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sillydegu

This! Pumpkin! is! Mine!!!

sillydegu

I love the tags on this

#chinchilla (kinda) in the front with her gerbil in the back

#why is your gerbil so huge #not trying to insult your gerbil but i dont think its a gerbil

#it's like if a chinchilla was trying to be a rabbit that is also trying to be a rat

#rat #NEVER MIND I WAS SO WRONG IT'S NOT A RAT #degu

#gerbil? das no rat

#what a weird looking dog

#WHAT MANNER OF BEAST IS THIS #it looks like a hamster rat....

#not a guinea pig

#i have never seen a beast like this before #but she is perfect and i love her

#girl what is this? is this a giant gerbil?

#rat? #chinchilla of some sort?

#is that a fucking degu or a weird rat?

#btw the answer is this is a degu

sillydegu

Happy pride to all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

sillydegu

Happy pride to all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

nausikaaa

just wrote 10 paragraphs to my MP asking him to push back against the EHRC's updated guidance, aka the trans bathroom bill.

Durham pride happened today. the Reform UK led council cut the funding, with the deputy leader, a gay man himself, citing "gender ideology, kids on puberty blockers, and men in women's spaces" as the reason he disapproved of pride. it went ahead thanks to group such as Durham Miner's Association fundraising (solidarity forever!) but the fact still stands that this attack on trans people hurt the entire queer community.

this new guidance hurts queer people in many ways (another example: gay and lesbian couples where one person is trans will no longer be protected as same sex couples under the Equalities Act) and of course, hurts our trans siblings the most (feeling unsure or unsafe about using public bathrooms will lead to trans people going out less. trans men are expected to either break the law or simply not go. trans people will be excluded from pools, gyms and spas that don't have mixed sex changing rooms.)

i wrote about all that, but you may have your own thoughts or relevant experiences about how this guidance has or will impact you or your loved ones. so write it. call on your MP to do the following:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate and a free vote on this Code.

Support any motion tabled in Parliament objecting to it.

Write to the Minister for Women and Equalities and the Prime Minister.

or, if you don't have it in you to write ten paragraphs (which is very understandable), you should still fill out this email template with your own personal touches and sign this petition, if you're british. and if you're not british, you should reblog this so your british followers can see it.

40 days. One email. Your name on the right side of history.

Launch a review into strengthening legal protections and clearer enforcement against discrimination, harassment and exclusion of trans women

don't save this for later. don't put a pin in it, planning to come back to it later. later may never come. we only have 31 days. do it now while it's on your mind. it really doesn't take long.

sillydegu

Rat holding a pride flag

And some of the many outtakes

He kept trying to stash it

shaddy-bee

@ohnoitstbskyen

rat-detector-24-official

Pride rat detected <3

sillydegu

Everyone, I'd like you to meet Lily and Rose

sillydegu

Happy belated gotcha day to these two, who have been with me for 4 years now 😊

#Lily is still healthy #Rose's diabetes is managed so she's doing well too #can't believe they turn 5 this summer

pawlovearts

Sun.

A tribute to my rodents and some significant critters in my life.

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Some notes about the hammos (and millipedes)

#i love this so much 💕#art

Hello and happy Halloween! 🎃👻

I hope you and the degus are doing great. Here are some tasty nuts as a treat. 🌰🥜

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 Thank you, the degus love the nuts!

#halloween #degu #cute #petblr #the girls #Lily #ask

sillydegu

Free them!

cryoverkiltmilk

They did the crimes but let them out anyway.

I've never seen a degu with Lily's markings before, she's so beautiful! Do you know if it's a common colour variation or is she a bit of a rarity?

Thank you 😊 Lily is an agouti piebald (or pied) degu, it's not the most common colour, although not especially rare. I've had other degus like her, Zach, Holly, and Faye.