooo cute when they are older...

>>2009944
Take a joke please. It's a fucking pit bull.

I would adopt that dog right now.

Damn OP they sound awful. I'm glad you didn't adopt out that dog to them, though.
I have a friend who makes me rage
>she has a 6 yr old toy poodle
>milky eyes, she refuses to admit its cataracts
>dogs teeth are rotting
>her family feeds him table scraps constantly
>poor socialization, he's scared of new people and even the calmest of dogs
>never gets walked. this dog is SIX and still uses potty pads despite the family having a fenced front and back yard

>recently injured his hip by jumping off the bed
>she tells me that he whines when he needs to use the stairs so someone will carry him up or down
>ask if she took him to the vet
>no, he's just acting injured because he's a lazy dog

I feel so fucking bad for this dog. Poodles are usually so outgoing and intelligent but this dog is neurotic and useless. To make things worse, thus girl is planning to get a new dog when she moves out of her parents' house.

>walk past some guy with a german shepherd
>it just sits in a pen outside all day
>barks at everything
>pass him one time while he was giving it a short walk
>it starts going crazy barking
>he boots it in the face 5 times until it cries

fucking hell

Check wikipedia sources

There's a good blog on it by retrieverman

>>2013290
Pedigree Exposed has linked some case studies and articles. You'll have to comb through the biased blog to find them. They recently did a whole month of looking through the pug's unhealthy structure.

Something else you should look into is reading up on what makes good structure in a dog, and then examining the breed standard itself! Breed-specific structural issues especially. Genetic diseases can be avoided, but things like short muzzles and excessive wrinkles are required and unhealthy.

Are you doing a specific breed, or is it in general?

When I was little my mom got me a kitten for my birthday and the first thing she did when I picked her up out of the box was go to town, destroying my neck so my mom had her declawed. She was always a feisty thing, even in old age. I did not notice a change in her personality she would still try to scratch me when she was pissed even though she hadn't had claws in years. She only bit very rarely.

The only problem we really had with her was that she would vomit all the time, like several times a week. Vet said that there wasn't anything wrong with her, she just did it. Different foods didn't help so I just got used to pickings up throwup. I noticed she did it more often if I ignored or pissed her off though

declawed cats tend to be more aggressive and go straight to biting when in fear since they don't have their claws. I've noticed they tend to be much more shy as well, which makes sense considering their natural defense mechanism is gone

many vets also caution that declawed cats are prone to arthritis due to not stretching when scratching things to sharpen their claws like other cats do

additionally, they will sometimes be very picky about what litter they will and will not use because of how it feels on the mutulated paws, so finding a litter they like is important

but every cat is an individual, so if she's typically nice, then good! just be mindful of the subtle signs of stress that tend to be followed by a bite

good on you for adopting her if you choose to OP

I have fantasies about cutting off the tips of people's fingers who get their cats declawed. An eye for an eye.

>>2012659
the only sure way to know is if it comes to you in a dream. but it has to be explicit, you have to be told "your spirit animal is the leather bear" etc.

Or you go to spirit animal camp and get assigned one.
https://youtu.be/Aa9BqpLUI1Y

So you're not only a rapist, murderer and necrophile but a pedophile too - often all at the same time. Interesting, OP.

Bobbit Worm

have you tested if it was constipation?

>>2012148
How do you test that? I dont usually see them poop. I dont have spare tank to isolate him

>>2012223
>I dont usually see them poop
I never saw my hoplo poop either for years. At this point I figure, it's magic.
>10 years old and I read that their life span is around 5 years
Take that with a grain of salt. They are relatives of corys and some of those live for ~20 years or even older.
>all swollen up. Especially his eyes and belly
Sorry, I can't help you with that, mine never had a problem like this. But if the other is healthy, it's probably not an infectious disease. Maybe a fish bladder problem? Or constipation, like that anon said?>>2012148 I don't know. How do you even cause a fish to have diearrhea anyway lol? I think you should research what to feed him in this case.
Hope he'll get better

Orca. Humans are lawful evil, orca are just chaotic evil.

>>2012080
honey badger

>>2012080
that sentence killed my eyes

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>>2011820
I know how you feel, I've lost pets over the years, and that regret, that... wish... that I could've done more for my little friend always haunt me.

With cremation, you'll get the ashes back and he will always be with you.

The fluid will vontinue to fill his body and this will cause breathing problems heart doesnt pump fast enough.

If fluid is not removed again. He will no longer beable to move and eventually stop breathing lungs are too much work for body use.

My grandfather let him "sleep in" when fluid removal was too often (heart weak) i think you will notice when its time.

I wish you prosperity

>>2011668
To have a companion?

>>2011674
And what happens when I get killed by an intruder? It'll eat me then die when he's out of human to eat.

>>2011679
It might if no one comes to investigate.

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I had to put my girl down yesterday. Wasting away from kidney and heart failure wasn't how I wanted her to go. Got her under this bigass rock she used to sit on when she was hunting rats.

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>>2011324
my cat died today too senpai.

He had urinary obstruction, and while the vet was washing his bladder he had a heart failure.

I was too fucking late.

He helped me go through depression. And right now was the worst possible moment he could've died, as I've had one of the worst weeks I've had in a fucking year.

I just feel like shit and drinking heavily to stop the pain.

I just loved him so fucking much. He was only 3 years old.

>>2011394
>He helped me go through depression. And right now was the worst possible moment he could've died, as I've had one of the worst weeks I've had in a fucking year.
>I just feel like shit and drinking heavily to stop the pain.
Same shit here, cat died a few days ago.

This is hitting me so much harder than I thought it would and whenever anything else bothered me this much I always just went to my cat, I'm trying to avoid drinking, but I really fucking need it.

>>2010692

Conroy, it's root name and meaning means hound of the battlefield

>>2010708
Thanks for the input.

>>2010692
Shadow
Ivan
Sergei
Stoner
Browning
Siminov
Kalashnikov
Colon
Robin

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>>2010553
cool snek

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My snek