The Litter Box

@Baarn Yes I think the fact that it is on a site about pets, and with the use of wiki it should be pretty clear that we are discussing euthanasia of animals not people

iKlsR

1:56 AM

Mortarboard :D

John Cavan

Good stuff.

iKlsR

John Cavan

Well, "The Litter Box" is now one point behind "The Kennel" in the "Name the Chat Room" Sweepstakes!

iKlsR

@JohnCavan Nice! I think it's a definite winner then.

John Cavan

It's catchy, if nothing else.

iKlsR

2:01 AM

@JohnB The Litter Box it is then.

mwee

JohnB

Sounds good! Would you do the honors?

you're too quick

iKlsR

@JohnB aye ya yii

@JohnB I need some Stevia to slow me down. :D

JohnB

:X!

iKlsR

room topic changed to The Litter Box: General discussion for pets.stackexchange.com. Cat gifs welcome. (no tags)

John Cavan

Well, I think it's still up for votes before public beta, but at least we have something a little catchier than "Pets"

user15026

2:47 AM

I quite like it, it makes me laugh

user15026

The worst part about my cat playing fetch with me is that if he sticks toys in my bed or under me, tossing them away isn't an option - he just brings them back XD

user15026

6:51 AM

@AnkitSharma Hello!

user15026

@Skippy Hello to you too! :D

Ankit Sharma

@AshleyNunn hi

Skippy

Hi

I was trying to ping both of you hi lol

user15026

You seemed like you might have specific questions. :) What's up?

user15026

(Keep in mind it is almost 3 am where I am - I am going to be awake for a little bit yet, I am working on a paper for a university class, but if I all of a sudden disappear, I fell asleep on my keyboard or something, lol)

Skippy

6:54 AM

oh

I wanted feedback.

I stuck my hand up to be a mod and

user15026

Awesome, I can totally help. :) What sort of feedback, and on what? :)

Skippy

the downvotes seem like people don't want me to be mod

Ankit Sharma

@AshleyNunn 3 am.......hmmm this time zone always make me sick

Skippy

I am trying to not let this discourage me in my enthusiasm for the site

and trying to discern what the site wants, as a comuunity, vis Q&A quality

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy its always good to see this much enthusiasm

user15026

6:56 AM

@Skippy Don't let it get you down :) Know that active engaged users are also like totally important or there would be nothing to mod! I can't necessarily speak as to why it got downvoted, as I don't want to presume anything about what people were thinking, but also remember that it isn't the be all and end all of stuff.

user15026

I like how involved you are being and how you are asking really awesome questions on meta and hte like - I have to stretch my brain to answer some of them, and I love it. It is great to see how engaged everyone is in making this site amazing.

Skippy

Yes I like it too and hope we can sustain it

user15026

I hope so! It would be awesome.

Skippy

it's disappointing to see some of the beta sites just struggling or ending as you know :(

I support, mainly cogsci

and have started a bit on parenting

user15026

Yeah, it can be kinda heartbreaking to see sites struggle or go under completely.

Ankit Sharma

6:58 AM

I think Peit.se is getting great response in a single day. Public beta doesn't seems too far.

Skippy

they both have troubles with question rate

user15026

Oh, neat, getting involved all over the network is awesome.

Skippy

@AnkitSharma I have no idea how to measure this priv beta response, never been involved in on ebefore

@AshleyNunn yes, I think most of us all, if not all of us

user15026

@Skippy trust me, Libraries was a struggle from the beginning, so this much participation makes my heart sing

Skippy

I have to saym there is a nice pack of users, I can use words like pach, herd, flock here :)

user15026

7:00 AM

hahaha yes

Skippy

@AshleyNunn ahhh that's a relief

user15026

I wonder what the term would be for a bunch of SE users? Gaggle? Murder? Flock? :P

Ankit Sharma

@AshleyNunn here you can see the progress

1

Pets – pets.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for pet owners, caretakers, breeders, veterinarians, and trainers.

Currently in private beta.

Skippy

I loved the comment in chat here about how it's the one chat where posting pics of cats is on topic :) I really think animal lovers are the nicest people

rabble

user15026

@Skippy That made me laugh a lot. We have a really good community so far, and I can't wait to see it grow!

Ankit Sharma

7:02 AM

The Litter Box when did it became final name ?

Skippy

Yup. thnx for touching base guys, I wanted to chat and touch base and mention the sensitive issue (mod), but that's finished now.. I will do some posting

@AnkitSharma I also wondered that

hi @Baarn

user15026

@AnkitSharma Someone named it that this afternoon, but it is something that is relatively easily changed, so if we find a lot of people aren't happy with it, we can always see about what the community might prefer. I mean it might not change, but it isn't set in stone necessarily either.

Skippy

I'll be back, want to try and answer at least one more unanswered question..

Baarn

hi @Skippy

Skippy

:)

Baarn

7:05 AM

no way to sneak in here early without someone smelling your presence ;)

user15026

@Skippy No worries! :)

Ankit Sharma

@AshleyNunn i will love to see more then one chatroom for this site. All pet lovers are not same and why to have only one chatroom.

user15026

@Baarn giggles we are pet people, we learn from our pets

Skippy

@Baarn well I am a kangaroo, so yes, I may smell a bit lol

user15026

@AnkitSharma to get the community involved as a whole, I suppose - having a lot of chat rooms divides the community, and I am not sure that is a good thing

user15026

7:06 AM

We want to be awesome and cohesive and stuff.

Ankit Sharma

@AshleyNunn yup its too soon to have more then one chatroom but when we get flood of user sometime more then one chatroom is not bad

user15026

Like I know the gaming site, Arqade, has a few other chat rooms for specific purposes, but for the most part, everyone chills in the Bridge and while it can be crazy and chaotic at times, it really works. And Arqade has a pretty giant userbase.

user15026

I mean it will ultimately fall out naturally from however the community feels is appropriate, but I would hate to see a huge divide in the community.

Ankit Sharma

hmmm.......

Agreed for now ;)

user15026

I suspect it isnt something we should worry over, and just see what happens as we develop. ;)

user15026

7:11 AM

Alright, I am starting to fall asleep, so I shall call it a night. Good night, all. It was great talking with you!

Ankit Sharma

Have a good sleep :)

user15026

Thank you! Have a good time doing whatever it is you choose (because I have no idea what time zone you might be in, haha)

Ankit Sharma

12:45 PM....Office time :(

Skippy

7:40 AM

0

Q: Can I use human medicine on dogs?

Sometimes our doctor advises us to use to use human medicines for dogs. For example, when my sister's Labrador was small, the doctor advised us to administer children's syrup for stomach disorder. Is this good advice or should we ignore it?

@Salketer I think we should leave this question here, as it is GOOD to know NOT to do it and it will, most likely, be asked again. I think this is a VERY GOOD question.. But wasn't sure how I should vote for it.. Up to bump it, or down to discourage the practice. Ideas? — Skippy 50 secs ago

What do people think?

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy In defense i can say
- It could be among most Google-ed question
- if it doesn't become a debate then why not keep it

Skippy

@AnkitSharma I WANT to keep it

Salketer

Skippy got a good point

Ankit Sharma

And if community is not ok with it then i have no problem in removal. :)

Salketer

Problem is some might answer in the other direction...

Skippy

7:45 AM

I am asking should we vote it up, so it is a popular question, even t

hey I had a thought

we rewrod the title

Why is it bad to give my dog human medicine?

Salketer

My aunt used to give her back meds to her dog and it didn't seem to hurt him at all... So she would suggest to do so...

+1 Skippy

Skippy

Exaclty, I am going to vote it up and I'll leave any ideas of rewording it, up to you

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy Why is it bad to give my dog human medicine? will going to change the question. Which seems not rite to me.

Skippy

@AnkitSharma super!

@AnkitSharma that's fine. It's up to you!

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy now you can see review queue i think

Skippy

7:53 AM

@AnkitSharma I should add my !! mean excitement, it's all good

lol yes I can

Ankit Sharma

I am quite far. Will buck up soon. If its Movies & TV then i can write 10 question at a moment but on pets my hands are tight.

Even in answering them.

Baarn

@Skippy I would prefer the answer to be more clear on the "if the vet says it is OK, don't worry" part

as that is the big question in the question

Skippy

@Baarn sure..

what would you like to see

Ankit Sharma

@Baarn good point

Baarn

I have no idea, as you already say so. But somehow it falls a bit short with that big quote appended

Skippy

7:57 AM

sure will fix it, just wanted to clarify what you meant cheers

Baarn

maybe put that statement about the vet behind the quote?

Skippy

what do you think pets.stackexchange.com/questions/400/…

I added written advice from a vet, as phone call or verbal advice can easily be misconstrued and I thought it might be good to take a firm safety stand.. I dunno what SEs legal policies are on these things

@TimPost pls advise ^^^

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy looks better but can't upvote it again ;)

Skippy

@AnkitSharma :)

Baarn

I like that version, thanks @Skippy

Skippy

8:05 AM

I am getting multiple pings from you, which is why I answered you three times before :P

@Baarn cool, it's important everyone is happy with it

Ankit Sharma

8 hours ago, by John Cavan

At one point I had 3 cats, 2 rabbits, 7 guinea pigs, 1 hamster, 3 goldfish, 2 turtles but no partridge in a pear tree. :)

@JohnCavan you really had a pet house ;)

John Cavan

10:39 AM

@AnkitSharma - I had the space and enjoyed their company. :)

Ankit Sharma

11:06 AM

For me its too much.

I just had expertise of two dogs living in same house with me and one have attitude problem with me that was just enough for me.

Tim Post

@Skippy We don't really have one. Think about it in the context of Stack Overflow for a second, folks copy and paste code they find there into their projects at their own risk - if your enterprise banking system explodes because you didn't understand what you were reading or looking at, well, we can't really help that.

2

Your answer to that got an up vote from me and might even slice off a piece of my whopping 101 rep on that later, because it's a great canonical answer folks can point to on the topic. I'm sure it's going to come up again.

Ankit Sharma

11:26 AM

@TimPost Hii.... i am just curious to know that does SE assign one community moderator to specific private beta or any free community moderator can handle things on his own.

Tim Post

@AnkitSharma A little of both. Stack Exchange sites have what we call a default contact. This person will keep an eye on things during the private beta and select the pro-tem moderators, and then be their contact within Stack Exchange if they need anything. The default contact is expected to keep up with what's going on with the site, check on the child meta semi-frequently to see if anything needs a response from us, or perhaps guidance.

However, community managers aren't restricted to any group of sites. We're assigned them so that we're sure they have frequent eyes on them. You'll see Robert Cartaino on all of our newer sites, as his major strength is sort of the philosophical side of things when it comes to how / why we do what we do.

Ankit Sharma

@TimPost thanks. I am just new to a private beta so have curiosity to know few things.

Baarn

uhm… we have fish-tank and aquarium sound like synonyms?

Ankit Sharma

@all do we really need indoor-cats tag. i mean what is its significance over normal cat tag

Skippy

Thanks @Tim

Indoor cat, not until the site is much much bigger

Ankit Sharma

11:41 AM

@Skippy but still what is its use over normal cat tag.

@Baarn looks like a synonym requirement.

Skippy

@AnkitSharma when we are so huge we can't find each other, it will be needed :)

@TimPost thanks

Tim Post

It seems like quite a few Stack Exchange folks are enjoying Pets SE :) You've got Kyle Brandt - the cat whisperer. I'm not kidding he really is a cat whisperer and I have proof.

Baarn

@AnkitSharma I think it might be useful to tag questions that are specific to this certain type of cat-care

Tim Post

Skippy

@TimPost omg does this mean he has powers like cat woman

I have to say I am always relieved when men love cats, over here cats are much maligned and are frequently killed , because of our native wildlife, well that's the excuse to kill people's pets

Tim Post

11:52 AM

He just has this way with cats, and servers apparently

Ankit Sharma

@TimPost ohh....great

Skippy

@TimPost sorry left you 100 million messages

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy you said thank you to tim in various ways. ;)

Skippy

@AnkitSharma huh?

Ankit Sharma

Ohh you just said it yourself the same thing.

Tim Post

11:57 AM

@Skippy That's nothing compared to the rest of my inbox, which I've given up on keeping clean

Skippy

and why is it every time you ping me I get three nitifications? @AnkitSharma

Tim Post

@Skippy What browser? That's a known but tricky bug with desktop notifications

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy its because the first answer i given here is on tripod dog :P

Skippy

@TimPost yes, but some of mine was constructive, it was just taking you through the whole process of childbirth with me you didn't need

guess @TimPost

chrome

@AnkitSharma hahahaha I actually think that's funny.. is

there something wrong with that

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy my intention was also the same.....no offense to any pet :)

@Skippy today people are making me sick by pinging me and when i clicked on the link the comment is already got removed by user. So multiple notification for single post is really annoying

Skippy

12:03 PM

@AnkitSharma of course not.. and btw I prefer the theory that you love kangaroos, which is why you keep pinging me :)

@AnkitSharma only been getting them from you hahaha but I think they may have stopped the last two seemed ok

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy heheheheh......

Skippy

@AnkitSharma yes only one!

hm I wonder if I leave if I will get more hahaha

nd no one here has even stopped to consider that they are talking to a kangaroo and how smart I am at using the keyboard

:p

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

| cinematography = | camera = | runtime = 25 minutes | company = Fauna Productions | distributor = | network = Nine Network | picture_format = | audio_format = Monaural | first_run = Australia | first_aired = 1966 | last_aired = 30 March 1970 | status = Ended | followed_by = | related = The Adventures of Skippy | website = | production_website = }} Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series created by John McCa...

John Cavan

Weird... How do you get a +8 upvote?

Skippy

@JohnCavan huh?

oh might be total votes while you slept.

if you are looking at rep per post it will give a total

John Cavan

Ah... figured it out, the 8 out of the 10 brings me to the reputation cap again

Skippy

12:09 PM

Oh I gotcha

yes I got a +7 for an upvote also

John Cavan

12:22 PM

Looks like the question flood has slowed a bit. We may be hitting the immediate question wall for the private beta participation people it would seem.

Baarn

I still have some questions up my sleeve

… or in that one text file to be more specific

John Cavan

Saving up for the big opening day huh?

Baarn

haha no, I just wrote some titles for example questions before committing to the proposal.

Tim Post

@Skippy I once wrote in a message to a disruptive user "You do realize that you're arguing with an ape wearing a Santa hat over the Internet, right?" Was around the holidays, and I had my holiday avatar on.

2

Baarn

the question body is still missing, and I have't found the time to write them out

John Cavan

12:28 PM

Save 'em for a slow day. ;)

Looks like "The Litter Box" has taken hold for chat for now, I'm actually surprised.

iKlsR

@JohnCavan It's perfect.

John Cavan

I think it works too. Makes me think I should reopen that discussion on Photo.SE too, the chat name there is dull...

Baarn

oh, just Photography …

"the photo booth"

I really like the litter box, especially because of that "dump your crap here" twist of that name

John Cavan

That was my case for the name too. :D

I threw up a question on the Photo.SE meta about it, to see if anyone is interested.

Tim Post

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I hereby declare pics of cats that look like Beyonce day OPEN!

John Cavan

12:43 PM

@TimPost - I'm not sensing that the cat is happy with the situation, that very much looks like a "I'll kill you later human, when you sleep" expression... ;)

Tim Post

Skippy

Okk you asked for it lol

It's my election campaign lmao

Hey that's pretty good handwriting for a kangaroo, and you should have a pet as mod Go Skippy!

Oh well I amuse myself :) hahaha

John Cavan

I sense that the lion is going to sneeze on a certain kangaroo...

Tim Post

Oh wow, juxtaposition win!

Skippy

@JohnCavan I think he's going to eat the kangaroo, while the kangaroo is counting with her fingers!! lol

Tim Post

12:54 PM

Is that the actual Skippy, @Skippy?

Skippy

@TimPost we speak not of the real skippy

the real skippy is like the real Lassie

Lassie

Lassie is a fictional female collie dog character created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home. However, Knight may have been influenced by another female collie named Lassie, featured in the 1859 story "The Half-brothers" written by British writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Published in 1940, Knight's novel was filmed by MGM in 1943 as Lassie Come Home with a dog named Pal playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name "Lassie" in six other MGM feature films through 1951. Pal's owner and trainer Rudd Weatherwax then acquired the Lassie name a...

I love Autralian wildlife

and Australian wildlife too

John Cavan

The thing that saves you is that male lions are too lazy to hunt, they get the women-folk to do it for them.

Skippy

I know!! they are the ultimate harem em.. I have no idea how to say it

administrator LOL

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy i am not going to vote for animals. Moderator should be human not kangaroo :p

Skippy

@AnkitSharma that' s speciest

:)

Ankit Sharma

1:08 PM

@Skippy yes i am :p

Skippy

And proud of it apparently!

hehe

well my pouch is bigger than your pouch

:P

@AnkitSharma ^^

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy i don't have a pouch but keep a wallet which remain mostly empty ;)

Skippy

@AnkitSharma hey I'm getting multiple pings

I have moths in my wallet

It's become a moth sanctuary hahahah

I think I'm so funny

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy humor doesn't going to change my view point for election candidate :p

Skippy

@AnkitSharma meta.pets.stackexchange.com/questions/59/…

you will appreciate that

man it is too hot to sleep here

we had the hottest October day ever recorded here today

I am sure the domestic violence rates also went up

99 F

Ankit Sharma

1:14 PM

@Skippy quite hot.

Skippy

@AnkitSharma it's not even half way through spring!!

Ankit Sharma

I am not sure what is the fav weather of kangaroo's ;)

Skippy

Kangaroos cope well with extremes

Ankit Sharma

Probably not summers

Skippy

I forgot I was a kangaroo just then hahaha

They do quite well, they rest in the shade during the heat

they are quite delicate creatures, and wallabies

they can die from being stressed, like by people

I had some wallabies caught in our house paddock and I didn't let the kids out

stayed away from the,

snuck out and gave them water

Ankit Sharma

1:17 PM

@Skippy if i have to choose to be a animal , i will be wolf

Skippy

when the other wallabies were returning in the evening, I let them out and they met up with them in the back paddock

@AnkitSharma I love wolves

not

I would be a horse, or a bird

mmmmm pie

hahaha

Ankit Sharma

t3.gstatic.com/…

@Skippy i can't see the image

can u ?

Skippy

@AnkitSharma yeh I got it

Ankit Sharma

I mean without clicking on it.

Skippy

Yes, it opens in a new tab

oh no

now I feel like apple pie with ice cream

@AnkitSharma I am going to edit my electoral proposal, so that I can show that I can be sensible.. feel free to help :)

Ankit Sharma

1:22 PM

@Skippy i want to nominate myself too

Skippy

@AnkitSharma yes! I will vote for you

I voted for others

go nominate yrself I will vote for you

I g2g for a bit

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy i have voted for you but it made you back to 0 because of negative vote previously there.

Tim Post

probably .... 1 - 2 weeks out from contacting folks about that, so you've got a bit of time

Ankit Sharma

@Skippy done my nomination but need to edit it to add something btter.

Skippy

1:49 PM

@AnkitSharma I saw and voted for you..

@TimPost so I have time to print placards??

@AnkitSharma I prefer this avatar, with the wolf

Lix

8:31 PM

I've just posted this question about moving apartments. Does anyone have and suggestions for more/alternative tags?

i've used transportation but I'm not sure if there should be something more specific about moving homes/apartments....

@TimPost haha! Happy birthday BTW :)

for yesterday I guess (4:30am in the Philippines) :)

Ankit Sharma

@Lix shifting ??

Lix

shifting sounds like i'm just pushing him off the desk or something :)

"move cat...not now..."

Ankit Sharma

hehehehhe........yup it can be interpretate that way

Baarn

@Lix I think transportation is a tag better to be used for moving the animal around

how about uhm …

relocation?

Ankit Sharma

relocation looks better then transportation to me.

Baarn

8:42 PM

or house-moving or migration?

thanks dict.cc pat pat ;)

user15026

Relocation sounds good, I think

Baarn

migration could be misunderstood as it sounds like migration of wild animals…

user15026

I mean a lot of human related stuff that deals with moving calls it relocation, so I think it would also work here

Lix

relocation and house-moving are great options...

I feel that house-moving is more specific and really leaves no room for interpretation...

relocating to me sounds sounds more like moving countries where a much much bigger and longer trip is needed...

maybe that's just me...

Baarn

chose the one you like, if the other should pop up in the future we can still decide if we want to synonimize them

is that even a word … synonimize?

user15026

8:48 PM

That works. I think relocation is a good general term, but again, we can always synonymize them

Lix

it seems so :)

user15026

@Baarn Yep! Just spelled a little differently

Lix

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synonymize

Ankit Sharma

@Lix i don't think relocation required a long distance change

Lix

awww :( no onebox :

@ank - maybe not... it was just the association it gave me..

Baarn

8:49 PM

Ah thanks. However, synonymize still gets a decorative red underline ;)

Lix

haha

fancy fancy :P

user15026

@Baarn I wonder if it is a Canadian English thing?

Lix

@ash is there such a thing?

Ankit Sharma

@Lix How did i got ping with only writing @ank

Lix

I know of british and american differences... but Canadian?

user15026

8:50 PM

@Lix Yeah, because Canadian tends to be a weird mix of British and American

user15026

@AnkitSharma The chat will search for active users with that three letter start to their username and ping the first one that matches

Lix

@ank - aahhhh! Teach a man to fish and he'l.... ahh never mind... ;)

@ank - 3 character is the minimum you can use to get the notification to the other user.

its like that across the entire network - chat and comments.

Ankit Sharma

@AshleyNunn i am an Indian and still love to mix and merge american/british english

Baarn

I have no idea about Canadian English. My knowledge about Canada is based on South Park and the backside of maple syrup bottles …

Lix

@ash - like /colou?r/

Ankit Sharma

8:53 PM

@Lix like Behavior /behaviour

Lix

yes - just like color/colour

but there's no maple syrup in there

Ankit Sharma

All credit goes to american spelling suggestion in my British based writing.

@AshleyNunn @Lix what happens when two active user have same three letters used for pinging

Did both of them get ping?

Baarn

I am inclined to temporarily change my user name to try this …

Lix

Yes

but I think the team "fixed" that...

there was a "tim" fiasco in the tavern on meta a while back...

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