Wtf is this
>>4899583
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>>4899786inside
Post pictures and videos of skunks
October 1st is a day to recognize that raccoons are cute and smart but kind of jerks.
>>4896538Damn, you’re seven hundred and thirty years old?
Just a thread for the discussion of animal sheltering and animal welfare in general. Share experiences, thoughts, opinions, news, etc. Ask questions, maybe they'll get answers.Here are a few questions to kick things off ->Have you ever been to a shelter before?>Have you or anyone you've known adopted an animal?>Any preconceived notions you had about said shelter that were wrong?>Anything you wish you knew before going to the shelter?3-3-3 Rulehttps://winnipeghumanesociety.ca/3-3-3-rule-of-adoption/Puppy Blueshttps://whatagreatdog.com/navigating-the-puppy-blues-a-guide-for-puppy-parents/Need Help?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4895446Would you also beat a child? You sound like a abuser
>>4898973>already out of the carrier and chilling in the openYour cat is settling in a lot better than mine ever did
>>4899817Yeah it's her 3rd day here and she's fully explored my room and a bit of the hallway and bathroom. She hasn't eaten or drank much though which worries me, just a few nibbles of the canned tuna and that's it, she hasn't touched her dry food. Overall she's adjusting really well
>>4892187>Pitbull pilpul
>>4878099cute
What if you are walking your pets when, suddenly ever single human including yourself disappears into thin air. What would happen to your pets?
>>4899236Anything older than 2 will fail to adapt and die ASAP. Anything over 5 is dead for sure. Most traditional livestock will be dog food and only pigs, chickens, and goats will survive the great doggening. Cats will evolve into a weasel again to specialize on small prey and evade the notice of dogs. Crows will learn to operate technology. Its how it is.
>>4899236>What would happen to your pets?>not realising the reason you would be annihilated to begin with is because of crabs>crabs eat the meat scraps leftover running around without an ownerThis why you should have pet crabs, that way your legacy will have a fighting chance in the new world.
>>4899262cats can already avoid dogs perfectly well, they complement each other pretty nicely
>>4899262Lmao speak for yourself. My girl literally killed a cat a few days ago without my intervention. She grew up catching ducks, rats, rabbits, gophers and now cats.
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>>4899624I hate Mexican( burrowing toad)s.
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>eats rats>eats flying rats>gives you meat presents to show love>main character of funny shorts
>>4897924Our cats never caught a pigeon. The tomcat did kill a couple of rats though, that was one of the few animals he always brought dead instead of keeping it alive/half alive
>>4897924Nah, tortoises are better
>>4897929>>shits in a box of dirt in your housein the kitchen or dining room no less
>>4899775That's not the cat's fault, the owner chooses to put where the litter box is
>>4899777i put mine in my butthole
Discuss raising chickens, ducks, geese, quail and other livestock birds for any purpose.Not relevant to pet birds.
>>4898343I’ve got three Buff Orpingtons, the two hens are very tame. Even the rooster is pretty chill.
My black australorps finally started laying.
>>4898492Yeah I had a cockrel and he was basically the same as the pullets (now he's a pet at a dairy farm since I didn't want a rooster)>>4898500mirin, mine are about a month out from laying
>>4898500>>4898798Mine will probably start laying in February
>>4898500>>4898798>>4899158WAGMI
I put my dog down and there's nothing I regret more.I had just got a new job and knew i couldn't take care of her like she needed, i needed this job and now it's gone only like half a year later. I traded my dog that I love for some shitty job because everyone around me was telling me I was being selfish keeping her alive. Now she's gone and so is the job and I have nothing to show for it. I'm going to kill myself soonI'm sorry Sadie
>>4899633If you want to go at the religious angle then humans have dominion over animals, mercy killing them is part of being a ruler.
>>4899641>If you want to go at the religious angle then humans have dominion over animals, mercy killing them is part of being a ruler.>breeding them into basal synapsids because i think they're easier to deal with that way is part of being a ruler>cutting off the fingertips and removing their teeth makes them better pets"A good man regards the life of the beast, but the kindest mercies of the wicked are cruel"For all come from dust and to dust all return.
Was it Degenerative Myelopathy?
>>4899442It's been 6 monthsget a puppy and try your hardest to heal
you're in an emotional state anon, you will not be able to think or act rationally, take a couple of days to think about it. if you treated your dog well, she must have loved you and would have wanted you to live on, if you feel so bad about it, go to a pet adoption center, most of the pets in there never get adopted, so they get put down. save a dog's life, I don't think you have anything to make up for, but if you feel guilty, then you can balance it out by giving the adopted dog a couple extra years of life.
why do boomers hate nature so fucking much?>boomer dad owns a few acres of forest behind the house>used to explore it with my brother and dogs when we were kids>find cool sticks, see frogs in the pond hidden inside>2 years ago>dad has 80% of the entire thing chopped down>bulldozes all of the topsoil into the pond>didn't even have a plan for the clearing>just saw trees and decided they should die>openly regrets doing it now>as of today it is still desolate because he mows down any pioneer species>boomer neighbour has a massive pine out front>return one day to see it debranchedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4899683Oh me too>have grown up with cats my whole life>every cat was an outdoor cat>every cat, bar one iirc, died or went missing as a result of being an outdoor cat>grow up>realise things about the world around me>beg my parents to make any future cats they get indoor cats>they refuse>cats die before their timeThe cycle will repeat.
>>4898382They're such shits about it. I had something similar to your second story. >Hurricane Sandy hit >Trees fall all over town>GIANT oak in my backyard blocks tree from crashing into my parents' bedroom>love that tree>I move away>parents sell house to Old teacher>cuts every fucking tree down in the yard>dies a year later>>4898394>winningread a bookComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4898660The reason why white societies are nice places to live and brown societies have streets littered with mounds of garbage and human feces is because whites hold their neighbors accountable rather than ignoring antisocial behavior because it's "not their problem".
>>4899712If only they’d stop holding me accountable for landscaping fashions invented by herbicide and seed companies. If another white woman says shit to me about how LE HOMES IN SOCIETY HAVE LE GRASS because she can see my vegetable garde i am drawing my fat black cock on her perpetually absent husbands favorite putting green with a kettle of salt water.
>>4899712and the reason why american rural areas are so awful is because if you do that they poison your pets and torch your car. with the sheriffs/deputies help (he is their cousinfather).
We wuz dinos n shit
>>4893898>No wonder they kill everything that's not a mating partner whenever they feel like it…But they don't
>>4898107A chimpanzee on the upper end weighs only 130 lbs (male) and it would wreck you 100% of the time.A male gray wolf weighs less than the average adult male and would very obviously destroy you.Ebola is microscopic and will kill you 80-90% of the time.You, specifically, would get fucked up by this giant bird.
>>4899654>giant bird>max height of largest species is 5'11ok little guy.
>>4899654>a gray wolf would destroy u!!!lmao “humanity fuck no” reddit cucks like you are as pathetic as the “humanity fuck no” manchildrenwolves are weak animals. giant birds are weaker. swing a stick, pussy cuck. dont bother coping in your reply cuck. go hide your pathetic receding chin and noodle arms behind your pyjamas and nintendo switch.
>>4899654Just give me a tree branch thats bigger on one end and a good pile of fist sized rocks and all of these animals are toast. The only people that are inferior to animals are the prey. The vegans, buddhists, the ones who beg tigers for mercy instead of fighting back. The NPC men.
>Orangutans rape A LOT, will even rape human women>Chimpanzees rape and do infanticide and kill for fun>Gorillas do infanticide and sometimes rape>Elephants do infanticide and coprophagia and will even rape a rhino sometimes >Crows are necrophiles>Manatees and various whale species are necrophiles>Seals are cannibals and will also rape penguins>Sea lions will rape and do necrophilia and infanticide>Dolphins do pretty much every freaky thing imaginable>Almost all birds of prey and cat species do infanticide, including domestic cats, and many are cannibals>Bears are also cannibals, as Fat Bear Week proved>Koalas have chlamydia>Pandas rub themselves with fecesThis list is by no means complete. What explains these widespread behaviors?
>>4897387https://www.salon.com/2014/06/14/human_on_dolphin_sex_is_not_really_that_weird/
>>4897910>salonanonette...
>>4897965what's wrong with salon?
>>4895681Is this a copy/pasta making fun of people who post stuff like this earnestly?
>>4898731It's not a source of facts, truth, or any meaningful information.
New thread to replace the one that was lost in the great delete.Anhingas welcome also.Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
>>4868157>those yellow thingseeew gross
bird
I love birds of prey - from a hawk to a falcoln.
>>4894438>hawk to a
Is the kea an honorary bird of prey?
>bird of prey>actually a predator
Dodo birds went extinct because they were too kindhearted, too pure for this cruel evil world. Even if they wanted to hunt or poach (which they didn't) they didn't have the speed or flight ability to. They could never fathom that another creature would harm another. The Holocene will never see something so innocent, so pure ever again. And it's all our fault
>>4899220They went extinct because they didn't taste good.
Can't we theoretically just extract their DNA and clone them back into existence someday?
>>4899385They have bones and mummified remains they can extract DNA from
>>4899287If they taste as good as they claim we could domesticate them this time around. Maybe they'd be like big premium turkeys.>>4899414Theoretically someday sure. As far as I know current cloning requires a living egg of the same species so any mammoths or dodos we make would be hybrids until we figure out another way. But we should domesticate and eat the hybrids anyway.
>>4899338they're not bringing anything back in our lifetime. The DNA available isn't nearly enough to do what they did with the cloned sheep and probably won't ever be. If they make any "Dodo" or "Mammoth" like animal, it will be a modern recreation that is genetically distinct from the original.