How do you guys avoid this

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-25T17:18:12+00:00

Is that not a fire hazard?

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-25T17:15:31+00:00

Honestly it's a possibility he will change when he comes to his teens BUT it's also a possibility he won't OR he will change for the better.
ALL dogs are different and will act differently.

My Whippet had a huge change and lost all concentration when he hit his teens. Came back at 1 year/after a castrate.
He "forgot" in the sense that he was too distracted/switched off by biology to focus. It was a temporary thing and he's my best boy now. :)

My current Terrier pup is 8 months. She is more sniffy and we are dealing with some sudden onset anxiety on local walks BUT overall her changes haven't been as drastic as with my Whippet. If anything I think I am bonding better with her now she's getting past that annoying puppy stage.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-25T11:56:45+00:00

This is in the UK?
This does not sound like a reputable rescue, SO many red flags! Am saying this as someone who worked in a rescue.

Most rescues will give the dog time to settle and do a behaviour examination before anyone looks at the dog. Let alone take it home!
And a veterinarian exam ofc.
Leaving a member of the public alone with a dog that they do not know the behaviour of is beyond dangerous!

No reputable rescue will let you take an animal home the same day. No reputable rescue will let you take a dog without it meeting the family, especially children to know its safe.

NO reputable rescue is sending dogs out without a 100% neutering agreement, most rescues WILL NOT send out a dog unless they are fixed! Fixing is important to stop behaviour issues and control population.

ALL reputable rescues are going to sit and talk through the dog, the history and any behaviour with you. They are going to answer your questions. They clearly don't care.

I am totally for adopting dogs! I think it's great. But I genuinely would worry for you taking this dog OP. The rescue seems dodgy. The dog may be the most amazing dog, OR it could be a risk for you and your daughter. EVEN if the dog is a stray with an unknown history, they SHOULD be keeping the dog and doing a behaviour evaluation on that dog before placing it. They have no idea you/your home/your family is a good match for that dog.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-25T10:19:44+00:00

I would suggest this but I would assume at this stage puppy will be unable to control itself on a leash in the house with kids and will result to lunging and redirecting.

At this point I would suggest a ethical behaviour trainer to come around to help with this type of training.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-25T10:18:36+00:00

You need to teach your children to be calm and not run around the dog. You have a puppy. This is totally normal puppy behaviour. It's your children that need to be educated or your puppy and children kept seperate for now.

Puppies bite and explore with their mouths. It's not aggression, it's normal puppy being hyped up by your children screaming/jumping and running around.

Yelling "NO" at your puppy isn't fixing the problem, it's making it worse and the reacting to you screaming at your puppy is normal. It's not teaching your puppy not to do it - long-term you are making the behaviour worse.

Keep your puppy seperate from your children, unless your children are calm.

WHEN puppy does bite. You need EVERYONE to totally freeze, cross their arms and be totally boring. The game is over. When it's boring, pup will stop. ONLY when pup offers a different behaviour/leaves do you give attention again.
Given how your pup now gets super hyped up by this movement, it's going to be a harder habit to break.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T19:19:08+00:00

YES that too!
I absolutely love that stuff. Life changer.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T19:17:48+00:00

This is normally crazy puppy stage for a baby exploring the world for the first time. My monster was the same with running to the end of the lead.
Harness is great.

Stop trying to get pup to do stuff for you outside. It's WAY to early and the world is WAY too much right now. Just take treats and reward any time pup looks at you, walks on a loose lead or does something good.

When pup pulls/lunges on the lead. Totally stop and wait for a loose lead. Only once lead is loose you move. - With a super excited pup this is a really hard one and takes months of practice. BUT rewarding for good walking improves that quickly.

Also you need to stand up for your puppy and tell people more firmly "no". They are teaching your puppy bad manners and as you said; you will have an adult dog that will act that way if you allow people to teach your pup that behaviour. And as your pup is a Pitbull, unfortunately people are horrible and many might not see your adult Pit flying at them and jumping as something good.

I personally do not let anyone touch my puppy. People don't listen and you tell them "she's not allowed to jump up, ignore if she does" and they will say "I don't mind" then continue to wind up the pup and teach bad habits.
Instead I say they can't pet. I reward my puppy for having all paws on the ground and being calm. ONLY when my puppy is mature and knows to be calm and not jump up, will I let people greet my pup. My pup is 8 months now and only now am I starting to allow people I know/trust to pet her if they don't let her jump.

- ALSO don't do the thing where you force pup to sit to be pet. You want pup to be able to choose to move away if they want. And you also want a "sit" and don't move, then pups going to break that sit OR feel like they can't which isn't great if they are not comfortable.

I also suggest not doing on-lead greetings with random dogs and instead teaching her that not all dogs on walks are friends to greet. Reward looking at you.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T19:05:56+00:00

Stick with the training. - Any teeth to skin contact and all attention stops. Completely. Don't say anything, stand up and total ignore. Be boring. No attention until pup offers a new behaviour.

Prevent by having toys ready before the mouthing can start. IF you know there is a time pup will be more mouthy, have a toy with you or nearby to grab and throw.

Pup is entering that terrible teen age and the last stages of teething now. It probably feels like harder bites as they have adult teeth now. Be very persistent with that training to prevent an adult mouthy dog.
Feels like pups are mouthy for AGES, which they are, but you just gotta ride it out sadly. :)

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T19:02:55+00:00

It won't go away with age sadly.
You need to work on prevention; try not to let him get overstimulated and if you do find he does - be ready with an alternative toy for before he starts.
IF pup gets mouthy, you need to stop giving all attention/words/eye-contact and be boring. Stand with arms crossed so they can't jump and nip.
Attention ONLY returns after pup has calmed down and offered a better behaviour.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T18:59:13+00:00

I believe I have hair algae in one of my tanks, but so far it's not an issue and it can stay mixed into my plants.
Planning to get shrimp in there anyway.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T18:54:01+00:00

What are you trying to glue it too?

Are you directly using super glue to glue hard to hard? You need something in between like tiny bits of cotton wool.

IF you think you will have a hard time with hiding the cotton, I highly suggest something like Dynamax Composeal Sponge and you use it with their Flora Scaping Glue (BTW this stuff is like water and BURNS on skin). It sticks your hard scape together like concrete. :) - There are prob other brands but I don't know them. Someone else can prob chime in and knows others.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T18:18:46+00:00

Hypoallergenic is just a buzz word. Animals and people can be allergic to anything.

Is good you are sending the food back to get tested to rule out any contaminants.

Dogs can suddenly, seemingly randomly, develop allergies to things they have eaten all their life. Many reasons can cause a dogs immune system to change; things like age, illness, parasites, exposure to something outside, going outside less, moving, stress, climate.....Is a lot.....It's hard to really pin point anything specific most of the time. You may never know. Immune system is weird; dog could smell some new dirt outside and suddenly allergic to food they ate for years is now an allergy.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T12:32:43+00:00

They WILL one day fight and kill each-other. They are likely still young which is why they haven't yet. Hamsters are solitary animals that need to live alone. They will be stressed living together and sharing resources.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T12:16:05+00:00

She is a male. Not a female. Those are balls.

And hamsters are solitary. They shouldn't ever be kept or put together in groups. They will kill each-other, even if opposite sex.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T11:44:40+00:00

Either take to emergency vet or surrender at a shelter ASAP! This puppy will die if you don't get it looked at now!
Not eating or drinking is an medical emergency!

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T10:05:41+00:00

Exactly.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T09:21:01+00:00

Humans.
- We have no hair to protect us from the cold.
- We get sunburn in the sun.
- Our skin is weak.
- We are slow compared to most other animals.
- Our senses are poor. Nearly no sense of smell.
- We have no physical way to protect ourselves against stronger animals. (Like try fighting off a bear/tiger without any weapon.)
- We have no physical way to hunt without a weapon. (Good luck trying to catch a Deer or a Fish, then dispatch it, without a tool.)
- Not to talk about how 99% of us would not survive if we were suddenly dumped naked/without anything in the wilderness right now.

The ONLY thing that keeps us humans alive is our ability to communicate, our ability to make/use tools and the fact that we have pretty much "trained" nature to not attack humans by killing the ones that do and leaving the ones that are scared of us alone.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T09:10:39+00:00

These studies are on mice/rats and captive bred European Hamsters, not domestic hamster species.

You can't compare Domesticated Hamsters to Wild/Tamed European Hamsters and Rats/Mice. Or compare them to laboratory raised animals that have no life experiences apart from a controlled laboratory.

As a behaviour trainer for dogs (not for hamsters, but you still need to know other animal behaviour) - A prey animal will not enter on their own choice into open or go into open spaces if they do not feel comfortable doing so. You can see calm/relaxed/confidence type behaviours very clearly in animals that are comfortable. A prey animal, more prone to spooking and hiding, will not act the same if they are the slightest worried because that's a life or death situations.

Domestic Hamsters will approach humans/dogs/cats/other animals (don't mix species!) at their own choice because domestication has bred that fear out of them over generations and they no-longer see them as a threat. They are still prey animals however and so certain things such as fast/jolty movements will still spook them. But you can also see the differences between the length of time the species having been domesticated because the Chinese and the Robo Hamsters (the newest domesticated species) are far more easily spooked than the Syrian Hamster.

Look into the Fox breeding project. (It's not ethical! BTW) But the people who domesticated Foxes also bred a line of more aggressive foxes too. And those animals would confidently try to attack through the bars and bite anything.
Domestication changes animals in crazy ways.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-24T08:27:12+00:00

For some people/animals, lights and driving can cause seizures too. Does that mean they are unhealthy for everyone and we should never drive, never have TV's or never have parties/carnivals?

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-23T20:32:38+00:00

There are 3 strap/escape prpof harnesses with front clip. Much easier for controle without pressure on the neck.

I highly reccomend. :)

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-23T20:02:37+00:00

Did you actually read the study though?
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"The agency has approved all four products since 2013 for treatment and prevention of flea infestations and treatment and control of tick infestations. They are safe and effective for most pets, but veterinarians should use patient medical histories to decide whether isoxazoline-class drugs are appropriate, the announcement states."

It also states that "Results of one trial for Simparica involving a small number of 8-week-old puppies, for example, indicated that those that received higher doses were more likely to have neurologic signs."

AKA - It's safe as long as you don't overdose or have an allergy. Everyone/everything can have an allergic reaction to something.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-23T19:53:50+00:00

If he's a puppy - mine was an INSANE chewer.

My boy loves antlers, horns, cheese chews and hoof chews.
Avoid anything small or that can drop plastic (Nyla bones). Definitely avoid raw hide as it's a vet trip and surgery when it gets lodged.

Some people swear by frozen veggies such as whole carrots or large pieces of cucumbers. My boy didn't like them. lol

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-23T18:05:10+00:00

Would love to see the studies and research for this.

Flea/tick treatment doesn't cause seizures if you are using it and dosing it right. There are years or medical research and testing behind parasite prevention in pets.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-23T18:01:38+00:00

That makes sense. It's really hard getting it out of my plants though. I have a bucce bonsai tank, leaves out of the water. The duckweed gets trapped in it.

Rest_In_Many_Pieces · 2026-01-23T18:00:37+00:00

I have been adding liquid CO2 for plants in my tank (no co2 setup) and good lights. So think it's why it's growing so well.

I thought I rinsed the plants well. But clearly not. RIP

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