noodlin'

a blog for Lil Pip the Dragonslayer and Baby Edi, silken windhounds living with their two moms and tabby brother in San Diego . . . . . BISS BOSS MABISS MHIT ISWS Ch UKC Ch RO2 Sundance Wings of Inanna CD RE ATD RATI CGC SPOT "Peregrine" (Pip) & Intriga Genesis of Amihan "Eden" & Dipper Wallace . . . . . . instagram: @pip.and.dipper

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Edi panini

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Water babies

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Edistack! Nearly two...

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Edi learned a cuss

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I missed them sooo much

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There is definitely a phenomena where people try SO hard to avoid anthropomorphism they end up looping around into this quasi-religious stance that humans have some essential non-biological quality that sets us apart from other animals. Like being so cautious about how you describe emotion experienced by a nonhuman animal that you go "that animal is not 'happy' it's just demonstrating a response to positive stimuli and receiving chemical reward signals" as if that's not also what human emotion is at the fundamental level.

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Like clockwork

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For reference

[crow821]

Oh lord you weren’t exaggerating… 😬

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BLEASE O BLEASE CAN EDI HAVE A POPPYCORM 🥺

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Triple trouble

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Sonnet went back to her mommy yesterday. She was a very sweet house guest.

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unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

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RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

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sonnet looks so much like pip at least in photos that i keep thinking they’re just photos of pip and then going oh wait a minute

No no she looks like pip in real life too, she's just a good bit larger. Like someone grabbed the corner of pip and dragged her to big size.

I'm constantly doing double takes.

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Sneaking on the big bed

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The bug claims another victim

(We are babysitting 12 year old Sonnet, who kinda just looks like Large Pip)

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Bug on bug violence

[taxidermycanine]

don't care + running + jumping + skipping + hopping + having fun + playing