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Aphro probably has cancer. We found a tumor and we believe its cancerous, but we don't have money to take her to the vet. Plus, we believe she may be too old for the surgery anyways. I am drifting from this blog. I still answer questions if I see them. Though I never get asks so that doesn't really matter I guess.
Things I wish I could tape to my forehead at work:
Fish can’t live in bowls
No Betta can’t live in bowls either, they’re fish
Do not use hamster balls
Put that wild turtle back where it came from
No seriously it’s illegal PUT IT BACK
Nothing in the hermit crab section is good for them
Goldfish should NOT be used as feeders
Neither should rosy minnows
Your bearded dragon should not be fed pellets
CALCIUM POWDER
Your leopard gecko does not need a friend
Please don’t use sand for your reptile
Don’t use pine or cedar bedding. Stop buying it. stop
Don’t keep hamsters together
You definitely don’t need a bird (if you’re just walking by it and commenting ‘I need a bird’ for the first time)
Science Diet is one of the worst things you can feed your dog or cat
No Purina is not any better
Don’t bring your dog in with a prong collar on
Don’t use negative reinforcement for ‘training’ at all
Don’t use shock collars
If your pet has a health issue, ask a vet, not us
Seriously please go to the vet
No you cannot have 1 corydoras. Or 1 tetra. Or 1 of any schooling fish.
No your female betta does not need a friend
your male betta definitely does not need a girlfriend
No you can’t have 100 ‘feeder’ goldfish to give out at a party
No amount of begging will change company policy
If you’re under 18 I can’t sell you animals
Not sure what you expect me to do about that
You can’t keep an iguana in a 20 gallon for any amount of time
I don’t care what the shit shop down the street that sold it to you told you, you can’t
Heat rocks are bad (I don’t care what the shit shop down the street told you)
Use a thermostat
Don’t use heat lamps for leopard geckos or ball pythons
Don’t use coil uvb
Your beardie needs to eat veggies
Lettuce is not a veggie
ROMAINE LETTUCE ISN’T BETTER
You cannot have a common pleco for a 10 gallon
You don’t need a pleco or ‘cleaner fish’ at all please let this myth die
This is me but on repeat.
Guess who reserved their first axolotl today????? (hint: IT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)
That is sand right? Not pebbles? I can't tell...
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Someone: I got a pet rock :)
Tumblr: What breeder did you get it from? What substrate are you using? What’s it’s diet like? Are you handling it too much? Is the temp right in its tank? That’s a bad morph of a rock, did you not read it’s wiki? You really shouldn’t have gotten a pet rock without having exactly what you needed right off the bat. Why are you mad? If you didn’t want feed back, why’d you post pictures?
Someone: I got a pet rock :)
Tumblr: Here’s some husbandry advice.
Someone: oops rock died lol
Rock: Nothing, it’s fucking dead. (Also, a rock.)
This is exactly what I’m talking about.
Yeah, it’s weird how I give much less of a fuck about the hurt feelings of delicate humans than whether or not an animal is lying dead, emaciated and dehydrated, in a shitty, filth-covered cage.
I guess it’s a symptom of old age.
That’s common sense though, you shouldn’t have a reptile starving or dehydrated in a filthy cage everyone knows that, but like bashing someone for what something like using a wooden hide over their preferred hide is stupid.
if it were common sense I wouldn’t have just watched an animal die slowly and painfully in my care over a month after I got it away from an owner that did just that
that’s not to mention fifteen years spent watching the hobby
oooooh I just
And you’re completely right to be mad at someone like that, but like I said, bashing people over things that don’t matter is pointless
What breeder did you get it from? The wrong breeder can make the difference between an animal that will live a long, healthy life in your care, or an animal that’s going to die in a month from a parasite infestation, or a virus, or spread disease to the rest of your collection.
What substrate are you using? The wrong substrate can dehydrate an animal, or cause impaction, both of which can be lethal. As well, behavioural issues should be considered; are you putting a fossorial species on tile? Do you know that this will stress them?
What’s it’s diet like? Are you feeding a crested gecko baby food? Are you feeding an adult corn snake pinky mice? You’ll kill them both, eventually.
Are you handling it too much? Do you know the signs of a stressed animal? Is your animal refusing food? Does it appear more apathetic and limp than usual?
Is the temp right in its tank? Or you could cook it or give it a URI because the temperature’s off, or the temperature’s being read by a dial thermometer.
That’s a bad morph of a rock, did you not read it’s wiki? That rock morph is known for dystocia, neurological defects, and failure to thrive. Exactly what every new pet owner wants in their beloved new pet!
You really shouldn’t have gotten a pet rock without having exactly what you needed right off the bat. Why the fuck did you bring home a pet rock without supplies? Are you fucking two? Can you exert even the smallest amount of self-control before bringing a helpless living animal with no effective ability to fight back into a captive situation?
Why are you mad? If you didn’t want feed back, why’d you post pictures? Well, yeah, why did you post pictures on the public internet if you expected to only get praise for shitty work? Why not keep it to Facebook, or text it to friends who don’t know any better?
Here is a free lesson to others: it doesn’t matter how civil you are, or how gently you break the news, people are still going to get their feelings hurt. (Be civil and gentle because it’s good for you, but it will have zero effect on people who post stuff like “The Internet: Where Everyone Knows Better Than You” as opposed to trying to take advantage of the greatest system of information storage and transmission human beings have ever had access to. You can’t “nice” people into wanting to learn to better themselves.)
Honestly. I can't even believe op exists.
Hello! 😀🐸 Bonk is very chilled! She likes to spend her day either floating in the water (“hiding”) or practising her staring!
Supergiant Battle gecko stories pt 3
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“The great foob bringer has arrived.” Look at that smile omg leos are the cutest.
Please ignore the cricket in his bowl. I switched his water out after I fed him.
What people thank an animal should be kept in and what the animal actually should be kept in. (click the pictures)
This is a companion piece to this post, which focuses on small mammals.
Once again we have companies telling people that their cages are large enough, that the animals only need a little space, or that their cages are “large”. The boxes boast about the products being spacious and large enough to house “happy” animals. This is a flat out lie. The majority of commercial cages are completely inappropriate for what they are made for. And it’s so hard to convince people otherwise because it says right on the box that it’s big enough. And you see it in the media, too. Mice in tiny cages, rats in tiny cages, etc. It’s all fed to us since we were little. And so people grow up with these preconceived notions that animals can live in cages that size. They keep them in the small cage, their friends keep them in the small cage, the animal lives and dies in the small cage. And then you congratulate yourself on a job well done and repeat the process.
All animals need a certain amount of space to be happy. This is especially true for mammals, who are generally social and high energy. A mouse will run between 1-6 miles a day on their wheel. Now tell me that tiny cage is big enough to satisfy their urge to roam.
If we are to keep these animals in captivity their well-being should be our first concern. If you cannot afford a cage that big, you cannot afford the animal. If you do not have space for a cage that big, you do not have space for the animal. If you cannot devote the time to letting them out every day, you do not have the time for the animal. Do NOT get the animal unless you can actually care for it. Not just give it the care the BOX tells you to give it but ACTUALLY care for them.
Mammals kept in cages that are too small tend to give off signs of their cruel confinement. These unnatural behaviors are indicative of (though not soley caused by) an unsatisfactory environment.
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined ferrets:
Pacing
Aggression to you (lunging and biting)
Constant and intense escape attempts
Obesity
“Laziness” (really depression or lethargy)
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined rats:
Biting the bars of the cage
Cage aggression
Aggression to other rats
Obesity
“Laziness”
Pacing
Walking in circles
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined chinchillas:
Obesity
Chewing the cage bars
“Laziness” (especially at night when they should be active)
Pacing/repetitive behavior
“Barbering” another chinchillas fur. (pulling the hair out)
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined mice:
“Chasing” their tail (walking in a tight circle)
Chewing the cage bars
Aggression to other mice
Backflips in place
Pacing
Obesity
“Laziness”
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined hedgehogs:
Obesity (the biggest sign)
“Laziness”
Aggression
Pacing
Repetitive behavior
And to repeat the other article I wrote about this:
And to all those people who are thinking “Well I had a mouse in a cage that size and it was fine.”
Stop.
You have only observed your animal. You have only observed the animal in a confined space and most likely showing signs of distress or behavioral problems. But you interpreted it as normal because that is all you know. You haven’t seen mice in appropriate sized cages. You haven’t seen ferrets in appropriate cages. You haven’t seen a rat who is happy.
Not only that but you are not qualified to make decisions about an animals mental health unless you yourself have researched their body language and spent time (not years, but at least enough time to be well-learned) studying it to understand it competently and be able to accurately interpret it.
Because I can tell you literally every single person who has come into work and seen a mouse or hamster doing backflips starts LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY because they think the mouse/hamster is playing.
That means adults, young adults, teenagers, kids, EVERYONE thought it was a happy little animal jumping for joy when in actuality it was an animal so confined that it was literally going insane.
Mice need to burrow, climb, forage, run, and play. Chinchillas need to jump, run, forage, and play. Rats need a LOT of play. Ferrets need EVEN MORE. These animals are more complex than you think, and that “starter kit” you just bought at the pet store is not going to cut it. So please, if you find yourself in a situation where you already have one of these animals or plan on getting one, give these sites a good read. (note: even some of these sites do not give out proper cage size information! It just goes to show how common of a problem it is)
Ferrets: X X X X
Rats: X X X X X
Chinchillas: X X X
Mice: X X X X
Hedgehogs: X X X
What people thank an animal should be kept in and what the animal actually should be kept in. (click the pictures)
For one about ferrets, rats, mice, hedgehogs, and chinchillas go here.
Not based on personal preference, but observable fact. An animal kept in an environment that is too small is unhappy and stressed. This can absolutely lead to a short miserable life.
I see a lot of people, virtually every day, who have these preconceived notions about what an animal can live in. A hamster lives in a hamster cage of course, because the happy little hamster on the box says so! This cage is for finches, they even keep them in it at the store! My friend had a rabbit and it lived in that cage so I’ll get that one. This sort of dangerous socially accepted neglect is not just limited to bettas and goldfish. Mammals and birds are subject to it as well.
What people don’t realize is that almost all commercial or common cages are completely unacceptable as homes for what they are marketed for. Those guinea pig/rabbit cages? Garbage. Those tiny finch cages? Torture. That cute technicolor hamster cage? A gimmick.
All animals need a certain amount of space for enrichment and general well being. That does not mean the cages someone is trying to sell you. It means the cages that are best.
And to all those people who are thinking “Well I had a hamster in a cage that size and it was fine.”
Stop.
You have only observed your animal. You have only observed the animal in a confined space and most likely showing signs of distress or behavioral problems. But you interpreted it as normal because that is all you know. You haven’t seen rabbits in appropriate sized cages. You haven’t seen parakeets in appropriate cages. You haven’t seen a hamster who is happy.
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined hamsters. (The same applies to mice, gerbils, and rats):
Biting the cage bars
Obsessive digging
“Laziness” (lack of foraging/exploring)
Aggression
Pacing
Running in circles
Obesity
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined rabbits:
Biting the cage bars
Running in circles
Bouncing off the cage walls
Aggression, irritability when being held
Cage aggression
Constantly banging toys/decor around
Obesity
“Laziness”
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined guinea pigs
Biting the cage bars
Banging their water bottle on the side of the enclosure constantly
Aggression tword other guinea pigs or you
Obesity
“Laziness”
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined parakeets
Feather plucking
Aggression to other parakeets
Pacing
Obesity
Repetitive behaviors (constant singing into a corner, going from the same perch to the same perch over and over again)
Fearfulness
Signs and symptoms of cruelly confined finches
Aggression to other finches
Flight tracing: Going from one perch to another in the exact same spot the exact same way over and over again
Obesity
Animals are more complex than people give them credit for. They to do all of the natural behaviors they’re built to do. Exploring, foraging, playing, hiding, interacting (or not interacting) with another animal, etc. All of this is taken from them in cages like the ones above.
People need to educate themselves about an animal before getting one. It’s a thought that’s been said a million times over and yet nobody actually does it. The reality is people who want a hamster/guinea pig/rabbit are not going to sit down and read ten articles and three books waiting 2 months while they set everything up unless they are already enthusiasts who are willing to put that much into their pets. I can say from experience that over 80% of the people who buy pets buy them to make their kids happy with no regard to what the animal needs. What is most important to them is getting a present for their child regardless of any consequences that decision comes with.
So we have to try and get this information out there. We have to try and make THIS the general knowledge about these animals.
Resources and very good reads for anyone who has or wants any of the animals listed here. I’ll add more when I find them.
Rabbits: X X X
Guinea pigs: X
Hamsters: X X X
Finches: X
Parakeets: X
My stinky lil boy! (￣▽￣)
The introductions begin!
It was crestie cleaning day therefore Russell has spent the day in a continuous tantrum
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Ferret Chicken Goo Recipe For Switching
My lovely friend Alex has concocted this awesome recipe for helping ferrets to switch to raw. She’s had amazing success with it, so figured I’d share it with you guys!
⦁ Get large chicken legs (with skin etc.) – about 1 kg.
⦁ Cut off as much of the meat as possible.
⦁ Cook the bones, skin and yucky bits for about half an hour until you have a nice broth with lots of fat floating on top.
⦁ Remove any remaining meat from the bones (depending on your blender you may also have to remove the cartilage) and throw them out.
⦁ Allow to cool.
⦁ Once the broth has cooled down, add the raw meat and any other ingredients you may want (I usually include a 500mg human grade pure calcium pill and a few squirts of salmon oil – some people also use presoaked kibble, eggs etc.)
⦁ Blend until smooth
⦁ I tend to give my fuzzies the first batch immediately and freeze the rest in small containers (per portion).
⦁ After thawing I sometimes add a whisked egg if I want all of them to share it and to give them a change in taste.
hyperion and gaia, pushing 5 weeks
