I was standing in waterlogged aquatic weeds in a small lake and I received numerous bites on my legs. The irritation and itching got of poorer quality after 24 hours. Someone said it force be duck mites but I don’t reckon they live in aquatic weeds. Does anyone have a clue?
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Cat Fights
Cats will fight only when a fight is inevitable, and they have a range of body postures and noises calculated to frighten off an opponent. If a hiss, followed by a small astute spitting noise, does not see the other cat off, the cat will turn sideways to his opponent with his back arched and his tail upright.
The hair on the body may fluff out, and so will the tail fur until the tail looks like a bottle brush. This is calculated to make the cat look larger and more threatening; and if he is not satisfactorily frightening, he will do a sideway skipping dance, stiff-legged in front of his opponent, growling or making a high-leaning yowling sound.
His head then will promptly duck decrease and a paw lash out towards the other cat’s head. The second cat will then decrease his ears against his head to minimize injury, and may spring at his aggressor’s shoulder or neck; the weight of his charge will knock him over or the other cat will promptly twist to roll bottom. The two will roll together, paws around one another’s bodies, biting at anything they can reach. Ears will be kept low to the head as they are fragile and vulnerable.
Each cat will continue to duck his head low, not only to protect it, but to help it twist bottom the other cat, because the cat bottom is in a excellent fighting position. He can bite and can reach his opponent’s neck and head; he can scratch with four sets of claws, and rake his opponent’s belly. The cat on top has to use at least three legs to stand on, which means he has only one set of claws free for the fight. So he will try to twist under the other cat and the two may find themselves lying side by side, paws outstretched, pushing one another away. At this stage, one may give up and run off.
All the while the two cats will stare hard at one another, trying to judge what the other will do; so it is hardly surprising that a hard stare is considered a threat in the cat world. And if two cats are weighing up whether to attack each other, you can prevent them from fighting by introduction something in their line of sight so that they no longer able to stare and will walk away or even go to sleep.
A cat which does not see his chances in combat will not stare at his protagonist. Rather, he will stare all around him, looking everywhere but at the other cat, as if to pretend that the other cat is not really there. If forced to look at him, he will do so while blinking rapidly in a desperate attempt to prove that he is no threat. Most cats manage to share limited, and in some cases overlapping territories without too many battles, and fighting will be avoided when possible. A cat approaching another’s territory and seeing a cat in residence will usually sit down some distance away.
The two may sit for some time, at an angle to one another, observing each other’s movements from a distance. The seizer may choose to leave the way he arrived or, if the territory owner walks-off out of sight, he may continue his journey crosswise the occupied zone.
Fighting will suggest itself over a female in season because her fragrance will carry over long distances and attract numerous tomcats. Fighting is not constant, although various scuffles will break out. Often tomcats will sit surprisingly politely and quietly outside the female’s home in clean rows like a theater audience. It is when they start to howl and spray that arguments can ensue.
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white crested ducks- has anyone had problems with their legs or balance?
have one as a pet and it was not injured, but started to walk amusing and seems to lose it’s balance. wondered if this is a common problem with this breed.
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Bird Identification Question?
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My dog is excessivly Itching every where!!!?
Ok so our three-year-ancient Shepard mix is itchy. She is a rescue from Virginia just before hurricane Katrina made land fall.
We like her to death but she is so itchy. Her ears, neck, chest, face, tail, stomach, all four legs especially her hock’s, ok her entire body is itchy. Along her spine she has patches of peeling skin and sparse hair due to biting and scratching. Her chest is becoming red and inflamed. Her hocks are very red and have little hair.
Her itchiness came about two months after we got her. At first we though flea’s or mites she was tested and the results were negative. Slowly she started loosing hair around her eyes and mouth (it grew back). She was placed on fish oil, anti microbial baths, allergen free foods, no foods that were possible allergens (so in the end she got two different treats one was salmon and one was venison), and a oil she was less itchy for a few months and she was super itchy again. She was switched to a salmon food and everything else stayed the same she got better and then of poorer quality a few month later. She was tested for everything from roundworm to lime disease to hyper thyroid to scabies to mites and everything in between.
Right now she gets three medicated baths a week, two oatmeal baths a week, two fish pills a day, one splash of extra virgin olive oil in her food, fish oil added to her food, Solid gold seaweed powder (it has flaxseed and seaweed and other stuff) in both meals, she is brushed double a week, Benadryl every day, and science diet (the only food that helped her itchiness). We have tried Vectra 3D, Advantix, Revolution, and Benefit the Vectra and Benefit did nothing, Revolution so so, and Advantix was good but did not stop the itching. All that and she is still itchy.
We have ruled out peanut, dairy, chicken, bovine, duck, venison, and lamb allergies.
All the foliage (which she likes to run through) are raked out of her reach. We don’t use pesticides, we vacuum every day, we use hypo allergenic detergent, all the pet beds are cleaned weekly and shook out side daily, the carpets are shook daily, we don’t use lighten or any non plant based chemicals in the household, her toys are washed three times a week, and we dust only when she is out side.
We are at our wits end. Have you ever had a super itchy dog? What did you do? Are there any remedies we have not tried? Could it be pollen since she is from Virginia and we live in New England?
Sorry its long =)
She is 20 time of poorer quality with out baths. She is itchier andshe gets more red spots.
Other human members of our family are allergic to wool, fabric softeners, and pollen so measures to get rid of those have by now been taken.
She is not allergic to eggs.
She dose not eat anything containing soy or corn or wheat.
Dariy allergies have also been ruled out.