1: Don't ever prioritize your own wants over those of your companion. Respect and autonomy are critically important for interspecies relationships, and if she's communicating that she would rather not, it's on you to allow that to be her decision.
Acclimation. Approach the nails like any other aspect of canine training/behavior and work your way sequentially up to full trims. You can also try switching to a dremel, which is a tool that has a sanding file sort of drum on it, and which many dogs react to differently than the feeling of the clippers. He probably is also conditioned to see it as negative because of the past times of cutting them too short, which means your work is cut out for you.
Exactly! These vessels tend to elongate a bit in nails that haven't been trimmed in a while, which is why you can't cut them to the same length you may have a year ago. If you start slowly trimming back nails over time, they will shorten up to a normal length again.
No human sexually transmitted infection has yet been reported scientifically to replicate in and infect canines. Things that spend time on mucous membranes prior to transmission, like Gonorrhea, could theoretically be transferred from a canine sheath/vaginal canal to a human if they engaged in intimacy shortly after another infected human.
Toxoplasmosis, huh? One of my favorite parasites! Thinking about the life cycle, the oocyst (egg case) has to be shed from an infected cat and then divide and prepare itself for infection for at least 24 hours before it can affect a human via ingestion. Here's a great diagram from Cornell (with slightly terrifying CG images) illustrating the life cycle for ya.
Only time the topic was ever brought up was horrific abuse cases of sadism. At those points all the vets, including me, had incredibly choice and very negative things to say about it. I have yet to meet a fellow zoo vet offline -- we tend to be pretty careful having such high visibility careers.
Um. There is no such thing as a medication without some danger or secondaty effects.
Geez what do you think after reading the hundreds of threads about sucking dogs.
I am going to let you come to the conclusion yourself.This is used in commercial crap porn and we commonly call it animal abuse.
If you have to give a horse or any animal a "Roofie" to keep them calm so you can have sex with them you are raping them.
Medically? Perfectly. But sounds like you have personal reservations about it that have nothing to do with safety. Just like trying any new taste, you can always start with a very small amount and gauge your reaction. If it's not something you want to or feel comfortable doing, don't pressure yourself!
The drawbacks about this have already been addressed when interacting with another sentient species. If you are concerned and unable to gauge equine feelings/emotions or behavior, I would suggest spending a lot of time with them to build up that familiarity. They are fantastic animals who you can spend a whole life learning about, bonding with, and caring for and still have more to do. Horses are a particular kind of good for the soul.
Six months later, this is still going on.
Can you make a video about this behavior? I mean recording him acting like that? Maybe that might help in figuring out what might be wrong.
I already did, here.
www.zoovilleforum.net
Ah, I must have overlooked it. Maybe it would help to link to that when quoting your previous inquiry, would help to find the relevant parts further. With that material around I hope there are a few cat owners around that might find an answer to your issues.I already did, here.
Veterinarian here: ask me anything!
Forget taking the cat to a vet/animal behavior expert/psychic. YOU need to go to the psychiatrist. Learn how to chill out and deal with it. Some cats get louder when they are old. Don't forget you'll get old one day, and you might get louder and more annoying too.
First question: The only serious risk from ingesting dog semen (Assuming the dog isn't infected with something he can pass along to you, which is a fairly rare situation) is if you're allergic. Other than that... <shrug> "Drink up".
this has probably been asked before but I'm curious. are people who mate with dogs in risk for any STIs? which ones? how to prevent them?
Not really any more at risk than someone who has non-sexual contact with them. I can't think of any bugs a dog can pass to a human tthrough sex that it can't pass to the human just by having non-sexual physical contact. Of course, a well-known, well cared for, healthy dog PROBABLY doesn't have anything s/he can pass to a human AT ALL.
There was some concern towards the start, and a few anecdotal reports of dogs being contaminated by an infected person sneezing/coughing on them, but that's purely mechanical transmission, and hasn't got anything to do with them being infected and spreading it to humans - an event I haven't heard any confirmed reports of happening. Among horses, the local vet said that the cases she saw manifested mainly as some lethargy accompanied by mild colic symptoms and a spate of gut trouble that seemed to vary from a few days of "juicy-poops" to a week or ten days of full-blown "spray-paint the stall walls" grade diarrhea before making a full recovery with few or no blatantly obvious after-effects.
I am not and do not consider myself to be.
He just does it. If he wants food, he can just get it. There's always some available, as is water. Litter box is clean. He has toys he doesn't play with. There's another cat here that he grew up with. I've taken him to the vet multiple times and showed them videos of him doing this.
See above.
No. I cannot give him 24/7 attention, nor will I. Positive reinforcement and rewarding the behavior I want (him being quiet) doesn't work because as soon as I start petting him if he's quiet, he starts meowing a lot. If I stop, he then gets even worse.
God I'm glad I'm not responsible for horse care. ... Thank you again, for helping re-enforce that sensation.
Fair enough.
Yah, I'd have to agree doggy spackle is more disgusting. Horse shit, you just wait for it to dry then scrape it off with the rake
