Thinking about how Astarion would be a great hunter/butcher's companion... Like you have to bleed the meat of animals anyway before it's human edible, so why not avoid waste and give it to him? Just don't suck down all the liquid and moisture in the carcass, my dude. You don't need to drink the cellular water out of the muscle fibers or, god forbid, eat the raw fat. Leave some of that in for the steak not to taste like leather.
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Seeing some claims being made about diet being the reason for the gastric torsion that happened in Skyla and Ula at Loro Parque but like.... unless you know what the nutritional makeup of the herring fed in the herring diet was you cannot comment on this.
Basically saying that Ula was being fed a full fish diet before she got sick, which would be expected for her age, but claiming that because her condition was worse, it's because of the fish.
Sorry but you cannot make claims about an all herring diet being problematic when you have no idea what the nutritional content of the fish being fed out was. We do analysis on the fish we bring in to feed cetaceans and develop diets based on their nutritional content. Sometimes you get batches with higher fat content ect. So the vet has to design the diet accordingly.
Also yes facilities can be limited by finances and sourcing issues - especially during Covid, which is when these diets were fed. "Well, they shouldn't have done that." Isn't helpful. You don't know why those vet monitored diets were fed.
But no you cannot make those sort of inferences without being professionally involved with these animals and actually know what you're talking about. Also diet is really only one factor here. We don't even know exact risk factors for gastric torsion and bloat in dogs - which have been in our care for thousands of years.
You think you've cracked the code on a significantly data deficient marine mammal with a case study of 2 individuals of a species that's only been in human care being treated by vets for about 50 years by comparison???
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I was supposed to catch up with hermit-a-day on catch up day but, uh, evidently i didn't do that– So I'll catch up today!
Starting with this Etho drawing that was kicking my ass. Three hundred attempts on this and it's not even a complicated concept
Cause' we are living in a material world and he's a material girl
(also, in order to actually have a shot at sticking through to the end, I'll only do black and white Sketches– you guys doing a fully rendered piece everyday are actually insane)
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Gacha.
❝ For FUCK'S sake, Grizzly, pick up the FUCKIN' SNAIL.
What the hell are ya doin' that's so God damn important?!
Fuckin' hell…
Go get yer furry bear-ass back to the East lookout point.
Play with some of the marines there for me. Frighten ‘em a little. Maul ’em to death. I don't give a crap what ya do, yer a fuckin' bear, ya can just stand there doing piss all and they'll be shittin' themselves over ya.
Do whatever ya want, just buy me some time while I go huntin' for enough scrap metal to raze the central base to the ground.
Don't screw it up for me.
Workin' with all of ya Straw Hats is a damn pain in the ass. ❞
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Man. It has been too long since I last watched Reign Storm. I knew it was one of the best parts of the show but WOW. The overarching plot progression on like ten different fronts, the character development for several different characters, the stakes being (and feeling) incredibly high without running into any issues of power creep...... just, well done.
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There's a lot of dumb ass animal cruelty takes in general but my favorite is the people who think you need to force sled dogs to pull.
Have you ever walked a dog before in your entire life? They love to pull. They're the pullingest damn things you ever saw. They'll merrily rip your rotator cuff in half like a phone book for the chance to stick their own face into a pile of old feces. They'll drag you down the road while you go through all 5 stages of grief trying to make them stop.
There are hundreds of products on the market promising to get ordinary non sled dogs to stop pulling their hapless owners down the road and spilling their iced coffees. People have gone so far as to use electric collars to try and zap sense into their poor stupid labradoodle that wants nothing more but to suicidally pull itself and everyone it loves into the snarling maw of the nearest leash reactive pit bull.
A dog that's allowed to pull, nay, encouraged to pull, is probably the most self actualized animal on the planet right after seagulls that live somewhere with food stands outdoors.
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genuine question: what’s the difference between a culinary innovation and a food crime?
I treat frozen potstickers like italian pasta, and I just put pico de gallo in yakisoba and it kinda slaps
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Bitch That Is NOT A Deer
I love it when we turn Danny into animals because of some weird reason or another, has anyone else done deer yet?
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"AAAHHHHHHH!"
A scream reverberated through the cave walls below the manor. A battle of the ages taking place for anyone brave enough to witness it.
"LET GO YOU BAMBI WANNABE, THIS IS MY CHILI DOG."
Jason managed to rip the package away from the jaws of the beast, he knew it was mistake to bring down any kind of food into the cave where the creature resided but in that moment he was thinking more with his stomach.
Demon Brat had once again found another animal, a baby deer of all things, and decided to keep it knowing fully well how to pull the strings of both Bruce and Dick into letting him keep it. The thing is Jason always got a weird vibe from it, almost like some part of him was trying to warn him that this was no normal fawn and living with it proved that.
After being brought to the cave it refused to leave, claiming the environment down here as it's own. They've all tried to move it but it always found its way back down here so they just gave up and created a space for it. Another weird thing about it is it's cry. It does not sound like a normal fawn but instead had the echoing tone of a human baby but appearently only Jason could hear it, the others all said it sounded like a normal animal but he gets the feeling Damian is fucking with him, it doesn't help that Duke is also suspicious of the 'deer'.
But the last reason that really sold him on it not being a normal deer was the fact that it. Ate. EVERYTHING!
No food was safe with the deer around, if you were to put something down it would 100% without fail find its way into the maw of the ravenous creature. This ranged from simple pieces of candy to an entire rotisserie chicken (bones included), it even managed to drink his entire smoothie that had a lid covering it. Everyone tells him that there's no way it could drink through the straw because its mouth wasn't shaped to do so but he knows it did goddamnit.
Now it was infront of him vocalizing its discontent for Jason not sharing his food with a weird ass whine from its mouth.
"No! This is people food, you are a 'deer', ACT LIKE IT!"
The deer stopped its whining.
Looked Jason dead in the eyes.
And stood up...
"Ah hell naw, DAMIAN! COME GET YOUR DAMN DEER!"
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