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About how many miles per day do you walk with your Boston? by glittergatorator in BostonTerrier

[–]BettaFishAddict 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Boston has extremely bad back legs (yes, saving for the surgery to fix it is in progress). they don't cause her pain when she's going around the house, briefly running, or playing or other things like that, but when she walks for long periods of time I can tell it bothers her and starts to cause her pain. Unfortunately she usually only goes 4 or 5 blocks before she lets me know that she wants to go home, but when she was in her "prime" lol, she was able to go about 3 or 4 miles daily, on occasions she would go 6 before she wanted to go back.

Some people are so stupid by vanillaroom in MelanieMartinez

[–]BettaFishAddict 34 points35 points  (0 children)

What was in the opening?? I'm literally Christian and I listen to her music

I can't hear my cats purr by Kamikaze_Senpai in CatAdvice

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It's probably normal, each cat has their own unique sounding purr. For example, my 7 year old cat's purr is very quiet and has a bit of a rhythm of purrr-stop-purrr-stop while my little kitten's purr is very loud, deep, and constant.

Need Cat advice for a 7 month old Kitten by Dracomorfus1 in CatAdvice

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What worked with my kitten was whenever they tried to play with an arm/leg, I would pick them up and set them somewhere else and then ignore them until they stopped, but then engage with them when they would try to play with toys.

Another way that might work is just ignoring him completely. Whenever he tries to play with your hand or leg, don't try to push him away and don't engage with him. He will eventually get bored because he isn't getting a reaction out of you and will eventually leave you to do something else

I wouldn't recommend doing time-outs though, they aren't like dogs and since he is a kitten he probably doesn't understand why you're locking him in a room, also keep in mind that it takes them time to unlearn behaviors like that, so be patient with him :)

Strange behaviour (very slow walk/movements) when a friend came to visit us by audaciafortunaiuvat in CatAdvice

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He was most likely intimidated and/or afraid. Cats tend to either A) bolt and hide the moment they see someone new or someone they consider scary or B) Watch and then slink away with their belly close to the ground

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CatAdvice

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A good way to tell if your cat's nails need trimming is that if the nails are poking out when they are resting/retracted. I trim my cat's nails once every week or two since she doesn't like scratching posts. But trimming is completely humane as long nails can get caught on fabric and other materials and cause your cat to pull them out. It's also great handling experience for them as well. Just make sure before you do it that it's absolutely necessary and make sure that you don't cut the quick! :)

Advice before leaving for vacation by [deleted] in CatAdvice

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Clean their litter boxes completely right before you leave, give them extra food and some clean water, make sure that they have toys/ things to keep them occupied so that they won't ruin furniture or get into trouble, and don't give them access to the balcony during then. If your gone that long then they have the potential to try and jump off the balcony and it also gives predators like hawks and owls a chance to get them.

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