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Starting off with a Thrixopelma lagunas. Can't seem to find one near me
>>2045100
How does owning spiders compare to owning similar size small pets, like a rat? When I was a kid my mothers friend had a tarantula and I thought it was kickass but, unlike most pets what do you DO with them. You can't really train them, you just kinda, look at them and feed them till they die? What is the appeal vs a pet that's more 'interactive'? Also waiting for arthropodmale to show up
>>2045155
Yeah pretty much. Just look at them and watch them grow, build their webs, redecorate, and feed.
Especially since they look cool
If I may ask, are spiders studied in Entomology at all?
I know there's also Arachnology but I keep seeing some places where spiders are studied under it
Ask dog questions that don't deserve their own threads here.
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>>2033108
How do I get my puppy to calm down around my cat? She always follows the cat around very nervously and shakes like a vibrater with epilepsy. Then proceeds to get frustrated with kitty cause he won't play with her, and gets hissed/swatted by cat. Kitty is a bro so I'm not worried about him, he doesn't give a fuck unless the puppy really messes with him. Is this normal? Can they become best buds eventually? I'm sure some anons here have experience with this
>>2043950
Keep introducing them casually, and keep on doing your daily routine, showing that the cat is a friend by showing affection, etc.
Like with most things involving pups, its all about repetition.
I wouldn't go out of your way to get them friendly with eachother, it kinda just happens naturally from my experience.
Who /snowdogs/ here?
Alright folks, I have a problem
I'm not familiar with /an/ so I'm sorry if I'm waltzing over board rules or something, but I need help
My 8 year old poodle, pic related, recently had to go through surgery to remove a fuckload of stones from his urethra and bladder. Baiscally he had to get his urethra turned around to make a bigger opening for his piss (and remaining stones + future stones) to come out
So now he's using that collar. Since his neck is pretty short he's having trouble drinking water, eating, etc. I need some tips both...
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>>2043048
so... the vet put a cone on your dog and didnt go over this stuff with you?
>>2043057
I wasn't present when they did explain how to take care of things since I was at work. I was told how I should clean him up, but I'd like to know stuff like "how to properly hold him while cleaning to ease the pain" and such
Also I know nothing about how to deal with the cone
I'm no vet and I haven't had to deal with a dog martini in a long time, but couldn't you take the cone off for supervised feeding/drinking time?
im scared
That moth is FUCKED. Poor guy.
A quick image search makes me think that you found a Giant Grey Moth friend if you're in the UK.
The bit dragging behind its abdomen is confusing because the picture is hella blurry. My guess is that it could be one of two things.
1. Moths of that size and type make cigar butt-looking cocoons. Maybe it's quite young and has some material scraps still stuck to it?
2. Maybe it's dying and some asshole bird or bat caused damage to its tiny intestines without properly being able to eat it so those are just kind of dangling there.
I'm...
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>>2041431
here is an other pic for you guys
actually i took these pics this summer (and no its not from the UK )
i think its Agrius convolvuli. like he said
The prairie dogs are the animals who have the most complex verbal languages next to humans.
Those squeaks aren't just "sounds"--they're words, with abstract meanings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kXCh496U0 [Embed]
Evidence indicates that the different species of prairie dogs speak different languages, and that prairie dogs of one species in different areas speak different dialects of the same language.
This is not mere "communication". They are speaking real languages, with nouns and adjectives.
So far,...
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when i worked at a ski resort during summer (it as still open for tourists to ride the gondola) there was one spot on the road that they prairie doggies liked to line up along and play suicide games. Every single time a car drove past, they would run across the road all at once. I am convinced they were doing it deliberately for the thrill of seeing how close they could get to the car without going under the wheels. They didn't do this when there were no cars. Only when a car came.
>driving along road
>prairie...
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>>2052970
Just think - we might have human to prairie dog translation devices within our lifetime. We have so much to learn from then, and we have so much to teach. If his research is completed then he is opening to door for human-nonhuman communication in general! That's really exciting!
Do Meerkat's talk the same way? They seem just as smart.
In aq thread I got ignored so
I'm having trouble rising my tank salinity to brackish levels. Trying to treat my guppies for ick. So far I've raised the temperature to 88 degrees and they like it. But some of my fry and two of my adult females are showing signs of severe stress and just sitting on the bottom or near the bottom
I've Raised the salinity to 3 ppt. II've used grocery store sea salt and can't raise it past 3 in the tank despite adding like 25 tablespoons of salt. How much should I put into my 10 gallon tank?
>>2055072
Add an aerotor to your tank. If you havent already done that then your just asking to kill off all your fish. 85 degrees is all you need, I would not go higher than that. The higher the temperature, the less oxygen is available to the fish, and Ich stops reproducing at 85 degrees, with one rare strain able to reproduce up to 92 degrees, but you almost definitely dont have that. The best way that I've found to treat ich is;
1. Raise temp to 85 (in your case lower)
2. Add SOME salt to the tank, definitely...
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>>2055077
Mucho gracias señor
>>2055077
Also forgot to add.. water changes. Do them often. Like 10% a day. This is really to help counteract the amount of food you should be feeding them. The feeding is crucial, as a healthy, happy animal should naturally be more resistant to disease. That means not only feeding dried food, but foods that are 'treats' and the fish go crazy for like mysis, or blood worms.
Why do people hate feathered dinosaurs?
>>2043753
they don't.
Because they grew up with the alternative. They don't appreciate their giant, killing machine fantasy lizards being turned upside down on them.
If they don't like them thats fine. I love birds, and I'd be happy if every single 'dinosaur' had feathers but I appreciate the old school raptors too in the same way I do dragons and unicorns. Not just talking about scales vs feathers either but dexterity, almost prehensile tails, wrong posture but it still looks cool, etc.
>>2043766
>Because they grew up with the alternative.
bullshit.
Unless you think everyone arguing is over 40.
