#lots of cuddly animals

[naamahdarling]

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[bruiisedfawn]

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Took me a while to figure out what I wanted to see you draw, but I think I got it now:

Would you be able to draw a character of your choice being "bear"-hugged by a Hildebear (haha see what I did there)? I feel like it might be excellent for comedy purposes, and I know how much you adore them :P

Thank you in advance :3

See, now you're starting to see why they're so cool, their arms were made for bear hugs :3 (surely your character would be inclined to agree, right? /s)

(but also, it would be a crime to miss an opportunity to draw Ralsei)

Thank you for the request! I feel closer to the Hildebears already :D

[avian-hearts]

i need to own something that's white and soft and fluffy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, so i can pretend that i'm hugging and nuzzling longan in their dragon form,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[perilegs]

[spoohie]

I found a stuffed toy for Vil.

Look at this shit. It’s a potato. Someone get his credit card; he needs it whether he knows it or not:

Epel: Ah don’t give a darn tootin’ about this goshdarned hair routine!

Vil: *chucks the potato stuffy at him*

Rook: Roi du Poison! My discerning eye has caught that you’ve gained an ounce-

Vil: *chucks the potato stuffy at him*

Neige: *exists*

Vil: *accidentally throws potato stuffy with force to kill*

[moe-broey]

Three of them

[kikikakapo]

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We used to have puppies! 8 of them actually, which happened because bear, our dog, was in heat and someone forgot to shut the door and then lokki got to her so my mum decided to let her have puppies because why the hell not? It can’t be that bad right?

WRONG!!!! Just one puppy is a lot of work and 8 of them is so much work it’s crazy like before they eat solid food it’s not too bad, the mother cleans up the pee and poo and we only had to change the blanket, for the shell they were in, every few days but when they started solid food, we had to change the pads in the bathroom twice a day and then because we would put them outside on our deck, we had to change those pads as well, and then we would have to move them from inside to outside and then we would have to cook food like twice a day (biscuits can give dogs skin allergies!) and then they would try to escape all the time and twice they got out and wrecked my mums grande so that wasn’t fun

and then another time when they lived in our bathroom one of them got stuck under the bath???? Which was annoying but a little funny afterwards

anyway after all that work and trouble, they were really cute and I miss them, we kept one of them (Adam) but they were cuter when they were small and i could always just grab a puppy and snuggle with it whenever I wanted and it was pretty awesome so I’m just reminiscing by looking through the photos I have

[turtlemagnum]

when i was younger and hung out around my uncle a lot more than i do now, i remember whenever he referred to things regarding his native heritage, he always just called it "indian". called himself an indian, called the words he taught us indian, so on. since i was a little kid who didn't know any better, i didn't know that "indian" in the context of indigenous americans was a very broad, frankly bastardized term to paint a vast variety of cultures spanning two whole damn continents with one brush. it only occurred to me as i got much older than i was at the time that there'd be more than one "indian" language, and up until now since i had no idea what tribe(s) he even is i couldn't even begin to know where to look unless i found a download of every goddamn interlingual dictionary available and painstakingly checked every godddamn one for what their word for "thunder" is

the word he taught us meant thunder was hiloha. i didn't even know how to spell it until now, because he only ever said it aloud. literally just a few minutes ago, i decided to ask my grandma (his sister) if we knew what tribe(s) he belonged to. and apparently he's a mix of choctaw and makah. which gave me a lead, which led to me finding a dictionary on libgen, which led to me word searching "thunder" in the choctaw to english dictionary. it's the only word i remember him teaching us, and i'm unsure if he ever tried teaching us others. but it was his dogs name, and he was a damn good boy, so i remembered it clear as day. though, they normally shortened it to "hilo".

so, i guess what came out of this is that i now know a bit more about my uncle's heritage, and where to look for more research. so, if you're gonna have a takeaway from this, i'd appreciate it if you remembered the word "hiloha". it means thunder. and aside from being the name of a very good boy who deserves to be remembered, i think it's even more important to remember the histories, cultures, and of course the languages of all the indigenous folks who came before us and did their damndest to preserve their cultures in spite of it all.

[dent-de-leon]

https://www.tumblr.com/spicynectarines/726068101463097344/this-is-how-i-feel-about-any-warriors-character

⬆️Teakitty vibes

asladkdgldgl awww this is so cute ;; oh I like to think that if the tealeafs got polymorphed into cats again they would still be playful and snuggly though :')) Molly always liked cuddles, and even Lucien cannot resist being more playful and curious as a cat--

[charmcoindied]

oh my god........ apparently stuffed animals are called "gosedjur" in swedish

gosa means "snuggle" and djur means "animal"......... snuggle animal..................

[theunholycabinetdragon]

i love weighted blankets but i don’t have one so i must squish myself under a pile of stuffed animals and pillows while i roll myself up like a burrito in my admittedly very heavy doona

[aczissleepytwin]

this is the face of a sweet little boy who was very brave and polite at the vet despie this beeing not only his first visit but also the first ever car ride dont let his feral street cats ancestry fool you all he wants are cuddles

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

Honestly, the more I research into larger dog breeds, the more a rottweiler seems like the dog for me

[dinosaurwithablog]

Floofy

That's a lot of hair!! 🤍🖤🤍 that's such I little, skinny kitty under there 😊🤣😍

[kedreeva]

Today in measuring your peahen, Bug is casually 2 foot, 3 inches tall (she can stretch a little taller when she REALLY wants a treat). This is just tall enough to see over a tray table and pull things off of nightstands and end cabinets.

Bug is also a little over 3 feet long from tail tip to beak tip. Most of Bug is made up of tail and neck. There is a 6lb dead weight in the middle somewhere that she knows how to directly place onto the ball of one foot while standing on you.

Bug's wingspan is around 3.5 feet, thought I didn't get a measurement. It will be over 4 feet as an adult.

Bug is growing in her spurs. As a Spalding (hybrid) hen, Bug will likely have one inch bone knives conveniently attached to her tarsometatarsus. This is technically fused foot bones, not a leg bone. Curiously, pure Pavo cristatus hens have spurs, and pure Pavo muticus hens have spurs, but many domestic Pavo cristatus and low-percent Spalding hens lack them. This is one of the indications of domestication in the cristatus species. As I prefer the wild type, I prefer my hens spurred, so this is a good sign!

Bug's toes measure a smidge over 5 inches from the tip of her rear-facing to to the tip of her longest front facing toe. Try measuring that on your hand.

Bug's nails measure 1/2-3/4 an inch long, depending on the toe. That's almost as long as one finger section for most people.

When I had snakes, I got asked all the time if I was afraid of them biting me. The answer is no. I have been bitten by a 6 foot long, 20lb boa constrictor, and have no scars to prove it. Meanwhile I have so many scars from peafowl sitting on me, particularly on my forearms, that I have had to reassure people I am not a danger to myself.

I post these photos as a reference, but also as a precaution. This is a BABY peafowl, and a female at that. She is only 6 months old and weighs a little over 6lbs, which means she's about 2/3 of the way grown, and adult hens are typically 3/4 the size of an adult male. These are BIG birds that can do a LOT of damage, even accidentally. When they become aggressive, as in the case of hand-raised males or poorly bred birds, they become a potentially fatal threat to any other fowl you have. Unlike chickens, they are more than capable of (and prone to!) jumping to human face level before they flog (kick with their feet in a way that allows their spurs to hit home), which means they could easily take out an eye or cause other serious facial injury if they get a lucky strike. I have seen more than a few people end up with stitches, and more than a few birds end up euthanized because people think they are gonna be cute cuddly friends.

I know that Bug is a cute bird, but I also want to stress that a) she has an outstanding personality as a result of breeding choices and socialization b) she hasn't hit maturity, and won't do so for another 2+ years, so her personality could change considerably still and c) I have been raising peafowl one way or another for my entire adult life, which has been structured around keeping them. I love my birds, and I would love for more people to keep peafowl as they are great animals, but they are not casual animals. They are large and potentially dangerous farm fowl that take a lot of space, care, and knowledge to keep.