She doesn't come out until like 3:00 a.m. so it's rare for me to see her..
I've not had her too long, but I really love her!
Also I really want to get some cork to go on my wheel so if you have any recommendations I would appreciate it!
The malinois is a Ulrich and the mutt is poopup.
Poopup is 3 years old Ulrich is 1 year old.
Just curious if anyone else's dogs do this, and also what I could do to make him quit because I'm pretty certain he's annoying her
This is my girl poopup she's 3 years old, her mother was German Shepherd and border Collie her dad was a random smaller dog that broke into my cousin's backyard when her mom was in heat (we still don't know who owned that dog either)
My girl weighs 35 lb at her ideal weight, and she is very very smart.
She might not have energy for days and she has a good off and on switch, in the house she's pretty chill and sleepy outside she's very hyper but gas is out after about an hour or so of play.
I also have a Belgian malinois and I find that she learns things quicker and holds on to things better than he does.
She also does not need treats nor has ever needed treats to want to do something I just choose to give them, but for her a good pet and a good girl is a good enough reward.
She's also incredibly flexible, we have a small 2008 Subaru just a little car and she likes to get between my legs in the front seat and lay down (no she does not ride there)
And she would just get into the weirdest places because of how flexible she is, she can somehow bend her front legs back and rotate them at the shoulder and tell her paws are over her back when trying to squeeze through things.
Really the only issues she has are some skin allergies, every year her hair practically falls out she has to have a cone special shampoos the works because her back gets really scabby regardless of not having fleas.
She also has a fairly sensitive digestive system so can't eat certain things.
And even though I have had her since she was 2 weeks old (her mom did not produce any milk so she had to be bottle raised she was the only puppy out of the litter that made it, so I took her because I knew more about bottle raising animals than my cousin)
She hates other dogs, she doesn't mind puppies very much although she has very little patience for when they're misbehaving although she's pretty good about her corrections and not going overboard.
I've done a lot of training with her so in public you probably wouldn't notice it but she really hates strange dogs especially female and is not scared to get in a fight with them, most of the time she will ignore another dog since I have worked with her a lot knowing that she hates other dogs but if one starts acting foolish lunging for whatever reason or runs right up into her space she will snap at them and lunge back.
(Even with a muzzle people still want their dogs to walk right up to her even after I tell them that she's not friendly.. people are stupid)
She also tends to pee when she gets very excited, or if she sees a person that she really likes like my fiance, she loves him to death I don't know why but she does and she pees every time he just exists around her because she gets so excited. I legit had to teach her to clean it up herself because it was so bad (yes cleaning up herself she will go to the cabinet get a cleaning cloth and then come over and put it on top of her pee and swipe it around, and then she will take the cloth and put it in the dirty clothes)
I was originally going to teach her to be my service dog as I have a few health issues that I don't feel like sharing on the internet, and if there's no other dogs around she's actually wonderful , she tasks well she keeps her focus on me it's just her hatred for other dogs that made me decide to stop training her as a service dog at only a year old.
Even if I avoid the dog friendly areas people around my area are very inconsiderate and will take their dogs into very clearly marked areas that say no pets allowed, and to be honest if she isn't up to the exact standards of a service dog then regardless of how much easier my life would be with her I just don't think it's right to portray her as a service dog when she isn't comfortable around other dogs which she would have to be.
Another thing about her is despite her being a very large portion hurting dog and who knows what else she loves chickens rabbits literally any animal that's not another canine she loves them and gets protective of them, in fact the whole reason she is not spayed right now is because occasionally there will be puppies or kittens that are brought into our animal shelter that would normally be euthanized because they don't have the facilities to care for them, instead I Foster them and she is their nurse mother.
She doesn't hate puppies like I said especially really young ones she will actually happily nurse them, once they start getting teeth and running around being annoying then she starts losing her patience a bit but never becomes dangerous around them.
Her favorite animals by far have to be cats though, she gets a bit defensive around her food but for whatever reason she will let any cat come up and eat right out of her bowl, she lets them sleep on her she always has to go check on the cats every day, I don't know why she loves them so much.
The oldest one is the white one it's two years old and I believe the black one is the youngest at only a few months old.
To add just to avoid confusion, I'm not selling the Ducks I'm purchasing them.
And they're supposed to all be female
So my neighbors kids constantly want to go over into my chicken coop let my chickens out still eggs and break them, and just completely harass everything they actually hurt a young chick terrorizing it, their parents won't keep them at home and the police won't do anything because "they're just kids"
My cousin however has this game rooster that she's wanting to get rid of, he's very mean, like we'll start trying to attack you the second he sees you, so I was thinking of getting him at least temporarily to maybe use him as deterrence to keep the neighbor's kids out, I don't have to go in my coop very frequently anyway since I can just pick up a box to get the eggs, and my feeder and water are hold enough that I don't have to go in there but every two weeks anyway so I'm not too worried about how I'm going to deal with him.
Let me know what you guys think, cuz it's really getting old having to chase kids off 24/7
Also to add I would absolutely trim the roosters spurs, the reason I have this idea anyway is because when they tried to go into my ducks coupe the Ducks turned and attacked them and they haven't been back in there since
Anytime she sees a box she has to sit on it LOL
Specifically talking about a pellet hay mix for bucks.
In my area during the winter hey becomes incredibly hard to get, and unfortunately I don't have a way to store more than a week's worth of hey at a time, so I want to use pelleted hay for the emergency stash during winter.
Currently I have Timothy pellets, but what other kinds of hey pellets should I get to mix together for my goats during winter time when I don't have hay?
There's this person down the road from me, they have three white rabbits which I asked about and they are new zealand's, they got them to breed for meat but they keep them in a four square foot cage all together all the time, with a singular small water bottle and the flooring is just solid wood, they clean it once a week they said....
All three rabbits are kind of yellow because of how dirty they are, one of them has clearly a bad ear Mite infestation, and you can tell by the looks of the rabbits they have been fighting....
Just want to know if I can call animal control and anything actually be done? Or is this not actually considered a legal welfare issue?
I'm not mad about them raising the rabbits for me, I raise news even crosses for meat, but each rabbit also gets eight square feet minimum, and their cages are kept clean
Edit: to add that I am in the United States specifically North Carolina
I have a 1-year-old mixed breed doe, I've put her with my but (who has successfully bred my other doe multiple times)
But this girl just won't allow him, she bunches up and just won't let him, even after he gives her kisses and all of the stuff she still is not interested, I'm of course bringing her to his cage I've even tried putting them in a playpen on completely neutral ground just to try it, but she's just completely not interested.
So I hope you guys have some suggestions, I've never had this issue before so I'm not really sure what to do
She wouldn't go away... so I just gave her a house of her own...
I used a reptile hide in a shallow dish with dirt in it so she can go in and out as she pleases, whether she will use it or not I don't know but I did sit her in it so she knows it's there.....
I guess I have a resident toad now🙃
It keeps trying to break in my house! Like literally I scooped it up and took it all the way across the yard to let it go and about an hour later it's back.... and it's the same one too I can tell by the markings.
Why is it doing this?
I'm sorry the picture isn't that great my phone camera sucks.
The mama deer is named Lucy, on the other side of her she's actually got a white stripe along her side so she's pretty easy to keep tabs on, her little baby is a buckling, and he needs a name, he's pretty playful I see him routinely going around trying to play with other animals, I haven't seen any other baby deer but he's very playful and interested in everything, and I just feel like he needs a name
My mom has a chihuahua, and she was accidentally bred but my cousins dog also a chihuahua,
They did not know she was in heat, and did not realize that she had actually gotten bred, they (did not see it)
They just realized she was getting bigger and bigger and bigger until they took her to the vet and they said she was pregnant, the only intact male she had been around at all this year was my cousins chihuahua.
She's due to have her litter in a couple of weeks, they had an ultrasound done on her and it only seems like she's going to have four puppies (fortunately)
Besides one puppy Maybe, my mom doesn't want to keep them, but she also doesn't want them to go to the shelter and doesn't want them to go to crap homes.
So I thought I would ask on here and her behalf what you would do in her position.
I know my mom should have done a spay abortion, but morally she just couldn't get herself to do it though she's going to be spayed once she has the puppies (I still think she should have done it but my mom is older)
Anywho, any advice on placing the puppies in good homes would be great, my mom is going get all of their shots that they need while they're in her care.
Thank you for any advice you give!
I replaced my mattress, and since I can't haul it off myself I have to wait for someone so it's just sitting outside for right now.
Miss Lucifer (yes that is her name even though she's female I promise she earned it) decided that it belongs to her, my chickens also like to lay on it but she runs them up when she wants to.....
I'm definitely not going to be the most favorite person once it goes to the dump.........
I was hanging out at a local boarding facility that I was taking lessons at, I'm pregnant so I can't right now but I still go there because I have friends there and I just love the horses (fairly certain I'm Free Labor too) the barn is pretty mixed in the type of disciplines that are there, they only teach english, but the people that actually bored there can do whatever they want and there's a big arena that they can play around in.
There were these parents that had their riding her around on a horse, I assume they Barrel Race since they had barrel racing saddles on the horses but that's just an assumption, something spooked the horse and it took off and the kid was strapped in the saddle, like fully strapped in with velcro so there was no way that child was coming off unless the saddle came off with them....
Fortunately the horse was caught and calmed down, the child was unharmed, but why the hell would you strap your child to a freaking horse?! Bad enough that they didn't have a helmet on any of them, but strapping a child to a 1200 plus pound animal?!
I haven't been in too many wrecks, but I've been in just enough to know that strapping yourself to a horse is definitely not a good thing, I would never do it to myself I don't care what the reason is, and I sure as hell would never strap a child to a horse.
I asked them why and they said it's because she doesn't know how to balance it and falls off..... last I checked in order to fix that you're supposed to teach a child how to actually ride the horse, not just strap them there....
The parents themselves also didn't really ride very well, the dad's stirrups were so long he could barely have his toes in them, and the mom looked like she didn't know how to use the stirrups amongst other things, I'm certain they would be eating dirt if the horse just decided to Crow Hop a little.
My blood has been bubbling all day because of it, that child does not deserve to be put in that position (they were around 8 or 9 years old by the looks of it) the child was screaming after the horse freaked out, and just a few minutes later they put the kid back on the horse.
The kid was begging them no because the child was scared, but they told the kid that they were not going to allow her to be a wimp and that she was going to get back on the horse and ride it for a few minutes before they let her quit......
I feel like that child is going to become deeply afraid of horses either that or just hate everything about horses when they're older
I do not believe it's a cribbing collar, this horse is a working Ranch horse, they use it to go work cattle and do stuff on a ranch, they put these collars on all of the horses that they're riding but they take it off when they take the bridal off.
Creeping collars stay on that's why I believe it's not what this is, just curious to know what it actually is and what it's for, I thought it was strange
Almost every time I see someone riding western and every time I see them in a show, I never see a helmet on them, usually when I do see someone wearing a helmet riding western either they grew up doing English or they just ride as a hobby, whereas English Riders outside of a select few always wear helmets, whether they're just walking around a round pen or actually going to a show, every single time I see them outside of like two they always have a helmet on.
I myself grew up riding western and was just never told to wear a helmet, once I got older and started learning I started wearing a helmet and no one cared, but I know a lot of Western Riders will also pick on you for wearing a helmet, not all of them of course but in my personal experience quite a few will.
So I figured I would post on here and ask why so many don't wear helmets, because it really boggles my mind, I know some of the more common answers are that they trust their horse, that their horse is well-trained, that they know how to ride well enough not to fall off, however I'm 20 and have been riding horses my whole life and both I and my 40-year-old instructor have both fell off when the horse did absolutely nothing, I've literally just not been paying attention and fell off, I've been not paying attention and the horse step sideways I fell off, I was getting on a horse they stepped to the side I fell and hit my head on the mounting block thank God for that helmet.
So I just think the few answers that I have gotten are quite stupid, so I really want to know you guys' opinion on it
I was just scrolling through YouTube and came across a horse show, it was for draft horses it had different clips, some of horses just being led on a halter around the arena and others were pulling wagons, they were mainly percherons but there was a couple of Clips with belgians and all of them had feet like this.
So I looked up what their feet looked like for shows and this is what came up, I'm very familiar with percherons and belgians I grew up with them my grandfather used them for work and their feet never looked like this, they looked just like normal horse Hooves just bigger.
They did have papers but they were not used for show they were used for work so I assume that's the main difference, but I'm curious as to why they would do this for show anyway why not just have their feet normal, I also feel like it would be more comfortable if their feet were normal
I have a empty 10 gallon just sitting on my porch looking at me, I already have a 20 gallon setup with fish in it but I would like to have my 10 gallon as well so what do you think I should stock it with? I'd rather not have shrimp as I just don't have good luck with them and I have an allergy to slime snails produce so I would rather not have those.
Past that as long as it's fresh water I'm up for anything As long as it's not as fragile as a feather.
Also preferably I would like something that brings a lot of life to the tank and I would like it to be a species only take
I couldn't get a picture but I was at the lake, specifically Kerr Scott Lake in North Carolina and Someone caught a carp, I wasn't fishing I was just walking around enjoying myself, and that car was bright orange from its midsection to its belly and it's top half was still orange but more of a murky color, it wasn't a large goldfish it was about 2 ft long and had whiskers, it was built more like a koi fish than a goldfish, just curious if it can actually happen in the wild or is it an imposter?