Tag: pets

why-animals-do-the-thing:

“Here’s a good example of moon eye (and lip licking/pinned ears/spatula tongue)”

Waltz:

Yes, it is! And I like the phrase moon eye instead of whale eye because it’s more accurate and descriptive. Great breakdown of the body language for the small dog.

To clarify for non-dog folk, this is whale eye because it not only involves the half-moon shaped whites of the eyes, but because the face is stiff and the eyes are tense and wide. One of the important features is that the gaze during whale eye is directed at the a source of the discomfort (although it’s hard to tell in this if that’s the gum or the other dog, due to how brachiocephalic the small dog’s head is).

Confessions of a Dog Owner

tempurafriedhappiness:

dogsaremypatronus:

Sometimes I get frustrated when my dog seems to forget something I already taught her.

Sometimes I do the bare minimum.

Sometimes I let bad behavior slide because I’m too comfortable to get up.

Sometimes I hear a suspicious noise and pretend I didn’t hear it because it’s been a long day and I don’t feel like dealing with it.

Sometimes our walks are too short.

Sometimes I forget to be patient.

I don’t always do the right thing. I don’t always give it my all. I don’t always know what is best.

But I always keep going. I always try to do better. I always keep learning. And I begin and end each and every day with an, “I love you” and a hug and the promise that that love will only keep growing as time goes on.

May the critics receive as much grace as they extend others when (when!) the day comes that they fall short of their own ideal.

theswedishelf:

constupidity:

brydeswhale:

fatgirlopinions:

kittenfossils:

strangebiology:

Family sues PETA for $9 Million for stealing, killing their dog

Maya was a family-owned, healthy Chihuaua. PETA members were filmed stealing Maya from private property, which they denied until they were told they were filmed. After the family called asking about where their pet was, PETA delivered them a gift basket and told them that Maya was dead. 

The family is now suing PETA for trespassing and emotional distress. Wilber Zarate, Maya’s owner, writes in the lawsuit that after learning of Maya’s death, his daughter cried for weeks and lost sleep and weight. 

It is illegal in the state of Virginia for a shelter to kill an animal that comes to them without waiting five days, and PETA was fined $500 for doing so. The day of the incident, PETA also took in other animals from the same park that may or may not have been stolen, including kittens, a lab mix, a puppy, and another chihuahua. These animals were also killed the same day, without effort to find homes for them. Multiple accounts of current and former PETA workers describe that the organization routinely kills healthy animals, including 97.5% of the animals they take in. Sometimes animals are killed in the back of PETA vans, before even making it to the shelter. “Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved,” PETA CEO Ingrid Newkirk said at a press conference.

Four months after the incident with Maya, PETA responded. Even though the thieves knew the park well and had personally met with Maya and her owners, they claim that they didn’t realize the dog was owned.

why i don’t support peta and never will

PETA is a fucking awful organization for this and plenty of other reasons, don’t support them.

Seriously, PETA is shit.

FUCK PETA.

Here’s an idea. Tumblr is big on call out culture…how about calling out the celebrities that support this insane organization.

Friendly reminder that Ingrid Newkirk was in charge of euthanizing animals at a Virginia shelter before founding PETA, and says she absolutely loved doing it cause she believes to euthanize an animal is to free it from a torturous life, regardless of what kind of life it had, because she’s convinced that any animal living among humans must be living the shittiest life possible.

Source: strangebiology

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why-animals-do-the-thing:

a-stingrae:

mostlycatsmostly:

A brief history of Thor talking to birds.

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@why-animals-do-the-thing !

Waltz:
So, this is really interesting to me. A lot of cats will ‘chatter’ their teeth when watching prey animals, and it’s commonly considered a sign of arousal and interest in prey they know they can’t reach. This looks to me like it might be a manifestation of that chattering, but with a vocalization at the same time.

But, with meowing being mostly a communication strategy with humans, I wonder if this is a behavior that only happens when there’s a person present. Because then it might be like, a meow because the cat knows it can’t reach the prey and is trying to communicate something to the human about it. That’s total speculation on my part, but I’d love to find out if this happens when people aren’t actively in the room.