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Beerus Edition (RIP Toriyama)
Yes, that is my cat's name, and yes, that is a 4-star Dragonball on his collar
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>>4751803
This behavior is entirely unrelated to the quality of the food or any behaviors of "taste" you feel like projecting onto your pet.
Most carnivores dislike it when their food tastes different the next meal and dislike lower moisture food sources because of their association with meat that is undergoing decay. It's an automatic biological sign to stop scavenging a corpse and move on because it's getting harder to digest, is picking up a greater bacterial load their tiny body might not handle well, and is probably going to be found by other animals.

Your cat is not actually aware you are changing food brands.

There is also nothing wrong with feeding your cat kibble if they drink enough water, or if you add water to it.
>inb4 but studies show on average
if *your* cat drinks enough water.
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>>4751620
you want to preserve his genes by mixing them with shit? breed with a known female who also shows desirable characteristics.

also, feral cats are an ethics and animal welfare disaster and shouldn't exist. trap neuter adopt.
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Bros, my cat keeps breaking into the pantry and then stealing and breaking into items like protein powder, oats, noodles, etc. Fucking drags that shit all over the house. He’s always liked to carry toys around but I’m worried since this behavior of breaking into and carrying human food is new. Could this be a sign of nutrient deficiency or an illness that I should get checked out?
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only have the one cat, how can I make her life less boring without another kitty?
I play with her often enough and let her out onto the balcony and open windows for her, what else can I do?
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>>4752252
Cat trees and lots of them, cats love climbing and you'll also create vertical space for her to explore. But you should really get her a friend as soon as you're able.

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what's your favorite thing about wolves?
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>>4749972
Who cares about wolf girls when you vould be posting about girl wolves
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You will never rub a wolf belly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTh36lwIJF0
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>>4724397
Damn it, Moon Moon!
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>>4725107
Not really. It’s the painted ones that have 115 special attack.

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What's the best pet for a nihilist?
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>>4750413
Naw mate, fire is alive, a self sufficient, self replicating robot would be alive, aliens would be alive. You're just making shit up.
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>>4750413
Sperm are classed as cells anon...
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>>4746975
Get a slime mold. Its not a plant or an animal but something weird in between. Its intelligent and stupid at the same time which makes it fun to watch. Also my cats like the way it smells.
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>>4750999
But they can't reproduce without a different "species" of cell, therefore they aren't considered live creatures
>>4750969
All I'm saying is that the term "alive" is nonsensical, you can claim fire has a lot things in common with the taxological family of life, and you'll be correct, but fire isn't a live creature either
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>>4747355
3: we have no fucking clue
i pick 3

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I've started a new romantic relationship and recently she's met my dog for the first time beyond passing on a date to cook together. Obviously, my dog is well trained, well behaved, and my home is kept spotless in spite of the 4 legged beast, because I feel anything less is tantamount to neglect.
The girlfriend had a normal reaction to a lovable canine at first, but when my dog showed common signs of happiness and love with tail wagging, eagerness to please, and gentle headbutting/nuzzling she got weirded out. While this is a little bit more happiness in response to a stranger than normal- almost certainly from the dog picking up on my own positive feelings towards this woman- it wasn't anything more than the way my dog reacts to my immediate family. My hound is quite tempered in her behavior compared to the energy you can find in many other breeds.
The girlfriend comes from a home with a family dog, a miniature poodle, but from her description the dog was never really "happy" or even showed signs that it even liked anyone in the family (Maybe just the grandmother.) I find it unfathomable that you could live a decade+ with a dog and never see it happy to be with you. In regards to the friendly and loving disposition of my hound towards both me and her, she brought expressive visual and verbal worry in the same way I might have if I found out a date still lived with her ex-husband.
I'm mature enough to realize that no relationship comes as a "perfect package" but I get a nagging sense that contrary to my impressions of my girlfriend so far, she'd rather me get rid of my dog; or at least, restrict my dog to a kennel/run and have a more removed relationship with the hound.
Should I just see if she'll compromise on this, or is this a major red flag of there being problems down the line?
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>>4748864
Correct

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>>4748878
Mad women
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>>4747157
>letting a woman control your life
Give them an inch and they leave and take half your income. There is literally nothing wrong with getting a different girl.

Puppies before yuppies
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>>4750590
>>yuppies
Yuppies aren't slang for women, you esl street shitter
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>>4746394
>she does bot like your daughter
Not worth it.
You can try to talk to her about it or give it time, but, it is definitely something that should not be overlooked
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>>4750562
That's nothing compared to how they take away father's rights to see their own children

Anything spider-related. Domesticated or wild, doesn't matter.

No jumpscares.
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this ogre spider looks sad
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>>4751295
Looks like a beach bunny with her sunglasses on top of her head.
>>4751296
More shocked than sad. I suspect you yourself are in a dark place mentally. Perhaps you could cheer yourself up over here: >>>/r9k/
Both of those spider images are cute.
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>>4746025
is metallica still a fad? that thing went up and down like a rollercoaster
my fav pic rel
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>>4747412
thats a lot of webbing for a rossie
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>>4746834
from webbers i had a OBT but always wanted to get one of the tree-Ts that do the funnel webs

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why haven't shrimps developed tool usage? they seem well designed for it
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>>4751501
>their failure to then use the same tool to solve other similar problems shows a type of thought they don't have
Except they do use tools for multiple purposes. Chimps make sponges out of chewed leaves for collecting water to drink and for grooming
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>>4751815
>I said they don't create tools to deal with imagined problems. That's extremely easy to prove.
If the problem is only imagined they would not get to use the tool and we would have hard time realising it is a tool. If a chimp made a stick to chase off gumbo-gumbo ghosts in case they exist, how would you know it?
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>>4752117
in that case chimps display one example of human type tool use compared to billions of human examples. And it's not surprising since they are human ancestors.

None of you address the actual problem. There are verifiable differences between humans and all other animals, and instead of trying to explain them you decide to deny them.

>>4752139
>If a chimp made a stick to chase off gumbo-gumbo ghosts in case they exist, how would you know it?
they'd keep it with them at all times?
in case they needed it?

humans do this all the time. We have a whole kit we carry around in case we need it, and we have had for tens of thousands of years.
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>>4752139
>a stick to chase off gumbo-gumbo ghosts
I was thinking more of engineering problems, where you imagine something going wrong with a tool usage and then fix the problem before it comes up.

But you make a lovely point. Most human tools throughout our history were made to deal with problems that simply don't exist outside our own heads. Even now people regularly carry tools for problems in their heads, or real problems they will almost certainly never encounter.
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>in that case chimps display one example of human type tool use compared to billions of human examples
>There are verifiable differences between humans and all other animals
Tool use does not have to be equivalent to human technology to be considered tool use retard
>None of you address the actual problem
>instead of trying to explain them you decide to deny them
Nobody is denying the differences you moron, the problem here is that you’re assigning criteria to what defines tool use based on nothing but your personal view and will just move the goal posts to uphold that once somebody presents an example that does fit your criteria. You’ve already made up your mind on the subject and will make any excuse to uphold that, regardless of how flawed it is

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Pit Viper Edition

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This thread is dedicated to all animals of the reptilia and amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answered
Classifieds for finding breeders and products:
>morphmarket.com
>kingsnake.com
>faunaclassifieds.com
>reptilescanada.com (Canadian breeders)
>caudata.org
Most forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.

When asking a question, make sure to include these details:
>Type and size of animal

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Should I get an MBK or Cali King, after the pet substrate experience of owning a hognose I'd like a more active species.
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>>4751519
I can't help but feel like an ophiophagous snake is a great pet idea, because at some point you're really going to WANT to feed them snakes. maybe if you can find someone who can supply you with culls.
Ratsnakes on the other hand are notoriously active and prey generalists, and come in a variety of localities and colors.
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>>4751519
Funny, I'm also considering getting a snake that's either more present in some way (like a more active colubrid) or able to chill around (small python) after having a hognose for a number of years.
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>>4751990
>python
I had both pythons and boas. I recommend the latter- they have more of a 'personality' as much as a reptile can have
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this one was much more chill than previous but had problems with feeding

hypothetically, how long would it take to selectively breed chimps to have sentience?
you know, just for shits and giggles
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>>4752219
both are already sentient, and probably "sapient" in the way /an/ loves to abuse the word.
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>>4752221
sure but i mean in terms of what op meant, i.e. what if we uplifted their level of intelligence, communication, abstract thinking etc to be comparable to our own
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>>4752223
fair enough, I agree orcas are closer to humans in thought than chimps are, and chimps are pretty dang close.
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>>4751375
A long time. Could cheat a bit via domestication ala the Belyaev foxes to make a separate population with more peaceful and manageable characteristics. That could take a couple hundred years just because of their long life history but killing off hyper-aggressive chimps to promote cooperative chimps should have quick results.
The next shortcut is to hijack brain activity epigenes by exposing males to various dosages of psychedelic compounds from an early age. Combine this with a regimen of wildly divergent behavioral conditioning with “scary” situations like having young chimps play at dog parks, watch fireworks shows and gather food at the beach near crashing waves. Just getting them to have impulse control instead of launching into fearful reactiveness or aggression at the drop of a hat would be a huge step in enhancing their intelligence. It’s sort of like how small species of dolphins are intelligent but difficult to work with due to their shyness, while large species of dolphins are top predators with a high fear threshold so they are much more curious and active instead of being cautious and defensively reactive.
The last cheat is cloning. Once you have one chimp that shows improved characteristics you could clone it to make more including opposite sex counterparts. Doing that over and over for every improvement and sending clones off to develop other populations could cut the timeline to a sapient chimp down by quite a lot.
With all these tools you could conceivably have them in under a thousand years.
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>>4751529
>David Brin
>uplift
>Earthclan
Also the Heaven's Reach trilogy, which continues the story after Earthclan. The stories. Somewhat. Heaven's Reach is mostly new stories, but some stuff is resolved nicely from Startide Rising.

Anyway, nobody should be posting in this thread if you haven't read these books. Brin is fucking brilliant in these, he's six moves ahead of any points made in this thread so far playing on a 7 dimensional chess board. Do yourselves a favor and read the books. This shit is Dune-tier epic and classic science fiction.

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birdwatching thread
what are your recent lifers etc
I am going to arizona this summer I hope to see varied bunting
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>>4751089
In my experience, Pileateds are not easily scared off. They usually don't seem very interested in what people are doing.
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>>4751363
I was at a state park once and the thing landed on a stump right in front of the visitor center and gave zero fucks about the people around him.
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Saw this baddie yesterday
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>>4751729
We have the extreme version of those in Florida (reddish egret)
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>>4751729
How much exp did you get for felling it?

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>Last one died in the 30s
>almost a century of NO proper video/photo sightings, dead ones, skeletal remains, footprints, literally anything
They're gone, MAYBE a few survived after the ones in the Hobart zoo died, but in such dwindling numbers they eventually died off
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>>4751903
I want it so that if enough of us bullshit hard enough that the thylacine survived past the 1936 extinction date, that they magiced themselves back into existance.
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>>4751961
He's hunting down some thylacine pussy
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>>4752142
But a guy said four of them played with his dog

Someone explain to a retard why invasive species are bad and not just survival of the fittest?
Aren't invasive species just accelerated evolution through the help of humans?

Why exactly do native species need to be protected when they're losing the evolutionary game?
I mean we ourselves (Homo sapiens) are an invasive species that don't live in "balance" with nature.

Seems kind of hypocritical and arrogant that we decide who is an invasive species and who is not because we think Nature is unable to regulate itself.
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What species of snakes should we introduce to Ireland?
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>>4749319
You see.
"Natural" means that we freeze the world so that it does not change from the point when we decided that it was "Natural"
Climate cannot change, animals cannot change, biodiversity cannot change, sea levels cannot change, river and lake systems cannot change.
Only people are allowed to change, nature is normal as long as it is statc from the point when we became aware of it.
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>>4751266
None. Saint Patrick worked hard to be rid of them.
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>>4752058
I don't get his beef with snakes.
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>>4749381
this still doesn't answer OPs question.
To further push his point- what gives human the justification of further interfering with nature? Such species dominance and disturbances happened many times before humans even existed.

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What would you do if the vet said your pet's terminal disease is so bad that euthanasia is the only option?
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hmmmm
https://desuarchive.org/an/search/image/-9WfWfYwINq7hd0Ql2vAAA/

i forget the other words op used but ive seen this thread like 6 times
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>>4752200
even more
https://desuarchive.org/an/search/image/dzT1VYC9smhtGekTw1oPWQ/
jfc get a new shtick
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>>4752198
>>4752200
>>4752203
trolololo now here is a big fat pill for you
>Run down
https://kvlab.com/How-Chlorine-Dioxide-Works.html
>Documentaries
https://rumble.com/vdey7t-the-universal-antidote.html
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KVNjkCHjI1Bz/
>Grassroots discovery
web.archive.org/web/20231028022601/avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Jim%20Humble%20-%20The%20Miracle%20Mineral%20Solution%20of%20the%2021st%20Century%20%284th%20Edition,%202009%29.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20230103195026/https://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/quackwatch/documents/MMS.pdf
>DIY
https://rumble.com/vflssx-how-to-make-cds-by-andreas-kalcker.html
>Handbook

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>.com
>org
>.moe
Did not read.
Have a nice veganism thread.
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>>4752193
i don;t get it, why measure drops? just replace the water with it

Wrasse edition

Welcome to /rstg/, the ultimate destination for reef and saltwater enthusiasts. Discuss anything related to your marine paradise here, whether it's your thriving coral colonies, vibrant fish, or aquascaping.

Saltwater Aquarium Setups:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBaMLrfToJyxJ1PuJZwhkxvvdFP14eV_t
>https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/taking-the-plunge-starting-your-first-reef-aquarium.533/

Tank Cycling and Maintenance:

>https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cycling-an-aquarium.306554/

Fundamentals of Acropora care:


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>>4751517
Paul Cafarro has one in his pond I think.
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>>4751364
This thread is dead
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>>4751943
It's a hard hobby after all, at least harder than freshwater.
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>>4752170
I’ll join you guys someday…
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>>4752188
You can set up a fish only with live rocks tank. It’s way cheaper than a reef tank.

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Fennec family edition
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>>4739198
im so late
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>>4747575
>Foxes not for sex
You're gonna have to ignore a good amount of mythology then to believe that. Foxes have been and always will be 1. Cute 2. Clever and 3. Seductive (in that order). It's how they get free food, spouses and the livers of lustful boys.

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These are just the cutest

https://youtu.be/PL5almaIyyQ?si=YRDwnrNq2Xi732zB
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>>4752156
https://youtube.com/shorts/2f7NGXUMKFo?si=eTCjsUxlDdl85EiP
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>>4752156
looks like any other bland shit colored frog
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>>4752156
https://youtu.be/oc6H7FLYObg?si=YYtu8dHDcEZ3jYs_


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