carnists: STOP FEEDING YOUR ANIMALS VEGAN IT’S ABUSE!!!!!!
*contributes to the abuse and slaughter of billions of animals daily*
vegans: um….
carnists: IT’S NOT THE SAME. VEGANS ARE ABUSING ANIMALS VEGANS ARE ABUSING ANIMALS DLKAJJGADSGBASDHAGEOIWHNB;BDAH
Classic projection.
Who’s projection are we shaming? Because dogs and cats are carnivores meaning they need meat to survive. While veganism is a choice made up by humans…
And forced onto obligate carnivores.
Be a vegan. Awesome. Vegan food is delicious (no sarcasm-I know how good it can be)! Pat yourself on your plant-based back. Groovy. That’s great. Want a pet? Wonderful! There are quite a few choices that make awesome vegan pets, for whom you can make a salad at the same time you make your own.
As a vegan, why would you want to own an murderous carnist to start with? Why would you not want to own an animal that reflected your beliefs? That makes way more sense that inflicting your beliefs on a helpless animal who is dependent on you for their wellbeing. Don’t own an obligate carnivore. Simple. Bunnies are awesome. Bunnies have no need to eat meat. Neither do some lizards. Guinea pigs are awesome!
Love and thanks to the vegans who align their pet choices to their lifestyle choices! You are the true animal lovers and I wish your voices were as loud as those who pretend they aren’t depriving their obligate carnivores.
ExFUCKINGactly! @vegan-under-poverty @anarchistagitator
Mr. Fluffy is really excited about meeting his first real life dragon
Uh… this dog does not code as ‘excited’ here. This dog looks aroused and interested but also anxious and unable to settle.
The very first thing you see is a lip-lick - a very common sign of low level discomfort in dogs - as the tegu is moved towards the pupper. His tail is wagging but his body language is low to the ground and with his weight shifted away from the dog, with ears slightly back (it’s hard to see if there’s facial tension under the fur). Remember, a wagging tail is a sign of emotional arousal and does not always mean a dog is happy. He leans forward to sniff, then draws back and lip-licks again. Every time the tegu is moved towards him, the dog leans further back.
It then cuts to where the dog is standing on the bed - again, with about as much distance as is possible on the bed between the dog and the lizard - but leaning into investigate. His weight is still back and away from the tegu. He gets a tongue-flick and immediately looks away and lip-licks again. There’s a little bit more investigative behavior in which you see immediate appeasement behavior: he sniffs, looks pointedly away and lip licks. The dog then does a full shake-off, another distancing behavior that relives some internal tension in dogs.
There’s then a cut to where the human is coaxing the dog over towards the tegu. The dog is moving sideways along her body with his weight away from the lizard - he appears to be trying to interact with the human without getting near the animal she’s holding. As he gets closer his body is low to the bed and tense, which is not the posture of a comfortable dog, even one moving on a bed and attempting to solicit attention.
This looks like a dog that is nervous about the lizard yet still trying to interact with the human. There’s minor investigative behavior, but the dog’s entire body language is very indicative that it would rather not get near the tegu.
I don’t think this is necessarily a bad interaction - the pupper doesn’t appear to be afraid or over-aroused in a way that could endanger the lizard - but its super misrepresentative to portray it as a happily investigative dog.
^hoky fuck did anyone ask you please chill and just enjoy the video thanks
Hello, I am an animal behavior education blog! This is actually exactly what my job is - to teach people to think critically about animals in media that they might not otherwise look at closely.
As a professional dog trainer, as well, this video is the sort of thing that is important to clarify for all my clients (and readers) because ‘just enjoying it’ and sharing it without examination can lead to other people setting up similar scenarios that will not be safe or end well. It’s important to help people learn to see dog behavior for what it truly is so they don’t push the comfort zones of their pets - that’s the set up for people getting bit by an overstimulated or prey-drivey dog how and other animals get hurt in multi-species interactions.
While this specific video is nowhere near that level of risky interaction, it’s a good example of a situation in which most people might not realize their dog was stressed, and that makes it important to share.
can we also talk about how this is a very dangerous situation for the tegu since if it gets scratched at all by the dog it has a chance of picking up gram negative bacteria that can be deadly to reptiles
Smooth af.
@why-animals-do-the-thing ducks on ice
Pfffft this is absolutely great. A solid (probably accidental) landing slide.
Ok so years ago when I was like 5 my Dad and I were in England, and it was winter. We were walking around the woods, and we came across a frozen pond with ducks on it. My Dad, not really thinking, scattered some seeds on the surface of the pond.
The ducks went nuts.
They started skittering around like it was ducks on ice the musical. They were slamming into each other, feathers and feed went flying. I still remember the honks.
After a while, it started to calm down, but the food was still there, and the ducks were hungry. So, a few brave and semi-coordinated souls slowly waddled out. They wanted that food. They landed on their feathery butts and slid past the seed patch, while stretching their necks to gobble down a few seeds. It was graceful in how pathetic it was.
All the time my Dad was laughing so hard he was almost hacking up a lung.
I’m doing a persuasive speech and this would really help me out.
If you think animals should be adopted from shelters, reblog.
If you think animals should be bought from pet stores, like.
*REBLOGS FURIOUSLY*
REBLOG LIKE LIGHTNING
*REBLOGS FASTER THAN LIGHT LIKE DAMN*
so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back
the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing
Dude, my dog lost a tooth today and I’m planning to stick a damn treat under his pillow like some freakin’ tooth fairy scenario here. Walk into a burning house for him, pffft, OBVIOUSLY.
I’d be scratched to death by the cats, but I would just have to haul out the dog crate, but yeah, not leaving without my babies.
I have legit refused to leave the apartment when the fire alarm is going off because I was busy trying to get my stupid scaredy cat out from under the couch. I bought a specific type of bed so that she couldn’t hide under it in case of a fire. I would never leave her behind.
I’ve thought a lot about ways to desensitize animals to fire alarms, and if they could be trained as a recall cue so pets go into their carrier when they hear one. It seems possible, in theory…?
@ why-animals-do-the-thing It is possible (at least in my experience)! Back when my dog was a puppy, our fire alarm used to go off pretty much every time we cooked. I figured I might as well teach her a recall when the alarm goes off in case of an actual emergency, and since it went off so often it was easy to teach.
We got our alarm replaced so her ‘recall’ isn’t as good anymore, but she still comes and finds me when it goes off.
Sweet! This is exactly what I was thinking of doing - and maybe building up desensitization with a recording and then a muffled detector for cats. Ideally, rather than “find me”, have a carrier open somewhere that functions like a safe crate, so they’d recall into it and stay there.
Listen reptiles can’t even breathe smoke of COURSE I’m saving them
I’m doing a persuasive speech and this would really help me out.
If you think animals should be adopted from shelters, reblog.
If you think animals should be bought from pet stores, like.
*REBLOGS FURIOUSLY*
REBLOG LIKE LIGHTNING
*REBLOGS FASTER THAN LIGHT LIKE DAMN*
In case anyone wants to hear what a gecko heartbeat sounds like!
omg this is awesome.
Thank you! She’s a pretty cool geck
@wiggly-noodles :DI thought you’d like to see this! :D
@why-animals-do-the-thingThis is the COOLEST thing. Give it a listen! You don’t need to turn your volume up super loud, it’s about on par with the volumes of the voices.
she is a Washing Machine
#Confirmed
People are always so surprised by my relationship to animals, they think I should “love” them a whole lot more than I do. But in 24 years I think the most important thing I’ve learned about caring for animals is that love is not actually a huge part of it. I mean it is, obviously. But it’s so damaging too, it’s like the antithesis to balance. Unchecked it results in dogmatic, self-serving fervor. More important than love to your relationship with animals: respect, understanding, critical thinking, thoughtfulness, kindness, gentleness. Empathy. Perspective. Distance and space when necessary. The ability to let go.
Rattlesnake roundups are disgusting. We are talking about the torture of hundreds of wild animals for entertainment; animals are skinned or beheaded while still alive leaving their bodies to writhe in pain for minutes afterwards. Non-target species, many of whom are endangered, are gassed in their burrows.
Rattlesnakes do a whole lot of pest control for us and kill fewer people every year than dogs, deer, horses, bees, or ants do. The fact that killing them like this is allowed and even celebrated just because people don’t like snakes is horrifying.
If you have an Instagram account, please take a photo of a hand and/or paw, post it on Instagram and tag it #givenhånd (means Give a Hand) and Hill’s will donate 20 Danish kroner to Dyreværnet, the main institution in Denmark that helps all animals in need.
I’ve used them myself a few times and they’ve come out to help “insignificant” animals like pigeons and showed up even if people only heard what kinda sounded like a wounded cat.
So if you do this it won’t just be a Like and move on. You will actually make a difference, so please help or share.
