Ashy

On 9/9/11 I found a big black dog on a bridge and after convincing him I was ok and getting him home he's fallen in love with me. Got in contact with his owners and long story short he is officially my dog.

He's 8 months old and looks like a pure black lab, acts exactly like an adolescent lab, loves water, but he's already 26" at the shoulder and 80lbs (he should be about 100lbs when full grown and 27"-28") which seems a little big for a normal lab.

I've heard anything from he looks like a purebred to rottie/lab, pitt/lab, bully/lab, and even a dane/lab. If anything, I'd say rottie since in bright sun light he has reddish/brown where a rottie would (but that can happen in pure labs too on occasions). He's too tall to be a pitt, bully, or boxer lab mix for sure.

Anyway, the shelter the people got him from at 7 weeks old said he was a pure lab but we're not sure. Everything about him screams american black lab except his size. Just looking for opinions here. The vet tech said lab when I took him to get fixed the other day. No matter what he's overly loved and spoiled already. Just needs a bit of obidience training (may get him into some therapy dog training classes eventually cause he definately has some great potential for that!)

Pictures:

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(sorry there's so many pics, he's very photogenic and we wanted a good picture of him for found signs when we took those!)

My cockatiel Misty is the pickiest eater ever. She will pick through her seeds for the ones she likes and then dance around the bottom of her cage and/or throw the unwanted seeds at me until I pour them out and refill her dish.

Any tips on how to get her to eat other foods? I've tried the 'leave it and they'll eat it once hungry enough' and that method doesn't work. She only likes those few seeds in her dish which thankfully make up a majority of the cheapest cockatiel bulk food so not too much is wasted.

I used to have two not very hand friendly but lovely cockatiels, Ash and Misty. Ash absolutely loved his seeds and would do anything for sunflower seeds. He just hated fruit and veggies. Since they shared a cage and food, I figured they both enjoyed their seeds. I was wrong. After Ashy died and I was left with just Misty, I've realized she's the world's pickiest eater.

The good thing, I only have to buy the cheapest bulk tiel food. The bad thing, she's not getting enough nutrition from this. She eats all the seeds she likes (which seems to mainly be the grass and millet seeds and other small seeds like that. She won't touch anything else. Sunflower, pumpkin, those cereal puffs? None of them. I've offered her plenty of fruits and veggies to try, but none of them get eaten. And the whole "leave it there when she runs out of stuff she likes and she'll eat it" thing? That doesn't work with her. She would rather starve. No joke. She'll run along the bottom of the cage when she's out of food she likes and throw all the unwanted seeds at us until we fill her bowl. She won't eat them at all.

So please, anybody have any suggestions on how to cure a picky eater? Or am I going to have to keep wasting bird seed and buying more a lot more often than I should have to.

Thanks in advanced.

While going through stuff from my grandma's house, we found a bunch of old WWII insignia's of my grandpa's. I figured out what most of them are, but I can't find out what these two are:

http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd348/plushiedr... (two white keys over a white feather on black)

http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd348/plushiedr... (white globe on black)

Sorry my camera sucks. But yeah. If anybody knows what they are, I'd appreciate the help. Me and my dad think they might be Nazi insignias, but not 100% sure. Thank you in advance

~Ashy

Ok, so we adopted a cat for my grandma. Lily is only one now (two on St. Patrick's day) and has lived most of her life an only child. But, since my grandma died in August, she's been my cat. We had moved some of our cats over to my grandma's house while living over there for a couple months and she got along pretty well with them. A few fights here and there but nothing to serious. Of course, my grandma had her declawed so she can't fight back. Our one cat, Frosty, is the worst though and once she came around, Lily wouldn't come out of hiding.

We moved all the cats back here but left Frosty over at the other house. Everything had seemed fine. Still few disputes but nothing serious and Lily was fine walking around her new home. After New Years, we brought Frosty back home and Lily started hiding in the basement and would only come up to eat, which she would only eat dog food then.

Luckily, we got her back on cat food but there's still the fighting problem. Ever since Frosty got back, the other cats have been beating up Lily even more too. My cat felix is starting to beat Frosty up even now. Rei's the only one who doesn't do anything to poor Lily. just the other day, there was a fight upstairs and lily's ear was bleeding after it cause somebody scratched it.

We have tried everything. Locking the other cats up for a while to let Lily roam, holding Lily while she's down here to protect her from the others and show her they won't always attack her. Right now we have to keep her locked in my room by herself and I'll go and spend time with her and she purrs but the second I open my door to bring her down, she stops and starts growling. It's gotten so bad she's starting to bite us when she's down here but the second she gets back in my room, she's all happy and purring again.

So, what I'm asking is does anybody have any ideas on how to help our cats get along better, without having to keep lily in solitary confinment or getting rid of any of our cats. We know it's not a number problem, cause we've had even more cats with the same group that's beating on Lily. They're all fixed already and most of them are too old and we don't want to put them through the stress of getting declawed.

All help is appreciated and thanked.

I have to create a newspaper with my partner in english class about TKAM. One of the things for the paper I'm doing is the obits. I know Mrs. Dubose, Tom Robinson, and Bob Ewell died, but I forgot who else and don't feel like flipping through the book to find them.

Please, can somebody tell me who else dies and how? Thanks.

I have two tiels, Ash and Misty (Misty was my brother's fiance's idea... Just recently got her. Ash has been around for a couple of years now). I'm planning on breeding them in the future and unless it's during the summer when school's out, I won't have time to hand feed them nor will anybody else since nobody's home during the day and if they are, they're asleep. I know hand feeding isn't a neccessity to have lovable, holdable, 'perfect' baby tiels.

I just want to know how old should the babies be before you start taking them out for daily bonding time? I've read a few sites and have found a majority of them say 10 days. Just want to double check. And yes I know. Research a bunch if I'm gonna breed them and never handle very young birds for to long cause just like baby bunnies (have had before) they can get cold quickly and die.

Thanks for the help all who answer. Me and the future clutch thank you.