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Stop being a bitch that cares what people think about what you do with your money.

Plus a blacklab pit mix I had was a good boy.

I miss nigger so much

>rescue/adopt
>buy from reputable, responsible breeders

Both are fine

>>2091046
Your choices do have lasting effects on the community.

That being said...

STOP BEING A WHINY BITCH AND LETTING OTHER PEOPLE TELL YOU HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE.

>>2090745
>implying artropods don't have emotions
Bugguy, is that you?

Why wouldn't a frog? I'm sure a frog can at least get angry or annoyed. I don't think it can love something, nor do I think it'd be sad over something but anger seems like a pretty universial thing.
>in b4 bugguy

Emotions are just derived instincts.

Actually I met a woman who had a cat that was raised with dogs and used to go out on walkies whenever she took the dog out

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This is my cat wearing her harness for walkies. Soon she'll be trained well enough to go out on a trail! (hopefully)

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>mfw whatever disgusting animal OP posted probably isn't healthy enough for walkies

>>2083809
To shoot their death-rays.

>>2083813
No such thing

>>2083809
Unicorns live primarily in dense enchanted forests, heavily populated by fey creatures such as brownies, gnomes, sprites, and faeries. As such, their horn is polyfunctional.

When navigating through the underbrush, unicorns will use their horn to push aside brambles and vegetation, thus preventing injury to their pristine shit-eating features.

To understand the unicorn-horn's most astounding feature, however, one must look deeper.
Like all enchanted creatures, unicorns have deposits of magnetite and metallic copper embedded in their frontal lobe. In unicorns, however, these deposits occupy no less than 40% of the volume of the braincase, and actually grow through the roof of the skull.
The magnetite deposits extend through the core of the horn, while the metallic copper winds in wire-like bundles through the spiraling outer layer of the structure.

With a sufficient nerve impulse, the horn generates a magnetic field of sufficient strength to stun or kill smaller faeries and gnomes, as well as royally fuck with the cell phone reception and compasses of any hikers who may or may not be lost nearby.
Because the equipment necessary for these feats occupies 40% of their braincase (which is no larger than that of a mundane horse), unicorns are exceptionally stupid and find this incredibly funny, doing so at any opportunity possible.

any of you have experience with getting a dog from a reputable breeder? i've started looking into getting a corgi and it's getting overwhelming to even think about. as a broke college student i thought i'd put it off until i graduated but to even be put on the waiting list i feel like i need to have a house with a yard or something and previous dog experience and it's really disheartening.

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Dog.

>>2083281
why don't you want to rescue a corgi?

>broke college student
>no house with yard
>no previous dog experience

a breeder would be well within reason not to sell you a puppy, even after you've graduated. will you be getting a 9-5 job? how will you pay for vet bills after you've paid for the puppy? what will the puppy be doing all day while you're commuting and working? who will take care of it while you're gone? why SHOULD a breeder sell to a kid with no money and no means to take care of their dog?

it's not about experience with getting a dog from a reputable breeder. it's about having the means to take care of a dog, which you don't have and it sounds like you won't have for a while. you need to be in a position where you can actually take care of a dog before you even start thinking about getting one.

What the actual fuck is this shit, and dare I ask, how the FUCK did you stumble across this shit?

>What’s abnormal about wanting to see your wife take a three-inch beak instead of a 10-inch African American phallus or a silicon, injection-molded forearm?
My sides

>>2091321
Me and a friend were talking about how the government is too easy going with animal abusers, and he sent me the link to that disgusting website so I could make a thread.

No idea how he found it. Me and him see eye to eye on this, so I don't think he's into this degeneracy.

>>2086589
How bad was the prolapse?

>>2086589
What do the two parakeets have to do with this story? I'm confused. ...

>>2086596
It was pretty fucking bad. Stuck out a good four or five inches, maybe a little more. It was really gruesome. Not only her vent, but a bit of her intestine as well. I'm sorry I don't have pictures, I didn't think to take any before I buried her.\

>>2086598
Young guinea fowl are called keets

i just got my rat neutered and it's not as easy as i thought it would be. he was pretty miserable for awhile. and now after 6 weeks he developed a sterile abscess which is pretty common with neuters. he's going to the vet tomorrow but idk, this whole thing sucked.

There's already a rat general you could've posted in.

You would definitely know if they were male by now. It's likely an abscess, tumor, or similar. There's really nothing you can do about it besides taking them to the vet to determine if it's malignant or not.
Also, don't neuter small animals unless you have to. It really isn't worth the money, is pretty risky, and it puts a lot of unnecessary stress on the rat.

>>2086559
>risky
How can they fuck up snipping off some balls that bad.
One of my rats got sick and his cage mate ATE his fucking balls overnight.
Woke up to a limp and wheezing rat with a bloody hole on his ass.
He fucking recovered and lived to 4 years in all.
The psycho cannibal ended up snake food after he mangled another rat's hand out of nowhere.

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>>2031084
>one single general survived 120+ days
anyway posting my favorite horse picture

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>>2031128
That horse is fabulous.

>>2031178
I wish I could see one like that IRL. Goddamn I love black/white patterns.

>>2090021
Fire

Kill with fire

>>2090021
Chew it up.
Spit it out.
Time stamp.

>>2089676
uh...pet shop? it's really cheap

Get an Argentine tegu. Green iguanas hate you.

Welcome to an where 90%+ are Wikipedi/an/s

>>2088864
I work with animals, but less so with nature. I work at an animal shelter. My job responsibilities are endless, honestly. I do anything from being a janitor, to management work, and get paid a nice minimum wage +$0.27 yearly (price of living increase). I do sometimes deal with wildlife, but it's mainly holding onto them until I can get a rehab (by law, we aren't even allowed to hold the animals but I do), cremate roadkill, or euthanize an injured animal. I have a ton of stories, mainly sad. But this job has no direction, no way of moving up. They outsource managers and such. Anyone here who has an office, previously never worked in an animal related field. It's not a job to live off of.

Before that I volunteered at an animal barn (horse sanctuary) for a few months, and grew up with an animal rehabilitation center.

>>2088864
I always imagined fisheries were man-made ponds or lakes, like factory farming. Do you use natural ponds and streams? what exactly do you do for the fish?

I work with nature in two ways: with my professional job as a mapper/cartographer and part-time as a pet sitter (which is arguably nature, basically just domestic animals).

I like what I do but the road up the food chain starts to sound like a lot of politics. I've mapped gas pipelines, seasonal bird populations, fish runs, and some other stuff. When it comes down to it I just like maps and data for the most part.

>>2088565
just noticed I put veganism as the name instead of the thread...

>>2088565
Veganism is definitely the better choice for your health, which is why I chose the lifestyle. But still, it's really the guilt that keeps me away from chicken nuggets.

>>2088565
Avoiding industrial meat does not equal veganism. There's a whole world of options between those two opposite ends of the spectrum.