Wasps are always yellow and black right?
I've been seeing more and more honey bees getting stuck on buses and passengers freaking out about them being wasps.
It's sad because the poor things keep getting squished .
>>2197130
>Wasps are always yellow and black right?
Not even close. Not even just the ones that can sting you.
>>2197130
I can't see why one would kill any of them. They're both beautiful creatures.
Flailing in the air trying to kill a paper wasp also seems to be the best way to actually manage to get stung.
>>2197140
Yellow and black hornets are dicks.
I have some brownish ones and the black/irredescent blue ones and they never bother me.
Say hello to my little friend edition.
>>2170767
Those are some comfy looking horses.
>>2170767
I thought horses had to stand their entire life and couldn't lie down or take pressure off their legs? How do they get up?
Hello /an/ons, here is my new tank set for a Trachemys turtle. The turtle topper is home made. Do you like it? Also, general discussion about turtles.
Here i s close up of the topper.
>>2166100
I wish I would have the space for taking care of a Turtle. Is there any smaller species that can be kept in a 50 gallon, suitable for beginners?
>>2166111
I don't know, don't have much of an experience since the one in the picture is my first and so far only pet turtle. Trachemys grow pretty big, especially females, but there are other acquatic turtles that stay a bit smaller.
I have a 14 year old border collie, her name is Molly. I found out from the vet recently she has a tumor, most likely from her jaw bone or possibly her thyroid. There's nothing they can do. Right now she isn't in pain, but I don't know how long it'll last. My dad (she lives with them, can't have dogs where I live currently) just called me in the phone saying she's fairing worse, talking about putting her down.
What do I do?
>>2210837
If her condition has deteriorated and her QOL is poor, then give her a peaceful, humane death.
Just ask your folks to wait for you so you can say goodbye, and be with her when she goes to sleep.
>>2210843
I'm not going to argue that her condition is fine and qol is good, but she isn't in any pain. At what point du you let go?
Anyone here have experience with this?
>>2210850
This may help you.
So /an/, I'm getting my first dog soon, and I'm wondering what I should feed him. There is a lot of different advice on the internet, and I'm looking for your opinions.
At this point, my plan is to follow my gut feelings, and feed my dog as closely as possible to what he would be eating in nature, and that is, raw foods, mostly meat (beef, chicken necks, etc) and some liver, maybe some other organs too, all human grade. I'll also give him some bones and petshop chewables for his teeth. I want him to be very healthy and to live a long time, with as few medical bills as possible. Thanks in advance for your opinions/advice.
Maybe you're overthinking this. I've raised over a dozen dogs on mostly dog food and they've all lived long, healthy lives. Just don't get a dog from a puppy mill, obviously.
Be careful what type of bones/chews you give him. Some dogs try to swallow rawhide and that's bad for them.
>>2210730
Well I figure I may as well go all out and feed him as best I can, since it's still going to be relatively cheap.
Nice to know that about rawhide. I'll definitely keep that in mind.
>>2210730
If you actually look at the ingredients though, most dog foods are complete shit. At least on a natural diet you know what your dog is getting is good for him.
What is the pitbull of the spider world?
>>2210506
depending on how you look at pitbulls either a red trapdoor (thick, agressive) or a Nephila sp (looks dangerous, but it's not)
>>2210506
that's a tricky question. no spider is nearly as dangerous and aggressive as a pit. on the other hand, I guess tarantula owners sort of are the pit bull owners of the spider owner world.
>>2210524
>I guess tarantula owners sort of are the pit bull owners of the spider owner world.
kek
In which way?
What do you all use as Spiderling containers?
What are the pros/cons
and does anyone know where I can get something similar to the one in pic related in europe?
>>2210505
Just use the box your crickets come in. Why is this even a question?
>>2210513
For terrestrial ones that don't need much humidity, they are fine
but I need Ideas for "arboreal" true spiders, for example P. regius or N. fenestrata
>>2210518
Most arboreal slings don't require height until they grow a bit. I use pic related for pretty much all my slings, but if you want to give them height you can also just buy little plastic food storage boxes in supermarkets, or any leftover containers of that sort. Try something like this: thespidershop.co.uk/32oz-round-tubs-p-2764.html
Looks like you want something more geared for observation/display though.
Hey /an/,
Would you intentionally harm an animal without need to? (Y/N)
Do you eat meat? (Y/N)
If you answered yes to both of those questions, you're a hypocrite.
What?
No.
Yes.
Cry moar faggot.
>>2210414
Bait better, anon. This is low tier even for /an/ standards.
hey guys i have a serious but stupid question
ill admit im painfully insecure before i ask
i fucked up my hand and can't walk my dog right now so my dad's been doing it for me
but im worried she'll choose him over me or respect me less as her master because of this
is it actually an issue or am i just being crazy?
i also get super worried if he plays with her or pays too much attention to her, is this also an issue?
>fucked up one hand
>can't walk the dog
You're worried about looking like a bitch in front of your dog but your dad is the real bitch for enabling you you lazy piece of shit
>>2210268
It takes two hands to walk a dog?
>>2210277
they've been giving me opiate painkillers so i don't trust myself to be able to hold her back when im like this?? i live in a city and she pulls a lot so im trying to take safety precautions
before i had no problem walking her 3 times ( that's almost 4 hours!!!) a day
Religions say hell is a place of fire and brimstone (sulfur). It just so happens that life at the bottom of the animal evolutionary cycle lives around sulfur spewing volcanoes at the bottom of the ocean miles below the surface.
The photograph above is of hell. The hell described in the Bible is a real place on earth.
It is the most hostile environment where animal life is found on earth. If you go to the bottom of the evolutionary cycle, the beginning of the cycle, you go to a place like the place described as hell. A coincidence?
Most of the popular descriptions of hell were described by writers like Milton, Blake and Dante, and many religions have adopted parts of these popular descriptions.
Sulfur, water (the lake), an unquenchable fire, a deep pit, dark, abyss, cold, worms, and the other things that hell is described as are not found all together in any other environments where life is found. The place in those pictures is the only place. These vents are also where the first life on earth was found, the actual bottom of our evolutionary cycle. The odds of it being a coincidence are impossibly low.
Until just recently, we did not know that any life could live in super heated water miles down at the bottom of the ocean. The food chain starts down there with bacteria that feed on sulfur (hydrogen sulfide) that comes out of volcanic vents in the ocean floor. Scientists recently discovered that this bacterium was the very first animal life on earth, the start of the animal evolutionary cycle.
The vents are called black smokers, because they spew black, sulfur-filled, super-heated water. A few feet from the vents, the water is freezing cold. It is totally dark, as black as ink. No light reaches that depth of water.
The Koran actually describes hell as a place with boiling water and freezing cold water. Do you know of any other place on Earth that has life and those exact conditions? There is no other place like it. It is the hell described by religions.
Giant tubeworms: Many descriptions of hell mention worms. Giant blood-red tubeworms eat the bacteria that live around the volcanic vents. The bacteria actually live in the worm’s gut, in the belly of the beast, in a symbiotic relationship with the worm.
Giant Blood Red Tubeworms
The blood-red tubeworms pictured above grow up to nine feet long and can be over two hundred years old. These animals live in total darkness, miles beneath the surface of the ocean. Even the color is exactly the color of the mythical devil.
At the bottom of our evolutionary ladder is a form of bacteria that actually lives in the worm’s stomach. There are many more bacteria living in their stomachs than there are human beings on the Earth. This is a fact.
The worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. Isaiah 14:11
Living in the gut of a nine-foot worm, thousands of feet down at the bottom of the pitch black, freezing cold ocean, next to scalding hot vents is where the bottom of the food chain is found.
There are trillions more souls in hell than there are human beings on Earth.
>>2210060
>Religions say
>>>/thrash/
Fascinating take OP, thanks
I need help, i just feel terrible. I have two chihuahuas one is one year older and bigger that the other one. The older chihuahua sometimes gets agressive with the little one, i always try to stop her but she never really does, also its just for a few seconds so i cant really stop it, thought that was normal since she came first into the house. This time i heard the little one crying really loud so i jumped the little fence we have to keep the inside the house and i tried to punish the older one. Maybe i was too aggresive or too fast. At first i thought the little one had a broken leg since she was shaking really bad and didnt move. I took her to my bedroom and she just stayed there shaking, then she threw up 3 times.
I feel like a monster. The little one was always afraid of people. It took some time to get her to play with me. She's always happy to see me but when i try to get close to her she start to walk away with the tail between the legs and then she lay on the floor face up. Not always but she do it more often if the older chihuahua is not arround. Always made me feel a little sad but right now the older one is doing the same thing. What can i do? Am i over reacting?
we all smack our pooch around every now and then. if theyre not neutered then neuter to halt the aggression. if they are fixed then they simply were not meant to live together and you might have to rehome one of them
>>2210034
Thanks for replying, anon
What types of pets do you want to keep in your life? Do you stick to only one type like dogs or snakes or do you want many?
Personally, I am most drawn to rats and dogs but I want to keep different types. Let's say I keep pets until my mid 80s, I have several decades worth being able to keep animals. Most pet animals don't last over 2 decades after all. I want at least one corn snake, two ferrets, two Budgies, maybe an iguana, some pigeons, maybe a guinea pig, and a cat by the time I'm a senior. I also want some barn animals like horses and goats but that largely depends on whether I move out of the city one day.
I have cats and dogs right now. They are all shelter mutts/moggies, so one day I would like to see what it is like to own a purebred animal. I am thinking I would get a Maine coon and a German Shepherd (working line ofc) next. I have also only ever gotten adult animals, so raising one from a kitten or puppy would be a new experience for me as well.
As for other animals, I'd like a bird, lizard, and an aquarium one day too. I'd lik3 to see what it is like keeping and taking care of these guys.
I have a dog and two rats. The rats are very old and after they pass I'm not sure if I'll get more. I'd like a second dog eventually.
>>2209822
I like different kinds of pets
but I can't imagine myself having a cat, bird or rodent of any kind as a pet
Show me the derpiest of derps
Here you go <3
>>2209728
is that a cat
>>2209733
Opossum
Is it alright to let your cat go outside as long as they are supervised the whole time?
My cat always begs to go outside and I let him out at least once a day, but never let him be by himself.
He's caught a few big grasshoppers while outside, but I always make him put them down. Would it be fine for him to eat most bugs? Like cicadas and grasshoppers if he catches them?
Pic related, was the grasshopper he caught. These things are all over the place.
>>2209664
>Is it alright to let your cat go outside as long as they are supervised the whole time?
The indoor/outdoot argument is primarily about people who just let their cats run around unattended to do whatever the fuck they want. There is nothing wrong with letting your cat out as long as it's supervised.
As for the bugs, I'd be wary of that stuff on account of parasites and the like.
If the cat is confined to an area, it should be okay. Like the person above said, outdoor cat hate comes from people letting it roam freely without any kind of real limit.
Also, pesticides. Be wary of letting your cat actually eat any bugs. Catching is fine.
I want a small, low maintenance pet that could be ok in a studio apartment. Something like a snake or insect that won't mind me holding it for about 5-10 minutes once in a while.
I also want it to have a long, somewhat short (like no bigger than a foot and a half tall) cage that I can fit on top of a counter or shelf as a kind of display.
Are there any creatures that would fit something like this? I'm open to other suggestions, but I don't have the time for a mammal if something that needs interaction on my part.
>>2209592
Sorry, OP.
The only animals I can think of that would be happy in the enclosure you have in mind probably shouldn't be handled.
Tulpa
>>2209597
Nonsense. I don't really understand what tank OP has or is willing to acquire, but almost any species of a variety of animals can comfortably fit in a studio apartment:
>fish
>inverts (terrestrial and aquatic)
>snakes
>lizards
>amphibians
>small mammals
>birds, though I don't advise it
Of these, a good amount can be handled. Let's say you are a beginner and don't want to get an enclosure larger in volume than a 30 gallon tank. These are some good options:
>crested geckos
>leopard geckos
>corn snakes
>ball pythons
>pacman/pixie/horned, etc. frogs
>emperor scorpions
>stick insects
>(some) mantids
>(some) tarantulas
>hermit crabs
>cockroaches
>millipedes
>centipedes (not ideal)
>gerbils
>mice
>robo/dwarf/other small hamsters
>(some) beetles
>(some) newts/sallies
Some pets which are included in the above categories DO NOT make good beginner pets, but I believe all the ones I mentioned by species do.
I don't know about your personal tastes, but corn snakes and ball pythons are both low maintenance snakes, and (Madagascan hissing especially) cockroaches are usually low maintenance insects. Leopard geckos and tarantulas are also pretty easy to care for and easygoing.
If you decide on a snake, know that both corns and balls are very docile and good beginner herps, but corns need (slightly) less space and have a reputation as being more interesting to handle.