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Very large barite crystal. Silverband Mine, Westmoreland, England.

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Needlespar aragonite. Kamsdorf, Germany.

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Smithsonite var. "Turkey Fat Ore" over cerussite. 2900' level, Tsumeb Mine, SW Africa.

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>>2265525
Rad af

I want a pangolin and tamandua

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>>2238512
Why only mammals, senpai?
Also, why did you choose to call them pocked pets? I mean, they're small, but being garried in a pocked would only stress them.

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So anyway, I have a question to ask to kick off the thread. I had I thread a while ago about how I was getting two mice, things went great and they get along awesome. They groom and cuddle each other and have never had an issue.

However, I only had the two, and I heard you're supposed to keep females in groups of at least 3 together, so I purchased 2 more mice of similar a similar age to be buddies with mine. The beige one, Lillie, is a true sweetheart, she'll cuddle and groom any mouse she meets. No issue there.

However, Ginger, my brown and white mouse, is very abrasive towards any other mouse that isn't Lillie. She roughs up and chases any other mouse she's in contact with. She doesn't make them bleed and doesn't leave marks, but she'll smack around her tail and wrestle with them, making them squeal. The other mice aren't bothersome or aggressive and show all the signs of subordination. However, when Ginger is intimately sniffing them up and down, if they move or kick one little bit, she attacks.

The environment doesn't matter either, it could be on her turf, their turf (I have 2 cages I plan on combining, but they're separated now), or even on neutral ground, she always roughs them up. I've tried all the introductory tricks but I can't keep them together for more than a few minutes for fear she'll actually do some damage.

Is it just because she's the alpha mouse, and wants to put them in their place? Or is there just something going on with her that makes her overly aggressive? Should I just let them tough through it if she'll eventually calm down? Or is there no way to keep her with mice other than Lillie?

Pic related is Ginger on the right, and the two new mice on the left. She'll let them sniff her, but once she's sniffs them, she attacks.

>>2238523
There's already a reptiles/amphibians thread and a birds thread, so small mammals in generally the next step. And pretty much every other thread is about dogs and cats so that's out

And there's a rat-specific thread that accepts other small mammal discussion, so might as well just make it a small mammal general instead of focusing on rats only. That thread's getting full anyway.

And pocket pet is just a general term for a small fuzzy pet that could, theoretically, fit in your pocket. I thought that to be pretty common knowledge.

A wire cage is a good home for a guinea pig. Aquariums are okay for gerbils and mice, but not most other rodents. Particularly not a large rodent like a guinea pig.

Get him a real guinea pig cage, something like this.

http://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/midwest-guinea-habitat-guinea-pig-cage?gclid=CN6cy_yP0dACFYpKDQod2c8EOw&gclsrc=aw.ds

It has no top but it doesn't really matter that much because guinea pigs can't climb. UNLESS you have a cat or dog or some other animal that could get in there (but cats and dogs shouldn't be allowed near the guinea pig, they could easily kill him).

>>2272131
get another one, guinea pigs are social animals and they need company. Also if it's female it will need to be breed occasional or it could develop some health problems.

>>2272165
so much this
based Austria even outlawed having only 1 guinea pig. get it a partner or at least a friend pig

Is this a rescue?

>>2271943
>61cm by 31.5cm
this is too small, even for one

also, >>2272089
I want to know that too

>>2272255
no wonder my friend's axolotls both died abnormally early. I kept telling her the tank was too small for them.

>>2271404
A lot of birds are more social than dogs. There are ones like Cockatoos where you pretty much have to spend the whole day with them to meet their social needs.

Really sad when an owner gets a pet out of their salary range.

pet
noun
1.
a domestic or tamed animal or bird kept for companionship or pleasure and treated with care and affection.
OP
noun
1.
a giant fucking faggot.

Because blood isn't very nutritious. Vampire bats have to be that small because they still have to drink a lot of blood versus their size to survive. Even still a lot of times they won't get enough blood so colonies have learned to share blood with bats that weren't able to get enough and the good samaritan will be paid back at a later time

>>2270941
Vampire bats aren't predatory. OP was talking about giant -predatory- bats.

Nobody asked before.
Would you like that with ice or without?

Wtf is a tree fag

im sorry, dont know, tried to be funny i guess.

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>>2272473
Yellow-throated Marten. Best hunter and fighter.

Brown recluse

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the chillness of seal.

A Doberman with his ears cut off for no good reason

pinscher

Thanks :)

Are there male chickens?

>>2272456
no, only hens, I live in the city.

There is one other hen, but she doesn't like to socialize as much

>>2272442
If you are able to, fix however the raccoon got to the chicken. Raccoons are a clever bunch

>>2272141
Does she have a fever?

>>2272146
I dont think so

>>2272150
Then she is probably fine.
Does it seem painful when you touch her ear? How old is she? Does she behave differently than usual? Do you know what a lymph node is?

>>2271939
I'm not fucking baiting, I can't handle this dog anymore. I get fucking pissed when he has accidents, which are daily. One day I'm going to snap on him.

I'm giving him away before that happens. His pottytraining fuck ups will be someone elses.

Why are you posting here? What do you expect us to do if this isn't bait?

It took me two years to potty train my oldest dog, OP. I know completely where you're coming from. It's very frustrating when you're following the house training advice to the letter, and somehow the puppy isn't getting it.

I put a piece of airline tubing in his mouth with oxygen flowing through. He isn't stiff yet, at least not a significant amount. Can someone help please? I love him and I want him back. Please help me.

Please.

His gills are still red.

>>2271631

I heard about this when it happened last year. Shitty. Looks like the population should be able to recover though.

Isn't it a criticaly endangered species?

>>2271631
who gives a flying fuck?

with donald trump elected global warming will go into turbo mode. the only species Im not worried about (apart from homosexual sapiens) are ants and cockroaches

inb4
>b-but muh immigrants
yeah right ethnic tensions right now are a good excuse to destroy the planet for the next 1000 years. DURRR