elektraodyssey's Advice

• How to fix my slow computer?
  Thepope is totally right! I have and use all those things and they do work. Also check w/other users (if any) to see what they're downloading (or is it YOU???!); MP3's and graphics files will really slow down the system. If so, upload them onto a stora...
  
  
• How can I get off the aol security edition?
  You mean how to get RID of it? Anything associated with AOL is going to problematic, except (usually) AIM. I don't know about the security edition, but after my trial period w/AOL (you know, the "1,000 minutes free thing") ended, I was still getting bi...
  
  
• Pay phone not cell phone!
  Sometimes it works, but then people without phones started using them instead of getting phones. So the phone company rigged most of 'em so you can't dial a pay phone and must instead pay $$$ to get their "plans"!
  
  
• I need a dog which is easiy maintainable, suggestions?
  I agree with phrannie, that it takes SO much time, effort AND MONEY to properly train a true guard dog, that an alarm system and a self-defense course would be better. Remember, you have no idea whether your mom & sis will be ABLE (or willing) to put i...
  
  
• Aunt dawnya and the dog smoke weed!
  You need to get your mom or dad to intervene, at least initially! As someone above wrote, I'd send ANY relative packing, if they treated my son as your aunt treats you! Perhaps she's envious of your personality (does she have kid--if not, she may resen...
  
  
• Getting new kittens?
  All good answers. Male adult cats WILL often beat up kittens, sometimes even their own (my late Kitty's father did). I'd like to add a couple ideas I read on another forum: set aside a separate room or space for the new kitten, into which the older cat...
  
  
• How to euthanize a dog at home?
  Keeping a sick dog or any animal alive, who is pain and terminally ill, is NOT "kindness" to animals! It is a selfish, misguided motivation to appease the owner's feelings. These posts about what monsters those who euthanize animals in pain, are ignora...