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but i tigress 🐅

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firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

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Comic about my weird old dog

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i had to take an uber recently and was very charmed by my driver because we were talking about food and i asked him to reccomend me a dish from where he grew up and he was like ok try plov (i am waiting for my opportunity) but then he asked me what the best dish is from where i am and i said in well in maryland we invite 25 people over and steam a shit ton of crabs and pour them out onto a picnic table and rip into them with our hands like a pack of wild dogs. it's not even called anything. we just call it crabs

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LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

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"the new pope is problematic" well folks it's the catholic fucking church so im not really sure where your hopes were at

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Wedding night

(Part 1)

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*aborted little brother voice* it would be my turn on the xbox...if i existed...

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Horse people are such a specific type of crazy (I know as I am one myself) because they’ve been staring at their horses for millennia with such meticulous fervor that they’ve developed a kind of weird equine phrenology where owners feel like they can predict a horse’s temperament and behavior just from the pattern of hair swirls (called whorls) on their face. Which results in absolutely unhinged diagrams like this

The craziest thing about this? It is almost certainly based in truth. There has been a decent amount of study into the connection between hair whorls and horse behavior. Many scientists theorize that because these hair patterns develop in the fetal horse at the same time as the nervous system, certain information about a horse’s behavior can be predicted by the whorls.

A 2021 article in Livestock Science explored the genetic heritability of these swirl patterns and found that a whorl on the forehead is highly influenced by genetic factors and could potentially be used to select more docile animals. Temple Grandin researched the phenomenon as well with several studies at Colorado state and made the same connection between the growth of hair whorls and the development of the horse’s brain, leading to certain manifestations of anxiety or docility. Obviously temperament in any animal is more complicated than just genetics or histology, and it would be silly to try and extrapolate a horse’s entire personality from its hair, but the connection is interesting and worth noting all the same.

There is an ancient history to these whorls. An Indian veterinarian mentioned them in a treatise on equine medicine from the third century, and the Bedouin people (who had an extremely developed lore around whorls) used the marks to determine the price of horses prior to sale. It’s pretty cool that our modern understanding of embryology and veterinary medicine is illuminating a phenomenon that ancient people first noted and passed down through folklore.

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Dog Forum Simulator

- Will Purina kill my dog? I’ve been feeding him pure salmonella but it’s getting expensive. I heard Purina makes dogs explode???

- My dog is wanted for murder in 6 states. Should I rehome him to my frail grandmother?

- match me a breed for service work! It needs to be handler focused, neutral in public, love learning, medium sized and brown but NOT A LAB I HATE LABS!!!! also it needs to be good with other dogs and kids should I get a wolf dog?

- my husband has killed five of my dogs. How do I train my dogs not to be killed by my husband?

- I love my doodle he is the perfect match for me! Isn’t he cute? [400 comments] [600 angry reacts] [300 laugh reacts] [OP’s house has been set on fire]

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saw a post about uncommon special interests and someone brought up a kid they work with who is into arguing. he likes to watch dance moms fight clips and likes to play pretend arguments. thats so awesome. real drama king

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