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If y'all wanna adopt a rabbit and actually take care of it, check out house rabbit society. They have chapters all over the US for neglected or abandoned rabbits.

Remember: rabbits live 10 + years if taken care of properly. They're a commitment. Don't buy one on impulse.

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Mice naturally hoard stuff, the mouse probably thought of stuff as his and was trying to put it in this nest! How cute!

Also, mice are messy, and their enviroment can look messy, but they actually like things a certain way! The mouse may have also been moving things around because he didn't like where they were.

Mystified homeowner was left baffled as to who was tidying his garden shed, he thought it was a ghost, but discovered the culprit was a house-proud mouse.

Via Lovethis.news

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For everyone defending Sea world in the comments. Their orcas literally self harm on the sides of the too small enclosures.

6 zoo myths that arent true

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Steve Irwin hates PETA!

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How To Be A Good Hat!

By Tiny!

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My marbled newts are enjoying their newt shoreline pond setup.

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Rin got a cage clean! I took all the plastic besides the wheel and bottle out and replaced then with wooden hides and tunnels! She also has deeper bedding, 8 inches at the deepest and 4 inches consistently until the sand area. I plan on making that deeper and expanding it when I get more sand!

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he stare

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It’s been a very busy day and I just got done cleaning cages.

I thought we could end the day with a peak at Violet and her three day old babies.

I enjoy this time of day, where I can go say hi to everyone, hand feed a veggie and watch the piggies enjoy their treat.

Yes! This is what it is all for…the small moments that make your heart happy. 💜

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all of my fishy children 💖

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Happy pride month! We love our two moms ❤🌈

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Here is Rin, eating!

I've decided to mimic German style cages from now. I never really liked the way plastic stuff looked (bright, neon colors) and I want to give her a more natural enclosure. I've bought her a bigger sand bath (still kind of small, but I've been told to not put sand directly in the detolf) and I'm going to make her some of my own stuff out of wood. I have popsicle stick platforms right now, but those are temporary!

I'm also feeling very limited by her enclosure right now, so I've started making plans to build my own when I have the funds (5-6 months)! Still need to do some research on building a cage like that, but I'm excited!

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me: pets my dog so gingerly and sweetly as to not hurt his delicate puppy bones

my dog: headbutts me in the ass so hard i go flying forward three feet and smashes my head against the hardwood

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Rin chews her whimzee (she's very angry it's too big to pouch)!

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This sorta shit pisses me off. So sit down everyone and listen to the story of what we call the “Kill Buyer/Feedlot Scam”.

What happens when you combine an Amish-dominated auction house and mostly likely an ex-convict who can’t get a real job? Killbuyers! These are guys who purchase large amounts of horses for under $400 at auctions, or they pick up horses listed as cheap or free on Craigslist. From there, the horses can either go one of two ways - to slaughters, or to private buyers. Well-trained horses can end up at another auction, or traded with another horse trader. Fat, healthy horses that may be unhandled end up in feedlots where they ship to Mexico or Canada to be slaughtered. They will never show up on Facebook. But sad, old, miniature, and very young horses end up on Facebook pages like this, purchased for no more than $100 and then sold days later for a 300% price increase. Who would want to buy old lame horses? Well, no one– at an auction. But on Facebook you can find all kinds of bleeding-heart animal lovers who will open their checkbooks if you claim that this horse you have is “shipping to slaughter” the next week if no one buys it. Even if the horse will not be accepted at the border, like a foal under six months of age. Or if you make absolutely no profit, like a miniature horse. Who cares! Let’s claim to ship them all to slaughter! People with too much money and too little sense love the idea of “saving” a horse!

Sometimes these guys are pretty good at selling decent horses for acceptable, if not high, prices. I follow the Bowie Auction House in Texas, because they at least don’t use a thousand knife emojis threatening slaughter in every post. But this guy, Brian Moore, goes to New Holland Auction, where very sad Amish horses can be picked up for cheap, and advertises them for extremely marked up rates. Not only does he do that, but he doesn’t even try to be legit. These horses are not rideable (but he rides them anyway). They are suffering from arthritis or injuries, and terrible conformation (as is the case of the Arabian mare, which he says has been bred way too many times, because that back deserves to live on in her progeny!) They either need to be picked up by a legitimate rescue or euthanized. Not hopped on and trotted around a concrete driveway with a moron on its back so that this dude can scam a couple hundred bucks out of people who think a swayback like that isn’t “too bad” (she is not even old and has a back as long as a bus. It is very bad). That’s the worst part– many of these horses are going to people with big hearts but not a lot of horse knowledge. They don’t understand the expense and time a healthy horse takes, let alone one who will drive up your vet bills into the thousands in less than six months.

I watch a page that networks horses from the New Holland auction, and several posts have been from people who “saved” horses from New Holland but either can’t afford them or can’t handle them. So back to the auction they go. No one inexperienced should ever buy a horse at an auction. And yet with these Facebook pages, they seem to draw in the most inexperienced horse owners who should be adopting horses from legitimate rescues, not scam artists who lie through their teeth about minis shipping to slaughter.

The Appy is listed as $425. The Arabian is at $613. Here are many healthy, young horses I personally purchased at an auction for at or less than $600.

Chip: $300 (no health problems outside of worms and a cough)

Jackie: $600 (no health problems)

Echo: $450 (no health problems; some behavioral issues though)

Socrates: $400 (no health problems)

Belle: $400 (no health problems; she had foundered at some point, but was healthy and sound when I got her)

Roxie: $500 (no health problems outside of being very fat)

In case any horsey people watch me… do not fall for this bullshit. These guys are making money hand over fist and laughing on their way to the bank, all while sick and skinny horses die on their lots. You do not shut puppy mills down by buying their puppies. Apply that logic to feedlot “rescues”. Do not give them money.

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The world is not kind to cats

It was a bad time to be an outdoor cat.

The cat doesn’t understand why its human is sad, just that they are, and their legs don’t work.

The cat doesn’t understand that its pelvis has been crushed like a coke can and that recovery would require multiple thousands of dollars for surgical repair and would more than likely result in chronic, lifelong pain from an intra-articular fracture (through the joint surface).

The cat doesn’t understand the repeated insistence that “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” over and over again, nor does it understand that its only had one year of life, when it could have had fifteen.

But the human, the human understands that the cat’s life is about to be tragically cut short, thanks to the massive trauma sustained from the car when the cat just didn’t come home one night.

“Who did this to you?” the human asks, over and over between their apologies and tears.

And the vet knows they’re lucky their cat came home at all to say goodbye. And the vet knows in her heart which human it is that’s responsible for this outcome, and it wasn’t the one driving the car.

The next consult is so understanding about the wait. They know what it’s like to loose a cat. Theirs didn’t come home one day, at only four years old. And other cats that used to visit their backyard disappeared around the same time.

They always suspected someone had poisoned them, put paracetamol into saucers of milk and left it out to get rid of the cats.

The new cat, this one will be indoor only. Maybe on a harness if it shows interest in the outside world.

The world that should only be visited under supervision. Because the world is not kind to cats.

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