Almost every time we let the dog back in from being outside he runs circles around the inside of the house, over and over before he finally stops. He was only outside for 30 minutes. He doesn’t live outside, so why does he act like he’s never been inside before?




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My kitten has destroyed just about all of the curtains in my house. How can I stop her from doing this?
The spray bottle thing won’t work. She doesn’t while I am sleeping. I have not actually caught her climbing them, but they don’t break by theirselves. I’ve tried holding her up to them and giving her a little spanking doesn’t work. I’ve even tried putting her in her room (the bathroom) and closing her in to for about 30 minutes.




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How do I keep Doves out of my bird feeder?




I finally got squirrels out of my hanging feeder but now I have a new problem. What I believe to be Mourning Doves fly to my feeder and just sit in it feasting on the seeds. The dove will clean out the entire feeder in about 30 minutes and I can’t afford to feed them too! How can I keep them out but still attract the Cardinals, Wrens, Chickadees, etc. that I want?




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It’s been three weeks and my 10-week-old dachshund puppy still barks everytime I put him in his cage. He has a ticking alarm clock, blanket and toys in there with him. I tried putting a blanket over the cage, but that didn’t work. He barks usually for five to ten minutes but sometimes it’s 30 minutes to an hour. He also runs away when he sees me taking a treat near his bed so I can put him in it. I am 22 and he is the first puppy I have ever trained on my own. Please help.




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So I had my cat shaved yesterday and then last night before work, I was cuddling with her and noticed she had a HUGE nick!

I understand 1. my cat is moody 2. my cat is 19 and this was a scary experience 3. shaving a cat is scary for a human 4. accidents happen 5. she squirms 6. it is in the bend of her thigh/belly.. more on the leg, but obviously that would be an easy place to slip on with a squirmy kitty.

HOWEVER. I am NOT happy that they failed to tell me when I picked her up.

I would have been sad had they told me, but they kept it from me and I feel deceived.

I am about to call them and tell them that while I was mostly happy with their work, I feel this deception is unacceptable.

I only paid 35$ and personally that is not much, and I do not expect them to credit me 10$ or whatnot. That wasn’t the deal, "get a discount if ya let us injure your baby!"

I probably wont upset them asking them to credit my credit card… and it certainly wont fix the problem.

I put my cat through this. I feel terrible and I believe this should be addressed with the proper people.

Tell me the conversation you would have with them. They open at 8am EST and I plan to call in the next 30 minutes.
The "nick" is about the length of a dime, but the total size of only 1/3rd-1/2 of a dime. that is significant for a 3 lb 19 year old cat.
they know the cat was knicked. it was not bleeding and had obviously been treated with a clotting agent.. there was no blood.

and YES, ppl shave their cats. I did it because she is so old and moody that she insists on being outside but her long hair has been matting lately and brushing every other day was not stopping it. I needed to get the mats out so they didn’t pull on her skin. They weren’t bad, by any means, but I would have had to cut them out.. a brush wasn’t going through them.

I took her in for a lion cut and she came out looking like a ferret.




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canning fresh salsa is it safe?




here is what i want to do
make salsa; however, don’t cook it. This is the critical step. I DO NOT WANT TO COOK IT.

put it in jars

boil the pint jars for 20-30 minutes

Is this safe.

Freezing isn’t an option. Nor is leaving it fresh an options. I need to use up all my romas and want to do it wtih salsa. I want this to be safe but do not want to cook my salsa before I put it in the jars. Also, how do I know, say, after 2 months, my stuff I canned isn’t any good.
Let me clarify. Only cooking I want to do is when I boil the jars.




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Ok gang, question about Nutro Ultra Holistic?




I’m usually on here every night preaching about the bad things in dog food. I pride myself in being pretty knowledgable about dog foods these days and I am an avid Canidae and Wellness proponent. But I’ve recently found out that Canidae has been bought out by Diamond and has now changed it’s formula a bit to change the make up of it’s carbohydrate content. The size of the bags has also changed and I feel that there are bigger changes that they aren’t telling us about. So I was in my local pet feed store today trying to sort some of this out and price things. Wellness is getting very expensive and there was a rep there from Nutro and longgg story short, 30 minutes later I found myself buying a bag of the Ultra with a rebate coupon. I carefully checked the ingredients and it looks like a great food. Just wondering what my fellow dog lovers think of this food if you are familiar with it. Did I do ok or should I take it back? It’s just as expensive as the Wellness…maybe more.
I looked it up on dogfoodanalysis.com and it’s a 4 star but it looks like it could be better from the label ingredients. It is recommended but the review was from 2005.




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Is Friskies wet food bad for cats?




I started using it because there were so many different flavors. I used to feed him 9 lives, but since it was the same 4 flavors over and over [it came in a big wholesale case] he stopped eating it. When I switched to Friskies he started devouring the food, and it was it sitting out for not even 30 minutes before it was all gone.

Well basically, I get Friskies because it has so many different flavors, and its cheap. My cat doesn’t eat the wet food if it is that pate’ form, only the meat chunks.




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How long should i exercise my puppy?




My german shepherd puppy loves to take walks with me. He’s 10 weeks old and i wondered what the time limit is for a puppy of that age. He keeps up well and i think the longest walk we’ve been on so far has been around 1/2 hour. I get a little worried about hips and elbows since he’s a large breed puppy and growing fast. Is 30 minutes too long? How long of a walk should we go on?




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How often should I give my puppy water?




I have a 13 week old puppy that has yet to be housetrained. But before you say it should be out 24/7, to housetrain you have to take your puppy out 15-30 minutes after it drinks every time, and we can’t follow the puppy around and do this every time it stops for a sip. So how often should we put out water?




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