I did train previous my cat to do this, using one of these.
The current cat learned from the previous one, except that once in a while he'll face the wrong way and pee/poop right on the outside, and in an effort to bury it among the tiles, slaps it around the bathroom.
I just finished a very interesting but unfortunately named book, Mama’s Last Hug, about the wide range of emotions found in primates and other animals. Until the last few decades, we thought they were only found in humans.
Love, jealousy, gratitude, disgust, etc... and how those emotions result in behaviors ranging from a sense of compassion to premeditated murder.
https://www.amazon.com/Mamas-Last-Hug-Animal-Emotions/dp/0393635066
As bad as the title is, the story behind it is touching. One of the scientists was visiting the dying matriarch of the chimp colony, whom he had known for 40 years. When she saw how sad he was, the dying chimp actually started consoling him.
Pandas have been known to have pregnancy symptoms after a miscarriage or failure to conceive. Countless other mammals do this, including humans, but it's only pandas that we make clickbait headlines about because the internet has a weirdly specific anti-panda circlejerk.
Every single "wacky" news story that apparently originated in China is bullshit. Every single one. Western news sites know no one can read their "source" so they can just print whatever makes the catchiest headline and no one will call them on it until it's too late
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Drinkwell-Platinum-Fountain-Drinking/dp/B000L3XYZ4
I have one. Clean it every 2-4 weeks, refill it every few days and you're golden. My cats love it. Also healthier for them since they drink more water.
You're thinking of the bluefins. They are the large apex predators, which is why they are also the highest in mercury -- they are accumulators. But a single bluefin fetches up to $10K and, today, are mostly bought by Japanese for sushi restaurants back home. The tuna you buy in cans at Safeway are smaller, more prevalent species (read: not as environmentally significant).
Source: <em>Tuna: A Love Story</em>
I don't agree with this kind of all-or-nothing attitude. It's not so easy to become vegetarian, let alone vegan, especially after being a meat-eater for all of your life. Just because you believe animals have agency doesn't necessarily mean that eating animals is tantamount to "condoning the torture of farmed animals." You can be a responsible consumer of meat and try to buy from more ethical farms; you can try to cut back on your meat intake; you can do other things that support animal welfare while you struggle with the omnivore's dilemma.
Expecting people to drastically change their lifestyles is exactly the sort of attitude that causes some people to not even try in the first place. Baby steps are effective. Looking down your nose at the very natural act of eating meat is not.
You sure can! Amazon have one with free shipping!
I too talk to crows. Get a cheap crow call from your nearby hunting supply store and they will be interested in what you're doing.
You're already verbally priming them with both the vocabulary and the statement/question formats, they just don't have a way to parrot our larynx. My dog knows that if he wants to go potty he can make a high-pitched whine while sitting next to and gesturing at the door with his nose, so the intention of saying "wanna go potty" is fully there and there's just no way of actually saying that.
For association I started out with these bells that you hang on a door. If he wanted to leave the bedroom there was a bell on the knob that he could ring. I wouldn't respond to the gesturing or whining, and when he rung the go outside bell I'd let him out to the living room while praising him and saying "Sasha used the go outside bell!". If he went there and rang the go potty bell, I'd do the same thing. It took him maybe two days to nail the concept.
Buttons built on that and each new one is introduced by pressing it, saying what it means, repeating a few times, waiting for him to be in a situation where he wants to do that thing, and then offering the button while asking "How does Sasha say words?". I'll only do the action if he presses the button- in a line with the other buttons and differentiated by their shape/placement- and he builds the association within a few tries.
In common usage, jealousy refers to coveting something owned by another. I'm pretty certain that is also the actual normal definiton, so you are just wrong.
As mentioned below, peanut butter on the wall is great. I have this for my pup, I cover it in peanut butter, but I'm sure you can try cheese or something else weird that your dog may enjoy. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DKNN87F?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Dogs enjoy licking, it helps to calm them down, so this is a little trick that, iirc, dog groomers use to help their clients chill a little bit
According to Jared Diamond, humans the The Third Chimpanzee.
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Working at the Friends in Need animal rescue, one of the goats kept pushing its heads against my rake, "helping." He was a cute little bugger.
Andy Capp's I think Cheddar Fries, one of my fave snacks.
The cheddar fry bag has specs on the fries while hot fries dont.
Amazon link in case any of you want to try.
You should read Other Minds The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Cephalopods are way more clever and fascinating and just plain weird than you may think. This book was great.
I am going to get two of those buzzers for animal communication buzzers. Just two of them. One for “go out” and the other for “MAD!” My guess is that my guys will beat the heck out of the mad one.
Mine will also only use the sink. I tried a couple of fountains and he didn't take too them. Finally found this and it has been amazing. Not affiliated at all, just very happy with it.
There are specialists in New York City.
Coming in late to say you might want to read this book: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina. He’s a professor / renowned ecologist / MacArthur grant winner, and his work might make you change your mind about whether or not animals have morals and feelings that we’d otherwise call specifically human. (At the least, all mammals share the exact same brain architecture that generates such feelings and values in humans.) It really blew my mind.
I had to look it up!!! There are a bunch of different ones on amazon including a dinosaur one with big teeth!!! This looks to be the same as the one in the video:
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It's a kong.
Which no one likes.
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