#I want a pet

[tiny-brain]

ughhhhhhhhhhhhh i want a pet cat so baaaaaaaaaaaad send me pictures of your cute cats so i can fantasize about owning a cat one day

they are just so soft and snuggly but they're also gigantic jerks to you sometimes and i love it, i love it so much, i want one sitting on my lap right now gosh dangit

[boywiththebreadpeeta]

where in panem can I find marine animals? No specific reason just interested….

[weaverscape]

I'd want practically anything as a pet.

Sees dog video: I wan Sees cat video: I wan Sees bird video: I wan Sees turtle video: I wan Sees lizard video: I wan Sees Japanese Spider Crab: I waaaaaaaan

[wellthatschaotic]

sudden inexplicable wave of loneliness

[unbinilium120]

YES GIVE ME A CHILD I'M MORE THAN CAPABLE OF CARING FOR IT

FINALLY some good fucking feature ideas from the tumblr devs. tamagotchi renaissance now

[plaguedocboi]

I love love love fang blennies because they can unhinge their terrifying jaws to reveal giant venomous teeth

But when their mouths are closed they’re just the Goofiest Goobers in the whole world.

No thoughts just Sit In Tube

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

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. 

[reckless-wanderess]

i want a pet bat 🦇 they’re so cute but i don’t want rabies

[striking-iron-eyes]

I do!! A little baby boy rat that can be domesticated so it won't be upset by living in a house/apartment but also that wouldn't survive in the wild, preferably due to abandonment so I don't feel sad about taking it in.

I would build him a little castle and give him berries and pasta and I'd try to teach him tricks. I don't know what tricks yet.

I'm probably allergic to them though, given my track record :(

[morganpdf]

i saw a man at work the other day wearing a shirt that said "i was normal 2 pomeranians ago" with pictures of his pomeranians on it. important to note he had his pomeranians in his cart

[endykelopaedia]

one of my fave things about spiders is how they walk. theyre so thoughful and melodical about every step and i think thats really cute. they pause when they're unsure and approach everything with this poise about them.

from the perspective of my engineering degree, its also really cool how they move their legs using hydraulics of their own haemolymph (bug blood).

they also have little toe beans. thats also great.

hehehghsh look at them

[watmalik]

THIS MAN DIDN’T EVEN WANT DOGPOOL NOW LOOK AT HIM.

[worm-infestation]

jonathan sims and his collection of weird mildly murderous lesbians who only sort of hate him (they’re his only friends)

[kedreeva]

Trying to play Monster Hunter: Rise and SOMEONE could not stand not getting attention and was repeatedly scaling me with her sharp feet and launching herself from furniture until I put her big soft blanket in my lap and pet her.

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

[somer0b0fangedpup]

Being bounced on his cock while he refuses to let me do any of the work ‘cause I’m his handsome puppy…him cooing at me to let him take care of me while I just melt into his grasp…him telling me I’m a good boy while he pumps another load into me…