My friend has two dogs, a 150 pound great Dane, and a 260 pound English mastiff. when we go over to visit and the dogs come out to greet us, my 4Y/O little girl gets really scared and wants me to pick her up.

Anytime the dogs gets near here or barking my kiddo gets scared, my daughter is a little more scared of the mastiff, but still pretty scare of the dane. Why is she doing this? The dogs haven't done anything to her. When the dogs are out of sight she is fine.

Of course I will listen to my daughter and put the dogs away. I just don't understand why she's acting this way.

Also, my daughter loves dogs. We have a border collie at home and they love each. Literally from day one when I brought the dog home, they instantly fell in love. other, how come she is so terrified of these dogs?

I I am just confused because the dane and mastiff are exactly the same as the border collie and every way in that they are very sweet and would never hurt anyone.

I don’t think it is the size, because our border collie is a little bigger, heavier, and stronger than my daughter. My daughter has to look it up at the border collie, and he has a good 20 pounds on her. she wasn’t scared whatsoever of his size of the day I brought him home. So why would she be scared of the other dogs?

I grew up surrounded by animals and now, as an adult who is going through the worst period of her life, all I think of is of the day I will have a dog or even a rabbit by my side.

I realise the reason why I daydream about it is because I feel profoundly alone and I realised from a young age, that people are unreliable, ever-changing and love conditionally. Animals are the opposite, at least to a lesser extent than humans.

While I have the money, time and availability (as I work from home) to have a dog, all I see is difficulties. It's harder to find a flat to rent that allows dogs. It's almost impossible to travel (if taking the plane) and as I live in a different place than my family, I wouldn't have anyone I trust to look after him/her while I'm travelling for work.

Also, they live many, many ages, so it's almost a life-long commitment, it certainly is, at least until their live s end.

I don't think my life will change any time and it makes me profoundly sad.

Having an animal is a great commitment and almost not a smart thing to do, yet it's all I think about.

Any ideas?

Ok so for a writing project of mine I have an animal I'm writing that is basically a mix of a bear, a wolf and a fox. But I need help doing the research on the behaviorz of these animals. Because I know that a lot of the mainstream media on wolves is BS and outdated. And I don't know anything about bear and fox behavior. So anything you can provide me studies or just general info would help a lot. Thank you

I was just outside playing some football when i found a wild hare. I could get way too close for it to seem healthy. When i got too close it just started going around in circles slowly. I went back and played for around half an hour and it was at the same place as before. But it seemed blind as it was walking into walls. I wanna know if i should call some wildlife ”protection” or just let it be and possibly die.

i think clean taken care of mice are adorable but ik they are associated with disease and nastiness,

what do you think? esp girls, Are mice cute? yay or nay

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Take cats for example if they hit somthing with their front paws is it kicking or punching.

There’s no invasion near me, I’m just curious.

Hey, we have just one mouse who is stuck in our living room and we need to get it out, now the person I’m living with tried to get humane traps but the asshole who bought the traps only bought the deadly traps. I don’t have much at my disposal in terms of resources but I want to make a makeshift humane mouse trap that will work with very minimal resources in a short amount of time. I know it’s a stretch but if anyone has any suggestions on how to make one that would be great, I don’t want a cute mouse to die just cause it wondered into the wrong house ☹️

We are having an argument about what animal fits better in a Flag, a Bear, an Eagle or a Lion

Hello. Good evening ( it's evening where I leave, at least, but you get me ).

My dog lies down all day: on the bed, on the couch, on the floor... I'm afraid she could get spinal problems? She doesn't seem to have any symptoms, but she could have some in the future.

If she gets spinal problems, what should I do?

( There might be some mistakes because English is not my native language )

Hot take if you can't handle being around cats or taking care of one you can't handle having a kid sorry about it.

At work for the past two days a baby squirt has been crying and running around. Should I take it to a shelter or will the mother come back? Haven’t seen any other squirrels around. It’s been crying all day. Advice?

Besides ants and monkeys, which animals wage war with each other?