u/quokkafarts

I don't know Debby, if you could only keep one of your kids which one would YOU keep?

"I mean which one do you love the most? You must have a favourite!"

WHICH ONE OF YOUR KIDS IS YOUR FAVOURITE, DEBBY???

Don't get me wrong, I don't consider myself a 'pet parent' or whatever, my pets are grown adult men with their own lives and shit. But what is the goal here, am I supposed to be like "actually I hate all of them except this one, i adopted the rest by accident thanks for reminding me i need to fix that"??

WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME DEBBY???

So for a while there I didn't have a dog door, so he was trained to let me know when he needed to go out. Then he suddenly discovered he could piss in random spots inside instead of holding it until the morning. Flawless plan.

Dad found the piss spots. The dog didn't think dad can smell piss. I can and I found them.

First things first the dog door situation is corrected and he knows it must be used under punishment of being a Bad Boy. But now my house fucking stinks, pretty sure I've found all his spots but no carpet cleaner I've tried fully gets rid of it. I've tried soaking the spots in just about every commercially available enzyme spray and then using my regular carpet cleaning stuff after about 24 hours but man, my house still smells pissy.

Prefer to buy in a store (WA) but will also buy online. Please free me from this piss prison.

Edit: he is brushed every day with a slicker brush and comb depending on his tolerance. Should have stated that off the bat.

To shave or not to shave, that is the question. Or are there other options? Google just brought up shaving and how to detangle matts generally. To be clear I'm only talking about his armpits, not the rest of him.

This dweeb is a mutt but 60% pom. He has a really soft, downy undercoat that matts like crazy, especially at the back of his ears and under his armpits (I know he doesn't have arms but idk what else to call that area). Have to check him every day and pull them apart by hand. It's not so bad in summer, but it's winter here now; first pic is him in summer, second is him all poofed out for snuggle weather. To make it more fun he HATES getting brushed there, even with a small comb. He was reactive to grooming generally when I got him which we've pretty much solved, but the really sensitive areas are a total NO.

He gets professionally groomed every month, I'm considering asking them to shave there but the closer the matt is to the skin the harder it is to get cus he hates it and wiggles, so I'm worried about it growing out between grooms and matting at the skin.

So instead of just downloading the damn ebook I had to spend like 20 minutes debating if I should take to the seas, deciding no the author needs to be paid, then another 20 mins googling how to buy it legally, then another 10 minutes changing all my settings to pay more for it in US$ and back again just so I can read a GOTDANG book.

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(If you have this problem and use Kobo, change your address to somewhere random in the US. It made me put in all my payment data again while crashing out so had to do that like 3 times, and I had to pay in US$ so it was almost twice as expensive, but it was a good read so worth it)

No papillon in his DNA, he is a mutt that is primarily pomeranian with a bit of shih tzu and cattle dog. He can hear other dimensions and I credit that to his floofs.

Working from bed due to this horrible bug going around, his love for the bog roll is keeping my spirits up.

If you're wondering about the floppy tail, that is due to a spinal injury. Don't worry he is totally fine besides the floppy feather duster.

Only real surprise in his breed is the high content of cattle dog; knew he had some herding in him by his behaviour by didn't think it would be that much. Was sold to his old owner as pom x Maltese.

How reliable are those genetic illness results though? He came from a byb and had only 33% genetic diversity (lower than average). Not complaining obviously, but should I get an embark to double check? Not even a carrier for anything just seems a bit too good to be true.

When there is torture, there is pain and wounds. Physical agony and all this distracts the mind from mental suffering so that one is tormented by the wounds until the moment of death. And the most terrible agony may not be in the wounds themselves but in knowing for certain that within an hour, then within 10 minutes, then within half of a minute, and now at this very instant, your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person. And that this is a certain, the worst thing is that it is certain.

(BTW you contract it by patting strange dogs at the park)