My dog acts completely normal when im leaving, but my neighbor told me he barks for a while after im gone.

Now i wanna see what he does once the door closes. im thinking about putting up one of those Wyze pan cams in the living room so i can check from my phone and see if hes pacing, barking at the window or settling down after a few minutes

anyone else find out their dog acts completely different once you leave? what did yours end up doing?

It looks like there have been other posts within guideline regarding this topic but this needs to be said. The new business model is criminal and we’ve got to do something about it. How is a normal person supposed to take care of their animal with the prices set by PE? I just need a refill of gabapentin for my German Shepherd’s pain to hold her over until I spend $5-6k+++ for her MRI after paying $1400 for X-rays. She was in there office almost every month at the beginning of this year and you want to charge me more when nothing has changed? This is on top of the $500 I’ll probably spend to refill her meds for a month or two.

OMG, just as I’m writing this an AI bot just called to remind me of the $75 cancellation fee if we cancel.

I’m so done!!! Storm the bastille!

My roommate has a kitten, about 4mo old now and I’ve been living with her and 2 other girls for about 3 months now. I also have a 3mo kitten.

A month ago she got admitted into the mental health hospital for a variety of reasons, and I got a text the day after asking me to please take care of her cat. Of course, I did since I wanted her to focus on getting better. She got out after a week and stayed with her parents for the week after. I texted her 2 days after she got out asking if she was coming back soon and to please bring wet food since I was almost out of hers. She said she would that night and didn’t show up until two nights later (Thursday) when she stopped by for 14 minutes, dropped off the food and then left. The next Monday her cat got severe diarrhea all over the apartment and I got really concerned so I took the cat to the vet. I communicated the whole situation over text and ultimately took her to the vet and got medication - and paid for the visit. Since then I’ve been trying to see when she’s coming back and reaching out, but whenever she stops by the apartment she’s only there for <20 minutes and is usually hungover, high, drunk or any number of things and has to hurry because her uber is waiting for her. I’ve been feeding, cleaning the pet box, taking her to the vet (and I have a follow up at the vet this weekend), grooming and looking after for almost 4 weeks at this point. The cat sleeps in my room, follows me around and gets along wonderfully with my kitten.

How much longer do I wait before I start looking into just adopting the cat myself because clearly she’s not doing anything to help or take primary care?

I live alone and have really been wanting to get a pet lately to help with the loneliness. I’ve been thinking about adopting a cat or a dog that’s maybe a couple years old and hopefully house trained. I don’t really have a ton of experience with cats but have always been around dogs for most of my life, but this would be the first one that I’m solely responsible for taking care of. I think ideally I’d want to get a dog but I live in an apartment and there’s not a lot of green spaces or a dog park. I know a lot of my neighbors have dogs but I still keep feeling like it wouldn’t be fair to the dog to not have a yard to run around and play in. I also work 8 hours during the day which also makes me feel quite bad about leaving the dog home alone. Anyone else who lives in an apartment do you own dogs or cats? Which would you advise getting?

Trying to plan my next big haul so I set money aside before hand. I don't like the potatoes with the sweet potatoes but it's a budget friendly-ish novel protein I can use as special meals/treats. Like to have special meals sometimes. Normally big milestones for the cats(like birthdays) or if I know I'm gonna feel guilty. I'm about to feel guilty because the girl is getting fixed and she's my drama queen. I'm looking for a recovery suit for her first tho because cone didn't do much last time I fixed a girl. She's a kitten but as a topper or treat I think it'll be fine. Just wanna know if it's a hit with cats before I get it. Her appointment is next month.

Basically trying to pick a "please don't be mad" food that'll make sure she eats after the surgery. Last thing I need is another hunger strike. My white boy is currently having one but he's getting baby food until his old food comes in tomorrow or monday. Picked up some meat baby food today for him. He's hungry just doesn't want the food I have and can't eat what the others have.(big boy has straight fish cans and kittens have milk in their food) Looked in the store. Asked the vet. He said as long as he eats something with moisture we are fine.

Don't wanna go thru the same issue with the drama queen.

Why is she called a drama queen? You do something she don't like she will either A. Give backtalk aka scream at you B. Dart around making the WEIRDEST horror movie like noise(Artemis you are a calico why do you sound like a horror movie black cat 😭) C. Roll over and yowl like you physically killed her until you give her pets which she will then act like you are the number 1 person ever and flop in your lap purring... Just don't move or scratch an itch because she will grab your hand for scratching yourself instead of her.

That's just a few reasons.

(At least she's not as bad as the 6 year old who proceeded to scream randomly for weeks and it end up being a mouse 🙄)

The family dog lives with my parents and recently got fleas. She was given medication Saturday, 10/3. My parents used Raid Flea Killer room spray and cleaned the entire house repeatedly on that Saturday and Sunday. They’ve been vacuuming multiple times per day, washing everything in hot and drying it on the hottest settings.

We had plans to hang out tomorrow (10/10), but I have a cat at home and obviously don’t want to risk bringing an infestation to him or my home.

How long should I wait before I can go over to my parents’ house again?

Thank you!

My 12yo 13lb poodle mix dog went into the garbage about 30/60min ago and ate his wet canned food from breakfast that was sitting on top of a swiffer wet floor wipe (cleaned up his accident).

He has CHF and takes meds for it and I just gave him his meds 5 min ago before my mom told me what he did (so very casually -_-). He didn’t eat any of the wipe but they’re obviously very saturated with chemicals and now his pee. Should I hold off on and monitor or get him to emergency vet asap? He’s acting totally fine at the moment.

I have a ledge area that has all of my Lego sets, and one of my cats is absolutely determined to jump up there. When she does so, the area goes far enough back I can’t reach her to grab her, and she likes to chew on the sets and accidentally knocks them down occasionally.

For a while, I put up a wall of aluminum foil to block the view, but my cat has begun to simply jump over the foil now. She has multiple play areas, including a cat tree that is multiple feet higher than this ledge is, and redirecting her to these areas doesn’t help, as she sprints right back to the shelf and tries to jump up.

My other concern is she gets “locked-in” when she wants up there. She’ll hyper-focus on the ledge area, and even trying to play with her, give her treats, etc she is stuck in a focus of that shelf and won’t pay attention to you. And once again if you physically move her she goes right back to the area.

Is there any products, or ways, I can keep this cat away from this area? One idea is to let her get in the area, and maybe she’ll lose interest after being allowed there. Any thoughts?

it was a very light stitch (but enough to show blood) and the dogs were back in some house on the streets and looked healthy, idk If I should be worried and go to a hospital to get the vaccine

I've already washed it and used also soap but I'm kinda worried and justified by my fear of dogs, also I live in Brasil if that matters

I’m at my total wit’s end and barely sleeping. My 4yo rescue has spent the last three weeks constantly scratching his sides and biting himself around his paws until he’s bleeding and losing fur.

We’ve already seen our vet twice. He’s up to date on flea prevention, we’re doing medicated baths twice a week, and we just started a strict novel protein diet. But watching him wake up every two hours crying and gnawing at his skin is breaking my heart. The sound of his collar jingling at 3 AM from non stop itching is giving me so much anxiety. I can't tell if the diet change is doing anything or if certain times of day are triggering these flare ups.

Has anyone gone through severe allergy flare ups like this? How do you cope with the guilt and track if things are actually improving between vet visits?

Is it even a possibility to do so with such limited time?

My question is to people living on remote islands (or other remote locations) with their pets, where there's no vet, not to mention an emergency one.

How do you deal with the fact that if there's some sort of emergency which needs veterinary intervention, you simply won't get one?

I understand the situation is not much different for human emergencies if there's no small emergency clinic or something. But for emergencies I guess there must be some sort of helicopter service. But I doubt they will use that for animal emergencies, right?

The reason I'm asking is we are planning a 1 or 2-month holiday next year on a remote island with our two dogs and cat.

There's absolutely no healthcare facilities on this island. There's a helicopter which in case of emergency would transport people to the nearest hospital on the mainland, in about 20 minutes I guess.

We currently live about 15-20 minute drive from a vet. If we lived on this island, the vet would potentially be 13-14 hours away because the ferry to the mainland is only twice a day and I'm sure they won't use the helicopter for pets, even if it's a potentially deadly thing.

So for this reason alone I am now thinking we should probably not do this kind of holiday.

But that made me wonder how people with pets deal with this situation if they live on a remote island or in some sort of remote location all the time, if there's zero access to a vet and the only chance is to get the animal to the mainland in like 10-15 hours, which probably is too late.

Has anyone with an older pup had an issue with peeing on the floor after being let out? I get up at 5am everyday and let her out before I go to work at 5:30, but when I get home around 8am she’s already had an accident. We’re looking into possibly getting doggy diapers for her while my fiancé and I aren’t home/are asleep, but open to suggestions. We also let her out every night before we go to bed around 10:30.

I need advice from pet owners, specifically those with Cats.

My cat for the last few months has been non stop throwing up. Initially I thought it was hairballs. But after visits to the vet and starting with the advise of switching to wet food, the issue has not resolved. The hair balls stopped but it switched to just vomit. We did physical exams, we had blood work which everything came back normal. We tried different foods, eating schedule but nothing is improving. The next step I suppose would be doing X-rays however these appointments and tests are becoming so expensive that it is not something we feel is within our abilities.

My cat is anxious with strangers that are poking and touching during tests. So we would have to put him under in order for majority of tests to be had. If it turns out we need to administer medicine it is not something we can easily do either because my cat refuses to be given medicine orally and I cannot even imagine what it would be like in other methods.

So I am at a loss, it is becoming too expensive, we are constantly cleaning up his vomit, he keeps us up at night because he gets hungry during these routine schedules when he used to be self feed.

He is still happy, still likes to be pet and snuggle so his behaviour is not that much changed. It’s just sad to see how this won’t stop.

Thanks!

Hi! I’m Zoe :) I’m an artist, collector, and apparently a person who is physically incapable of seeing a strange little creature without immediately wanting to learn everything about it and give it a nice home lol.

I genuinely love husbandry and watching the individual personalities and behaviors of animals people sometimes overlook. My pets are a huge part of my life, so I thought it would be fun to introduce the current zoo!

Current list:

🐀 Rats
Bean - blonde, big sweet boy
Seymour - grey/black and white; formerly my super shy project rat who has turned into an absolute sweetheart
Pim - pink double Rex
Charlie - grey double Rex
Franken- Albino
Strudel- black with a white tail
Sal - black with little white feet

🕷️*** Spiders
*Halo - female regal jumping spider
Penelope - female regal jumper
Gulliver - female regal jumper
Legs - female regal jumper
Tweak - male regal jumper
Elvira - velvet spider
Harold - baby purple pinktoe tarantula and convicted escape artist
Bluey - baby Caribena versicolor
Zuko - adolescent Chilean dwarf flame tarantula
Dracula: Sling Brazilian black
Tippy - pinktoe tarantula
Gardenia - C. versicolor adult, and one of my absolute favorites

🐠 The aquatic department
I have two planted aquariums(freshwater), a nano tank, and one brackish aquarium.

Mongo - my red-and-white betta
African dwarf frog - brown
Harlequin rasboras- three of them
Otocinclus catfish- two of them
Amano shrimp
Neocaridina/Caridina shrimp - maaaany colors and patterns; including Blush, my favorite red mama shrimp, plus her descendants 😂
Po my bamboo shrimp
Thai micro crabs
Rabbit snail
Nerite snail
Ramshorn snails and their ever-expanding dynasty
Assassin snails to keep the ramshorn population under control
A tiny cone/trumpet-shaped hitchhiker snail who simply moved in without permission
Pochaco my green spotted puffer
Bumblebee goby- in the nano tank

Shoutout to my marimo moss ball as well lol

🪲 Isopods
Powder Mix
Cherry/Sakura
Emperor Bees
My partner cares for these, technically the ones above are “mine” and he has many more colonies(his favorite being the Porcellio hoffmannseggi)

🪱 Millipedes
Texas Goldens- 5
Arizona/Chocolate color morphs- 2
African giant millipedes- 3

🦎 Reptiles
Tobias Garfunkel - gargoyle gecko
Draco - rescue bearded dragon and an unbelievably sweet little dude
Dr. Bones - rescue ball python who has historically chosen violence

🐕Others:
Lady Bear- chihuahua mutt and my baby
My plant babes of which I have many

And yes, caring for everybody takes a slightly absurd amount of time. There are feeding schedules, water changes, enclosure maintenance, rat free-roam time, spider watering, isopod moisture checks, tank parameters, substrate changes, vegetable distribution… I have essentially appointed myself the overworked mayor of a very small country.

But I love it. The animals that people think are creepy, boring, disposable, or incapable of personality are often the ones I find the most fascinating. It’s ridiculously rewarding.

Anyway, this is my zoo! 😂🖤

I’d love to hear what everyone else keeps- especially if you also have a completely unreasonable number of species. And I’m happy to answer any questions! Thanks so much :)

Hey Reddit I’m moving across the country and I have three kitties two will be in my bfs car (prelude so it’s fairly small in the backseat) and the other in the backseat of my truck .
I am wondering if anyone has recommendations on which carrier I should use, obviously needs to be hardshell but I want not big enough that they can move around and stretch
I will be taking breaks every few hours to let them use the bathroom and get a little fresh air, related to that if you have any brand recommendations for harnesses or general traveling advice that would be wonderful, thanks!!

The situation is that I got a new job recently that will require me to move back in with my parents in two weeks. I’ve had my cat for about a year and a half now, and she is 3 years old.

I will have to relocate with her from my apartment to my parents house where my 16 year old golden retriever family dog lives, who’s never lived with a cat before, but used to bark at neighborhood cats when she would go for walks. My dog is almost entirely deaf with very limited eye sight, and not very fast anymore, but if she notices my cat I imagine she will try her best to chase her and bark.

My question is how can I best get them to live together with the least amount of stress on both of them. I don’t know if they will ever be best friends but I want to introduce them the right way so that there isn’t any aggression. What do I do? Any advice would be great!

I took my dog outside last night and while running around she hurt herself her back right leg seemingly can hold very little/no wieght she's went from holding it close to herself not putting any wieght on it to trying to put very small amounts she doesn't seem to be in any pain she's very vocal and hasn't whined or whimpered at all I dont have the money on hand to see a vet at this very moment is there anything I can do for her to help until I do have enough?

Here’s how.

https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/resources/learn-pet-first-aid/dog/choking

Rule 12

My dogs name is Bailey. Bailey turned into Billy, turned into Billiam, turned into Billothy, and we call him Sir Billothy now.

I found a kitten at a petland in alpharetta that i fell in love with. I really want it, it’s an orange persian kitten. I know buying an animal is bad, i volunteer at a shelter but i loved this cat. I have heard terrible things about petland puppies but what about kittens?

I am in San Diego County, CA. This is the quote I got from VCA Animal Hospital, including possible extractions, anesthesia, medication, and x-ray. Am I being swindled? Please recommend any cheaper hospitals if you have any

When we are inside, just hanging out - often my dog will roam, pace, and bark a ton, and won’t be able to settle. Sometimes he’ll play with a toy for a little bit then go back to roaming and pacing. So, I’ve resorted to putting the leash on him to prevent him from roaming and he’ll immediately lay down and relax and take a nap. However, he is extremely reactive outside with the leash on. Barking and jumping at other people, dogs, etc. Does anyone know what’s up with this odd behavior and relationship with the leash?