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Hey /an/, we found an egg in our front garden today and I'd like to be about to know what laid it.
Kids and the dogs have all ready touched it so that ship has sailed.
I live in central Michigan
>>2137675
That's a decent sized egg.
>>2137675
was it on the ground or is this a nest?
>>2137698
right there in the mulch
Kinda buried
June is here!
cute little buggers
>>2135876
Poor guys. So clumsy.
>>2135951
You mean retards
ITT: capybaras getting REKT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWK8q84O-0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFgItwbKh4
>>2135391
Predation thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pExGvAO3lQk
>>2135397
holy shit
>>2135397
Nasarrius (sp?) snails are so cool
Do snails have a nervous system, do snails feel pain?
I live in the countryside and go out for midnight walks, and very often step on snails by accident.
Instead of leaving them to suffer, I make sure they die fully now.
I guess I don't know anything about how lower-animals perceive reality. Is it immoral to step on snails?
I honestly wouldn't worry about it unless you were going around doing it on purpose
no sense putting yourself at risk and slowing yourself down on your walks checking for a snail every step
>>2135190
>unless you were going around doing it on purpose
Would it make a difference if I was doing it on purpose? The snail suffers the same. Morally, what's the difference between intent and accidental. The snail doesn't distinguish, it just suffers the same.
I just don't want to cause unnecessary suffering, and have concerns about judgement in the after-life.
>>2135193
the difference is what kind of person that'd make you if you were seeking them out just to kill them without purpose vs them just being unavoidably in the way
ITT: Myths about animals and bugs we always knew growing up.
>Birds will reject a baby bird touched by a human
>>2133747
>We killed bambis mom and now we're eating her for dinner
>>2133759
Lol just reading this, I'll admit that it sounds kind of edgy.
I wasn't intending that. I just thought it was interesting how people have been taught to be so sentimental towards all non-human animals. I really do wonder where the history of such teachings arose.
>>2133759
> It's this annoying faggot AGAIN
what kind of spider is this
A little hard to tell but I think it's a wolf spider. Pretty much harmless so long as you leave it alone.
>>2137912
Just a heads up though, if you DON'T leave it alone, its bite is super poisonous and basically certain death if you get bit. You don't fuck with wolf spiders.
That's just a jumping spider you Walnut.
I found this dead male chihuahua on the roadside near a vet clinic in Mexico. What is the best way to rot down the body? Should I bury it?
I want to preserve his skull but I think it broke.
Also, general roadkill thread.
Halp guys. My room smells like dead dog.
>>2137823
Throw it in the garbage. Why did you even pick it up? You can buy dog skulls if you really wanted one.
>Dumb beaners asking dumb questions
I really hope they build that fucking wall.
My roommate found this skull a while ago. Does anybody know what animal it's from?
Looks like a deer or something
Maybe if it was a baby. It's only about the length of my hand.
>>2137809
>found
Your roommate's a serial killer m8
I am the head of an organization known as Cats Rights (C.R.). Our main goal is one thing, to win equal rights for cats. For too long, cats have been oppressed by their human overlords. It is time to take action. We won't stop until we succeed.
Hey /an/ I've got an abandoned fawn that I rescued that was trapped in a fence line and its foot was injured. at first the foot was just a little swollen but then the deer escaped for a day and when it came back the foot is in much worse shape and it needs to be amputated. but when we called the vet they said they would not work with the fawn. unless it came from a rescue centre so now I don't know what to do. I'm wondering if I can contact the rescue center to have them take the deer to the vet to get the foot amputated if I can pay the bill. Any one have any advice?
Here is the hoof in question.
Here is an even closer look.
He walks and skips around in like no pain, but I don't think his foot is salvageable
Call a wildlife rehab or your local fish and game. It should help if you really are willing to pay for it but it also depends if they will be able to keep it or have someone who can take care of it(its unlikely they will let you raise it).
Since its so young its unlikely if they take it I'm they will release it later.
If you can't foot the bill then honestly it's a hit and miss. They may or may not bother so make some phonecalls.
What animal do you hate the most? I hate these pic related fucks
why would you hate them? they're cute and lawful, always demand proof.
to be on topic: ticks
>>2137672
Chickens are retarded and evil i just wanna wring their fucking necks
It's ok, OP.
There are professionals who can heal those old mental wounds.
I have a GSD/ Golden Retriever mix that I got as a puppy from a breeder, the GSD got a hold of the retriever female and they were giving the puppies away.
Apollo is 9 months old now, and I've had him for 3 months, he is a great dog, really smart and he learned his basics commands (sit, stay, leave it, milk bone) within 2 days, and we are currently working on more advanced stuff. He gets makes friends with every dog he's met except one. My friend has a 2 year old husky and when we try to walk our dogs, they just immediately want to kill each other. We have tried...
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>>2137287
Are you sure they don't want to play around? Sometimes my dog gets really anxious when she sees another dog, and other people might take it as aggressive, but she really just wants to play.
>>2137319
They get pretty vicious and go straight for the neck.
>>2137321
Well if he isnt spayed/neutered this doggo gonna show other dogs some
dominance
So /an/ I want to try an experiment. The rabbits are thick around the small town I live in and it got me thinking: if I were to catch live female rabbits and bred them with domesticated ones, with unnatural coloration or lop ears, how long would it take to notice an actual change in the rabbits around here? I know the odd colored offspring would be less likely to survive but eventually the gene pool would become saturated enough that I could see some variation in the wild species. Also is this ethical?
I shot a piebald rabbit in a wild population and 1 out of every 50 I shoot is black.
They wouldn't survive long enough even without predators. Also everything eats rabbits in general to begin with. From cats, foxes, tons of birds, etc.
And no, it's not ethical.
I don't know how accurate this is, but I've heard that domestic rabbits are so far apart from wild ones that they do not produce viable offspring.
Hey guys, I don't know if this is the write place to write this, but I need to say this somewhere.
My dog has a heart that is too large for her body, and she is leaking fluid into her lungs. There is no cure for this. She might die in a few months.
She began by getting sick, and coughing a few weeks ago, and later, it just got worse. It's a genetic disease, not environmental.
I'll be taking to test her, but the vet said that he sure that this is what is going on. I can hope that this is the case, but the chances are slim. I wish you all...
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I'm sorry anon, please give your dog the best months you can.
I lost my cat to a similar heart condition when he was only five years old. Shit sucked, I know how you feel.
Try not to focus on waiting for the other shoe to drop and simply treasure her. Even if her life is shorter than it should be, know that you've done right by her.
>>2137254
Thank you very much. I wish she got to live a little longer of a life, but it was only 2 and a half years. I hope you're better after your loss.
Let's talk scary shit,
I go first,
See this superworm? I got about 20 of them.
I went out of town for a week or so, and I left them how I bought them, in this plastic container.
I come back home. They chewed a hole through it. Some freak accident. My 6 years of having them, first time this happened.
I come back, I want to feed my gecko a little treat.
They all gone except one in there, who is in pupa stage.
I look down, I see two in a corner by my guitar. Pupa.
I need to go on a nice little hunt for them before they morph.
>>2137098
>Be me, teenager
>Catch an alligator lizard to have as a 'pet' for a few weeks before letting it go
>About 3 or 4 days before I'm going to let it out, if gives live birth in the tank to six babies
>Fuckin stoked and start looking up caresheets for the babies after I move the mom to outside
>Says they can basically eat anything that's small enough,...
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>>2137098
Yeah they can chew through those thin deli cups the store packages in them given even time. Especially so if they can get to one of the air holes on the lid and use that as a starter bit for chewing. They're pretty cool looking in beetle stage and harmless. Probably will be easier to find after they come out of pupa.
>>2137102
Never heard of that thats interesting
