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[anetherealpoetess]

when some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice

[mipeltaja-art]

Nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night to fistfight your godless killing machine of a girlfriend.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

You may notice I frequently comment on the assumptions people make about animal facilities based on their branding. Frequently, people assume accredited facilities are inherently better for animals than unaccredited facilities, or assume sanctuaries are inherently more moral / better at caring for their animals than zoos.

I want to show you an example of why I am always, always skeptical of these assumptions.

If you’re in the California area, you might have heard about Hank the Tank - who is actually a Henrietta, btw - the 500 pound nuisance bear from Lake Tahoe who broke into 21 homes in search of food. She was recently captured by wildlife officials and moved to a sanctuary in Colorado. The Wild Animal Sanctuary has three main facilities, two in Colorado and one in TX. To give you some context, it’s the biggest carnivore sanctuary in the country - they advertise somewhere between 300-500 animals, mostly large carnivores, between their properties. It’s where most of the Tiger King cats went. It’s PETA’s preferred placement for confiscated exotic animals. So, obviously, it’s got to be great, right? Except… take a look at what they posted about Henrietta’s arrival.

Here’s their post about Henrietta’s arrival at the Refuge, the large facility in Colorado that isn’t open to the public. Let’s take a closer look at that food trough…

What do we see here? An entire rotisserie chicken that is either blackened or highly seasoned, and a whole ham. Maybe a second chicken underneath the pile, I can’t quite tell. The sanctuary gets the majority of their bear food donated from groceries stores once it’s past the sell-by date, so we know those are older meats and they’re full of a ton of salt. Then, for fruit and veg, there’s a cantaloupe, mango, corn, avocado, grapes, and apples. Maybe a pepper or two, it’s hard to tell. That’s a lot of sugar and not a lot of fiber or roughage.

But… on top of it and to the right… are those Twizzlers?

Yes.

The sanctuary confirmed on Facebook that they fed this recently rescued obese bear what looks like almost an entire pack of Twizzlers.

I don’t know of any world in which it’s appropriate to feed candy to a bear. Maybe a piece or two as a really high value reinforcer for hard behaviors (that isn’t relevant here, it’s openly against this sanctuary’s ethos to do any husbandry or medical training). An entire pack of Twizzlers is just appalling. But it’s not uncommon for this facility! I have a book written about their operations and animal care (that I bought at their gift shop this spring) which openly discusses how the bears get fed bread, doughnuts, marshmallows, and all sorts of incredibly unhealthy food that comes in with the grocery donations.

But hey, this is apparently fine for the bears, according to the sanctuary’s founder. He was quoted in that same book as saying “Bears are the only animal I know of that can eat insane amounts of sugar and it never hurts them. It does not hurt their organs. They do not get clogged arteries. They do not have high blood pressure. In the wild they eat all these sweet berries in the fall, and they convert sugar to fat… so the more sugar they get the better… we would all love to have a system like that!”

Now while it’s true that bears have physiological adaptations that modulate their insulin production and sensitivity in ways that appear to prevent them from from developing diabetes, that does’t mean it’s healthy for them to regularly eat processed carbohydrates, sugar, and general junk food. And remember - Henrietta gained her fame because of how incredibly overweight she already is, and because she was seeking out human food, According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, a healthy weight for a normal adult black bear is between 100-300 pounds. So, obviously, the best thing to do is… continue to feed her candy.

Then, later on in the book, it details how they have to bribe a camel to sit tight for a regular medical examination (since they don’t train for medical behaviors) by letting him drink a can of Mountain Dew each time.

If a zoo was known publicly to be feeding their animals Mountain Dew or a couple Twizzlers - even just once, on a rare occasion - they’d be eviscerated in the media and by public opinion. But feeding out inappropriate junk food appears to be a pretty common practice at this place, and it just goes unscrutinized because everyone assumes sanctuaries are inherently better for animals.

So, long story short, never make assumptions about the quality of a facility based on it’s branding or accreditation. (TWAS is accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries). If you have concerns about the ethics or practices of a facility, always try to put your preconceptions aside, go and see for yourself, and think critically about what you see and what you’re told.

[raconteur-wanpi]

Egghead from Stella's POV is very funny.

[yeagrave]

I’d suggest firefighter sereshaw but I don’t want to summon a buddie shipper issue again 😭 So how about Hangman as a lifeguard and Rooster as a surfer?

and then they wrestled playfully in the sand :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I want you whipped into shape!

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[zeravmeta]

i need to go back in time to kill whoever decided that discord was better than a dedicated wiki for information about topics

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

[ueberdemnebelmeer]

大红灯笼高高挂 / RAISE THE RED LANTERN 1991 | dir. Zhang Yimou

[bayleavesfromthevine]

why'd he have to say it like that

[nibbelraz]

Warning! Warning! Character No longer Exists!

[longestwave]

Preacher 2x04 | butterfly shirt :)

[kiisuuumii]

@kiisuuumii (songbird) [for anon]

[fisheito]

My villain origin story

[murasaki-cha]

do you have some clickbaits for LCF's wuxia arc so id dashed straight to the novel like ive been freed from prison.... im on the edge of my short lived attention span

Cale gets called a skinny white boy

Cale locks Choi Han and Choi Jung Soo in a room to resolve their family drama but also gets the gang and grabs popcorn to watch it like "Keeping Up With The Chois"

There's a 39 yo sexy man with a personality kinda like Alberu but more of "Oh this shit Cale is pulling is fun" than "This is driving me nuts"

Toonka finds Toonka 2.0. They become bffs

Awkward and adorkable Choi Han and Choi Jung Soo interactions

For the entire arc Cale looked like his skinny 21 yo KRS self

The Soos reunion is so much more chaotic than you would think

Ron managed to produce lemon tea in a world without lemon tea out of sheer willpower and determination

Cale made a total of I think 3 people reach literal enlightenment

Sui Khan/Lee Soo Hyuk got confirmed to have long luscious hair

Cale's head almost explodes

Choi Jung Soo was considered a high level threat no.1 most wanted fugitive and the target of a world wide manhunt

Choi Han was concerned about Clopeh for a solid 1.04 sec and almost vomited on his mouth

[cjlouwho]

Wouldn’t it be delicious if ( the show was being canceled ) Eddie moves to Texas and on the very last episode it shows that Tommy and Buck have been back together for months and are in fact endgame ??