My first Sheltie, Dakota, my sweet boy died on July 9, 2020 (9 days after Cody), after being diagnosed with Hemagiosarcoma (A tumor in your heart) A mere month before. I was 13 years old (as was Cody).
It is a horrible disease that has led many loved dogs of friends and family. We were blessed to have Dakota with us for a month after they diagnosed him, many who know they were not so lucky.
To think that I thought Dakota was crazy when I was young! Little knew what I would be reserved for me with Levi.
Dakota was sweet, Stoic in the veterinarian, he hated other dogs, he was dedicated to his “package” at home, but he was not a big fan of the humans he did not know. I would never have enjoyed going to the nursery or shipping as Levi does.
He was a great brother of Cody. They really loved each other.
I hated walking, I was not delighted with the car (Would sit on the floor). He didn’t like sleeping in his bed, he preferred to sleep on the floor. If he stirred the eggs, he would bark. If I used spray butter, it would bark. It was the most peculiar dog!
They loved their precious vegetables, corn doves, red peppers (They are not hot!), apples, carrots and the meat cake for dogs/meatballs/hamburgers that he would do for him.
He also worshiped his dad!
Dakota was extremely linked to Lenny when he was young, as time passed, he and I became extremely close. I had a sixth feeling of knowing when I needed extra love.
It was the first dog that I had as an adult and it was the fulfillment of a childhood dream of having a Sheltie. It was special in many ways.
He loved to run and play when he was young.
He worshiped his red, white and blue dollar store that we have hidden safely in a trunk. That dog had so many toys and that disgusting ball of luxurious and worn out was his absolute favorite.
The 13 years he was with us spent the blink of an eye. I am grateful for the many collages that I have on the wall of the living room of Cody and Dakota, in this way I can still see them both every day.
Dakota, you were such a good and special boy. Daddy and I think of you, we love you and miss you every day.
Approximately a minute after Dakota left us, I noticed a yellow butterfly that flew directly to the doors of our patio, I am sure that this was our sweet Dakota letting us know that it would always be there.
I had always loved the name “Dakota” and when I was selecting a name for him, he had sought the meaning. In the American Indian the name “Dakota” meant “Trust friend.” He was completely up to his name and more.
Thank you, Dakota, for sharing your life and love with Dad, Cody and me. You were the first perfect Sheltie.
A lot of love always,
Mother
I love this story of Max, the cat, obtaining a doctorate at Vermont State U in Castleton after 4 years hanging on the campus.
According to the story, he was a friend of all the students, he helped keep the levels of anxiety, comforted and perhaps even advised them during difficult times and made the campus a more pleasant place to be.
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Cat lovers are well familiar with the relaxing buzz of a cat’s snoring and generally associate it with satisfaction and relaxation, but the complexities behind this subtle sound extend far beyond mere happiness. Cats are irrigated by a variety of reasons, offering us some ideas about their psychology and physiology.
With what most people are related is the scenario of a relaxed and happy cat in a lap while stroking gently. Many people assume that if the cat is snoring, everything is fine. Not always. Ronaronar is more complex than that. Cats can snort when they are scared or threatened, possibly as a means to calm or appease a perceived threat. Like a nervous person, he smiles in an insecure situation, a cat’s snoring during moments of anguish serves as a soothing mechanism, helping them to deal with anxiety or perceived danger and, hopefully, to calm an opponent potential.
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This selfolegation behavior and the therapeutic capacity of snoring extend to the times of pain, illness or injury, where it serves as help in pain relief. It is known that females, for example, purify during childbirth.
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The importance of snoring extends to the first moments of cat’s life, since kittens begin to purr shortly after birth. This helps the mother track their babies. Deaf and blind born, newborns also trust their mother’s snoring vibrations to help it, starting the union in those first days.
The benefits of the ronrona do not end there. The investigation suggests that the frequency of a cat can contain healing properties, potentially accelerating bone repair and injury recovery.
The cat’s slice is much more than a simple expression of satisfaction. It is a multifaceted tool and a therapeutic aspect of feline life, for service purposes that range from emotional to physical.
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With many cats, the slice is audible. It may look like the soft buzz of the best engine, or it may sound like one that has long been tuning. Other cats can have such a quiet slice that he only knows his presence for the soft vibration.
From moments of satisfaction to times of anguish, from the first minutes of life to the last hours, the slice serves as a cat’s constant partner.
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Cat’s videos have always been extraordinarily popular on YouTube, but more recently pet owners have captured a newer phenomenon: cats going crazy in cucumbers.
In these videos, cat owners sneak over their pets while they eat, placing a cucumber behind them.
Once the cats finish eating and turning around, they face the cucumber and react jumping and surround them to flee
But why exactly this behavior happens?
As natural predators until the end, even the most lazy cats are aware of their surroundings and the search for dams
Confusing cucumbers with snakes?
As natural predators until the end, even the most lazy cats are aware of their surroundings and the search for dams
Their survival instinct is afraid of everything, intermittent lights to noisy cat toys. Unknown objects that appear at random near them can start them.
While it may not be the cucumber itself that scares the cat, it is the general change in the environment that can evoke an scared reaction.
If something has been silently in the environment in its presence, the cat could easily confuse the cucumber with a predator who prepares to attack.
Pepinos are long and green, which can make cats think that a snake has dragged behind them.
He can be tempting to try to scare his feline friend with a cucumber based on the perceptibly fun reactions that he probably obtains, but in reality this could be relatively cruel to his cat.
To deceive his cat to think that a dangerous animal has sneaked behind him or she can cause traumatic stress, and do it repeatedly could even lead to more aggressive or other worrying behavior, or even result in the PTSD in some cases.
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Cats can also be injured when they try to maneuver around cucumber, jumping to nearby counters or other objects that result in injuries, or can break close valuable items.
However, if you have completely lost your head and want your cat to become familiar with an inanimate cucumber as a partner for life, it is better if you present the cucumber directly instead of being placed behind them, since they probably never get along if the latter continues to happen.
Even if you simply want to present a cucumber as a surprise gift for a cat, which would be strange considering that there is nothing interest in them for a feline, it would do well to avoid awakening their stress and instead arouse their curiosity.
And although cucumber will finally never hurt the cat, the cat will probably have the same reaction again and again every time it presents itself as a surprise.
One way to see this differently is to imagine that someone is constantly dropping a false spider when you have Arachnophobia.
It would not be so fun, and although it is possible that you do not fall eventually, a cat will probably not learn that it is just a joke.
So, avoid doing your cat’s trick on your cat, since it does more damage than good
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