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>>2428527
dogs don't really respond to a name, but it's the pitch of how the name was said that makes them react. think about how the dogs name is ie sparky and try to say it's new name ie fido similar to that or in the tone it's previous owner used (if you know what the previous owner's voice was like to begin with)

>>2428527
most of the time the shelter re-names them anyways, so the dog has no fucking clue either way.

i always get adult dogs and i always change the name because shitty names trigger me (off the top of my head i've acquired a pongo, an abby and a shadow BLECHHH)

they learn the new name pretty quick, and it's fun to fuck with them with the old name but eventually they forget it and stop getting riled by it

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>>2428311
Acherontia atropos I think

>>2428322
Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.

>>2428322
this
one is ready to pupate (the orange one), it needs to burrow in lightly moist, pretty lose substrate

>>2427891
>it's totally normal for a dog to maul babies if they are not trained :^)
"Normal" implies something that occurs regularly, more often than not.

if it were normal for pit bulls to maul babbies at least half of them would do it. This would mean you'd have hundreds of millions of mauled babby stories instead of one or even one hundred.

in reality "hundreds of millions" is too large a number for you to comprehend, you have no idea how far from normal your one example is. Because you're incapable of imagining how small one is compared to hundreds of millions.

>>2427918
they're responsible for over 80% of the human deaths caused by dogs each year in the US

>>2427923
unless every person in the US is killed by a pit bull, it's not normal.

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>>2427794
Here's another.

Amanita muscaria var. Guessowii. Toxic.

>>2427808
The cap was a little more conical than amanita muscaria var. guessowii.

>>2427788
Tell her its a one way ticket to landing in jail for animal abuse

>>2427788
Tell her that they've been known to catch fire on occasion.
Never heard of it but it sounds plausible enough.

>>2427788
Nothing wrong with a low intensity buzz. Especially if the dog will be in the woods or hiking. I don't care how good the dog's recall is, sometimes a dog will take off after something.

Take him to a wildlife clinic nearby, otherwise keep doing what you're doing. It's unlikely that he'll live though.

>>2427727
Not much besides keeping a warm bottle (wrapped in a towel) next to him.
Also, use a wet q-tip to rub it's genitals after feeding, so it can poo and pee. They cannot do it naturally at this age.

What realistically are his chances.

cont- what are the options here? I already know a diet low in protein is probably the best option but, once again, a low protein diet is good for the pancreas but not the kidneys? I'm just getting so many wild answers here I don't know what to make of it. I hope somebody here is more knowledgeable on these diseases and how they overlap with each other. thanks in advance

TL DR my 9 year old chihuahua has a double whammy of pancreatitis and 'acute' renal failure, how is this going to be managed?

>>2427392
Bring it back to the pet store and buy another rat.

Eruptions

>>2427257
A sudden realisation that mankind is slowly destroying the perfection that is the natural world, and that it's beauty is now confined to a small set of government regulated spaces that just happened to not be pillaged by the time we became self aware of our planet's destruction.

And mosquitos.

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>>2427331
woow.......

outdoor cats this isn't even a debate anymore

>>2426767
I would rather run into a cat outside than a pitbull. Pitbulls are shit as an entire breed, outdoor cats can be ok as lomg as they're relegated to a property or back yard.
I vote shitbulls.

>outdoor cats
kill huge amounts of wildlife
>pitbulls
kill humans which kill even more wildlife than cats and fuck up earth

Isn't it obvious?

dogo caca

dogger

south americans can only speak in memes.

Dog names should be pretty short with only a few syllables. How about Yume (dream)?

>>2426309
inu

>>2426321
犬

>People don't buy treats or toys for cats.
No wonder they're always all shitty.

>>2426158
>vet care costs 0
Wew. Apparently they don't actually require shots, which I still can't quite believe. I feel like it's asking for a possibly invasive species. They're not really all that fun or nice either, they're a real meme pet.

>>2426158
I hate to admit it but these guys were at a local mall when I was a teenager and I got sucked into their sales pitch. The animals were packed 20-50 to a tiny cage each. I bought four of them and they had me convinced that one of those tiny cages was enough for them. One of them died the first night I had them.

This company is unethical as fuck and dishonest about the type of care these guys require. They completely obscure the fact that they are not like tiny dogs (as they claim,) they are wild animals and don't like you, and take a ton of work to even get them tame enough to handle.

With the shitty instructions they gave me, the animals I bought from them got sub-par care for quite a while. They all died about 3-4 years later from some sort of wasting disease--none of the vets in my area knew anything about them and I watched them die one by one.

They make shitty pets. I'm ashamed that I was too stupid to see through the dishonest salespitch these guys spin. At this point I just try to warn people to do their own research and not buy from them if they do choose to get sugar gliders. These people actually discourage their buyers from doing their own research. That in itself should be a real redflag.

>>2425980
I hope someone like me gets to kill your fucking cat one day

>>2426016
how bout you kys instead dumshit

>>2426016
Most birds don't hold as much value as a cat
The only birds with value imo is crows and ravens

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Red pandas are my favorite
Wish I could keep them as house pets like cats and dogs

I don't have a “favorite animal”, and I'm convinced those who do are either children in elementary school, or adults who share their mentality.

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>>2425846