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Any help would be appreciated, I just gave it some seeds, not sure if that is what it eats.

>it's another season of idiots "rescuing" baby birds that are learning how to fly

Your new pet will be dead in a day, max. Fucking put him back where you found him.

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one more. I have never seen a cat with such a fluffy fur before

Cat breeds are very very hard to tell without blood work being done but it's a very cute cat op.

>>2358562
Norwegian monster cat. They go were the food is.

Ive got the exact opposite. Only sparrows and black caps scaring the solo/duo birds

I guess no matter what the bully bird u gotta put a stop to it.
I had sparrows and blue jays and a few woodpeckers until the cardinals started hoggin the spot to themselves those dicks >[

>>2357974
I wouldn't complain because cardinals look pretty
I've got faggot squirrels who keep invading my bird feeder. But I'm getting pretty good at rigging up animal-friendly deterrents. Good luck getting past a plastic cup you adorable asshole.

They are a food source for many animals. Genocide might be the wrong solution to biting problem.

Either get a pet bat or have some spiders in your home.

>>2357504
Yea nah you're a cunt. The food chain would not notice if they vanished overnight. There's plenty of insects that fill the same roles, minus the biting.

>>2357459
Are you conservative? Minnesota, great hunting and massive parks. Beautiful animals.

Are you not conservative? Fuck off, you're ruining the state.

>>2357459
Hey there fellow Texas anon. I dated a Minnesota girl for a while and went up there to visit her family a few times.

It gets really goddamn cold in the winter. There are regularly temperatures up there that have never, ever existed in Fort Worth. Most of the school year weather will be winter weather/Arctic hell by your standards.

Early fall is nice and summer is nice. Moose are big and scary (but not in Minneapolis). The North Woods are super cool but I do not recommend them at times of year when water is not liquid. And even then you have to bathe in mosquito repellent multiple times a day.

>>2357459
>wanting to leave TX
>>>/int/

>>2357338
Cute stories

6 yr/o mini Schnauzer
>show him carrot, throw it directly in front of him
>he doesn't know where it went, have to point it out to him
>"Are you a dumb boy?"
>wags tail excitedly

>will eat until he's sick every time, if given enough food to do so

>pushes other dog out of the way to be pet, even if you're already petting him with your other hand

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Mr Henry
>give him a really good bone or treat and he just gets stressed and cries until we take it away
>doesn't just grab stuff with his mouth, uses his front teeth to pick stuff up by it's fringes
>goes ape shit around brooms of any size or shape

>Old pit girl
>goes crazy for smooth river stones and apples
>would carry around, mouth at and generally chew on a stone
>if you had one in your hand she would dance around you, sing-yodel and try to take it from you

Why do you want it? It seems you've done no research at all.

>>2356885
don't get a wild cat you dumbass

>>2356885
Why would you want a wild cat? Leave them alone and get a fucking cat you goddamn snowflake

>>2356236
Um, no?

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Um yes

>not having to worry about anything, not even food because you'll be fed at a routine time.

and this is why I have a kittenplay fetish.

>>2356026
Very. Time to get in has passed tho, theyve skyrocketed in value

>>2356057
When was the hayday/best time to get into it? What's the start up cost? What sort of acreage would you need? How many animals (and social structure) do you need starting?

>>2356062
>When was the hayday/best time to get into it?
About 10 years ago
What's the start up cost?
An obscene amount to make money. Id say 200k min
What sort of acreage would you need?
Lots. You dont feed bison hay. You sow perrenial hardy grasses and let them graze year round and you also need bigger fences than with cows
>how many animals (and social structure) do you need starting?
20 cows one bull would be a good starting min.

>>2354780
you forgot the nigger shouting "AYY" nonstop while interfering with nature

Herons are badass. Modern day Spinosauridae.

>>2354787
Interfering with nature means shitall in the suburbs lol.

homo sapiens

looks like a common cumis dumpstoratus

>>2353834
add another sapiens

>>2351359
People here love to go and pick shrooms, its kinda fun to see some of the most retarded getting poisoned after picking the wrong kind lmao

>>2351361
Why would anyone pick mushrooms, growing mushrooms are so fascinating

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>tfw you live in Commiefornia and can't run across these in the forest

I know this is a bait thread, but...

"Who was in the wrong here?" implies that it's possible for the dog to be "in the wrong." Even if Cesar did nothing wrong, the dog didn't bite just to be a dick, she bit because she felt threatened

Moving on to the actual answer to your question: Cesar was absolutely in the wrong here. If you watch that whole scene, the dog is clearly very nervous, and gives Cesar every possible signal of "please leave me alone" as possible. She even backs away from him and tries to get out of the interaction several times, but he keeps menacing over her and coming at her. She was afraid, he was physically intimidating her and even "attacked" her (I know his little jab probably wasn't "painful" but it was aggressive and scary to the dog,) and after giving him every opportunity to leave her alone and he still didn't let up (she knew he wasn't going to stop,) she bit him to defend herself.

A professional should not be making dogs react like this. Whether it was just Cesar's actions, or his actions plus the presence of the camera crew that were making the dog uncomfortable, he should've read her behavior better and knew not to put her in that situation and push her into biting.* The goal (especially for potentially "dangerous" dogs) should be to work under the dog's threshold and set them up for success; care should be taken not to create situations where a dog feels they have no choice but to bite.

*I say he "should've read her behavior better," but it is my opinion that Cesar knew the dog was feeling threatened and was intentionally making her lash out because it makes for ~dramatic TV~. Cesar intentionally makes dogs react in order to show what a "huge difference" his "training" made after he bullies the dogs into a state of learned helplessness. This is not only irresponsible (comes with the potential of a dog later lashing out/attacking without giving warning signs since those warning signs were previously punished,) but also unethical.

I really fucking hate that guy. He breaks dogs like they are horses instead of socializing them

and he was wrong.
>clearly nervous dog
>suddenly he grabs at the most sensitive part of her body while she's looking away and startles her
>she snaps as a warning
>he doesn't back off
>gets bit like a fucking retard
>then kicks the dog he instigated a fight with

and at the end of the episode he stole their dog. He took it away to live with him and just never gave it back. I wonder if he even paid the family for it

taking that swipe at her muzzle while her attention was elsewhere seems like an overwhelmingly stupid move. to immediately advance on her after doing so when she was clearly startled also seems overwhelmingly stupid.

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In 5 minutes after we took it home, it jumped from the first floor. I was surprised it didn't hurt itself. We took it and went back across the street where we found it. We decided to release it there since we had some mean-looking cats in the neighbourhood eyeballing it. We finally released it in the small field across the street. We took a cardboard box with us and a plate of food. We also noticed other pet-plates across the street and a couple of old cardboard boxes. We then took off.

In the morning we went back to check up on it. We called it and it crawled out of a wet box. We provided more food. Another cat approached and started sniffing it. It looked like it was trying to bond. It was weird since the small one felt unease but was not running away. We decided to go have a coffee nearby and come back in an hour or so to check up on it. They were still together, eating from the food we gave to the kitten. When the small one saw us though, it tried to follow as we were leaving.

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Suddenly, the other cat caught up to it and grabbed it from the neck. Blood everywhere. My girlfriend started crying and she took it in her hands; she was all bloody as well. We rushed to the vet, patched it up, gave it shots and sprayed it for bugs and then took it home. Given the circumstances, we decided that it couldn't survive by itself. It would have meant certain death and we felt responsible for being so naive releasing it. I set up a DIY litter box at home, bought food, milk, and let it sleep with me in the living room the first day.

During the day I set games for it to play, downloaded some apps for cats, played it youtube videos. Mostly I was trying to keep it distracted since it was jumping on the computer screen, spilled my coffee (almost on the computer). In a way I engaged with it a lot.

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It is important to note here that I never had pets and I always felt disgusted by them. With this one though, I felt different. It was all over me from day one. We knew we had to give it away because we are planning to move overseas soon. We were looking at each other saying “We can’t keep it” but we knew that deep inside we wanted to keep it. It was the weirdest conflicting emotion I have ever felt.

All was good until a person responded to our ad to come and adopt it. We gave it away, we were ok at first, but after we came home, we were devastated. It was like we lost a child. We don’t have a family of our own, nor we were planning on having one anytime soon. Nonetheless, we have been feeling awful ever since. I can't help it but wake up and remember it every day. I do understand that we anthropomorphised the darn thing and that nature hijacked our nourishing auto-pilot. It only spent two days at home with us after all but now the apartment feels so empty. While I was cleaning the room after we gave it away, it got to me.