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How do you dog lovers cope seeing stray dogs?
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>>4878968
i'm also from rural TX and can tell you plenty of people do this. my town had several trailer parks and shitbulls wandering around/into the streets was a common occurrence that no one ever did anything about. best decision in my life was finishing high school early at 17 and getting out of trash heap of a town.
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>>4878813
That's some bullshit because I have absolutely come across redneck aggressive ass dogs that are allowed to free roam. I live next to 3 of them. It's about a quarter of the free roaming dogs I see are either not stranger friendly or not dog friendly, or both.
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>>4879088
One of you is lying.
>>4878922
There's about 20 dogs just in my area alone that are 'free roam' or stray, that's a lot of fucking money. And no, there's no shelters here to take them, and rescues are full.
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>>4879289
>One of you is lying.
i know, the retard seething about city people is. dogs roaming around is perfectly normal in rural towns, especially in trailer parks where the average IQ is 75. i had a good friend live in one so was over there often and saw the most hood trailer trash shit imaginable.
>be teenagers with shitty BMX bikes, setting up ramps near garbage heap to do jumps
>couple walking their dog, they disappear around a bend
>30 seconds later hear giant commotion, dog yelping
>go check it out
>shitbull latched onto couple's dog's front leg and isn't letting go
>guy comes running down the street with crowbar, buries it into shitpull's eye socket, doesn't let go, cracks crowbar across its head
>shitbull reluctantly lets go and starts running away wobbling
>another guy from nearby trailer comes out screaming (later identified as shitbull owner) at guy with crowbar and get in each other's faces
>owner goes back in trailer, comes back out with shotgun
>at this point friend and i GTFO back to his place
>later on police come and surround shitbull owner's trailer trying to get him to come out
>standoff until like midnight where he finally comes out and gets arrested
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>>4879304
Around me it's the pits that are actually nice. It is specifically brown labs that are awful around here, idk why. Snarling, snapping, and charging people. Will go out of it's way to attack you if they so much as fucking hear your foot steps half a mile down the road. Also have some mean little dogs but I'm not worried about them, you could kill them with a kick. I think the scariest are the failed pyr mixes people get to protect their fucking 4 chickens - 120lb dog charging at you really gets your heart racing. Have to carry a fucking shillelagh just to get the mail.
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>>4878165
When I see a stray running around, I take a photo and send its location to the local dog shelter, hoping they can come soon, catch it, and probably give it a better life. I volunteered there to learn about the future of strays who get caught. They have a clear pipeline for them that prohibits euthanasia unless the animal has rabies or other extremely serious shit. If there is no sign of aggression reduction after several sessions with professional dog handler (she's ex-military and knows her shit well), the dog just stays locked forever. Otherwise, the dog is sterilized, tagged, and put up for adoption if it is friendly or gets released back on the streets if it is too scared by human contact. I see about three-four dogs with such tags annually, they just stay as far away from people as possible.

>from 1962 to November 2023, no confirmed sightings
>suddenly out of literally no where, the Zaglossus attenboroughi pops up again
How many other species out there that we think are extinct that are secretly still alive?
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>>4873447
You have autism and are damaging science with your dogmatism
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>>4873447
Cope, sasquatch are real
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what happened in madagascar?
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I want pig footed bandicoots to still be real, they looked like small brown rats, but moved like horses, sadly, austr****ns presumably killed them all.
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>>4878961
People gotta eat.

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Post webms that bring peace and calm in times of unbearable loss and strife.
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How many more games until a team clinches the playoffs?
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>>4879856
Are you trying to ask that prognosticant octopus? I think he's dead by now.
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>>4879993
He is alive in my heart
Also I meant to post that in the beisbol thread
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>>4878498
>were you raised in a barn?! close the door!
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>>4879993
rip paul the octopal

So what caused the bloop? Do you think it could've been an animal?
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>>4877774
That's what they want you to believe
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>>4877321
october
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>>4877576
And how do you know that? You work at NOAA or something?
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>>4877913
install a waterfall app like spectroid and try it ur self
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>>4877321
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UxSYcYt_I

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She deteriorated so fucking quickly
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>>4876608
I'm sorry, anon. It's hard to be a caretaker for someone who's terminal. My old dog lived for two years after being diagnosed terminal with heart failure. And yeah, he deteriorated very well quickly at the end. About 21 months of a very gradual decline, then 3 rapidly.

You probably don't want advice, but I'll give it anyway. Take as many pics and videos as you can now. Do casts/prints of her nose and paws if that's important. Spoil her as much as you can. Let yourself cry even if you think it's dumb or girly - what's more noble than to shed tears over a great friend?
It will suck really bad. The journey there and her passing. It will hurt greatly and you just have to deal with it until time builds up a callus. Keep a journal and write how you feel, talk to her through it, write down all your memories of her and all her little traits so you never worry about forgetting.

It's a hard road. I'll save her pic so I remember her, too.
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>>4876608
Sorry that you both have to go through this. Your dog looks great and happy.
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>>4876608
Deny it.
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Shoulda fed her real food
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>>4876608
I am going through similar with my Husky/Sheppard right now. Not kidney but pleural effusion and he deteriorates fast if we don't drain him. Decided to euthanize tomorrow but really struggling with it and everything just feels terrible. I hope you are doing well anon.

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I used to think they were ugly but now I find them cute; especially the long-haired ones. How do you fell about them?
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Chihuahuas and huskies are dog shaped aliens and you cannot convince me otherwise
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Husky = speed and agility
Chihuahua = longevity and wisdom
We must combine them
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>>4879069
you can just get a parson russell terrier, theyre kinda like a bigger chihuahua, except not as weird looking as a jack russell
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>>4876992
I named my little guy Escapade and we are absolutely insufferable.
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>>4879069
What an absolutely chaotic idea, I love it

Why aren't horses ever portrayed in the media as the man's best friend? They're almost always present in medieval/old-themed stories, but they're almost always treated as nothing more than transport vehicles.
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>>4878935
Do you know how to read?
Horse was mainly seemed as a tool in the west and it was not as relevant and the center of the culture as it were for the Mongols.
You either don't know what is to have a culture centered or something or you are straight up stupid. Even with all there usage and even in war horses didnt got fame or the glamour that eve n nom European animals, like lions, got in the west culture.
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>>4878928
>you can found a deity being a personification of almost any animal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epona
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>>4878996
KEK.
I mean this excepetion proves the rule. Minor importance a horse that is a god to horses, but I will concide there is/was a "horse God".
And well I didnt know about it. Thank you.
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>>4877115
>Dances With Wolves
>Neverending Story
>Sleepy Hollow
It's way more common than you think.
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>>4877115
Because narratively, like dogs in stories, a horse being the best friend means it probably dies horribly.

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Post deer
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>>4878707
I don't see a collar. No one else claimed him, so I did. Finders keepers.
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>>4878729
>no nubs
that's a doe
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>>4878737
It's 2024, he can be whatever he wants to be. Don't be a bigot.
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>>4878422
Its anime
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>>4878873
doe or buck, they both end up in my freezer

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>>4876648
Squeak
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>>4874553
These are staged animal abuse videos. For both the snake and rats. Tons of them on youtube about “creative” rat traps when you can clearly see someone out of frame pushing the rats into the traps.
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How do I shut up my mom's rat dog yapper?
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>>4877339
>drug your dog instead of training them
They were not lying when they said people were giving SSRIs to cats.
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>>4877870
The joke is that dogs don't bark when they're dead
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>>4877074
stick an appendage in his mouth
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>>4877074
You have to actually hold and comfort them. Little dogs yap out of insecurity and fear.
>sister dragged yappy dog home
>never tended to it, just like the other dogs she abandoned
>dog accidently got trapped between door and screen door on 100 degree day, essentially an oven.
>dog is whining and yipping as it cooks
>I'm taking a damn shit wondering when my sister is going to pay attention to her dog making noise
>nah.
>3 minutes later, I check on heaving, half dead chihuahua
>ram dog under sink
>dog springs back to life, wobbles around, pukes
>sister looks at it, turns around, goes back to smoking weed
>I know what her second marriage didn't work out now
>dog is mine now.
>Miwii was my special little pal, sleeps in my bed.

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>>4878939
Evil sister

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I’ve genuinely never been so angry in my fucking life. What kind of monstrous, capitalist rotted fuckfaced shithead do you have to be to allow this garbage to go to market. If I had the coordinates to their warehouses I would molotov them all until nothing remained
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>>4877904
Most pet owners consider animals the way we used to, useful tools at best, nuisances at worst and exotic moving furniture on average. They care not abput their wellbeing and barely shed any tear when they inevitably die in some gut wrenching and completely avoidable way
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>>4875053
for the last time schizo. the voices in your head are not several people.
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>>4877872
>Constipation
>frequent urination
>multiple cat households
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>>4877878
The Soviets weren't any different from the Chinese, we just didn't give them unlimited access to our markets.
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>>4874574
I care and love animals also but I'm allowed to dislike cats and animals that should be put down

Urgent.
Retard who knows nothing of dogs (cat person my whole life)
The workers my mother hired brought their puppy to the house. Radulfo. Cute little thing and eager to make friends with my mothers dog. They were playing and while I worked on school work.
Next thing I hear is whimpering and barking from outside
Its the puppy looking wet face in the dirt, frothing at the mouth wimpering.
I call the worker who brought the dog. he tells me that it ate some of my dogs food as is dying, rather calmly saying "muerto"
I'm not sure what to do or if that is whats killing this dog. Simply because we don't feed mochi (our dog) until the evening and he cleans his bowl every time. Ironically the bowl of food they brought for the puppy was also dry hard food when we feed ours softer stuff. Did he eat a slug? it was painful to watch
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Update
Pup is fine
I'll gonna say frog/toad theory had/has the most plausibility
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>>4876652
Well that's some good news. Thanks for the update.
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>>4875881
Slugs can carry rat lung worm which is transmittable to other animals and humans if the infected slug is eaten alive. This can cause serious health problems and death
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>>4877216
Yeah to my knowledge you should never eat worms or slugs because they have a number of parasites on them, as well as being toxic in and of themselves some times
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>>4877216
rat lung doesn't act fast enough.

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Saw this little seabird at the beach, he was standing on the sand for a while and wasnt flying away, when it took off it crash landed onto the concrete. I think its wing is injured, any anons know whats up?
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>>4877495
Rip mr bird
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>>4877495
It was his turn
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>>4877647
>It was his tern
FTFY
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>>4877495
cook him, bird nuggets

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she caught a mouse yesterday and now she won't stop checking behind furniture for more
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she is so cute
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>>4877970
easiest way to escape being poor is to pretend you're not poor, go nuts everytime you hear the words "pay plan" and ignore the mailbox outside your home bursting at the seams.
sometimes you get lucky, and the vacuum cleaner dealer you lease a Kirby from in 1998 goes under and no one takes the mantle to keep asking for money.
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>>4878715
why are you posting your goon material
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>>4878719
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/cmp/behind/chardevelopmentframes.html
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>>4877949
look at the scratches/smears on it, he probably found it in a dumpster

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Kibble kills.
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not every kibble kills but every kill kibbles
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>>4875407
Fact: 100% of dogs that eat kibble die
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My cat is 22 and eats kibble and smokes cigarettes
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>feed dog with freeze dried rotten pig guts
>wonder why it gets cancer
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