Just an aspiring wildlife conservationist/zoologist/veterinarian/biologist (not completely decided yetđ) entering her last year of high school...who may need just a little encouragement and inspiration from the studyblr community. My addictions include coffee, stationary, and animals. Enjoy! BTW: This is a secondary blog, so it'll show as "rollinginthedeep68" if I followed you!
A Sad EndingâŠ
We got a call at 1am to a fox struck by a car, and found this young vixen lying in the middle of the road unable to use her front legs. Simon rushed her back to the hospital, but after treatment and days of observation she still had not regained the use of her front legs, and we had to make the difficult decision to put her to sleep.
Itâs always hard when thereâs a life we canât save, but dying because of a speeding vehicle just makes it worse. We get so many calls to animals hit by cars, and if only people would take a bit more care maybe there would be a few more lives that would be saved.
Please take care on the roads and watch out for our wildlife. Please SHARE!
Sleep well little one.
âDog Whispererâ Cesar Millan is under investigation for possible animal cruelty stemming from an incident filmed for his âCesar 911â TV show, authorities said.
The Dog Psychology center was visited by Animal Control as a response to the Simon & The Pigs clip wherein a dog with known small-animal aggression had been let off-leash around pigs and allowed to attack them. CM was away on a business trip (heâs scheduled in Vegas) and is now required to contact authorities within 24 hours.Â
National Geographicâs PR machine is on overdrive and itâs still spouting bullshit that protects this ass.Â
âA representative from Nat Geo WILD, which airs Millanâs show, issued this statement:
âCesar Millan has dedicated his life to helping dogs and to showing how even the most difficult âproblem dogâ can be rescued and rehabilitated. In a recent episode of the Nat Geo WILD series âCesar 911,â Cesar works with an aggressive French bulldog/terrier mix named Simon, who has a history of attacking other animals, including his ownerâs pet potbellied pigs. A short clip from the episode was shared online and showed Simon chasing a pig and nipping its ear, causing the ear to bleed. The clip caused some concern for viewers who did not see or understand the full context of the encounter.âWe have included an additional clip from the same episode to provide missing context. Cesar has created a safe and controlled environment at his Dog Psychology Center (DPC) in California in which to rehabilitate some of the most extreme â or âred zoneâ â cases of dog aggression, such as Simonâs. It is important to clarify that Cesar took precautions, such as putting Simon on a long lead to assess his behavior, before making initial corrections and removing the leash. The pig that was nipped by Simon was tended to immediately afterward, healed quickly and showed no lasting signs of distress. As the additional clip reveals, Cesar and his animal pack effectively helped Simon to overcome his aggressive behavior toward other animals; as a result, Simon did not have to be separated from his owner or euthanized.ââ
Letâs look at this, shall we?
âA short clip from the episode was shared online and showed Simon chasing a pig and nipping its ear, causing the ear to bleed. The clip caused some concern for viewers who did not see or understand the full context of the encounter.â
Yâknow how I always say that a good trainer shouldnât ever be getting bit because they should know how to prevent it? That applies to animals in the area, not just the trainer. Simon should have never gotten to bite the pig because he shouldnât have been set up to fail.
âCesar has created a safe and controlled environment at his Dog Psychology Center (DPC) in California in which to rehabilitate some of the most extreme â or âred zoneâ â cases of dog aggression, such as Simonâs.â
Prey drive isnât aggression. Killing a pig is not red-zone aggression. Way to misrepresent this.Â
âIt is important to clarify that Cesar took precautions, such as putting Simon on a long lead to assess his behavior, before making initial corrections and removing the leash.â
Hello yes weâre clarifying that he took entirely inappropriate precautions that weâre still touting to protect our golden boy nyah nyah nyah. Letâs see. He put the dog on a long line around animals heâs already proven interest in and ability to kill. (He also referred to a long-line as a muzzle. Speaking of, this dog has already killed a pig and he didnât think a reasonable precaution around them involved a muzzle). Then, when that didnât prove interesting enough, he took off the device that allowed him to control the dog around the things it likes to kill. Thatâs not a reasonable precaution, thatâs stupid and setting the dog up to fail.Â
Reasonable precautions would involve working on desensitization from a distance, with the dog on a short leash and on a muzzle to protect the pigs, and not letting the dog actually interact with the pigs it likes to kill.Â
âThe pig that was nipped by Simon was tended to immediately afterward, healed quickly and showed no lasting signs of distress.âÂ
It doesnât matter that the animal still got hurt under his purview, because it healed and was fine and showed no lasting signs of trauma! Exactly like how it didnât matter that negligence at daycare let your kid get burned while playing with the kitchen stove, because thereâs not even a scar and she doesnât seem to be scared of fire!Â
He let an animal he was responsible for get hurt because he chose to let another animal he was responsible for out of his range of control, knowing that second animal was inclined to hurt the first. Thatâs irresponsible and abominably unprofessional.Â
âCesar and his animal pack effectively helped Simon to overcome his aggressive behavior toward other animalsâ
Yâknow what I see? I see a clip that focuses almost entirely on the dog that is not Simon and his stellar behavior, a clip that often cuts Simon out of the frame, that barely focuses on Simon when heâs in frame. I see a dog whose body language is still and awkward, not the loose movements of a comfortable dog. Thatâs not a dog whose behavior is âfixedâ - thatâs a dog who is shut down. Just like every other âfixedâ dog who comes out of CMâs facility, heâs uncomfortable and unwilling to move or interact for fear of the reaction heâll get. Who knows what else happened to this pup off camera thatâs causing him to act that way? I donât think weâll ever know, but this is not the body language of a dog who has gone through a successful and humane behavioral modification program.
National Geographic needs to get its shit together and stop making excuses for an unscientific fraud who profits from abusing animals under itâs purview.Â
Family sues PETA for $9 Million for stealing, killing their dog
Maya was a family-owned, healthy Chihuaua. PETA members were filmed stealing Maya from private property, which they denied until they were told they were filmed. After the family called asking about where their pet was, PETA delivered them a gift basket and told them that Maya was dead.Â
The family is now suing PETA for trespassing and emotional distress. Wilber Zarate, Mayaâs owner, writes in the lawsuit that after learning of Mayaâs death, his daughter cried for weeks and lost sleep and weight.Â
It is illegal in the state of Virginia for a shelter to kill an animal that comes to them without waiting five days, and PETA was fined $500 for doing so. The day of the incident, PETA also took in other animals from the same park that may or may not have been stolen, including kittens, a lab mix, a puppy, and another chihuahua. These animals were also killed the same day, without effort to find homes for them. Multiple accounts of current and former PETA workers describe that the organization routinely kills healthy animals, including 97.5% of the animals they take in. Sometimes animals are killed in the back of PETA vans, before even making it to the shelter. âEuthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved,â PETA CEO Ingrid Newkirk said at a press conference.
Four months after the incident with Maya, PETA responded. Even though the thieves knew the park well and had personally met with Maya and her owners, they claim that they didnât realize the dog was owned.
This is what animal rights organization support. This is why there was an uproar over realizing Lush agreed with PETA.
Donât ever give anything to PETA, HSUS, or any organization that describes themselves as âanimal rightsâ or works with those organizations.
They are for no human-animal contact in anyway. To them, killing animals is âkinderâ than letting them live with humans.
This is what they want to do to your reptiles. Â The USGS is working with these ignorant disgusting excuses for living beings to pass national legislation against many exotic animal species.
Upworthy carried a story summarizing an experiment demonstrating that rats exhibit empathy. Why do I care about this? Because the graphics showing the experiment on Upworthy made me smile, and smiling is good. Hereâs the link in case you want to watch the video embedded in the story.
Some scientists ran an experiment to demonstrate that. Hereâs how it worked:
The scientists put a rat in water (which rats hate). Not enough to hurt the rat, but enough to annoy it.
Then they put another rat in a safer, dry area with a door it could open to save the first rat.
When the dry rat heard the damp, miserable rat get upset, she came to the rescue.
Still not satisfied with the result, the scientists ran a more complex test.
What if you bribe the dry rat with food? Will she ignore it to rescue the wet rat in the next chamber?
Scientists presumed it would be easier for the not-in-peril rat to take the obvious selfless route when it was given only one choice. But what if they gave her a delicious bribe (chocolate cereal) and then let her choose between saving her friend and a buffet?
The rats, by a significant margin, still usually saved their friend before getting their delicious bribe. What does that mean?
Rats might care more about each other than things like food, and that prioritization might be encoded in their DNA.
Why should we care about super-thoughtful rats?
It is often argued that humans are inherently selfish â that without guidance, we would all default to killing and stealing and an âevery person for themselvesâ mentality. That we only help others if it helps us. That evolution canât make us selfless; itâs something we have to force ourselves to do.
But if rats show human-like qualities (they laugh like us, they dream like us, they like to have selfless lovers) like altruism, that means it isnât a human-learned behavior. It could be encoded in our DNA. It means humans could be empathetic and kind by default.
It also means that rats and humans have more in common than we think.
An adorable rat not spreading the plague and hugging a tiny teddy bear. Much empathy.
If you ever think youâre the most socially awkward person here, I want to remind you about the one time I got pulled over at 2am after doing an emergency surgery on a Samoyed and was covered in blood, and the first thing I yelled at the cop when I rolled down the window was âI DIDNâT MURDER ANYONE!!â and I almost went to jail.
One of the Veterinarians that I work with (via bron-bron)
This cute little pack of Alpacas make my day every time I see them on my walk. Today was the closest Iâve ever gotten to them. I was making baby goat sounds and they all came right up to see what the commotion was about. They just stared at me with straw hanging out of their mouths. I was literally laughing out loud! Cutest faces ever! đ #countrylife #countryliving #alpacas #alpacasofinstagram #timpstagram #hebervalley #lovewhereilive #stellarday #beutahful by farmhouselove74 https://www.instagram.com/p/BCOO_Cvqyjq/
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