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>>2213635
Because cats are bitches. You picked the wrong pet if you don't want it to attack you.

>>2213635
Sounds like you might not be playing with him enough, get him a toy he can bite, wrestle, and generally kick the shit out of, and it will probably tire him out and he won't do it to you

>>2213635
>usually bites my hand
just smack it

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>>2213524

>>2213524
What a q t. Not sure kinda looks like a lynx spider

>>2213524
Some sort of reclusive spider. Probably brown in color.

>Should be harmless right?
no. depending on the cat's size and the beer's alcohol content, it could get alcohol poisoning.

The feline liver cannot process alcohol. Beer is not good for cats.

>>2213481
Do whatever you want to the cat, op. They're worthless and can be replaced as easily as walking out your front door

>Tits
>Boobies
>Cocks

Birds are the lewdest.

>>2213480
In german, pugs are called "Möpse" which is the german equivalent of boobies.

>>2213477
That can't be real. No one in their right mind would get that close to an animal of that size

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Me and my pals used to keep these things as pets when we were kids. We would go out looking for them, then take the cutest fluffiest ones and lock them in my doll house. We gave them a cup of water and some plants to eat and the bastards pooped all over the doll house. One day I got too disgusted and set them all free. Told my friends they escaped while I was asleep.

>>2213190
just keep the guy, these chicks are usually very independent from the start
and do not forget to give it water too

Every time.

>>2213195
Yea thats my plan for now. Will probably keep it til its big enough to survive on its own

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>>2213173
this

>>2213173
R u the person I sent that to on facebook

Mix of poodle & pomeranian?

>>2213096
Depends on what you want out of a dog.

>>2212225
1) they're shitty "pets" that show no affection
2) their owners take no responsibility for them and let them roam outside unattended, where they kill wildlife and shit in peoples' yards. Then they act surprised and expect sympathy when their shitty pet disappears or gets run over.

>>2212225
Shills

There's a pro-neuter, anti-free roaming animals agenda around, because neutering brings profit (vet, special food, breeding), and free-roaming animals prevents profit, as they will breed for free.

Also, there's the slippery slope of neutering and restricting your pet's freedom for its own good: coming soon to humans near you :^)

>>2212227
>they're shitty "pets" that show no affection

that's not true, cats show affection. Just not to you.

>their owners take no responsibility for them and let them roam outside unattended

they are cats, you can't just take them for a walk. They need freedom.

>they kill wildlife
what? like birds and rats? who cares lol

>>2212204
>I'm having trouble figuring out what to give to eat

dove seed

>>2212551

I've since force fed him some warmed up beans. He's swallowing without issue, but he won't feed on his own. He's extremely afraid of me and I fear feeding is too much stress. I can't even keep him inside because he won't relax at all. I keep him on the roof balcony where I made a little shelter for him which he has since left. Doesn't seem to like it there.

Do you have an Audubon society near you? They will take in injured birds and nurse them. If not I'm sure there's something similar like that where you live because bird lovers are fanatics and exist everywhere.

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GET OUT OF THE HOUSE

brown recluse

they've recognized a fellow NEET and have concluded that your house is the perfect hermitage

>>2212162
looks like an Eristalis or Eristalinus larva
But I´ve only seen them in water..strange

>>2212179
is right
GET OUT
NOW!

Burning the house down would be best

Expect to see a shitload of things that are a mixture of sad/frustrating/infuriating.

You should absolutely listen to everything the people in charge of you say. It gets stressful and there is little reward in being in that environment.
I've worked 6 months in a small dog and cat clinic (very extensive treatment though such as surgery X-rays). Yeah there will be death and yes you will have to deal with feces and urine. Best advice I can give someone is it doesn't matter how dirty you get, you can always wash.
Any specific questions? I'd be willing to answer

>>2212092
Noted
>>2212114
So should I just buy some clothes over the weekend that I'm ok with getting dirty?
On that thought, what do you usually wear at your clinic?

>He and Dr. Barron propose that it may well feel like something to be a honeybee, or another insect, although what that feeling is, no one knows.

>They make their case this way:

>...scientists have argued that a part of the human brain called the midbrain can...give a person lacking more advanced parts of the brain simple awareness.

>The insect brain does something [akin] to the midbrain in absorbing information from the environment, from memory and from the body to organize its activity.

>If the insect brain does the same job as the vertebrate midbrain, then the insect has the capacity for awareness.

>If this...reasoning is correct, Dr. Barron and Dr. Klein say, a robot...with artificial intelligence that could integrate sensory data, memory and body awareness would have the capacity for the minimal level of consciousness they describe.

>By the same token, plants do not have...structures that would allow for awareness, says Dr. Barron, nor does a simple animal like C. elegans, the roundworm used in so many experiments. It has 302 neurons. A honeybee, by contrast, has almost a million.

>Dr. Koch said in an email that he thought Dr. Barron and Dr. Klein were making a reasonable argument. The brains of bees and flies, he wrote, “possess intricate circuitry...denser than the circuits of the celebrated neocortex,” which is central to human thinking.

>Peter Godfrey-Smith, a philosopher at (CUNY)...said...that he found the argument...plausible. But, he said, there could be many different kinds of awareness and insects might be aware of motion, for example, but “were not good candidates for feeling pain,” unlike octopuses and crabs.

>“Insects might have subjective experience,” he wrote, “but not of a kind that has a lot of ethical consequences.”

>Dr. Barron emphasized that the article was intended...to propose a hypothesis rather than offer a proven conclusion. “We put it forward because we think we should have this debate,” he said.

Well it would be stupid to say that we understand what any of this is, consciousness, life, whatever. Though certainly more serious study is going on in the higher institutions and not reaching the media that we normal people get to read. I do think artificial intelligence should eventually give some interesting insights.

>>2211568

Thank you for your contribution to the discussion.

I wonder if mind uploading will one day become a reality.

what is there to redpill you on? you're spot on.

they're beautiful, but also horrifying, aggressive monsters of predators.

>>2211516
>redpill me about
back to your containment board, you massive faglord
>>>/pol/

>>2211516
I'll red-pill you on something, Crane Flies.
Invasive to the USA, their larval stage, often called leather jackets, eat plant matter in the ground, killing many crops over history in their native Europe. They're dangly retards and barely live long enough to eat or drink, assuming the one in question is the variety with functioning mouths. They're pests, nothing more, and yet people still defend them thinking they eat mosquitos because of colloquial memes based on their other name: mosquito hawk.
There's your redpill, go forth and cleanse these pests.

>>2210750
The briard, patou, berger picard and beauceron are all pretty boss.