#tw animal injury

[wolfziedraws]

Don't call me prince

[lizmamont]

[chocoperrito]

quick collaborative piece by @shepherdswerewolf and I

[swallowprettybird]

while I'm preparing screenshots for the cursed chronicles, I brought you some footage from the shoot of Willow and her colleagues 🙃

thank you sm @kalino-thesims for this beautiful animal 🦓💛

What would you call a zebra?

[cricketclan]

Riverkit can have some sass as a treat

also fun fact! I did not remember that I used that same reference for olive and clover fighting before for jayberry and cinderstones argument until afterwards and at this point I don't want to draw it again 😔

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[isthedogawolfdog]

I think people who think using poison is a good way to control pests should look up the effects of strychnine on wolves and other animals way back when.

[deer-motif]

YOU'LL CHANGE YOUR NAME OR CHANGE YOUR MIND AND LEAVE THIS FUCKED UP PLACE BEHIND

BUT I'LL KNOW, I'LL KNOW

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[somewillwin]

This is not my typical kind of content

it's been a few days and i've been thinking about what is actually happening and what i can do to help. If you don't know, i'm an artist from Valparaíso, Chile and right now my city has been suffering one of the biggest wildfires in their hystory. More than 15000 homes have been burned to the ground, 100+ people have passed away and theres been an incredible amount of wilflife and land burned. As i've been fortunate enough to be ok and well with my family, i've been traying to find different ways to help in a situation where thousands of people have lost so much, in many cases, that includes their pets. I know that there's a lot of people that follows me that isn't from here and even if they would like to, there's not many ways to help from other countries. so i would like to be, myself, some kind of bridge if there's anyone who would like to help.

The majority of the people affected has been left with the clothes they were wearing that day, so they need need new underwear, they need water, stuff for their personal hygiene, clothes to change themselves, food, even stuff so they don't get hurt trying to clean what's left of their homes.

There's been a lot of injured animals that have been burned or they have lost their owners. They need medicine, they need stuff to clean their burns, they need wet and dry food, water.

So, as an artist who works and receives payment from other countries, if you would like to help i can put my paypal info so i can gather as many donations as i can and buy the stuff that can help this people that need it so much right now. It would be incredible to have your help. As I work with my paypal account i just ask you that you put in your donation that is a "wildfire donation" so i can separate it from my work and be as transparent as this situation needs. Anything helps, really, you don't know how much a little something can change the day of someone who has lost everything.

thank you

[bonefall]

I was wondering- with the clans more advanced nature and ability to deal with more serious conditions, how would a clan deal with a cat who had been declawed? Would they try and change some things to make things like hunting more accessible for that cat, and if so, what would they do? Would they use something like a clawed gauntlet or claw implants?

Absolutely adore your content by the way

Being declawed is a very serious disability for a Clan cat to have. "Accommodation" for a cat that is declawed is completely concerned with reducing the serious pain that this procedure would put them in; there is almost no way to help make hunting more accessible.

Just to repeat that; Declawing is a disability for a Clan cat. I'll be treating it as such.

I'm gonna be using a medical diagram below the cut to show you the problem!! So TW: DECLAWING IS A FINGER AMPUTATION, please do not hit "read more" if seeing anatomy and hearing of a cat in pain would upset you!

[ID: A diagram of cat paw anatomy, showing how a cat's claw is like a "shoe" around the end of a bone and displaying how the muscles connect.]

"Declawing" means removing a weight-bearing bone from the foot of the animal. The final digit of the finger is meant to be in-contact with the ground. For a crude analogy, imagine if someone removed a bone from your foot and made you walk on your tibia and heel-meat.

So from the VERY offset, a declawed cat in the wild would not be able to patrol very far without pain. In addition, they don't have a way to "grab" things anymore. Bringing this cat on a hunting patrol would be unhelpful at best and actively destructive at worst. They can't hunt, not enough to "pull their weight".

Gloves don't fix this, and there is no claw to put an extender on. BB!Cats have slightly beefier hand anatomy than irl cats, but they only have TWO digits. Declawing reduces them to just one.

Quick drawing;

A declawed paw is not a hand that can hold a struggling animal; they don't even have the digit to make a good pincer grasp. Hunting is so hard it's nearly impossible.

For the cat's health, so they can enjoy their Clan's territory as is their right, they might want to make "shoes," or, crude booties. Unlike humans, cats don't have a "wrist" that a glove can easily rest on, so shoes would need to be tied to the leg.

[ID: A cat wearing booties. Note the straps above the paw.]

This could be made out of leather or flax, with some sort of sole for padding. This is an accessibility device, though, so keep in mind this is something you'd need a craftsman like BB!Jessy for.

So generally, a declawed cat is the type that spends a lot of time in camp! With a little extra time, it's possible to modify the tools that Kitchen Patrol uses for this individual. A spoon's handle can be curled so it rests on the wrist. Instead of skinning an animal with claws, they could fasten a knife to the paw.

[ID: BB!Cat paws drawn with the accessibility tools mentioned above.]

So, if the cat enjoys helping out around camp, there's still ways that they can contribute if they would like to.

And lastly, Clan cats think this is the ultimate symbol of human cruelty. Sharpening one's claws (karrurrska) is EXTREMELY important to the mental health of a cat. It feels good, it exercises your whole arm to get up there and sccrrraaaatch, there's tendons, bones, and scent glands on that final digit.

Hearing that a kittypet has been declawed is evil to Clan cats. Beyond mwyrgna. The cuckoo kills its kin to get more food from its parents, the rat kills its young out of fear. What purpose could humans possibly have to mutilate a cat like this, besides delight in seeing them suffer?

It's the kind of concept that would invoke a lot of emotion out of Clan cats.

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Ya know, life to a chihuahua must be fairly alarming

Theyre so small, can be on the fragile side

Most things are much bigger than they are and could hurt them pretty easily

I know coyotes in particular are a fairly big threat to them, which i can only imagine how a chihuahua feels when facing a coyote

Coyotes arent even that big but compared to chihuahuas

And then theres things like hawks or owls, which has gotta be even spookier

Like jus being out in the world knowing some large beast could swoop down and snatch you off

Happened to my 2nd grade teachers dog, it was in their yard and an owl grabbed it and carried it off

Fortunately, theres those dog vests, with spikes and sticks on them that help protect chihuahuas and other small dogs from this kinda thing

And i know not everyone is going to buy or use them, but hey, its nice that they exist

And now you might be wondering "What in the world does this have to do with Httyd?"

And the answer to that is very simply you see

Dragons, of course, are very large predators, they can easily swoop down and grab someone, and even the smaller dragons could likely scoop up a child

Now, as we all know, theres no dragons in our world

A tragedy, but nevertheless, a fact

And obviously httyd's world has dragons, its kinda in the name

Furthermore in our world, Vikings didn't wear horned helmets, it's just not the case, they didn't have them

But in httyd, they do

so essentially what im saying is

Thank you for your time

[simplych4i]

@a-scary-lack-of-common-sense made this poem and I couldn't help myself. There's something so wonderful about it, I just kept rereading it. Had to make something of it.

[literally0usernames]

[through-frost-and-flames]

Moon 81 Part 8.

[cricketclan]

YAY FLUTTERSILVER WIN!!

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[voidcats-0ne5ive]

Cringetober Day 14: Candygore, The well known Scourge gutting Tigerstar scene.

[deer-motif]

A WOUNDED DEER LEAPS HIGHEST

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