The Litter Box

JAD

6:13 AM

@Henders wow

ankiiiiiii

7:01 AM

@Henders do we have a flower site?

JAD

7:42 AM

hmm, didn't know that one-boxes

ankiiiiiii

They have somewhat lesser photos than expected

of flowers

SerenaT

8:06 AM

Good Morning

Henders

8:53 AM

@SerenaT Morning :)

@ankiiiiiii Photography have a lot of pictures

G&L is more gardening questions I think

@JAD Yeah, it looks pretty good :O I've got another pale yellow one too

SerenaT

Our cat finally started eating a little again

Henders

12:56 PM

@SerenaT Oh that's good news :)

ankiiiiiii

1:49 PM

@Henders have been there once or twice, the room is full of questions' feeds.

will see again :)

are medicinal advices on topic here?

mating season brings a lot of injuries for dogs.

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii more often than not, the advice people give is 'see a vet' :/

Henders

2:31 PM

It depends - if you can accurately describe the scenario and symptoms then it's easier to diagnose. Often the ones that get asked to see a vet is along the lines of 'my cat stopped eating - why?'

The more detail the better

ankiiiiiii

3:02 PM

@JourneymanGeek for scratches and shallow wounds, we keep butadiene, neomac (Ivermectin), Himax, Gamma spray etc. Ofc, injured dogs or animals and birds are taken to the vet

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii well, a question like is "foo" safe might get good answers

but one where "my dog is throwing up" might not

IMO, which might be entirely wrong ;p

ankiiiiiii

Pariah barely throws up :p ..

Indian pariah dog

The Indian pariah dog, also known as the Indian native dog, is a landrace of dog native to the Indian subcontinent.Dating back to the Neolithic Era, the Pariah was one of the first dogs to be domesticated by humans. It is easily trainable and often used as a guard dog and police dog.Indian pariah are an example of the pariah-type dogs, an ancient group of dogs that evolved through natural selection. They have erect ears, a wedge-shaped head, and a curved tail. Though most street dogs in the Indian subcontinent are in fact Indian pye-dogs, the names for this breed are often erroneously used to...

I was once walking one, he started eating grass. Guess a way to clean up or willingly throw up, or maybe a particular nutrition-deficiency . He is healthy.. like alpha healthy

Journeyman Geek

ya

they also sometimes know what herbs work

My gran had a local mutt

had kidney failure - was supposedly on death's door...

fella dug some root up, ate it... and... got better

ankiiiiiii

owow!

better than those tents

in The Screening Room, 2 days ago, by Nog Shine

@AnkitSharma Do you know those tents where they give jadi booti? XD

the photo :chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/51546321#51546321

@JourneymanGeek but yeah, it would mostly be about some wound

with age etc

Journeyman Geek

ah

I think yvette has a question for a specific case of wounds

I have a more general one on making life easier for an old dog

ankiiiiiii

3:11 PM

(You) so old that you remember questions

Journeyman Geek

lol

@ankiiiiiii I have only 4 questions on pets

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek I guessed right, the SO mod.

Journeyman Geek

3

Q: How to care for a severe wound on horses leg

Cleo came to me in bad shape 7th October 2016. To everyone's distress (including hers), she had a horrific injury on 9th April, 2017. We could not find the cause of the injury, which is disturbing. So we moved her to a new agistment as soon as we could. She cut her front leg through to the bone...

Former pets mod

also was discussed here on how best to handle the... imagery

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek O_O noice

@JourneymanGeek yeah we too use imgur etc on the group

some people can get discouraged from volunteering

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii oh I mean inline vs spoilers vs well

I guess bare links are probably the friendliest here

ankiiiiiii

3:16 PM

Okay they are graphic

well thanks! I will search around.. Might ask one this weekend

Journeyman Geek

Yes they are

but entirely necessary

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek yes I understand :)

Does meta get such off topic questions all the time or is it just me who's new there?

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii rofl

Its the former

Actually - that's possibly one of the things that made me end up a mod there

ankiiiiiii

you made this your case?

Journeyman Geek

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Q: People get lost and crash into meta - maybe we need roadblocks for their safety

I used to think that Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's idea of a survey was a terrible idea - it didn't actually fix anything, and I suspect most folks asking off-topic questions here are drivebys. On the other hand, we end up closing a few questions a day from people wandering in lost, asking utte...

feature-request meta new-users off-topic

No, I complained a lot about it ;p

And honestly - we need people who complain the right way, everywhere ;p

ankiiiiiii

3:24 PM

@JourneymanGeek that's a real problem, but my immediate thought is that we can stay patient in front of SO

they get the worst, and they need the wizard

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii eh, I slightly disagree

ankiiiiiii

But downvotes can scare anybody and the only healing is the good comment

Journeyman Geek

Now, historically, the company has focused for ages on SO

And patience after a point gets nothing

and a lot of these folks seem to do this on purpose too :/

annnd the mechanics encourage downvotes to lead to deletions (hence me getting to these ASAP)

In the case of actual tooling, I don't think SO needs it first is a good excuse for anything

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek whenever I tell my friends about Apple.SE, I start with SO's parent company's children etc ^^'

okay I get it you've defended this point on Meta, I might be at fault now

Journeyman Geek

Which is fine ;p

ankiiiiiii

3:28 PM

@JourneymanGeek o_o, who, why?

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii a critical part of working out solutions is sometimes seeing the same problem from different eyes

and finding the same solutions seem logical

So I feel "no fault" is good ;p

ankiiiiiii

if it were reddit and I had money, you would get a gold ;p

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii I got a diamond XD

ankiiiiiii

ooh lit

Journeyman Geek

More importantly, I have a very nice soapbox

ankiiiiiii

3:32 PM

you have hammers?

Journeyman Geek

Well kinda

But at this point - what I'm really playing for is the ability to influence folks

And to slowly try to fix the things I feel are wrong, as much as possible

ankiiiiiii

ooh, it seems I was also at a dead end after that question..

@JourneymanGeek sounds good, works inefficiently ^^'

but better than further loss!

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii Its all about the long game

ankiiiiiii

:))

Journeyman Geek

lemme give you an example

I am seriously unhappy that folks are scared to get on meta

But I don't like having the blog as the primary source of announcements either

so I talked to everyone involved, posted a meta post and.. it worked well

Eventually folks will realise its not that bad, work out what works, and I don't get 'free' rep any more ;p

ankiiiiiii

3:37 PM

I read mithrandir's post, it was on homepage.

will read yours too..

Journeyman Geek

But the effect I want to see can take months or years

ankiiiiiii

But as M.A.R. also appreciated CM's and Meta veterans' efforts to restore the trust

Journeyman Geek

yup

But that's going to take time and work

ankiiiiiii

they stay online for less time, but at least they come up

Journeyman Geek

and there's always going to be a few people...

M.A.R's good people

always handy in defusing issues

ankiiiiiii

3:40 PM

haha

@JourneymanGeek true..

@JourneymanGeek except blunt which I don't mind

Journeyman Geek

Sometimes you need blunt

ankiiiiiii

it's good to have blunt people around, keep me focused

It's time to put bleach into action

I have to start dinner within 18 minutes or the mess closes, and wash clothes too!

You might have had your dinner by now?

Journeyman Geek

Yes I did

I should be in bed

ankiiiiiii

sun sets early..

what not three hours early!

Journeyman Geek

almost midnight XD

ankiiiiiii

3:45 PM

ooh okay...

early good night!

bye!

Journeyman Geek

naw, got a question to answer ;p

ankiiiiiii

I might upvote later :)

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