i’m 29 yrs old married for 5 yrs. my husband left on a business trip for 3 months. its only been 3 days but all the men in our neighborhood (and even our watch-man) who know my husband has left, have started hitting on me i feel so angry, sad, embarrassed and i love my husband so much. i’m completely faithful to him. has any other woman experienced anything like this. this is the first time i’m living alone at home without a man. i have no family here, no relatives either. i’m so scared all night that i stay awake till the sun comes up. i feel very insecure now and i use to think i’m a strong woman you know. not any more. what can i do to feel more secure? how can i keep a low profile (i’m considered pretty and thats also a problem) how should i deal with men who hit on me? please help!
i’m really scared of dogs so i can’t adopt a dog either. any other suggestions plz

Well, I live in an area where coyotes live and i had 2 dogs recently but they were bigger dogs. we would live them outside on there leashes so they could run around and everything when we weren’t home during the day and they were fine…but i had to give them away for personal reasons..but now i was able to get another dog for my bday. I got a little pomeranian. But now i am going to start school, both my parents work, and so no one is home between 7:30 am and 3:00 to take care of her. So i am trying to figure out where to keep her. She is only a puppy, so she isn’t potty trained, so i cant keep her inside running free. but i cant keep her locked up in her crate all day, cuz that’s just not right.. but i am thinking of putting her outside in a pen where she can go to the bathroom and run around. But i am worried about the coyotes. I was thinking of getting a pen thing with a roof on it so they cant jump in it, but do u think that would be safe? Do you think she would be ok if a coyote came around? What do you think?
Please help! Any other suggestions are welcomed!!
gezz guys!! Im not dumb! Of course its not the best idea but i want her to be used to going potty outside where she is supppsed to go. I want the best for my dog. All of u sound like i dont care and am just leaving her alone all the time! Geez! No dog owner can stay with their pet all day, unless they have no life! But i am just trying to find a solution thats best for my dog!

I have a miniature Dachshund that I’ve had for 15yrs and love to death. We got her when I was 10 yrs old and able to give her lots and lots of attention. (I am definitely on board with the fact that you should not get a dog unless you can give it attention). However, now I’m 25 and I work during the day and can’t even dream of giving her away after all these years. She was staying at home with my mother (who works nights) until yesterday when she got out of the backyard and got lost. Thank Goodness a nice couple found her and kept her safe. Until I’m able to repair the fence at my mother’s house so she won’t get out again, I’ll be keeping her with me at my apt. With the limited space, how can I keep her from being lonely while I’m at work from 8-5:30. She’s really old, so I don’t know if she’d be interested in playing with toys. I’ve also found that she’s bothered by younger dogs. Sorry so long.

I realized that my backyard Isn’t a safe place to keep my dog because I have a swimming pool. My dad was supposed to get a pool cover but now he’s not. I would teach my dog how to safely exit the pool but my father would rather do a bad job cleaning the pool than higher someone to do a good job to clean it (he’s EXTREMELY CHEAP). I tried to find someone to clean it but it would have been dollars an hour. Ive tried looking for a kennel but I believe that wouldn’t be safe also because I would need to find someway to bolt the kennel to ground because our backyard is covered in concrete. I just thought about buying a zip line, which I believe are used in the mid-west where fences are prohibited but we don’t have a tree in the backyard and I don’t know how safe it would be to attach it to anything else. I decided rather to find a no-kill shelter, but I was looking on Peta website and I came across this horrible story where Peta basically supports shelter that euthanize animals and how animals are no better of at no-kill shelters. But I don’t want to take the dog to a shelter at a time when shelters are overly packed with dogs and people cant afford to pay for adoption fees and I don’t believe many people go looking for dogs at shelters.
So I thought about putting the dog on craigslist with a re-homing fee, but I don’t want just any crazy person responding to the add, so I thought maybe a re-homing fee of dollars I think It would be better to go higher but the big problem is is that I got the dog from a woman who I think I shouldn’t have trusted because she told me the dog was a rescue dog but she didn’t have proof of the dogs first vaccinations. She only had handwritten his two vaccinations and then she attached a sticker of the vaccination she gave the dog herself. Not until later did I think the shelter should have given the dog all of it shots! I looked at the dog petted him asked if he had any health issues she said no and I took the dog. But after really examining the dog I realize he’s too thin. So basically I don’t even know how anyone would be willing to adopt a skinny unfixed puppy without proof of vaccinations for or more. The humane society told me I could get the dog vaccinated again which im willing to do but those dudes or like animal freaks that will not neuter a 4 month old puppy. I know this becuz i took my mom 9 month old beagle there and they told me to wait tell he is older and his baby teeth fell out which never did happen so they finally nurtured the dog. I would put the dog in a crate but not 4 hours only for 2 hours cause he doesn’t like the crate and plus i would like him to be able to run around and play outside when Im gone or working. So would you, a sane individual, be willing to buy this puppy on craigslist for 60 bucks if I do get the dog vaccinated again or is it safer to maybe post the dog up for adoption at a vet or the human society?
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melissa what are you talking about? Walking the dog isnt a problem since I do it everyday. And those individuals who dont have yards probably dont live in a 5 bedroom house with other open rooms where the dog could also get into trouble when the owners are gone.
and I bought the dog knowing that my dad would get a pool cover and now he’s not.

i needed to know this bcuz well my kitten is about 5 or 6 weeks old but i needed to know what to do about it my grandma lives with us and comes home only n the weekends and well she doesnt like cats but i need some whre to put it in the day time >? helpo what do i do >? help plzz and we have alot of dogs in this neighbir hid so im screwed i dont know what to do >? and well i have to guinea pigs and 1 hamster in side and i dont want them getting hurt either

i have two bitches one just had a litter and theyre about 5 weeks old now the stray dog is hanging around.for the other dog how can i get him to leave and keep him safe? i thought about talking hm far from my home but thats cruel and he would get hurt or something and i dont want to call the animal pound he will get put to sleep,he seems like a sweet dog just scared.but i have weimers
and i dont think theyre needs to be mixed bred dogs running around what can do that is safe for the stray dog he looks like a black and white chow?
NO bb guns and stuff that is cruel.

hi there, i live in NorCal, and we’ve had 4 earthquakes this week, and im not sure on how to keep my dogs safe in the event that a strong one hits. the city i live in is practically between 2 major faults, one running right thru a county park 5 miles away from my home. this week, the strongest on was 4.1, but 2 years ago we had an 8. something ( dont remember, but it was strong…) when that one hit, i grabbed all the dogs i could and hid under the dining room table and we were fine, (others went under the door frames with the rest of the fam) but what can i do when no one is home? they all have crates and are inside all day, but have access to the garage and backyard via doggie doors, so they get free-run of the house and yard. my questionis, what can i, if anything do to keep them safe?

thanks!
thanks derrick, and your right, my mistake for assuming stuff, i just looked it up and the ‘07 quake was only a 5.6 LOL. and im in san jose right by alum rock park, so we FELT that one!

We live near a forest and my dogs occasionally bring home wild game. Its getting colder and my dogs do havea dog house but i want to protect them from the viruses that come with winter. What can i do?

i heard if you keep plants in your home the air stays cleaner and they work as a deodorizer? what plants work good and are safe sround a 3 month old baby…and dogs…?

i am fumigating/bombing/spraying my house to get rid of roaches and i’m afraid that the chemicals may be harmful to my dogs. They told me that i could let my dogs back in after 4 hours or so.. but i’m a little skeptical. the chemicals are going to be all over my furniture and carpet so i’m pretty sure my dogs will ingest them some way or another. i have a baby french bulldog and he always licks everything he can get his mouth on. i was thinking that i might leave the house for a week with my dogs.. but i don’t know if the chemicals would be gone by then..

also, i am a very clean person. i throw away my trash everyday, never leave food out, vacuum everyday. but somehow i keep getting roaches.

please help.

Do you have dead bolts, a home security system, guns, dogs that protect your home, or something else?