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amygdalae

I loooove responding to texts with the thumbs up emoji. It's like the emoji form of saying "on it boss"

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I’m screaming I thought that post was a joke up until rn I have whiplash

weaver-z

The council will decide your fate

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coolxatu

i am NOT fucking letting tiktok teens be nostalgic for fucking aeropostle, skinnybrow, mandatory hair straightening 2007-2010 fashion, we literally rock bottomed in every fucking regard in those years

coolxatu

excluding the dance music which fucking ruled for no reason

richardmadens-archive

thechronicleofshe

this hurled my wig into the rafters as a kid

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dykelliewilliams

juni cortez ran so tony stark could crawl

foundationaldecay

juni cortez ran so tony stark could die

ghost-cassette

Juni Cortez killed Tony Stark

highschoolhandjobs

how do i send letters to the moon i want to tell her i love her

jaubaius

Jurassic Fight Night 2021

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@eveoftheapocalypse

yekkes

Literally

meangirlnurse

the “No Kill” movement in animal sheltering is a danger to public health

meatcrimes

could you elaborate? i, like many in the notes, had a knee jerk reaction to this but went into the notes to see if you had elaborated on this and i think i’m agreeing with you but i don’t fully understand

meangirlnurse

#if i’m reading this right… some dogs genuinely do need to be euthanized #and No Kill Shelters will condemn shelters that euthanize dogs that need it while also relying on them to do their dirty work #and many shelters obfuscate their animal’s history of violence / disease status / etc and try to send them to homes #with deadly results #and it’s a hard pill to swallow that some dogs truly are not ever going to be adoptable #also #ops url always makes me lose it

you’ve more or less got it!

ooh-sluggie

@talesfromtreatment I remember that dog you wrote about, that’s behavior was *really* bad and had killed at least two other pets? And people kept bringing it back and it kept getting adopted out, until I think it attacked someone. It might even have been a few dogs with the same behaviors.

Of course no one working for animal care wants to euthanize an animal, but clearly there’s no other option sometimes

talesfromtreatment

We had the dog where I was the first person he liked without any reservation and I could do anything to that dog from the moment we met. His circle of friends grew, he was adopted. They had to return him a week later because they weren’t prepared for how sensitive he was with regards to new things and how much time and gentle patience he needed he wasn’t aggressive then, just really frightened. I immediately went to his room when i found out he was back and he went “it’s muh best friend!” I really loved this dog. A couple weeks later he was adopted again. A month later the behaviour team was physically removing the dog from the woman’s house because he’d bit the kid. Not hard, but still. This woman had been using Cesar Milan style “training”, and never any positive reinforcement only punishments that amounted to abuse. She didn’t want to give him back, was wanting to know what aversive method would be best to use. We threatened her with cops and animal control of she didn’t relinquish the dog back to us. We got him back.

I went into his room the day after he came back, wanting to see my favorite dog. He froze up and hard stared at me. I never went into his room again. I no longer trusted him. This woman broke him. He should have been euthanized then. Instead, he was sent to foster. In assuming because we felt guilty about what he went through. He bit a coworker in the face. We still didn’t euthanize. He spent months and months in foster. The other dog in the house had a seizure - our boy got scared of this and attacked the smaller dog. The foster parent got bit pretty badly while trying to separate. We finally euthanized the dog. He was a wake up call to this behavior though.

That pretty pretty brindle girl named Tigress that I posted a couple months ago? She became so stressed at the shelter despite meds, despite 3 long walks a day, that her dog skills went from “okay” to so bad that she actually became dangerous to her handler. By herself, no dogs around, she was the sweetest, most wonderful darling. But if there was another dog in sight? No. So she was euthanized last week.

The dog that killed multiple cats (3 confirmed, likely 4) was a husky, the breed that gets the most returns for us anyway because huskies are not the correct breed for the majority of humans but people go “oh they’re so cute!”… This boy killed a feral in the play yard. We said “do not adopt if you have a cat” but we also have this “good idea in principle, bad idea on practice” (kinda like true No Kill) of “no barriers to adoption” so if someone had kids and wants to adopt a dog that is not good with kids, we can strongly advise against but if that’s who they want that’s who they get. So this husky that killed a cat was adopted to a family with a cat. He killed the cat. He was returned for killing the cat. The next guy to adopt had no cats, but left the dog unsupervised in the backyard all day. The dog killed the neighbor’s free-roaming cat that entered the backyard - another reason to not free roam your cat, you never know when a dog like this will enter the neighborhood. Dog got returned again. Third time was the charm (and average for an adoption to stick with huskies) and he’s doing fine.

Euthanasia for severe health and behavior issues needs to always be an option. And an open intake shelter needs to be able to euthanize for space. You cannot warehouse animals without most of them breaking psychologically or passing on diseases like parvo and distemper. Kill shelters shouldn’t be villainized. Hell, you’ll probably find sounder temperaments on average at one because a kill shelter always has more animals than space so they are less likely to use up space on a dog showing obvious behavior issues.

sunhighriptide

Killing in extreme situations is understandable, and sometimes necessary. However, many kill shelters will start killing because they run out of room, and that isn’t fair to the animals.

We found a stray, who clearly was socialized, took it to a shelter, and they said they killed them if they hadn’t been adopted in 72 hours. This was a sweet, gorgeous, orange tom about a year old.

Killing animals in pain is different than killing animals because you don’t have room for them.

And I disagree about the behavior. Almost all dogs can be saved, and for cats, I think sterilizing and releasing a freal is better than killing them for their wild instincts.

meangirlnurse

1) are they supposed to pull the money and space and resources to house those animals out of their ass

2) “almost all dogs can be saved” in my professional opinion as a dog trainer i’m inclined to disagree. you’re more than welcome to adopt all the cute doggies with serious bite histories and fix them with the power of love, i guess. let’s see how it works out!

3) feral cats decimate native wildlife populations and tend to suffer throughout their very short lives. allowing feral populations to exist only makes sense if you care more about feeling warm and fuzzy than you care about either the environment or animal welfare

mrbiglong3000

you know what you can do about those overly-friendly stray cats you find on the street, instead of taking them to a shelter that’s probably already at or close to capacity? look for the owner yourself. find them a permanent home yourself if it’s so important to you to rescue that specific cat. if your response is “but it’s expensive and hard!” i want you to explain why you think it’s easier or cheaper for a shelter with a hundred more cats (and dogs and whatever other animals they have) to do it