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Hoo does he think he is?
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Is it really necessary for them to be that fluffy
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Post birds, appreciate birds
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feeding hooded crows in the local park

oats
>they look at me in disgust
>hmph, guess we'll eat it if you have nothing better

peanuts
>DAAAMN RIGHT NIGGA
>they follow me like bodyguards, demanding more
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Unicorn edition

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Just SEEING horses gives me happy vibes. I look out the bus window in the morning, see horses on the meadows and they make me smile. They are literally magical.
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>>5165140
>They are literally magical.
hocus pocus
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>>5165128
Of course they only speak dutch, of course
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>>5165128
someone's been to /pol/
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>>5165210
Proof that Dutch's are scourge of the world

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Previously on /jef/ >>5157288

Who is Jefrey (with one F)?

He was found abandoned in some bushes filthy and covered in fleas late one night in mid-July 2024. He’s all grown up, and enjoys car rides, climbing trees, going to new places, and most of all, his capybara. Some believe him to be a goblin or gremlin. Jefrey was named after the Pixies song “Space (I Believe In)”.

Jefrey suffers from mild ear-ectile dysfunction.

Originally posted him here back in July 2024 seeking advice for potential health problems due to his folded ears, some /an/ons wanted more of him, and so now you’re stuck with him.
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>>5165354
what's jef looking at
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>>5165345
Eh, it was the only song of theirs (and it's not even theirs!) I've ever heard. People, including the lead singer of Self, have been telling me to listen to them for literal decades now and I simply never bothered to.
They're semi contemporaries, btw. Self started 7 years after Dinosaur Jr and Matt Mahaffey, the lead singer, cites DJr and J Mascis specifically as enormous influences. They're album, Gizmodgery was done entirely on children's toys and is a direct result of J's bizarre "it just works" instrumentations in the 90s. Matt wanted to take that ethos to an extreme.
That's why I linked Self stuff: because they consider Dinosaur Jr as such a huge part of their DNA, even though they're roughly the same age. Matt from Self is in his mid 50s. Isn't J in his late 50s?

I looked yesterday for pics of Burble but couldn't find any and don't know where the hell my ancient camera is. I'm sure that if the photos aren't on other cards I have, they're deffo on the one in the camera.

Here's a song Matt played with the band, him on an omnichord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXzDN4ZYGk
And a "cover" of Back in Black played on omnichord and a toy drum set with no backing band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CtO712SCVc
I was at this show. 2005, Spaceland, LA.

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>owner leaves
>dog runs toward the door and starts jumping up trying to reach the doorknob
Why are dogs so smart bros?
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>>5164088
Cats are smart, too. The only reason cats don't do this is because they suffer from separation anxiety like dogs.
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>>5165290
cats are borderline brainless m8o, less brainpower than a chihuahua

its not that the cat doesnt care its that the cat is physically incapable of caring
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>>5165290
Dsmn I meant to put a "don't" there. Oh well, hopefully it's clear what I meant
>>5165295
Cats do care about their offspring. They don't care about us because they see us as slaves

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Will the debate be put to rest by this new "mummy" that Paul Sereno is preparing?
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>>5165226
It's also possible that paleoschizo is smart enough to realize Sereno did NOT find feathers and never said he did. Making this a useful straw man.

>Sereno teases feathers
>eventually admits it WASN'T feathers
>epic win for the scalies
>????
>profit

But maybe that's giving him too much credit for strategic thought
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>>5165245
This one's doubtful because if Sereno has been teasing this "discovery" for 14 years there's no real reason to think he'll ever publish it
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>>5165247
The most obvious reason not to publish it is because it's not the revolutionary find he's hinting at. He's built it up so far it's guaranteed to disappoint
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>>5162791
>>5162828
Shut up, Trey.
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and for another culture shock for /an/:
https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-sauropod-dinosaurs-may-have-sported-turtlelike-beaks?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Why haven't we domesticated deer?
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I want to eradicate all ticks for our deer friends
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>>5163359
me too, flies as well, they really like bothering my deer friends in the summer, though i will say i havent seen too many bothering em this year... but that could also be because I havent been keeping up with deer enough this year :'(
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>>5146764
What criteria do they need to meet to be domesticated?
The definition most commonly used is a species of animal bred over multiple generations by humans for a specific function/purpose, that also exhibits genetic changes as a result.

Fallow deer meet all of these criteria. They are farmed for meat and pets, come in different color morphs, and are different from their wild populations. The only reason anybody who say they aren’t domesticated is because they don’t believe they should be be in non-zoo homes.
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>>5155718
>wonky unpolished amateur anthro art for small town company
sovl
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>>5165327
fuck you domestication is evil kys

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Its been 12 hrs since me and my cat came home from the vet. They said she had a uti from some cocci bacteria. The meds they gave are amoxicillin, gabapentin and robenacoxib but shes still seeming like shes struggling to pee.
Vet said she should be back to acting normal in 24 hrs and that the infection should be cleared up in about 5 days, but so far it doesnt seem like thats likely. She keeps trying to go pee in the litter box, some pee has come out but most of the time shes just straining. But im no expert so idk

Ive been on edge since yesterday about this. The vets supposed to follow up with me today so ill tell them this later but i wish i could do something now
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>>5165351
My dog had a uti a couple of years ago, it took a full 24hrs from the first ingested med to start (about 70%) to clear and fully back to normal in under 48 hours.
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Okay thank you, that eases my stress a bit. Shes never had any medical problems as serious as this and it breaks my heart to see her struggling. Sometimes she meows in pain while trying to pee, i fuckin teared up last night when i first heard it happen.
Pretty sure my hairline receded a good 5-8% during this time

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"In a rage, Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverend to found the Jourdain Society, a rogue league of aristocratic egg collectors who operated outside the law. It was theoretically a charitable society, formed to lobby against the evil influence of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSBP), but it was widely accused of being at the center of a wave of egg theft sweeping the country. The Society held formal gatherings, where tuxedo-clad egg collectors admired antique display cabinets full of rare eggs and competed to produce the rarest specimen. The police regularly raided these meetings, held in swanky hotels across the country, and fully half the members had criminal convictions as late as the 1990s. Again, for egg crimes. But stealing wild eggs is pretty draining (several poachers fell to their deaths, while another was so overcome with egg madness he charged into an osprey reserve with a chainsaw and was arrested trying to saw down trees) and the thieves soon realized there was an easier target: museums. Britain's natural history collections were soon hit by an epidemic of theft."
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>>5165121
You just wouldn’t understand. All that matters is the shell. The contents ruin everything.
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>>5165143
Like as if collectors bought rare Star Wars figures, threw away the figures, and just kept the blister cards.
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>>5163891
Egg collecting isn't "illegal". The unhatched eggs are not technically a living animal yet, so collecting them isn't technically poaching.
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>>5163895
kek
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>>5165121
>>5165315
I think they just really, REALLY like the shape of an egg.

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Welcome to /plant/, the happy green place on this blue board, where growers, gardeners and horticulturists share their love for things that grow.

Newbies and amateurs are very welcome, and we’ll always try to answer your questions.

>Flora of the World
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/

>Plants of the World Online
https://powo.science.kew.org/

>Hardiness zones
https://www.plantmaps.com/

>Plant ID Sites
https://identify.plantnet.org/

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fug i dunno about my cherry tomato plants. they are growing ok but its fall here now and the skies are grey for the last fucking week. like no sun. i think i'm going to have to buy a light and put it in my basement to finish this plant if i want something out of it
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>>5164489
yeah, even if the sunlight is adequate, if the weather gets too cold their metabolism will slow down too much for proper fruit production.
you might as well go with a robust setup. the good thing about grow lights in the cool months they simply help to heat the house so the heating system doesn't have to work as hard.
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>>5164501
sun finally came out today and i noticed some different shaped leaves forming on one of the plants, kinda looks like a closed up flower so maybe its starting to fruit. they're really small so its hard to tell but i hope so
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its definitely flowering! now that the bulb looking leaves grew more i can see the little yellow flower inside it forming. theres 3 of them and possibly a 4th forming on the same part of the stalk. one is big enough that i can see into it but hasn't opened yet.

i wont even be mad as long as it grows something. a single cherry tomato i can eat will be worth it. i was dumb to plant it late in the year like i did but i'm happy to see it doing something besides getting bigger. i am going to be so ready for spring, but might look to a basement setup anyways for growing something over the winter
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I was worried but the last couple of hyssop seeds I did have trapped to the bottom of the packet did actually sprout after all.
It's a mint plant so I figure it'll be hardy. Hopefully I can keep it alive over winter and place it in the ground come spring, I'll just need a nice grow lamp and maybe a heat pad. My house struggles to stay warm in winter a heat pad might be needed as well.

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mlem
Did you know that bunnies think you look delicious?

>new2bunnies
https://rabbit.org/audiences/for-rabbit-newcomers/
https://www.best4bunny.com/bunny-care/
https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care/
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
>videos
https://rentry.org/bunnyvideos
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>>5165279
he seems very neurotypical to me
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>>5162700
is this loss
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>>5165202
newfag
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>>5165309
>>5165202

I always thought reddit spacing was putting an extra space after the reply since that is the convention of replying on reddit where you got to have a double new line to start a paragraph after the reply. Like this post. But also it's a retarded because sometimes people just make typos or press enter twice or something and just don't care that it might seem like "reddit spacing"

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Post wolves.
>Information.
>Images.
>Stories.
>Art.
>News.

>Previous thread: >>5116312
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>>5165099
Bremerton bee wolf
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>>5165178
warm kisses in the winter
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I have wolf deficiency
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we need to re-wolfify dogs imo
we went too far
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>>5164175
From what I understand, pure wolves do exist. They're more common in remote areas, less common in north america, and the least common in eurasia. Most of the mixing in north america actually comes from coyotes. We pushed them out of their ranges and killed many, making them breed with coyotes instead.
Fun fact: black wolves come from an ancient mix with native american dogs. The coat was so beneficial that it spread and they are still around.

post about big cats (panthera genus).
>images
>news
>art.
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>>5165266
I want to touch that belly
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>>5165268
You can fulfill any dream you have, but some of them only once.
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Japanese Spitz edition. Japanese Spitz are basically anime dogs, except real. If you prefer any other breed, you're doing it wrong.

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i've never taken my pets to the vet and i just let life takes its natural course
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>>5165120
>having sat through a pet dying of old age and agonal breathing, its not pleasant and not something id like to do again, go for euthanasia
I mean old people go through the same and it's not distressing for them but their loved ones. I wouldn't use that as a reason to put an animal down that's on it's way out the natural way, but maybe for not freaking out children I guess.
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>>5165291
Old people have end of life care and medications, the majority absolutely do not let life take its course unless they’re actually stupid
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>>5165292
people get pets on end of life medications to treat pain and other conditions, what do you mean.
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>>5165022
I would pray and let God decide
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>>5165293
OP implies that he doesn’t do anything for his dying pets.


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