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Previous post on your dash is what my dogs are looking at intently

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fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

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whatever man, you're a fake creator. you're not playing spore, you're playing something else entirely

i made this anon in spore [2008]

next time show your face

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The last thing I saw before Comet knocked me over (2025)

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guessing game go, you might not know the exact species but you do know the general sort of thing involved here

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sensory

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My ol black lab is aging so hard she’s making me concerned for her MDR1 status (obscure vetmed joke)

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I referred to something as a "real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment" in conversation with someone who has never seen TNG, and let me tell you, that was a real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment

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I just got to see and photograph this species for the first time!

Happy world sparrow day (yesterday)

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honestly regarding your tags on that post with the petfree stuff, i agree... i'm an RVT and ive had some people admit to me that they literally just are not particularly interested in dogs/cats and there's a genuine unease to their voice. my favourite way of soothing them is assuring them that's fine + admitting i literally just dont like puppies lol. i get it!

I’ve seen that too where people find out I work in vet med and then they seem so nervous to tell me they don’t have pets or are not really into dogs and cats. Like, seriously everyone you are not a defective human being if you just don’t like dogs that much. It’s genuinely fine. And that’s coming from a crazy dog person (though I very much feel you on the puppy thing some days, anon).

I think saying you don’t like dogs/cats should be culturally equivalent to saying you don’t like Thin Mint cookies or something. Like damn I disagree but different strokes for different folks

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i just discovered r/petfree and this is actually so incredibly funny to me

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Oh no how embarrassing you’re totally right 🤣

This is why I fit in well on the poor reading comprehension website! Thank you very much for the correction and anon please accept my deepest apologies to you and the entire genus Buteo

Somehow I have missed the prior rounds of state bird chatter, but I don't think you've said yet what your pick would be for Ohio? I know we're a cornfields state from the highway, but beween the Great Lakes, Appalachia, and the residual eastern woodlands pockets IDK what's properly universal. I'm a huge fan of red-shouldered hawks and great horned owls, but admittedly I'm biased towards raptors and I don't think looking at range maps that either is particularly state-specific.

Ahh yes, Ohio is right smack in the middle of the “Cardinal Belt”. An extremely uninspired choice for the state especially considering that they selected the cardinal as state bird in 1933, a full seven years after Kentucky had already called first dibs! Still not as embarrassing as Virginia who took the cardinal dead last in 1950.

Cardinals are great but having that many duplicates all clustered together is a wasted opportunity. I agree we can do better for Ohio!

As a fellow raptor enthusiast I share your bias and fully support both the Redtail and Great horned owl as choices. It’s shocking the effortlessly charismatic red-tailed hawk is still up for grabs! I have actually always liked the idea of an owl for Ohio just for the “O” theme. I’ve considered the barred owl; A native bird of prey that will be quite familiar and recognizable to many Ohioans. Ohio was a key state for the Underground Railroad, and Harriet Tubman herself worked and traveled through the state a great deal. When giving signals to escaping slaves, Tubman would mimic with great accuracy the iconic call of a barred owl.

Other possible alternates might include the Wood thrush, a sweet-faced bird that breeds in large amounts in Ohio or the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. The latter is a primary pollinator of the state tree- the Buckeye! The little red patch on the male’s throat also kinda evokes the buckeye on the Ohio flag.

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Somehow I have missed the prior rounds of state bird chatter, but I don't think you've said yet what your pick would be for Ohio? I know we're a cornfields state from the highway, but beween the Great Lakes, Appalachia, and the residual eastern woodlands pockets IDK what's properly universal. I'm a huge fan of red-shouldered hawks and great horned owls, but admittedly I'm biased towards raptors and I don't think looking at range maps that either is particularly state-specific.

Ahh yes, Ohio is right smack in the middle of the “Cardinal Belt”. An extremely uninspired choice for the state especially considering that they selected the cardinal as state bird in 1933, a full seven years after Kentucky had already called first dibs! Still not as embarrassing as Virginia who took the cardinal dead last in 1950.

Cardinals are great but having that many duplicates all clustered together is a wasted opportunity. I agree we can do better for Ohio!

As a fellow raptor enthusiast I share your bias and fully support both the Redtail and Great horned owl as choices. It’s shocking the effortlessly charismatic red-tailed hawk is still up for grabs! I have actually always liked the idea of an owl for Ohio just for the “O” theme. I’ve considered the barred owl; A native bird of prey that will be quite familiar and recognizable to many Ohioans. Ohio was a key state for the Underground Railroad, and Harriet Tubman herself worked and traveled through the state a great deal. When giving signals to escaping slaves, Tubman would mimic with great accuracy the iconic call of a barred owl.

Other possible alternates might include the Wood thrush, a sweet-faced bird that breeds in large amounts in Ohio or the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. The latter is a primary pollinator of the state tree- the Buckeye! The little red patch on the male’s throat also kinda evokes the buckeye on the Ohio flag.

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Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata), family Emydidae, eastern US

Endangered.

Photo by Meghan Marchetti, Virginia DWR

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Mother and daughter from the Othawa Pride Ulusaba Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa Photographed by Klaus Engel