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Nothing but incredible respect for parents who don’t post any pictures or identifying information about their children online. Talk about your parenting struggles. Talk about the things that make your kid great and funny and weird. But don’t attach photos of them to your posts.

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Sometimes I see other people in wildlife science post work stuff on personal blogs and it’s like damn, you didn’t sign an NDA for that?

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my advice to you is to never waste your time trying to fit into a club or hobby or any community who makes you beg for acceptance and approval just to participate when you could do the alternative—get involved in a niche and endangered hobby run primarily by old people.

i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans

and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.

imagine vying for the acceptance of some gatekeeping weirdos when your mere interest could be inciting verbal combat among retirees

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Coors light beerwolf is holding my credit card limit hostage

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I tried needle felting for like a week and ouchy my wrist so now I will hyper fixate on wood working while my fursuit withers away

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i feel like a lotta people are wildly unhappy and resistant to the concept that the answer to most things is "well, it depends"

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Someone make her stop YELLING

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This is an excellent way of putting of it.

I think a lot of the public handling of wild Opossums in recent years and how much of that may be attributed to the myth that they eat ticks (they don’t, it has been proven scientifically that ticks do not make up any part of their diet and the original claim was bogus) and that they don’t carry rabies. And while yes, technically, you are not likely to get rabies from a possum they still get rabies and they are the zoonotic reservoir for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and it is probably very cruel and distressing to pick them up.

Idk I have such a fascination with people who coddle and baby wild animals (or even domestic ones). Maybe it's not that deep but I think in some ways it does speak to a lack of maturity in empathy, which sounds counterintuitive but I think its not unlike some forms of unhealthy parenting. It's a cognitive disconnect that perhaps the way you'd like to be treated does not always translate to what others want or feel comfortable with. That maybe your reality is not universal, and an inability to place yourself in another's shoes. People hear low empathy and assume it means distant and unloving, but it can also look like lovebombing or over imposing oneself on others with a lack of boundaries. From the outside it can look loving and pampering and an incredible life, but do they ever really stop to try and get to know the other party, what it actually feels and wants? Are you doing what's best for it, or just what you think is best? Or worse, what you think makes you look best in front of others?

They call animal care professionals who ask for more restraint and less contact with said animals uncaring and cold because they honest to god cannot place themselves in a reality where a kindhearted hug could feel terrifying and a free donut could be horrible for one's survival. And I think information based arguments can fall short because they are primarily operating through emotions and what "feels" right to them. And I think some of these people may be drawn to animals and habituating wildlife because they won't ever tell them off in clean english. Idk it intrigues me

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The most frequent noises you are graced with is some kind of gurgle scream like of a monster emerging from a bog and her classic, a cat crossed with a diner waitress that has been chain smoking in the back for 15 years.

She is so LOUD

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She is so LOUD

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Tremors

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Quick screenshot redraw/study of Mizu because I can't get Blue Eye Samurai out of my head

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Requesting help with the cougar skull.

He is still a lil greasy and needs another go. However, he has a black spot on a few places where the grease got pretty nasty while I was waiting for more soap. Pretty sure it’s a leftover fungal thing in the bone.

He’s been whitened since it developed. I need stronger peroxide but will another degreasing round make it go away? Or more peroxide? Old Internet forum suggested a quick hour vinegar soak but I’m not risking a cougar skull for a black spot lol.

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Some stories from my mother, who works in vetmed:

-Uber wealthy lady had been treating her dogs ear infections with essential oils. A mushroom was growing out of the dogs ear. The vet had never seen anything like it.

- a woman who said her dog only eats a small amount of kibble each night. She added later in the appointment that her chihuahua also got a plate of spaghetti and sauce every night, with the kibble.

- the dog cannot be spoken to or acknowledged because it’s a guard dog

some of my fave pieces of Great Dog Advice I’ve seen people give include:

-You do not need to impose exercise restrictions on an injured or post-surgical dog, because dogs will never over-exert themselves.

-only deworm your dog on a full moon.

-dogs will only eat food that is good for them; they naturally know to avoid toxins

-dogs should be allowed to breed freely because they will only mate with the most fit partners.

-some dogs simply should never have their hair groomed or cut because it will make them feel bad about how they look.

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This chapter of Gunnerkrigg has felt very bizarre to me. The entire comic has had Annie resent being an afterlife guide and now that Kat goes, “Annie, I’ll let you choose to be one or not but there’s no one I’d rather have” (which is not really a choice) Annie makes 0 protest and looks happy. In the Jeanne chapter she let a dude bleed out longer so she could be bitter and angry at the afterlife guides. Now it’s cool? Girl why.