The animal appreciation thread

Sentinel

Sentinel

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...let-breaking-law-according-new-swi/341412002/

That means cats must have a daily visual contact with other felines, and hamsters or guinea pigs must be kept in pairs. And anyone who flushes a pet goldfish down the toilet is breaking the law.

The new lobster legislation that boils down to a pain-free death was driven by research, including a study by Queen’s University in Belfast that found crustaceans are sentient creatures.
 
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Chadillac

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https://i.imgur.com/S6OwAZ6.gifv

Good quote

I had rats for years, they are like self-torture. You develop this insanely close relationship with these super intelligent and friendly little beings, who then go and smash your soul into a billion pieces when they die two years later. It's like the extreme best and extreme worst of having a dog, sped up 10 times.
 
Bender

Bender

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Chadillac said:
https://i.imgur.com/S6OwAZ6.gifv

Good quote

I had rats for years, they are like self-torture. You develop this insanely close relationship with these super intelligent and friendly little beings, who then go and smash your soul into a billion pieces when they die two years later. It's like the extreme best and extreme worst of having a dog, sped up 10 times.
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I'm assuming they can't be too different to having hamsters. Adorable little things, although not nearly as intelligent.
 
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Chadillac

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Bender said:
I'm assuming they can't be too different to having hamsters. Adorable little things, although not nearly as intelligent.
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Intelligence is why they use them in labs. Its very sad, the smarter you are, the worse you get it.

Cosmetics and darwins stds, breed rats only to infect and kill them. Id rather solve it at the source than kill an innocent creature.
 
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Charleneriva

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Wow. Only noticed this thread just now :oops:. I rarely ventured this forum last year tbh.

Thanks OP for the great thread and Sentinel for the pump. Have been wanting to create a thread for animal lovers on here myself many times but just too lazy. Most of the stories/clips/info posted in this thread I have already read/seen/read. But it still feels so good to see them again here. :) Thanks, everyone.
 
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Charleneriva

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stringertom said:
I've had dogs in my life since I was a baby. It's heartbreaking every time it comes time for them to head over The Rainbow Bridge but you just have to remember all the good times you shared with them.

Almost three years ago I had to give up my two very loving Cocker Spaniels when I was briefly hospitalized. As it turns out, they were rescued by a great organization that arranged a new home with a couple who already had two very aged Cockers. Both of their buddies have now passed and my older pal (only 11 now) has terminal lymphoma. It's been a rough year or so for them but they are treating my Tom Tom with chemo to try and squeeze another nine months to a year out for him.

I'm hoping to make the trip to their home when they return to Florida soon. It's my mission to see him one last time and share some laughs and sloppy kisses. I hope it is meant to be.

I gotta go cry a bit now from thinking about this but I also think about all the touching moments I had with for more than eight years. A better friend I've never had!
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I'm so sorry to hear about Tom Tom, stringertom. Now I guess I know where the "tom" in your username comes from.

It was August last year so I don't know if it's now appropriate to ask you about him and your planned "last trip". But I'm sure the love, laughs and "sloppy kisses" will live inside both of you forever.

Sending both of you a warmest hand holding. :)
 
stringertom

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Charleneriva said:
Wow. Only noticed this thread just now :oops:. I rarely ventured this forum last year tbh.

Thanks OP for the great thread and Sentinel for the pump. Have been wanting to create a thread for animal lovers on here myself many times but just too lazy. Most of the stories/clips/info posted in this thread I have already read/seen/read. But it still feels so good to see them again here. :) Thanks, everyone.
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OP, sadly, has migrated to his personal Elba. His spirit still lives on with the cadre of Rusty Nailheads like @Sentinel and moi.

My favorite story was on page 1 of the thread about the baby orphaned elephant Themba and his friend the sheep named Albert. Here is a new code for the same full length documentary that still moves me three years later:

 
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Charleneriva

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stringertom said:
OP, sadly, has migrated to his personal Elba. His spirit still lives on with the cadre of Rusty Nailheads like @Sentinel and moi.

My favorite story was on page 1 of the thread about the baby orphaned elephant Themba and his friend the sheep named Albert. Here is a new code for the same full length documentary that still moves me three years later:

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BIG smile. Yes I have seen this documentary several times. Still, thank you the mention. I'm a super fan of the "odd couple" friendships myself. :)

This weeps me up every single time:
 
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Charleneriva

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Chadillac said:
https://i.imgur.com/S6OwAZ6.gifv

Good quote

I had rats for years, they are like self-torture. You develop this insanely close relationship with these super intelligent and friendly little beings, who then go and smash your soul into a billion pieces when they die two years later. It's like the extreme best and extreme worst of having a dog, sped up 10 times.
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Your love for rats is fascinating! Not many can like, let alone love and appreciate rats like that. Hats off to you. :

 
guanzishou

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Osprey Carries Shark Carrying Fish
A Florida photographer captures a rare circle-of-life moment

by CJ LOTZ

April 24, 2018

  • nature photographer Doc Jon was walking along Madeira Beach, when he spotted an osprey flying above him. “I always have my camera, it’s like a limb attached to me,” he says. So he snapped a few photos. Looking through the camera lens, he could see the bird of prey was carrying a fish—no big deal, he captures eagles and osprey in action frequently.

    But when he zoomed in on the images, he could see the osprey’s talons hooking what looked like a small shark—likely a dogfish. Back at home on his computer, he zoomed in further. “Sure enough, the bird was carrying a shark, but then I see this other thing—whoa!” he exclaims, “That’s a fish in the shark’s mouth!”

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    The osprey carried a shark, which carried a fish—a once-in-a-lifetime moment of predator-predator-prey. Or some sort of Tur-duc-ken (O-shark-ish?) situation. “The odds are impossible that I got this shot,” Doc Jon says. “I take pictures all the time, but I don’t know how I’ll ever top this.”
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Sentinel

Sentinel

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Rarely do I peek at the papers and actually feel good.

https://indianexpress.com/article/i...clares-all-animals-as-legal-entities-5246002/

Animals are legal entities with rights, duties and liabilities of a living person: Uttarakhand HC

Upholding the rights of the “entire animal kingdom”, the Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday, declared all animals, including avian and aquatic species as legal entities, with the “rights, duties and liabilities of a living person”.

“The entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic are declared as legal entities having a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person,” the order, given by the Division Bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Lok Pal Singh stated.

The order further declared all Uttarakhand citizens as “ as the human face for the welfare and protection of animals”.
 
Sentinel

Sentinel

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If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. //Chief Dan George
 
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Chadillac

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Sentinel said:
Awwww !!!!

God bless the dear chap. But where's the panic attack ? Just a girl hugging her dog (which i wholeheartedly approve of).
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She was putting her hands in her face about to break down, doggie has spider senses.
 
Tennease

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Sentinel said:
@stringertom

@Mike Bulgakov

Five years back, in November 2012, I shared with you something tragic that happened. I can't recall which thread.

One of my two one-year old pups had bolted on the night of Diwali due to being terrified of the firecrackers.
For months, I searched for her but to no avail. I finally thought she might no longer be alive, probably run over that very night.

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A few days back, one of the garbage men of my area told me he had spotted her a couple miles away near a dump. She followed them around, running after them and had no particular home. He was convinced it was her. She lived in fear of other dogs, and kept running around, he said.

I have been walking through those areas in the last few days, and seen many similar dogs (black and tan). But they were either male, or had a white tipped tail, or were too bushy etc. I was convinced he was mistaken. He said she recognized him, and followed him around but would not come towards my area.

Today, once again while searching, one garbageman told me she was at a dump nearby. I walked over there and looked around. This dump is next to a very busy road, with lots of traffic. I looked at the central divider and there was a dog sleeping there, curled up in the sand/mud, almost difficult to make out. I managed to cross the road and stood by her calling her. She kept sleeping, ignoring me. Finally, she did take notice of me, but was not comfortable. She got up and tried to cross the road but could not due to the traffic.

So I backed off, and she curled up again.

I went nearby to a shop and bought some biscuits. I offered them to her. She looked up and recoiled. So i backed off, leaving some more nearby. I came away.

I am not hundred percent sure it is her, as I have not been able to look her over, but most likely it is. Her ear has been snipped (the municipality do that when they neuter a dog, I had already had her spayed without cutting the ear).

I came back with a heavy heart, trying to process this. I will of course keep returning there, and hoping to re-acquaint her with me.

On one hand, I am relieved that she is alive. For the last few days I have been thinking of how she must have survived all these years on her own (FIVE years!).

If she has forgotten me, then it is likely she has forgotten our lane and her family too. So if i do manage to bring her back, there is no telling that I or the area can keep her here. It will be a foreign area for her, and foreign people.

Her family will also not accept her, I expect they will just attack her (her mother, brother and twin sister).

I had expected her to jump with joy upon seeing me, but this was a very strange anti-climax to the whole thing. I feel very let down by the whole thing.
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I wonder if she thought you were the one who set the firecrackers off and then she was scared of you? :confused:
 
stringertom

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stringertom said:
I've had dogs in my life since I was a baby. It's heartbreaking every time it comes time for them to head over The Rainbow Bridge but you just have to remember all the good times you shared with them.

Almost three years ago I had to give up my two very loving Cocker Spaniels when I was briefly hospitalized. As it turns out, they were rescued by a great organization that arranged a new home with a couple who already had two very aged Cockers. Both of their buddies have now passed and my older pal (only 11 now) has terminal lymphoma. It's been a rough year or so for them but they are treating my Tom Tom with chemo to try and squeeze another nine months to a year out for him.

I'm hoping to make the trip to their home when they return to Florida soon. It's my mission to see him one last time and share some laughs and sloppy kisses. I hope it is meant to be.

I gotta go cry a bit now from thinking about this but I also think about all the touching moments I had with for more than eight years. A better friend I've never had!
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Update nearly 18 months later:

I finally made it to Cape Coral and my boys are doing well. The lymphoma continues to be treated and Tom Tom seems very much more active than I anticipated...destroying the squeaky toy I brought for him and chasing it when thrown. It was a nice afternoon to chat with their new family and all are happy. No separation trauma as I left and I’m invited back anytime I can make it.
 
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Charleneriva

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Sentinel said:
Your ava rocks.

I once had the Horsehead Nebula as my ava for over a year.
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Thenx. I appreciate it that you appreciate it. The first photo ever of Andromeda Galaxy taken by Isaac Roberts in 1887 - yeah, you read that right, which was then mistaken as a nebula. : )

To stay on topic, here is a list of celestial objects named after animals:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/galaxies-space-animals-astronomy-cosmos/

The famous Eagle nebula:
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Rusty Shackleford said:
Aren't animals wonderful? Please share your stories/news/videos of animals, whether pets or not, here.

I'd like to start with this video showing a baby elephant playing with some birds. I chose this because it proves that concepts like "playfulness", "joy", and even "love" do not need to be the exclusive domain of human beings, and that perhaps even animals are able to experience them in a more pure form.

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Ought to have guessed my namesake was also an oddball animal lover. Whoever you are Rusty, you sound more and more like the sort of person I would have liked very much.

In spirit of this thread:
@Rafa.the.Magnificent & @Azure & @Chadalina & @Tennis_Hands

https://www.facebook.com/1892865057630869/posts/2173625892888116
 
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Sentinel said:
Amazing, bro.

I once thought you was Rusty ;)
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Once I was offended at the idea, believing in some way it constrained me. After a year getting to know a bit more about Rusty, I feel privileged by the comparison.

Thanks @Sentinel - too bad he isn’t around anymore. Can see why you guys miss the fellow.
 
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Chadalina

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Owls are the least intelligent bird of all. Their eyes are so big it takes up brain space. I had a baby furball on my window, now he occassionaly hangs on fence

Sentinel said:
I never thought owls could be so loveable !
I don't recall Harry Pawter loving his owl at all. Just used him as a messenger. Shawking !
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