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sleeping under a blanket in just your underwear when it’s cold and your blanket is warm enough to make up for it is the best fucking thing

wheezinghorre

until the demon living under your bed rips it off and has full access to your body

pwesident

and the demon is probably hot so she can do what she wants what’s your point

pwesident

a lot more likes than reblogs on this post bc this webbed site is full of cowards that know im right

omruc

pointedahead

This is ridiculous.

sympathizewithlinus

This👏🏼 was👏🏼 a👏🏼 joke.👏🏼 KIKÉ HERNANDEZ SET UP THIS PICTURE AND POSTED IT ON HIS TWITTER HIMSELF to make fun of how short he is. Literally the opposite of fragile masculinity. Everyone stop ruining his good name he is the sweetest goofball in all of baseball he deserves better I love him.

spottytonguedog

Sharing for context. I pretty much figured there was a joke here or you wouldn’t see the bucket.

catchymemes

ted8ug

glumshoe

dog breeds that cannot give birth naturally should simply not be bred

justslowdown

👏

intriga-hounds

Wait, you can return puppies to breeders? I didn't know that.... Under what circumstances would one have to do that?

yes, that is part of what makes a responsible breeder—they do not allow their dogs to end up in shelters. they will take their dogs back or at the very least help you rehome. sometimes a dog just doesn’t work out. maybe it has temperament issues, maybe your situation changed unexpectedly, maybe it’s missing something that was promised (for example, you wanted an agility dog and the dog just doesn’t have any interest). but ultimately if you decide you don’t want the dog, a good breeder will usually take it back, and in some cases even replace it. many breeders also have contracts stating that they can TAKE the dog back if they feel it’s being mistreated. i know of a recent case of this. it wasn’t pretty.

i know sivi’s breeder would take him in if i needed her to. she nearly had to take in two of his brothers. starfyre silkens recently took back a dog that didn’t work out (he was a cryptorchid and couldn’t be shown) and successfully rehomed him to a family of five who ADORES him. they then gave the original owner a replacement puppy that ended up working out beautifully!

that’s why you pretty much never see a well-bred dog in a shelter. their breeder put their blood, sweat, and tears (and A LOT of money) into those dogs. they love every pup they produce and care deeply about what happens to them.

don’t expect to be able to do this with a shitty breeder or puppy mill, however. usually they just ghost you once they have your money.

doberbutts

I was in a car accident 1.5yrs ago and had various injuries as a result. I was bedridden for months, completely unable to move due to a back injury causing pressure on my spinal column and, in return, causing short term paralysis. Additionally due to a brain injury also from the accident, I was unable to remember basic things and even speak. It was a very scary time for everyone involved.

When Creed’s breeder heard what happened she called me right away. Realizing how bad off I was, she offered to drive 3 hours one way to pick him up and take him to her home until I was capable of caring for even just myself again, as I was relying heavily on my roommates to help with both the dog AND with my own needs. Creed had sustained a shoulder injury, and besides that his breeder is ‘full’ on dogs and would have a difficult time having another in her house. I ended up not needing her to take Creed, but the offer was there. She also sent a get well card and a few gifts, and when I was able to meet up with her this past summer post-injury, she ran to embrace me and made sure to accommodate as much as possible during my visit.

By comparison, I don’t know where Tiki came from, but I know whereever it was they didn’t give two fucks about where she ended up. When Tiki’s elderly owner became too old to take care of herself, let alone a puppy, Tiki became severely neglected. Starved and sick she was put on craigslist by the owner’s adult daughter where a rescue I’d been talking to found her, and pointed me in that direction. The daughter didn’t have any idea where any of Tiki’s past records could have been, and falsified what records she did have. Tiki then spent the next several weeks fighting for her life in and out of the hospital as the infection that’d been left to rot inside of her began a systematic shutdown of her lungs and other internal organs. While recovered now, the scar tissue present in her airways will always cause her to cough, choke, and gag when excited or breathing heavily.

Tiki’s situation is how dogs end up in rescue, or worse in shelters where they have a limited amount of time before they are killed for space. Both of these dogs were sold as purebred. Tiki is from a very common breed to find in rescue- chihuahua. If the people who produced her had put more effort into making sure to place her in a good home, if they had provided the support, Tiki would not have had a close brush with death nor would she have a permanently lowered quality of life like she does now.

On the other hand, Creed’s situation is the ideal; the owner (me) could not properly care for him (temperarily). Instead of being allowed to languish, his breeder had made sure right from the start to put him in a home that would make good decisions for him (such as getting the roommates to help). She also made sure to stress that if at any point I needed her to step in, she’d be there. And she was. Creed recovered from his injury with no lasting damage (outside of possible arthritis appearing in old age years from now) and is still in a home where he is loved and cared for and treated well.

Dogs like Creed almost never end up in rescue because their breeders do their best to prevent it. Dogs like Tiki who lack that safety net are the ones who end up abandoned. Sadly when it comes to priorities, it’s usually the dog that loses.

spanishmal

I talk to my whippets’ breeder Every. Single. Day. Like, phone calls that sometimes are more than an hour long. We have become ridiculously good friends.

All of my breeders are fantastic, and they’d all take my dogs back if the need arose. They’re also my friends, and that kind of relationship isn’t something you’ll ever get from a BYB or, dare I say, a rescue organization or shelter.

When you purchase a dog from a good breeder, you’re getting SO much more than a dog. You’re getting a free helpline that you can call for guidance and assistance. You’re getting a lifelong relationship with someone who loves your dog just as much as you do. You’re getting a guarantee that if anything happens to you, your dog has a safe place to go.

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siphersaysstuff

WHY WAS THIS NOT IN THE FINAL CUT.

Or even the Special Editions. This is GREAT.

slumberblues

C3PO YOU FUCKER

mechcanuck-deactivated20200506

I have a new favorite Star Wars moment.

catchymemes

mr-downer

That’s a face of a defeated man.

walden-west

Half defeated, half “this sort of ridiculousness is what made me fall in love with her and I wouldn’t have it any other way”

omghotmemes

A full flamingo…

cobblepottery

I saw Cats last night and I still haven’t recovered. Here is a play-by-play of my experience

The movie begins. The audience is rife with anticipatory giggles. Some lady in the back row loudly says “can we be quiet now, please? let us watch the movie in silence” in a displeased Russian accent.

We will inevitably disappoint her

In the first 5 minutes, while crying with laughter, I decide this movie is actually about a human who gets genetically engineered into a cat and is exiled to a furrykin community.

5 minutes after that, I think about how good a movie this would be if it was hand-drawn animation and not CGI people-cats, and I become absolutely furious

Mice and cockroaches have human faces and bodies. The audience is screaming.

This film comes VERY close to having a dog on screen. I start sweating in dread of what it might look like. The dog is never shown.

None of the humor is funny

During the slow parts I start to imagine other celebrities in full cat CGI to amuse myself

Cat Idris Elba sexily Thanos-snaps another cat out of existence. Audible confusion ripples through the audience.

The cats do some extremely horny body work involving their tails. The audience is making disgusted noises. Several people yelp “oh NO” very loudly

At the end of a song, the throng of cats start “applauding” by slapping their hands on the ground and saying “meowmeowmeowmeowmeow”. This instigates a fight-or-flight response in me so strong that I nearly bolt out of the theatre.

During an awkward silence the camera cuts to a cat making a “yikes” kind of grimace and the whole theatre laughs because that is the exact emotion we are all feeling

A cat helicopters into the ceiling and is vaporized by cat Idris Elba. A man in the audience yells “GOTTEM!!” at the top of his lungs

Most cats are naked but somehow cat Idris Elba manages to be far more naked than all of them. The audience is screaming, again

Memoriiiiiiies. All alone in the moonliiiiiiight. “Please,” begs the Russian lady in the back of the theatre, sounding defeated, “don’t laugh. Not now.”

The actor who plays the main character gray cat who never gets a song explaining who he is (I am told he is Munkustrap) is DEAD SERIOUS about this role. He is a PROFESSIONAL. He is feeling being a cat so hard. Look at his face at literally any point (but especially during the final epilogue song) and I guarantee he will be having an intensely invested serious face journey. His shoulders must be aching from carrying this entire film.

110 minutes later, or maybe years: the credits roll. The audience cheers raucously. We exit the theatre in a daze. One of my friends goes home with a high fever. 10/10

criticalsorcery

I know exactly what that is, that’s what my papa-in-law’s been producing

ladyofrosefire

#there is an event implied in this that cannot be ignored #at some point in time#percy de rolo felt it necessary for whatever reason#to sit his step-son– a fully-grown 900 lb grizzly bear– down#and explain to him how to safely handle a firearm (X)

well, they did leave Trinket with Percy the day after the Briarwoods showed up…