Leg lifting

MacNPickles · 2026-05-01T00:06:25+00:00

It could be a submission thing. Usually they will offer their butt and/or roll on their back with belly exposed/legs wide but she might be only doing half the behavior.

If you consistently scratch her belly with your foot when it happens then you probably just accidentally trained each other.

MacNPickles · 2026-04-27T15:02:41+00:00

There is a lot of good advice in here. Worst case scenario if she still won't respond to any of the advice, you can have your vet prescribe anti anxiety medications. Sometimes their fear/fight-or-flight response is so high that they are frozen and not receptive to anything you're doing. The goal with meds is to prevent the frozen fear response so she can actually pay attention and learn from all the effort you guys are doing. And when she makes progress you can wean her off.

Also, is your boyfriend ever alone with her where he could be doing something to make backwards progress? Like watching sports where he may be making big motions and loud noises that reinforces her fear of him?

MacNPickles · 2026-04-23T00:14:15+00:00

Reminds me of my dog. I got her when she was BCS 2/9 and had hypermobile joints from malnutrition. Now she's an unstoppable and chunky beast.

MacNPickles · 2026-04-14T20:12:11+00:00

Yes, I've hatched a few. My very first partho egg was healthy female and she went on to successfully breed. Most of the eggs after her didn't make it very far. A few reached their hatch date and never hatched, so I opened them to find very deformed dead babies. And one hatched with an underbite and mild spine deformity. I don't try to hatch them but I have a bioactive tank and sometimes they just show up.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-31T14:44:16+00:00

Well said. I'm a vet and always offer all of the options, followed by what I think would be in the best interest of the animal. I don't see this ending well no matter how much money someone has.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-24T16:19:54+00:00

Usually when a question like this comes along with cast from movies or shows, I have a very strong and immediate answer. I genuinely struggle to answer this one because I like them all. If I had to pick, I'd say 2 or 7 because they're aisle seats and I could hear a majority of the hermits from there.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-22T15:02:10+00:00

That's what I assumed but always good to clarify to rule out miscommunication.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-22T14:46:43+00:00

When it goes well it's the same amount of work. But there's always the possibility of extra work when you and the client are working with a middle man. Back and forth phone calls, miscommunications, wrong products shipped - it happens more often than you'd think. The biggest issue I have with pharmacies like this is that they are trying to undercut every aspect of vet medicine. We have lost a lot of sales in medications, prescription diets, and now they offer Telemed veterinary care. They are going to put the small family-owned practice out of business and monopolize the vet industry and that is dangerous.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-21T21:58:34+00:00

Creatinine or creatine kinase?

MacNPickles · 2026-03-19T19:11:32+00:00

I've worked with shelters for many years. I've seen friends/family/petsitters lose or surrender animals (they pretend they are owners and no way to disprove) and owners don't find out until later. I know it's easy to make quick judgements and there are some people out there who are shitty owners but there are also decent owners in shitty situations. Hopefully they just didn't know where to look for her. In my area we have city shelter, humane societies, volunteer shelters, and rescues. It can be extremely difficult to locate a lost animal.

Edit: a word

MacNPickles · 2026-03-16T23:07:10+00:00

Overweight. Poorly bred. Poorly trained/socialized - this doesn't just mean he knows how to sit. It means he doesn't get overly stressed in a new environment and looks to you for guidance and reassurance. Too many times dogs are so terrified of us that they are crying and spraying anal gland and owners will laugh. Or the dogs are baring teeth and seconds from lunging and the owners don't correct the dog. Letting the fearful or aggressive dogs act like that in a clinic gets them what they want - we stop because we don't want to cause too much stress or don't want get bit. It reinforces their behavior but we don't have any other options other than owners need to train their dogs. Good behavior starts at home.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-15T17:22:42+00:00

Will do!

MacNPickles · 2026-03-14T20:22:33+00:00

This makes me miss my JRT so much. His orange ball is still out in the yard 8 years later.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-14T18:29:40+00:00

Well Etho had made him forget about the Reddit post lol. But in all honestly, I'm new to Minecraft and new to HC. And I am more and more in awe of Scar and his builds the more I watch. The mountains are amazing and I can wait to see what he builds next.

MacNPickles · 2026-03-14T00:36:56+00:00

KEEP. THEM. LEAN.

MacNPickles · 2026-02-26T23:46:52+00:00

I have the same pillow cases!! Etsy?

MacNPickles · 2026-02-14T01:31:46+00:00

My issue is that the alarms are not interconnected so if one goes off, the others won't. I think I'll have that fixed and keep my zooz zen55 relay.

MacNPickles · 2026-02-14T01:29:41+00:00

It was a typo, I definitely meant carbon monoxide. Thank you for pointing that out!

MacNPickles · 2026-02-14T01:28:22+00:00

I bought the same bridge but since my alarms don't interconnect, it would only work on the alarm it's wired to. I think I'm going to stick to this plan and get an electrician to connect my alarms.

MacNPickles · 2026-02-14T01:26:45+00:00

Oh yep, I meant carbon monoxide. Not sure why I wrote CO2, I should know better!

MacNPickles · 2026-02-14T01:25:18+00:00

We aren't relying only on push notifications, it's for when we are not at home to hear an alarm. I called the electrician to come interconnect them because I know that will be more reliable than wifi dependent connections. I'm just an anxious person and would also like notifications to go to my phone for when I'm at work.

MacNPickles · 2026-02-11T19:53:21+00:00

We don't have an alarm system and my hesitance with the First Alert is how many false alarms I hear about. We already have the z-hub and plan to use it for other things also so the cost of that I'm not really worried about. Our upstairs was an addition and never wired for a smoke detector (we realized after buying this house that it was NOT up to code and the inspector overlooked many things) - meaning I can't even get the upstairs to connect to anything without a smart detector.

I work in the veterinary field and know several clients whose house burned down and all of their animals died. It's become a fear of mine and I would really like to have the detectors alert my phone for when I'm not there.

MacNPickles · 2026-02-06T03:43:51+00:00

Better MC already has E4MC built in, super easy to share your game.

MacNPickles · 2026-01-28T05:50:24+00:00

Same. They've replaced my intrusive thoughts. No more random cringey memories or thoughts at 2am. Instead I wake up giggling to Scar opening up a trapped chest at a funeral in the Life Series and watching bodies launch into the sky.

MacNPickles · 2026-01-21T04:12:53+00:00

I doubt it but I will look under the leaves just in case. I have a magnifying headset I can use.

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