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If you want to keep ants away just clean all your floors/problem areas with a 50/50 vinegar/water mix. Acetic acid is an ant's "danger" scent marker doodad.
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An observer posted:If you want to keep ants away just clean all your floors/problem areas with a 50/50 vinegar/water mix. Acetic acid is an ant's "danger" scent marker doodad. Just white vinegar? I may try that, I have a gallon jug of the stuff under my sink.
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I went to a fiber festival/sheep auction today and saw so many awesome working dogs. There were big floofy pyr puppies and a lady who is working on starting a line of working komondor and a kelpie and a huge formentino cane corso and lots of pretty aussies! There weren't any border collies which was sad but kind of confirmed what I've suspected about bcs in the area not being bred to actually work on a farm anymore. This dog was my favorite. I don't generally like merles but I think minimally marked ones are striking. Especially this one's single white eye patch on solid red merle. So pretty  
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May 27, 2012 23:17
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RazorBunny posted:
That gel stuff is like crack for ants. It was fascinating squirting it along their little trail in our kitchen & watching them all gorge themselves. The little ant bait stations are great too & should be safe as long as you keep them out of the reach of the dogs. My husband is just like yours when it comes to ants, partly because I'm crazy allergic to fire ant bites. New tiny hills keep popping up in the backyard & it pisses him off to no end. One day we will conquer those little fuckers.
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May 27, 2012 23:21
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I don't know why, but I am so sick of hearing cats named Loki. Within the last 3-4 years it has just became such a trendy cat name. 
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May 28, 2012 03:26
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Trendy everything name, really. LowKey Lysmith is the best variation that I've seen, and I support all American Gods references. But for everything else? Yes we understand that you've read a Norse Wikipedia entry and think you're super mischievous and neat  What it really implies is that their cat or dog or whatever is going to be into bestiality and father an eight-legged horse, a corpse woman, a giant snake and a wolf.
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May 28, 2012 03:38
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Captain Foxy posted:Trendy everything name, really. Does it count as bestiality if you're already a beast? I mean, we have a Scylla and Charybdis in our family....and I thought it was cute 
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May 28, 2012 03:47
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We're guilty of having a Freya but that's the boyfriend's fault. I wanted to name her Runa. 
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May 28, 2012 03:49
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TVs Ian posted:Does it count as bestiality if you're already a beast? Other deities/pantheons are underrepresented, underrated and too awesome. I love Scylla and Chary! Everyone is just into the Norse pantheon right now because of Thor/the Avengers and its not doing nearly enough justice to the amazing sagas and poems of that period to name your chihuahua/etc after a frost giant god. Thor and Odin are also way overused. I'm all about using mythology names, but hell, think outside the box.
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May 28, 2012 03:55
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Captain Foxy posted:father an eight-legged horse Also, I had a cat named Bella solely because she was beautiful, only to find in the last few years that people assumed it was a Twilight reference.
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May 28, 2012 04:10
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wheatpuppy posted:Technically, didn't Loki mother Sleipnir? I seem to recall that was a gender-swap thing. Not that I read Wikipedia or anything. You're right, he changed into a mare, seduced a stallion and birthed Sleipnir the Eight-Legged, who became Odin's horse, so Odin was effectively riding around on his nephew. I...I honestly don't know what gender term to use there.
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May 28, 2012 04:54
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If you have carpenter or wood ants it's another story, but if you have lil' scavenger type ants they're really easy to get rid of with some well placed liquid bait. I ordered some of this stuff recently: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BQT5IG/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00
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May 28, 2012 05:27
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Captain Foxy posted:Other deities/pantheons are underrepresented, underrated and too awesome. I love Scylla and Chary! I am a total Greek Gods geek. Lola was so very nearly Lyssa, and if I get a female Patterdale in a couple years I'll probably call her Eris. I think it'd be fitting  Seconding the love for Scylla and Chary (and Kiri's Psyche too).
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May 28, 2012 08:11
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Captain Foxy posted:Other deities/pantheons are underrepresented, underrated and too awesome. I love Scylla and Chary! Balen and Amy are Hercules and Larentia. And Foxy, don't you put your gender terms and labels on this mythology!
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May 28, 2012 13:43
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It would be great if someone named their cat Narcissus. 
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May 28, 2012 14:30
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Bear Rape posted:It would be great if someone named their cat Narcissus. Done and done, if/when we ever get another cat
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May 28, 2012 14:37
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Done and done, if/when we ever get another cat Well now you have a mission for next weekend  We are having another Scylla and Charybdis reunion in about 2 weeks and it will be EPIC. Mostly because Chary has a brain the size of a watermelon seed and is bound not to remember her sister again and ba-ROOOOO for an hour. And also because this will be the first time we meet Ghost, my sister in laws Sibe  So to recap we will have the following dogs in our house: Lucy, Guthrie, Bea, Quinn, Chary, Scylla, Ghost, Tonka and Nori. Plus 3 cats. Plus 7 people. For an entire week. And also note that one dog is a pit and two are prims. This is going to be some kind of beach at Normandy-level dog wrasslin'.
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May 28, 2012 15:08
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TVs Ian posted:
 how big is your house dude? One day i hope to have lotsa dogs aswell.
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May 28, 2012 15:12
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Fraction posted:I am a total Greek Gods geek. Lola was so very nearly Lyssa, and if I get a female Patterdale in a couple years I'll probably call her Eris. I think it'd be fitting Greek pantheons are also way overrepresented because they're also very present in media, like the Norse. People also mix up Greek and Roman pantheons and give no fucks about it. Example: Hercules = Roman name, Herakles = Actual Greek name Yes I studied classical mythology in my undergrad once I burned out on animal behavior, what of it
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May 28, 2012 15:57
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This may throw you into a rage. But until this thread I thought Freya was just a bra brand.
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RAAAAAAAGE ITS FREYJA NOT FREYA Actually, that's kind of fitting, because she's almost always depicted with huge bare rear end titties. And both spellings are technically correct, just one's from the original sagas, and the other is a German mistranslation, which makes myth geeks rage so hard
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May 28, 2012 16:25
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Captain Foxy posted:RAAAAAAAGE Does it make you happy or sad that a potential Nori name was Fenrisúlfr, Fen for short? tiddlez posted:
Not big enough!  It's a 3 bedroom ranch style house on 2 acres, five minutes drive from the local walking path by the schools and fifteen minutes from the state park though so, even if the house itself isn't enormous, the dogs have room to exist. Sometimes we do too!
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May 28, 2012 16:33
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Yeeeeah, I'm just over the mythological names, especially Freya/Freja/whatever. Final Fantasy and WoW is most likely where the modern popularity comes from anyway. There's, like, a couple layers of poseur right there.
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May 28, 2012 16:39
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TVs Ian posted:Does it make you happy or sad that a potential Nori name was Fenrisúlfr, Fen for short?  Don't put your hand in his mouth.
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May 28, 2012 16:40
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People should pick more descriptive names for their pets. Tummycuddles the cat, for example.
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Ugh, this little brown chihuahua-looking mutt dog wandered into our front yard a few minutes ago and started sniffing around. We thought it belonged to the folks on the corner, but all theirs are accounted for. It wouldn't let anyone near it to check its tags, and it booked it down the street. I really hope it finds its way back to its people There seems to be a loose dog in my neighborhood every few weeks. I never see any dead in the road, and I don't think AC comes out and gets them, so my optimistic side is telling me they eventually wander back to their own yard, but I worry 
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May 28, 2012 16:41
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My favorite name ever came from a ferret someone surrendered. Frankencuddle. 
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Shifty Pony posted:People should pick more descriptive names for their pets. Tummycuddles the cat, for example. So what, I'd have Handsome the lazy gently caress, loving crazy bitch, Barky inu desu and Ruddertail wigglepuppy?
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RazorBunny posted:Just white vinegar? I may try that, I have a gallon jug of the stuff under my sink. Yep, though any vinegar works (apple cider and red wine leave behind colors though).
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Greek names: I still want to name an animal Testicles someday, but pronounced more like a Greek name like a Hercules, and then pretend to get really mad and offended when I go to the vet and they pronounce it all wrong. 
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One of my mom's friends growing up outside Boston in her all-Sicilian neighborhood was named Fortunado Testudo. 'Fortunado' means fortunate or lucky, and 'testudo' actually means head or skull, but everyone always called him Lucky Balls. Someday I will have an intact male animal named Lucky Balls.
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Captain Foxy posted:Greek pantheons are also way overrepresented because they're also very present in media, like the Norse. People also mix up Greek and Roman pantheons and give no fucks about it. Oh I know I've got a mytho-boner, I've spent a lot of time researching the pantheon. Eris is as popular/mainstream as I'd get - if I ever get into breeding smooth faced pyr sheps (when I own a farm omg) I'll be going with rustic god and nymph names. If I have future terriers I'll probably name them after khthonic gods As much as I'd like to, I couldn't own a Zeus/Hermes/etc named pet. Too common. Slightly different but I'd really loving love a terrier named Puck, except for the possible fallout from hollering PUUUUCKKKKK across a field.
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I would never name an animal Eris because when you say it out loud without spelling it, most people will think you named it Aeris.
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Fraction posted:Slightly different but I'd really loving love a terrier named Puck, except for the possible fallout from hollering PUUUUCKKKKK across a field. FUUUUUUUCCKKK is always appropriate to yell at a terrier.
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May 28, 2012 18:11
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Brillig posted:I would never name an animal Eris because when you say it out loud without spelling it, most people will think you named it Aeris. I have no idea who Aeris is sooooo Captain Foxy posted:FUUUUUUUCCKKK is always appropriate to yell at a terrier. Not when there is a primary school literally on your street! I doubt parents/children would appreciate it, no matter how appropriate it'd be. Puck/gently caress: best terrier name.
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May 28, 2012 18:18
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"Phoque"
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Fraction posted:I have no idea who Aeris is sooooo Final Fantasy, again. FF ruins everything.
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Why do you give your dogs such larger-than-life names from ancient mythological gods of old? Is it because they're so boring in real life that you have to compensate through their names?
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El Gar posted:Why do you give your dogs such larger-than-life names from ancient mythological gods of old? Is it because they're so boring in real life that you have to compensate through their names? Now psycho-analyse my choice of the name 'Mouse' tia
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Your cats name is Trophy. That being said, dogs named Loki disappoint me by not shapeshifting or attempting to rape their half-sisters.
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