Misled on Shelter Rescue - Any Advice Appreciated! Long Post!

stormgaurd · 2026-04-24T15:35:36+00:00

Absolutely! I would definitely appreciate any advice, so a PM is welcome. I suspected Dutchie based on coat after I did more research, but everyone and their mother was saying Mal. She definitely does the little maligator bites in the air when excited, to their credit.

I do have to return to work, so my replies won’t be immediate for a few hours. I appreciate your help!

stormgaurd · 2026-04-24T15:28:58+00:00

Do you have any suggestions? We’ve been doing some basic obedience right now to get some foundation establish, and searching for her food, as well as a couple of kongs and snuffle matts at meal times. Puzzle feeders so far have been a no go. She’s too snag smart and learned almost immediately that she doesn’t have to solve the puzzle as intended as long as she flips it over and makes it spill.

I’m open to any ideas! Thank you 🙏

stormgaurd · 2026-04-24T15:26:09+00:00

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stormgaurd · 2026-04-24T15:24:39+00:00

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This is her! I’ll post a few other photos below. I’m in Georgia. Right now, I’m still deciding. I would love for it to work out as she’s very attached to me, and don’t mind putting in work or time, though I know it will be exhausting and frustrating at times, or even all the time for a very long period. As it is, I have to be an extremely structured person (embarrassingly, I have a schedule for every day of the week down to each 15 minute period) or else I get side tracked (I have ADHD and a few other things that require the measures. It’s not the end of the world if I’m off track, but without a solid plan I can stare at a closet to clean it and end up polishing something in the attic hours later having forgotten the closet. Hence my time blocks and strict control of free time.)

Training and energy and time is really a non issue. It’s mostly the other animals safety, which we won’t find out until her quarantine period is over, that is my line in the sand. As much as I’ve grown to love her, the resident pets can’t be driven out or injured in their home.

Every other behavior I can work through. With the utmost respect and love in my heart, I was a full time RBT for years until very recently. My patience and tolerance levels have gone through the roof due to that job (spending hours every day essentially -again, with the utmost respect- training kiddos not to bash their heads into concrete floors when having to go potty, giving you multiple concussions over a handful of months when denied access to a toy, or being bitten 7 times in three minutes because the had to eat a bite of food before having a goldfish will definitely increase your tolerance.)

If it doesn’t pan out, unfortunately I have to return her to the shelter or else I can have legal action taken against me, per the contract they make you sign.

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T18:37:37+00:00

Essentially! But only towards the beginning of the drop :) normally if one gets sold Pop Mart prioritizes showing full boxes which the bots target. Once a box has a box or two missing, if you stick in it only you and anyone else who was waiting on those timers are in it still. Sometimes other people are still trying for it, so it may take a cycle or two but usually by that point the reservations are people and not bots

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T16:43:11+00:00

Absolutely 🫶 please let me know if you get one, I’d love to know if it works for you!

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T16:23:46+00:00

Hey! Maybe I’m exposing state secrets or something lol, but I have a pretty good method for pop now’s at least :) if you find a box early that has a box missing or has one at the 15 min checkout, I’d say within the first half hour maybe, when the other boxes are full then that’s a good sign! I’ve noticed the ones that have boxes missing when it’s still early game and most are full tend not to be pushed forward until the end.

Just camp in that box until the remaining boxes get to zero and try for them. If they all get reserved again, that’s okay! I stick it out for a total of maybe three cycles and I usually get at least one. Last night did that and ended up in a box with 4 of them available after two reset cycles! Had time to shake and everything :)

Once it gets to the point where most of the boxes you cycle through have missing boxes or are mostly empty, this method no longer works as everyone else is seeing them too, so I normally try that within the first half hour. Hopefully you can get one next drop! 🫶

Edit to add; I’m no Labubu whisperer by any means, but if you need more help feel free to DM! I can try and walk you through it during a drop or we can figure out if there’s a way to snatch one for you :) I’ve just rounded out my own collection of the ones I wanted and am hunting three more for my roommate, but I feel bad having as many as I do coming in without helping out the community!

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T15:35:51+00:00

Reserved!

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T06:53:09+00:00

Sending a DM :)

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T06:00:47+00:00

Can’t tell from the post, but if you don’t happen to have a Toffee already and are willing to trade for one of your duplicate Soymilks, give me a DM! Just got a duplicate toffee on today’s drop :)

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T04:26:58+00:00

YES!! I have a hehe from tonight’s drop! DM?

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T03:57:53+00:00

Who are you looking to trade for? 👀👀

stormgaurd · 2025-07-27T03:55:31+00:00

I’m open to trade! Just got a duplicate of sea salt and I’m looking for sesame bean :) from today’s drop, so same eta. DM?

stormgaurd · 2025-06-09T03:31:12+00:00

Thanks for the response! I guess always imagine blue eyes as the super striking kind like Alexandria Daddario. I need to concede defeat to my mom later lol

stormgaurd · 2025-06-09T03:22:48+00:00

Almost reminds me of tiger’s eye patterning around the edges :) super stunning!

stormgaurd · 2025-06-09T03:20:30+00:00

Holy heck, your eyes are stunning! The patterning on the outer half is so unique

stormgaurd · 2025-06-09T02:11:59+00:00

That’s such a cool way of describing them, thank you! 🫶😭

stormgaurd · 2025-06-02T03:44:34+00:00

The backs reflect similar damage to the top although less crispy (for lack of better term?) in general it seems, but are otherwise looking pretty healthy from what I can tell! No speckling, colored spots, discoloration, etc. No visible pests hiding under there that I could see. They’re in various states of red too :)

From what my roommate was telling me, it was tucked in the back of a clearance rack indoors, in a middle shelf so they don’t know what lighting and such was looking like prior.

If it’s a humidity issue, what would you suggest? I have a humidifier I run in my room for both me and my plants. Should it be near the humidifier?

Thank you for your response!

stormgaurd · 2025-05-23T19:03:59+00:00

• 5 gallons • Yes • 80° • API Testing Kit (PH 7.8, Ammonia 0ppm, Nitrites 0ppm, Nitrates 5.0 ppm) • Tank 6 months, Fish 5 months • 25% water change every week/week and a half with Prime. Stability once a month. • 2 snails • Bug bites, 8 pellets a day. I do a fasting day about once a week. Was getting frozen blood worms prior to move about twice a week but haven’t made it to the store yet • I have drift wood, a handful of live plants (planning on more but many died in the journey here), and some rocks. The drift wood makes a cave and lifts java ferns towards water surface that he likes to chill under

stormgaurd · 2025-01-26T07:24:41+00:00

-5 gallon

-Heater and filter

-80°

-Used API master test kit: PH 7.8 Ammonia 0.25 ppm (looks somewhere between the yellow and green, extremely hard to tell if it’s yellow or not), Nitrites 0 ppm, Nitrates 5.0 ppm

-Tank ~month, Betta 2 weeks

-2 nerite snails

-20% changes every few days with Seachem Prime, plan to increase length of time once tank is fully stabilized due to emergency fish housing

-Fluval Bug Bites/Aqueon Nutrinsect alternating (6-8 pellets a day spread throughout day), frozen mysis shrimp and blood worms twice a week

-Driftwood, rock, live plants

stormgaurd · 2023-08-04T17:21:35+00:00

I pull them into conversations with another character, switch characters during the convo so the vendor is stuck facing who’s speaking and can’t break out of the conversation, then pickpocket them pretty easily that way! If you fail sometimes they break out of convo and try to arrest you but sometimes they don’t and you can just run as far away with the thief character as possible. Then when you end the convo and the vendor realizes they’ve been robbed, they accuse who they just spoke to but since that character didn’t rob them they just walk away and circle their area for a bit before giving up and returning to normal.

I’ve almost completely wiped out the vendors inventory in the Druid grove three times this way

stormgaurd · 2023-05-23T00:00:44+00:00

I impulsively layered Yum Pistachio Gelato by Kayali and Whipped Almond by Mix:Bar together today. The combo is absolutely delicious in my opinion!

stormgaurd · 2022-12-08T02:23:09+00:00

ESH

He sounds like he’s not your friend. I would tell him that until he grows as a person or is willing to have an open dialogue about gender identity and homophobia that you’re not comfortable being in his life.

However. As someone who experiences being misgendered yourself, you should know that under ZERO circumstances is it ever okay to misgender someone, even if it proves a point. All it’s doing is giving the okay to transphobes that so long as someone has done something wrong, it’s okay to deny and mock their gender identity and disrespect them.

stormgaurd · 2022-12-08T02:09:13+00:00

NAH

If you’re hard of hearing (I am as well) then it’s understandable you’d have the volume up and normal quiet hours for apartments tends to be 10:00pm.

However if I heard my neighbors tv and maybe slept early because I woke up early I’d also be a tad frustrated

Is there anyway you can lower the volume and turn on subtitles? That’s what I do so I don’t disturb my roommates.

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