Dogs (pets): Can a dog stay home alone for 12 hours?
Realistically, 6 hours and more is not reasonable for a young dog.I personally do not feel that an adult dog should be alone or even alone with another dog more than an 8 hour work day. Dogs are pack animals and definitely need interaction. I would say 8 hours is pushing it. Remember that you sleep for a further 8 hours, making it more than 65% of the time that your dog is alone.Then you start to include date nights, going out with your friends, shopping late after work, overtime... you start to see that your dog spends like 80%+ of its time completely alone or with another dog and not able to go out and do anything. The yard or house is interesting to a dog for about 2 minutes, then its not new. This is really miserable for the poor guys.My personal opinion is that unless you have multiple people in the house on different shifts/always home or work part time, unfortunately a dog is just not for you.Other animals do much better with solitude. Cats, obviously. I know some people have pre-conceived notions of cats but they can be great companion animals.
Please help me answer some questions about elephants!?
please answer these questions1.Describe how and elephant moves (fast slow, what structures or features does it have to enable it to move?2.How does an elephant's movement help it survive? Explain3.What types of food does an elephant eat?4.How often does an elephant need to eat?5.Describe an elephants digestive system or organs. 6.Does an elephant expend a lot of energy each day? explain.7.How large is it as an adult?8.What stages does it go through from birth to adulthood9.What is the life span? 10.What is the average life expectancy?11.What attracts it? How does it respond?12.How does it protect itself from enemies who are its enemies?13.How does it find a mate, is there competition is ther courting14.describe birth process15.what is the climate like where it lives 16.what body structures or features does it have to survive in its environment17.what is unique about it that has allowed its species to survive over long periods of time 18.how does it interact w/ 2 other organisms thanx!
In Brisbane, Australia, is air conditioning necessary for living comfortably during the summer months?
Absolutely.In Brisbane over the past 20 years I’ve lived in old Queenslanders (traditional elevated timber houses with wide verandahs and tin roofs), modern brick apartments, and contemporary houses (currently two-storey cement rendered with tiled roof). In none of these was it pleasant without a/c, particularly in January and February and especially at night.Ceiling fans won’t cut it, nor will any other form of ‘cooling’ - anyone that says otherwise is fooling themselves. People will say Queenslanders (as above) are made for the heat (insofar as the technology of a century ago is concerned, yes), but they are notoriously poorly insulated. The best you can hope for even with a ‘cooling breeze’ through the windows and fanlights is the outside temperature and humidity, even with their low thermal mass. In my experience they’re freezing in winter and stifling in summer.Not that modern homes are much better (Australian homes are very poorly insulated and not designed to cope with the extremes of heat and cold in general). Their high thermal mass heats up during the day and is very slow to cool at night (which is good in winter) and in two-storey houses the heat will travel up the central void/staircase and make the top floor at least 5–6 degrees warmer. Almost impossible to cool down without exhaust fans and a/c.You don’t need a/c all the time (the record set for my ducted a/c is 6 days straight without turning it off), and can usually manage during the day with a cool drink, shade, a fan and the pool, but some nights without it are unbearable. Mostly because of the high humidity which will make the ‘feels like’ temperature much, much worse (Brisbane temps aren’t actually as high as some other Australian capital cities, and rarely exceed the high 30s). If you want to save money (I have solar panels so the net cost of electricity is now almost free), think of another way - or move!
Question About Slavery and the Civil War?
To Knowledge: The Civil War was clearly about slavery. The South secceeded from the Union because the north tried to say that no new states can have slaves and that slavery was bad. The South finally got fed up with the North's meddling in its affairs. Abolitionists like John Brown became terrorists and attacked trains with Southerners on them in Harper's Ferry. As far as what incentive did a Southern soldier have, well, for one, he didn't want free blacks to compete with him for jobs. That is the most basic incentive anyone could have. When is the last time anyone who replied to my question quit his/her job to graciously give it someone else more needy? None of your arguments make any sense. I still don't know what a northern white guy's incentive was during the Civil War.