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yo wth is this, it was just chillin in my bathroom being a dopey cunt, it popped its lil tendril head out both sides btw
and another >_>
What is it
Brown recluse
Do spiders have brains? Do they have brain structure like ours with a prefrontal cortex and an amygdala?
Do spiders have thoughts?
>>2093277
no. they have a little bundle of nerves and that's it
>>2093288
There is this wonderful search engine called Google have you heard of it? It's meant to answer any and all questions like yours.
So I found this cute little guy stuck in my doorway and it looked much prettier than the average lizard you see around here, so I'm just wondering what kind it is and if I should just let him go and be free or if I should take care of it.
>>2093108
It's a skink
>>2093108
We call them Alligator lizards around where I live because of how fucking hard they bite and they tend to be more aggressive than the average fence lizard.
You can let it go or look up a caresheet. I used to keep them when I was a kid, had them in a fish tank with a heat lamp, rocks, shelter and crickets and worms from the petshop. I would keep them for about a month or two at a time before letting them go and finding a new lizard to play with.
If you pick them up gently and slowly they are pretty chill...
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>>2093113
Thanks man, I think imma just let the little dude go in a park near by
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I just saw this little guy laying on in the middle of the street. Is he dead or is he just sleeping? ;_;
>>2093100
Pepe is taking a rest from living.
>>2093100
Dead
>>2093100
That nigga
DEAD
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What is making this?
It was in a big pile before I started sweeping it.
Mice?
>>2092972
It was me. Sorry.
Hey /an/, /fit/ here. I just came to my friend's place and saw this homeless cat he has been telling me about which looks hungry/dirty/generally fucked up. I saw it sneak in under his house and I feel that I should try and help it.
I have a dog and had a cat before and live on the country side where there is a lot of nature. What I am wondering is how would I go about taking this cat in? Like making it friendly towards me, cleaning it without getting any diseases etc.
Should I not do it at all? Any advice, stories or anything would be appreciated.
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First step take to vet and see what you're dealing with health wise.
>>2092956
Okay, how should I go about catching it? I tried to call it to me but it showed no interest and just ignored me. Should I drug it with some food or trap it in a cage to get it to the vet? It looks like it could carry diseases like scab or similar so should I use some type of gloves? Thanks beforehand for any help
>>2092958
>Should I drug it with some food
Fucking kek. I feel so sorry for that cat, you are going to be such a shit owner.
Is there any reason a dog wouldn't like basements? I've noticed any time my dog is in the basement with me he can't relax, won't lay around like he does everywhere else and just begs to lay in my lap or else he stands up
>>2092843
Not sure of your basement layout, but maybe he doesn't like it because there are no windows.
Maybe he doesn't like the smell of rotting dead hookers?
>>2092843
My guess would be temperature or smell. Maybe there is mold down there you don't know about, but he does. Or maybe you have some critters living down there that he can smell, like an opossum or raccoon.
Are you at a strange altitude? Maybe there is a change in pressure between the house and basement to his ears that you can't detect but he can.
Are there laws in the US against torture breeding/animal cruelty?
This guy breeds excessively large Neapolitan Mastiffs and this is his latest freakshow project... I sincerely hope this never happens. Surely there must be some legislation against selectively breeding negative traits into animals???
Pic related actual dogs from mesopotamia, absolutely nothing like this animal.
>>2092822
>Chad Mayo
So it's the same guy who designed the abomination from the other thread?
>>2092822
>millions of animals euthanized each year because of overbreeding
>thinks there are regulations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTY9pWETrhA
You have to watch this shit /an/.
It's about a bunch of middle aged batshit crazy women getting monkeys, treating them like children, and calling them "monkids".
It works about as well as you'd expect.
>>2092792
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTY9pWETrhA
>You have to watch this shit /an/.
>It's about a bunch of women
>It works about as well as you'd expect.
Ftfy
>>2092798
To be fair, my favorite and the worst one is the guy who was retarded enough to get a fucking monkey advertised as "good breeder, not a pet" and then slap a diaper on it and keep it in his house because "nothings mean forever"
>>2092792
Middle aged women getting monkeys/apes as baby substitutes is a well known phenomenon. Most of the time it ends badly for the primates, since these women don't know shit about what they need.
The well known case where a chimp ripped a woman's face of was the result of this. The case is often used as an example of how evil chimps are supposed to be, but really, it was the woman's faulty, anthropomorphising care that was to blame.
This is the main reason that primates should be banned as pets.
Is it cruel to keep hermit crabs as a pet? I want to get a large tank with maybe 3 of them but I read that they can often die in a single year in captivity...
>>2092784
Only because no one knows how to fucking look after them.
>>2092784
be more specific, there are thousands of species in many Genera
Some marine, some brackish and a few terrestrial
Tell us which species you want. Otherwise it's like saying:
How do I care for a snake?
>>2092787
Basically ones from a local petstore?
Not sure of the species honestly. But I'm Australian and live in Cairns, so it's pretty warm and humid which seems to be what they generally like.
My mother relayed me a story from her past, where she had a chicken that got bitten by a dog in the behind and developed an infection as a result. It got infested with maggots and she had to clean it out and nurse it back to health. When she was done, the cloaca (or whatever it is called) was healed shut and the chicken couldn't lay eggs properly.
Somehow, that story made me sad. Btw, this story happened several decades ago in the Anatolian countryside, so going to the vet for a chicken would be unrealistic, as in, there were many PEOPLE who couldn't go to...
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If it was taken in right away it probably could have healed in a way so the cloaca wasn't shut.
>>2092755
Maybe could have put something in the cloaca so it could heal around the natural opening but not close with scar tissue. The foreign object would have to be held in place with some kind of harness. I'm thinking something similar to the "spoon" they use when an ewe prolapses. Ugh, poor chicken. I think putting it out of its misery would have been best, however. The cloaca is for egg-laying but also elimination. So if it scarred over, the chicken would die of sepsis because it couldn't poop.
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>>2092896
That's actually pretty close to what you would do aside from you should use a straw. It's the typical treatment for a fixable prolapse
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So I had to put my cat down recently and think I'm finally ready to move on. If I really liked all of the attention and affection this cat gave me (spending most of her time with me when I'm available and so on) would be getting two cats a bad idea?
>>2092680
So it begins
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q60wHn1-rgE
>>2092692
Don't have a vagina and wouldn't go above two so that's out. I just kind of want to have a really close bond like last time and I don't know if two would sort of fuck that up
My cat recently passed away too. Was yours also a brown tabby like in your pic?
Getting two young cats sounds cool because then they'll grow up together and be catbros instead of complete autists. But at the same time then you'll have to buy twice as much kitty-shit.
Anyway, getting two cats doesn't seem like an intrinsically bad idea. Just a matter of if you have time/energy/money to give fucks about two cats.
can an identify my dog? she was a stray but I'm pretty sure she's black shepherd and black lab mix although some people tell me she's all shepherd. she's only 50 pounds
more pics for reference, it's hard to get a good one because she's black and I think she was abused. she always has her ears pinned down and is generally super submissive
I am conducting a (very short!) survey regarding the opinions of people on renewable energy and how to fund it, and the environment. The data will be used in a paper that I'm writing for one of my classes.
The more data the better! Thanks. Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15E1OwcR6HrcJZnT_gGNjNVJpYqRTDm56-GSgodvfq4g/viewform
>>2092530
>Genders: Male, Female, Other
>Other
"Others" have opinions about this stuff too!
What do you think of Blackfish, /an/? Left-wing propaganda or the truth behind the cruelty exposed? Is SeaWorld as evil as it claims to be?
>>2092392
>expose of truthful events that happened
>propaganda
there isn't an argument to be made; it comes down to either you hate animals or you don't. that will determine how you feel about the documentary.
>>2092395
first post best post
How many blackfish threads do we really need? Regardless, shit's to be taken with a hefty grain of salt and should not be believed at face value.
>>2092395
kek
