Why do we find carnivores more aesthetic in general? Yeah some of you may prefer otherwise but the overwhelming majority of humans have had a hard on for predators since recorded history.
>>4789664You should have said that great apes don't make great pets.
>>4789522>Why does a species like things that are more like itselfPerhaps because it's a fine line to tread before you go full xi li wong and have no empathy for a toddler dying in the middle of the road because they're from a different family. Better to have a little too much empathy than not enough, and as a bonus, dogs help with food security and security in general, ferrets are excellent pest eliminators, and cats are cool home decor and make good stress relief for children and women.>>4789534Because the other great apes are incidental omnivores at best with huge digestive tracts, tiny brains, and big jaw muscles for eating twigs. Also they symbolize degeneration from the state of humanity to a lesser/prior form.
>>4789522Like others have said, they remind us of ourselves and it feels good to project onto badass things. We may be the apex predators and capable of driving other species to extinction if we really want to via teamwork, technology, etc. but it feels good to observe something so primal and effective doing its thing the only way it knows how
>>4789522Rule of cool
>>4789522Carnivores usually have softer, more visually appealing fur than herbivores, and their waste managing instincts are easier for us to work with in a direct cohabitation context. Think of the herbivores we do keep as pets, such as rabbits and other rodents. We've bred them as offshoots of the populations we raised as food sources to have softer, fancier looking fur. Even horses, the herbivores we have the longest standing of strong emotional bonds with, would not be treated as companions living in the home even if they were on the same scale as dogs or cats.
Horse GeneralLonely Commute Edition >>4769672 - Old Grey Mare
>>4790185or perhaps farms plural.
Listen to your heart
>>4790094>I'm an animal for workyou what? >>4790232Domesticated kelpie
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>>4790185Oh, ew. I guess these kinds of people are everywhere.
how do I train my cat to attack intruders
>>4789952Even if you could do that, your cat would get knocked out after one kick
>>4789961i dont think so bubhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oipw_d_eKA8
Same way as you train a chihuahua or pomeranian, you don't
>>4789961Wrong, it’s very easy for them to latch on and start going to town on your leg
Post your favorite picture of an animal right fucking now.
>>4788941To think we have modern dinosaurs snuggling against us. Maybe the world is not so bad.>>4788903very handsome/pretty fellow>>4788905boink
>>4788941Cute :3
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>>4789840Based
Discuss the animal homo sapien.How we feeling about our species, pretty apes?
>>4787953Fuck you (((neanderthalensis)))
>>4788335Ask your wrangler to buy you some chalk. Mine bought it for me because I kept falling off the climbing wall that he installed in my enclosure to prevent me from getting depressed and killing myself.
>>4789772I guess my uterine parent would equal as my caretaker, the economy in this human society has not allowed me to advance far enough. My caretaker has given me a technologic device where I can play a game with cubes as it's main aesthetic, but the catch is my goddamn modern human hands just sweat whenever I try to move a bit. >>4788354Also, read this some days ago, thank you anon. I just wonder why I sweat from my hands at just the slightest level of stress though.also unrelated when will biology nerf the mental illness genes in humans, they suck hard
>>4789087They're easier sure but generally more high quality. It's super easy to make habitats for them, just recreate their local savannahs with some wildlife and you'll have a small thriving colony in no time. They reproduce readily and have huge litters too. The light ones need insane amounts of stimulation and there's no guarantee your starter male and female will even get along, let alone reproduce. It's much more difficult to hide your dark morph colony if you're unlicensed. Nah, stick with the light morphs.>>4789122This. And it's not uncommon for homo sapiens males to mate with them instead of sapiens females, especially if you keel light morphs. It's just an issue with that morph in particular.
>>4789813Misinformation.That particular cutie does not have autism
Between their wild caught sales and this shit, I'm getting sick and tired of these fucked up Floridians. https://undergroundreptiles.com/product/funky-frogs/
>>4789389This, and I can pretty much guarantee if you put any of those darts back in the Amazon, they'd do just fine.Eternal reminder that we have not domesticated a single herp, none of them (barring some inbred morphs of various species) would have any problem if they were sent out into the wild for rehabilitation.
>>4789275Forget wild caught reptiles, they sell shit like wild caught sloths. That alone should tell you about how much they care about ethics
>>4789293Because the care requirements of reptiles and amphibians is comparable. The care requirements of birds is not.
>>4789275Someone explain why this is bad? I don’t know
>>4789301>Because that means they're worthless for future rehabilitation into the wildNo captive dart frogs have ever been used for this purpose except for the ones bred in facilities in their country of origin. This hate against hybrids is just the same puritan mindset that gave us inbred golden retrivers with fucked up hips and other shit like that. I mean I don't want some mutt frog either, but eventually the captive genepool will get smaller without any new blood from the wild. Just look at what's happening to bearded dragons right now.
Why are reptiles so tsundere
By what metric are you positing this?
>>4789373Sexual appeal
Deredere reptiles get eaten.
>>4789350You kinda have to be when you’re such an effective predator but also a common prey item
>>4789350I handled my hogger that looks just like that today, then fed him a pinkie.
>cats are actually cleaner than dogs who lick their balls and ass!!most animals do that, it's how they clean themselves>uh actually cats are not really clean but you just need to wash your hands every 2 minutes!!!so you do that?>uhmmm akshually cats are very clean and you don't need to clean out their litterbox every single time right after they went poopiesbut what about their paws who go into their litterbox and then when they walk everywhere>uhm my heckin cute kitter doesn't climb/play/walk anywhere. he/she is a good kitty and would never do anything bad>>"mr whiskers! get off the kitchen counter!">>"mr whiskers! come give me cuddles!! oooohhh beeeg stretchies!"...you guys are weird>*visible steam shoots out from ears and nose*>AAAAAAAA BUT DOGS!!>THE DOOOOOGGSSSSS!!!!!!>LALALALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4789703Not to mention it's a literal fucking sewer line crudely routed into your toilet bowlI can see how this device would accumulate an extremely fowl smelling sludge. I have a cat, its lived for over 20 fucking years, and to date the only thing that's easy to keep clean is the standard box. Buy a metal scoop and use it ASAP. Wear gloves when you use it. Wash the fucker out and soak the scoop in bleach as often as you can. Everything else is a problem in search of a solution. A cat is either relatively high maintenance or you're being a little psychopath and shifting your burdens to someone else.For starters I do not have to pick up my dogs piss
>>4789686It uses "washable" litter that gets heat treated and reusedAccording to amazon reviews when it working properly it makes your home smell like fresh baked catshit and tracks around your home worse than regular litter
>>4786538nice blog faggot
>>4789805thanks for the bump
>>4789540The first prototype will always have some kinks to work out
Parrot threadPicrel: Ultramarine lorikeet (Vini ultramarina)
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>>4788366There he is! Say the line schizo.
>>4788366feeling called out?
>>4786849Nigger
>>4786849Well done.
I took a duckling from the park (legal where I am) and I want to return it. Will the parents still take it back, or will they reject it?
>>4789402This is bait, right? If not you're piece of retarded shit.
>>4789408>Contact local nature and conservation societies and get help so it can be raised properly and returned to the wildBro it’s a duck. It’s livestock.
>>4789402>I took a duckling from the park (legal where I am)
>>4789541Not necessarily. There are plenty of wild ducks at parks as well, there's no guarantee that this one's domesticated.
>>4789402Why did you pick it up in the first place? Like, what was your game plan here? Do you have autism? >>4789548Based
Pigs literally eat their children
>>4789262 your mom calls me that
>>4789266Your mom calls you thread?
хoхлыыыы...
>>4789248I wonder if animals who do this feel some primal form of guilt or regret
>>4789257i didn’t know aliens ate baby chickens too
Why are cats like this
we all yearn for affection
>>4789254God I wish that were me
>>4789254Wouldn’t you be too if you could?
>>4789258a man's love
I love kittiesI love having dominion over one of god's creatures and letting it have an easy, comfy life
I got a goldfish today. What should I name him?
>>4789607Now that is a proper use of space and the fish benefits from not needing to put the extra work in to move from one extreme end of the tank to another and can get fed by hand :)))))
>>4788985Silver Fox
>>4789612Exactly. :)I'm glad someone understands the SKEEM for once.SLAMMERS and SKEEMERS are an oppressed group.
>>4788985>>4788987AMPHIE (short for METHAMPHETAMINE ) and the second should be POLITIKS or PRINGLECUNT.
>>4789607I think it’s suffocating
I’m 99% decided on getting a dog. Thinking a Rottweiler or a German Shepard. I live by myself in a condo.
>>4789654>I live by myself in a condo.So don’t get a dog.
