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My heart dog, my sun and moon, the other half of my soul has gone to the rainbow bridge. This will be my last post on this blog for awhile. I'm not ready to really talk much about it. I would give anything to wake up and find that the last three days have just been a bad dream. Please give me space to grieve. Death by a thousand cuts would be much less painful than this.
Annie May
1.1.2014 - 3.21.23
Loved with every single fiber of my being now and forever.
if ur confused about why animal people advocate for keeping your pets at a "healthy weight" but sometimes also in the same breath will advocate against human diet culture, its because we know what body condition a cat is supposed to be at optimally. but literally there is not one for humans as far as we can tell.
humans are a weird, opportunistic, hyper-adaptable and variable primate and we have evolved to have a LOT of variety in size, shape, metabolism, and weight retention. this has been essential to survival in hard times and easy times. you know the thing people talk about sometimes how about half the population are night people and about half are morning people so we'd be better able to watch at night as a group? yeah, weight variation is like that: there's a lot of latent variation in human populations because as a community we survive significantly better if some of us are fuckin ready to not die during the longass winter of death and some of us can eat their weight in fish and then run a mile immediately after. this is also why some people gain muscle crazy fast and some people don't: muscle requires a lot of energy, so some people are built to gain a lot during a plentiful season and be really efficient then and some people are built to use less energy over time and be more useful during a long hungry period. cats and almost all other vertebrates simply don't have this kind of complex community variation built in, and tend to be much more uniform in build and weight. humans tend to be really variable in body and brain, and that's one of the biggest factors that's made us so successful! there are just a LOT of ways to be a human being.
all of the "science" on "ideal human body condition" we have at the moment is almost entirely bullshit and was done by white supremacists for eugenics purposes. it's just not something we know, and right now there's significantly more evidence that there is no ideal body type for everyone to reach. recent research indicates that humans are healthiest at a variety of weights and builds, and dieting is almost universally bad for you. even if the culture hasn't caught up yet.
For those of you non-reptile folks out there (or the reptile folks who haven't heard/don't know yet)- "Prehistoric Pets"/"The Reptile Zoo" is one of the worst faces of captive reptile keeping. Jay Brewer, the guy that runs it and faces it on youtube, is basically running the equivalent of a reptile puppy mill, and sensationalizing it for views.
He keeps his animals in enclosures that are far too small for them, participates in mass breeding without care for the health or well-being of the animals involved, including creating morbidly obsese animals to have the "biggest" ones for clout and so that he can breed them as fast and often as possible since they don't get too skinny from being bred too often while being massively overfed. He's also well known for cutting eggs (which by itself is.... eh but-) where he removes the entire top, pulling live babies out, and putting them back in, which is ridiculously dangerous to the baby.
This year he's going to be getting his own television show. I don't know the name of it yet, but given his behavior on youtube - where he purposely elicits stress responses, defensive behaviors, and bite attempts from large reptiles purely for views, with no interest in whether these actions are in the interest of the animal's best welfare - I doubt he is going to improve any. The producers are GOING to try to sensationalize it a la Tiger King.
Please, I am asking you to not support this man or his new show. He represents the worst side of the hobby, the people that have no business being in business, no business keeping the animals he does. Don't spite watch, don't curiosity watch; pirate it someplace if you must, but any views that count toward success of his show only puts more into his pockets to continue doing things he shouldn't, and it's his animals (and the animals his popularity convince others to buy thinking they can do the same as him) that pay the price for it.
Please understand that he is NOT a good representative of the reptile keeping community, and that so many people do not find his keeping, handling, or practices acceptable. Despicable would be a better word.
Having thoughts about this right now
It's actually kind of insane that we give cats catnip, like you're just like hmm I'm not busy today so why not let my cat trip balls for a while as a treat
Can you imagine if I was like well I have an edible and my one year old niece seems bored so...
Like what if I said "I give my hamster lsd sometimes, he loves it!" You'd think I was out of my mind. But not cats we give them drugs all the time and no one cares.
some animals were born to have a good as fuckk time...
there's nothing i can say to top this
guys its in all caps
Lots of people in the notes commenting that this is "like racehorse names" that "have to be unique" but that is not the case. This registry doesn't require a unique or complicated name. I need everyone reading this to understand that this breeder is doing this for themselves.
Fucking animal time
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"your pet doesn't love you; it just has learned that it will get treats if it acts a certain way. it can't understand you."
in between humans, i don't always speak the language either. love has always been hard for me. i don't trust it. i can't read it easily on people's faces - i'm usually trying to read past it; to the "other parts", the ones that make sense to me.
but my mom always offers me food as soon as i get through the door. my brother calls me at weird hours, just to be talking. my sister has a nightmare; asks me to please drive safe in the morning. i throw my friends random parties, just to celebrate something. she drives 45 minutes to spend 3 hours with me. amelia holds my hand while we both cross the street.
no, my dog and i don't have the same language. so what? this is not the same thing as communication. my dog is a good study in how trauma can heal - a rescue from the racetrack; i've been watching his personality develop slowly. in the last year, he's gotten so comfortable with me that he'll ask me to sit down on the grass so he can use my body as a seat. (it's important to note: he is huge. he squishes me. i don't complain. i find it lovely.)
love for us is also just endorphins and behavioral response. i'm a poet, the number of sad men that have tried to "teach me" how stupid it is to be a hopeless romantic is ... not a low one. i cannot count how many times someone has argued - it's all chemical stimulus - as if the fact of it makes it less magical. we're just electrical signals reading the universe! that's fucked up. that's so beautiful.
i find it hard to believe that in the spectrum of evolution we are the only species to feel like this - we already know that dogs and cats also have endorphins. why wouldn't they experience joy? love? companionship? in what world is it a new thing that i had to earn it? in every relationship, both individuals have to work to learn the language. i had to teach my dog what trust is. it's okay that it took time for him to learn it.
in the human world, when i love someone, it's hard for me to speak it. i write them poems or make them food or give them a cool rock i found on the beach.
i don't know how to tell goblin i love him, so i tell him through treats. through a new collar, fancy mattresses, a little bow on his leash. i tell him with long walks and petting him and sitting down on the wet ground so my 70 pound sharp noodle of a dog can prance on my thigh bones and take an awkward - if loving - seat.
"you taught your dog to love you" is kind of a cruel way to reframe what actually happened: i loved him so loudly, it skipped over language and species. the two of us just saying - oh! i have figured out a way to tell you that you make me happy.
If apex predator, why beans?
hello my wonderful followers and anyone else who sees this post. i helped my coworker rescue a litter of kittens that was dumped in her apartment complex parking lot and we discovered when we took them in to be vetted that two of them have significant heart murmurs and need to see a cardiologist before they can be spayed and neutered. the echocardiograms will cost $525 per kitten and then they will also need to be spayed and neutered with specialized anesthesia protocols later on which will be another big expense. obviously we were not expecting this right out of the gate and are begging on our knees for assistance. we've started a fundraiser for them here:
My coworker Scheele and I are both veterinary professionals and cat lovers, so wh… JACQUELINE L needs your support for Abandoned kittens ne
if you can please share this to help spread the word i would be forever grateful. here are some ridiculously cute pictures of the babies as payment.
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Cultivate Cooperation with Punch!
it’s probably best to keep this specific border collie on your side.
YOU can help Punch get dinner! Starting February 1st 💕
Everyday Punch the Border Collie suffers from waiting-for-kibble disease :(
This is a terminal illness that he will never recover from; each day his condition grows more annoying. He is waiting-for-kibble now and he will be waiting-for-kibble tomorrow. You can help him by purchasing a tee shirt or hoodie that directly funds his Purina Pro Plan (20/30 sport) addiction, while also supporting a really good cause! Which is cultivating cooperation, between people and Punch, but other dogs too I guess. If that’s what you want.
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i used to say “puppypuppy” to call the loma babies when they were really small. for outside playtime, for mealtimes, for snuggles, whatever. now when i say it, it activates some feral part of their brain. this works on all of them btw.
puppy mode: ACTIVATED
losing my entire mind at this hot take in an aggresisvely R+ Facebook trainer's post. comment section is full of people asking for sources and the poster claiming the "prey drive myth" has been debunked same as alpha theory. I can't comment because I'm not in the group but oh my god.
Someone please tell the coursing greyhounds holding dead jackrabbits and the salukis hunting gazelle in Saudi Arabia and the terriers hunting rats my Brittany who killed a ground squirrel 1/3 of her body size with inch long teeth this summer that prey drive isn’t real.
I can wait.
I changed my mind, I’m not done. As someone who adores sighthounds and has watched them open field course, I cannot get over the blatant absurdity of this take. It’s literally one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen from a dog person and that’s saying something.
i KNOW my dog wrote this clickbait
study, december 2022
