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I'm such a fucking idiot, /an/.
While going away for vacation I arranged so that my pet bunnies would be taken care of by a local veterinarian.
I got back yesterday and was informed that one of them was dead. The vet gave me a letter explaining how he had far progressed tooth problems and had been suffering for a long time.
The worst part is that I had noticed him getting thinner and more apathetic but even then not thinking about having him checked out.
Now I'm just sitting here crying and I don't know what to do. The climate is very cold and dark, and I'm afraid I might make the same mistake by keeping his brother outside, since I can't see him very well in the dark nor spend enough time with him because of the cold.

Can a bunny learn to adapt to the inside? How do I learn to know when something is wrong with a bunny?

I'm sorry for the long rambling post, I'm ashamed for letting something like this happen.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/05/kitten-who-was-dyed-purple-and-used-as-chew-toy-has-emergency-surgery.html

>chew toy has emergency surgery
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An 8-week-old kitten, who was rescued after being dyed purple and used as a chew toy for a larger animal, is recovering after he had emergency surgery in California during the weekend.

>The kitten, weighing less than two pounds and nicknamed “Smurf” because of his purple-blue hue, needed abdominal surgery, Fox 2 reported. Smurf, who was brought to a San Jose shelter on Dec. 28 with about 20 bite marks and deep wounds on his body, will likely require several weeks for a full recovery and may be ready for adoption in three months or so, veterinarian Monica Rudiger said.

This is fucked up. I hope that little guy is treated like a king for the rest of its life.

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/an/ spider collection. I will post more

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How does pitbulls lock their jaws?

Any other animals that do the same? Can't find much info about it

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Hey guys, how goes your ant keeping?

Have you started hibernating your ants yet? If not you're a shitlord.

How was your season? For those with tropical ants, how is it going so far?

Here is my Camponotus Pennsylvanicus colony I have had since the spring. Caught the queen in my back yard. This picture is from a while ago, and I have more.

So far she is up to 50-60 workers, and about 30 larvae in diapause. Just put them in the basement this weekend. Will probably take them out towards the end of February.

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Noticed this weird thing on my dad's 5 year old golden retriever this morning. It's stiff like a scab but extends like 2 cm out of a scab near his ear. What the fuck is it?

We were out at our uncle's cabin last weekend that had a small farm on the grounds - horses, chickens & cows. Could it be some kind of parasite?

I've set an appointment for the vet on Saturday, was needing a shot anyway.

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So my mate who lives at mine with my mum got a pair of hamsters and one of our two dogs keeps whining behind his room door and barking. My mum and mate say "it's fine, she's excited there's new animals."

Well, I personally think the dog's instincts are setting in and she views them as a threat in our own home. She's a shih szu (not stereotypical of being dangerous) but keeps walking around with her tail down, whining at all of us. When she was in front of the hamster cage on the bed she followed the hamsters with her eyes and had an occasional growl and clawed the cage then I think she tried to burrow her head under the cage to knock it off the bed.

But I'm no veterinarian and I feel an experienced or expert opinion is best. So what'd you guys have to say? Is this a sign of something bad or is she just getting used to there being two new tiny faces?

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frog thread.

< Litoria caerulea

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can dogs sniff out cancer? because everytime i come acros a dog on the streets he tries to sniff my balls, strangely enough one of my testiscles hurt and is bigger then the other one

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¿Black cats or White cats?

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What breeds need winter jackets or clothing for walks in winter?

I have an American foxhound, I assumed he was an all weather outdoors dog sense hunters often house them completely outside.

It's below freezing here and I notice that his ears get extremely cold and he shake them as soon as he gets in and wants me to just rub them. Do dogs with long floppy ears need earmuffs or something?

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I can't stand ferrets. After working in a pet store that had ferrets and also bearing witness to "ferret people" I only hate them all the more. Something about them just pisses me off. They're fucking annoying. Cute as very young babies because they have some semblance of chill but once they get a few more weeks old they're just obnoxious little shits. I remember I'd be cleaning out their disgusting litter box and they would leap onto the scooper, into their own fresh shit, trying to climb up my arm and bite me. They'd rip open the doggy bag full of their own shit and piss-soaked litter when I was trying to remove it from the cage and get it all over themselves and not even care, just blindly continuing to leap at me because they wanted to play. Not like they didn't already have a shitton of toys and hammocks and crap everywhere. Then they'd bite and scratch as I tried to clean up the fucking nasty mess they'd just made. DUMBASS FERRETS.

Plus they don't seem to form a connection with their owners at all. They couldn't give a shit less who owns them, only that they can be entertained wherever they are. That and they're so fucking dumb they'll just walk off huge ledges and fall. Useless animals. God I fucking hate ferrets.

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[spoiler]What is best dino and why is it velociraptor?[/spoiler]

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where do dogs poop? cats poop in litter boxes, but what about dogs? my parents had a dog when i was a kid and it pooped outside in the lawn on the side of the house. but what about people with dogs without lawns, like apartment dwellers? can dogs be litter trained like cats? thank you for answering my questions.

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What kind of fish is this? I apologize for the crappy picture. It was at my LFS that is constantly getting new and different things and the labels on the tanks are wrong more often than not. It's clearly not "Brochis cat" because that's a type of cory.

I asked the employee and but he said that he didn't know, he had just gotten back from vacation and they were new. The owner was not in at the moment.

At first glance i thought that they were raphaels because of the stripes but the body shape is all wrong. They're about 3"-4" long, were snacking (or at least appeared to be snacking) on the algae on the plants and and fairly active. So active in fact that I couldn't get a decent picture of the little guys. They were being housed with discus.