#functional dog treats

[petnews2day]

Insect-based dog food company enters Pets at Home stores

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Insect-based dog food company enters Pets at Home stores

LONDON — Insect-based dog food startup Grub Club announced its launch into Pets at Home, the United Kingdom’s largest pet retailer, on March 11. Select products from Grub Club’s lineup will be available at 466 Pets at Home stores throughout the UK, as well as on the retailer’s e-commerce website. Founded in 2020, Grub Club […]

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[megpricephotography]

Happy 11th Birthday, Flynnie!!

Birthday boy enjoyed a run around in the buttercup field & some birthday snacks!

[arlo-venn]

y'all i slept for 21+ hours uninterrupted? haven't done that in a a while.

[satanfemme]

coughs awkwardly uhm. is mutt entirely a loner or would mutt have any friends/confidants/partners in crime.

he's not a loner at all! he's pretty isolated from society but that's just because of his circumstances. he actually really likes people!

the only exception to that rule would be the town he did his slashing spree in, which he hates a lot. but that was a very specific revenge thing. so as long as you don't live in that One Specific Town, you'd be alright in his books.

that all said, he has a lot of mixed up ideas about violence and affection, so him liking someone doesn't mean he isn't still gonna try to injure them for no reason (and expect to get injured in return sometimes). ultimately the way he conceptualizes pain/pleasure is very similar to what the cenobites have going on, just with less self awareness, and I imagine that would carry over into any sort of relationships Mutt would have cause it's a very consuming worldview for him.

if ur wondering, in "canon" he only really has two friends/partners. the first was the surgeon who kept Mutt as a pet puppyboy and turned him into his current self to begin with. the second is Michael Myers who I ship post-killing-spree Mutt with lol. I wouldn't mind him having friends/confidants/partners in crime outside of those two tho :-)

TL:DR Mutt's not a loner and he would love it soo much if u pet him on the head like a dog, u just gotta be prepared for a friendly stabbing or two if he gets too excited

[aftermathing]

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[lesilence]

Luca is a dog and Clemente it’s cruel owner. He needs to beat it to make sure it stays loyal.

[casekt]

I can feel people's distain for me radiating off of them

[kantraels]

the nice part about fanatic canonically telling seer stories in the valkyrie (and seer at least nominally paying attention before their mind wanders) means that Kal absolutely tells Kenna stories when they’re having a bad day, and sometimes it doesn’t even seem like preaching

[dankovskaya]

this shit is so depressing

[madtomedgar]

well the therapist i was going to reach out to works at a practice that advertizes their aba program at the top of their website so that’s a bust

[nimblermortal]

Oh sure it’s all “trick or treat, smell my feet” on the school bus, but when they show up at your door asking for candy suddenly it’s just “why is your foot in my face”

[petnews2day]

Swedencare teases new dog dental bone flavors

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Swedencare teases new dog dental bone flavors

RICHARDSON, TEXAS — SwedencareUSA introduced new flavors for its PlaqueOff System™ Dental Care Bones for dogs on March 8. The dental bones aim to help support oral health in canines, while also offering palatable and breath-freshening flavors. Swedencare’s PlaqueOff dental bones are specifically designed to provide pet parents with an easy and convenient way to […]

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[echidnana]

2 hour jerma stream edit waiting for when we get home . thank you cheltie

[thezodiacco]

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[tcypionate]

im so glad im overly paranoid about running out of my anxiety/sleep meds because i keep forgetting to make an appt with my psych and im almost out.....

[headspace-hotel]

It's important to not force your human morals onto non-human nature, like "this creature, since it disgusts me, is bad" or "this creature, since it has behaviors I interpret as sweet and heartwarming, is good"

But if you study nature whether in life or in profession, nature will make you feel disgusted and uncomfortable, it's not necessary to act as if those feelings don't exist within you, because they are part of your encounter with the otherness of nature, and contain sensitivities that can be sharpened into their own ingredient to knowledge and awareness

Coexisting with discomforting parts of the reality of Nature without trying to resolve them into a moral or aesthetic framework you are happy with, reflects maturity

It is no good to "redeem" a hated animal if the redemption is another false idea of the animal as innocent and good. This implies that a creature's "goodness" is a valid reason it deserves existence. It is also no good to treat a beloved animal with hatred to make things fair.

A good example is with dolphins and sharks, dolphins were seen as good and cute and almost human, whereas sharks were seen as bloodthirsty killers, and this has cost the lives of sharks while dolphins are given more sympathy, so some people have tried to turn it around, portraying sharks as gentle and good while pointing out that dolphins can be violent and rape other dolphins.

A lot of dolphin behaviors are certainly upsetting, definitely it makes sense to be upset that an animal can engage in what appears like cruelty, but human morality isn't made to apply to non- humans, and a particular behavior is not the entire reality of what a whole species is like. Dolphins also engage in behaviors that humans judge as friendly, compassionate, altruistic, curious and playful

Think of a particular dog or cat and the variety of complex behaviors they are capable of—an entire species, made of individuals with their own complexity, must be far more complex. All of your emotional responses to dolphins are recognizing the immense complexity of these animals and how they are both like and unlike you, which is important to think about to expand your understanding of the universe

Fitting a creature to a flat framework for your own comfort or internal resolution is a disrespect to the creature. Certainly with sharks, everyone should know the facts about them rather than sensationalistic misinformation—shark attacks are rare, humans are not a preferred food for sharks, and most shark bites are exploratory investigations of a strange object or animal rather than feeding upon a selected prey item, however this doesn't mean sharks are "good" by human standards and it certainly doesn't mean sharks are "safe."

Seeing a video of an enormous Great White swimming placidly I feel that her presence is not just breathtakingly beautiful, but awesome—in the more archaic sense of something that inspires awe, something so great and powerful it could destroy your fragile human life without malicious intent. Likewise with any shark, it is respectful to recognize that they can be dangerous, it is disrespectful to think of them as ocean puppies and try to touch them and grab them.

Fear, disgust, anger—each is an instinct that functions to protect you and is reactive towards potential or perceived threats. Your brain allows you to evaluate things that cause these responses and choose how to act.

All parts of this whole are important because the natural world contains actual threats but knowledge and intentional behavior are important to protecting yourself.

For example, once when I found a tick crawling on my clothing, I felt disgusted and startled, which is appropriate, but my instinctive reaction was to immediately flick the tick off, flinging it onto the floor or furniture nearby where I no longer knew where it was. In this way my response didn't actually protect me but instead increased the level of risk

There are plenty of other examples—if someone sees a venomous snake they might think it is important to kill it, but trying to kill the snake is much more dangerous than leaving it alone, since the snake will try to defend itself. Spraying pesticides to kill bugs can unbalance the ecosystem causing more harmful pests than you started with because the natural predators are also killed. Using poisons to kill mice and rats will also poison their natural predators. Killing coyotes just causes them to disperse and reproduce at a higher rate, and killing wolves causes overpopulation of prey, which causes disease to proliferate and forests to be stripped bare of saplings that could grow up and regenerate the forest...

...And it also works the opposite way with human responses of affection, love and sociability: humans often may feel that they want to make an animal their friend, but often it would be cruel to take that animal into a human house and treat it as a pet. White-tailed deer may seem cute and sympathetic but hunting some of them is important for the health of the ecosystem, and trying to make them tame puts the deer and the humans in danger. Domestic cats are our friends but they are also invasive species in much of the world, destroying populations of birds, mammals and amphibians.

Domestic cats aren't serial killers or murderers either, they are just predatory animals that instinctively hunt and kill prey.

It is hard for facts about animals to be propagated while those facts must be presented as reasons the animal deserves to live or deserves to die. Virginia opossums are important to their ecosystem and deserve to exist. They also don't actually eat ticks, that came from a very flawed and sloppy scientific study that was contradicted by later studies, and sadly the reason this misinformation got so far is that it was "proof" that opossums are valuable and shouldn't be killed for no reason.

Wolves are keystone species and vital to their ecosystems, but it's not true that they never attack humans, there have been a small handful of wolf attacks on humans, it's very few and wolves generally avoid humans but they're not "safe." They shouldn't have to be "safe" to deserve to live.

Fact is, most animals can harm a human if they feel threatened or end up in an unlucky situation! Most animals can spread disease one way or another! We have to live with this, we have to learn and use strategies to keep ourselves safe, we can't just sterilize the world of animals because of a possibility that an animal could hurt someone, any more than we can cut down every tree because trees fall on people sometimes.

No one likes hearing that there's no way to for-sure eliminate all possibility of ticks from your yard, you just have to take precautions against them, but it's true! Just like there's an inherent possibility a wasp could sting you, an inherent possibility a snake could bite you, an inherent possibility a mountain lion could eat your livestock, but you can dramatically lower your risk of these things by knowing how to coexist with these animals.