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Highly doubtful. Maybe if you'd just eaten a load of salt.

>>2362101
>>2362144
When i was a child I used to hang around some older kids. We poured sand all over a snail and then threw it against a wall cracking it's shell.
How much harm do you think the salt did to the snail? we turned it over so we could cover the bottom of it's legs or whatever with salt.
Do their shells heal?

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>>2362190

>>2362093
I want to believe

I also want to believe that there are at least a few Baiji still around.
I will be very sad if they are confirmed to be extinct, but they probably are anyway.

The vaquita will certainly go extinct, no one even cares about the animal, meanwhile millions are poured every year into maintaining the fucking pandas. So many beautiful creatures are critically endangered or extinct already because of the fucking chinese and their stupid archaic beliefs.

>>2362126
Those species didn't have a porpoise anyway.

Shearing hurts as much as shaving as buzzing your head. Which does hurt a little when its being done fast and sloppy, which gets done on sheep. But at that same time you want to get it done as fast as possible since in general it's stressful to the sheep.

Wild sheep do not have coats like this and they she'd their winter coats. Out sheep were bred to not lose their costs, and it just keeps growing to the point where we have to cut off their long tails(plenty of domestic sheep actually have long tails) and they can get infested with maggots if not sheared. That's very common in some Aussie breed that was bred to have extra folds for more wool.

>>2361943
Do you live in the northeast? There's a fiber animal and herding dog festival in Cummington MA on the last weekend of May.

>>2361955
Op here, no I live in a big city in Europe. I actually lived part of my adolescence in a rural mountain town, with plenty of sheep, but I wasn't interested in husbandry at that time.

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Pic related is what's left of their nest.

>>2361814
If you can smoosh the nest back together and keep predators from eating them, the mom will probably come back this evening to move them somewhere else. She only checks on them a couple times a day, tops.
Otherwise, you can drop them off at a wildlife rehab if you don't feel up to bottlefeeding the babies.

>>2361822
The nest and the nest location have all been raked into oblivion, so what kind of equipment will be needed to care for the things?

ccccarpet beetle

I need to get rid of them, seen a few around my room... I vacuum regularly and dust every week.

carpet beetles don't really do anything, i see them and their larvae on and off but don't pay much mind

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>>2361681

>>2361681
If he looks at you, you turn to stone.

Cassowaries are really good house guests. You should invite one into your home and hang out.

Hell no. Between the retards kidnapping baby birds because they want a "qt pet", the hunters, the people who willingly brag about running down stray cats/dogs/birds/whatever, the guy who keeps spamming his Betta in a vase, the morons who try to take wild raccoons or opossums as pets, the cat/dog owners who make threads showing their animal in serious condition and then bitch when told to le go to le vet, the guy who keeps spamming platypuses to "meme" people into buying a rare and fragile species, and the idiots who call for genocide of all spiders/wasps/houseflies/mosquitoes on a regular basis, I'd say pert near nobody on this board is vegetarian or vegan. Or cares about animals, beyond just having a qt pet.

>>2360889
No
Just because we like animals doesn't meant we don't use them for meat

>>2360889
No, we love every aspect of animals, including their taste.

>>2357730
superior mammals fucking their shit up, so now they have to dwell in dirty puddles and ambush like pussies

>>2357735
uh? Why were they the apex predator in Australia then? And that was only 40k years ago

>>2357730
Because you touch yourself at night
Now fuck off and do your research like a grown up instead of asking for people to spoonfeed you

i like octopuses theyre cute

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I should sleep so I might never see this thread again (though this board IS slow..)

I really want a few goldfish but I want to give them the best lives possible for goldfish. I feel bad for the amount of them that get sold to ignorant people and used for food (although I know the latter is unavoidable). How can I achieve this? What should I start with, and what kinds? Fancy goldfish? Comets? Ryukin? ..I guess it doesn't really matter. Would a 10 gallon be ok for like...3 of them? For now, anyway? Or is that too small? I'm aware they can get pretty big, especially the fancier ones. What's the max size tank I should look into getting for the future?

Also I know they prefer colder water, but my house is FOREVER WARM because of my Asian-ass family. Will this be a problem or will the tank be able to take care of it?

I was looking into the Black Moor goldfish but I also have a soft spot for the comets. Would the Black moor eventually eat the comets because of how much bigger it can get?

>>2357545
It's the other way around, comets and commons (the ones with a single tail) are the ones who get massive, they can get to a foot long or more. The fancy variants (all of your short bodied ones such as black moors) just get fat as fuck with flowing tails. Because of that, comets eventually need a huge as fuck tank (+100g) or a pond as they are built for swimming and will use the whole space. Fancies, depending which kind you keep) stay smaller and are shit at swimming, so they don't need as huge as aquariums. A 10g is only good temporarily as they will out grow it (better to start with a 20-30g). Plus goldfish are social and do better if kept with more than one, which means you'd need to upgrade it according per fish (a 40g is good for like 2-3 when fully grown)

Also keeping comets with any fancy variant isn't too good of an idea because they're faster and will out compete them for food or straight up bully them. Also while goldfish may prefer cold water, they can still do fine in warmer water as well. Unless your house gets hot as fuck, room temp is fine.

Imagine all the cats that died in the world today

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>>2352457
I would love to have a communal tank of these. Unfortunately I'm too much of a coward.

>>2352485
This, and goats. We're adopting some soon and I can't wait to hear morning bleating.

We'd also like some neat rabbits.

As for pets I'm hoping to get a diamond dove once there's one up for adoption around me. Maybe a Chilean T, too.

>>2343753
How do their mouths work?

Isopods are ten times better.

>>2343764
Isofags

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This is Ginger, the squeakiest spawn of Satan.

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There's already a pocket pets thread, but i'll participate. These are some weird looking snakes.

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>>2317072
Rats are superior enough to have their own thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8YIW7No1l4

isn't that a moth?

Brown Recluse