I remember when Gonzo learned this lesson.
Ivy likes to push the door open, walk in, check things out, and walk right out.
Woke up to house covered in vomit and poop. Dogs are fun! 
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The IG has an ear infection with pus and dark wax. On some med with silver. I have to squirt in a couple of times a day and massage his ears to get it spread around. Before the first clean out it was massively gross.
The chihuahua has some allergy with a stuffy nose and is getting a quarter of a Benadryl. We’ve also been sitting in the bathroom with the showering running to get a steam bath.
Missed a ton of sleep listening to the nasal congestion.
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Poor Gabby. She had to have 6 teeth pulled and was on antibiotics and pain meds and came home and then got in a fight with our new dog and got a huge gash on her hind leg and had to get stitches and had to go under again and have a cone of shame.
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you haven’t lived until a Roomba has gotten a hold of some poop or vomit
The new updates are supposed to keep that from happening
I see a kitty kitties
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older pic i came across today from earlier this year
been working on some new conditioning for this lil munchkin who’s been proving surprisingly trainable for a cat (as I explained up thread i think, we’ve never cohabitated with her fully indoor). She follows me around usually if she’s awake but she has all these hiding places that give me a heart attack when I can’t find her and she doesn’t come if I call. So, I realized if there were ever a situation where she got out and I had to find her, I’d need a reliable way to recall her.
I started snapping my fingers repeatedly and very loudly around feeding time of her absolute favorite dinners the last several weeks. I only feed her when she acknowledges the sound and that it’s coming from me. After a week or so of that, I started snapping my fingers to get her to come to me, and then rewarding her with a lesser treat for her efforts. Then, I just started rewarding her with affection. Now she comes 99.9% of the time and doesn’t seem bothered at all if there isn’t a treat at the end of it. Further, an unintended consequence of this has been she’s become extremely patient waiting for food and seems to wait for some signal from me that it’s food time and not bother me while I’m asleep time. i dont know exactly why this is working but it is so i am stoked.
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Jake the IG is 14 now. Losing some weight again. On a new med to try and get down some urine protein loss.
He’s still active. Has been have some diarrhea episodes.
Worried this is the start of the final decline. He’s rebounded his weight before. Maybe they can tweak his meds.
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My new kittens don’t talk, like at all, it’s so weird. They seem happy and like us but no meows, no greeting us, etc, dunno what to make of that. Used to be all kinds of noises here.
Still don’t have names after 4 weeks lol wife hates it.
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We’re pretty sure on “Hex” for the black cat. Wife wants “Rune” or “Shade” for this guy. Thoughts?
- Rune
- Shade
0 voters
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we had some windy weather yesterday. lounging in bed watching tv with the kittay, he was perched on some blanket, and I had the window cracked a few inches. a steady gust comes rollin in, and i scrunch the blanket so he can feel the wind, and he extends in the direction of the wind, then gets all nutty for a second lol
I think he’s fluffing out for the winterization process
My mom chats with other dog owner neighbors when she walks her dog. One of her neighbors fosters puppies. The first puppy they fostered, they couldn’t think of what they’d call her.
Two years later, they kept the dog, don’t foster puppies anymore, and the dog’s name is “Maybe.”
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