#animal distress

[vaspider]

Every time Rumba has a nightmare and does that horrible high-pitched terrified wail in his sleep, three things happen right in a row:

I wake up, my heart pounding so fucking hard

Even before we're awake, both me and my wife are saying, "Rumba, you're okay, you're safe, it's okay, you're a good boy," and trying to find him and pet him or snuggle him

I'm so fucking angry at whatever human made him terrified of hoses and cry in fear like that in his sleep

I don't know who they are, and I'm too Jewish to believe in Hell, but I hope whoever is responsible for making the softest, gentlest soul in the universe that afraid gets exactly what they deserve.

[mockingbirdtales]

Helping spread awareness for an old friend.

Charlie Girl was moved several weeks ago from the facility where she was thriving for years and videos shared to the above Facebook profile detail the concerns about her behavior and condition since that move, which have not been appropriately addressed by those responsible for moving her and for her care.

Content warning: some videos are high in emotion and/or contain clips of anxious parrot behaviors. Not necessarily inappropriate but are enough to prompt stress in me and in my own parrots

[deliciousmicroplastics]

i called into work bc i feel like absolute shit but i have to run my cat to the vet bc im scare he has cancer bc he's losing a tooth and pets always have cancer and it's always terminal bc i always have to beg my parents for money they won't pay for a nonhuman animal and have about 2k to my name rn

[lonepower]

yes i Am paying real money to make you all look at our new dog. we've had her for 3 hours and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself. her name is Tater Tot

[ase-trollplays]

Just saw a Facebook video titled "I just saved $500" and showed a guy pulling out a good two yards of ribbon out of his cat's mouth with Looney Tunes music

I'm grossed out but also super relieved he saw the cat eating it and was able to safely remove it before it started causing problems for kitty

[madfantom]

It's time to show you the pieces with my comments! FULL animatic

Part 2 ▷

And so, let's start from the beginning. Since I don't have time to physically draw everything I want to show, then in animatics I showed a few moments that will be canonical for Distresfull AU. For example, the order of the children in which the children got to the hive. No, they did not die, namely in what order they got to him and in another post I will tell you why (later I will leave link to that post here)

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 319

Ghosts can retreat to their core when they’re hurt enough. Really, when they’re close to a second death, or in such distress that they risk shattering themselves. They, for lack of better term, hibernate until it’s safe for them reform, and continue on their way. 

Halfas are a little… different. 

See, technically, they can’t die. One half will end up healing or reviving the other. But, they can still retreat to their core. The issue comes from well, the living half, that is, the half still made of flesh and bone. Which unlike ectoplasm, cannot shift and meld at will, and in fact? Most if not all of it is, once more for lack of better term, shed. 

Meaning that halfas, should they retreat to their core emerges with the body noticeably… smaller. 

Now of course they keep their memories, their core would never forget after all, unlike the brain which relied on more… fleshy means. Not that the current halfas were exactly aware of that fact when they instinctively did so in self preservation. They are… not pleased upon their emergence. 

The woman who stole their cores- which were apparently sold as gemstones what the fuck- is… definitely not happy either. And- okay that is not their english, where the fuck did they end up- 

[apparently-artless]

•❃° SOUSOU NO FRIEREN ❀ FRIEREN & HIMMEL °❃•

Anime: Sousou no Frieren Characters: Frieren & Himmel Song Lyrics: Visiting Hours by Ed Sheeran

[jarofloosescrews]

Jazz’s turn, same style as Prowl here.

You know who’s next 🌵

[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.

[rottmnt-residuum]

Part 12 of Arc II (Part 38 - Gore)

thats the chip omg you finally see it

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[animangabwedit]

Daddy, where did mommy go?

I told you many times already. She's gone to a place very far away.

When will she be back?

She won't be coming back for a while. That's why, Aira, you have to be stronger. So that you can do everything on your own even without Mommy. So that one day, when Mommy comes back, she can be proud of what you can do.

Okay! Aira will be a girl who she can really be proud of!

Dandadan by Tatsu Yukinobu

[lackeyhenchman]

Also I'm finally playing through the foursome with the drow twins (cos Ty will never get to do it organically) and oh my god Astarion!!! This man should not be fucking!!!! This man should not be fucking!!!!!!!

The Mouseketeer routine he does before you even get to the bedroom ALONE... ASTARION YOU ARE BANNED FROM FUCKING!!!!!

[kaijukebox]

Oscar is infiltrating the sketch page, they are both scruffy in my heart and mind 🫡

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No refs today!

But have some context under the cut!

[madfantom]

Part 3 now here FULL animatic

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Well, I was thinking about what to do with William when he puts on a Spring Bonnie mask. Something atmospheric and with a whit of the creepy. Of course, the first thing that came to mind was analog horror and chucky cheese stuff.

There are too many of them now and they are not impressive, so I threw this idea in the trash. When you see another porcelain face with fur and white eyes with large blackening pupils, it's like...Bored?

I thought it would be easier. Glitchtrap is very good as a redesign, so I tried to use usually spring Bonnie as a basis. And since I've already used the pixel style, I just need to mix it with the mask. And also, the way I made the puppet mask was basically a good idea to repeat here. This is the path of intimidation through simplicity and pixels. The most flat , but with the right shape mask

I repeat, if it was not very clear. This is just a stylization, in fact, the usual golden Bonnie costume is used

[chiarrara]

hot take (based on 3 episodes and no manga knowledge): momo is the main character of dandadan, okarun is her cringefail loser boyfriend/sidekick but shonen bros don't notice bc the boy turns into a cool moster fighter kid and they don't market it as having a "female mc" and if they did they would have written it off without a second thought