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pretty much.

>>2214770
Animals are dumb. There's no one denying that. But you have to think of animal intelligence in the context of their brains being smaller and less developed than ours.
Despite that, they can do very intelligent things and learn quickly for something with brains that size.
Look at a Border Collie trained to follow commands and herd animals. It's extremely impressive, showing how smart they are. But at the end of the day, they're still dogs that lick assholes and sniff their poop.

>>2214779
>But at the end of the day, they're still dogs that lick assholes and sniff their poop.
yeah but the reason we have an aversion to licking assholes is because we get sick if we do it. we don't sniff our poop because there's nothing really for us to learn from it. i wholeheartedly believe that if dogs had a canine intellect with logical and reasoning capacities similar to the average human, they would still be licking assholes and sniffing poop because those are behaviors which serve a purpose to them.

no.

shit pay/low job opportunity unless you land a governmend job or start your own company.

> to work as a teacher?

you don't want to, it's literally the most cancerous field to be a teacher in.

A lot of travelling, shitting in a bag, miserable in the weather.

Its like camping without beer or friends.

>>2214685
>>2214700

Don't take bugguy's "advice", he's a gardener after all.

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>not keeping Feline immunodeficiency virus as pet.
pleb.

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>>2214687
>keeping anything smaller than ants

Bet you put bread in the fridge too huh fuccboi?

cats, pitbulls, pugs and chiwawas.

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Sneke people

I like snekes fine but I think it's awful that we breed rats and mice just so sneke people can have their boring ole tube dude.

>>2214621
>it's awful that we breed rats and mice just so sneke people can have their boring ole tube dude.

>it's awful we breed poultry/pigs/cattle/horses/etc. just so hungry people can have their digestive tube filled

Enzyme cleaners where she pees and doggy diapers. Give her a stern "no" and completely ignore her existence after she pees inside for a few minutes

I have heard many people suggest to start keeping a journal of the exact time the dog has an accident, and begin to take the dog outside according to their schedule. I have never had too much of an issue housebreaking adult dogs, but I've read many people having a lot of success with this.

If she sleeps indoors, you could also begin to crate train her as well. Let her sleep in the crate and outdoors for potty literally first thing in the morning.

Have you spayed her yet, btw?

>>2214680
>>2214692
I take her outside constantly but even after i take her out and she pees, the first thing she does is try to pee inside
Yeah we bought her some diapers but I'm not its going to solve anything. No we took her to out vet but they want to wait until after her next heat cycle to get her spayed.

>>2214544
Actual brown recluse

Take it to the vet

>>2214568
i live where brown recluses are common and i know this is not one but enjoy being a memester

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I think you're just being a contrarian.
Your skull argument isn't evidence for anything, considering there's about 60-70 million years between Herrerasaurus and the first birds, and convergent is a thing.
Non avian dinosaurs also have antorbital fenestra, I'm not even sure why you brought that up.
The structures don't resemble feathers, pycnofibres or wing membranes any more than Coelurosauravus or bat wings do, again it's merely convergent evolution, assuming they were even used for gliding.
Disregarding all that, do you have any other evidence that birds have a more recent common ancestor with pterosaurs than dinosaurs? All the evidence seems stacked against you.

>>2214505
I think that when you look at it, it can't possibly be anything but quetzalcoatlus, the mesoamerican creator and culture hero, and that it represents the alien ancestor of the lizard people who have been ruling this socieity since the beginning!

>>2214806
Pterosaurs have hollow bones and feather-like pycnofibers. Primitive birds like Yi qi also have wing membranes. This may also imply that birds are the result of hybrid speciation between maniraptorans and pterosaurs. Given that archosaurs have a slow rate of chromosome and DNA evolution compared to mammals and squamates, it wouldn't surprise me if the teo could form a viable if not completely fertile hybrid.

>>2214448
It's cat owners too. They act upset when their cat gets run over. If you don't want your animal run over then don't let it run in the fucking road, it's common sense.

At least you pulled over, a lot of people wouldn't have done that.

>>2214448
>late night driving on highway
>raining
>'BU-BUMP'
>dicks
>safely pull over at the trailer park, well out of the way of traffic
>walk back with phone on as a flash light
>see the culprit
>black and white, very much dead cat
>sigh of relief that it is full dead, but there are no tags on the collar
>this asshole is lucky it's a friday night
>grab someone's rake from their yard to rake him to the side of the road (unfortunately also right next to the trailer park sign
>use an envelope to write a sorry for your loss note and stuck it in the trailer park's sign
>check car as well as I could to make sure it wasn't damaged

next day
>friend starts telling me the gossip around his small town
>tells me some dumb white bitch has been threatening to kill someone that ran over her cat
>she says the 'murderer' left a cruel note on the park sign
>says they intentionally hit her cat because it was nowhere near the road
>she's going around telling everyone she's going to kick their ass, curb stomp them, she's a real tough bitch etc etc
>well fuck
>get her number through my friend
>send a text "I am sorry you thought my condolences were condescending, we can meet up and talk about it if you want"
>nothing back yet

If I do get something back I'll update, but I think she's all bark and no bite. Or she's getting a crowd together to try to jump me.

>>2214500
Why would you contact some crazy trailer park cat lady?

Caroline

>>2214395

all the guys would say she's mighty fine,
but mighty fine only got her somewhere half the time

>>2214380
Squeezy.

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>>2214356
Praying mantis. Hermit crabs aren't really suited for captivity. They are (almost?) never bred because of their larval stage and usually don't live very long in captivity despite them being able to reach ages of 20 years.

Praying mantids however are frequently bred and the common species are piss-easy to keep.

>>2214362
>(almost?
there's no captively bred hermit crabs available on the marked, zero.

they're ALWAYS wildcaught.

It will die in like 2 days , lifespan

That's literally the only reason I never got one

Make sure they're fixed. You can drag them to a vet or shelter to find out- many places do free or very cheap spay/neuters for feral cats. If they don't get fixed, that 5 is going to turn into 30.

If you like them, keep them. 5 is pretty crazy but definitely not hoarding. Talk to your neighbor or try to find them homes. Or just stop feeding them.

>>2214335
If you let them live outside, they're not your pets anyway. They are just strays that you happen to feed.

>>2214343
Did you read the OP? That's exactly what's going on.

>>2214333
good post

>>2214334
thx

>>2214333
haha he bite

Vet. When cats start meowing way more than usual they're usually in pain.

>>2214350
It doesn't seem like pain, and she stops for a bit if we poke her and yell at her.
She's been doing this for a long time, a few years I think.

how old is she?

>>2214294
It's a quick motion of the wrist to snap its neck and it won't even know it's coming.

>>2214294
Bring it to the vet

>>2214322

Actually read OP, normally I'd be screaming this myself but the chap is after a quick death for the kitten.

Although, might be worth a quick google check to see if you have any local rescues that can help OP. If not, I'd go with >>2214315 .

Amunt Valencia

>>2214243
>actually an annelid (echiura)
>lives in water, therefore it's a fish
>american education

>>2214249
>>american education
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