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NO! HAW BOUT YOU BUND OVAR M8?
Thanks to 4chan I now know maaaaaaany animals besides primates can and will masturbate.
>>2157348
no, cuck.
The area around the dog's eyes is white. No other animal has that except for humans. Dogs evolved to have the white part from living with humans for so long and looking into our eyes. Isn't that beautiful?
![white-sclera[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/u09kJlo.jpg "white-sclera[1].jpg")
>>2157293
Visible sclera (the white part you are referring to) is found in many other species, not just our domestic canine, and I'm 99.9% sure it didn't evolve from "living with humans for so long and looking into our eyes."
I think you need to stop reading every facebook article you see and taking it as gospel.
>>2157293
>>>/facebook/
>>2157901
That was my first thought.
>FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: DOGS EYES MUST READ RE: FWD: FWD: DOGS EYES MUST READDOGS EYES MUST READDOGS EYES MUST READ
wtf is wrong with my cat
this is how much dead hair I brush off of him every single day and despite that I still find hairs on my furnishings, my clothes, my person
I can't take it any more and I'm seriously considering getting rid of him
help
It's summer man.
do you want your cat to die of heat stroke
Is this bait?
That's pretty standard for a daily brush in molting season. If you don't want hair everywhere don't get an animal with fur.
Hypothetical situation /an/
If a feral child like Tarzan or Mowgli, who was raised by a pack/family of animals like gorillas or wolves, how would they develop sexually into puberty?
Would they attempt to mate with females in the pack?
>>2157222
>Tarzan or Mowgli
existed* meant to put that there.
Question still stands
It's happened with a chimpanzee raised by humans so probably, but I'd also imagine it would depend to an extent on how similar the species in question was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(chimpanzee)
everyday I walk on campus I get dive bombed by this asshole crow. Same stretch of sidewalk. I get close and hear him do these short calls.
why is this happening? I've watched other people walk and seen him dive one other person so it's not just me but the crow seems to be selective.
He gets literally a foot or less away because I can hear the woosh right next to my ear and feel a rush of wind. Am I at risk of getting my shit fucked up by this asshole?
My dad made me watch The Birds when I was a kid so I may be making a big deal out of some harmless...
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>>2157143
Bring something to hit it with. You are the dominant species
>>2157143
Crows are smart enough to recognize people, and hold grudges. Maybe you look like someone who pissed it off earlier.
>>2157369
this. try to make friends with him maybe, offer him food.
Do you guys have/ever had any pets with weird habits or behaviors specific to them?
My germen shepherd would always eat bees. She was obsessed. She's chase after them and snap at them, shaking her head with her tongue out when they stung her, then go for another one.
No idea what was up with her.
My hamster has never bitten me
>>2157104
my boxer does this. i remember he was stung as a pup and i believe he associates their buzzing with pain.
My bird loves to shove his beak up my nose, he doesn't even get any boogers yet he just continues to put his beak in there
ITT: Worst cages for any small animal.
Such as a rat, a mouse, a hamster, a gerbil...
I'll start.
This fucking piece o' shit monstrosity is as big as a fucking hamster itself, and a rat couldn't fit in this piece of shit.
The only use for this puny thing is filling it up with rubber and using it as a fleshlight. It's about the size of the average dick, after all.
So, what are some of the worst cages you've seen?
(If it's for something other than a small rodent, please specify)
>>2157044
Has it occurred to you that the vessel is shaped like a bus, implying that it's meant to temporarily be used for transfer of the animal between owners?
>>2157055
Trust me.
There's some dimwit that will use this as a permanent cage.
People have used kritter keepers before.
>>2157058
They're just little things though. How much space could one hamster need?
what kind of moss is this and can i steal it to use for carnivorous plants
>>2156825
that's sphagnum moss. you can buy it at pet stores and garden centres.
>>2156844
thats what i thought it was. i guess im more wondering if its alive or not
>>2156850
That's dry moss. Pic with live moss.
What kind of bug is this?
I woke up to it in the middle of night on my head walking behind my ear
>>2156669
Oh fuck, looks like a June bug.
I fuckin' hate those things.
>>2156677
I live in Virginia, so you're probably right
thanks anon
can someone ID this snail for me? it looks a bit like the golden mystery snails, with the shell and body shape, but the colors are wrong. Is it just an... albino version, or something?
>>2156575
>that gravel
jesus christ
>>2156873
what's wrong with it?? is it too colorful or something? do you hate fun or is there something ACTUALLY wrong with it?
>>2156928
It's ghetto and tacky.
Aquariums look classy with natural rocks, they look ghetto with wal-wart gravel and plastic plants.
Fish don't live in a world like that.
They feel calmer with black gravel.
Bright colors indicate poison in nature.
Light colors indicate shallow-water thus the fish live in fear of predation and lose their natural coloration.
Ever see feeder guppies? The gray ones that cost 99 cents per head? They are the same species as the colorful ones, only living a...
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Alright, so there's something that's been bothering me.
>be dude
>loves pets
>one day, pet gets in a freak accident that i couldn't have stopped
>go online for help
>tell story
>50 replies about how "I shouldn't have let this happen" and how I'm an irresponsible pet owner who should die
Why the FUCK do 'animal...
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>>2156375
because /an/ and animal rights groups consist of a bunch of hatchet wounds for whom moral signalling is a safe and effective way to assert superiority and climb their own localized clique ladders.
Same reason why a vid on youtube of someone petting an animal will invariably have at least 10 female commentors sobbing
>you don't pet them that way they'll get psychological damage this is super cereal whyyyy?!?
>>2156375
Sounds like /an/ to be honest. I see threads all the time where people are asking for help, and /an/ goes batshit because not everyone can afford proper healthcare or keep their arm up their dog's ass to prevent it moving more than a few inches away from them.
People are crazy, man. If you genuinely love and respect your animal, it's more than likely gonna be just fine. Millions of dogs are in loving homes that haven't done socialization and obedience and taught the basic 9 commands. It works...
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>>2156375
Because most of /an/ and, by extension, 4chan, is autistic and can't comprehend that people's actions can be unintentional.
Sorry about your pet, anon.
How long would you guess it would take to befriend a murder of Crows in my backyard? I'm living in somewhat suburban/rural area.
I'm hoping to get them to scare away the barn swallows that are constantly dive bombing me to protect pic related.
On a scale of 1 to 10 how autistic/likely to work is this idea?
>>2156297
Want to add I've been feeding them for around a week now, almost every day... There seem to be a decent number hanging around all day now. Before I hardly saw them
Sounds like you already know what you're doing then. Just keep it up. Be consistent.
>>2156301
I did this for fun, in the middle of a big city. Got to the point they would get in petting distance as i only fed the ones that got close. Must have looked funny to ppl driving by.
the police has told me I have two days to get rid of my dogs because they have done something really wrong
"Luckily" the local police is pretty "chill". And they give those two days to "get ready" which in my "province" means I have time to figure something out.
The thing is, I don't have alive relatives nor close friends (at least not the ones I can just appear in his door to tell them if they can take care of three +20 kg dogs). In the other hand I can't just escape since I'm poor as fuck and already have...
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Wew lad, this one tastes a little different from the typical b8 threads. What did the dogs do that passed off the law? That matters in this situation. Will help you decide between kill dogs and give them away
take them to the vet
>>2156300
> leave the house to work
> return
> police is in front of my house
> they somehow "attacked" a 4 yo boy
> dogs are in backyard behind my house, kids probably were fooling around
> kid is a police officer's nephew
>>2156304
there's no vets in my...
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Any crab lovers?
>>2156139
I LOVE to eat CRAB. Heh.
>>2156139
I had two hermit crabs as a kid and they were so much more active and intelligent than you'd think. Really really cool and underrated pet.
I'd like to have some again, but I don't know much about the "hermit crab industry". Where do pet hermit crabs even come from? Are they mistreated or gotten in bad ways?
>>2156335
ALL pet shop animals are treated in bad ways.
Buying them saves them from further harm, though.
My family's chocolate lab puppy is beginning to associate peeing on the floor inside with "oh boy, now they're going to let me out". What can I do to make sure he knows inside bad, outside good.
He'll pee a little inside, go outside and only play. Then he'll come in and pee again.
>>2155822
Time for spankies.
>>2155822
Ignore him. Honestly, with my 10 week old puppy I just ignored her when she peed inside usually as long as it took to clean up the mess. When she was that old I knew she could hold it for two-three hours so i'd just clean it up then take her out just before the next time I knew she had to pee. Keep some enzyme-based cleaner handy and just clean up the spills as they go. At least distract the dog until you can be sure they won't associate pee inside with "out". You gotta expect accidents at this...
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