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Make them fight and submit it to world star

move out and do whatever you want

C'mon people

>>2205678

Poor guy. Yes, vegetable or mineral oil will do the trick. Just go very slow and gentle with it.

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>>2205678
So I grabbed a bottle of cheap canola oil on the way. Put the trap on the shower in case he got freed quickly and made a break for it. I slowly dribbled the oil over him, trying to stay away from his head so he didn't ingest too much or drown. I took a small flat blade screwdriver and gently pried up his tail. He was trying to move of course and I quickly saw that he was working himself free, so I only prodded him after that to get him to move. After about 1/3 of his body was freed he figured out that his escape was imminent and he continued to work his body free. Afterwards he flexed his jaw quite a few times, he was unable to close it while on the sticky trap. He did spaz a little afterwards, but I'm pretty sure it was just the canola oil in his mouth that he was very unsure about.
Granted this is only a rat snake, the most common snake in my area, but I still thought it was worth the effort.

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I've already pulled 3 adults out of friends chicken coup and let them go out at my place. I'm getting quite a colony going. Here's the little guy all happy and free on a wood pile down by my creek, far away from roads or people.
It's hatching season, I expect to find alot of rat, corn and King snakes in the next couple weeks.

Tailchaser's Song is getting an animated film soon. I hope it isn't censored up. I want something Watership Down or Farthing Woods tier.

>>2206242
>We will never have a good Redwall or Warrior Cats

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Hachiko makes me wanna die. I dont even like dogs.

>>2205629
Reminder that everyone who supports this harambe shit would rather have another dead black person than a dead animal.

>>2205694
That's totally fine with me, although I hate this meme.

>>2205694
>would rather have another dead black person than a dead animal.
What's wrong with that?

>>2205591
Both.

>>2205591
That's signs of an incredibly fearful dog. Not necessarily abused or neglected, but definitely fearful.

With the right care, even hybrid dogs can be decent companions. You can find people who have confirmed wolf content dogs and coyote content dogs that blog about doing dumb dog shit. Being a hybrid alone is no excuse.

>>2205592
It also puts its ears flat back and climbs all over her lap for attention while squeeling in her snapchats. The dog is huge and a shes 100 pounds tops. She feeds it raw which makes them more aggressive and it all just seems like a bad idea to me. Supposedly she takes it on bike rides from midnight until morning but that doesnt sound like enough activity to me desu

Keeping this thread pinned, but going away for a bit. I appreciate any feedback you might have.

>>2205587
Honestly racers don't make good pets.
They're too "high strung".
I have some on my property- they don't just roam around, they'll find a burrow to call their own and stay around if theres food.

The problem with "giving it a good start in life" by keeping it and feeding it for awhile is that this is the time it needs to learn how to hunt. By providing food to it you're taking away that necessity and can unintentionally hinder its future abilities.

The best thing you can do is provide a place somewhere around your home where it can be safe and secure, where you won't disturb it.
If your yard looks like a manicured golf course, it won't stick around no matter how much food is there.

>>2205587
Why do human beings feel the need to fuck with everything? What is wrong with you?

Sunflower

Brown recluse

vet

Why? Are you that big of a pussy? Generally if someone is walking their blog off leash, it means the person trained the dog well. And if it isn't and it comes at you, just fucking kick it.

I get more nervous when I see a woman walking a golden retriever off leash

I know I'm not in danger but that motherfucker is going to jump on me and his paws are probably muddy

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>>2205515
>I get super fucking scared
lol what a faget you are.
Best thing to do is stay calm and comfy. Tensing up / running away increases your chances of getting bitten / chased by 500%

only time I was genuinely scared of a dog, or dogs, rather, it was 2 big fucking big and angry guard dogs at a junkyard that I needed to walk along for about 50 meters.
it was a hot day and they sounded aggressive as fuck. they kept charging the fence where I was walking and I was seriously scared it might break and they would get out.

I mean, one dog, no matter how mean and tough and scary, you can probably survive an attack. They are much smaller after all. But two amped up aggressive fuckers like that charging you and you will be in a world of hurt

Pest

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>>2205492
Trust me I am a dog person. Either my dog's Bubbles and Sapphire. But I can't bring them to my apartment when I moved out so I left them with my brothers. I need an animal to stay at home to keep my fiance company while I'm gone and it has to be either a small dog which has to go on walks or a cat. Cheap how to abandon stray cats before I could find an abandoned small dog

Neko.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=neko

>>2205377
Why did you get a bird if you can't handle a high maintenance animal that makes some noise? You say you're worried about them ending up with a bad owner, but it sounds like you're one of those bad owners.

Make sure they are allowed out of the cage for AT LEAST an hour at a time. My tiels like to sit out on the patio a lot, too.

>>2205393
Like I said, they get all the care and attention they need. They have a schedule of when they can go out of the cage, I (try to) teach them tricks, I give them all sorts of food and they get enough sunlight and fresh air daily etc. etc.

But they STILL keep squawking for hours on end and lately they're squawking as loud as possible at 7 in the morning, I've changed the position of the cage and even put them in seperate cages but to no avail.

It's the fact that I'm out of options and it feels like this shit is just worsening my mental health. I mean I was actually thinking of getting rid of them by killing them because I get sad when I think about selling MY birds to someone that, like you said, ''gets a bird if you can't handle a high maintenance animal that makes some noise?''

>>2205405
>is sad about the thought of giving birds to someone who can't handle birds, when you yourself cannot handle birds

It's just pretty upsetting to see that you want them dead over them just being birds. They're not doing anything wrong; they're just birds. My tiels only ever get loud when they're bored and it ceases when I let them out, but not all birds are like that. Birds are loud, birds are needy. The fact that you think death is better for them than a shot at a decent owner is pretty fucking sad. I'd say you need to offer them more stimulation but you seem convinced that they're getting enough.

Maybe try looking for a bird sanctuary in your area. I volunteer at one and we take in a lot of birds from owners who didn't know what they were getting themselves into; then we adopt them out after doing interviews and home checks.

>>2205373
Come, tell us.

Tell me

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>>2205374
>Be a hot summer's day
>My girlfriend really isn't an outside animal person, hates snakes and lizards especially
>One day she's taking out the trash
>I hear a shriek
>Soon after the sound of a shovel being slung across pavement
>Run out thinking that she's being robbed
>Only to find her haphazardly stabbing at a blue-tailed skink
>Run over to her and take the shovel
>She urges me to kill the poor thing immediately
>Take a look at the lizard
>See one of his legs cut off, a fat piece of his tail elsewhere
>His main body helplessly scurrying about
>Not to mention that he's obviously in a lot of pain from the loss of his limbs
>Think to myself that this creature of God was not even a threat, and she says she found it near the trash can
>Steady my jabbing arm with the shovel in hand anyways since I'm a cuck
>As if in one of my Japanese animes, I direct the force guiding the shovel between the head and body of the lizard, aiming just exactly for the nape
>kablam, the deed has been done. And humanely, I hope.
>Get a clean cut in, notice that his head and body wriggle momentarily afterwards, but all motion then ceases. He has obviously lost consciousness. This kills the lizard.
>Go in the house to retrieve gloves and a bag to dispose of him with
>Upon my return, I find my girlfriend stepping on his head and body to "make sure she's dead"
>Fuckingcunt.jpg but she's got great t&a so I didn't say anything
>Finish it all by gathering the limbs, body, and head of the lizard and dumping them in the trash on my lonesome

I hope that the decapitation really did kill him instantly. It's kinda weighing down on my conscious that he may have suffered intensely from it.

>>2205360
Nop.

Wait a around 10 days and the next time use a bigger pot, it's depressing to watch that plant grow in that tiny pot.

They also lack nitrogen, and you had this tiny white flies probably.

Wait until those white buds turn brown. If you have a microscope around for some reasion you can also check those tiny tiny hairs all over the leaves. If theyve turned milky white you're good to go.

>>2205364
>>2205367
Thanks for the tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjrEKGUcWUg

>>2205353
About as intelligent as an invertebrate that size can get probably, they have an amazingly efficient visual system and spatial recognition, complex and adaptable behaviour patterns and even limited learning abilities. No abstract thought or future planning of course but they dont need that.

>>2205383
Making a web isn't future planning?

One thing my jumping spiders do, when it's not hungry and I give it a fly.

She bites it, but it doesn't kill it, instead it paralize the fly and let it hanging, I have seen flies hanging alive for days, until it finally eats them, and even tortures them a little, poking the strand of silk and making the fly circle around while hanging, to see if it's still alive.

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pic related are my binos.
fairly decent entry level stuff from nikon

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>>2205334
so according to this
http://www.backyardnature.net/magglass.htm
the best thing to get for nature/insect watching is apparently a 10x jeweler's loupe like pic related.

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>>2205334
bump.

come on, surely some of you have binos / magnifying glasses / microscopes for looking at your favourite species

>>2205281
They'll eat cat shit too.
You should start feeding him your poop, he'lll probably like it.

i don't have a cat because too gross

he doesn't eat his own or the rabbit's poops and he tries to hide anything with blood on it

i don't think he'd eat my poop.. i think he'd be creeped out by it

WHAT THE FUCK