Re: Pets
Posted: June 21st, 2016, 10:52:13 pm
I'm getting a bearded dragon hatchling, is there anything I need t know before getting it? Like food they eat or even a diet
Now it gets weirder. Sirius Lee died last September. in November, we took in my daughter's puppy ostensibly while she was in the hospital with a newborn. With one thing and another coming up, he has been with us most of the time since. There is a hole in the back fence that he can get out, so we've been taking him out on a leash for a few months now. (Grouchy neighbor won't fix it himself, nor accept any "lesser" fix than his own.) In the last few weeks, he too has developed an aversion to the back yard. He is often reluctant to go out the back door and, once out, doesn't want to go to the back of the yard. He will pull back against the leash and has even tried to slip his collar once past the tree in the middle of the yard. Nothing has happened to him back there, but he is exhibiting the exact same behaviors as Sirius Lee, though the 2 never met.MistyoC wrote:Sirius Lee is afraid of the back yard again. Every now and again, something makes him too scared to go out into our fenced back yard. This time, it's so bad that he's peed in the house twice and snarled at me the first time when I shoved him out the door to finish. (He was scared and I was being aggressive because he'd peed in the house. I should have realised sooner that it was fear causing the problem.) Today, I've been taking him out on his leash and he'll go once he's out there, but he is scared, won't go past the point of the hill, and heads right back in once he's done. I'm not really asking for advice, just ranting that my dog is a wimp. lol He usually gets over it after a week or 2. It's just obnoxious to have to coddle a 70+lb dog through potty trips, especially when it's cool and rainy.
Could there be some wild animals that visit the yard, and that makes it smell weird? Or even neighborhood cats if the pee in there? Maybe a weird continuous noise that the pups can hear but humans can't? Or ant/wasp/other insect nests and they've bitten/stung the dogs without it being clearly noticeable?MistyoC wrote:Now it gets weirder. Sirius Lee died last September. in November, we took in my daughter's puppy ostensibly while she was in the hospital with a newborn. With one thing and another coming up, he has been with us most of the time since. There is a hole in the back fence that he can get out, so we've been taking him out on a leash for a few months now. (Grouchy neighbor won't fix it himself, nor accept any "lesser" fix than his own.) In the last few weeks, he too has developed an aversion to the back yard. He is often reluctant to go out the back door and, once out, doesn't want to go to the back of the yard. He will pull back against the leash and has even tried to slip his collar once past the tree in the middle of the yard. Nothing has happened to him back there, but he is exhibiting the exact same behaviors as Sirius Lee, though the 2 never met.MistyoC wrote:Sirius Lee is afraid of the back yard again. Every now and again, something makes him too scared to go out into our fenced back yard. This time, it's so bad that he's peed in the house twice and snarled at me the first time when I shoved him out the door to finish. (He was scared and I was being aggressive because he'd peed in the house. I should have realised sooner that it was fear causing the problem.) Today, I've been taking him out on his leash and he'll go once he's out there, but he is scared, won't go past the point of the hill, and heads right back in once he's done. I'm not really asking for advice, just ranting that my dog is a wimp. lol He usually gets over it after a week or 2. It's just obnoxious to have to coddle a 70+lb dog through potty trips, especially when it's cool and rainy.
Oh I'm sorry ): Sadly some people are so careless, and Its a hard way to loose a pet.Brynmala wrote:we lost our little white and black cat, Minou, yesterday because of a careless driver She was only 5. In nearly 30 years of having cats she's the first I've lost to a road accident. Somehow I always knew we wouldn't have her long, but all the same. She'd lost her collar and tag (again!) a couple of days ago but some lovely lady took her to the vet to check her microchip. I'm very grateful to her as we might never have known what had happened otherwise. Very sad and upset and today we need to dig a hole for her