So my Shi Tzu bud is 14 now and I've been feeding him nice sliced ham/turkey etc. instead of dog food. I figure he's pretty old now so what the hell. Is this a good idea or does their body agree more with designated "dog food"? I haven't noticed him getting sick or anything.
you're going to end up giving it a heart disease like that.
>>2081518
no-go then, alright.
>I haven't noticed him getting sick or anything
do you really think heart disease or cancer is easily visible?
>he's lived to a healthy old age on one type of food
>why don't i change his diet
brilliant
Hey /an/ I like me some herps and psychedelics so I was thinking of getting a few bufo alviarus anyone know anything about them? I was thinking of making a semi-large terrarium with live plants in 1/4 water in 1/4 dry land in 1/4 and 1/4 with a hide of some sort but I don't know if this would be a working model or if it would make them totally radical toads. Any one know a semi-safe milking schedule and any way of doing it with the least stress
>>2081307
>there are people this retarded
>>2081307
>milking
why not give them a kiss?
don't.
t. bufotoxin piss
Most cruel fight predator cats for meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fIteIbhKNQ
Well that was dull - a minute of my life utterly wasted.
>saging this POS
It is very very cruel
>>2081343
You are very very faggot
What up /an/,
Was wondering if anyone could share some insight as to what to do with my 18 yr old cat. She's a 6 lbs maine coon. She doesn't really eat her food anymore, just licks it. She passed a blood test to go under anesthesia for a dental cleaning and extractions but I worry about putting a cat that old and light under anesthesia.
Would the professional dental procedure help her eat more if successful? Or should I just try brushing her teeth and using holistic dental gels and spray?
>pic related
There's no solid answer I'm afraid my grandparents had about 5 cats over the years all of them lived happily to about 25 It could be a bad idea putting her under bottom line is that you need to get her to eat
cats reach their full size when they get about a year and half
Weight I imagine is different
My 2 yr old shorthair
Is about that weight
too but she is a little
chub and looks healthy
There are liquid meal replacements for senior cat. Have you gave that a try?
And if her teeth are hurting her, taking the pain away will make her eat more.
Human life is essentially the extenuation through nature in order to achieve biological necessities.
This is why the best time to provide nutrition for muscle growth is right after working out, as our ancestors would constantly be hunting and expending energy doing so. It's already been proven that working out increases mood levels and lowers depression.
I could probably go on and on about how essentially every physical problem can be resolved by returning to a natural state. Things like depression, obesity, low self-esteem, disease, etc.
Just looking at this computer screen right now is messing up my sleep cycle, as my eyes are naturally designed to make me sleepy once the sun goes down (and there is less light).
So, without further ado, if you have any physical problems, ask them here and I will try to do my best to help you with them.
Some of that is true, except disease.
Sure there are some diet related problems if you're retarded but aside from that we are way better off disease wise.
>>2081037
Not op, but arguably we arent *naturally* better off. If it werent for vaccination and hygiene, better medical understanding, urbanized areas would be cesspools of disease.
This is such a fucking stupid idea goddamn. Are you insinuating that all disease stems from anything not "natural"? What does " natural" even mean? Is the spear the primitive human in the OP pic unnatural? How can you make a meaningful distinction between natural and unnatural? Is it based on stuff we do? What is the base natural state? Would hunter gatherers who are starving because they can't catch any game still be in a better state than a well fed and healthy modern person? If I have cancer and decide to go live on the savanah will I get healthier? What about diseases in wild animals? Do they get those because they're acting unnaturally? Before humans were around were all forms of life in a perfect state?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvBzc6JRQM
Post more "animal lovers" here.
>inb4: moles are pests
poor little mole
What the fuck? That mole is tortured. How did she even get this? Did she just dig for one in her back yard and stuffed it in a fucking cereal container of soil?
>>2080826
jesus
Live in NYC. My lease originally had a No Pet's clause in it, but I'm not on lease anymore. Asked my landlord if he was okay with me getting a Chinchilla and he said that the building is under some no pet regulation with the city or something so he can't allow it.
I do have major depressive and anxiety disorders with possible borderline. From what I see, apparently I have the option of asking a psychiatrist to make me out an emotional support animal note to bypass the No Pets regulation.
Do any anons have experience with this sort of thing? I'm already getting anxiety over it all because I've been saving up for 2 years to get a pet, and I was so excited that the time is coming soon now that I have some extra cash from my tax refund. Now my hopes are shattered.
Does that nigga check your apartment everyday? No? Fuck him and get a pet. I've had a cat and fish for years and the only time the landlord came I had someone hold my cat.
I wouldn't get a chinchilla if had depression.
Try 2 rats.
Are you already seeing a psychiatrist or were you planning to see one especially?
>>2080821
getting a pet because of depression can backfire and make the animal a burden for you
Why do you suppose cainism is so much more common in booted eagles and hawks, than in sea eagles?
Because god always gives more fucks about one booted eagle or hawk sibling than the other. Or something. I don't fucking now.
Just anticipation of a harder life
>>2080766
Well of course, learning basic survival skills is crucial. I'm just wondering why it seems to be less common in sea eagles, particularly Stellar's sea eagle and the bald eagle. I've been watching nest cams for a few years, and while I've seen some brutal sibling rivalry, it's never resulted in death. They've died of illness, or starvation, but never direct killing and cannibalism.
They seem to be more docile.
I know a lot of you on here dont believe in hitting your dog. I trained my terrier that way, but I'm positive that's not going to go over too well with my red heeler. She's too tough, she thinks we're playing when I try to punish her. To actually get the point across I feel like I would actually do physical damage. Pls halp pls forgive me for hitting my other doge
I read put them in a crate as time out but I also read not to use a crate as punishment? She has problems with playful biting and chewing on things she shouldn't, but mostly at my boyfriend's house. At my house she seems to have less issues. Not sure why this could be
I grew up with heelers. So let me just say, Ha ha! You fucking sucker!
Heelers are stupid high energy to begin with. Even as adults, they're hell on wheels and need several jobs and responsibilities to stay sane. If they get bored (which happens easily), they will destroy everything you love.
You don't have that though. You have a very young heeler. I am seriously laughing at you right now. I am so sorry. You have at least a year of terror ahead of you.
Heelers are way smarter than most other dogs. Don't hit your dog. They remember. It wont get you the results you want either.
For the biting thing. This may or may not ever stop. I've had heelers that understood to not bite people ever and then I had one extreme dork who was convinced that he needed to have his mouth around peoples' hands at all time (but just learned to never apply pressure). Heelers are extremely mouthy dogs. That's what they've been bred for.
The number one thing heelers hate is to be ignored. But don't do it for long because it takes all of 3 seconds for them to decide to jump on your kitchen counter and feed butter to your hamster or some other ridiculous thing.
When your dog bites you too hard, yelp, pull away, look super offended and get up and walk away. But come back quickly or else your dog will have climbed the tree in your back yard and brought your favorite shoes with her.
Also, just keep shoving things in her mouth that she's allowed to chew on. Don't stop. Anytime she gets bitey, shove a bone in there. Or a jerky treat, or a fucking towel. Whatever. Decide all the things she's allowed to destroy and keep shit tons of it on hand.
Pic totally related. I left them alone for less than a minute to find them eating the cat food. The one on the left was my tard face that just had to have my hand in his mouth at all times.
>>2080720
>I read put them in a crate as time out but I also read not to use a crate as punishment
When my dog was a puppy, sometimes he'd get stupidly crazy. Like he'd be awake for three hours, and then suddenly go insane trying to ruin anything he found, start getting the zoomies and tearing up the house, etc. I figured out it was because he was overstimulated/overtired. I'd pop him in the crate and cover it and stay quiet for a bit, and within thirty seconds he'd drop.
>She has problems with playful biting and chewing on things she shouldn't, but mostly at my boyfriend's house. At my house she seems to have less issues.
This is probably because all the things at your house are familiar to her, and so they're a little less interesting. The things at your boyfriend's house smell different and are new! She wants to interact with everything. Bring along a toy JUST for the boyfriend's house that she can gnaw on.
Can we have a shellfish thread? Do these exist?
I just went clamming today, in Northern Washington. Miserably wet, pouring rain, 30mph winds, but we took home over 320 clams in our group. While washing some off in a net sack I came across pic related.
I showed family and friends, and stuffed it in my jacket pocket. Long story short, when I brought it back to camp I discovered two tiny crabs (each less than 1/4in big) and a living barnacle took refuge inside/on it.
Here are my questions:
What species crabs are they?
How big do they get?
Can I keep them alive?
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a picture of the crabs, since they quickly scurried deep into the shell. A brief description: light blue, even lighter underbelly, pearly white claws (?), pinkish around the edges. I'll see if I can get a picture later.
I did, however, snap several pictures of the barnacle and got a few vids, but still need to convert them to .webm (sorry about potato quality, used my phone). I'll dump them when I get the time.
Thank you all in advance, and enjoy this creepy so of a bitch.
What temperature is the water normally? is it coldwater? or tropical? Could possibly be kept alive. Would be really neat. You should sent them to me so i can put them in my nano reef :)
Don't be shellfish, OP.
There are tiny little crabs in the Puget Sound that look like cold water hermit crabs. They're super adorable. Maybe that's what you found?
When I was living on a boat, I kept one of those tiny, adorable shore crabs and a sea anemone as pets. I would give them high and low tide every day and feed them whatever I was eating. They lived pretty well and seemed healthy. Of course, I was living on a boat so I was surrounded by sea water to give them fresh water and movement every day. Living on the boat made their care super easy tier.
at what age, roughly, does a cat's skeletal structure become more or less set? my cat is 8 months old and she's already enormous, wondering how much bigger she's going to get.
That's a weird way of wording 'how big will my cat get'.
>>2080391
well, i'm more curious about skeletal growth than that of soft tissue. but it was pretty odd in retrospect.
Ask your vet, if you really want to be completely sure you can get rads to check her growth plates.
Guys look at how much my betta changed colour.
This is him now the black is much darker not on camera
To give you an idea of how much darker he got
Marble bettas have a weird gene that often make them turn different colors, sometimes changing throughout their life.
Pic related.
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not an expert by any means, but definitely some hound in it. perhaps a beagle or foxhound mix?
a dog for ants
>>2079362
brown recluse
So Twitter showed me this
What is it, do you guys know?
>that clickbait
Its a chimera, I think. Completely harmless, and you would never ever encounter one that wasn't dying or dead if you were swimming in the ocean.
>>2078093
This. Don't click clickbait articles.
A Protoss ambassador
So we have a 3 years old male, neutered, cat. My sister brough a 3 months female kitten.
Now Old cat dosn't like anything, he dosn't like his old sleeping places anymore because New kitten has been there and now he hangs on places where New kitten can reach like over the fridge or the window's edges.
Overall they don't get well together, every time they see each other New kitten looks to play and old cat just beats her up yet new kitten still seek to play with him after that.
I feel really bad for Old cat, what can I do so he feel comfortable at home again?
>>2074734
http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/cats/tips/introducing_new_cat.html
Read that, start over. It shouldn't take too long honestly.
I agree with the other poster.
Also, what food are you feeding? At three a cat should still be quite active.
