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You really should take it to a vet

>>2140258
I already killed a couple they look absolutely revolting.

Pour bleach down your sink.

Mockingbird, probably.
The mockingbird in my backyard would *perfectly* mimic the audio crosswalk signals for the street behind my house. Timing and everything. The only hint it was the bird was that it wouldn't go the full 20 seconds, and would sometimes randomly switch to generic bird tweetery midway.
I was waiting for the day some poor blind fuck got murdered by a bird.

>>2140065
You live in Nebraska but specifically Massachusetts? What the fuck?!!?!

>>2140065
Nothern cardinal maybe? I always thought they sounded like some sort of video game. ~30 seconds into this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buo5h5lLcpw

No. I'm against zoos because they do a lot to promote conservation, but great apes are an exception. Looking into the eyes of a captive ape is heartbraking

>>2140034
*not against zoos in general

>>2140033

So long as the enclosure is adequately large and has both indoor and outdoor sections as well as spots for gorillas to hang out in privacy, there is not problem with keeping western lowlands gorillas in zoos.

That silverback would not have died if the zoo had suitable security to keep people out. Little kid able to climb in? Not sufficient security.

>>2139690
PETA
A bunch of dinosaur related sites

4chan.org/an/

>>2139733
Almost certainly this

>>2139625
>Was my vet full of shit?
Yes.

Dumbasses and people who don't belong in medicine get into medicine. I had a doctor once have his eyes glaze over while he was talking to me and he started discussing his "reward" in christ that was waiting for him. How can a person like that be trusted to be a scientist? heh.

Even if it WERE true-- you can have the possibility of your cat getting sick or you can generate countless new suffering kittens in the world that will die and get eaten and run over by cars. pretty easy moral decision.

Always take the route in life that adds the least suffering to the world. There is never any reason to add new suffering and unfixed animals adds suffering.

>>2139630
by the way here is what your vet was referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_lower_urinary_tract_disease

I seriously doubt she was trying to scare you out of getting another cat and i certainly doubt she was trying to scare you out of neutering

but also remember that cats don't belong outside to begin with. if you get a cat, keep it in your house where it goes, so it's not out murdering hundreds of songbirds in its life.

>>2139630
If it is shit, what the fuck is she doing telling people that?
At the time i felt really guilty, like i had condemned him to suffer because of me getting him fixed
I had recently moved to a new town and she was one of the better vets talked about online so i thought she was a good choice.

Dogs of course. And get two so they keep each other company when you guys are out.

>>2139445
this

Each have pros and cons.

The long of it short is I love to have both. My two dogs and my two cats enrich my life in a different way, and I wouldn't want to have one without the other. Both are great pets... it just depends on what you are looking for.

Dogs
Pros:
>Awesome bros you can go on adventures with and take with you tons of places
>Really fun to play games with
>Can be taught to listen to you and other useful skills
>Pees and poos outside. Just have to pick up poo.
Cons:
>Some dont get into as being pet as cats
>Generally much more expensive than cats
>Don't live as long as cats
>Kinda sucks to take them potty when it is raining
>Can require expertise in raising them or you can fuck them up

Cats:
Pros
>Super cuddly and really, really soft
>Purring is the best noise ever
>Gets really into being pet
>Don't require much work or effort
>Poops in boxes
>Pretty hard to fuck up
Cons
>Have to clean said boxes
>Won't give to fucks about what you have to say outside of maybe "no"
>Arent as much fun to play with as dogs
>Want attention and affection on their terms.

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>>2139268
Here it is at 6 weeks. We stole it from meth heads because it had parasites and they abused the ahit out of it. 200 bucks in vet bills later and shanti is a very happy doge.

>>2139263
>Bought

>>2139275
>Stole

>>2139263
>>2139268
>>2139275
>'wolf'

>He thinks licenses are a good idea
Licenses are the antithesis of liberty and a free society. The state now decides what, how, to what degree, and why you're allowed to own anything to everything.

I know you mean well, but you cannot legislate and regulate personal responsibility. So don't try.

Against it, just because such a system would never ever work and it'd just end up making the animals pretty much impossible to get, regardless of how ready you are from them.

It'd be a good idea in a perfect world though.

>>2139189
go cry about it while animal control seizes custody of your special snowflake pets

the lettuce started it imo

It was talking shit

> Cancerous meme dog with no training rages at vegetable
>Internet finds it cute/funny that owner is this much of a fuckup

>>2139020
That actually is a brown recluse.

>>2139035
Great. I get if they show up from time to time in my apartment, but I've found four over two days. Is that reason enough to be concerned? Also, on the off chance I find a bite how do you even treat that?

>>2139044
If you get bit go to the hospital.

french tickler

Looks like a puffer ball

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>>2139002

Yeah, I'm also going with the idea that OP is playing with someone's used rubber.

Why do those children have a gun?

>>2138571

Theyre niggers.

/thread.

how many times are you going to make this thread?

Trolll, probably the same bed bug fag, yeah enjoy blood clotting and cardiac arrest.

Only if you don't want to die.

>>2137971
No, you'll be fine. The toxicity of rattlesnake venom is heavily exaggerated. If you were a small child, then you'd definitely want to go to see a doctor, but as a grown adult you might experience some slight discomfort at most as the venom dilutes through your bloodstream.

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Bedbug, burn everything, including the clothes youre wearing, and shave your head and ass crack.

>>2137966
Oh shit
Oh fuck
Oh shit
Oh fuck Oh shit

>>2137970
Shit, you're fucked man.

Story?

Just try and steal it back.

>>2137517
Do you have any proof you acquired a kitten,
from Breeder or Store like receipt, pedigree or vaccination record?

This might be better posted on /adv/... but here's what you do. Dress up as a man from the natural gas company, and go pound on their door. When they come to the door tell them there is a gas leak emergency and they need to vacate the house immediately lest they die of natural gas poisoning. Tell them to go around to the back of the house, a safe distance away while you go close off the gas leak. Go inside their house and pretend to fix the gas leak and take a shit on their floor. Then get the cat and leave.