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>be me
>work in entertainment industry
>Visiting family on farm during off-season
>younger brother has to go to on business trip, leaves his dog for us to watch for the weekend
>little sister, who owns and breeds rabbits, asks what breed brother's dog is
>brother says it's possibly a Pitbull terrier
>make joke about pitbull mauling a baby
>brother says "that's a stereotype anon, pitbulls only do that if they have bad owners"
>agree that's a fair statement, he had another dog that wasn't a pitbull but it lived a good long healthy life until it was run over by one of the neighbors
>brother leaves for weekend
>pitbull terrier tries and fails several times to attack sister's pregnant rabbit, attempts include tearing through 2 screen windows, kicking out bottom of rabbit's cage, and grabbing the rabbit's leg while the cage is being cleaned
>"pitbulls are only bad if they have bad owners"
>mfw
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>>4934534
Do you think pitbulls are generally more aggressive towards people than other breeds?
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>>4934539
No. Their prey drive is hopped up so far that they hunt and kill people for fun.

Pitbulls pass every test for being non-aggressive but whenever a kid runs screaming they go for the throat. That’s behavior expected of wolf mixes.
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>>4934540
Cool, I buy that; you're saying that pit bulls see it the same as any other prey animal. Personally, I just see that as a technicality though. If you're saying they're not aggressive towards humans, they're just playing while they disembowel children, I think most people would agree that it doesn't matter whether the dog is having fun or not.
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>>4934544
It does, actually. Because people honestly believe pitbulls that don’t show dominance or fear aggression are perfectly safe.

Even greyhounds are safer around children than pitbulls. It’s like owning a wolfdog. No amount of good manners can abate their base instincts.
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>>4934512
I a word, I meant
>>pretending breeds *don't* have differences is insane
that's why the rest of my post disagreed with that, my bad

I love corgis.
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>>4934269
A Finnish spitz or a Jindo
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>>4934335
This.
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>>4934324
Either someone has to hold the poor guy mid air or someone has to wipe up after an explosion
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>>4934338
My dogs also do this though
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>>4934568
thats not normal. make them stop.

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the fuck is wrong with my dog?
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>>4934464
Your dog is trying to make litter to blend in to. She needs a black blanket for camouflage because the red bedding makes her stand out too much and it's making her nervous.
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>>4934464
>>>/dog/
Quit spamming the board with useless threads like this one
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>>4934464
that’s a brown recluse
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>>4934464
Great thread OP. Looks like dog may be a lil bored.

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Why do they forget Australia has like the deadliest coastline with waters filled with deadly animals
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>>4933756
hi there mr Chang,how are things in Chinchinjongshuan
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>>4928691
>>4928704
>>4928705
>>4928739
I've kept different kinds of anemone in my aquarium over the years, but the armed anemone's sting is a gazillion times more potent, actually being a danger to humans. The armed anemone will legitimately fuck you up. There have been hobbyists that have kept them in their home aquariums. No clue how they got them, but there's ample documentation of their husbandry.

>>4930654
>>4930641
This is true. Shit tons of aquatic life in the ocean have some sort of chemical defense. ALL coral do to some extent, some even having very powerful neurotoxins (paly toxin - found in some of the most common coral in the hobby, palythoas and zoanthids; and no one really knows which ones will fuck you up and which ones won't; we just try not to piss them off when we keep them). It is constant chemical warfare in a reef.
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>>4928629
Crocodiles, mostly.
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>eats your entire aquarium
>grow long as fuck
>can regrow from a tiny segment
>can cause permanent nerve damage if you try to handle them.

Yep, another thing in Australian seas
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>>4930641
They’re different countries but essentially the same bio region, so no

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Half Allosauroid, half European dragon.

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Here we help each other identify animals and plant species

I'll start with this moth, taken in southern Ontario during April.
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Here a very low quality image of some kind of sparrow, also taken in Ontario in March
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>>4932801
How do you not recognize a house sparrow? The fuckers are literally everywhere.
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>>4932809
That is not a house sparrow, house sparrows don't have those white bands in their wings and the head is completely different
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Another moth, Ontario, May
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>>4932801
Most likely a chipping sparrow

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why does budgie rub her head on the stick
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keeping birds in cages is animal abuse
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>>4933444
Scratching
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>>4933444
she's scratching her head, they do that often when they moult

>Puppy won't chew on her soft chew toys
>He likes the hard stuff like antlers and bones, but I'm worried those will hurt his teeth or he might get micro-bits of hard stuff
Should I just let him chew my socks?
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>>4934329
If they dont fall asleep call their mom to tell them to shut up
Oh wait you disrupted the natural order and now your dog is mentally ill lol
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>>4934326
Oh great more shitty dog spam
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>>4934333
Thanks for the bump!
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>>4934334
Kek the newfag doesn't know
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>>4934326
Horrible image

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If humans drink the milk of a cow, then what does the child of the cow drink?
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>>4933268
thats made way worse by posilac
in fact, its only a problem BECAUSE of posilac
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>>4932232
Bobby calves are killed. That's what bobby calf means. Where I live it's about 4 days old when they are fit enough to take a ride on the bus to the meat works. Calving hundreds of cows milking them and feeding hundreds of calves is very busy time for dairy farmers and they'd like to get it done quickly and smoothly, the bobbys worth very little as meat. You're not allowed to dong them on the head anymore some people did used to do that. They will usually try to get down to keeping a bunch of females of good breeding worth and rearing them as replacement cows.

But there is also a market for i.e random fresian bulls to be raised to adulthood for beef. The females obviously more valuable to grow up and be dairy cows. And some people will do things like use beef bulls across their lesser cows with lower breeding worth to make dairy beef hybrids, both male and female will be raised for the beef market.

As for what these calves drink if they are raised on dairy farm they may just drink milk straight from the vat their mothers fill up. But sometimes they don't depending on contracts where the farmer may not own the milk once it's gone into the vat and cant take it out again. Then he might bypass the vat for a sec and fill a few buckets or then they might be raised on milk powder even right next to the dairy shed where a huge vat of milk is sitting. Or if they are sold before weaning maybe milk powder as well, unless the rearer has an arrangement to get fresh milk from a dairy farm. The milk powder obviously being produced in factories that process all the collective milk farmers are supplying to them
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>>4932198
https://w.youtube.com/watch?v=DCQG7sd0Z00
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What if cows drink human milk/?
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>breastfeeding is incredibly taxing
>outsource it to animals like any other labor
everyone but africa figured this out

>be me, kid
>discover dinosaurs
>hell yeah.epic
>be me, now
>start getting into paleontology
>find out that most dinosaurs are incomplete, even the ones considered complete are only hypothetical and controversial in the community
>some will make a new species based on as little as 4 teeth

How are paleontologists so retarded? My teeth and your teeth dont look the same, we must not both be human !!!!

Literally destroyed my dinosaur dreams. Anyway, cool dino thread
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>>4934116
fair enough
I can always tell when I've been doxxed on /an/ because I get 100 FB friend requests from india and africa
and one request from a particular /an/ schizo.
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>delusional narcissist schizo at it again
when will it end
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>>4934121
one day I'll be gone and you'll heave a sigh of relief. Months will pass with no sign of me. You'll think you're finally free. You can lie and make up shit all day.

but then like a bad case of herpes I'll be back to annoy and correct you. To teach you better ways.
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>>4931032
I've recently become very interested in dinosaurs again, it's amazing to imagine that there were once 8 tonne predators walking the world, especially when you compare it to today's wildlife and see that even African elephants are smaller than some of those super predators, very impressive.
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>>4934118
so, is he indian or african?

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Rhinos and shit.

https://imgur.com/gallery/rhino-sounds-l5XhaKj
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>>4932370
>>4932372
this is how i feel when a foid rejects me
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Looks like it's time to sell some male rhino tags to the richest trophy hunter motherfucker.
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>>4932368
I've read they're actually very friendly IF they can recognise you and the only reason they charge things is because they're bad seeing and simply think better safe than sorry
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>>4933642
Fag
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>>4932286
RHINOS

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Do the wheelchair for dogs work?
Has anybody kept their best buddy living well after his rear legs started collapsing?
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Is it degenerative myelopathy?
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>>4934185
I dont know yet. I was going to take him to the vet but i caught the flu and i have been in bed with fever for two days.
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>>4934184
Put the dog down and get another one. Dogs are easily replaceable.

There's a stray around campus I befriended. She's a junior I mean she's not that big. She followed me home one day and now she chills in my room if she wants to. She climbs in through the window when I don't open the door for her. I don't have any roommates at this moment. There's a no pet policy too. I don't know what to do. She slept with me the whole night and I'm just like (⩾﹏⩽)
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>>4928951
Any roaming cat should be brought to a shelter to be spayed and adopted out as indoors only
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>>4932097
You aren't fooling anyone, chud.
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>>4932004
>He
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>>4931846
Kill yourself subhuman schizo
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>>4932001
nah, stray dogs should be gassed
theres no point in keeping a dog alive learned in unsociable behavior

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Post deer
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>>4935473
No ;)
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>>4935435
>not even feral
ngmi
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>>4934055
I'd kill people like you.
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>>4935563
Don't deny that you wouldn't
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>>4935871
i don't fuck humanoids sorry

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>>4933722
>what're you lookin' at, smoothskin?
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>>4932779
>>4929503
>YO LIL' DONNIE (Yen) I WENT AND CHOPPED OFF MA OWN BAWLS, HOW YOU LIKE DEM PEEPEE PILLS???
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>>4929533
Based
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>>4929964
Chinese population is over-reported by a large margin. Indian pooulation (sic) is the result of the tropical climate where every sort of pest literally breeds like flies.


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