ITT: That one animal you like that nobody else likes
pic related >sickass mohawk >bite force stronger than a pussy ass lion's >strong sense of loyalty and family (at least for spotted hyenas anyway) >cute ears
Is it possible for animals to think like us and try to act like us?
Pic is of my cat Zac. He's one of the strangest cats I've had who acts as though he's human.
He meows with certain tones when talked to, he prefers to sleep with his head on a pillow in a bed, he tries to open doors with both his paws (sometimes successful), he watches TV in my dad's chair, he purposely trolls everyone by walking in front of them and sitting down right as they catch up, he literally sits his butt down on the other cats as if they were a chair and he brings random objects to me as a gift and if he hears me say I'll throw it away, he quickly hides it so I can't.
Maybe I'm overthinking it or something, but I am curious if anyone else thinks so or also has a pet that acts a certain way.
My dog is about 13 or 14 years old now. She's been losing teeth for maybe the past 6 months, and now she cannot control her bladder. She's peed on the floor 3 or 4 times today alone, not to mention the times prior to this.
My mom just said "I don't wanna put her down but..." and I said "you're considering killing the dog 'cause she's peeing on the floor?"
We cannot afford a surgery for her bladder or anything like that. I'm not going to let her get put down like this, but if we bring her to a vet, what will they say/do? Also, does anyone have any experience with this? I really don't want to lose another pet to something like this.
Aside from the peeing, she seems to have some kind of cataracts in her eyes(clouded and blue) but she still runs around the yard sometimes(she's capable of running) and knows her name, etc.
I have a lot of spider plants at home, which all used to have persistent scale insect infestations for many years. Rather than just dumping the plants, I had always tried to save them by plucking out the scales manually or spraying them with chemicals, but that never really worked. The scales had always came back in large numbers. But, sometime ago, about a year or so, the scales started to gradually declined in population until none remained.
I don't understand what's going on. I never changed the way I watered/fertilized/cleaned the plants or the tools used in doing so, and I never changed how I did things at my home. My guess is that something was added to the municipal water supply or chemicals are leaking from from the plastic bottles I water my plants with are harmful to the scales. Any thoughts, /an/?
