Drem Yol Lok, Wunduniik

I have a lot of videogame boyfriends and I ain't ashamed of it. Permanently neuro-linked to BT-7274. I love Jaal Ama Darav, Kaidan Alenko, & Emmrich Volkarin

[cartoonscientist]

I mean, I do like spiders

what?

[painted-bees]

this week has been way too exciting [negative]

I had just gotten back from my dog's neurologist appointment, which was...4 hrs long and stressful😭 Planned on eating a nice lunch and then getting some work done while there was still time in the day.

Only to watch a myna with a fat grub in it's beak land by my back door and then deliberately drop said grub and stare at it for a moment before flying off with a little "bwee" sounding coo.

And then I watched the grub move.

And then the horror dawned on me that it was not a grub.

it was this fucking thing:

I had a very ugly reaction that I will not describe in detail but fuck me 😭 I did not need this rn.

because I knew. I KNEW no rehabber here would take a myna hatchling. And I was right. Was basically told "congrats, it's urs" or "let nature take its course". It's such a strong, spirited little guy, if he's gonna die, he's gonna die warm with a full belly. Got a heatlamp and the appropriate food.

Let me be frank, I have no hope for this guy.

I have hand reared chicks before, but never this young. I hated doing it back then and I never wanna do it again. but this guy...He is like..1-5 days old.

SO, my life for the next week is gonna be waking up at 5:30am to feed this guy every 30 minutes until midnight. All day, every day. Assuming (biiig assumption) he doesn't just die overnight.

But he IS eating and pooping very well so far...so maybe he's gonna force me to live like this for a while after all 🫩 I give it a 50/50 chance, very generously. There's still a matter of diseases n' shit. He looks and acts healthy but who fuckin' knows what's going on under the hood.

It will be what it will be and all I can do is my best.

[painted-bees]

So, I have 2 plausible theories abt this

usually, when a parent kicks a chick out, it's because the chick is obviously very unwell and tending to it further is a waste of resources.

This chick, however, is very strong and determined AND had apparently been fed prior to abandonment. So--not unwell and not a waste of resources.

my first plausible theory is that these are first time parents who are very stressed by the monsoons and LOUD construction taking place across the street. Filicide can occur under such conditions.

My more plausible theory, however, is that the myna I saw was a home-invading kidnapper--not the actual parent of this particular chick. Mynas will kill rival nests, and evict chicks in order to claim the nesting site for themselves. And I think that's what happened here 😩

[painted-bees]

survived the night :V

Ate a fuckton of breakfast.

comfy.

[painted-bees]

lil dude has officially been with us for 24 whole hours...which might be most of his life, at this point!

So it's time to

get weighed, idiot!

9 gram.

Grub is currently 1 AAA battery large.

[painted-bees]

folks are already vested in Grub and I'm so nervous abt this being a sad ending. Please don't hold your breath for this little guy, the odds stacked against him are monumental.

When I weigh him tomorrow, I wil be able to get a clearer picture about whether or not he is on a trajectory of healthy development or if his growth is stalling and he is failing to thrive.

He can look good and strong, but if he can't absorb the requiered nutrient load and grow, then that could very well be the end for him.

I've been watching him around the clock and his behaviors seem good so far as my eyes can tell me...but more importantly, pls look at his tiny feetie claws

you can also see the eggtooth still clearly present at the tip of his beak here.

[painted-bees]

He hasn't been food begging in a little too long... this is the longest he's gone without gaping and I can't get him to do it. The last I fed was just before the previous update. Very worried that this might be it for him, as there's really no way to safely force feed at this stage. Not sure what happened. I'll continue keeping an eye with food at the ready--but this might be it for him.

[painted-bees]

my husband woke me up at 5am

"guess who's hungry!!"

How does this happen? Terminal lucidity???

Anyways, I fed him. Slowly. Over the course of an hr. As much as he begged for. He ate a lot.

we'll see.

like...he was GONE gone when I fell asleep last night. I mourned the little bastard.

He went 14 hrs without food. I don't where he got all this enrergy from at 5am.

I hate had rearing baby birds

Neonates are a whole other hell😭

[painted-bees]

Hungree

also, I like to think this looks like some development:

but it could just be the lighting hah...

Tho...even just looking at the size of the fibers on the towel compaired to the size of his head...hm.

Wigh time is in another 2 and a half hrs, but I'm realizing a critical flaw: I should be weighing him in the morning when he hasn't eaten for a few hours. Not in the afternoon after eating all morning. Oh well.

I'll start weighing him properly in the morning if he wakes up to see another sunrise tomorrow. But I'll also keep up the 1pm weigh-ins as well.

It's been a long time since I've had to do anything like this.

[plaguedocboi]

I feel like starfish are one of those animals that are treated as very “normal” by people but absolutely shouldn’t be. Like they’re a wheel of repeating heads connected by a central stomach. They walk around using thousands of tiny sticky hydraulically powered tentacles. They have an eye on the end of each arm. Instead of having a mouth they just have an opening where their entire stomach can be pushed out to engulf prey. And they’re just allowed to exist like this. It’s not illegal or anything.

[batsandboba]

me: hey inat i found this weird bug in the bathroom can you help me out? it’s like a moth fly thing

inat:

hm. well. can’t argue with that i guess.

[thagomizersshow]

Some woodpeckers make dainty little holes that barely damage the tree.

On the other hand, pileated woodpeckers

[thagomizersshow]

I think the fact kiwi birds have nostrils at the tip of their beaks isn't just y'know, an adaptation for sniffing out worms, but also important for their vibes and aura.

You can't see it, but you can feel it

[tainbocuailnge]

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

[tainbocuailnge]

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day

[nudityandnerdery]

This seems like a good post to include this link on:

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still wort

Talking about popular kitchenware companies undergoing enshittification, and gives you a list of brands towards the end that are more reliable.

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[glavilio]

my name's cougar but my friends call me mountain lion and my mama calls me puma and today's my first day at big cat high. i'm so nervous i hope they don't realize i'm not panthera >ܫ<

[glavilio]

emo cheetah jughead smoking behind the school: it's hopeless, catamount. they'll never see us as 'real' big cats... us outcats gotta stick together -ﻌ•

[tysonfurybattlepass]

not pictured is the goth clouded leopard girl who bought the cigarettes w her fake id

[flightstalling]

An explanation.

[godforsakencod]

[mellifexfarm]

behold my ugly

[waywardwarren]

I painted your ugly

[r4nchlif3]

if only you was you again

[wovi]

[krispycl0uds]

This one resonated with me

[sandmandaddy69]

[cryptvokeeper]

[04k96]

[everydaylouie]

i didn’t know that about you, primeape

[pokemonheritageposts]

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