Tag: Pets

Wild Costa Rican Peccaries: My Unexpected Encounter | December 29 2025, 04:21

A wild Costa Rican boar, as part of a small herd, mistook me for one of its own and let me take its pictures. Strictly speaking, it’s not exactly a boar—it’s a peccary. Half of my phone is filled with these little grunters.

Decoding Dog Signals: What Does the Ironing Board Mean? | December 17 2025, 01:55

Help decode the signal being sent into the universe by a dog. The same gesture towards the refrigerator means wants treats, to the door – open it (outside or inside), to the knee – pet me, to the cat – a complex indecipherable set of emotions. Question – what could it mean towards an ironing board?

I have tried everything. Gave food. Poured water. Took for walks. Opened the backyard. Played with a ball with him. Definitely petted him. Only thing that worked was leaving the room. But then when you come back – he returns to playing at the foot of the ironing board. You turn around – he looks and waits for something.

Apparently, he concluded that to get everything at once, he needs to do it with an ironing board

Why Snow Clings Only to One End: A Light Moment on a Heavy Day | December 05 2025, 20:28

Imagine how hard it is for me to live. Walking with the dog and you can’t easily and quickly answer your own question, why is the snow only on one end of the twigs. And yes, they all look in different directions.

Yuka’s Nostalgic Snowy Morning | December 05 2025, 13:43

Wow. Morning. Sleepy Yuka came in, looked out the window at the first snow, looked at me, sighed, and went to lie down in the little circle he loved so much in early childhood, but hadn’t noticed at all for the last few years.

Chaos in the Village: Escaped Huskies Trigger Community Alarm | November 09 2025, 22:55

Something crazy is happening in our village. First, the owner of two huskies posts on nextdoor that they ran away from home and asks people to notify him if anyone sees them, warning that they are skittish. Then, about two hours later, the chihuahua owner posts that the escaped huskies killed his dog and also a neighbor’s chicken. The husky owner deleted his first post. Everyone in the village is grabbing their popcorn. It’s sad about the dogs. I’m always afraid that Yuki will run away like that, he’s also a fighter and fiercely hates all dogs in the world except himself.

Yuki’s Predictable Howling Cycles | October 16 2025, 03:02

Yuki is like clockwork. Twice a year, he enters a mode of howling. Just like a wolf at the Moon. Last year, the autumn howl started on October 15-16, 2024, and ended on the 20th. Today, October 15, 2025, it began. Prior to this

* March 15, 2022,

* October 27, 2022,

* February 2, 2023,

* April 1, 2024, lasted four days.

* October 15-16, lasted 4 days

Update: October 19, 2025, it ended

Yuki, we have everything recorded!