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How many hours of direct sunlight should it get per day?

>>2388469
I want to see that cactus with googly eyes on it. Cute.

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Totally meant to call you guys /an im not sure what better pictures to take as I dont want to disturb it. Here is another attempt. The spider started out way smaller than what it has grown into. When I first saw it, it was about the size of a pinky nail. And its tripled to about an American .25$ quarter

If there is any more information you need let me know. Also if you have any advice on how to determine the spider species that would be welcome too

wolf or grass spider of some sort. 100% harmless, as is every other spider you'll find in the area that you can't identify.

>>2388140
Bump im considering a hedgehog as a pet too

>>2388140
I've owned one before and they are nice pets that are easy to take care of.

I've had mine for almost a month now. Not exactly what I thought it was gonna be, even after all the research I did.

Just know that they're not playful at all, and they don't enjoy being handled, unless you find a 1/100 hedgie. It's extremely rare. All of the hedgehogs you see on youtube are the exceptions, and none of them really act like that.

They sleep constantly, and will only come out when it's the middle of the night, and the lights are out, and you're not around or sleeping. Every time I take mine out, he puts his head down and tries to hide and doesn't move. Then when I put him down, he stays there, without moving, until I ignore him, then he runs and hides. Any real interaction is almost impossible. Every once in a while, he'll poke his head out while I'm holding him, and he'll look at me, but that's about it. He'll go back to burying his head away, or he'll just shit in my hands.

And they do shit, alot. Even though he is potty trained (most of them naturally are) their shits are enormous for their size. And they shit like crazy when they're awake. And it smells pretty bad. They poop logs about the size of the large, long tootsie rolls, usually in their wheel, and then they run in it, over and over and over again, until they have little poop boots.

You have to clean the shit off their feet pretty often, or else they start to smell, and it's really gross holding them. And you do have to hold them, every day, otherwise they'll just stay in a prickly ball any time you try to pick them up. So you have to keep them used to you, not so that they'll play with you, cause they wont anyway, but so that they don't hurt you when they're in your hands. And they do hurt pretty bad. They're like giant sandspurs.

So yea, there you go. Even though I hate him sometimes, he's still my lil buddy, so I'm gonna take care of him no matter what, even though I somewhat regret it. But if you have any other questions, I'm happy to answer.

are you retarded

If your cat isn't a starving stray it isn't going to do shit. If it is then it's still more likely to scavenge food left out for outdoor cats instead.

>>2388004
>He thinks the cat wouldn't be prey for any of the normal predators of chickens.

Just shake the cat to make up for it, the medicine will mix properly inside him.

>>2387935
Well, if it's meant to be shaken, then that means that the suspension of particles isn't evenly distributed. It's settled, basically.
You probably haven't been poisoning your cat, but the dosages probably havent been optimal, either. Just shake it from now on.

>>2387939
So do you think it's been entirely ineffective up to this point?

>>2387835
Probably just food. Dogs and cats always fuck off immediately after fed. Haven't touched my cat of 2 years in 3 weeks, it's mating season but the fucker doesn't appreciate being spoiled. I'm the only person that has ever touched the thing or had it in my lap too.

>>2387835
>>2387839
Are you both autistic? Just asking for a friend.

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>>2387835
Dogs "cute" appearance and friendly behavior are attributed to neoteny aka pedomorphosis. Neoteny is the retention of a juvenile trait or stage from the life cycle of an ancestral species for an organism. The reason certain dogs have floppy ears, wrinkly faces, and curved tails that appear identical to wolf pups, is due to dogs being neotenic of wolves. Neoteny is not only superficial, it can also describe behaviors and hormone levels, in the case of many domestic dogs; their stress and hormone levels while interacting with humans are identical to that of wolf pups interacting with den mothers/pack members. Obviously this doesn't apply to all breeds, especially ones bred over thousands of years for intraspecific combat(dog fighting breeds) and primitive breeds(dingos, new zealand singing dogs, etc)

TL:DR Your dog loves you the same way a wolf pup loves its mother/fellow pack members

Citation: Degree of Behavioral Neoteny Differentiates Canid Polymorphs. R. Coppinger et. al. 1987

Having one is a pretty much a full time job. Cool if you can afford it.

>>2387965
I have a yard with a fence

>>2388733
don't do it

>>2387803
record it and put it on youtube.
then actually try to deal with the problem.

>>2387803
Keep an account of your increasingly wacky schemes to get rid of them and submit it as a spiritual successor to the bobbit worm chronicles.

>>2387803
They deserved it.
It's fucking hard to level up postgame in S/M.

So...nothings for sure yet, but I might be moving to Oregon in the next month and be living in an RV.

The RVs are going tobe parked on just land I believe, I'm not sure if there will be power out there that can run 24/7

Anyone know of people who have fish in their RVs? ;_;

>>2387552
I don't know cleetus maybe a goldfish in a bowl

>>2387552
My friend kept a 10 gallon in her grandmother's mobile home with a betta and two female guppies. No issues until her grandmother overfed them while she was away one weekend.

Some cats have vocal chords that are too tight.
Vocalizing is painful to them so they just wont ever do it. Even if they did, it's just a tiny squeak.

Don't worry, cats don't even need to meow.

Cute cat, please post more.

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Yo fuck circuses

Animal issues aside they're gay as shit. First of all who the fuck likes clowns? Literally nobody. I'm not afraid of clowns but I can't stand how in your face they are. Second, why are jugglers and acrobats considered entertaining? They probably were the shit in vaudeville times because people were cool with hoop stick and ball in a cup - but now it's a waste of everyone's time

Fuck circuses

A damn shame.

I went to see a Barnum & Bailey show when I was little, 0/10 to be desu famibaka

>when you handle a lizard so bad that it escapes and splashes on ground
fortunately it was still ok and alive and it was only a sand lizard

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>>2386788
>when you cant explain it was an accident and you are not in fact a snapping paw-stepping psycopath

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>>2386788
when your cats have been turning into little monsters at the sight of the new kitten for a month.

For what evolutionary purpose do they need such long legs?

>>2386835
When those babies lift up their dresses, they can hitchike on the highway like motherfuckers.

>>2386835
Not everything in nature is explained by evolutionary pressures.

I had a professor who would point this out and make sure everyone would get this point whenever someone asked what you did. I'm pretty sure most people even my classmates can't get why. It can be the result of random genetic drift for one, or maybe an actual gene that is being selected due to environmental pressures is linked to other gene that has no effect on the fitness of the individual so it sticks around even though it isn't needed.

>>2386336
coelacanth

>>2386337
Thank you,and sorry for the mistake

>>2386339
you're welcome and I didn't see any mistake.

>>2386043
see
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>>2386043
How in the hell did you get this to happen indoors??

>>2386043
Very pretty!