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>>2299467
Big guy

>>2299469
For him

>>2299286
Many of them are pretty smart. I think the smartest of the small dog breeds is the Pomeranian. This does not mean they are easier to train, it's actually a reason why so many small dogs are little shits. It really just means they are more work.

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Miniature poodles, like their larger brethren, are pretty smart and can be as frou frou as you want.

>>2299334
yeah, my mom's Yorkie was able to figure out that old 'treat under a towel' test pretty quickly, and he is a bit of a little shit.

He somehow managed to catch and kill a mourning dove somehow. I still don't know how he did it.

That's normal almost-every-cat behavior. Cats are also solitary for the most part. Some may live in groups to lounge, sleep or get warm though. Both my cats sleep with me but one will try to get me to come to bed and goes out of her way to curl up again my chest every time I toss or turn.

How more or less depends on the cat, and your children/potential children can easily ruin a cat's behavior if you don't lay down the law.

My cat follows me around the house, even begging to be let into the restroom every morning so he can sleep on the mat while I shower.

He was properly socialized as a kitten and not weaned until around 4 months old. I adopted him shortly thereafter.

Tylenol blah blah blah study blah blah pest blah blah blah

Please stop trying to force this shitty meme. It's not as bad as that dog ear faggot, but it's close.

>>2299155
Why must you act like this brother? Do you not remember all the good times we had together, eating plankton?

>>2299142
>>2299244
I really want you to fucking die. Not meme kill yourself. I legitimately hate you and want you to be brutally tortured to death.

Because doggos are every animal and persons friends. It just so happens that humans can feed dogs, give them comfortable lives and give them much more regular love than other animals. Humans are premier chill buddies.

Because domestication involves dumbing down an animal to make it easier for us to handle and rely on us. Otherwise they'd just fuck off and/or die.

Thousands of years of domestication

>>2299096
Is upside down??

Oh well, yall get the point.

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>>2299096
Hopefully it's upright this time.

Where do you live?
Did you check if apprenticeships in that field are a thing where you live?

>>2299052
I don't think there are apprenticeship college courses I could realistically take in SoCal

>>2299016
You can be a vet tech without college, but don't expect to get paid as well as the licensed vet techs, and you won't be doing any surgeries. You'll probably have to work as a kennel bitch at an animal shelter for a couple of years and then wait for a VT job to open up within the shelter and hope you're more qualified than the rest. You'll be making minimum wage and working your ass off. Most vet offices will hire LVTs because they are just more helpful. You'll have to look and see in your state even allows unlicensed vet techs

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husk is good dog. eH pulls sled and doesn't afraid of anything

I wouldn't own one but I like them.

>>2299008
I generally hate people who own them. Most husky owners are obnoxious twits with poorly trained dogs. I've never really met a husky owner who I didn't immediately feel the need to distance myself from. The breed itself I don't like that much, either. All they do is scream and tear shit up. They've also been bred out of usefulness; the Alaskan husky is the one actually bred to be a sled dog.

Wurm

>>2298992
Larva

>>2298992
Looks like a leaf curler. Would turn into a fly but could be a moth as well

>>2298928
>>2298981
These are goddamn beautiful.

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Winter coat dholes look like what I imagine a dog could look like if bred as such but I am not sure if they are able to produce hybrids with dholes. Dholes however can breed with golden jackals, and golden jackals can breed with dogs so I assume so. Unfortunately dholes are endangered otherwise we could probably give people dhole hybrids instead of them getting shit foxes.

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>>2298514
Forgot the link to the documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4_FLpGVCvQ

Here is bush dog. They're like bear-corgis.

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>>2298226
ethics are a social construct.

so it depends which culture you ask.

in this culture it's ethical.

in every other culture in the world it's also ethical. Because people eat animals.

Even when terminally ill with internal illnesses or just fresh from suffering a fatal injury, animals generally have a "just gotta keep keepin' on" mindset. If it were up to the animal, it would rather suffer and die later than not suffer and tip over in the present.

>>2298303
Animals usually don't live as long in the wild and rarely reach the age they do while living with humans. Mice can live up to 3 years but barely make it to even 1 in the wild.
It's also incredibly stupid to apply human concepts and emotions to Animals. Your dog wants to die, just like you do. But unlike you, if it could, it would kill itself. Because it's not a bitch like you.

it'll maul a toddler eventually and everyone you see out on the street while you're walking it will think you bought it to have sex with it's butthoel

You're probably in for a poorly trained dog that'll end up being put in a shelter because its owner had no idea what to expect. It'll also probably have an unstable temperament and joint issues as it ages because I doubt it came from a good breeder. Have fun, anon! Hope you don't give him to a kill shelter!

>>2298212
I'm okay with the toddler part, that shit sounds hardcore.

>>2298213
She will come from a professional breeder that raises them for competition. The guy usually sells them for about 800€ but my father's a business partner of his and he will pretty much give away the pupper for free as long as we treat it decently. Also, both of my parents had GSDs before, so don't I think they are setting the stage for a poorly trained dog.

Technically I'm not even owning the little shit, I just want to know what involves being in the same house where a pupper lives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>2297580
ALF

They're hardcore af

>>2297604
Too bad he got abducted though

>>2297580
Pic related

Why not something like a scorpion?

>>2297094
cockroaches

Seamonkeys!