Shih Tzu puppy in your house

One of the most "special" little dog breeds is Shih Tzu. We see them often in the dog shows and we are always surprised how can they move with this so long fur.

Interesting is the origin of the breed. They come surely from Lhasa Apso and Pekinese dogs. The texts tell about Shih Tzu first time in 1643, when Dalai Lama gave them as a gift to the Chinese Emperor. For the first time they come in Europe in 1930 when Lady Brauning took them in England.

Shih Tzu are very active and indipendent. They like to be in the center of attention very much. They are gay, gentle and kind. But they hate solitude and suffer it very much. That is why their character needs persevering soft training. Other peculiarity of these dogs is that they don't like heat.

If you look for Shih Tzu puppies for sale, you have to understand, that these dogs need special treatment every day. You have gently brush them and take away hairs from the eyes. This last is particularly important because you can prevent different problems if you take care about your dog's eyes.

From the first day when you take your Shih Tzu puppy home, you have to train it to stand all the cures. The best way is to do all manipulations every day even if the puppy don't needs some of them. It will know this is it's routine and you will never have problems with it's care.

Pygmy Hippo still Alive

Different times I wrote about dwarf and pygmy species of different animals. I like them, they have that interesting view of "always a pup" that many of us wanted from our domestic animals.
Some days ago I was surprized to read a notice about pygmy hippo found alive in Liberia by a group of researchers of Zoological Society of London ( I ignored even existence of this organization -so I learned this notice too).

Here I want to share with you what I learned about this interesting animal.

There are 2 existing species of hippopotamus today.

In the pre-historic period there were dwarf species of hippo on the islands of Mediterranean Sea, on Cyprus, Creta, Malta and Sicily. Dwarf means, they become smaller as size because they lived on the island. But originally they descend from largest species.
Hippos were the biggest mammals there. They were 76 cm high, 121 cm long and about 200 kg of weight. Extinct in Cyprus, killed by early humans.

There were different pygmy species in Africa till modern time. 1 in Nigeria and 3 in Madagascar extinct not too much time ago. So, the only existing pygmy specie lives today in West Africa, in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Cost. Till this capture on the automatic camers traps scientist thought that they are not survived after 2 long and destructive wars. That is why see pygmy hippo -just on the 3-d day of traps (from 1 to 15 Februsry)- was the greatest joy for all -scientist and National Park dependants.

The country was virtually devoid of animals - domesticated or wild - after the wars. (Source)

Pygmy means that they are not big common species become smaller.
Did you know that they are nearest relatives of ... wales?
Common hippopotamus is
from 2,8 till 4,2 (!) m long, and has 35-50 cm tail (:)) )
Weight 2268- 3629 kg
lives till 40 years
passes 16 hours a day in water to protect his skin from sun
travels about 10 km a night and can run with the speed of a man (I thought much more)
eats 35 kg of grass
and has 1 calf every 2 years

Pygmy is about half of his common cousin.
There are about 3000 wild animals.

Photo from Nat.Geogr. post PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Pygmy Hippo Caught on Camera

Why Pet Rat? Easy Way to Make Friends

Photo from «Кристиночка помылась :-)» на Яндекс.Фотках

What is the simpliest way to attract attention of everybody?

Adopt a rat as your pet-animal, train it to make some interesting tricks and go for a walk or visit your friends with it.

Sure, you can do it adopting other species of animals. For example, buying a 10-meter long anaconda (do you know, that you can earn an enormous amount of millions of dollars if you present to the public 10-meter long anaconda catched in Amazonia?) but you will never have so great success as with a little rat.

Why?
Now I'll explain you the reasons and you'll agree with me.

Can you put anaconda in your pocket and take it where you want? The answer is obvious. You will have problems even if you have a big dog or a not so big cat.
Than, can you put a guide-belt to your anaconda and go for a walk with it?

Finally, many persons are afraid of snakes too much and would never come nearer to somebody with this animal. Yes, they are afraid of rats too, but it pass when they see very funny tricks it makes.

Imagine, you see a person you like very much and want to attract his/her attention.
This person will maybe go away without seeing you because is very busy or do not makes contacts in the street.
Imagine now you have a pet with you. It can be a dog or a cat. And it is possible this person likes dogs or cats. And she/he looks at your dog/cat for a moment. But is very busy -and goes away.

Now, if your pet is a rat and it's able to do many interesting tricks? Even if this person is very busy he/she will stop near you and watch the tricks your rat does. And surely will speak with you too.
Do you think it's difficult, rat training? Not too much if you follow step-by-step guide of "Pet Rat Care And Training Guide"

At the end -but not the least- it's really important: if you have a little house, don't buy a rottweiler or shepherd or napoletan mastiff or greyhound. They need great space to live and will become stressed, depressed ecc in not too much time living in these conditions.
Buy a rat -and all you will live a very happy life together.

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What do you see on this photo?

This incredible photo I found in the site "Polls Boutique" It's not the first polls-site for me but I love it really and will sign up there. So if you are afraid of referral-links be sure it's not one of them. I really like the site and am not a member in this moment else.

So, now partecipate on the game, answer the question I posted in the title.

What is this? Where is this?

Before you look at the answer I tell you what I learned more in these polls today.
I learned about a traditional Asiatic meal called Balut that is nothing else that "a duck-egg with nearly developed embryo inside boiled alive."

No, I'm meet-eater and can't renounce on meat. We have to eat.
What I don't understand is this bravado of many persons: I ate alive snails, fin of the shark (that was then thrown alive in sea without fins), sushi. It's an other toy? Demonstration of own cruelty of persons that are cowards in their soul?

You will say I'm maximalist as a teenager.
Somebody has to kill animals that I eat. He looks in the eyes of the calf befor killing him. He has to do it. It's his work. I can't do it myself. I see these eyes many years after that film about abuses of animals.

To have good fur the polar foxes are killed inserting them an iron stick in the anus.
A person that works inthose farms has not have "special relations" with animals, because it will kill the soul of the person...

Excuse me if I am too philosophical today.

Here is the answer on the question you had:

Guys, Stop Producing Puppies!

This post originally is written by "The Reality Of What Humans Do". I found information about it in Pet Monologues
Pls write me if you have related posts to ad them to this post too.

This is two days worth of dead animals from a small shelter in California.

TWO DAYS!

Every single one of those animals came from somewhere... a puppy mill, a back yard breeder, someone who 'just wanted one litter' from their dog. When you choose to create life, you are responsible for that life. Those animals didn't ask to be born, and they sure didn't ask to die in fear in the hands of a shelter employee. Shelters have NO CHOICE but to euthanize these animals, more and more come in every day. There are far more animals than there are homes.

The ONLY way to stop this wholesale slaughter of healthy, happy pets is to STOP PRODUCING THEM. 99% of pet owners have no 'need' for a 'pure bred' dog. They don't intend to show the dog or compete in breed specific performance trials. Getting an 'AKC' dog from the local paper is no guarantee of health or temperament or quality. In fact, you have a BETTER chance of getting that 'perfect' dog from a reputable rescue where the dogs are evaluated before you adopt them.

I hope the author will forgive me that I copy the text, but it's unpossible to write better.

We had a couple of Rottweilers, you know, but after we had 2 litters and have seen where have to go our puppies, we decided to avoid to give life to these poor beings. Now we have 2 stray cats-females and made them sterilize even all (doctor too) told bad about us. But they put their kittens to us, we grow them till 4-5 months and than... we had to throw them. We love these poor beings, and it was an enormous wound for us. We suffered for different weeks last time.

What can we do? The only way is to stop producing them.

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My own personal lolcats in Lady Omega blog segnaled me by Pet Monologues