NAPTIME PETS THREAD!
>>1862207Why do they have to be so cute?
Here's my old girl, she immediately sits on or by me when I sit on the couch. She twitches a lot in her sleep.
My sweet little lady takes napps with me all the time.
>>1864952So qt qt
Old thread >>1857800 thinking about getting my first lizard in a while had an iguana when I was younger, but had to sell it. was thinking about getting Savannah monitor, Colombian tegu, or rhinoceros iguana. Thoughts?
>>1865627>Though at the last second, the supplier mentioned that it was a wild caughtyou should have dropped the deal right there, honestly
>feed ball after two weeks of eating due to shed>blood gets everywhere because she was pretty excited to eatugh I just changed out these paper towels too
>>1865631I know the feeling. My retic has taken two humongous craps in the past week, so that was 3 paper towel changes right there. Pooped on the fresh paper towels, changed those, and she pooped again today. Luckily she hasn't been peeing as much as people say...I don't look forward to cleaning a puddle up. I think I should go in and do like 3 deep cleanings to get rid of the smell, though, as I've cleaned the tub both times I changed the towels but it just smells so bad like piss. She's the only one who's left lingering smells in their tub out of all my snakes.
>>1865631Do you prekill or feed live?
>>1865698neither, I find that f/t actually bleed quite a bit through the nose after reheating
Can we have a YLYL /an/ thread?
>>1853875lost. but not to a picture lol
>>1854129can you imagine getting swarmed by these ants?
>>1857802that's what that blinding flash was
>>1864929 fuckin lost. the comments in this thread are better than the pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AdrmfjAhn0
/aq/ general, Post questions of your tank, your soon to be tank, your fish, your inverts, and of course, your favorite plant. My nominee is Lacy Java Fern, looks cooler than regular Java and my Betta loves to hid in its little tips and hunt the lil white bug snacks he finds. BTW what are those lil fish snacks he keeps finding??
>>1865638I have this heater. If works very well did me.
>>1865642Except that one does have a thermometer.
>>1865414>>1865423Reporting back inRubbing some of my substrate on the back of my hand felt like I was sandpapering my skin, nothing like the regular aquarium sand I have in my other tank which feels kind of soft to the touch, so I'm going to do a substrate switch soon.My current substrate is only about an inch thick, could I just put new substrate on top of it or should I take it all out?
>>1865681i have my own thermometer already
>>1865697You misunderstand.The thermometer is so that you can set the heater to, say, 25 degrees, and it will automatically turn on if the temperature is below that, or turn off if the temperature is above that, meaning that the aquarium is always kept at the temperature you tell it.A heater without a thermometer is always going to be on at a low effect. The result is lower temperatures than what you want during night when the light is off, and higher temperatures during the day, when the lights heat the water.You want the temperature to be as stable as possible, except if you're trying to breed certain varieties of tetra.
ITT, stupid pet products.
>>1865683any thing by tetra
Are goldfish/koi edible? I can't imagine they wouldn't be, but if they are, why don't people eat them somewhat often? Do they just not taste that good or something?
they are edible and taste OK. they are high fat bottom feeders and tend to bio-accumulate heavy metals. this is the real reason people dont typically eat them.
>>1865330Pokemon was right.
Don't eat the koi or goldfish. They're not very good to eat and the price you will pay to purchase them and fatten them to eat will be much higher than other fish designed for Aqua culture. Get catfish, blue gill, catfish, crappie, walleye or even trout. Depending on which you get you can even get a few koi to go in there too and the dumbass koi will teach the gamefish to be just as easy to catch. Just koi wouldn't even be sporting they just come up to you like big dumb labs and you could catch them by accidentally looking too much like you're about to feed them and they will strand themselves shoving each other to get to you. I see no attraction to a bunch of bony fatty tasteless bastards who cost to buy and put most of their feed into bone, scale, and spectacularly failing at spawning who are almost too pathetic to harvest.Get tasty fish you can actually you know fish for. If you want straight best food production then set up an aquaculture system with an actual food fish. if you think goldfish and koi are lovely buy a few of the dopes and enjoy just looking at them and by the time they're large enough to eat they're worth more as ornamental fish and you could buy many times over the amount of tasty fish flesh with what they sell as ornaments for Than you'd ever get out of the one fish.
>>1865665This. People eat carp sometimes, but theyre bony as fuck and its a giant hassle to get the meat off of them. And then once you've gone to all the effort it doesnt even taste very good.
>>1865322When I was looking into turtle care I read somewhere that you shouldn't feed goldfish to your turtle because they might carry tuberculosis, so I wouldn't risk eating a goldfish either.
I went out jogging this morning when I run into a dog. I initially thought he had an owner until I noticed the lack of a collar. It does the thing that all animals do with stranger's pant legs and I, probably lacking better judgement, reach down and pat its head before it runs off on its own. I turn and head in my own direction, too.All of the sudden, I hear it sprint behind me and find myself reunited with this dog. I think, OK, incredibly friendly dog, he must have an owner, one that he'll run back to before I make it home. I'm proven wrong. I call my housemate and he calls animal control.The dog is incredibly friendly around my housemates, one of whom offers it food only to find it promptly sitting at the sound of a plastic bag. We all think he must have an owner with how well behaved he is - other dogs around bark at the new company but he never barks back, just going up to their fences and saying a polite 'hello'We lure him into the backyard where we feed him whatever google tells us won't kill him, and he is incredibly playful. He does the thing that cats do where they roll on their side for pats, he plays with us where we try and chase him and he'll quickly double-take before we can catch him. 2 hours pass and Animal Control finally comes and tells us that the dog is incredibly young (not all his teeth are out) and definitely stray (no leash training and he wasn't neutered). We make our way inside while the animal control guy takes the dog to the van. It was awful, listening to the dog try and wrestle its way back into our backyard. My housemate tells me I've practically killed that dog, handing it to animal control, but I retort saying that such a nice dog would never be euthanized. Deep down, though, I'm not sure how true that was. I feel like I should've kept him - I really wanted to, too. But we're uni students, out most of the day and barely able to keep ourselves alive, let alone another living creature. Did I do the right thing?
>>1865686Also, does anyone by chance know the breed? I've grown really attached to him (we named him "Dog"), I'm just really sad to think that Animal Control is a place of low budget, and I should've kept him. But I keep rationalizing it by telling myself that I'm unfit to care for a dog, as well. I hope that justification is sound, I'd really like some closure on this.
Uh, I'm really sorry to tell you this, buddy, but your housemate's right. Probably should have tried to find the owner or another suitable home. A no kill shelter or humane society would have at least been a better option. He will most likely be put down.
Hello /an/,Is it necessary to keep culling out of the site of other animals as it is taking place (the animals you are going to cull after the batch you are currently culling)?What do you think of this video, specifically 12:49 and the subsequent slaughter?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YHHXrHUuUIt seems like all he'd need to do is set up a small screen between the pen and the slaughter area to avoid any of this.Is this pure negligence?
>>1865438Before I slaughtered my own animals, I would think that the rest of the flock should be kept away from the culling. In practice, however, I found that the chickens honestly did not give two shits when I was culling some spare roosters. The entire flock would wander down as I was killing the roosters, then run in and grab whatever bits I was throwing on the floor. Even when the roosters were still whole, very obviously dead birds, the rest of the flock paid them absolutely no mind. Hell, when I cut off the top half of the wings and threw them on the floor one of the roosters sisters ran up, grabbed the wing and sped off with half the flock following after, trying to snatch the wing out of her mouth.I think the main thing would just be to keep them all calm and make it as efficient and humane as possible.
>>1865438>>1865670Those good old canadian boys just have to treat the ducks to a good time before culling them. They pour a tim hortons double double out in a bowl and place it in front of the duck, then sprinkle some timbits on the ground near it. The duck might even get to watch some HNIC.Then they take the duck over to the chopping block and give it the old overhand slash, and the referee comes running out of the barn blowing the whistle. Each of them get 5:00 and a game misconduct for slashing.
Post interesting pictures of exotic/unusual animals.
>>1864588Very similar to shrimp.
We need these threads more often.
>>1864613It doesn't look like shrimp meat.
If humans suddenly disappeared which animals/insects would die off?
>>1864666This post is satan's lies.
>>1863898assateauge?>>1863850like people said earlier, lice and pets, maybe tazmanian devils, bats, and amphibians due to disease.I'm actually very curious how invasive species will evolve and how their new environments will adapt to them, unless we somehow acquire god powers and purge them.>>1863860pigs would do the best, feral pigs can revert back to it's wild self in it's lifetime, growing tusks, bristles, ect >>1863866fun fact, there are feral hippos in columbia and feral camels in australia
>>1865403Guinea worms too, humans are their only host. We're pretty close to eradicating them anyway though.
Most animals, even pets would actually be okay.My 8 lb dog would probably be okay but my friends spoiled lap dog would probably die.Actually many dogs would wither away because they'd be sad their owner isn't there anymore. They just lay down and wait forever.
ooh I knowchigoe fleas?https://youtu.be/pqxUUibgYZg
post your most autistic animal pics here
>>1861584vicar_amelia.jpg
>>1864479I bet that feels amazing on the back of his head
>>1865662This cat is like you bastard this drawing is so shit i should kill you for it>>1865662
Let's talk documentaries, /an/. The best, the worst, the prettiest.Pic related is one of my favorites, there's so much stuff about bugs and other creepy crawlies I had no idea about, and David Attenborough is the comfiest motherfucker there is.
>>1863796Microcosmos is my favorite nature doc I have seen to this date.I have trouble watching docs with narration now because of it, and a side note the dramatic infliction every narrator uses these days makes what would be good footage unwatchable.I haven't really seen anything that tops the quality of Microcosmos. The only nature docs coming close to it would be: Samsara and others from this epic-timelapse genre.
>>1863784This one isn't really anything too special, but it's one of the only ones I've ever found that focuses solely on river otters. Which is nice, because they're great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5YK1rCPo0Y
>>1863938The caves one is really cool. So much weird stuff lives in tropical caves.
>>1864024>>1863938Life is more of the same.There's also Africa, Madagascar, Life of Mammals, Life of Birds, Life in the Undergrowth, The Blue Planet (although that one annoyed me by using to much soundeffects), and The Frozen Planet
Just watched Tiger: Spy in the Jungle. Pretty neat, I never stopped being amused by animals discovering the cameras and catching their reflection in the lens. And baby tigers are adorable.
Do you think an animal could be trained to play 'deal or not deal' or something similar (with food pellets)?
No. I mean maybe you could attempt with a great ape but probably not. Imagine you were watching deal or no deal and you also had absolutely no understanding of human language or numerals. It would take you a very long time to figure out what was going on if you ever managed to in the first place. There is no way to explain to the animal the premise of the game.A very simplified version can be somewhat successfully done in the great apes in that they have demonstrated the ability to delay instant smaller gratification in the expectation of future larger reward but not terribly reliably so or with additional elements. They have to be able to observe everything because we cannot currently use language to explain any nuance.
Just how exactly dumb are horses?
>>1852332i fucking HATE honey locusts. I took pity on one that somehow spontaneously grew in a pot of dirt i had on my deck. I planted it in the woods near my back yard.Apparently they put out roots that go in every direction and sprout up more trees. I had six new saplings in my yard in less than a year. I tried everything to kill them. Eventually I dug up their weird connected root network, cut the roots, and sprayed pesticide into them. That did the trick.
>>1864354No one ever rewards me when I have an infection...
>>1864810They seriously are pretty much the worst thing that ever was. If there's a god he's a dick for making those and mosquitos. Although mosquito and their larva are at least eaten by other things like perfectly decent fish and I'm totally unaware of honey locusts being anything but pain in the dicks to everything. They even kill birds. They do, they sprout up from a root chain in these thickets like you describe which are also apparently horse death traps.
>>1864048pls be true
>>1865298If you have a male horse especially one that exercises a lot it is necessary to clean them down there. They get like athletes foot but actually athlete horse dick. I have no doubt that that anon saw plenty of chicks wiping the horses dick clean. It actually can reek as can hooves left unpicked so these things are done very regularly. However I do not believe for a second the girls were regularly finishing them or something and he saw that. It's about as erotic as expressing your dogs anal glands and almost as gross.
Please rate my pet and others, rate from 1-10 (10 is the highest)
>>1865576It would be extremely painful
>>1865578Your a big guy
>>1865580for you
>>1865417I love bearded dragons we had them in school and i used to walk around with them on my shoulders and they never bit me
>>186557012/10 picture love it, and btw guys you all got very handsom pets