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Dog owners: this is my Big Borker 3000 him doggo !! he blep ! guardian of my home and certified Good Boy
Cat owners: this is some asshole that shares a house with me
Reptile owners: this is my son
Fish owners: water dog
Bird owners: BIRB! BIRB! BIRB! BIRB!
It is in the care of small things- a fish, a plant, an insect- that you come to realize that even the most unassuming living things are unique and never replaceable.
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Reptile club patches came in the other day! n.n im incredibly happy with how they turned out, and there will definitely be more lizards added in the future
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On my schedule today was aĀ pancake tortoise that was coming in because it wasnāt eating. I got all of my examination equipment ready and went into the exam room to get started. A young man was sitting in a chair with a shoebox on his lap. We chatted for a bit and then I started asking him questions about his tortoise.
I found out he had purchased the tortoise from a reptile show 8 years ago and that it lived in a ten gallon aquarium with gravel for substrate. Itās diet consisted of lettuce and carrots. Only. The only water provided was from a spray bottle that was used to mist the cage every other day. There was no heat, UV light, cage decor, hide, nothing. I wrote everything down and asked him for the box.
I opened the box and looked inside and nearly lost my composure. Inside was a stunted, gnarled creature about 4 inches long with a grossly abnormal shell. I took him out and put him on the table and pulled himself across the table bits and pieces of his carapace fell off. I donāt mean the scutes, I mean the actual pieces of bone that make up the shell. You could see his organs through gaps in his ribs.
āI will be right backā I said and grabbed the tortoise and went into the treatment room. I was so angry that my hands were shaking. Calculating some dosages I handed them to my tech and asked her to draw up pain medication and a sedative. āDid he approve this?ā she asked.
āNo. I donāt care. Please draw it up and give this IM.ā
Slowly I walked back into the room. I asked the owner how long the tortoise had been like that. He wasnāt sure. He had just stopped eating a day ago. Up until then it was perfectly healthy.
āYour tortoise has been very poorly taken care of. If he were a dog this would be considered animal abuse. Because he is a reptile I am not very likely to get far with the authorities so Iām gonna make you a deal. You sign him over to me and pay for the examination and you can go.ā
He thought about it and told me no, it was his tortoise. I asked why he didnāt take care of it. āI thought I wasā was his response.
āWhy doesnāt he have any source of heat?ā
āI didnāt know they needed it.ā
āWhy didnāt you give him UV light?ā
āI didnāt know they needed it.ā
āYou are telling me that you never opened a book, magazine, internet care sheet, nothing to find out how to care for a tortoise?ā
āYeah. I just thought I knew.ā
We talked some more and I finally convinced him to sign the tortoise over. I went back to check on him and he looked even worse. More of his shell had fallen off. I could see his lungs now. I decided it would be for the best to humanely euthanize him so he wouldnāt suffer anymore.
In this day and age āI didnāt knowā is not a valid excuse. You can look up anything on your phone from who invented pizza to where the closest movie theater is. There are literally hundreds of books, websites, and internet forums all about reptile care. You can call any veterinarian before purchasing an animal and ask them about their care and I promise you they will talk to you.
I am no longer going to gently nudge people in the right direction husbandry wise. I will no longer tell them āwell, lots of people make that mistake, itās okā. I am going to call it like it is and if an animal is suffering they will know it is abuse. There is zero excuse for this.
It is sad that reptiles and other exotics donāt have the ācuteā factor other animals do. No one would allow an owner to get away with feeding their dog nothing but potato peelingsĀ because they just ādidnāt knowā and yet it is perfectly fine to own a reptile and watch it slowly starve to death because someone ādidnāt knowā it needed to eat insects.
Iguanas that live in cages so small they canāt turn around. Tortoises kept without the proper heat gradient. Monitor lizards over fed until they are morbidly obese and canāt even walk. This is all abuse and it is wrong. Unfortunately reptiles are survivors and they can be dying for YEARS before anything is noticed. Owners confuse being alive with being healthy far too often.
I simply cannot stand by and watch this happen anymore. I allowed myself to be drawn into the āwell, exotics are different, people just donāt knowā mind set and did lots of hand holding while owners declined or refused my recommendations. From now on I promise I will flat out tell people it is animal cruelty and will have to make a phone call if things donāt change. It will not make me a popular vet nor a rich one but at least I will be able to sleep at night.
My challenge to everyone is that if they notice an animal being abused politely but firmly call the owner out. There is no need to internet shame, threaten violence or bully someone. Simply tell them what they are doing is wrong, their animal is suffering and they need to fix it. There are numerous reliable resources to find the proper information. If they wonāt fix it the proper authorities need to be contacted.
āi didnt knowā is not a valid excuse!!!
Also going to add, finances are not an excuse either. If you cannot afford the care a pet needs, you canāt afford the pet. It sucks, but no oneās entitled to own an animal.
While you donāt need to go all out and give them every single frill and luxury pet item out there, you are OBLIGATED to give them EVERY SINGLE THING that they need for basic well being. The food they need. The space they need. Their water. Enrichment. And any specific care items necessary (like reptiles that need heat and supplemented calcium, or fish that need aquarium heaters and bubblers) along with a reliable vet in case of any health problems or injuries.
Iāll reiterate on the vet thing, if youāre not a vet, you donāt have the qualifications to treat your pets illnesses or injuries. No, I donāt care what you read on the Internet. No, I donāt care what you THINK you know. YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED. Thereās a reason people go to school for years to learn how to help your pets. If everyone could do it then we wouldnāt need vets at all. Donāt let your pride and ignorance cause more harm to your pet. Take them to a vet. No excuses.
If you cannot provide at least the base level of care, you canāt afford the pet. Being poor is not an excuse to abuse an animal just because you want one. Sorry, but thatās the truth. The animal doesnāt need to suffer because of their owners situation.
Your animal deserves at least the most basic level of what it needs to thrive. Not just survive, THRIVE. Animals can survive through a lot of shit and maltreatment but that doesnāt mean theyāre healthy or okay.
I almost cried reading this. This is why tortoises and turtles get abused so, so, so much; because they can literally have their body cavity exposed and still be eating andĀ āacting normallyā. They can live in their own feces for decades and still seemĀ āperfectly healthyā to the untrained eye. Because they hide illness and injury so well people donāt realize they are literally killing their pet.
Also: pancake tortoises are a threatened species. Vulnerable under the IUCN Red List and Appendix II under CITES. That someone would spend the money on a threatened, rare animal and then not even do enough research to avoid neglecting it to death makes me see red. Of course not even the most common animal deserves such horrific treatment, but when you take on a member of a species that may not exist in a couple decades without careful stewardship you have even more of an elevated responsibility to do right not only by that animal but by its species.
I hate that the only way to get people to listen to your advice is to be friendly and polite when telling them what they are doing wrong. Sometimes I wish I could scream at people.
"Owners confuse being alive with being healthy far too often."
When I first got into animal care at my university, my mentor told me that if I thought I hated people before, I would learn a whole new level of disgust in this field. She said it as a joke, but she was right. I hate people. I hate them. I hate the man who bought the tortoise. I hate all the guests in his house over those 8 years who looked at it and said nothing. I try to have patience and explain things to folks who truly are hearing this for the first time - but deep down, under my smiling face and my dumbed-down explanations, I hate folks like this.
Impulse Buys- What They Are and Why They Are Bad
So, before I get into this, let me define impulse buy.
An impulse buy is any animal purchased, online or in person, without prior planning, a species appropriate setup, and/or the ability to care for the animal for its entire lifespan.
Still with me? Great. Below the cut is sort of a rant on the topic, so I apologize.
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I 100% agree with the spirit of this post! But I do think there's a difference between *upgrading* your current setup later, and not having an adequate setup at the start. (I also know "adequate" is not good enough a lot of the time, but that's another story.)
Like, just going with the examples given, not all betta fish tanks will need a heater. If I put a heater in my 3.5 gallon tank, the water is over 90 degrees, way too hot (smallest heater I could find and lowest wattage - still too hot). Without a heater it's fine in the upper 70's/low 80's (betta is in my reptile room which is warmer than the rest of the house). But if all you knew was that I have a betta tank without a heater, going by this post I'd be a terrible fishkeeper. And, bearded dragons need at *least* 40 gallons when they're adults, but juveniles will be absolutely fine in a 20 gallon setup for a while. Save money and buy a 40gal as soon as you can. But a tiny baby beardie will be fine for now in a nice 20gal with all the amenities.
I'm not undermining the point of the post at all. If you buy an animal and don't provide proper, age/size-appropriate care, you're doing it wrong. If you buy it without having appropriate housing and supplies beforehand you're wrong. If you buy it without doing research first you're wrong. But I see a lot of animal posts on Tumblr that are super judgemental and I just wanted to point out that just because a setup doesn't match your definition of "perfect" that doesn't automatically make it super terrible either! ā¤ļøā¤ļø
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How does the guinea get into the hammock I see in the back? Is there a ramp or something under the blanket on the right? I've always been under he impression they can't/shouldn't really climb?? Correct me if I'm wrong!
Is it bad to feed cats differing protein content in wet food? My kitties get bored if I always feed them one type, so I like to rotate brands. Currently I switch between Nulo, Nutro, Wellness CORE and Nature's Variety, which all have different protein content. Is this bad?? Should I stick to the same percentage all the time? I've been googling but I'm not getting clear answers.
Sorry for using your ask as a test, I was overwhelmed and cleared myinbox but still had the notification for this in my mobile activity and could still answer. Interesting!
Iāve heard vast differences in protein content can be an issue, like 20% [dry matter basis, I assume?] but I havenāt read anything about it myself. Followers?
I haven't thought about protein content. Depending on the answers this gets I'm gonna feel really bad about not looking too closely at it!
But, anyway, I feed my kitty a variety of foods within one brand. She gets different textures and flavors of Purina Focus, and Purina True Nature (which she gets the most of), both wet foods. I also keep a bag of dry food on hand and she gets that as a treat or if I run out of wet food for her. Also Purina - it was Focus Sensitive Stomach/Skin and Coat, which is only one food (can't remember if it's called exactly that), but then I upgraded to the new Purina Beyond, which is a little higher quality and (I think - don't have this bag handy either) higher protein content/low carb content. It's a tier above their True Nature line.
I haven't noticed her having any issues with this. Doesn't mean there aren't any issues I guess. Gonna have to keep checking the notes on the OP!
Some higher def pics of Naviās cage :)
Reblogging again because of the anti-tub argument today. Tubs can be incredibly enriching and as @kaijutegu stated earlier, the common tubs are 100% safe.
Reblogging because damn yo ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Itās baby animal season!
This is the time of year when wildlife rehabilitation facilities get filled up with āorphanedā babies brought in by well-meaning citizens. While plenty of these babies truly are orphans and need the care of a licensed rehabber to survive, there are also unfortunately plenty of babies brought in that were mistakenly thought to be abandoned. So, what do you do if you see a baby animal by itself? Information provided based on recommendations of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota:
āSquirrels: Female squirrels move babies between nest sites, and during this process babies may be visible outside their nest or even at the base of a tree. If you see baby squirrels outside of a nest, leave them undisturbed and keep your pets contained. Keep an eye on them for a few hoursāit may take her a while! If she doesnāt return for them by the next day, then itās time to call your local rehabber. If you disturb a nest, as is common when trimming branches this time of year, leave them be as long as they are not injured. Again, if they are still alone the next day, take them in.
āBunnies: If you find a nest, try and keep your pet contained and the area undisturbed for a few weeks while the bunnies grow. You likely will not see mom! You can monitor the nest if youāre concerned, you will quickly see a decline in the health of the babies if mom is not returning to nurse them. If your pet disturbs a nest, bring any injured babies to your local rehab center but leave the uninjured animals alone.
āDucklings/goslings: Mom should lead the babies to the nearest body of water within a day or two of hatching. Do not try and move mom and all her babies as you will likely just end up stressing and potentially scattering them. If a baby is left behind, you can gently capture them and keep them in a warm, quiet place until you can take them to a rehabber. Be very gentle with ducklings and goslings, and do not handle them more than necessary! These babies are very easily stressed. Unhatched eggs should be left undisturbedāthey are federally protected.
āBirds: It is a myth that handling a baby bird will prevent the parents from taking care of it. If you find a featherless bird or a bird with fluffy down feathers, you can gently put it back in the nest. If the same bird keeps getting pushed out of the nest, you should bring it to a rehabber as they may be something wrong with it. If the entire nest has fallen, try and put it back in the same place you found it. If you canāt put it right back where it was, keep it within 5 feet of the original location to ensure the parents continue to care for them. Fledgling birds will spend a significant amount of time on the ground as their immature wings develop. They flutter around, but they canāt really fly yet. Parents will still feed fledglings, so you can keep an eye on a grounded bird to see if adult birds are still in the area caring for them.
āIn general: If you find a baby animal alone, leave it be and monitor it to see if mom comes back. Keep your pets away from the area, and donāt try to handle the baby unless absolutely necessary as this can result in you stressing out or hurting the animal. If mom doesnāt come back after several hours, you can take them in to a LICENSED REHABBER. Many rehabilitation facilities want you to call before bringing in an orphaned animal to ensure that they are truly orphaned. Do NOT bring the animal into your house to raise! Most people do not have the time or knowledge to raise orphaned wildlife, and by hand raising them, you habituate them to humans and prevent them from having a chance to be released. Also, itās illegal. If the animal is injured, it is ok to take them to your local rehabber right away! When in doubt, call your local wildlife rehabilitation facility. They can give you more information about specific species and situations. If you really canāt find a wildlife rehabilitator or the animal is in need of immediate medical attention, you can take it to a vet clinic. Veterinarians can provide lifesaving care or humane euthanasia for an injured animal, before getting them to a rehabber.
BABY TURTLES: LEAVE THEM THE F*CK ALONE PLEASE I hate this time of year. I work at a pet store, and it's baby turtle hatching season, and I cannot even tell you how many people have already come in so far this spring looking to care for a baby turtle. EVERY TIME I ask where they got it from they found it outside. Or their kid did. They did not know, or didn't care, that taking animals from the wild is not only very illegal but also nearly always a bad choice for the animal (unless it's injured, but that's generally not the case with baby turtles).
Listen to me. Turtles live a long time. They grow big. That baby pancake you found is nearly always an aquatic turtle, and in my area all wild aquatic turtles you find grow pretty big and need to swim! And these parents are never prepared to drop $200-$700 on a tank (tank and stand alone, not even factoring in the filters etc) for the adult or even sub-adult turtle. They have not the slightest clue what kind of turtle it is, they didn't even look at it closely to describe it to me so I can tell them what species. They don't have any clue what it eats. They don't know it cannot live in a bowl with tap water and a dead leaf their 1.5-yr-old 'picked out.' They think they can keep it a couple years until their child gets tired of it then let it go, which let me tell you is a bad idea for everyone involved, especially that poor baby turtle.
LEAVE THEM ALONE. If your child wants a turtle that badly, then buy one from a responsible store or breeder. NEVER just take one. Never. The baby will be happier in the wild, just release it into the nearest natural water source to where you found it, or leave it where you found it period. _______Side note sometimes crows pick them up and play with them so you might find a hatchling turtle in a busy area with no water for miles. In this case it's still best to find the nearest water to where you found it, or ask a local licensed rehabber where you should take it.
When you use panoramic shot and your betta becomes a noodle
He looks like some sort of amazing aquatic dragon species. If I were an artist, I would totally draw oneā¦ but Iām not. XD
Still amazing, though!
ā¦ I had to, after seeing that comment.Ā
I am dying, this is amazing.
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At what point do you recommend taking a reptile to see a veterinarian? My beardie doesn't have any immediate emergencies going on, but I've noticed a couple issues lately that are sort of minor but make me wonder. He doesn't poop often enough, for one thing, but he also doesn't eat a ton - and he has pretty terrible aim catching things, which I've read *might* be an issue but isn't always?? Is it very important for reptiles that are doing well to have annual checkups?
Annual checkups are important for nearly every species of animal. As a general rule if you are concerned about something, make a vet appointment. I know that paying for an appointment only to find out nothing is wrong can be frustrating but it really is a good thing. The worst is waiting on something only to find out it would have been treatable (and less expensive) if you had gone earlier.
Good point. Thank you! I never hesitate to make appointments for my cat but since most reptile problems seem to boil down to husbandry sometimes it can be hard to decide if they need to go or if I need to make some simple changes. But yeah, I would rather pay to be told they're fine than find out my hesitation caused unnecessary extra suffering.
