Post leser know, high quality dog breeds. Pic related, bavarian mountain hound. Fun fact their german name translates to "bavarian sweat dog".
>>4877591Killer wiener.
I want to hybridise this Dog with South American Bush Dogs and Maned Wolves.
>>4878621What a lovely color.
>>4878621>hmmm, these animals do not drool enough or smell enough like sewage>wants to spread unnatural deformity and uglinessdogs deserve better than dogfaggots
The Central Asian Shepherd, or Alabay.Males can weigh up to 170 pounds.
>muh freedom to own a dog shall not be infringed even if it means killing 100s of thousands of unwanted ones owned by irresponsible people due to their short sighted choiceswhy are americans like this?
>>4876825This. You know how dogs love drinking out of toilets? This is how they harvest toilet cleaning solution.
>>4876539>if they were harvesting shelters for "lab mix" pitbuills I doubt anyone would give a fuckIt would be an even bigger scandal.
>>4876423because we like having the freedom to make bad choices.
>>4876423>>muh freedom to own a dog shall not be infringed even if it means killing 100s of thousands of unwanted ones owned by irresponsible people due to their short sighted choicesI used to spend a lot of time at the local animal shelter and literally 100% of the dogs that got put down because they went un-adopted were shitbulls or shitbull mixes and said shitbulls and mixes were easily 90% of the shelter's dog population at any given moment.
>>4876423looks just like my doghe's getting put down in a few days too haha
How the fuck do I stop cats from coming into my yard, I have tall walls all around. I first tried spraying them with cold water, then the sound repellents. I shot 2 already but more keep coming.
>>4878979>I'd say shoot to kill, maybe poison for times you aren't aroundah yes animal abuse, just what /an/ is for
>>4878829live trap and dump them at the shelter
>>4878917>>4878979For every cat I kill two more take its place, I have no fucking idea where they keep coming from>maybe poisonI dont want to hurt the wildlife in my yard, just rid of the cats
>>4879062>you must allow other people animals to habitate on your property for free and shit everywhere >uh just because
>>4878829hire some haiitian cooks!
2X CATTYWIPE 3X SHITMIN
>>4879379Toadline threads have been appearing for a good couple of years from what I've seen, recently though these threads have become more frequent
>>4879373Here he is, the progenitor himself.
>>4869072Rolling for my skeemer alias.
>>4879397THE BOSS
>>4878981obviously he meant the one on the right fucking retard
Just remaking this thread after the jannies wiped the board. This is where you can keep up with Jefrey as he grows up!
>>4878970>I have come
>>4878974So you won the name war?
>>4876135Stop sniffing chihuahua butts any time now
>>4879228Enough about your fetish
>>4879233Stop projecting any time now
How do you dog lovers cope seeing stray dogs?
>>4878968i'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.
>>4878813That'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.>>4878968>>4879088One of you is lying.>>4878922There'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.
>>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
>>4879304Around 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.
>>4878165When 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 againHow many other species out there that we think are extinct that are secretly still alive?
>>4873447You have autism and are damaging science with your dogmatism
>>4873447Cope, sasquatch are real
what happened in madagascar?
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.
>>4878961People gotta eat.
Which otters do you like?
guess which one's a smooth-coated otter
>>4878847bottom one
>>4875671>being this mind broken on an animal board Grim. I look forward to your little tantrum of a response.
>>4877225You notice how they're all otters though right?
>>4875401>marine otter>sea otterShouldn't these be the same thing? Marine means sea.
I dont care what anyone says and im not gonna try to spend time convincing you but our chihuahua mix is pregnant with our ginger cat. Theres no other possibility. We live in an apartment. We've already confirmed shes pregnant and the titties are growing. She seems ok. But this is abnormal and we need to know what to expect as well as what the babies will be like and do they have any chance of being normal or surviving. Can find very little information online about this. Anyone else whos been through anything remotely similar please comment. And before you say its not possible, look at all the testing thats been done on animals for decades and shit that's in our food and water. Its not impossible. Im not the only one that concluded she got pregnant by the ginger cat and we would regularly catch them kissing, snuggling, grooming and having sex.
>>4873006How does cat dog shit? I assume out the opposite mouth. I always wondered about this.
>>4876044In some official artbook they anatomically shit out their middle area.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETY87w6aBNI
Pregnant
She cries when the babies push and make biscuit motions. Im not sure if its gonna be dogs, cats, a mixture, hybrids or just fucked up looking dogs. She probably cries because the babies have cat nails.
>>4879115meds please, cats and dogs can't mate
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>>4879114Just because plants can create new enzymes does not mean they can create ANY new enzymes But if plants are so effective at creating new enzymes why hasn't the venus flytrap evolved animal-like digestive enzymes rather than highly inefficient ones that take 10 days on average to digest a single ant and are energy-negative?Also you fail to address the original point, I never said it was impossible, I said that given competition from drastically better adapted at the role of active predator, it is implausible to the point of impossible for any plant to intrude upon said niche without a complete absence of said larger animalsThe level of adaptations that would be necessary to give any plant active ambulation at a rate it could hunt down insects is a 100+ million year level of evolution at absolute minimum, since you need to evolve various absolute basic structures againalso the fact you're, despite your goal-driven approach to evolution, accusing someone else of being a creationist is utterly laughable
>>4879123>Just because plants can create new enzymes does not mean they can create ANY new enzymesWhy not?>But if plants are so effective at creating new enzymes why hasn't the venus flytrap evolved animal-like digestive enzymes rather than highly inefficient ones that take 10 days on average to digest a single ant and are energy-negative?Not enough timeGee, that was easy.> I said that given competition from drastically better adapted at the role of active predator, it is implausibleThats because you're imagining current carnivorous plants going up against an animal. Of course the animal wins. You don't seem to understand evolution works incrementally and that each step is plausible and eventually adds up to a radically different design. You're using literal cdesign proponentist logic.>goal-driven approach to evolutionI don't know why you keep accusing me of this. Except in the banal sense that someone asked how such a thing would be possible and I gave an answer. But thats not what most people mean when they use that term. I certainly don't think mobile carnivorous plants are inevitable and I don't know why you'd think I thought that. Well, besides you being stupid and autistic that is.
>>4879124I do understand that evolution works incrementally, but you don't seem to understand that each incremental change still needs to individually have net positive fitness and that niche exclusion is a thingagain I also said that if we're imagining timeframes it would have to be hundreds of millions of years and that the organism at the end of this would only be a plant in the most strict cladograstic definition and their relationship to plants would only be apparent through genetic analysisyou're reaching levels of far into the future where the dominant sapient species is a descendant from modern day slime molds and the entire animal kingdom is extinct The fact alone that plants have no obvious method of gaining energy from digestion at a basic-most biochemical level would require immense changes For animal-levels of mobility they would also have to lose the rigid cell walls plants have
>>4879129>each incremental change still needs to individually have net positive fitnessFirst off, I've already presented cases where this is not true and even a case where the opposite is true. Secondly, do you not see how better and more digestive enzymes is advantageous? Yet you argue when i bring this up that it's impossible.>hundreds of millions of yearsnah, probably under a hundred in ideal circumstances.>plant in the most strict cladograstic definitionNah, all thats required is better digestive enzymes and more effective movement. I can easily imagine a future ambulatory venus flytrap that still closely resembles a modern venus flytrap.>you're reaching levels of far into the future where the dominant sapient species is a descendant from modern day slime molds and the entire animal kingdom is extinctnah, you're the only person who insists this is required.>The fact alone that plants have no obvious method of gaining energy from digestionHow do plants get energy now? From sugars they get from photosynthesis. Lots of stuff animals are made of can be converted into sugars. It's not that hard to imagine.>For animal-levels of mobility they would also have to lose the rigid cell walls plants haveYou do realize animals have a wide range of mobilities right? Besides plants can already make rapid movements with cell walls. this is another false requirement.
>>4879139plant rapid motion functions entirely different from animal rapid motion and only occurs along very narrow pre-defined directions, that's not enough to result in anything resembling the agility necessary to move across uneven terrainConverting organic matter into sugar also requires pretty complex biochemical pathways, which plants entirely lost not long after the endosymbiosis with chloroplasts, even among parasitic plants they need to absorb sugars directly from other plants, and why parasitic plants are to my knowledge, not known to occur in animals or fungi I get where you're coming from with all kinds of ideas that might in theory be possible and your 100 million year timeline might have been accurate somewhere along the cambrian, but modern plants have incurred and enormous evolutionary debt specializing them for sessile autotrophy If there is an ambulatory plant, the only real realistic pathway towards one I could see would be neoteny of some form of highly mobile seed structure, not any adaptation among adult plantsAnd I do not believe you have presented such a case where incremental steps had reduced fitness, since in parasitic plants the loss of chlorophyll only occurred after they already gained the vast majority of their sugars through parasitismAnd while better digestive enzymes might be beneficial (might be, if the energy required to produce them does not outweigh the benefits of rapid digestion, they are a net negative), the issue is that just because something might be beneficial does not mean that there is an evolutionary path towards themAgain, I think in general you're underestimating just how severe evolutionary debt is even among plants
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>>4878669do AItards think these kind of truisms are deep and profound, or are you actually trying to make a point
this website really needs a fucking ai containment boardreally sick of every single board having an """"AI"""" thread
Fuck off, AI containment board NOW HIROSHIMOOT FUCK YOU
>>4879065If machines reached a point of self-regulated energy capture and use, self-assmebly, and seemingly indefinite reproduction how is that so different than life?
>>4879248it's not carbon based, therefore it's different and lesser than. i for one can't wait for the day we have an even lesser race to stomp into the ground so all of us carbon buddies can finally get along.
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>>4878282Lmao my foster cats adjust after 24 hours and are happy, playful and affectionate.
>>4878977You can always eat them. I hope they start selling chickens next.
>>4878282>foster a husky>sleeping on the couch and yelling at me for food day oneAbused mutt issue
>>4878309>byb husky you could have just said you were retarded in the first line
>>4878099>petfinderYou mean pitfinder?
Post webms that bring peace and calm in times of unbearable loss and strife.
>>4878955heh
>>4878524very cute
>>4865682I love willam osman
>>4865814Love those little guys
Skunk thread. Post and appreciate these special lil guys
>>4878306stripes are just elongated spots
>>4878337That's not how it works. Your brain is spotted.
When I was a kid, my family had a black cat that would hang out with he skunks as friends. He massacred rabbits but the skunks were his bros, they would always patrol the perimeter of the yard together.
I seen a skunk last night do this thing he like scraped at the ground really fast like he was a cartoon character trying to run on slippery ground, then jumped at another skunk and tour out a big piece of fur and it bled a bit. Didn't bite it from what I saw so maybe not rabid just fighting.
>>4879113Yeah they are like that in general, they don't like having other skunks around and do that scrapy thing in fights
>>4879116WHY WON'T YOU PEOPLE TELL ME WHAT HE DOESN'T KNOW
>>4879152because you'll just tell him and ruin the surprise
This little guy sleeps under my car
>>4879229why did you name it food eeeh
