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Why a car though?
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To assist in the pullout.

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I can't believe there isn't a thread for our de(ea)r friends
post cervines and cervine accessories
absolutely no odd toed ungulates allowed
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>>5135240
no way, better not put the baby in the cage too long, deer are supposed to run around free
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>>5135272
No worries, this was a rehab fawn. She got released last year, and we built her a bigger pen a couple of days after this video was taken.
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>>5135275
that is good and great and that is what I hoped and assumed, I just wanted to be sure, because I recently remember seeing a youtube short of a fawn on a leash and with a muzzle, it was horrendous
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>>5135280
A muzzle, what the heck? Why would someone muzzle a deer... especially a fawn? Were they trying to keep it from yelling so nobody would notice them?
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>>5135282
I don't know but it was very weird. Ill have to post the short here whenever it comes up again

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anyone hyped for this? https://youtu.be/nlt4o-mLxyM?si=HT3xiRx0Rl3RYwHO
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>>5132553
I don't know about you, but I'd be shitting myself if I got approached by two lionesses in the dark. You're essentially dead at that point if you don't have a gun or something.
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>>5133869
Zero reading comrehension
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>>5131378
Graphics look great, concept is great, I don't have a clear idea how the game will play
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>>5131381
>actual good and accurate designs
Extremely true, I'm excited

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Only normal horses ITT.
Last thread that laid down >>5119481
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>>5135211
Yes, yours
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>>5132450
Is this a normal horse? I'm not sure this is a normal horse.
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>>5132464
no that's the horse equivalent of a hapsburg.
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>>5135196
>you know the racial slurs might be OK
>BUT I DRAW THE LINE AT FUCKING HORSES!
Do normalfags really?
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>>5135196
Stallions are quick shots. Mare are made for human men.
>Insert pic from historical Ireland where bestiality was the death penalty but horse fucking only disqualified you from becoming a priest, and was required to be king

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It is "critically endangered", which isn't surprising in and of itself, but why? These were only made aware to humanity in MY lifetime (1993, to be precise) in the mountains around Laos and Vietnam, meaning if we had been razing its land through construction or deforestation surely signs that we were killing a species should have been noticeable before then. But instead they were just...totally unknown until the 90s.

To me it seems like they're endangered because they aren't repopulating, either due to geographic constraints or simple lack of mates. Sounds like they're endangered simply because they are as a fact of the matter. I'm not sure what conservation efforts you could use to maintain an animal that just isn't proliferating.
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>>5134671
That region was a warzone for decades and was indiscriminately bombed by the US, which could've depleted the animal's habitat and numbers
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>>5134673
I suppose that's true. The Ho Chi Minh Trail ran through that border region and even now it's quite polluted with unexploded ordinance.
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>>5134685
Ordinance also uses highly toxic chemicals that poison the area. Even traditional explosives not intended to be poisonous are extremely toxic.
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>>5134671
If you wrote this, you write gay.
To the point of being vulgar.
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>>5134671
Redpill me on the dingleberry hanging off its cock

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Too Big To Fail Edition

Previously on /fox/:
>>5121687
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>>5135117
Who isn't?
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>>5135127
How does one become knotted
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>>5135040
>Throwing Dentastix in the woods so the local foxes have clean teeth
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>>5135117
No.

>>5135246
They dokn't like us hypothesise.

>>5135265
>

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/city-birds-appear-more-afraid-of-women-than-men-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why/
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>>5121513
>venomemergesfromtennisball.jpg
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>>5131694
lol
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>>5131686
this explains why catfags, infected with toxo as they are, hate them
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>>5122877
>>5125696
And secretary birds
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>>5121513
They might assume females are more likely to be hungry

COWS DEMONSTRATE FLEXIBLE MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL USE

Cows are now UNDENIABLY far more intelligent than cats and 99% of mammals. If you think it's wrong to eat cats, then you must feel the same way about cows and pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVo41MuLiQ

“The only well-documented case of something comparable comes from chimpanzees, on those – also rare – occasions when they fish for termites by combining the functions of the two opposite ends of the same stick,” Osuna-Mascaró told BBC Science Focus.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-tool-use

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/
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Bumping just to say I have had beef every day since reading this thread.
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>>5134167
I live in Korea and I've had cat stew every day this year
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>>5134908
Now that's Gangnam Style! Oppa my white nigga, I eata da cowcow you eata da meowmeow
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>>5127896
>congrats on being an empathetic crab, here's some food
lol
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>>5094225
I work with cows. Cows are some of the stupidest animals I have ever met. If you open a gate to a fence, the cow will continue pushing against the side of the fence because it is incapable of rational thought. It can only go through if another cow walks through the gate first and it decides to follow the herd.
My livestock mammal intelligence ranking:
Horses
Pigs
Camelids
Goats
Sheep
Cattle
Goats would be higher if they had enough foresight to not get their heads stuck in everything.

Put your paws in the air like you don't care edition

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>>5135051
>>so anxious she constantly licks her armpits when she's alone
She's saying she wants YOU to lick her armpits, anon
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>>5134476
>I've never seen Memento, is it any good?
it's good, definitely unique. Ok here's my last guess: Will and Walter
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>>5135051
Get her a shirt like this to keep the mood light
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I take the dogs out to the pigs sometimes. It's pretty fun. Seems to tucker the dogs out pretty efficiently.
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Shitbull update: She got sober for long enough to realize that buying a shitbull was retarded and returned it. Didn't get the money back but at least this is over.

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am i going to die, /an/? that looks like a violin but idk if it's THE violin...
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>>5133760
Put it on your penis. If it bites:good news! it's not gay. Nothing worse than a gay spider. If you contract gangrene amputation may be necessary. Risk comes with the knowledge whether it's a gay spider or not. Besides, you weren't using it anyways.
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>>5133760
oh hey a southern house spider, nice. i remember finding one of these in my old place, they're pretty cool.
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>>5133760
I think OP dieded :(
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>>5134724
the spooder got him :(((
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>>5134724
>>5135255
Probably.

Podcaster Joe Rogan has warned that mountain lions are running riot in certain states and eating household pets, demanding politicians do more to address the problem.

“One of the things they found out in San Francisco in the Bay Area was when they do shoot these mountain lions, they’ve done an analysis of their diet. It’s 50 percent dogs."

“They’re doing nothing to curb the population. And this is the thing is like people go, ‘Oh, it’s OK Let nature do its thing.’ No, it doesn’t do its thing. It kills your dog, OK?” he said.

He continued: “Fifty percent of their diet is eating people’s pets. So, they’re hunting people’s pets. That means you are, if you’re a dog lover, you’re allowing a monster to eat your dog because you think that’s the right thing to do and to be kind with nature."

“No, you have to hunt them. You have to get them the f*** away from you."

Rogan went on to share a story about Hanes being pursued by a mountain lion while out for an evening jog and commented: “That is the consequences of letting monsters live in your neighborhood."

The host concluded by suggesting that trophy hunting should be rebranded as “monster control” to attract broader support, signing off by saying: “I love animals, but I am on Team People.”



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>>5116392
BASED BASED BASED BASED

Fuck slave morality self hating faggots

>>5134408
>only da joos would prioritize their well being over a shitty overgrown stray cat
Cool. I support zionism now. Total palirat and cougar death.

>>5134943
>prove your own species matterth, ummmm, logically
Thought experiment. Your team lives subservient to animals. Cougars eat you sometimes but its your fault. You cant have pets or livestock.

My group comes in, kills all the wild predators, and enslaves you because you refused to adopt the laws of noah. You are no longer a worthless caveman living like an animal. Modern medicine and space travel are in your future. All you had to do was give up idolatry and stop worshiping/fucking the animals.
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>>5135258
Just now? Zionism is based.
>antisemites: noooo you cant fight bronze age death cultists that worship a gay pedo and conquer your ancestral homeland because uhhhh you lost a war a long time ago and are mixed race now! and fighting to exist kills heccin diversity people instead of you!
>also antisemites: man we should fight to have our homeland to ourselves
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>>5084698
>have a dog where predators are known to live
>let that dog off-lead & out of your sight
>dog gets eaten

>ACHKYUYALLY THIS IS NOT MY FAULTTTTT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Do amerifarts really?
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>>5135261
Its more like
>let dog sunbathe in your fenced in property
>liberal faggots have boosted cougar pest populations
>overpopulated pest enters neighborhood in search of food
>jumps the fence and kills your dog
>liberal: “no animal is illegal on stolen forest doe #freeyellowstone #cougarlivesmatter #endhumanimperialism #onlyveganscanhavemorals”
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>>5089885
Toxoplasmosis causes fatal neurological damage to young children and also to kangaroos (the actual most superior pet, better than any mutant predators)

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lungfish edition

Tank Cycling:
>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/

Stocking and Water Change Calculator:
>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php
>https://finscape.us/
>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.php

Articles and Care Guides:
>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/
>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/
>www.aquariumcoop.com/
>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/

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>>5135145
you're just retarded for thinking peta is anything other than leftist scum that perpetually worsen problems under emotional arguements
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>>5135146
Thx4thetip brah
>>5135149
I dont really think much of them tbf
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>>5135071
Get a cheap hang on back filter that's tiny like this one. Stuff the media with black foam, let it cycle and get it all brown and shit. If you don't have the time to cycle it in another tank before giving it to your cousin, then just use the hang on back directly on his tank and tell him to cut down on the food and change the water every couple of days or so until the filter sponge starts to get all brown and mucky. It might take a while but the water changes will help with the green algae I bet.
>pump
You don't really need it in a tank this tiny. The hang on back should be able to agitate the water surface enough for that one betta. Just scrub the algae off the glass and do a partial water change and monitor for a few days.
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>>5135260
>>5135071
Also, if he's just using plastic plants, tell him to get one of those fish house thingy for the betta to swim in and hide. Let it have some cover space. And if you're getting the hang on back filter, make sure to get the one with adjustable flow and set it to the lowest setting. Even a tiny filter/pump can have strong flow and it's too much for a tiny tank, it really depends on the brand and engineering. If the tank has brown shit on the gravel and no live plants, the brown shit has no purpose and it's just gonna feel algae as it decomposes. Get a airline tube and cable tie a small squishy pipette to it and use that to do water changes. As the water flows out of one end of the tube, use the end that has the pipette attached to it to blow air onto the gravel and suck up the mulm into the airline tube. Small tanks are easy to maintain, you just gotta do it right.
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>>5135145
Don't listen to that, it basically came from PETA to begin with.
Bettas adapted to live in ditches and puddles that go through droughts, 3 gallons isn't a problem and they can take being in those small store bowls for a few months no problem. The worst thing most stores do is put them in clear bowls right next to each other so they're always stressing each other out or not changing the water regularly, I wouldn't buy from places that do that.
Personally I have mine in a Spec V, it's nice to watch him swim around in that space though idk what they were thinking with the nozzle filter outlet, the flow speed is way to high even at the lowest setting on the pump and I had to order a waterfall attachment to slow it down.

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General for the discussion of rodent care with a focus on rats. Other rodents welcome but replies maybe slow
No brakes: muh feet's don't reach edition
>Rats need love
>Rats need companionship
>Rats need free roam time
Caring for your rats
https://ratguide.com/care-intro
Rat first aid: http://neratsociety.co.uk/articles/firstaid.shtml
Good and bad food: https://squeaksandnibbles.com/safe-foods-for-rats/
Cage cleaning
https://ratguide.com/care/environment/cage_cleaning.php
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>>5133707
traversing the vast dunes
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>>5133707
>Stock Subaru shames everyone at test hill
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>>5133624
I'm glad he's doing good!
Desu, seeing pet rats outdoors makes me anxious. Your idea seems good but they're good diggers. I might just be getting paranoid but it wouldn't take much distraction for one to dig under the frame and get out. If they're still young they might be wanting to explore still and that's been an issue indoors a couple of times for me
The other thing to be concerned about is parasites or pathogens they might get from eating snails or slugs etc.
It's been done but research youtube etc to see what works and what doesn't if you're really going to do it
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/zoi/ - borzoi general

Congestion edition
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wtf are those

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God fucking dammit. I wanted to make a question, but there are no cat general. Fine, i'll create one edition

My cat will turn 5 years old this month. She never purred. The only time i listened to her purring, was when she fell from my building and disappeared for 3 days. When we found her, and brought her, she purred very loud for some days. She was 1 yar old then
But lately, in the past months, she purrs a lot when i pet her, give her food, or hold her like a baby. Why is this?
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>>5135036
>but when I let him regulate his own diet he would eat until he threw up.
Does your cat have autism?
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>>5134377
>>5134419
>>5134645
Could you repeat that? My IQ is in the single digits and my doctors have informed me I might have to cede rights to my cat.
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>>5134780
8 cats is a LOT. Pick your favs or the ones more inclined with living indoors.
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>>5134780
Are the strays even okay with people? A lot of feral cats aren't, which is why the TNR (trap neuter release) program takes the approach it does and many volunteers talk about a socialization window with kittens. Even if they are some cats never adapt well to being indoor only, especially in small spaces with limited enrichment.

I wouldn't recommend more than 3 in an apartment. Cats are territorial and things can be difficult if they don't all have their own space or ways to escape/get around. The more cats the more litter boxes you should have as well.

>>5134819
Could be either. Fights of some kind is likely. Unless those are the female cats... and I think you can do the math on that.

>>5135036
Honestly sounds like your cat would benefit most from a buddy. Consider a second cat?

>>5135046
>cede rights to my cat
You decided to get a cat. Taking care of him is a responsibility you signed up for.


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