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#BLM #ownvoices No Pipelines / Queer disabled jew / writer, random crafter, librocubicularist / Icon by lj user chibi_warumono

[depsidase]

[labvet]

Saw a video today about “why aren’t there more veterinary medical dramas?” A bunch of people in the comments were saying things like “off to write an office style vet med tv show” or “oh a scrubs style show!”

So I would like to add some personal experiences that could make for comedy gold on a show like this:

Excited pig monch to butt/knee cap/boots (see this post)

Surgery/necropsy where something full of liquid that is not blood erupts all over the doc/tech/student (like a giant cyst or abscess)

Bird escaping a kennel and techs having to wander around a dark room with nets trying to catch it OR bird escapes kennel, lands on a tech’s foot and attacks shoe while tech has to carefully scoot across room to get a net to catch the amgry birb

Farm call where a group of amgry geese/swans/turkeys are between vet and patient

Yearling colt doesn’t want vaccines so badly that he bolts from the restrainer by managing to tear the ring the lead rope attaches to off his halter

Absurd hamster death

Vet goes home to visit family farm for holidays and ends up providing impromptu wound care to family horse that did something stupid to get through the night

Sassy bunny steals something out of your hands, runs under something, and growls at you while you’re trying to get it

Being trapped in a room with a client for half an hour trying to get a yes or no on CPR/DNR on a patient (could be side plot of a whole episode)

Tech/student not scrubbed into a surgery freezing in the OR and cuddling with a freshly autoclaved surgical pack for warmth

Rat just hanging out on someone’s shoulder for a whole episode while they go about their duties

Any other ideas?

[anyonewestofbree]

Add zoo medicine to this and you truly cannot conceptualize the levels of chaos that can happen…. I’ve personally been involved in:

Almost drowning self and patient in mud attempting to net a hog

A sedating dart misfire out of the gun directly up into the air and having everybody stand stock still waiting to see where it would fall back down

Having an animal who is “mostly” sedated but has to move quickly, so being told “we’ll throw it on the back of the golf cart, you sit on her and we’ll drive fast”

Watching a supervisor literally up to the elbow manually cleaning out a rhino rectum for an enema, wearing neon orange crocs and saying that they’re better than closed toed shoes because “you can hose ‘em off after”

Techs not communicating they had started intubating so everyone thought the lion was rousing rather than coughing and everyone trying to panic bolt out of the stall

Being told “Be careful if you go into the hospital, I wasn’t paying attention while making diets, so the rehab crow stole and is now flying around with a knife in his mouth”

just to name a few

[followthebluebell]

"heeey, Bluebell? There's a feral cat loose in exam room one..."

"No problem, I'll get him back in his kennel."

[truly absurd amount of crash noises]

"... he has decided NOT to go back to his kennel and I think I'm going to give him a chance to calm down and re-think his decision. :)"

"Hey, does this rash look like ringworm to you?"

[spoiler alert: it's always ringworm]

Human ingenuity displayed via non-conventional cat carriers (kindest way I can say 'someone tried to bring their cat in a fucking plastic bin)

multiple instances of, "oh, don't worry about the blood. It's all mine. :)"

"Sorry I smell like pee. If it's any consolation, none of it is mine. Does that help? I can't tell if that helps. I think it helps."

[oneiric-wanderlust]

Buddy Guy on being cast in Sinners.

"Well, they came into my club here in Chicago, and I was surprised. They say, “Look, we want you to play this little part that’s called Sammie.” And I’m saying, “Well, let me see”… Because I don’t have a high school education to be reading long scripts. I did learn how to read and write. I’m like BB King: I’m not fast at it, but if you give it to me and give me time, I can memorize it. But the older you get, the less you can memorize. Whatever can help the blues stay alive, I’m all for it, and I will try anything. I said, I don’t know if I’m good enough to do that. But I’ll give it a try, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, at least I’ll say I gave it a try."-Buddy Guy.

Sinners (2025)│Directed by Ryan Coogler.

Buddy Guy's newest album "AIN'T DONE WITH THE BLUES" is available.

[unhinged-kitten]

i’m “house phone” years old

[foolsturmoil]

beautiful interaction i saw on the internet today

[thememedaddy]

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[gallusrostromegalus]

Thoughts, in approximate order:

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes

[collected-sports-bra]

Genuine question:

Could coyotes be domesticated, sometime down the line? I know there are animals like bears that could never be, but coyotes seem close enough to dogs for it to work in many many many many generations.

Or is there something about coyotes that would make that impossible.

[gallusrostromegalus]

The Hare Indian Dog is a now-extinct canine that is strongly suspected to have been a domesticated coyote or coyote-dog hybrid that was bred by the Sahtu people of far northern Canada. The breed went into decline with the displacement and genocide of the Sahtu and other indigenous people of the area, and they could not keep as many of their dogs in the reservations, so the breed eventually comingled back into Newfoundland and Canadian Inuit Dogs. We don't have any preserved specimens to do any genetic testing on, so far as I know.

Could Coyotes be domesticated again? Yes and No.

Yes: They're REALLY closely related and already frequently interbreed with domestic dogs and are in a similar ecological position to the proto-dogs: comfortable living in and around human settlements, especially garbage dumps. Biologically, it's a VERY short hop (possibly as few as 2 or 3 mutations) to domestication for them.

No: The actual practicality of domesticating coyotes is negligible. Humans domesticated dogs in the first place because partially because we needed help with hunting, but probably mostly because we had fuck-all else to do for fun back then. In the modern age of readily available livestock and needing to monetize EVERYTHING or suffer for it, there isn't really much need or interest in domesticating coyotes. It'd take a large canine farming facility, similar to the fox farms of the early 1900's, multiple generations of careful genetic testing and manipulation, and would be goddamn impossible to zone or get insurance for.

The re-domestication of Cheetahs has a slightly better shot because there is a genuine need for LOTS of them as an ecological keystone species and there's decent odds of finding some rich idiots to back that project so they can have The Coolest Pet Cat.

If for some reason there became a widespread need for hunting dogs again, like say, the total collapse of society ala Cinematic Zombie Apocalypse, people would probably stick to domestic dogs, but there would be a lot of cross-breeding with coyotes FAST, especially in the USA Southwest. It's something I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic fiction author explore. That and what happens when various zoo animals eventually break out/are broken out of their enclosures and start populating new habitats. Elephants would be worth their weight in gold in a society with no more functioning bulldozers.

[creekfiend]

Children’s Social and Emotional Development Starts with Co-Regulation — The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality

In the first three years of life the brain goes through an incredible growth spurt, producing more than a million neural connections every s

some stuff about how nervous system development is socially based in human beings, specifically about early childhood development but relevant to people who are trying to develop stability or regulation skills later in life as well. not something you can do on your own! we need social support as human beings.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Destroying my home's "resale value"* by painting it in colours that only I can love.

* Painting your home fun colours will not destroy its resale value even if you do care about that. Your home's value is primarily derived from its location and the structure/materials of the building itself. Paint your home however you want and if you do choose to sell it to somebody with better taste then repainting can be their problem.

[parkchanwoohoo]

This is so funny. People never change

[patrochilles-or-bust]

EVERYONES PICKING ON ME BECAUSE I DONT HAVE THE NEW SHOES MOM I'M NOT POPULAR MOM AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!

[parkchanwoohoo]

#this could be a literal text message lol#i don't think he's manipulating her lol just being a salty teenager

LITERALLY LMFAO "HIS dad works for MY dad but he looks BETTER than me" is an outraged cry from spoiled teens all throughout time all throughout the world

[outerspacekake]

We gotta make this kid Ea Nasir levels of popularity. I want the two most famous ancients to be "shitty copper merchant" and "spoiled brat"

ALSO PROFESSOR PODANY MY BELOVED!

[teathattast]

GEEKED

LOCKED IN

[importantcatpics]

[dogposts]

Cerberus at the pet store

[ampervadasz]

[bumblebeerror]

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

[roach-works]

im a fan of the moment where the husky is like 'wait you're not authorized to do that' and the collie is like 'THE FUCK IM NOT'

[spacelazarwolf]

unstoppable force (border collie) vs immovable object (husky)

[sapphosewrites]

I've probably watched too much Leverage, because a man in campus cop uniform came in to ask questions about our box office safe today and my boss let him in and gave him all the info he wanted, no questions asked, and all I could think is that we are horrifically easy to con

[sapphosewrites]

Yes, guy with a toolbelt who says he's the plumber here to fix our known leak, please have unrestricted access to our basement directly below the box office.

If this were Leverage he would be drilling through the floor right now

[kajaono]

Maybe he is? Have you checked?

[sapphosewrites]

No, although I did check the organizational ID of the British woman who came in to do a last minute film shoot on the second floor, bringing with her an equipment cart large enough to hide a person in.

[sapphosewrites]

So it turns out that there is, indeed, money missing from the safe.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[depsidase]