#lnt talks

[downyfur]

I love you,

Enjoy your night, or day.

And watch out for an opossum skittering twoards you, it just wants to give you a kiss on the forehead. <3

[downyfur]

ARE YOU OKAY?

(referring to getting bitten while your dog had blood from a wild animal)

Yep! I'm only left with this gash in the side of my thumb now and a bit more fear around dog bites.

When it happened I was still freaked out about the potential infection, but not as much as I could have been bc the animal was a very young rabbit and it had died mere moments ago. And my dog is up to date on all her shots.

Basically I was dumb and stuck my thumb in the mouth of my small dog who had just chased and grabbed a rabbit. I was trying ti be quick about it so I could potentially save the baby, and so my dogs wouldn't eat the entire thing if it was dead, as eating just flesh and portions of organs is one thing compared to being able to eat an entire body.

I traped my dog in between my legs and ripped half of the rabbit out, guts and blood everywhere while I also tried to fend off my other dog. Then I attempted to hing my dog's jaw open, ive had to do this before and she usually never bites down harder, but a fresh rabbit is more valuable than a fallen scrap of food to her. She led my thumb along with the massacred rabbit in her mouth for several seconds before I pulled it free. And after a few seconds if me crying in pain and fear, I plugged her nose with my blood soaked hand until she soat out most of what reminded.

There was blood everywhere, both the rabbits and my own stained my clothes. I was crying out of fear and adrenaline more so than pain. It hurt a lot, but luckily my thumbnail was able to keep me from being bit too deeply. And the pain was just kind of inconceivable and strange. It hurt BAD but I couldn't process it iver the rest ofnthe violence.

I ended up getting put on some powerful antibiotics for a little bit and just had to keep watch and be very careful about protecting the wound. The hand is VERY susceptible to infection. And I had a gash in it, the nail was cracked across it, the the pad of my thumb had some lesser wounds too.

Oh wow I yapped. I ended up being understandably freaked out around my dog for a while. I really had thought i was going to lose the tip of my thumb while it was still in her mouth. Even when I got it out i couldn't tell of it was all there.

[downyfur]

Sometimes I forget pajamas exist and that people don't wear everyday clothes to bed. They even put shorts on or don't wear any pants at all

Crazy...

[downyfur]

do you prefer long low intensity thunderstorms, or high intensity storms that only last like 20 minutes?

I like the middle ground. As cool as a high intensity storm is, I would likely get a little scared and would not be able to fully enjoy the sights sounds and smells of it. If a storm is less intense, then I can sit outside for a while and watch as it passes. I like to watch the storms with my dad on the porch or deck. But yeah it seems if prefer low intensity :]

[downyfur]

Gods I wish I had someone to cuddle with. So badly.

Not even necessarily a romantic partner

whining like a puppy

[downyfur]

... Implying you've messed with rotting animals? Why? Was it just roadkill or something?

Did I accidentally imply i was into necrophillia? I'm not. Sorry for the misunderstanding

I have a post explaining my fascination and use of dead animal corpses in a scientific and artful way here.

I've been the main person in my family to dispose of and clean up animal carcasses in our yard - I live in the suburbs with birds of prey and outdoor cats. The use and what i have in my yard lend to a good environment for prey species to hang out.

And when dead animals are in the yard, they must be disposed of for sanitation reasons, or so my dogs can't eat them. But often the dogs find them before us...

So im called to help out if my dogs say... bring a decapitated rabbit head to the back door. Or vomit up entire baby animals. Then I give then a bath! Sometimes ya boi gets sick of cleaning up dead animals and tells someone else to do it. But that doesn't usually work. Which results in icky stuff.

So im not a stranger to mutilated organisms. I've shared blood with them atp after getting bit by my dog while trying to get a dying rabbit out of her mouth.

I've never stopped a car for roadkill, but I will look if i get the chance walking by. I won't investigate a rotten carcass, but if its relatively intact I'll examine it for cause of death and to learn anatomy! It's not often you get to look at an animal and cause no further harm to it.

I treat the dead with respect, and I've only ever dissected lab specimens.

[downyfur]

I was talking to my mom about addiction, and I mentioned the difficulty of there never being an end. There's no cure to the thoughts, the possibility.

It is a lifelong battle for me now. And the fight can get easier, a whole lot easier I hope. But it will never end.

She told me that she didn't know that. That notion threw me off. Very few times in existence is there a cure to erase every peice of evidence.

[downyfur]

what do you think of predator×prey dynamic?

As a person who has dipped their toes into a lot of anthro content, im pretty sick of it. It is a good trope/relationship, but god I'm personally sick of it and have had the enjoyment spoiled.

There are a few situations where I enjoy that dynamic, but it's usually just riding the line for me even then.