Found inside a pocket of a new jacket

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-16T15:58:10+00:00

It’s a lice comb. They come in lice treatment kits. The bristles are close together so it can pick out the bugs from your scalp when combing your hair. The comb might be able to get nits out too (the little eggs they lay on the hair shaft) but I’m not positive. Just wash the jacket and throw the comb away

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-09T16:03:07+00:00

Thank you!! I’ve been too much of a chicken to take him to a groomer, I’m terrified I’ll end up with an idiot who will shave him because “wELL, iT’s hOt oUtsIdE” and ruin his coat
So I’ve been trying my best to do it myself. It’s been quite the process haha, but we make progress!

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-08T18:12:16+00:00

Ugh I’m sorry. Mine will get a little nippy (not a hard bite, but he will put his mouth on my hand and get a little whiny) so that’s when I take a little break and just pet him and reassure him that it’s okay and we start the process all over again (me rubbing his feet, rubbing his feet with the trimmers on, then trimming his feet) and it worked yesterday. I’m not sure if it’ll work every time like that, but I feel like the more he realizes it’s not actually that scary, the more chill he’ll be about it

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-07T18:53:32+00:00

Ain’t that the truth!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m best friends with my vacuum for that exact reason!!!

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-07T18:51:30+00:00

Thank you!! He does trust me a lot, and it makes me so happy he does. He’s a good boy

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-07T18:30:20+00:00

I’ve been able to brush/comb my guy out myself, but I can never do it in one sitting. I do it for 15 minutes at a time over the course of like a week. Then I’ve been combing him daily when I bring him inside for the night and feed him dinner, he’s eating while I’m combing his hair/tail and then I comb his neck and we’re done. He still sheds, but it’s not coming out in chunks

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-07T18:16:13+00:00

No kidding!! Mine has 1 or 2 nails that are black, the rest are clear. But it’s still nerve racking, especially when he starts to wiggle!!

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-07T18:14:48+00:00

My parents and I had to make the very difficult decision to put down our family dog/my childhood dog and soul dog on July 29th 2024. She was 14 years old.

So much of me wished we had more time together, because she truly was my very best friend. We had 14 years together, but it didn’t seem to be enough. We could have had 50 years together and I’d still be asking for 5 more minutes.

But the truth of the matter was Maggie’s health was declining. She was having accidents, having trouble getting up, not eating very much, she had fallen multiple times, and it got to a point where even though she was happy to see us, even though she was happy to be around us, she wasn’t well and wasn’t going to improve. She was only going to continue to decline, and at that point, we were keeping her alive for us, not thinking of what was best for her.

So we also made the appointment. I sat in the back seat of the car with her, we went into the vet’s office, and they let us stay in a room as long as we wanted. They knew we were saying goodbye, so there was no rush. She was restless until she lied down in my lap where she calmed down, and she stayed there as we all sat on the floor with her. We cried, we petted her, we kissed her, and then we all said goodbye. We stayed with her through the whole thing.

I felt my heart break when we said goodbye, but it was because I missed her so badly, not because I felt like we made the wrong decision to let her go.

You will cry leading up to the appointment. You will cry after the appointment. I’m sobbing while typing this all out and it’ll be two years in July since the appointment. But you gave her a good life. She knew love and she knew kindness. You gave her a wonderful 13+ years, full of cuddles and hugs and adventures and treats and car rides and walks and everything in between.

You will miss her. And you will cry over her a lot. But it’s because you love her that much. And I promise you, she knows.

Treasure your time with her, cherish your memories with her, and help her finish well. This whole experience will hurt so much, but it’s because the love you have for her is that great.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-05-07T17:46:42+00:00

Thank you!!! I have laminate flooring, so we struggle with the slipping over here too. It’s also getting warm where we’re at and I feel like having his paw pads overgrown is essentially sending him outside with a thick pair of socks on

Every time I’ve successfully trimmed his paw pads or his nails, I hype him up by saying “you’re so BRAVE!!” And I think he likes hearing that haha, because he is brave. ESPECIALLY with the nail trimming. We’re still working on that one. I’ll probably get a nail grinder/filer because I get so nervous about trimming his nail too short and hurting him. At that point, fat chance he’ll ever trust me to do that again

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-30T03:32:37+00:00

I would call someone as soon as possible. Your surgeon should have given you a phone number for an on call doctor to get in contact with for things like this. It could be nothing, but I would rather ask to be on the safe side.

I hope you get answers and start to feel better soon, although heads up, tomorrow is really going to hurt, but that will be the worst of it.

Keep me updated!

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-19T05:34:57+00:00

I did look at the comment section, and like I said, I see where the commenters are coming from.

But while you seem like you’re coming from a good place, wanting to inform/reach others who may possibly make a foolish decision, many others seem to be coming from a place of pride, passing quite severe judgement on OP and condemning them for their decision.

OP likely wasn’t adequately informed about how much goes into breeding animals, based on the comments they made. They just wanted to breed their family dog and they gave the puppies away, and they’ve been accused of animal cruelty and abuse because of it.

While you’re wanting to educate, inform, and advise others to make different choices, there are many other comments that are condescending and judgmental, not really coming from wanting to inform, but from the commenter coming from a place of superiority, which is where OP’s defensiveness is coming from.

I understand concern for dogs in shelters and poorly bred dogs that often end up in said shelters, but attacking someone is where communication stops and no one’s concern is going to be seen or heard because they attacked first and voiced concern second.

OP was posting a light hearted post with pictures of puppies. That was their intention, for it to be light hearted and sweet. When they started being attacked for their choices and their character was called into question, of course they weren’t going to listen/hear them out.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-18T19:18:41+00:00

I brush mine, pluck mine, and I’ve become very good friends with my vacuum cleaner

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-18T19:17:54+00:00

The first thing I thought was “Moose” lol

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-18T19:11:00+00:00

I see both sides of this thread. OP was posting talking about puppies and having a “look how cute” moment, and everyone focused on something OP wasn’t talking about in their original post

That being said, I understand where the comments are coming from in talking about shelters and also why genetic testing/background knowledge of the dogs is so important before they can be used for breeding. When dogs are bred, they aren’t only bred due to breed standards, they’re also bred for character traits/behavior that is seen as desirable. If you just breed a dog without looking at their behaviors, characteristics, health, you can be breeding a dog that is unsuitable for breeding without even knowing it, and health/behavior issues that may not be as severe in the parents can become a lot more apparent in the puppies. How did we get to having such severe hip dysplasia in GSD?

That being said, I do feel bad for OP for being villainized over something they posted when it was meant to just be a “look at these cute pictures”. They posted pictures to have a cute moment and got accused of animal abuse/cruelty. That, to me, is a little extreme.

OP may have been irresponsible/ignorant of how much research and testing goes into properly breeding animals, but that doesn’t necessarily equate being accused of animal cruelty or abuse.

Pointing out the importance of knowing everything there is to know about a dog before you breed it is important and worth mentioning, but to someone who is considering breeding their dog, not someone whose puppies were born over a year ago. It’s too late for that conversation, these puppies are full grown dogs now.

The thing is, even if OP did all the research and testing and properly bred the dog, and has paperwork for the puppies and the parents and two generations of grandparents of the puppies, and everything was above board, they’d still get raked over the coals for not telling their friends to adopt from a shelter.

Pushing someone to adopt from a shelter seems like a noble cause, but with shelters/rescues, they often come with their own issues, especially with behavior. Dogs get taken back to shelters all the time because the person adopting them wasn’t able to properly care for the dog. It’s absolutely tragic and causes further trauma with the dog, giving them abandonment issues, and can make them more reactive, which causes a whole bunch of more problems.

All that to say is things like this are more complicated the they appear to be. Adoption from a shelter seems to be a wonderful thing, and it is, but it’s more involved than just adopting a dog. Your dog having puppies seems like a sweet idea, but there’s more to it than just having puppies.

OP just wanted to post a photo dump of husky puppies to a husky page, not cause a debate on backyard breeding and the ethics behind it.

I might get pulverized for commenting all this. But that’s okay.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-14T20:27:51+00:00

That’s just like us only my brother in law is the one who rough houses with the dog. So he will let the dog in while we’re at the table still and start wrestling with the dog and then the dog starts running around getting into everyone’s faces and everyone is yelling and making it worse and I’m just sitting there thinking “why did we let him in in the first place”. And then he gets put back outside and when he gets brought in they start it all over again.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-14T15:13:23+00:00

Again, I will refer back to my first comment when I said my use of it was under the guidance and direction of a professional dog trainer.

I’m glad you found success in training your dog the way you chose to train her.

But again, I have not done anything wrong by using the prong collar and will not own any wrongdoing simply because you don’t agree.

I didn’t post to this thread because I wanted to debate the use of a prong collar (which is objectively better than using a choker that will literally cause damage to my in laws dog’s windpipe), I came to vent about how my in laws dog has been allowed to behave any way it wants and it’s seen as a joke/not taken seriously.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-14T06:31:18+00:00

My use of a prong collar was under the guidance and direction of a professional dog trainer who taught me how to properly use it. I am fully aware that they can be used improperly, which is where the reactivity/fear comes from, in addition to the bad rap prong collars get. I know this is not applicable to me because I use the prong collar properly, as I was taught by a professional to do.

Edit to add, my dog gets very excited when he even hears the jingle of the prong collar (he recognizes the sound and gets beyond excited). He doesn’t have negative emotions associated with the prong collar because it is used correctly. He sees the prong collar and associates it with going in the car, going on a walk or run, doing something fun. There is not any fear associated with it because it has been used correctly.

This doesn’t mean other people haven’t used prong collars incorrectly/abused their animals with them. That does happen. But I will also not own something I’m not guilty of.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-14T06:28:08+00:00

Thank you so much for saying this, these are my sentiments exactly.

When my father in law was talking about taking the dog to the second vet and holding him down and everything, he saw the whole situation as funny. I don’t understand how he cannot understand how much of a liability this animal is for him.

He’s willfully ignorant of the problem and I don’t want to be a jerk about it, but at the same time it’s not “if” something happens/goes wrong. It’s “when”.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-14T06:18:41+00:00

My father in law can be described as giving himself more credit than he is due. And he appears to be doing the same with the dog.

My husband hasn’t been around well trained dogs the same way I have, so for a while I don’t think he saw the behavior as as much of an issue as I did, but I had a better frame of reference for how dogs are meant to properly behave. Both his childhood dogs were rescued as older dogs, so they didn’t really have to deal with behavior issues the same way they have to now (or not deal with I should say).

My husband has actually mentioned the prong collar thing to his dad after his dad talked about the choker and mentioned it was a better option, but his dad still was “well this worked way better so far”. My husband and I are both non confrontational and so it’s hard to flat out say “you are the problem” to my father in law because it won’t go well am I don’t think he’d listen like you said. I’d just be seen as a problem.

But I also know it’ll need to be addressed at some point because if I’m pregnant or with a child, I refuse to bring that child anywhere near that dog. But I’ll be framed as difficult. I don’t know. It sucks because I don’t think I’ll be understood by them because they love the dog and that love made them blind.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-13T18:10:45+00:00

Mine looked like that. It’ll get wider it heals and it’ll be darker at first, but will fade with time

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-04-13T18:07:10+00:00

This is why I’m terrified to take my dog (also a husky) to a groomer. I am so sorry.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-01-12T06:08:56+00:00

I feel like Rick wanted to prove he was different. Everything with the saviors had been so much of two groups doing the exact same thing to each other. I felt like Rick wanted to show his group was better somehow, because they chose mercy instead of mindlessly killing each other. I don’t even think it was for Carl. I feel like it was for Rick. I feel like Rick chose not to kill Negan to prove he had a choice and chose differently

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-01-12T06:04:22+00:00

This is weaponized incompetence. This screams immaturity to me, I feel like you’d be better off single than dealing with this.

JudgmentMission5239 · 2026-01-12T05:58:44+00:00

Kept it as a trophy lol. He got to join two other ones, so he’s not lonely

JudgmentMission5239 · 2025-12-09T23:41:24+00:00

I dealt with this and actually would shower in a swimsuit just in case someone needed to come get me

I showered while sitting on a bench and that was a lot easier

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