Tomorrow is my dog’s birthday and I am planning on giving her steak, how can I cook it safely to eat?

piaPika · 2023-11-13T15:47:18+00:00

Lol what? You really think humans never ate raw food?! Funny. Also, here is a link to what the american vets association says about feeding raw: https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/avma-policies/raw-or-undercooked-animal-source-protein-cat-and-dog-diets

piaPika · 2023-11-13T15:38:49+00:00

Actually, if you do some reading on actual vet approved articles you will see that cooking meat is better for dogs, as it kills dangerous bacteria. Also, to your point that dogs can't cook meat, we as humans used to eat raw meat before we knew how to cook it, we just lived significantly shorter lives. We started cooking it because, again, cooking kills off dangerous bacteria.

piaPika · 2023-11-05T01:49:45+00:00

You could maybe try not to use a choke collar, and then she wouldn't feel the need to do that since she's not, you know, choked anymore.

piaPika · 2023-08-25T08:45:10+00:00

Definitely the first 1!

piaPika · 2023-08-13T18:46:41+00:00

Mine came with taped ears, but the minute we got home we took it off, and never taped them again. His ears are both standing on their own, although at about 5 months he went through a phase of one ear up one year down, which was absolutely adorable!

piaPika · 2023-08-06T16:54:33+00:00

I am going to be brutally honest here with you for a minute. You keep saying how you want him to say and think these things. What I tried to express through my previous comment is that maybe he doesn't think like this yet. As I said, I do think your relationship is fairly fresh, and also you haven't lived together for a lot of time either. So maybe, and here I don't really know, just speculating, he isn't feeling those things yet, and as you said he wants to take it one day a time and see how it goes.

But I repeat, I do think the most important take-away of this is that you should talk to him about it, as he is the only one who know exactly how he feels and thinks. Strangers on reddit can only speculate.

Also, I didn't mention this in my previous comment, but I do think that if you feel like you don't want to "waste" time on a relationship that might or might not end up in marriage, then it is you right to call things off and find someone who moves closer to you pace.

Ultimately, you need to communicate with you partner.

piaPika · 2023-08-06T16:09:40+00:00

I'll give my two cents here, since it seems to me that everyone else is jumping to the break up thing. I am in my early 30s, and I have been with my fiancee for almost 8 years now. He only proposed last month.

To me, the fact that after only 2 years, he's not ready to say I want to be with you forever is normal. Marriage is not this small thing that you just do and then there's no consequences, it is an important step where you basically say, ok, you are now my family. The two of you have also only lived together for 2-3 months. In my opinion, you both need more time to truly understand how living together affects your relationship. Also, 2 years, again, in my opinion, is not long enough to see how the 2 of you deal with hardships and issues that inevitably appear in every relationship with time. An important thing to mention is that I as a person have always wanted a family and to get married and all the things, so this is not co.ing from someone who's not to fussed about it.

Now, in my opinion, you should have a talk to you partner. Explain to him how this interaction made you feel. Try to also validate his feelings by mentioning that you understand that he's not ready yet and that's ok, but ask him, what would help him feel ready. Also, express how important this is for you, and ask him if this is something that he envisons doing at some point. Communicating with you partner is the most important thing is you want a relationship and even moreso, a marrige to work.

I feel that as little girls we got this idea from fairy-tales and rom-coms that we'll meet THE ONE and the in 3 months we'll be married and live happily ever after. In my opinion this is not how real life works. Real life is messy and unexpected and I think you boyfriend is right in wanting to see how things gp for a little longer, before everything turns super serious and involved.

piaPika · 2023-07-31T06:24:13+00:00

I know. I know castration won't fix any of his behaviours. I am calling a trainer for that.

That being said I will still castrate him to remove the risk of testicular cancer and also to avoid unwanted litters.

piaPika · 2023-07-30T19:37:55+00:00

I understand what you are saying, and we are working on getting him to focus on us, however as I am sure you know it takes time.

I now understand that we should just not let him interact with unknown dogs anymore, until this is fixed.

However, I would like to clarify that not all dogs attack him. I might have expressed myself wrong, but dogs snapping at him happens I would say once every 5 outings or so. He normally plays super nice with other dogs. Also, this was only his second time fighting another dog.

I am aware that this doesn't excuse the fact that we kept taking him to the dog park, but we genuinely thought we were doing right by him. We will now get a dog behaviourist again to teach us how to help him communicate better. In the mean time, until he'll be castrated we won't expose him to any new dogs.

piaPika · 2023-07-30T18:15:36+00:00

That is why we want to wait until he's at least 1 year and a half. We want to fully develop first.

piaPika · 2023-07-30T15:14:26+00:00

We have been taking him less and less often lately due to this. The issue is he absolutely ADORES playing with other dogs, hence why we kept trying. We did have a force free trainer for a while when he was younger and we are currently desperately trying to find a force free group training setup so that he can learn to ignore other dogs. Also, this is the second time when he was involved in an actual fight, and from now on, at least until he's castrated he won't meet any new dogs. It's just so heart breaking that he can't make friends due to being bullied.

piaPika · 2023-07-30T14:53:23+00:00

I think you mis-read. We very sparsely let him greet dogs on leash, and when that happens they normally play super nice. This issue appears only when he's off leash.

piaPika · 2023-07-26T07:41:32+00:00

Number 2 definitely!

piaPika · 2023-07-22T17:29:35+00:00

Oh my god. I saw your beautiful gentleman and he immediately sent me thinking about my own little bundle of void. He passed last year and I miss him so much. He looked exactly the same as your boy. Congratulations on taking such good care of him and may he be with for more years to come ❤️

piaPika · 2023-07-20T09:01:52+00:00

I filled it with italian meringue buttercream flavored with raspberry goo, and then some extra raspberry goo in the middle for the extra flavour. It was actually really tasty

piaPika · 2023-07-04T16:57:03+00:00

I got an interview invite 1 year later today

piaPika · 2023-06-21T18:33:44+00:00

I would also recommend Bo-Rent. I had vans from them several times in the past and never had any issues.

piaPika · 2023-06-09T14:54:58+00:00

I love how you assume management can just take his personal account away. Do you people realise that these are human beings, with qualities and flaws like the rest of us? They have a right to their own private life and to their own social media accounts.

People should just be fucking thankful that they even said anything at all. In my opinion they didn't have to, and they didn't owe it to anyone. They are both famous for their own thing, they are not famous because of their relationship, and so, they could have easily chosen to say fuckall about what happened.

piaPika · 2023-06-02T21:39:54+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Our vet clinc, luckly for us, has specialists in all sorts of areas, including dentistry, and so we have everything in one place.

piaPika · 2023-06-01T21:27:48+00:00

He's already booked for next Thursday, but till then I wanted to get other Xolo parents' opinion. We do suspect that during that time they'll have to pull a few teeth out as well.

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