/an/ related autism
>when people confuse poisonous with venomous
>>2082802
>when bugguy posts
>people equating crate-training to dog abuse, even when crate is used properly
>>2082802
>my [reptile] loves being handled!
>>2082802
>when people are horrified by a bee who's just minding her own business
>>2082926
>implying there's a proper way to force your dog into a cage
99% of Americans use it as a way to "make the dog go away when they're busy".
>>2082802
>when people let their cats outside
>filling the bottom of the pot with stones or gravel or someshit to improve drainage
>>2082941
>when tripfags tripfag
>>2082802
A venom is a poison that is injected.
Next you'll tell me that tortoises aren't turtles.
>>2082965
Venom is a toxin that's injected.
Poison is a toxin that's injested.
>>2083029
>the king was injested by his court jesters for the last time
>>2082802
>When faggots like OP care this much about the difference when they know exactly what people are trying to say
>>2083047
Thats what this thread is about you dummy.
>>2082964
I'm a beloved member of the 4chan community
>Meme tetras and meme balls
>What species of tree is this?
>Brown recluse
When people mean neuter instead of spay, when people mean castration procedure as opposed to neuter and vice versa, when people say 'sprayed' instead of spayed, when people say spayeded.
>>2083097
literally /an/'s equivalent of that awful darude- sandstorm meme
>>2083091
>4chan community
Oh, so cancer?
>>2082804
>When people call geese "Ducks"
>>2082802
>whats a good setup for a banana ball python
>Thinking morph has somthing to do with anything
>I think i would know whats best for my pet i have him
people who bring puppies to the dog park that are clearly too young to have had all their shots
people who walk from their apartment block to yours to let their dog shit in your block's courtyard and don't pick it up
people who leave their small or short-haired dogs tied to the bike rack outside the grocery store in the winter, or in the summer with no water or shade
people who shave their dogs
>>2083121
>When people don't realize that anseriformes are all pretty much the same
>Terrible
>>2083091
>Tripfags actually believe this
>i just bought (pet) how do i take care of it?
>>2083157
you take it back to the pet store and dont.
>>2083157
If it's a pleb reptile like a BP, they can handle less than ideal conditions for a while until the owner gets all the shit together for it. Better to ask than keep it in a kritter keeper in total ignorance.
>plesiosaurs, pteranodons, and dimetrodons are dinosaurs
>>2083182
>Dinosaur thread
>Feathers
>>2082802
>cousin buys rabbit for his girlfriend's birthday
>doesn't know shit
>dies 3 days later and he figures it was because it was "sick"
Now I'm not saying a bunny isn't sensitive and that an illness can put it down fast, but that smug fuck had no idea what he was doing. Rabbits aren't cats or dogs.
>>2083209
Honestly, people in general really suck at animal care for anything that isn't a cat or a dog.
It's baffling to me how people won't even do a simple google search before dropping money on an animal they have no idea how to take care of.
>>2083142
>people who shave their dogs
Isn't that necessary for some breeds to make sure that their fur doesn't mat?
>>2082929
>I treat my [reptile] like an ornament
>>2082940
>friend who lives with parents has dog
>stinks like shit
>have to wash wands after touching it
>they crate him constantly
>dies at age 3
>Walking your dog off leash >Being mad at other people when they get scared
>>2082926
I will never understand crate training. What is the point?
>video of chimps titled "HAIRLESS MONKEYS START A BRAWL"
>someone corrects it as apes in the comments
>someone else replies " Apes are just a sub branch of old world monkeys, just as we (hominids) are a sub branch of the apes. It's legitimate to call humans or chimps monkeys just as it's legitimate to call humans or chimps primates or mammals."
>mfw
>>2082926
could someone eplain crate training to me?
I have no idea what that is, honestly..
>>2083429
You put your dog into a crate and then put crate onto a train, hoping to never see this barking cunt again.
>when people call rabbits rodents
>goldfish in bowls
>"lol fish have a 5 second memory anon"
>when people confuse leopard print for cheetah print
>when people draw rabbits with paw pads
I have a lot, but I try really hard to be chill about it.
>this breed of [something that isn't a dog] is....
Really grinds my gears. It's a species, not a god damn breed.
Things I've heard (not only on /an/) when people find out my two favorite animals are spiders and moths.
>spiders are vicious
>spiders sense fear
>spiders will purposely jump on you to attack
>daddy longlegs are the most venomous spiders with smallest fangs etc
>spiders nest in bananas
>spiders nest in human hair
>spiders nest in ear canal
>spiders nest inside human skin
>moth dust will make you blind
>moths bite
>moths are a bad omen
>moths are evil butterflies/moths kill butterflies (wish I was jk on this one, heard it myself)
>all moths eat cloth/books/paper
>moths will purposely entangle themselves in your hair to scare you
>moths are poisonous/venomous
>moths will land on you to poison you with their dust
>>2083125
>I think i would know whats best for my pet i have him
AUTISM INTENSIFIES
agreed anon. i hate this shit.
>>2083209
Lady comes in to animal hospital with 15 lb rabbit. Picks it up by the scruff multiple times. Is resigned to the fact that rabbits just get shit stuck to their butts 24/7, couldn't possibly be because rabbit is on full pellet diet, thats just what her rabbits have always eaten.
>caring about the distinction between poisonous and venemous
>>2083182
>if pterodactyls weren't dinosaurs then what were they smart guy
fucking pterosaurs you retard didn't you read when you were a kid
>>2083142
Depending upon the breed it can be worth the risk of parvo/cost of parvo treatment to start socialization with strange dogs super early mate.
>>2082938
I second this, people flip out for no reason
>>2083105
My favorite is when people say "Spaded"
>>2083457
spiders in banana trees isnt crazy talk
>>2083457
I want spiders to get off my board.
>Be me, taking my son to the zoo
>At the Meerkats, son is enjoying watching them dig and shit
>Family of four comes up behind
>Father says "Look, they have groundhogs!"
>Wife says "No honey they are ferrets"
>My son, in all his glory, turns around and says "No stupid they're meerkats, can't you read the sign?"
>He points to the sign, two feet in front of the family, in plain view
>The father and mother had the most confused face, darting glares between me, my son, and the cheeky as fuck Meerkats.
>The father said, "Well they're pretty much the same"
>They walk off in the direction they came from
>my face the whole time
>>2083445
>Species: a group of organism where individual members of that group can mate and produce viable, fertile offspring
>Does your snake bite?
>Someone brings up the stretching snake legend
>>2083570
nice snarky post while failing to to understand/comprehend the post you're replying to.
>>2083429
Proper crate training is when you train your dog to be comfortable staying in a crate for a couple of hours. It can be abused if you leave your dog in there for most of the day.
People tend to sperg out about crate training because they assume that every dog can be left on its own with no issues
>>2083576
> Does [reptile/insect/whatever] bite?
Of course it can, how else would it FUCKING EAT.
>>2083547
I hope you bought your son some overpriced ice cream that day.
>>2083615
He wanted dippin' dots actually
>>2083213
rather, I meant "people who shave their double-coated dogs to the skin"
>>2083621
>dippin' dots
low tolerance for retardation AND excellent taste. good job raising that kid OP
>>2082938
While I agree with this, I must admit that I've grown afraid of paper wasps in the last years.
It's pretty strange, considering I never used to be afraid of them. The only bad experience I've ever had with them is from when I, as a stupid eight year old, decided to poke a nest in order to see if it was in use(don't worry: the nest was not permanently damaged). As stupid as I was, I still realised that I was at fault, and the event did not cause me to grow afrain of paper wasps.
Yet in the last few years, I've become extremely afraid of them. I don't have any problems when they mind their own business, but as soon as they turn their attention towards me, I lose all control of my body and start running, even if I'm in the middle of a bustling street.
Pic is from last summer. Since they didn't pay me any attention, coming close to them wasn't a problem. However, a few seconds after the pic was taken, an ant disturbed them and made them scatter. That really spooked me.
>Anon, it's cruel to make your dogs do all those tricks! It's not natural for a dog to do that!
Training does not equal abuse. And while maybe shaking and begging isn't natural, i'm sure as fuck that they sit and lay down with or without being told to do so.
>pet store with mother
>piking up a pinky for my snake
>we decide to look around
>red tail boa
>another familiy comes up by it
>the dad goes "hey look this is a cool snake"
>the fucking mother goes off on a tangent on how they shouldnt keep snakes that kill
>she says it wraps around your neck and kills you and eats you
>she says that it wont eat for a few months to size you up
>mfw
>>2083681
I think she was jus trying to spook the kid to not nag her about getting the snake
>>2083685
the kid had dicked off somewhere at that point
>>2083691
oh my god, these have to be amerifags right
>>2083681
>doesn't understand parents telling kids lies to curb their desire for buying something
that mom nipped in the bud a 4 day argument about getting a pet snake. fucking expert move.
>>2083691
I think she was jus trying to spook her husband to not nag her about getting the snake
>>2083698
problem is those kids grow up still believing that shit and then you get those stories
>my coworker's/neighbour's/friend's cousing had giant snake
>always lied next to his bed
>asked vet what's up with that
>snek was checking if it's big enough to eat you
>>2082940
>if its done right
i crate trained my dog and i have never had to use the crate other than one road trip that was about 2 hrs and she fell asleep.
>pretending dogs dont instinctively use dens
>>2083598
doesn't even need to be a crate. A bed will work just as well if the dog is properly conditioned.
>>2083827
I'm curious. How do you keep a dog in its bed for 8 whole hours while you sleep, or while you're at work?
>>2083850
it becomes a comfort for them, something they will actively seek out. it's just a lot of conditioning when they're younger.
>>2083850
Wat. Why can't you just keep your dog in your house while you're asleep or at work? You're dog isn't trained well enough to do that? Plus I don't even think you're supposed to keep a dog in a crate for that many hours.
>>2083877
It's supposed to be an adjustment thing, once you trust your dog not to wreck things you don't need to lock them in the crate, it's just somewhere they will naturally seek out and stay on their own.
>>2082802
>when people don't treat birds like they are the most precious existence
>>2082938
>this 20x
Same with spiders.
I leave spiders alone, unless they are around my birds, then I just scoop them up in a cup and piece of paper and take them down the block.
They go away eventually, they eat bugs and stuff, and they mean no harm. They're pretty cool in my book.
>>2083621
So overpriced ice cream
>>2083877
...I never said that I left my dog in a crate for this long. I was just asking how you personally keep it from wrecking your house while it's unsupervised
>>2083928
>GOAT icecream*
>>2083932
Not that anon but I just trained mine to not wreck shit. He mostly lies on the couch or one of his beds and waits for me to get home
>>2083932
Your dog wrecks shit if it isn't locked in a cage? What the fuck. Mine sleeps while I'm asleep and either sleeps, looks out the window, or plays with his toys when I'm not home.
>>2082941
>when people let their cats outside without a harness or supervision
Corrected
>>2083621
I remember when I was a kid, I couldn't have dippin' dots at the water park we went to.
Now I'm a cynical adult who finds no joy in life.
>>2083681
So...
Were you that person who pussed out and kept to yourself or did you actually say something to this retarded woman?
>It's a living dinosaur!
>>2083457
People that are scared of moths make me laugh.
The only thing moths are a danger to are themselves, considering the way they just blindly barrel into walls and random objects when they fly around.
>friend tells people he used to have a pet lizard
>he actually just caught an anole on a trip to Florida and let it run around outside his house until winter came and it died
>I tell him that that doesn't really count as a 'pet'.
>"Gee whizz Anon, sorry I don't give it medicated antibiotics every two hours and blah blah blah"
>just because I have two lizards that I take good care of
I mean I know he was fucking around but still, people think so lowly of other living things
That being said...
>any time somebody gets on my ass about all the stuff I do to care for my herps
>"they don't need that, how do they survive in the wild??????"
>"dominance" with dogs
>somebody's literally smelly, diseased dog kills two of my chickens
>I kill it
>"poor doggy!"
>it's my fault
>people in general at pet stores
>people afraid of my crested gecko
like it doesn't pissed me off I'm just perplexed as to how that would ever be scary to anyone, pic related
>meet somebody's dog
>it has horrible behavioral issues (separation anxiety, aggression towards strangers, food aggression)
>on top of that it's obese
>I tell them
>they get offended and do nothing about it
This has happened specifically on more than one occasion with different people
>sand substrate in anything but a planted aquarium
>people who feed their pacman frogs fucking like live mice and birds
>people who shoot cats/birds/anything along those lines for fun
You should keep your cat inside but still
On that note
>people with outside cats
>those greasy, disgusting-looking, unshaven weirdos that I see all the time that own like 15 snakes and feed them all live rats and shit
>when people don't spay/neuter
>bonus points if it's because it'll "change their pet" and they don't want that
>better fish in tiny bowl
>goldfish in tiny bowl
There's more but I can't think of any now
>>2084314
tl;dr: normies are fucking retarded
>>2083105
That wasn't worded great, so I don't really know what you mean, but neuter does mean spay and castrate.
>>2083157
>I just bought (6 week old high energy dog breed from BYB) can you guys tell me every single basic thing about dog care and explain this breed to be only after I decided to pay 900+ dollars for it?
>>2083212
>thinking popular care standards for cats is even vaguely adequate for any living being
>thinking most dog owners pay attention to care standards
>>2083772
>instinctively use dens
They haven't used dens for 10,000 years. The only sort of "den" they're interested in is one of those plastic ones that provide a private, comforting place.
If you have to regularly shove your dog in a crate, you're doing something wrong. It should serve the sole purpose of "Hey, for whatever specific reason, my dog needs to be in a crate for a few hours at most or overnight" not "I need to lock my poorly trained, under-exercised dog in a cage all day while I'm at work so he doesn't chew things." Also:
>people shoving their dogs in cages or "time out" as a punishment while yelling at them
>surprised when their dog throws a fucking fit when they're left in the same crate overnight/while they're gone
>>2084648
I'm not saying people don't fuck up the care for a dog or cat, but they know the barest basics even if they don't actually follow through. Anything else, and you get people not aware of even fundamental basic care.
>>2084659
That's true enough. It's really only dogs people know the vaguest shit about. Even though dogs are still owned by 60% autistics, cats got the worse end of the stick. Cats are "just a cat" and most people will do absolutely nothing for their cats just because it's so widely accepted that "not a dog = it's not a real commitment; I don't need to actually care for it"
>>2083902
Here's how I fixed it
>let dog stay home alone for first time
>purposefully leave food within his reach bUT in places he knows he's not allowed
>he breaks the rules, of course
>correct with simple firm scolding, saying no allot and hooking him on the runner for an hour or two
>do this again, but with nothing he can get to,house is as it would normally be.
>come home
>nothing has been disturbed, he's chilling in the living room
>we kept the tv on and he crashed on his bed while watching TV
Our dog is also pretty smart so even if he is fucking with things, we havnt noticed.
I've never crated my puppy, he would hate me. He knows he's got it pretty sweet.
>>2084314
I agree with this whole post.
>it's not a turtle it's a tortoise.
>>2084314
Agree with all of this senpai. Cute Crested too, I have a leopard gecko.
>>2083434
All of this, specially the cheetah.
buying pets just to attentionwhore
>oh yeah, this is my snake. I always walk through town with it on my shoulders. look at me guys!
>>2084837
Or buying the animal as a status symbol or some sort of bragging right.
>Yeah dude I just rescued this greyhound that had been racing its entire life, even though I'm an obese lazy fuck that doesn't even know how to take care of a low energy breed.
>>2082963
Why is this not good?
>Or buying the animal as a status symbol or some sort of bragging right.
that's almost all pets ever.
>>2084837
you know what's worse? people who don't understand that animals other than dogs like to go on walks, and come over to you like you're doing something amazing when you're just out with your pet
>>2084863
>animals other than dogs like to go on walks
name some that are cold-blooded.
>>2084863
weak bait
>>2083091
no you're not
>>2083633
I used to be extremely scared of wasps and anything that looked like one as a kid to the point of panicked crying and flailing around when I spotted one of them. That was until I was 11, I wasn't paying attention and a wasp got stuck in my hair and started spazzing around. So I think "what is this wierd tingling sensation by my ear" and move to scratch when the stupid cunt stung me right in my temple. And ever since then my fear had been replaced by anger.
I now have to restrain myself from picking a fight with a wasp whenever I spot one.
>>2085096
why would you be afraid of wasps.
I've been stung to the point that I couldn't move for several days and looked like Quasimodo (stepped on a nest several times) and I'm still not afraid of them.
>Be me at LFS
>Some family looking at saltwater fish
>They call a worker so they could get a "nemo fish" as they said.
>Did i mention that they were holding a small ten gallon with aquarium salt (the freshwater one for treating wounds)
>Store worker says that the salt is not proper for the clownfish and that it needs live rock and all that jazz
>"Well it's too expensive!"
>After a long argument between the worker and the family they get kicked out since they weren't going to provide idle conditions for the clownfish
Idk why but this really pissed me off
(Pic unrelated my tank lol)
Calling a millipede a centipede and vice versa.
>"lol whatever, it's the same thing anon!"
Motherfucker, they are basically perfect opposites. Next person to say that to me IRL is getting a pissed off centipede down the back of their shirt.
>>2085133
at least the worker questioned them and didn't blindly sell it
props to him
>>2083434
>when people confuse leopard print for cheetah print
Yessss, that and confusing leopard and jaguar makes me angry.
>>2085144
they're not really opposite
>>2085164
Not completely opposite no, but besides both being myriapods they're very different.
>mostly round/ mostly flat
>detrivore, rotting plants/carnivore
>two pairs of legs per segment/one pair
>slow/fast
>venomous/poisonous
For the purposes of dumbing shit down for people unfamiliar with inverts, opposite is good enough.
>>2085172
>mostly round/ mostly flat
you've been looking at too many scolopendras.
>>detrivore, rotting plants/carnivore
centipedes are omnivores, millipedes are omnivores as well.
>slow/fast
millipedes can be pretty fast.
>venomous/poisonous
they're both toxic.
can't remember about the legs per segments but it's probably a load of shit like the rest of your post.
>>2085099
Not that guy, im allergic to their
Even though it doesnt put me into a shock or something, im allergic enough to have my arm radius doubled if stung
Enough of a reason to be afraid
>>2083457
Motherfucker i found a spider in a goddamn peach seed
A FUCKING PEACH SEED
>>2085178
>they're both toxic.
so are you, you cunt
>>2084314
>Having a problem with outside cats
There are at least 20 outside cats around where i live and not a single person complained about it
And it is always nice to have friendly cats to pet around
>>2084829
>How can i fuck up my pet even worse
They become aggressive and dominant when it is breeding season. If you do not let them breed the aggression will be kept built up and they eventually lash out.
If you neuter them this doesnt happen
>>2085192
>and not a single person complained about it
because they're all clueless to the damage they do or simply don't care.
if you let cats outdoors you're a ego-centric asshole.
>>2085133
I only had pet fish when i was a child and because i was an idiot who knew nothing about fish, 2 of them killed the other 2 somehow.
But even though they looked cozy, i never understood, why would someone have fish as pets?
>>2085198
>because they're all clueless to the damage they do or simply don't care
>Believing this actually happens
Do you live in a place where all cats are niggers?
>>2084855
Because, as far as I understand anyway, putting a layer of anything with a drastically grittier under a layer of substrate isn't going to improve the drainage of the substrate. Water is a clingy bitch and so, what happens to substrate laying on top of gravel is the same thing that would happen to it anyway: the substrate gets saturated with water beyond its holding capacity and the water drains down until it's below that threshold again. After that, water exits the substrate by going up, not down, be it via evaporation from the surface of the substrate (or porous pot) or the plant's metabolism.
What adding a "drainage layer" to a pot does, then, is simply take up space in the pot, making the situation pretty much equal to the substrate being in a smaller, differently shaped pot. That's actually bad for drainage: there's a reason why pots tend to be way narrower at the bottom than the top! If you want to see the reason why with your own eyes, do a simple sponge test by soaking a normal rectangular sponge and hold it up flat. Wait it to stop dripping water, then flip it on its side ... And watch the water start pouring down again. With more surface area, water has more to cling to and so it takes more water to go over the threshold and start dripping down than if there were less surface area.
TL;DR: Because adding a drainage layer just doesn't work, not like it's intended to.
>>2085202
>Do you live in a place where all cats are niggers?
yeah I live on earth.
they cause billions worth of enviromental and propety damage, cats are the single most destructive pest species on earth, they're worse than cane toads and black rats combined.
>>2085206
>billions worth of enviromental and propety damage
>Cats deal as much damage as a company debts
You should stick with cockroaches
>>2085207
>le humans are a pest species.
it only applies to non-human animals you dip.
> when people call garter snakes gardener snakes or garden snakes
> when people call herons herrings
> when people call garden orb weavers banana spiders
> when people think sliders are snapping turtles
>>2085192
Thats because they all own the cats you fuckwit.
>>2085172
good enough for who?
>>2085213
> when people think sliders are snapping turtles
Holy shit this drives me crazy. I live in louisiana and every fucking turtle is a snapping turtle according to local dumbasses that make up most of the state population. Ill show them a picture of a fucking alligator snapping turtle thats the size of a couch cushion and they either think its fake or that the tiny little musk turtle is just a baby
The garter/garden snake thing happens often enough but I'm just happy they are close and realize it isnt a cottonmouth or copperhead and leave it the fuck alone instead of cutting its head off which is what happens to 9/10 snakes people find
>people who are afraid of snakes, spiders and insects
>people who are afraid moths
>moths
It's just a fuzzy butterfly. How could anyone be scared by that?
>>2085147
The people at that LFS always question you.
