Once or maybe twice in PhotoSE someone tried to mock me for not answering the question, but then I pointed out that I really did answer the question as it was written in the title. Got no further complaints :)
@MattS. I still say people answered the question that was being asked "We've considered having her front paws declawed ... When, if at all, would declawing be considered a viable option for a cat?" which is not the same thing as "How do I prevent injury to my family?" People responded to the declawing issue because it's right there several times.
@EsaPaulasto I'm just not comfortable with this question being used as an example of a question we didn't answer because we did answer the question being asked
I would not take that too seriously though. We read things differently, depending on background and language and whatnot. One reads questions by the title, another by the text body, and a third one does not really read it at all but posts an answer to completely different question.
It is not so dangerous. As I said, good answers get upvotes, lesser answers sink down, and bad answers get deleted.
And what more, when someone thinks a question has not been answered correctly, then this someone does well by posting his/her own answer to that question. I think this just happened with that particular question. Votes decide if it looks good.
A third option came to mind. A new answer may be intentionally looking at the question from another angle, when not wanting to repeat what has already been said in a few previous answers.
I've sometimes posted an answer to a question (that has already been answered well) when I simply wanted to add something that I felt was missing from those other answers. This way I have intentionally posted "not-complete" answers, which is not really a good thing to do in Stackexchange. I've never been punished for it though.
@EsaPaulasto No, no, no. It's more of a sleeping and away thing. If you want the puppy to sleep, put it in the crate. You wouldn't really shove him in there while you were cooking up a soup in the kitchen.
@Baarn The case you're referring to is particularly confusing. If "commonly held" is an adjective phrase (i.e., it describes the herbivorous pets), then you need a comma. If "commonly" is describing the general publics "holding" of the pet, then no comma is needed. In the first case, to avoid confusion, people sometimes put dashes between the two words.
@Jeremy Aha, yeah I sort of knew there is the "okay" way to use crating, for it is mentioned in so many answer to various questions as one possibility to solving a problem.
My Beauce Shepherd is now 9 months old, we have followed some behaviour education classes with a personal trainer and everything went very well. Before the dog would do as he wanted and now, he just listens real good!
To the trainer's suggestion, some behaviours were reinforced positively, and s...
I wonder why the answer to this question has not received more upvotes. It seems like a good solid answer to a question that can't really be answered with a clear-cut solution to the problem as presented.
@EsaPaulasto That meta is ridiculous. I'd understand if you posted a 100% anecdotal answer, it may not be an answer. But an anecdote that provides context and tips should be okay.
As a cat owner, I'd of course like to know if my cat is happy. However, most known indicators don't really apply; purring seems to happen for a variety of emotions, meowing vary greatly between different cats and they do not wag their tails like dogs do to express themselves...
So this makes me...
As a cat owner, I'd of course like to know if my cat is happy. However, most known indicators don't really apply; purring seems to happen for a variety of emotions, meowing vary greatly between different cats and they do not wag their tails like dogs do to express themselves...
So this makes me...
