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He just... does this now. And his balance is phenomenal

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You breed, and i cannot emphasize this enough, poneranians.

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baby horseshoe crabs

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I so rarely want to draw fanart, but apparently my mental health is holding onto nostalgia right now and I want to draw ONLY fanart

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the emperor of xing 

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I made a mistake today.

I kidnapped my bosses dog for a walk while on lunch because it was nice out. She wanted to run for a bit so we did.

I’m now in POTS flare hell and kinda regret my choices. But she had so much fun and I had fun watching her be a silly goofy dog. But my god.

But look at how cute she is

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me, incorrect: everyone is probably sick of me writing about this character by now...

my inner voice, wise: ah, but this cannot be... because I am part of "everyone"... and until I am sick of reading about them... it will not be everyone

me, opening a new blank word doc: ur so right

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Picked up some amazing prints and trinkets today

We have the husbands. The himbo. Lord of the rings memes. Perfectio, and finally a crow.

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hi! can i ask what's ur opinion on giving pets away? not necessarily because u can't afford to care for em anymore but maybe incompatibility of personalities or maybe lifestyles. is it wrong to give ur pet for adoption if u know someone who's better suited for keeping a pet, like emotionally?

This is going to be controversial, but I support making that choice.

There’s a lot of rhetoric lately around how it’s evil and unethical to rehome your pet if you don’t “need to.” And what that does is prioritize human ideology over the actual animal’s well-being.

Pets that aren’t a good match for your home or pets that aren’t really wanted anymore frequently have lower welfare! When caring for an animal becomes a burden or is forced, people end up resenting them, and that means the animal often doesn’t get all of its needs fulfilled. Even if you’re still feeding it and providing appropriate vet care, how likely are you to provide affection or enrichment to an animal you’re tired of being stuck with?

Lifestyle and personality really matter to making sure a pet is a good fit for a home. A dog that alert-barks at every leaf that moves is probably a bad fit for someone who has a chronic migraine syndrome, and they might not know that until the dog has been in the home for weeks and started to open up. A really feisty kitten that requires a ton of play might not do best in the home of someone older who wanted a quiet lap cat. And while you can you do your best to plan to find a compatible animal, you won’t always know ahead of time what issues might arise.

“Forever home” rhetoric is really, really popular and I think it’s very unfair to the animals it is supposed to support. It started with the backlash of seeing animals abandoned inappropriately, and has been heavily reinforced in the public mind because it’s so frequently used to drive fundraising and support for legislation. The whole “forever home” concept communicates to people that getting an animal is an immutable commitment and that if you can’t keep an animal, it is a personal moral failing. It frames human priorities (we think people who get rid of animals are Evil and Bad and should be shunned) as more important than actual welfare needs for individual animals (are they getting the care they need where they are).

Obviously, I don’t support people dumping animals or just getting fad pets they’ll discard immediately, but there’s so many alternate situations that can arise. Even if it’s just “they got a pet and didn’t know what caring for it would take and didn’t want to care for it so they brought it back, how awful” like… okay, I’d like the person to have done more research before they got a pet, but isn’t it better that the animal now has a second chance to go to better home? Knowing what a commitment requires theoretically can be very different than having to actually follow through regularly, and I’d rather see someone maturely acknowledge that having an animal isn’t a good fit than keep it anyway!!

If animals being happy and with all their biological, veterinary, and social needs fulfilled is actually the goal, we need to prioritize their welfare over human opinion. I’d much rather see an animal rehomed responsibly to somewhere it will thrive and be welcomed than see people keep animals they can’t/don’t want to care for out of guilt or shame. 

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Mmmmm yes. That’s a perfectly “normal” serum sample.

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One of our vets gave me a tinny glowing duck. His name is now Harold. I love Harold.

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When the dental wakes up and sounds like a dying goat. So you get the pet-sling out and carry them around.

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Do you see rabbits as well?

At my current place of employment we do! We had one in just the other week. We have two vets on staff who will see them and other pocket pets.

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Couldn’t help but chuckle at the choices.

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Using the sun to finish curing the resin my my hawks themed feathers. Still not sure if I’ll keep them as earrings or not. For now keeping them as earrings helps get them air flow.

And before people get up in arms about the migratory bird protection, and the fact these are real feathers. These are not feathers from birds that fall under that protection. I would never own anything that falls under the act unless I had a permit to be working and owning them.

The two smaller ones are from a green cheek Conure and the larger one is from a guinea fowl. Neither are native to the USA and do not fall under the protection act.