Vets out here have started to use something called Interceptor instead of Heartguard.  That does claim to deal with intestinal parasites.  Although, so does Heartguard.

This is a good demonstration of why most places don't allow cats in the workplace. This pen, it's going to have to go.


Our small puma, Earl, suffering my husband's cockamamie ideas. 



We have 7 of these things now. They're pets who make us breakfast. 

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(March 26, 2018 at 3:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Vets out here have started to use something called Interceptor instead of Heartguard.  That does claim to deal with intestinal parasites.  Although, so does Heartguard.

You are correct. Interceptor has a high dose of milbemycin (0.23 mg/lb) which does kill intestinal parasites. Heartgard contains a very low dose of ivermectin (0.00272 mg/lb), which is enough to prevent heartworm but is not enough to kill worms, so it is combined with pyrantel.

(March 26, 2018 at 12:18 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:

(March 26, 2018 at 11:18 am)Whateverist Wrote: A very lol-worthy choice of name.  Glad to hear she does so well on three legs.  Is she alpha because she was on the scene before Zero, or is it just her nature?

Fender is quite a bit older than Zero and she has been there much longer so she gets to be alpha. Not to mention Zero doesn't give a fuck about being alpha and he only gets upset when she cuddles me and won't let him on the couch.

(March 26, 2018 at 2:06 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Belgian stand off. I con't remember who wouldn't let who thru. 

Funny the games dogs play, dominance seems to be a central theme in much of it.  But I remember going to a conference on play up at Cal with the wife.  They said the essence of all same-species mammalian play is trusting the other enough to make yourself vulnerable and showing yourself to be trustworthy in return.  

When I first brought Heidi home she was just over a year old.  Fletcher was several years older and Heidi treated him with deference.  But she was always physically more imposing and eventually she took over the top spot.  He could always win the frisbee tug of war contests ..



.. but she could always out wrestle him.  



Once bluff stopped being effective for him ..



.. it was over.



So I guess she was top dog.  But being dominant isn't as smooth and easy for her as it was for him so she probably preferred being his first lieutenant most of the time.

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(March 26, 2018 at 3:41 pm)Mermaid Wrote: We have 7 of these things now. They're pets who make us breakfast. 

I'll bet they are as delicious as they are good looking.

(March 26, 2018 at 4:31 pm)Whateverist Wrote:

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(March 26, 2018 at 3:41 pm)Mermaid Wrote: We have 7 of these things now. They're pets who make us breakfast. 

I'll bet they are as delicious as they are good looking.

OMG! We only eat the eggs. We don't eat our pets! That's bad juju.

(March 26, 2018 at 4:31 pm)Whateverist Wrote:

So I guess she was top dog.  But being dominant isn't as smooth and easy for her as it was for him so she probably preferred being his first lieutenant most of the time.

I. Am. Dying. bahahahahaha!

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(March 26, 2018 at 5:02 pm)Mermaid Wrote: OMG! We only eat the eggs. We don't eat our pets! That's bad juju.

Lol my mother in law says the same thing. She literally filled her empty nest once the children moved out of the house. They are her new children and we joke that the ranking is grandkids, chickens, kids. She makes them oatmeal so they have something warm if it's cold outside. Also (and this part I think is HIGHLY messed up on her part) she feeds them leftovers even if the meal consisted of chicken. She shrugs and says they seem to enjoy it.

(March 26, 2018 at 5:05 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Lol my mother in law says the same thing. She literally filled her empty nest once the children moved out of the house. They are her new children and we joke that the ranking is grandkids, chickens, kids. She makes them oatmeal so they have something warm if it's cold outside. Also (and this part I think is HIGHLY messed up on her part) she feeds them leftovers even if the meal consisted of chicken. She shrugs and says they seem to enjoy it.

Chickens will eat dead chickens without blinking. That massive brain just doesn't notice any issues.

I promised the woman I adopted the chickens from that I wouldn't feed them chicken. So far I have kept the promise. But sometimes we have way too many eggs, and I cook them eggs. There's something very meta about that.

(March 26, 2018 at 6:35 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(March 26, 2018 at 5:05 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Lol my mother in law says the same thing. She literally filled her empty nest once the children moved out of the house. They are her new children and we joke that the ranking is grandkids, chickens, kids. She makes them oatmeal so they have something warm if it's cold outside. Also (and this part I think is HIGHLY messed up on her part) she feeds them leftovers even if the meal consisted of chicken. She shrugs and says they seem to enjoy it.

Chickens will eat dead chickens without blinking. That massive brain just doesn't notice any issues.

Chickens will peck the corn out of cow shit. That's why one reason one has to cook the hell out of chicken for safe eating. That and the whole deal with the cloaca.

Chickens are an excellent way to get rid of a body.





Supposedly.