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I'm pretty sure my dog doesn't really like me and would rather spend even more time with my mom, my uncle or her best doggyfriend.
What do I do?
I was thinking suicide but I'm open to other suggestions.
Bribery.
YOU MUST DOMINATE
>>2019466
Be the only one to feed it
Cuddle it often
play with often (fetch, tug of war, wrastling)
Walk it a couple times a day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ihXq_WwiWM
Is Cesar in the wrong her? What would be the proper way to tame that dog?
>>2019417
If it stops the dog been put down and a baby getting hurt how can it be wrong?
I've noticed whenever I airkiss dogs they always get mad and bark at me
Happens 100% no matter the dog.
Why is this /an/?
>>2019417
Unfortunately he was. Apparently, CM doesn't understand canine body language very well. The dog kept signalling that she felt threatened and she needed space but he kept challenging her and invaded her space.
See:
>https://www.psychologytoday. com/blog/animal-emotions/201411/holly-bites-cesar-when-you-hit-dog-theres-price-pay
> Unrelated video, on stress signals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaxCYgqh2ao
I don't think "to tame"...
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Anyyone have any idea of what he might be doing? He's been ripping up newspaper and creating that little mess in the corner. He's a 13 year old peachfaced lovebird and still very active and had a companion who passed away about 5 years ago.
>>2019072
He's trying to rebuild his companion, of course. He researched for so long.
Finaly he (thinks he) have the technology.
Maybe later he will realise one component is still missing - your soul. Or something like that.
>>2019072
Could be nesting behavior. Nothing serious, install a grate or something.
>>2019072
He's trying to get comfy. Cassowaries do this too with your organs.
>had mice as a lad
>the girl ones give birth
>they all start eating the babies
>dad throws the whole mice tank into the garbage bin in disgust
not even once...
Your dad was a retard.
Who gets differently gendered rodents?
Retards do.
Like your dad.
My family had two mice and two gerbils once, kept them all in a cage together. Thought they were all male, until one day my mother looks in and goes "... I think that mouse is a girl. And she's pregnant."
Gave birth a few weeks later. Housed them in a different cage. A runt disappeared, and we figured she ate it, but other than that all peachy. Until mother decided to put the female and male together again. Even at like, 10 I knew that was a fucking stupid idea, but she's all "No it's okay they love each other" or something. Then bitch-mouse...
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>>2018955
My cat keept catching mice a few months ago so i started putting them in a fish tank, had about 12 of them in there and kept throwing them food and what not.
They did not care they slowly consumed all of the mice until only one gladiator mouse survived, after earning his place as king of the fish tank i gave him freedom.
How expensive are turtles and how hard is it to take care of one?
>>2018816
They are a lot more effort than they seem.
If we take a red eared slider for example, you should get for an adult:
-100 gal tank
- a good filter, they produce a lot of waste
- something to make a dry land part out of. rocks, bark, etc.
-heat lamp
-heater for water
-gravel/sand
-a varied diet consisting out of water plants and insects, worms, shrimp, fish, etc. The pellets pet stores sell are shit and it's best to never feed them to your turtle.
I had 2 red ears when I was a kid. Aquarium half filled with .25 of it flat rock.
Used to keep sword tails in the tank too. When I didn't feed them, they'd catch fish... tear fish apart. Fish heads fish heads.
Unfortunately, both died the same way- drowned. RIP turtles. I tried to make it so they couldn't get trapped, but failed..
So I guess the only advice I can offer is be carful with rocks. One got trapped, the other pushed rocks and got pinned.
If I were to do it again, I'd use wood so they'd be able to free themselves if in trouble.
>>2018858
Ive never heard of a turtle drowning, they absorb oxygen through their skin dont they?
Hey I really need help. I inherited this white russian dwarf hamster today. How do I take care of it? I fucking killed the 3 hamsters I owned as a kid. I want to give this hamster the best possible life to make up for killing sparky, bacon, and jack.
Some questions I have about its cage (pic)
>What hay is best for it?
>Does it need a bigger cage?
>Is the pellet food the best? Or should I feed it something else?
>How often can I give it treats for training?
>>2018788
how did you kill your three? I had many hamsters. Did you choke them or drown them or tie them to a balloon and let them float away
>>2018799
The first one fell off a balcony, the second one died after fighting another hamster, the third one slowly burned on top of a radiator.
What happened to your hamsters?
>>2018803
You got to be trolling.
The sheer levels of fails you demonstrate is killing me.
If you could keep any lizard, what would it be and why is it a Crocodile monitor?
Water monitors look cooler, but even with the space I don't have a good enough excuse to have a mini kaiju.
Here's a channel I like with a guy who has giant lizards. He recently got fucked up by his blue tail monitor.
https://www.youtube.com/user/bigboy3293/
I'd prefer either a water monitor or maybe a komodo because I like being able to interact with my animals.
Croc monitors are too prone to snapping and fucking you up for my taste.
I can completely understand, I'd love to be able to keep a croc monitor more than anything else but I'm just not sure if it'd be worth the risk. These things are supposed to be wicked smart and unpredictable, and those teeth are absolutely terrifying.
hey guys what can i feed an emperor besides crickets? i get 20 crickets every 2 weeks for mine but right now nobody's giving me a ride and the pet store is like 15 miles away can't walk either he's been hungry since sunday
>>2018745
mealworms
>>2018745
Beetles/cockroaches etc. Go spend 5 minutes in your garden as long as you don't spray pesticides too often.
>>2018752
I have mealworms but he never gets out of his cave so whenever I throw in the crickets he only eats when they enter his cave if I put a mealworms dish they won't be eaten
Why can't I fucking grow Ivy /an/?
All my other houseplants are doing fine but my I've gone through 3 Ivy plants that die in a few weeks. I have Orchids which are supposed to be harder than Ivy!
Every time I get a pot of Ivy it dies the same, it's leaves wilt and go dry, brittle and brown and they all drop off.
I give it plenty of water making sure the soil is wet and it has as much light as my other house plants.
Sorta sudden temperature changes kills the plant
Check for fungus /spider mites.
Google watering and no rot
>>2018692
So it's the same species as in your pic? I have english Ivy outside in a pot. It's darker than the pic because it gets excess sun. Maybe yours isn't getting enough sun. Maybe you don't have enough drainage. Although I initially had mine inside with less light and it was growing fine.
I just water it once a day during summer, couple hours of direct sunlight a day. Shitty pine bark potting mix.
It's not a sensitive plant. Unless you had some other kind of ivy.
>>2018722
On my Ivy the leaves are lighter and the leaves have whitish green edges.
Ok, /an/. I'm taking care of a chameleon for a week, and have little idea on how to care for one. Any tips?
>>2018206
Who the fuck let you take care of it for a week without telling you how?
>>2018207
I had someone do that to me with a cat. I ended up accidentally kicking it across the kitchen.
>Dont touch it
>Dont touch it
>It has to be in high humidity but also needs airflow, hopefully the person who youre taking care of it for left you the set up
>dont fucking touch it
>depending on how long youre taking care of it you may have to gutload the feeders for him along with dusting
Im sure theres more stuff but thats all I've picked up second hand from my bro who has one
So my rabbit just released a single, short, shrill squeak. She doesn't appear to be in pain and is acting normal otherwise. Anybody ever had this happen or know what it could mean?
>pic unrelated
She probably got spooked.
When I was a kid my little brother's rabbit escaped and hid under the shed. Lured her out with a carrot and when I grabbed her, that was the day I learned rabbits not only do make noise - but also the loudest, most horrifying of ones.
She was just sitting in her cage while I was playing GTA 5 though. Nothing loud or jarring happened other than her scream.
>>2018198
Maybe she had a nightmare
>Be me
>Moved to another town
>Big cat friend, always calling and petting them on street
>Notice cats are very spooked and socially autistic towards humans here
>"Why?? I just wanna pet cats!"
>Months later friend told me the town has always had a cat killer
>lol but the cats don't know that, rite?
Or do they? It could be that they...
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>>2017781
You don't have to be smart to experience death and loss. They just learned to be more wary of people, for better or for worse. I feel that dogs would respond in the same way.
>>2017868
Dogs are acting pretty normal. I live in a dog neighbourhood with a lot of nice parks and I see them playing around with their humans. The strange thing about this is that the cats aren't really as afraid of dogs if they are friendly. I even saw a dog sniffing a cat in the leash free park.
What do you mean with experiencing death? It's not like they've seen the cat killer beating a cat up or something. I heard he sometimes takes the cats home and beats/mutilates them, but I'm not sure if...
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I don't understand that logic at all.
A cat killer kills all the friendly cats so now all thats left are shy or unfriendly cats. How does that imply the unfriednly and shy cats somehow learned to be that way? Cats have different temperments. If there was no cat kill there would still be shy and unfriendly cats but you would ignore them because you're busy petting the friendly cats.
Literally common sense.
Come watch cute animal livecams with me /an/
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/china-panda-cam-3
Anyone know of other good livecam sites?Preferably wildlife ones.
http://www.eagles.org/Cams/FloridaNest-archived.html
They are likely to hatch on the 23rd. Hope you'll be there, OP.
Cute kitten cam
http://www.apl.tv/kittens.htm
>>2017664
http://www.africam.com/wildlife/
i have some neat videos on my old desktop from 2008, you reminded me i need to go get those
i recall one of a lion and a zebra drinking froma watering hole, completely ignoring eachother. amazing
I have a 75 gallon fish tank.
What should I stock in it? I so far know I want 2 German Rams
Get a snakeskin gourami.
Jizz in it. Sometimes the fish will eat it.
>>2017373
meme tetras and meme balls
in seriousness though, i like dwarf cichlids and killifish. both have a wide variety of specimens to choose from, and most of them look cool as fuck. i also really enjoy puffers, but those require their own tank most of the time.
Can anyone post a picture of a white cat on a garage or something that looks like a garage?
I'm trying to find a home for a FIV-positive white cat which I thought was stray but turned out he had very neglectful owners, so just to be safe and avoid any possible problems I want to use a photo of a different cat (and one you can't find on google)
bumping with cat pictures
>>2017104
You're very paranoid, OP. You're basically asking for very specific OC. Good luck though.
