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✨Willful Suspension of Disbelief💫 turned 5 today!

by Xergion

This is true! The zoo where I volunteer (the illustrious Columbus Zoo & Aquarium) was one of the pioneers of this program.

Our zoo is known for raising cheetah cubs. Cheetahs have a terrible infant mortality rate and cubs are often rejected, so we get a lot of cubs to raise from all over the country (other zoos and sanctuaries, mostly).

The cubs are placed with a puppy friend when they are wee and small, so they grow up together like littermates. They play together, wrestle, and the dogs (yellow Labs) are so calm, friendly and well-socialized that the cheetahs take behavioral cues from them. When they meet new people, or go into new situations (which they often do, as ambassador animals for cheetah conservation), they check out if their dog friend is feeling chill - which he is - and then they know it’s okay for them to be chill, too.

Basically the dog is a service animal for them.

The cats need their dog friends less and less as they get older and more comfortable, but they still often hang out as grownups.

Our zoo does cheetah runs, where the cheetahs get to chase a lure and show off their speed. Often they’ll have one of the cheetahs run (we have like twelve cheetah), and then they’ll have one of the dogs do the run to show how much faster the cats are. People get a kick out of that. The dogs…let’s just say they try their best.

holmesandtheroman

DISNEY MOVIE ABOUT CHEETAH GOING ON A JOURNEY TO FIND HER SILLY DOGGO FRIEND

bentejam

Disney Cheetah and Doggo? HAD TO SKETCH IT!

crewefox-deactivated20210921

helthehatter

If you don’t think this is the bestest thing then get the hell outta my face!

sirsjouet-deactivated20181217

Squeee!!

unclefather

my mom: did you remember to take the chicken out of the freezer to thaw?

me:

c-ptsdofficial

i have exactly 1 mental health left and boy is it not gonna last long

beatboxbully

do you know how many bones the human body has? its 206. we start with 369 when we’re babies but they fuse. wouldn’t you want to go back? have as many bones as a baby? what if i could help you

boymilk-moved-deactivated201903

hi yeah what the actual, literal, GENUINE fuck does this mean

diseducattivo

art-and-anarchism-deactivated20

Nor servants, neither masters.

sharkchunks

woodmeat

I don’t even know who I be following anymore I just be clickin shit

est-nord

Dirona albolineata

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDujsLmUUAAOgoT.jpg:large

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dwibatron

Okay, everybody, I don’t talk much on here but this is important and I can’t find any other posts about it here.

There’s a little app called Be My Eyes. It’s been on iPhone for a while now and on October 5th, it’ll be out for Android too.

What is Be My Eyes, you might wonder? Well, it’s a community of people helping people. Namely, sighted people helping blind people with simple tasks that require sight to be simple.

See the picture?

(for those who can’t see, the picture shows the app I’m action. It shows a phone camera pointed at two red cans of food. Text above depicts a sighted person explaining the right can is a can of tamatoes.)

In short, if you’re blind and have every had trouble finding your blue shirt, the app was made for you.

If your sighted and want to help, the app is for you too.

If you’re not, reblog and spread this so more people can see.

Thank you for reading and reblogging.

i am all for this

what happened in roughly 1870 though

why was there temporary internet

with a few people searching for pokemon?

tacticalskirt

It’s a search of Google books, but the question still stands, what the Fuck happened in 1870

solongasitswords

I CAN ANSWER THIS!!

In the Cornish dialect of English, Pokemon meant ‘clumsy’ (pure coincidence).

In the mid 1800s there was a surge of writing about the Cornish language and dialect in an attempt to preserve them with glossaries and dictionaries being written. I wrote about it HERE.