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About a month ago I bought a cheap little bird house that I set up in my back yard, hoping to attract one of the blue birds in the area (it's one of the ones that has a post going into the ground). Instead of a blue bird, a black-capped chickadee nested in the box and has laid eggs. A couple of days ago I noticed the box has started listing to the side, and it's now at just over a 50 degree angle with the ground. I'm afraid the box will fall over in the next few days, but I don't want to stand it up or move it and risk the mother abandoning her nest. Any suggestions? I'm really not a bird person, so I'm very inexperienced when it comes to these things.

You know when you crack you fingers or your back? Her shoulder does that sometimes. Just the front right one. It has done that pretty much since I got her. Is that a normal thing in dogs? Should I have a vet check her for arthritis? It does not seem to bother her in the slightest bit.

I want to socialize my little beagle puppy, but I'm afraid of her catching worms or other diseases from dogs I don't know. What has your experience been like with dog parks? My puppy is fully vaccinated and has been spayed.

For the past couple of weeks, my breasts have been tender and my nipples very sensitive. I had frequent headaches (which have since stopped), and abdominal pain, in the same area that I get menstrual cramps. I know that most, if not all, of these could possibly be signs of pregnancy, BUT I'm on Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, which I always take everyday on time, and my boyfriend and I always use condoms, which have never broken. Is there another explanation for these symptoms? My period is due in three days, but they couldn't be PMS because 1) I've never had PMS symptoms like these before, and 2) they started two weeks ago. All answers are apreciated.

Recently my cat has taken to doing his "business" on the floor right in front of his litter box. He knows exactly what he's doing, it's not like he's missing, and I know he's doing it because he hates my boyfriend, but I'm the one that always ends up cleaning it up, so I'm the one that's agitated. So here's the story:

Yesterday morning my cat kept us awake since 3 in the morning, trying his hardest to make sure that my boyfriend didn't sleep at all, which in turn kept me up, so at 6 in the morning (with 1/2 an hour left before I had to get up for the day) I got tired of his behavior and I locked him out of the bedroom (we let him sleep with us every night because he cries when we don't). So he sat outside the room crying for about a minute, and then he went away. A few minutes later I heard him scraping the floor constantly, so I got up to see what was the matter with him and he left me a little present right there and he was trying to "bury" it with the bathroom floor! Well, he took one look at me and ran out of the room, and then when I was down on my hands and knees scrubbing the floor clean, he sat there and watched me the whole time.

This morning, the cat stepped on my boyfriend's "jewels" while he was sleeping, and as a result, he was thrown from the bed. I didn't lock him out of the room this time, but he took the hint and left and went into the bathroom again where he "missed" in the same spot and again started scratching the floor like he was trying to bury his "mistake" which was really more of an "on purpose."

So my question is, how do I get this behavior to stop? How can I keep my boyfriend and my cat happy at the same time? I've tried buying the cat his own little comfy bed (which I placed next to my bed so he could still see me), which he does sleep in during the day, but at night time he always curls up in my arms instead of sleeping in his own bed. I can't lock him out of the bedroom at night because he cries when I do that and then NOBODY gets any sleep. Please help me!

I haven't lost any weight. I was violently sick exactly one week ago today (from what I assume to be some kind of 24-hour flu) and I spent seven hours puking my guts out, then sleeping the whole next day. Since then I hadn't had much of an appetite, so I would just pick at things here and there but I wasn't hungry enough to eat a meal. Last night my boyfriend's parents took us out to dinner and I was craving a cheeseburger with fries, so I ordered one, and usually I can eat the whole thing, but last night I ate half the hamburger and half the fries and I felt like I had eaten four whole chickens, I was so full. Did my stomach shrink over the past week from not eating? Is that possible? Like I said, I haven't lost any weight (as far as I can tell - our scale is broken, so I'm just going by my appearance).

Right now, I keep my house at 63 degrees farenheit during the day, and in the afternoon around 5 o' clock I turn it down to 59, then in the morning when I wake up I turn it back up to 63 again. Does this method waste more oil than it would if I just kept the house at a constant 63 degrees? The house is only set to 63 degrees for about 8 hours a day. All answers are appreciated!

I am inheriting a 7-year-old cat (he's an American Longhair, if that matters) and I've never had a pet cat before, so I don't know the first thing about taking care of one. Does anyone know of any good websites or have any good advice on how to care for a cat? I'll be moving into the house the cat lives in now, so I have all the essentials (litter box, food, etc), I just don't know if there's anything else I need to do. All answers are appreciated!

I accidentally created THREE pages for my business on Facebook, but obviously I only want one. Is there a way for me to delete two of them so I only have to manage the one business page? They're all controlled by my one facebook account, and the only way I can find on the Facebook "help" page to get rid of them is to delete my entire Facebook account. Is there a way for me to just delete the two extra business pages that I created without deleting my whole account?

I just bought a fancy mouse yesterday (Rupert) and I looove him, he's so adorable! I'm very happy that he's awake during the day to play, but I'm worried that he will get sick if he doesn't start sleeping. Is this just because he's in a new place that he's not used to? 80% of the time he just runs on his wheel, and the rest of the time he's getting food/water and climbing on other things in his aquarium. He seems very alert and healthy (in fact, he bit me when I tried to pick him up yesterday), so is he just adjusting to his new habitat? I hope that's all it is because while he does not keep me up at night, I'm worried that his lack of sleep will be harmful to his health.

I recently purchased 20 chicks; 11 Araucanas, 5 Rhode Island Reds, and 4 Sexlink Blacks. The chicks are about 5 weeks old now, and one of the "Araucanas" is starting to look like a Barnevelder. How do I tell exactly what she is? Because the farm store that I bought them from wasn't sure whether one of the chicks I bought was an Araucana, but that's not even the chick that I suspect to be a Barnevelder.

I just bought 20 chicks two weeks ago, and two of them in particular LOVE being held and cuddled. They're so adorable when they just curl up in my hand and sleep, and I love holding them. Will they still want to cuddle with me when they're fully grown?

About three days ago I started noticing very small but incredibly itchy bumps all over my body. They look like really small pimples crossed with goosebumps, they aren't discolored (just the color of my skin), and I have no idea how I got them. I just came back from a four-day trip to Texas on Monday, so is it possible that I picked something up there, or on the plane? The bumps are mostly on my shoulders, but there's a good sized clump of them on my right breast, along with a few strays on my back and my legs. I haven't been eating anything out of the ordinary, and I know they're not hives because hives are much, much bigger and really red. Any ideas what this could be? Maybe I swallowed a spider in Texas? There certainly were a lot of bugs there, though my symptoms didn't start until two days after I got home.

My boyfriend's little brother's birthday is today and I totally forgot to get him a present. He's 11 today, and I need gift ideas, quick!! He's into nature, fish, bugs, tortoises, Nintendo DS, and Wii. Book suggestions? Game suggestions? Any help is apreciated!!

If my henchman kills an innocent and I don't, do I still get evil renown? Or does he get all the evil renown and I remain a good character?

I know that if he kills a bunch of people in my world that it will stay like that forever, but I don't know if I'll get the evil points too, or if they all go to him.

I'm 99% sure I want to get the Acer One (with the 160GB hard drive, I've Googled it and the search result came up with two different computers: one with the 160GB hard drive and one with an 8GB hard drive), but I would really appreciate any words of wisdom that any computer geeks out there would like to share with me about this computer before I buy it. I wouldn't use it for gaming (obviously), the only thing I would use it for would be to bring back and forth to school. I'd install Microsoft Office, Net Beans/Java, and possibly AutoCAD, but it doesn't seem like the best drafting computer, so I may not install AutoCAD. I have another computer that I use for surfing the web, gaming, and everything else. For this computer, all I'm looking for is something that will be convenient to bring back and forth to school and that will be able to run everything that I want it to run (listed above).

I've been on Yaz for 8 months now, and the price of it keeps going up every time I visit the pharmacy. When I first started it, it was $50 and change after it went through my insurance, then it went up to $55 and change after going through my insurance, and now it's $60 and change after insurance! I just want to know how much everyone else pays for birth control pills, and if I'm paying way too much, because $60 seems a little ridiculous to me. I'd rather just go out and buy a couple packs of condoms. A woman that works at the pharmacy told me that there's a generic birth control pill, does anyone know how much that one costs?

I'm in America, if that helps at all.

I know you all are going to make fun of me for asking this question, but I see a lot of people say "you're a Disney chanel troll" and "stop trolling" etc, and I don't quite understand what it means.

I just acquired a used 10-gallon fish tank and before I put any of my fish in it I want to make sure it's clean and safe for them. What is the best way to do that? Should I just set it up and run a fishless cycle for a week or so? Or are there other steps that I should be taking as well to make sure it's safe? I know you're not supposed to use soap to clean your tank or things that go in your tank, but it's been used before and I don't know what was in it, all I know is that it was used as a freshwater aquarium.

My betta fish (female) was in a 2-gallon bowl with three other female bettas for two months, and they all seemed to get along fine. She was the smallest, and about three days ago I noticed her acting really sluggish, hanging around the bottom of the bowl, not moving a lot, and I thought maybe it was because it was time for a water change, so when I was changing the water, I noticed that her fins were all torn like the other fish had been attacking her. I immideately quarantined her, and put her into a spare 1-gallon bowl that I had lying around, but I keep her bowl next to the other bowl with the other fish so she can still see them. She still hangs around the bottom of the bowl barely moving, and sometimes she puts her body in an "S" shape, which I've never seen any of my other fish do before. What's wrong with her, and what can I do to help her so she won't die?