bm3aquatic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Kali is a miniature schnauzer, she will be 13 the end of the month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dublicious Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Duane Perry said: I found this little guy in a tree and bottle fed him. He is allot larger now. We love him but he is biting my little girl and running up behind her and grabbing her lag and biting but not super hard. It's somewhat playful but to aggressive. Any tip on how to stop this type of behavior? It looks like you've got the "corrective" suggestion, but you need a balanced approach. If you're not already, you need to make sure you keep your kitten stimulated as well. You should show him the ways you want to play (string toys, tossing little mouse toys). Have multiple daily play sessions. If he isn't getting the playtime he wants, he's going to go out and find it by chasing people around or knocking things off tables, etc. Show him he can bite and claw the toys all he wants. When he bites or claws you (or any human), playtime is over. You get up and walk away. Make sure you provide hiding places and things he's allowed to climb and scratch. When he scratches something he shouldn't, pick him up and take him to a scratching post he's allowed to scratch. When my cats were younger I would scratch the posts myself with my nails and put their front paws on the scratching post so they got the idea. They still occasionally scratch things they shouldn't, but a stern "hey" as a reminder and they remember their manners and stop, but they use their designated scratching posts like 90% of the time. Good luck! Edited July 15, 2020 by dublicious 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Perry Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 9 hours ago, dublicious said: It looks like you've got the "corrective" suggestion, but you need a balanced approach. If you're not already, you need to make sure you keep your kitten stimulated as well. You should show him the ways you want to play (string toys, tossing little mouse toys). Have multiple daily play sessions. If he isn't getting the playtime he wants, he's going to go out and find it by chasing people around or knocking things off tables, etc. Show him he can bite and claw the toys all he wants. When he bites or claws you (or any human), playtime is over. You get up and walk away. Make sure you provide hiding places and things he's allowed to climb and scratch. When he scratches something he shouldn't, pick him up and take him to a scratching post he's allowed to scratch. When my cats were younger I would scratch the posts myself with my nails and put their front paws on the scratching post so they got the idea. They still occasionally scratch things they shouldn't, but a stern "hey" as a reminder and they remember their manners and stop, but they use their designated scratching posts like 90% of the time. Good luck! Thank you very much for the direction. I grew up with dogs but never cats so I have very little experience. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I have a 55g of land hermit crabs, two rescue dogs named Jasmine and Jacoby, and a horse named shmoo. basically, I just enjoy lighting money on fire. or so my husband thinks... 😄 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariel S Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Just a hard life... asleep like this for 2 hours while I worked. 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynn M Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 7/14/2020 at 2:57 PM, Duane Perry said: I found this little guy in a tree and bottle fed him. He is allot larger now. We love him but he is biting my little girl and running up behind her and grabbing her lag and biting but not super hard. It's somewhat playful but to aggressive. Any tip on how to stop this type of behavior? If you are around when she starts to run at your daughter or playing too rough use a spray bottle with water in it and give her a spritz or two. Hopefully, that will give her the message that the behavior is not acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackLabelCarling Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 This is Black Dog, BD for short. He was a part of a marketing campaign for my company hints the doggy glamour shot! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Newton Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 7/14/2020 at 5:01 PM, Steph’s Fish and Plants said: My roommate is currently raising a black lab for Leader Dogs. It was so much fun. It’s gonna be hard giving her back when she’s not a puppy anymore Everyone asks "isn't it hard to give them up?" Well, yes, yes it is. Very. Hard. You know the deal when you start, and we work very hard to make sure they're ready. We get sad when they are doing well in their training. "Aww... the end is coming." We turn one in, and get a fresh one, and start all over again with cute-little-know-nothing. That's why I like fish... keep 'em for life, and no house training! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Newton Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 7/14/2020 at 7:31 PM, Irene said: That's so cool! I want to help raise service dogs someday, but gotta wait till my kids are older and I have more free time. We started when my children were in college and I could work from home. There are training classes at least once a week and there's a fair amount of travel to get to them. We said hello to you when we were checking out of the hotel at Aquashella; we had black Labrador retriever. Enjoyed your talk, and as always, the videos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Wink, so called because as a feral kitten he was chewed on by a coyote and lost an eye. He has always had trouble drinking water because he can't judge where the surface of the water is. Wink's solution is drink out of my angelfish tank. He jumps up on top and slaps at the water with one of his paws. Satisfied that he knows where the water is he finally can take his drink. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBOzzie59 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Not our pet but we have been caring for a European Starling since the start of this Covid thing. Knows quite a few words & phrases and also mimics crickets and a cat meow! I'll try and get some video of his speech this weekend. Some of what he says. Come here Where's the kitty What are you doing Bird bird bird bird bird bird It's especially funny when he starts jumbling them together! Oh and he also has a couple laughs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenP2003 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Jojo and Coco -- the puppy is Jojo, just adopted at the end of May. According to the dog DNA test we did, she's part Amstaff, Great Pyrenees, and Boxer. We adopted Coco two years ago. She's half Amstaff, with some Australian cattle dog and Rhodesian ridgeback mixed in. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ksant6 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 My other pets include Sofie ..white cat. She is my bf, follows me everywhere and has to be involved in everything I do. We watch aquarium co-op videos together on the weekends. Lilly...grey cat. She is a little more aloof than Sofie. She has catitud..lol Ammo..chi terrier mix pupper. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy K Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Eric T. is 8 years old, working on his frosted face, and auditioning lap blankets while waiting for mommy to find something good on Netflix. Edited July 19, 2020 by Nancy K 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishTankBarn Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Rocky (black cat) Lucky (orange cat) carrots (rabbit) my kids found carrots wandering around the neighborhood about 4 years ago. We tried to kind the owner to no avail so we ended up adopting him. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Merlin's favorite place to bask is under one of the lights on the angelfish tank 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 My pupper, Underfoot, just celebrated her 7th birthday last week! She got a celebratory bacon cheeseburger . 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryC Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 He loves to spend time looking at the fish! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Watson (on the tank) has a twin sister named Cricket. I'll send her photo next. They both wear tuxedos all the time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Arbor Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 This is Shadow, I've had her since she was a month old, she's seven now. This is Lucky, she's six years old now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyBundy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 The Princess of the house 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blown68 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Loki is our 5yr old Lab and Wren is our 2yr old Great Pyrenees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Underfoot thinks I should stop looking at fish and start looking at her. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelndisguise2277 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 My 3 "other" wake up calls... They're all senior rescue dogs, 2 of which I've had for 10 years, one for almost a year (he was 8 when I adopted him) We also have two love birds in the house that belong that to my oldest child. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Cory Posted July 24, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted July 24, 2020 They look like happy babies. All of our chihuahuas are rescues, although only one was a senior when we rescued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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