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i dunno i just think clowns are cool!!

[clownlove4u]

[unique-husbandry]

As the days get hotter and hotter this is a reminder to all clown keepers

Make sure your clowns don’t overheat in their tents

As a vet it saddens me to see so many clowns brought in for heat exhaustion. To prevent your clowns from overheating

Keep a air conditioner in their tent

Make sure their water is cold

Make sure they take breaks from their acts every so often

Keep them from direct sun when it’s near noon

So many clown owners don’t take these simple percautions and it horrible.

[pbandjesters]

service clowns are so sweet!! (her name is millie, and she helps me get around) they even mom other clowns!

[pbandjesters]

I'm a extremely noob owner and my clown is reluctant with me milking them for the first time. Is there anything I can do about it?

well i'm not the most experienced owner either, but i recommend you distract them with food before milking, or practice trust exercises (ie. handling the clown more often, associating trust with good things). hope this helps!

[pbandjesters]

my inbox is now open!! please ask me questions about bobo!!!! :)

[pbandjesters]

POPTART THIEF!!!

(also i think he's a mixed whiteface party, and i'm naming him bobo!!)

[ray-kitty]

Clowns are probably one of the most mistreated creatures people keep as domestic pets. So many parents buy clowns for their children’s birthdays without doing any research on how to properly care for their clown, and therefore, so many clowns live cramped, uncomfortable, and stressed lives! This is an easy to follow guide on how to properly care for your clown, to make sure they live the best life possible.

Keep reading

[goblintrauma]

This clowns name is Lil Bobby and he says You are loved and I hope you have a great day/night!!!!!

[graylish]

[aggressively supports and encourages young artists]

[serenefreakgeek]

YES. THIS. FUCK YEAH THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE

[elodieunderglass]

awww yeah! Support young creators!

[severalowls]

The “I probably shouldn’t have clowns” Starter Pack

[severalowls]

Clowns are creatures that need to clown. They were not meant to be domesticated and profited from as pets. They are highly active creatures that will self harm from stress in such confined spaces. Circus Clowns are delightful to keep in groups, though they are fine on their own, but every 1 clown adds 30 square feet to the space needed. They need multiple props and performance areas in order to replicate their natural environment. These are examples of proper Circus Clown or other basic clown enclosures.

Candee Fluff is a horrible brand of cotton candy, I used to feed it to my clowns and they would just throw it back up. The sugar is all unprocessed, when clowns need highly refined white sugar, just because it’s cheaper. Which is something they don’t list on the packaging to fool clown owners. Ideally you should only feed your clown freshly whipped cotton candy. Large mixers may be expensive but a simple childrens make-your-own candy floss machine will suffice if your budget is tight.

Clowns shouldn’t be confined to a car. (Especially a childrens car..?) Clowns are curious creatures that need to jump, tumble, honk and play to be healthy. Keeping them locked in a car 24/7 as a toy for your kids will stress them out in much the same way as a hamster in a ball. Clowns do enjoy having access to a clown car, especially in groups, but their car should provide 1 square foot per clown and their enjoyment comes primarily from exiting the vehicle in large numbers. Keeping them locked inside can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 years. A small human-sized compact car may be suitable for larger groups of clowns.

I’m cringing at that rainbow collection of “my mommy got me a cute clown” balloon sticks. These are creatures that need to run around with helium balloons. They need to bounce and float away when released. Air-filled balloons on sticks are not a suitable replacement. This is the proper set up for a clown or more modern jesters.

Clowns get stressed from any foot confinement under size 16. Clown shoes are the worst item for being sold to kids as “accessories” in human foot sizes. When kept like that the clown will die a horribly stressed life within a year when they can live for 60 or more. They need colourful shoes or boots with plenty of toe-space and loud squeakers. Clowns are so intelligent that they actually play with you, and they need podiatric stimulation to live healthy. These are proper clown shoes.

Never change the natural markings of a clown. This should go without saying, but I see people buying halloween store ‘clown makeup’ and attempting to alter their clown’s faces. Clowns use their facial markings to identify one another, and altering it may cause stress, and even endager the clown if you keep several in the same tent.

Who the fuck would even feed an omnivorous clown pellet food…? Do they want a sick clown? If clown stores even bothered to care about the keeping of clowns, they would know that shit is bad for them. If you can’t feed fresh peanuts and hot dogs then you shouldn’t own a clown in the first place. Pellet food isn’t even real food, it’s chemically made with preservatives.

[severalowls]

Hey this hit 100k right on time for Clowning Season this year so I thought it would be prudent to remind people not to approach feral or unfixed clowns around September-October as they can be particularly unpredictable during the spawn.

[pbandjesters]

still don't know what breed he is, but he's just standing in the kitchen totally still except for some bouncing.

[babey-clownie]

Experience with a declawed clown

Me and my aunt have taken care of a lot of clowns, its usually a nice experience but every now and then he have to deal with a pretty sad case. Right now there’s a huge discussion on whether or not its okay to declaw your clowns. Me and and lot of other people are of the belief that unless the claws are causing harm/distress to a clown that they should never be removed. Unfortunately some people are not so nice. A little over a year ago we had a rodeo mutt come into our care. As rodeos are very rowdy by nature its important for them to have a good grip, if they don’t have that it is often is very destructive to their emotional well being. As you may imagine it was quite upsetting to us when one such clown ended up with us. Things kept slipping out of its hands and it was wildly stressing out, honking in distress and crying. We weren’t actually sure what was up at first as we had assumed it was just clumsy from lack of practice in open areas. I mentioned in a previous reply that some clown breeds had started evolving away from claws, through selective breeding or environmental changes, and rodeo clowns fall under that category; hence why we didn’t immediately look into it as a possibility the one we were looking after had its claws forcibly removed. Obviously there wasn’t anything we could do to fix that, short of getting it prosthetic claws but a good pair of those can cost quite a bit and they would need replacing when broken, costing even more money. My aunt didn’t have that kind of money so all we could do is comfort it and try to get it to do activities that didn’t need anything being held, like games such as tag. It was incredibly sad to have to do that, rodeo clowns don’t deserve to be so stifled in their enrichment, but it was all we could do until it was adopted. There’s been a few declawed clowns that have passed through us but this situation was especially saddening, to see what was supposed to be such an out there clown be so limited in what it could do fills me with hatred for the owners who could be so selfish as to treat clowns as objects they can do whatever they want with instead of the living beings, with needs and feelings, that they are! Thank you for reading this, and don’t unnecessarily declaw clowns!

[pbandjesters]

hey clown tumblr, i just found this little guy under my deck, so i took him inside and now he's playing with my puzzle. does anyone know the breed and what his dietary/housing needs are?