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What is this? Part of a nest?
>>2093918
I'm not sure why they are upside down
>>2093920
Poke it und' find out.
>>2093925
I poked it a whole bunch. It looks like it's made completely out of lint, feathers, and maybe hair.
>play a lot with the cat by moving my hand around under bedsheets so she'll pounce
>today
>sleeping in
>dreaming about sex
And that's why I just got two stitches on my dick.
How's your weekend?
is your dick made of tissue paper?
>>2093923
Cat is young with claws that come to molecular points.
She snagged a claw in my foreskin, then tried to jump off the bed when I flailed.
teach her to use less teeth next time. a clicker and treats should do wonders
Hey /an/ I just got a new betta fish and I can't get him to eat. I think it might be due to stress in his temporary living conditions, so i'm going out today to get him bigger living conditions.
Anyways, what do you feed your betta? Pic related, it's what i'm trying to get him to eat.
Here's my betta. Like I said before, today i'm going out to get him a tank. Preferably with a filter.
>>2093877
Yeah, throw the fish into an uncycled tank
Fucking moron, how about getting the setup before the animal?
>>2093880
When i was younger and stupid and didnt know proper living conditions my mom got me bettas and they lived their whole pretty long lives in little bowls like this. They were bright and ate and didnt seem stressed at all. Im sure hell be alright for one day.
My dog swallowed a 500 paracetamol I dropped.
What do /an/?
15kg mutt.
Somstimes people use paracetamol on elderly atritis dog to soften the pain. This is about quarter or half a tab for them. Your dog will probably just have diarrea. Call vet
>>2093841
Somehow induce commuting and call the vet?
>>2093845
This. Force it to travel to work.
It's the only way anon.
We just adopted a 9 week old lab puppy, and have been trying to get her used to a crate. We read up and have picked a good size and have been praising her for entering the crate and giving her small sessions in there, placing treats to encourage her entering.
Everyone seems mixed about how to go about doing this method, though. What's your opinion on this process? Do I keep encouraging her to enter with treats, or just keep placing her in there over the course of the day until she's used to it? Or should I do another process altogether? She's been taking...
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>>2093787
>lab puppy
why do white people always get labs
>>2093789
my fiance saw it at the shelter, and we wanted a big dog. We already have a small German spitz, but he was easy as fuck to train and never needed a crate
>>2093789
Labs are basically the perfect dog, senpai.
I have a spare 3 gallon tank and finally have spare money at the same time to pay for something to put it in. I'm pretty into inverts and feel bad keeping something like a reptile in a box anyway. I'm trying to decide between something like a mantis/tarantula/scorpion/whip scorpion/centipede. Which do you consider the most interesting to own and least likely to just hide under a rock the whole time?
>>2093636
All of those are going to be likely to hide under rocks, save if you have a preferred low lighted environment for them. Mantises will forage around more than the others,however. an emperor scorpion can be fun to show off and handle if you enjoy that kind of interaction, plus, you can use a blacklight in the dark and watch them come out and glow.
>>2093643
Yeah I was kind of leaning toward a bigger scorpion, but I feel like it would be more fun to watch a mantis or a whip scorpion feed. I assume all have similar spans or a year or two? I could actually do my own research but.
>>2093648
Not that guy but I have a whip. They are nocturnal and total bitches about light. I probably only witness 10 percent of her feeding. Shes basically a pet rock 2.0 lol
im going to go see a one year old Rhodie Ridgeback pup tomorrow and was wondering what things I should consider before adopting a Rhodie.
I know some of the fundamentals such as their lifespan, health concerns and general traits. in addition I know they need a lot of exercise and would certainly require training.
But I was wondering what other things im getting into in adopting a Rhodie that I might not be initially aware of.
>>2093607
The musk of the Rhodesian Ridgeback is attractive to brown recluses. Be careful, OP.
>>2093607
I thought I had a rhodie mix for a while (but the WP says rottie mix...pic related lol) so at the dog park I frequently found myself chatting up the purebred rhodie people-- there's a couple breeders in the area so there's several regulars. One thing they all seem to have in common is that their dogs are not trustworthy off leash. I've seen tons of youtube vids with rhodesians out and about w/o leashes so maybe it's a training thing. Also, all the ones I've met have a pretty high prey drive...
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>>2093613
cheers, yeah i've heard of their prey drive and im gonna look at training him should I get him.
I'd like to potentially train him to the point where I could take him hunting, so that would take a log time to train for. But if that's the biggest issue, it shouldn't be a problem.
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>>2093604
Dummies was useful for me. A bit cringe worthy sometimes in how it tries to appeal to people but solid info. That being said the experience you are getting will trump any book
>>2093605
Yeah I guess I just wanted something to supplement it. I am surprised with how much I've learned though.
Maybe I'm trying to impress him or myself, who knows
I'm a beekeeper, but still pretty amateur. It seems to me like the only way to learn is to do it. People will tell you a million different ways to keep bees with minute differences, but a lot of it just comes down to chance. Bees are fickle and individual colonies will all vary in production depending on the area around them to forage, climate, presence of parasites/disease, etc. The only way to do consistently well at it is to have a lot of hives to work with. Huge commercial operations lose something like a third of all their bee a year but can then double their populations...
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What creature made this den/burrow /an/ ? I think it's either an otter or a fox.
Brown recluse.
A Mongolian death worm making a U-turn
Maybe a Dachshund?
My bf and I broke up. He moved out today.
What kind of plant should I get to stave off the loneliness? Medium light, indoor, hard to kill.
>>2093578
Succulents are lovely
>>2093578
dank kush
>>2093578
Cucumber i guess
Hey guys, a while back I read about either a fly, or an ant, or some insect which when young, stretches it's eyeballs out of it's head, and the body hardens and it becomes a permanent thing!
Anyone shed some light on it?
[ No, it's not reversible, like inflation as seen in the picture. ]
>>2093550
Really curious about what the bug is! anyone?
>>2093550
I don't remember the name, but ya. The fly blows air bubbles into it's eye stalks when it emerges from it's pupae while it's exoskeleton is still soft. It's a reproductive thing, like females pick males with the longest stalks.
>>2093555
So wait, it might actually BE the pictured one?
I was under the impression that the fly did this to attract a mate, and it was undoable.
I thought they did it once as young and it was permanent...Any ideas?
What's this mutation? He's 3 years old, thinking of adopting him.
Bronze canaries
>>2093546
yellow sided
What exactly does it do to kitties?
Is it like cocaine for cats?
Whenever I give mine some he likes to sniff it then roll around in it
mine eats his catnip.
Mine will roll around in it. 20 minutes later she's in bed coming down.
Mine doesn't react to the catnip ball I got her at all.
Found this guy squirming around the yard after a downpour, what is it /an/?
IT'S AN ALASKAN
>>2093429
Probably one of these guys:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguis_fragilis
>>2093435
Appreciate it, anon
My dog found this guy walking around in my garage but then it curled into a donut. So i picked it up and put it in a box and its still a donut.
what do
update: it is no longer a donut
>>2093389
RIP ;_;7
>>2093390
its not dead. it just came out of its donut shape and now its like a black puffy cheeto
