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mikauthesassybetta

LOLOLOL

mikauthesassybetta

I look away a few hours while working and suddenly Lulu got A LOT of notes

hella-free-space

This some top notch content folks

the-weird-beard

Lulu is victorious!

cyrelia-j

A decades-long scientific debate is finally resolved, thanks to a scaleless mutant lizard.

I feel like this should have big ST implications lol

kaijutegu

!!!

reggiemess

People who ‘love nature’ but violently hate their native coyotes, spiders, snakes, and scavengers are fake.

reggiemess

Here’s the thing about the post. You don’t have to love or even like every animal. You can dislike things! Humane, intelligent pest control is fine and necessary. This isn’t the issue and never has been.

It’s violent, blind hatred and hypocrisy that’s the problem. People who gush over foxes and owls and hawks but want coyotes and snakes dead in the next breath. People who will rescue prey from predators because predation is mean. People who find it appropriate to leave sadistic comments on pictures of spiders or snakes someone is appreciating or owns. People who insist on labeling species as ‘good’ or ‘evil’. This is the sort of behavior that bothers me.

People who only appreciate nature when it’s aesthetically pleasing to them and want to destroy the parts they find ugly and unpleasant don’t truly understand or love it. They love an ideal that isn’t actually representative of reality.

sir-isaac-snewton

^^^^^!!!!!!!

the-weird-beard

Something to think about no?

genjishiba

Here is an excellent video made by a 501c nonprofit exotic animal rescue about surviving versus thriving. It’s not enough to simply give adequate care - taking that little step to go above and beyond in giving your pets an environment where they can exhibit natural behaviors is one of the most important and rewarding things you can do for an animal.

🎵Sometimes I feel like Somebody’s watching me 🎵

#reptile #bearded dragon #pagonavitticeps #reptiblr #furby #Sheb-Teth devourer of souls

What kind of creature are you even? Cat? Snake? Ninja turtle? Definitely a camera hog tho 😂

#reptile #reptiblr #turtle #african helmeted #Gamera #pets

Snake + belly = snelly?

#reptiblr #reptile #snake #western hognose #Merlin the hognose

purrincess-anxiety

Me and my precious Zulu

the-weird-beard

Awww!

silverhawk

the mexican mole lizard is so good

heres a profile shot

and heres its lil mole hands

THE MEXICAN MOLE LIZARD !

the-weird-beard

If you are very pink with little diggyhands, you might be a Mexican mole lizard!

Added some water lettuce and a driftwood log in place of her old plastic hide. It looks nice and she seems to be ok with hiding under the log instead. I would like to eventually get a big trough/tub instead of the tank, but that will have to wait until I'm more settled. But it's an improvement for now :)

#reptiblr #turtle #african mud turtle #Gamera

viguy

opossummypossum

please share the truth about our marsupial helpers!

the-weird-beard

Opossums are good neighbors!

kaijutegu

This is a nice article from the Madison Area Herpetological Society that synthesizes and discusses a lot of the research in reptile enrichment and why it’s important for captive husbandry! Worth a read, and worth keeping on hand for reference/when arguing with people who think that reptiles don’t need and don’t benefit from enrichment.