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inquisitorpsyduck

Next eclipse: 2024

Start planning now.

sacetcendre

#cats #halloween

crimson-sun

Welcome to JTV Pokecenter! Please ensure your pokemon are in a carrier, on a leash, or in their pokeballs at all times. Thank you!

Your friendly neighbourhood veterinary clinic is probably the closest thing in real life to a pokemon center, eh? So here are some pics of a few of my patients re-imagined as pokemon. I’ve been meaning to do a mashup like this for a while, but now seems a particularly relevant time.

(And if you ever visit our little clinic with your real life critters, I’ll check out your pokemon as well for free! ;) )

#Pokemon

In less than a week I’m living across the big pond, eep.

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me realizing my experiences with sewing have been a lie this whole goddamn time:

fuzipenguin

I don’t know about human surgeons, but that’s a suture pattern I use to close skin all the time and you can see why.

cappucino-commie

I forgot vets existed for a moment and that comment made me wonder what Cryptid had gotten a doctorate and was performing surgery.

cooldogs

xxxtictacion

No they love it

tenshi-cat

Do you know if they love or hate them, @why-animals-do-the-thing?

why-animals-do-the-thing

As a dog trainer, I can tell you that probably 50% of dogs really don’t like hugs and at least another 48% pretty much just tolerate them. Very few dogs I know genuinely like hugs the way humans tend to give them. What’s funny is that the picture that Fox used with this headline is one of the more common ways dogs do enjoy contact that humans would consider a hug.

Stanley Coren - the dude who wrote the article that is pissing everyone off about this - really does know what he’s talking about. He wrote one o my favorite books, called how to speak dog, which has some absolutely beautiful diagrams of dog behavior and body language along the gamut of extreme situations.

The way humans hug dogs is often really uncomfortable for them. We lean over them and trap them (think how many dogs we already know are spooky when you loom over them, but are fine if you get down to their level), and then we restrict their ability to move and shove our faces close to theirs. That’s not fun. Keep in mind that most dogs have personal space bubbles that are larger than we tend to think, and now you’re not only invading it, you’re making it so they can’t move or defend themselves if something happens.

Look at this photo from a couple years ago. Avalanche is probably the most tolerant dog I know of things that press his physical boundaries - he lets little kids do things to him that make me cringe and doesn’t even seem to notice half the time. This was right before I had to head back to college and I knew I wouldn’t see him for another 6 months, so I hugged him because sappy human emotions. I have an amazing relationship with this dog, and look at his body language. He’s kinda stiff, his face is a little tense, and the corners of his mouth are pulled back a little. All in all, he’s supremely un-enthused but he’s letting me do it. After about five seconds, he huffed out the sigh he uses to let me know when he’s done with the hug, and then pulled back and shook off.

Most dogs learn to tolerate hugs because we do it to them so often. It’s pretty much a kind of learned helplessness, plus, they like us and so they put up with our stupid human behavior. When you hug most dogs, you’ll notice they get kinda stiff, they look away or at other humans for help, you’ll see side-eyes or look-aways (not whale eye). Often they’ll distract you by doing something else like pawing at you, or licking your face as an appeasement signal. They’re all signs of discomfort that we already routinely ignore when we deal with our dogs, so it makes sense that people think their dogs are fine with it - they’re just still not listening.

More often, you’ll get dogs that will crawl up your chest when you sit and put their paws on your shoulders. Sometimes their face is close to yours, sometimes it’s on your shoulder. In that position - which they often initiate - they ca easily withdraw and get away if necessary and they’re not trapped or being leaned over. It’s not really a hug, just close contact, but I think it’s about as close as humans are going to get to one that a dog will enjoy.

casijaz

@tealviola

intj-confessions

This is why it’s so important not to anthropomorphize your pets and actually take the time to learn THEIR body language and natural behaviors.

plantanarchy

And if y'all take the time to learn this, you’ll find most dogs have their own ways of showing affection that are equivalent to hugs. My dog doesn’t like to be held tight but she does come up beside you and press her head against your body and lean against you and that’s basically her version of a hug. She’s nervous and doesn’t like to be forced into any interaction but she will sometimes come and snuggle her head in my lap just because she wants to. And if you force interactions and hugs and cuddling with your pet, you’ll miss out on those particular shows of affection that they offer on their own which are way way more special than a forced hug.

sheabutterbitch

A long time ago I took a course on the sociology of marriage and my professor said “With compromise, you both lose. As a couple, you must collaborate on the best possible outcome.” Ever since, I never prioritize compromise in a relationship, only collaboration.

lamujeroscura

this seems like a great concept and all but. what does it actually mean?

sheabutterbitch

Compromise is typically thought of as a 50/50 split amongst partner’s needs. They’re both left partially unsatisfied, but this dissatisfaction is deemed acceptable because it is ‘equal.’ However, with additional effort, many problems may be solved through collaboration; keywords: additional effort.

In collaborating, one may try to make the conflict more complex in order to expand the possible positive outcomes. This requires trust in both parties, empathy, and consideration for one another’s needs.

The objective should shift from getting what you want and ‘keeping things quiet’ to making sure your partner feels heard and considered (as they should do with you). Essentially, you must trust that your partner has your happiness in mind, and you must have theirs, instead of fighting for your own best interest.

For further explanation, Google “compromise vs collaboration.”

owldork1998

And with this I have learned what i always thought of as compromise was in fact collaboration

silvermarmoset

the new batch of love for john mulaney here on tumblr has got me thinking how critical costume design is once again. john mulaney is a good comedian, but so much of his power comes from how his humor plays off how he’s dressed. we don’t expect a man dressed like a 1960s news announcer, all clean scrubbed and tight-wound professional, to describe in minute detail the visit where a doctor shoved a hand up his ass. imagine any iconic john mulaney set but given in jeans and a t-shirt, and is it as funny? i don’t think so. his humor spreads like wildfire on this website because the image of a man in a buttoned-up shirt and a tie and slicked back hair with fairly narrow lapels on his three-piece suit is fucking hysterical when paired with “years later I’d be in college about to go down on some rockin’ twink and i’d be like what would leonard bernstein do”

6qubed

well I do recall a comedian telling about how he accidentally joined the russian mafia on a school trip in college, and this was made more believable by the fact that he was shirtless with a beer belly while telling this story

6qubed

since someone asked

jemthecrystalgem

Frick thank you so much

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THE MACHINE

I AM THE MACHINE

A wise sage

Khajiit has answers if you have question

#cats

catsuggest

cat, how do your paws, always, without fail, manage to find my full bladder

juste one of my many talent

#cats

shmidny

Country roads

Take me home

To the place

I belooong~

WEST VIRGINIA

briscal

@wyrmforge

#CATS

luluvanhoagland

Big Boober Post #3

BOOBER BUTTONS NOW AVAILABLE

GIVEAWAY

ETSY / ART PAGE

breefolk-hates-staff

These are so cute, and also definitely relatable.

#cats

cat-memes-only

Took my cat to the vet yesterday told the bish she was pregnant and she got the nerves to look shock

#cats

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leolomir-blog

Bleeeeugh om niom niomniom blereegh

caffeinatedcorvid

@bruvebanner

liz-the-lemur

UNMUTE UNMUTE UNMUTE

geooricle

I can’t tell if this cat is happy or angry but it is a lot of that thing

unconqueredfun

The back of a cat’s back just before their tail is typically an erogenous zone, that is to say it has a very heightened sensitivity for stimuli. In this case the cat is probably feeling a lot of different feelings but anger is not one of them. It is probably in fact very happy.

#cats #wtf #video