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all my dogs have been craigslist rescues so: between free and $50 because the guy was nice and I insisted on comping him for the crate.

$0.

My mum rescued her from a neighbor who had already killed her two siblings. He was a cruel man.

Free. Two unwanted pure breds, don't know about the wired haired german pointer but they payed 200 euro or more for the Lab.

>>2005440

Sue?

Lol accidents happen, don't be a dick. Take the bag back to the store you purchased it from, tell them what happened and get them to give you a refund (free dog food).

Was the plastic free floating in the bag or actually embedded in the food?

>>2005440

unless something actually happened then you have no grounds to sue. your delicate disposition isn't likely to convince a judge to award you any money on its own

>>2005443

>green plastic embedded in one of the kibbles.

Never mind. If you want to cause a stink, show them the kibble, make a big deal about it. They might do a product recall on it if it's bad enough. Take photos and send a message to the company as well. Or just ignore the store and call the company directly.

Offer it your anus as an apology.

There are a couple things you can try.

Try locating the cat and sitting down in the room the cat is currently in. It may take some time but the cat will generally come up to you. Just be slow until the cat realizes you won't hurt it.

If the cat likes treats, you can always try offering them some treats/tuna or even cooked chicken as a sort of peace offering. The cat should start to associate you with treats and get back to being your friend (you can also combine this with sitting on the floor so the cat doesn't feel threatened).

Hope this helps!

Try feeding it?
Tell the owners what you did and ask what kind of food it likes.
Don't try to chase it any more but getting close and fully extending your arm to let it smell you/maybe pet it a little will help.
Tell it you are sorry.
Honestly people trip over cats all the time so it has probably had this happen to it before.

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>>2005233

>>2005013
Give him to a no kill shelter. I know your parents are pissed off, but he's too fucking small to cause any life threatening damage to anyone besides a kid, no sense in killing him if someone else will take him and possibly rehab him.

I'm literally about to cry and i don't cry very often but im sure someone will take him in, why did he bite anyways?

>>2005029
What you're looking for is called an animal rescue. Dog rescue. Although regular animal shelter would probably work out okay also. Dachshunds are popular and he would be quite likely to be adopted out in short order.

He bit because your dad scared him or made him feel threatened.

bump for interest

Biologist here, it's because they don't have wings.

>>2004212
sorry link - http://askentomologists.com/2015/11/23/why-dont-spiders-have-wings/

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what do you think?

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>>2003533
comic sans/10

bretty good f.am

>>2003535
I used it on purpose.

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>>2003414

Immortal jellyfish

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tortoises are pretty pratical.

the only expense I have is buying UV/heat bulbs and electricity.

>>2003414
koi fish also live for ages

It depends on the breed of the dog.

If it's a greyhound then they don't need shit, but if a husky they need like 3 hours of running a day.

Hard to tell unless we know the breed and the specifics of how much time she spends with the dog and what she does during said time.

From what you described it sounds like you're overreacting, though.

At seven months she's sounds like a good owner honestly. If the pup were say 3 or 4 months I would be a bit worried, but for how much she's working and still taking the time out of her day to come home at lunch and take care of that pup PLUS giving him a whole room, ah that just warms my heart. Unless the pup is misbehaving or not getting enough hard excersise, I wouldn't worry. She sounds like a great owner to me.

actually thinking about it he's more like 8 months. sorry for the fuck up

>>2003067
he's a husky/bulldog mutt she adopted. she took time off work until he was fully potty trained and could be left alone while she was gone at work (6 months, according to her)

she goes on a run each morning pretty early and takes him with her, little less than an hour I think. then on her break she does fetch in the yard type stuff. and when she's home it's more fetch and usually a walk. occasionally she'll take him to her parents to run around in their bigass yard with their dog or the dog park

>>2003069
>misbehaving
well he can get a little mouthy sometimes and his recall isn't great, but he's pretty good otherwise. no aggression and he's good with other dogs

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Bigby

He likes to be tall

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My bambi

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Maya, my pupper

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>>1992680
skimmed it, but it doesn't seem to actually prove the quad spino wrong or right.

>>1992809
the last two sentences of the abstract and the paper in its entirely debunk the quad spino by reassigning most of the material used in the quad reconstruction to species other than S. aegyptiacus.

The quad reconstruction depended on the assumption that ALL OF THE BONES USED WERE NOT ONLY FROM THE SAME SPECIES, BUT FROM THE SAME INDIVIDUAL.

this paper shows that the bones were from four different species and two different genera, there's no possible way they were from one single individual.

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What a time to be alive. Stand up Spino!

>>2005006

>perpetual state of kittenhood

this theory has more or less been completely tossed out. so, to answer your question, in order to allow your kitten to grow out of kittenhood you must provide her with enough sustenance so her physical processes can progress as well as protection from stimuli that could permanently damage the kitten. your kitten will do the rest

>>2005006
Are you literally fucking retarded? The entire REASON your cat is worth having as a pet is BECAUSE you have normalized it to eternal kittenhood. Cats aren't social in the wild. They're solitary outside of mating or rearing of young.

>>2005019
>this theory has more or less been completely tossed out
K whoever you think tossed it out is a fucking retard then, because it's completely accurate. Adult cats don't socialize and meow for food and other needs.

>>2005035
well I want a more solitary, less dependent pet

stupid fucking poachers

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Meme frog reporting in

>>2003730

Hey meme frog.

BTW the picture is one I took of a female Nyala just outside my kitchen window

What are the most awful animal experiences you have had?

Alternatively, any stories of tourists getting mauled or doing anything retarded?

>>2001351
I've had several close calls with elephant, rhino, and buffalo on foot and in a vehicle, if you'd like to hear a story just pick a species.

As for tourists...I've had clients jump off a vehicle whilst there are lions 10 meters away.

>taking family of Indians on safari (its always indians that pull this shit)
>we find a pride of lions, males females and cubs
>we sit and watch them, motherfucker decides he wants a different angle for his over 9000 dollar camera
>jumps off the car, lions look at him confused as fuck
>tell him very seriously without being loud, that if he doesn't get back on the vehicle, the lions will undoubtedly kill and eat him
>he begrudgingly gets back on the truck
>I immediately drive back to base camp
>his whole family complains that I didn't take them close enough to the wildlife

Fuck Indians

>>2004681
>Please don't point me to Wikipedia.
heh
do you think there's some annual report published listing all the contents of various faunas, updated each time something new is described?

actually there is, but it's called Wikipedia.

>>2004681

you know, you can just look at wikipedia as a library of sources that you CAN directly quote from. if the article is written at all decently (as many aren't) it will have sources listed

>>2004718
>>2004727
This isn't for some fucking school project. I actually want to know what the most complete listing is the North American Pleistocene megafuana. It's that simple.