Cedar. She’s still got the bum hip but when the pasture is close enough to the barn she doesn’t let that touch of rheumatism get in the way of grazing. #cedar #rheumatism #oldlady (at Wayward Goose Farm)
What are your thoughts on this? Have any of you had experience with teacup pigs? I’m not pig savvy but I have a relative right now getting ready to fork out 2,000$ for one of these Which is what prompted me to search into this.
I found that a lot of pig enthusiast websites are claiming the same as this article. Teacup pigs are fads and lead to a lot of abandoned and mistreated pigs. And apparently, some breeders of such “teacups” even advocate malnurishment to stunt them. Feeding them very small portions once a day.
There’s also memes about this subject.
A pig rescue here explains the effect of teacups and how it’s unethical and a scam.
Amanda Jones has dedicated the past 20 years to an incredible photography project which aims to show just how fleeting the lives of our beloved pets are.
tumblr describes them as cats with wings and every gif proves it accurate
ok but
theyre not?
i just hate it when tumblr gets into some new animal fad and undoubtedly a bunch of uneducated fucks are going to go out and try to get their hands on a wild animal to keep as a companion bc they saw a funny vine on the internet
i realize some videos and images may come from rescues but a lot of these clearly dont. and comments like ‘i want one’ and ‘aw theyre just like cats’ make me so worried regardless of the source of the video
its happened with foxes and opossums and i really dont want it to happen to owls too
owls are predators. theyre destructive. they will potentially look at you as their mate and will become aggressive around your friends and family. they can seriously hurt you. their talons and beaks are sharp as fuck and even on accident can cause you to need stitches
you cant train them like a labrador either. they will wreck your house and tear into your furniture and clothes. they will perch and shit wherever they want. they dont care how expensive your furniture is and they will not be using a litter box or ringing a bell to be let outside
owls need to fly for exercise too. you cant cruelly box them in like you would a parakeet and clip their wings and confine them to a cage their whole life. and you cant feed them with a bag of shitty kibble or even frozen chicken from the grocery store. they need a natural diet of rodents and small rabbits. and youre going to have to cut those animals open and remove their bladders and stomachs every time. and whatever they dont eat theyre going to want to store somewhere around the house for later. owls are also nocturnal. so 3 am is when you will be getting a call from your neighbors complaining about the hooting and screeching thats been going on for hours
speaking of a lifetime of late night screaming, their life is fucking long. around 30 years. so when you get tired of the non stop owl shit and pellet cleaning and the fun of having an owl wears off, youre stuck with them. you cant just dump them in a shelter or release them. and even if you find an owl rescue to take them in youre still fucking them over because they will either become depressed from the absence of their ‘mate’ or act aggressively toward other humans they have not imprinted on. they will never be able to be released into the wild
you dont want an owl. you can appreciate them and love them without ruining their natural lives
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“youre going to have to cut those animals open and remove their bladders and stomachs every time“
Is this a common thing for falconers to do? And if so, why? I’ll cut up whole mice for training or for small birds (or finicky birds, because apparently mouse livers are DELICIOUS), but I’ve never removed any organs with the intention of not feeding them out. Background: These are misc. hawks/owls, some of which are in rehab prior to release, some are unreleaseable educational program birds.
You don’t have to remove anything from small rodents, although if feeding wild rabbit, many remove the intestines to avoid feeding anything ingested that could cause harm, and on occasion livers if diseased. For the most part, this is unnecessary, as wild raptors eat their meals whole (everything eaten whether swallowed whole or torn apart) if small enough. You will however see all of the parts when cutting them up to use as tidbits. Maybe that’s what they were referencing? 😁
I’m in agreement here. A wild bird of prey will usually eat the whole animal, with the possible exception of the intestines. Cooter has left intestines behind in the field and usually leaves them behind when I feed him during the molt. As stated above, the falconer can choose to voluntarily remove the intestines himself if desired, but I’ve never heard of removing the bladder and stomach. That’s just my personal experience, and I’m an apprentice falconer so I certainly have limited knowledge.
I believe pugs are a “trainwreck” breed entirely in every aspect. You can health test ‘til the cows come home but they’re still highly deformed and at risk for respiratory distress and ailments and they have direct deformities because their breed standard calls for it. That’s where I have my issue with pugs, pekes and english bulldogs.
I’m sure there’s breeders of these dogs doing a lot, but when a breed is heavily deformed because a piece of paper says so, it’s an ethical issue entirely no matter how well you test those hips and hearts. It only helps the hips and heart directly, but there’s no excuse to make brachycephalia and Hemivertebrae (which causes the idealized and highly adored screw tail in the standard) a “normal” thing in the breed – which is literally deformed spinal vertebrae. I do not believe it is responsible to intentionally allow a dog a lifetime of physical limitations because of what a piece of paper states or that it’s “entertaining to look at and cute”.
It’s like telling a brittle asthmatic their hips are good enough for a marathon or a hike.
And many breeders of pugs don’t even mess with the hips. This is a “lazy” breed to begin with, so hip issues are not often detected – especially by regular pet people who expect the pug to lounge on a couch all day. But they’re not really lazy. They just can’t breathe well enough to exert regular exercise like a normal dog, and their hips probably ache too much to do so also. Sure I’ve seen plenty of pugs at the park walk a lap, but they’re gasping, snorting and certainly run out of gas much more quickly by the end of it, whereas my small dog can walk 3 laps, swim a while, chase some squirrels and run with larger dogs and still go for more if he wanted to. Dogs are not excessive couch potatoes by nature, but a body bred to be so will force them into it.
Pugs need their entire standard revised to make a better dog entirely, hips, spine, face and all. People can’t pick and chose to health test some things then advocate for the health ailments for traits in the same dog deemed adorable and according to breed standard. Pug breeders get numb to pug issues and/or think they are entirely normal. If there’s a pug breeder who wants to breed a better pug without the rest of the bodily issues people somehow find adorable, they’d have to be spurned by the breed club and be on their own and labeled as a “BYB”. (which is exactly what happened when dalmatian breeders left the breed club to outcross out a bad condition. It took 30 years of having progress and recognition squashed by a disgruntled breed club to register healthier dogs of their line back to the AKC).
Germany is already making way to make a revised standard on the pug and do away with the paper flat faces and other issues deemed “acceptable” elsewhere in the world for the pug.
I hope one day America gets on board. I want to see more pugs like this :
Which is what prompted me to search into this.
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