– they have best friends
– they’ll go out of their way to sit on their best friends, kiss their best friends, and share lunch with them
– lettuce is to snails what a favorite ball is to a dog
– if ur tasty they’ll give u gentle scrapes
– they are SOCIAL!!!!!
– they all have very distinct personalities and quirks
– they like comfort, they are affectionate
– u can actually tell when a snail is sleepy because they’ll only stick their stalks halfway out and wiggle them gently
– they’re very curious
– they’re very clean and they love maintaining their shells
– cuttlebone YUMMY, make shell BIG
Tag: pets
For anyone who cares: I’m getting the actual animal in about a week.
How do I convince my dad we need a thermostat for the heat mat since the pet store guy said we didn’t need one
And even if we didn’t /need/ one, I still personally /want/ one for the convenience?
Help
Present him with research from reliable sources that a) show the benefits of thermostats and b) discredit petstore employees as the (typically) clueless morons that they are.
I told him that most places recommend thermostats, and he said that if, once we have the heater running (we have to get a place for the tank and since the tank was used there’s no lid so we have to find one), it’s not the correct temperature, we could get one. That’s fine because there is a time difference between when we get the supplies and when we get the animal.
Hopefully he gets it eventually, or I’ll just use my own money (don’t know where I’d get money, but anyway) to get it. I don’t know what else to do really, even with a thermostat I’m still worried about the animal.
Also, it’s a local store, and I think the people do know a lot about animals. Still think that they’re wrong on this one, though.
How do I convince my dad we need a thermostat for the heat mat since the pet store guy said we didn’t need one
And even if we didn’t /need/ one, I still personally /want/ one for the convenience?
Help
Oh man the store we’ve been getting stuff from has baby leopard geckos and wow they’re so cute and small
I just need a permanent place for the tank then we can go get the animal and the food stuff
Are there any reasonable alternatives to barn cats that you know of?
I quite like the method of promoting predation by native fauna. There seems to be a lot of Us vs. Them when it comes to farmers and wildlife, but this method isn’t saying “Let wolves waltz around on your property,” it’s more about snakes and birds of prey. Here’s an article on installing perches and nest boxes.
These may pose some risk to smaller livestock, like chickens or rabbit, but so do cats. Even if the barn cats aren’t intent on preying upon them any contact can end with disaster, cat saliva is full of bacteria that birds are especially sensitive to and can cause fowl cholera. Cats are also an intermediate host for S.neurona, which can cause EPM in horses.
Another option I love is the use of ratting terriers, that’s what they were bred for! I know in the city cats tend not to be effective predators of rats, that may be different in more rural areas but we know terriers are effective predators of rat.
Working with ratting terriers tends to be different than utilizing barn cats, it’s less just releasing the dogs to do as they please and more cooperative. Dogs can also be trained recall more reliably, trained not to cross certain boundaries, have a good leave it command and to ignore livestock, etc.
Note that I consider “barn cats” to mean working cats in an agricultural operation, not “I live in a rural area and have, like, one pet goat and let my cat free-roam.”
I know leopard gecko care but I wanted to look at care sheets to make sure I wasn’t forgetting anything important and confirm that I’m remembering specifics correctly but all the ones I’m finding online are bad (as in they’re telling me information I’ve learned isn’t true) and the one I found here that I really liked is marked as explicit so That’s really annoying
All I want to know is that I remember how often to feed and what supplements to use when but apparently finding a source I consider reliable enough for that information is too much to ask for
Maybe I was smart enough to bookmark the good sources I found when I was researching this intensely but probably not lol
I wasn’t smart enough! Cool!
I know leopard gecko care but I wanted to look at care sheets to make sure I wasn’t forgetting anything important and confirm that I’m remembering specifics correctly but all the ones I’m finding online are bad (as in they’re telling me information I’ve learned isn’t true) and the one I found here that I really liked is marked as explicit so That’s really annoying
All I want to know is that I remember how often to feed and what supplements to use when but apparently finding a source I consider reliable enough for that information is too much to ask for
Maybe I was smart enough to bookmark the good sources I found when I was researching this intensely but probably not lol
Hey Doc we just got our second flower arrangement of the season but this one has lillies in it and I don’t know what to do we have two cats and I know we cant keep the lillies maybe even the whole arangement because of the pollen but I dont know how to explain this to my mum.
If it’s any plant belonging to the lillium group, which is basically anything you would call a lily, they should not be anywhere near your cats. Every single part of a lily is toxic, including leaves, stems, flowers and pollen and that pollen can get all over the place. And then, cats will lick the pollen off their fur, and it only takes a small amount to cause toxicity.
Lily ingestion by a cat causes acute kidney failure and death. Sometimes it causes liver damage too, in case the kidney failure and death was not enough. You can try to treat it, but before you see clinical symptoms (drinking a lot, not eating, vomiting, weight loss). When the symptoms are there, the kidneys are already failing. And treatment is at least 2 days in hospital, and at a 24 hour clinic you’d be looking at something like a $3,000 bill if all goes well.
Even cats that are not chewers but just brush their cheeks against the pollen and lick it off can and will be poisoned.
(Calla lilies are different, in that they are not a true lily, and only cause vomiting and mouth pain if eaten instead of kidney failure and death)
I will not, ever, have lilies in the house. Wonka and Trash bag will both chew things and I simply will not do it. This is unfortunate because they are the LSB’s favourite flower, and every time she gives me flowers there are lilies in it, or lily bulbs to plant in the garden (also No.). I have explained how toxic they are every time, and now just ‘thank her for the thought’ and put them in the garbage bin. The outside garbage bin.
Rip them out, and anything with the pollen on it. Trash them and put them in the bin so they can’t be recovered. Then explain.
I know leopard gecko care but I wanted to look at care sheets to make sure I wasn’t forgetting anything important and confirm that I’m remembering specifics correctly but all the ones I’m finding online are bad (as in they’re telling me information I’ve learned isn’t true) and the one I found here that I really liked is marked as explicit so That’s really annoying
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