Eh, to be fair, most of the worst diseases we can trace back to species-jumping, so that's what people end up hearing about.

Hmmm, one of my cousins is offering to help me set up a tech thingummy and I should take advantage of it. Tech is confusing. Back later.

All the tech! ovo

I'm so sleepy today... DC lets go take a nap Dx

You can find out about poinsettias online, DK. But it's hard as BLEEEEP to get them to bloom again. They're a wild Mexican BUSH, not really a house plant. XD

Akili Li wrote:That is such a cute calf and cow pic! Although they look pretty skinny, is that normal for that breed? Am I just used to overfed cattle?

Normal for the breed. Also normal for most dairy cattle. Gir are dairy cattle.

Death Candy wrote:I just realized I missed the part about the CARE facility questions. It's a good thing I'm not on there to ask the people asking questions; "if they know how to read". Because ever since I was like seven I knew that in the wild, predators go after the weak, the old, the young and the sickly. So how can these people not know it's safe to feed sick animals to them? Unless it's something that affects all animals, then they won't feed them to them. So the predators are safe.

I suspect it's over anthromorphasizing animals, and thinking that they have to have "just as good as people". Never mind all the people who can't afford decent food while they're feeding organic DUCK to a dog.

Yea I looked online and got different opinions on how to care for it... one site says one thing, another site says another. It's why I wanted to ask people I knew for their own experiences instead.

My personal experience is they die really fast. :( And I was a horticulture nut.

I can help you out if you need tips on ways to kill it....
*looks at sad remnants of the last two non-aloe houseplants*

Yeah I'm mostly just good with keeping aloes alive, and I suspect that "good" in this case really means "I forget they are there unless I'm harvesting leaves for burns so they don't get overwatered"

Well, that and there aren't any cats to knock them over. Apparently house plants don't care to be knocked over by inquisitive cats; it breaks their pots and their roots get disturbed. Who knew?

So there you go. Piece of actually useful advice for keeping the poinsettia alive:
Don't let a cat knock it over.

:P

Gotta keep the poinsettia away from cats anyway, they're poisonous to animals oxo That's about all I know about them x'D


Aloe <3 I grow aloe too <3 the cats have knocked the aloe down so many times and they're still alive >:3

we'll I guess i'll wing it with the pretty bush oxo

Yeah, I used to have one really quite large aloe (about triple the size of my next-largest "kitchen appliance" that took up so much counter space), but finally it did the tiny-babies-near-its-roots thing and so I could harvest the whole of the big plant and repot the babies and now I just have 4 much smaller, more reasonable ones. (naturally they are stashed all over the kitchen for swiftness of anti-burn action, too. )

I'm impressed yours survived it! Back when I was living with cats I would regularly go through poor aloe plants and need to replace them. Although that might have been because I kept trying to save them by putting them way up on top of the refrigerator (which would work for a month or two) and so when they fell THAT distance..... yeah. Pot shards would slice them up something terrible.

We have plastic pots.. though when they were learning NOT to touch the aloe, they were in old butter dishes >w>,

Also I now have rocks at the bottom of each pot, making them too heavy for the kitties >:3

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Oooooh, DK you are brilliant! May I shamelessly steal your idea? That is so clever, I don't even have to worry about cats and I want to do that with mine anyhow just to help with the top-heavy issue!