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>Be me, work at amusement park
>Closed for the season, go to visit parents
>Stay for a month
>ffw Monday (yesterday)
>Normal day
>Vegging out at parents house
>Dad comes through door
>Says “Hey Anon” in a singsongy voice
>Look up
>He has a puppy
>He says it’s my puppy
>I didn’t ask for a puppy
>”I think this could be good for you, you’ll have someone to keep yourself occupied with and to look forward to coming home to.”
>”If you can provide for a dog, you can provide for a family”


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your dad is right about the family thing, dogs are a great way to get used to taking care of a child. if you can take care of a dog well, you can do a kid too!

For his name just say it then give some kibble. Take like 1/2 of the kibble from his meals and use it to behavior shape. It's great you are crate training, that's so important especially if you are single and taking care of a dog alone. Do not give attention when he is crying in the crate, only let him out when he's quite. Don't fuss when doing so, be boring both in and out. Randomly toss treats inside the crate during the day for him to find.
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kek american dog people are such freaks
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>>5101186
literally the best part of america is the dog culture
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>>5101182
Decent advice, but I will add that when name training you should wait to give treat until dog makes eye contact with you. It's really good to work on this while the dog is distracted or playing so it practices breaking attention to focus on you.
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>>5101219
Yeah nice addition, I should have mentioned that. Also use a marker word like "yes" or "good" and then treat AFTER that. It's behavior -> "yes" -> treat. Pause after the yes before the treat. Will have to be fast at first but start to fade in some time.

I'm going to miss something but I feel every dog should learn:
>come (recall in general, imo the most important command)
>sit
>down
>stay (standing stay, I teach dogs sit and down are implied stays)
>heel (street heel on left side)
>watch me (eyes on me)
>place (go to a place and wait until released)
>break (a release command)
>crate (go to crate)

..and questionable but I always train it:

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Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their delightful facial features?
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>>5099999
quints of truth
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>>5100087
what did otis do?
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>>5101215
he mated with his own daughter. freak.

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THE CAMELS ARE ATTACKING THE CAMELSA RE ATTACKING
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>dark age techbase
Ngmi
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>>5100663
wrong image mb
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THE JEWS ARE KVETCHING
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THE GOYIM ARE SEETHING

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i have notice from them especially on the online sphere like here have sensory issue. And most are northern americans!
I am from chila and have studied gradeschool in america before. We had three autistic classmates, two girls and one boy. 1 girl is weird and not sensitive to anything. but the other two are deeply in love with cats and are sensitive to many things like:
-parrots
-dogs
-loud birds
-deers
Anything that are loud and.. have weird feel? I feel like most mammals and avians will be part on that list above. Sometimes even cats are hated when they yowl or become unpredictable.

Most american girls that i met who are super into cats are usually autistic with sensory issue and has a huge aversion to dogs and parakeet alike.This is also apply to males but they arent that many i have met.

honestly i have not met any south americans with sensory issue yet. why is it more common in north america to have autistic people with sensory issue than south america?
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>>5100109
American food is 50% plastic which literally makes their children retarded
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>>5100109
The neonate hepatitis b vaccine and infant circumcision both cause real, measurable brain damage.

NA governments wont admit it because profits/religion
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>>5100892
doesnt mention the jews, good goy
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>>5101192
>NA governments
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>>5100109
>why is it more common in north america to have autistic people with sensory issue than south america?
Because in SA they just hit the children when they don't act the way they want.

Let's talk about geese, not just Canada's.

Post goose pictures.
Tell goose stories.
What's your favorite goose species?
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*sucks teeth*
aight he cute
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>>5098948
>does that clussy honk
>does it spurt saline solution
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>>5099079
>cables need slack so they don't rip off the houses
>we needed to be in the water in kayaks
Reminder for anons to NEVER swim in a boat dock area. Easy way to get electrocuted by 120-240v power.
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>>5098948
Birds in general are amazingly various where I live. I've had hummingbirds hovering inches from my face even as Canada geese swept overhead. I suppose my favorite species is the Great Horned Owl. Blessed be anyone who hears one hooting from the roof at night.
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>>5101050
Let my dogs out at 2am this morning and saw an owl fly off from a nearby tree into the night. I think it was a barred owl.

Post raccs, save pics of raccs, discuss raccs! Here is a critter embiggining for the winter months.
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>>5100752
Raccs need to befriend some otters so they can learn how to smash with rocks
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Are racoons actual goblins?
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>>5101106
The sound resemblance is uncanny.
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>>5101106
Very polite goblins.
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>>5095332
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_the_Raccoon

>The series revolves around a young boy who decided to provide shelter to a raccoon that was discovered by a hunter. As the boy attempted to domesticate the wild animal as part of his family, he soon realized through trials and tribulations that his efforts were futile and decided to release Rascal back into the wild.

>Raccoons are an invasive species in Japan and there is evidence that Rascal the Raccoon has contributed enormously to the problem of invasive raccoons in Japan.
>Although Rascal the Raccoon's storyline revolves around the difficulties of taking in a raccoon as a pet, Japanese citizens became inspired to import raccoons into the country as exotic pets, leading to unforeseen consequences.

i'm sure everyone itt is familiar with the story but it's my favorite example of catastrophically missing the point

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I've spent two hours on this and still can't find the name of this panda. I used image search, looking through many chinese websites for the name. AI couldn't help either, just naming random popular pandas. I hope someone can find the name of this panda and provide at least one source, any way to verify this information
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dead
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>>5099508
He's mine now. I took him. His name is Dainikubou.

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the audacity of lizards to become snakes boggles the mind
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>>5100520
Never because mammal spines move up and down instead of serpentine. If they were legless they would move like a caterpillar which is retarded
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>>5100771
lots of mammals have adapted to horizontal movement, like ferrets.
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>>5100396
BORING, wake me up when we get a sausage bird
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>>5100396
see >>5100916
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>>5100121
>>5098721
>Crocodiles ripped off Temnospondyls
>Snakes ripped off Caecilians
>Lizards ripped off Colosteidae
Reptiles really did just rip off amphibians.

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You're welcome.
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>>5099539
wtf? I hate animals now.
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>>5099607
it's the sort of thing that the feds don't have the constitutional privilege to regulate, at least outside of national parks (themselves being of dubious constitutionality).
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>>5100591
>>5100592
Mentally ill chud detected. Go back to the political board, you schizo.
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Will he finally face jail time?
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>>5099539
Awful AI slop image. It's more embarrassing than anything else that we didn't have this law already than anything else. Fuck that child rapist noahide demon — US government is the synagogue of Satan.

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So that the beauty of the wet smooth-skinned seal may never perish from the face of Earth
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They look like oiled up unkiked (uncircumcized) dicks
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seals vs otters?
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>>5101129
They moved his office to the basement and He didn't receive his paycheck.

are sperm whales the most reddit whale?
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>>5101021
sent that freak into abyssal zone
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>>5101075
>You'd think a glorified filter feeder would have something like snake jaws to net as much as possible
The ones that filter feed do have this
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>>5101075
apparently they don't even need their jaws either which makes no sense
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>>5101016
giant tentacles typed this
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>>5101075
>>5101082
Anon has either never seen a baleen whale or he thinks sperm whales are filter feeders

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ferretchads will continue to rise
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I'd like them more if they didn't smell so bad.
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>>5099489
>that drop in poultry
last remnants of the "zomg I got chickens during lockdown!!!" fad dying off?
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>>5100506
They smell bad but curiously their shit barely smells and is easy to clean up. I wouldn't stick my nose in it ofc but it's nowhere near as rancid as dog or cat shit.
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>>5099489
I own ferrets solely to dab on californians
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COWS DEMONSTRATE FLEXIBLE MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL USE

Cows are now UNDENIABLY far more intelligent than cats and 99% of mammals. If you think it's wrong to eat cats, then you must feel the same way about cows and pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVo41MuLiQ

“The only well-documented case of something comparable comes from chimpanzees, on those – also rare – occasions when they fish for termites by combining the functions of the two opposite ends of the same stick,” Osuna-Mascaró told BBC Science Focus.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-tool-use

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/
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bump
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>>5094225
I can't even quit octopus. Everything else I eat has no chance.
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>>5094225
cows are stupid
>so they're okay to eat
cows are smart
>so they're capable of consent

You can't have it both ways, /an/
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>>5100835
thats kinda hot
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>>5100611
I've seen a cow eat a live baby chick.

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Let's show some love to the majestic urban chicken. Or flying cats.

I enjoy observing and sometimes feeding these beautiful creatures. I enjoy listening to their cooing and all the kinds of birds sounds they make. I don't mind their poo, it's much better than all the human waste and trash on the streets. I just clean it off and that's it. It's us humans who took away their living space. No matter what you do, they' are always going to be part of cities.
Pigeons offer a rare interaction with nature in the grim lonely suffering of urban hellscape. Pigeons are naturally sociable, goofy and entertaining, but have an uncanny ability of navigating for example car traffic.

The health hazard pigeons pose is much overhyped, especially compared to pets, rodents and bugs. Yeah, dead birds are bad, but pigeons are not special in that regard. In fact, I've seen far more dead hedgehogs, moles and even sparrows than pigeons (they get picked up the same).
Some retards even go as far as being vehemently militant against any kind of bird feeding. I also hate the "protect the children" hysteria. Children and their immune system need exposure to the world and the chance of bird shit causing problems is infinitesimal, especially when compared to household dangers.

Recently a lot of places had introduced fines to discourage feeding birds, which sucks. Even if nobody enforces them, npcs love to get angry and judge people instead of leaving them be. COVID really showed how insufferable most humans are.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkd56MNpDuw
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>>5094870
>It's us humans who took away their living space
absolute dumbass
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>>5100001
>run-on sentence
>wrong form of 'whose'
>ESL grammar

NTA but pigeons and doves wouldn't exist if it weren't for their domestication. They are prey animals and even so their self preservation instincts are not great. Of course humans are responsible for overhunting the passenger pigeon into extinction, but you're missing the bigger picture if you can't see how these guys benefit from their symbiotic relationship to humans. picrel
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>>5100359
Nice clock.

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Does anyone have that webm of a big ass crustacean suddenly attacking and eating a smaller one please? It leaves rent free in my head but I can't find it
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>>5100782
I think about this image a lot
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>>5100772
dat fish wit da big ass lips
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>>5100943
The beast alongside cirno
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>>5100768
>>5100884
Notice the editing: they cut to the crayfish already being in the coconut crab's claw. They shove it into it.

>>5100939
"It's nature" argument dies where human influence begins. "Nature" is not an excuse for sadism.
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>>5100970
Oh absolutely anon. Im with you on that. The chinese video is just a torture video for the sake of clicks.
>human influence begins
Anon by that standard we are above nature. Then nothing alive being perceived or interacted by humans is natural. Thats clearly not how it works.


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