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[sunnytoonsproductions]

Here's now ma side of the art trade I did with Aaliyah @ducktopia90264, and she asked me to draw running man animation gang meeting her characters named Quax, Collette, Dogo, Big Brent, and Ruby and Rudy =^.^= 💖❤️

[marmotsomsierost]

Cat, and bonus cat*

[gallusrostromegalus]

Does Nobody chat it up with other deities from other sectors? Or are they kind of a hodge-podge of all deities all at once?

No, because Nobody is functionally the Life Machine's uterus and placenta.

The Life Machine itself, however, is very aware of, communicates with, and even has *Romance* with the neighboring Life Machines.

The AEIWAM Life Machine is really something akin to a Sixteen Dimensional Elder God that is also A Barnacle. It's sessile in it's peculiar cross-sections of reality, anchored to Earth in the localities of the greater Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan, The Black forest of Germany, parts of the Chihuahuan Desert in the US and Mexico, and most recently, the entirety of the London Metropolitan Area encircled by the M25 London Orbital Motorway, and curiously, it's Spirit-world equivalent location, Reverse London.

What's odd about Reverse London is that, unlike it's Soul Society, Schwarzwalden and Hueco Mundo, you can't actually get to Reverse London from anywhere in Spirit World.

If any Shinigami wants to visit their colleagues in Wing Bind/the NDMA, they have to go to the living world in a gigai, get on a fucking plane, actually enter Regular London, locate one of the portals, and from THERE they may enter Reverse London, provided all their paperwork is in order. The same is true of any witch that wants to visit soul society- they must first fill out a mountain of paperwork, get on a plane to Japan, physically enter the Hiroshima prefecture and make contact with a Shinigami there to open a portal into soul society.

It makes schlepping across the Dangai or Garganta look like a breeze!

What's going on is that Each Life Machine only impregnates and gives birth once. The other Life Machines covering Earth offer their neighboring Machines choice pieces of themselves, not unlike a male octopus tearing off his Spermatophoe limb for a female. If the proffered piece of reality is acceptable, the recipient Life Machine takes it and embeds it into her own matrix, and uses the sample to create her daughter.

The Current Life Machine is the third in her line. The first was based only in Japan, but then received the Chihuahuan desert from her mate. The second one drew souls associated with both regions, and eventually received the Chihuahuan desert from her mate. She gave birth and passed on about 35,000 years ago. About 2,000 years ago, The Current Life Machine accepted London and Reverse London into her polydimensional body in exchange for Mount Dogo and began building her daughter by creating Nobody to oversee that process.

To put it another way, one God jizzed London into another God <3.

The reason Reverse London isn't accessible via spirit world is that it's not fully integrated into the fetal Life Machine yet. If things had gone according to plan, souls could start to travel between Reverse London and Spirit World in about 2450, but ah. The whole small-g-godslaying thing. So now it's sort of integrating itself at random, which is more than a little dangerous because the Dragons and other ectofauna of Reverse London are nothing like Spirit World has ever seen, and the hollows and Yokai of Spirit world the same to Wing Bind. Strange Things have been appearing in the outer districts of the Rukongai for some time now- Aquatic horses with a taste for flesh, Ominous black hounds and Strange Women in Ponds. In Reverse London, there are reports of Foxes being even Cheekier than usual, going from petty theft to Bank Fraud and Crypto currency trading.

As for the assorted Gods of this and other worlds- No two Life Machines operate with the same internal logic, so while the AEIWAM Life Machine has it's Hollows, Yokai and Kami, other life machines are operating under entirely different rules, so who knows what is running around elsewhere.

[mask-of-prime]

TLG: Battle for the Pridelands Sketches

To celebrate the 5th Anniversary of one of my favorite episodes of TLG, I decided to do some sketches of some takeaways I had during a rewatch of the episode:

1. Wema, Tunu, Dogo, and Kijana aged up to how old I think they'd be around the time of the episode. Why were they not aged up?? Kiara, Tiifu, Zuri, and Mtoto were given some specific age models only used in this episode, why not the Outlander kids? I feel the jackals would be the equivalent to 12 years old by this time, while Wema and Tunu would be like 8-year-old kids.

2. I've heard people ask where the zebras and baboons were during the final battle, and for a while I was like "Yeah aren't they significant recurring characters? Where even were they in the Pridelands Army arc of Season 2?", but THEN it dawned on me: Baboon. Zebra. Cavalry. When watching the scene where everyone charges to the Outlands, I saw the galagos riding the sable antelope and went "haha like horses, that'd be funny if it was with zebras because equines", then I was like "baboons would probably be like humans while riding zebras" and I was just "WAIT IS THAT WHY PEOPLE WANTED THOSE ANIMALS IN THIS EPISODE". So here we are, Big Baboon and Thurston team up to surprise the Outlanders (and even the Pridelanders) by doing what they do best -- throwing fruit and panicking and running, respectively.

3. A sketch of this sudden visual I got during Ushari and Scar's conversation where Scar promised that Ushari and the rest of the reptiles would have whatever's left of the ravaged Pridelands. I instantly imagined the Pridelands becoming this unrecognizable wasteland ideal only for heat-seeking reptiles after the disastrous volcanic eruption Scar had in mind. The environment would be a tad like something out of the Mesozoic era.

4. One of my favorite aspects of this episode: The famous important-as-hell-but-vaguely-presented lore drop of the Strange Lion's (actually pretty ambiguous) existence as well as his actions accelerating Scar's entitlement and envy of Mufasa (which would kickstart the very premise of the first movie and the franchise as we know it). I love this guy's design for the same reason I love Zira's -- it's just so consistent in shapes and colors that all match with each other.

5. I find it funny that in order to not interfere with the events of TLK 2, TLG just decided to have it so the Outsiders would be completely out of the loop of the fact that Scar's spirit returned. It could easily be explained that Scar kept Zira out of it on purpose, or that he didn't know (and possibly didn't care) that she was still around. I have to think that the Outsiders don't live too far from the Outlands Volcano, so they've had to have heard some commotion and wonder what on earth could be going on. Looks like Zira's fanatic spiritual connection with her beloved Scar can apparently be heard by her peers.

[spinnysocks]

TLG Outlanders Jumanji AU that i have suddenly become obsessed with :) buckle up

i'm mainly basing this off of the 2017 movie, with elements of the 2019 one too

wema, tunu, dogo and kijana are playing when they find a hidden cave, they go in and they find lots of weird paintings on the wall and the floor. ever the inquisitive one, dogo steps into a circle in the middle and they all get sucked into... Jumanji?? or maybe in the TLG universe it's called Mchezo

the adults look for them. the leaders (plus kenge and sumu) and the idiots (plus mwoga, nne, tano and neema) go in two groups to search since the kids were missing for a while. the leaders find the hidden cave first as sumu noticed it in his small size. they get sucked in, and eventually the idiots find it after them

they turn into human versions upon entering the world. yeah they're pretty freaked out lmao

the premise is that they go through trials to "prove" themselves, at the risk of their 3 lives, to get to the final task of saving the kiddos. i'm thinking each of them get a task focused on their skills but all of them are at the will of it, aka any of them could lose a life in any trial

i think the Strengths & Weaknesses bit would be funny. kiburi has no weaknesses, he says smth like "I'm too good to be weak 😏" and then 'Pride' pops up hfgdhdh. tamka's weakness would be cake because i think it'd be funny. nduli's is picking up cool rocks. i would say goigoi's would be sleeping but he'd lose all 3 in an instant. the list goes on

reirei is mad because she gets the boring map-reader job lol, despite that she saves everyone's asses so

i imagine sumu is like Milo, he gives them the information in a really deadpan tone lmao. it's like "... Oh no..." "Spit it out, will you?!" "... Mandrills. We should go" and he just continues spilling knowledge while they're running for their lives lmao

you know how in the second movie Bethany/Milo is a horse? yeah nne and tano are straight up just themselves- they're hyenas but realistic, like they didn't change 💀 they're just there doing hyena laughs and absolutely savaging people in the fights

the ostrich scene from the second movie would be funny. maybe the hyenas are the drivers 👀 NONE of them trust their lives with janja, chungu or cheezi but somefuckinghow.. they don't die

in a trial where the leaders are really trapped, guess who sneaks in and saves them? Ushari!!! that was actually all of their reactions as soon as he spoke and they knew it was him. shupavu hugs him on impulse and then gets awkward about it lol, they're happy to see him

ushari explains how he didn't actually die when scar was destroyed but he escaped the volcano and happened across the hidden cave. he's been trapped ever since and obviously presumed dead. he's been stuck with 1 life because he needed the others to complete the rest of the trials :(

there's a dance fight where kiburi has to defeat the guards without being all guns blazing about it. literally the same as the scene with Martha. it's so funny at first bc he doesn't know what the fuck to do - i hc him as demi, he can't flirt with someone he doesn't know😭 - but when a song (prolly rap?) starts playing he beats their asses easy

little did they know the exact same thing was happening on the opposite side of the building, just with the idiots. tamka, nduli and neema also get their cool moment of beating people up, dance fight style! it's mainly tamka because he actually DOES have a strength in acting :)

the leaders and the idiots enter the building at the same time and it's an "Oh Shit!" spiderman pointing meme moment lmao. from this point on they do the trials together

the vultures fly the helicopters. you can imagine how well that goes. it's just like in the movie where something immediately breaks 😭 i think it'd be cool if kenge was the one to fix the helicopter, giving him a hero moment! imagine it

"Kenge, you did it! :D"

"Guess I did"

"Um... Oops"

"What Janja?"

"I dropped the jewel 😶"

"YOU WHAT?!?!"

janja loses a life in that scene from the rhinos 😭 do i wanna traumatise mzingo that much? idk. i just feel like that is such a janja thing to happen. fridge's character is janja-coded lmfao

"YOU PUSHED ME OUT THE HELICOPTER! >:("

that scene where fridge pushes spencer off a cliff? yeah that obviously happens. i'm thinking reirei and janja squabbling. would be funny if janja pushes reirei off impulsively and he just stands there, in shock, waiting to get yelled at when she respawns 😭

there's one of those Step On The Right Pieces trials. kiburi is being all cocky, steps on the wrong one and loses a life- bro gets absolutely humbled lmao. i think the skinks would be good at that trial for some reason

some random trial ideas: a "sleeping lions" type trial for goigoi. a "follow (copy) the leader" trial for mzingo. a food temptation one for the idiots??

jasiri definitely has a trial where she helps someone or shows that the "bad guy" NPCs can be good or somethin. that's probably the last trial before the finale

at the last trial they all work together to save the kiddos! it's really wholesome at the end because they saved the kids, they actually achieved something, they worked together, AND they got ushari back! :)

bonus:

based on the second movie, i was considering a different version of this au where janja purposefully enters the game to prove himself and it's more of a lesson of how it's not just about his strength, but the strength of all of them

janja just thinks he ain't good enough, especially not being leader of his clan anymore, but it's through working together when the others come after him that he realises that ain't true. just an extra thought i had :)

might make a follow up post because i came up with this in an afternoon just for fun 😭

[itwdoris]

tw; alcohol, slightly angst, gn reader. not revised.

★

drunk!yuuji who ended up drinking a little too much to loosen up and be able to talk to you, and now he was sitting a little crooked in his chair, looking at you with those eyes.

"you are so beuatiful." he smiled at you, bringing the glass to his mouth to drink, biting the rim and sobbing.

oh lord, hes drunk. you widened your eyes, feeling your cheeks burning red, running your hand over your face to try to disguise your shy smile.

"you've had too much to drink, don't you think?" you said, carefully taking the glass from his hand and watching him grab your hand, intertwining your fingers. sighing; "...you're beautiful too."

"i want you as my parter.. partner." and he wasn't talking about a criminal partnership, no, he was talking about married people, those who kiss a lot and spend all their time together. "i want to kiss you."

oh lord. you were about to faint, then decided to take him a little further away from those people, maybe breathe some air outside.

yuuji followed you happily, his hands entwined in yours and his feet a little clumsy, you helped him sit on the little stool there, then sat down next to him, feeling him squeeze your hands, not letting them separate.

"i oove you." he said and you looked into his eyes, heart bubbling with happiness and sadness at remembering that he was a little drunk.

you wanted to kiss him, but you couldn't, you wanted to say that you'd love to be his partner, but you were so afraid.

you wasn't perfect as him.

"i love you too..." you whispered because, hum, he was drunk. "i oove you."

seeing you laugh made his face light up, he moved a little closer, his eyes glued to your lips, ah he wanted to kiss you so bad... but you just stopped his face, lightly caressing his cheek, making him lean his head on your hand.

"why?" he whined, even if he was really enjoying your caresses too.

you denied it slightly with a blue face; the same one that made yuuji's heart squeeze, just leaving a kiss on his cheek.

yes, yuuji was a little drunk, but he knew you, and he knew when you were feeling insecure or when you were sad. so he pulled you closer to him, almost suffocating you in a hug.

you waited a few seconds, just enjoying the silence and your presences.

leaving his embrace but keeping your hands together; "...i'm afraid you won't like me when you see me." you said low, now looking at him and and smiling lightly sad. "...i'm not as perfect as you.. i don't look so good, in fact i'm so weird... and i, there's so many things-"

"i like it when you talk." he looked at you sincerely. "and like you weird. and how beuatiful you look to me. and your ass." he was trying to remember everything in a nutshell, or you'd be there forever. "and like the other so many things, and everything... i like you."

he held your face in his hands, preparing to beg for your love as much as necessary, because he wanted you so much.

"yuuji.." you would have spoken if his hand hadn't covered your mouth, you wanted to cry, but he was so drunk and looking so silly.

"i want to be your boyfirend, pleas." he said confidently. "you will never be sad or insecure again, will fuck it out of you." he stopped to think a bit, wasn't that the word he shouldn't use? "i meant kiss."

you looked at him lovingly, with curved eyebrows, a red face and watery eyes.

"...but fuck too." he said low after thinking a bit, taking his hand from your mouth to give you a kiss. "i oove you."

"i oove you too." you said, so sadly happy, feeling him hugging you as tightly as he could. you stoke his pretty pink hair, sinking into his neck. safe.

★

the night was great while it lasted, even though you had to help yuuji after he accidentally fell asleep in your embrace. he was a little heavier than he looked.

and taking him to bed? oh he looked like a big, clumsy, needy dogo. you may have fallen even more in love.

even so, your happiness didn't last long in the morning, because you remembered that he'd just had too much to drink and that he probably didn't remember much about it.

you went downstairs, finding everyone with sleepy faces and mugs of coffee in their hands. well, everyone, except yuuji.

"good morning." you sat down for coffee too, sighing softly.

brr brr

you pulled out your cell phone, reading the message on the display.

"i don't think kugisaki told you, i said i'd only wake up when my partner came to pick me up, but i'm hungry, so please come soon."

[devilsrecreation]

Outlander drawing prompts I got from Wannadraw

- Jasiri gardening

or as Deadpool

or as a model

- Madoa as a warlock

or as a popstar

or steampunk

- Janja drawing a picture of himself

or chibi style

or as a popstar

- Chungu as an evil queen (king)

or wearing an outfit made of flowers

or as an artificer

- Cheezi made of cheese (hehe…CHEESE-i)

or playing with fireworks

or skydiving

- Nne riding a dragon into combat (a komodo dragon lol)

as a demon

or as a puppet

- Tano adopting 50+ cats (bonus if they’re all disney cats)

or dancing in a music video

or as a bard

- Mzingo chibi style

or as a cowboy

or if he was one of the mean girls

- Mwoga as a lego character

or going to prom

or as a ranger

- Reirei as a bard

or rocking a ballgown

or at the Olympics

- Goigoi going to highschool (new au??)

or on Valentine’s Day

or traveling the desert

- Dogo if he was a disney prince

or sporting a giant anime sword

or as a superhero (SUPER JACKAL)

- Kiburi wearing 50’s clothing

or dressed like Nicki Minaj (WHEEZE)

or gardening

- Tamka as a model

or drawn in hayao miyazaki’s style

or on Valentine’s Day

- Nduli as a barbarian

or flying on a magic carpet

or as a Mortal Combat character

- Neema as a rogue

or running from a bear

or surfing

- Shupavu as a llama

or as a druid

or as a character from your fav video game

- Njano as a plant person

or as a wizard

or stranded on an island

- Kenge as a druid

or as a pirate (PIRATE AU?????)

or made of cheese

- Sumu going to a Ren faire

or stranded on an island

or as a ballerina

- Ushari climbing a tree

or drop dead gorgeous

or wearing a bikini (ig as a human-)

Bonus: Vitani’s guard

- Vitani falling in love with an ice cream

- Shabaha as a warlock

- Kasi cooking

- Imara in Lady Gaga’s clothes (bonus if she wears her meat dress)

- Tazama as a character from your favorite video game

Double bonus: Makuu and Hodari

- Makuu if he was two inches tall

or in a Halloween costume

or as an angel

- Hodari at comicon

or as a paladin

or wearing an outfit made of flowers

[jetspikepub]

Another discovery in Bebop universe. It's a long story but I think you're gonna like it.

I spotted PS 1 and PS2 Bebop games reviews in Spanish on Vida Extra that were published in 2021 right before Netflix series dropped, and there was a curious image of Spike playing poker

I was like wuuuuut there's been a poker mini game the whole time 🤯

Surprisingly, there was no mention of poker and other mini games and bonuses when I tried looking through Eng sources, so I typed Japanese game title and searched on Youtube. You know, if you use Japanese, you can discover so much more about Bebop. One player recorded these mini games and bonuses! You can find some secrets scattered across the game and earn money. As I played using PS2 emulator I used quick saves until the very end of the game and looked at my money stats much later when I saved the progress using "memory card". At first I had no idea what to do with the money in this game. The pause menu in the game is so lame you can't even adjust volume and go back to the title screen from there. Maybe it's me but the only way I figured how to get back to the title is to save manually and restart the game 🤷🏼‍♀️

In Extras there are various bonuses like settei gallery with many hi res artworks and even some PS2 character designs that were not included into the 25th anniversary artbook (sketches and some additional poses).

You can play as Ed (!!!) in virtual shooting game and as EIN as well, running through the Bebop like Jet in a bomb defusing mission. Ein can talk to Jet and Spike, and the camera chages to little dogo pov, which is cute.

You can play poker with every character (notice card design). Playing poker helps you to earn more money and unlock new images.

Moreover, there are fighting challenges with alternate outfits (Jet wearing his suit, Faye wearing her casino outfit and Spike wearing coat and jeans from his memories)

And there are Spike shooting and Ein bomb defusing mini games as well.

It's a shame the game wasn't published in other countries and translated as well, there are so many little things that make it special for Bebop fans.

[v-anrouge]

You’ve opened the flood gates of me and my love of dogs, so I’m giving EVERYONE a dog breed!

Riddle: bichon frisé, à very cutie small white puffball of a dog, but are high maintenance with their coats and mental stimulation. One of the smarter dog breeds, but also with a need to please. One of the healthiest dog breeds I know of (they never die! Like ever!), but with a need for schedules. Because of the need for mental stimulation, they are a breed that needs strict rules, and strict schedules or they get confused and frustrated.

Trey: some sort of Rottweiler. Laid back, family loving, happy to sit in the presence of others. Not overly large, but still needing exercise, but also happy to just sit on the couch. Also, I feel their stockier build best fits Trey

Cater: shih tzu or Pekingese, both are one of the most ancient breeds, once only allowed to only be owned by the royal Chinese family, some where even given standings in courts! They adore attention, and affection, but tend to only listen to a select few, if any. Cater is a difficult character to get to trust, much like a shih tzu, but I feel once he does trust you he’s attached at the hip much like a Pekingese

Deuce: pit bull. There is no other dog breed I can think of for Deuce that fits as well as a pittie! Tough and aggressive? Yes. Also a loving big baby? Yes. When trained properly, pits are great dogs, but because they can have short tempers, it’s best to not leave them unaccompanied around children. They’re STRONG, so people who can’t wrestle one to the ground if needed shouldnt own one.

Ace: Affenpincher, sassy brats of dogs who would die for their people but refuse to listen to them. One of the more “human like” dogs as they will hold a grudge, and they’ve got an attitude to rival a sassy toddler!

Leona: basset hound, stubborn, can be lazy, but when they put their minds (or noses) to something nothing gets them off track! While bassets aren’t the smartest breeds, I think they fit enough for Leona to be an outlier (nearly said Rhodesian ridgeback because they were breed to hunt lions! Lol)

Ruggie: (hyenas are closer related to cats than they are dogs! But they actually have their own class so whatever) I struggled! But I think lab fits best. They’re basically walking stomachs, and will do anything for food! They are easy to train when given treats, but also have a tendency to just start doing tricks if you’re eating something they want. Intelligent, and friendly reminds me of Ruggie.

Jack: dogo Argentino. A dog if more popular would give pits a run for their money with the villianization! STRONG dogs, we’re originally bread to hunt wild boars, they’re tough dogs! And while extremely loyal, they have a tendency to refuse to attack who they deem as friends. Super courageous (that word took me four tries to spell) they’re high energy with a need to please their people!

Azul: Japanese Akita, loyal but reserved around strangers, these are smart dogs! They tend to be more socially difficult when around other dogs, tending to snap and resource guard, but with their people they are ready to share, sometimes… they’re more reserved with affection, but if you get down they won’t refuse some love and kisses

Jade: Basenji, also known as Africa’s “backless dog” is a silent but intelligent hunting breed! They tend to hide in the shadows before striking, but also love their few people they allow in their circle. NOT family dogs as they don’t like many people, but great for a small household.

Floyd: Central Asian Shepard, NOT FOR MOST DOG OWNERS! I’ve got my gripes! CSA are dogs that NEED jobs, they’re breed to protect livestock in Mangolia and Northern China. These dogs are powerful, and known to hunt down wolves nearby! But they’re babies with their owners, even if they prefer staying outdoors, they won’t turn down a snack or cuddle. But also indépendant where they’ll find their own food

Kalim: golden retriever, loving, friendly, though not the smartest, just a ball of sunshine.

Jamil: Chinese crested (one of my favorite breeds!) are smart, sassy dogs who LIVE for praise. They tend to be picky eaters, and don’t always do well with other dogs as they can be attention hogs, but they are also breed to hunt rats on Chinese trading shops, so they need a lot of exercise

Vil: standard poodle, OR a doberman (partly cause dobies are one of my favorite breed!) both are extremely intelligent, but also can be aggressive when around new dogs as they like being incharge.

Rook: borzoi coonhound mix. Originally I said fox hound, but coonhounds have a sleeker look, and a friendlier personality. Borzois are gorgeous and would die for their people, but are dumb as a box of rocks. Coonhounds are not as pretty, but not ugly either, and known to live for praise. Both are hunting breeds and need their exercise, or they will find some way to exercise (coonhounds are also escape artists)

Epel: i can only see Epel as a yorkie. Big personality, underestimated, super pretty, need of mental and physical stimulation. It just fits him perfectly!

Idia: Carolina, shy and suspicious little buggers who prefer quiet homes, with little activity’s around. But they need their mental stimulation as well. Not the smartest breed, but not the dumbest, they’re independence can get them into trouble though.

Ortho: English Cocker Spaniel (Lady from Lady and the Tramp) are friendly, sweet and loving dogs. They will bend over backwards for their people, and are just some of the sweetest dogs I have ever met!

Malleus: Komodor, the dog that looks like a mop. They’re strong sheepdogs who are willing to die to protect their flock. Soft and docile around their people, but reserved around strangers, they can even come off as agressive when you’re just starting to know them.

Lilia: Icelandic Sheepdog, the only breed from Iceland! Friendly, faithful and charming, their such sweeties! They do their job then come trotting back for a pat.

Silver: German Shepard, strong, sturdy, and protective. One of the best guard dog breeds I can think of, and amazing to train! Ready to please, and ready to play!

Sebek: bull terrier, head strong, loyal, and can be downright aggressive in their love! Their the dog to bowl you over when you get home! They’re hard working dogs who need exercise!

I really love dogs man!

How does it feel to be 100% correct and right 🎤

[flower-boi16]

King is my favorite character from The Owl House - Here's Why

So The Owl House is a show I quite like. While I don't think it's exactly perfect, it's a great show with good animation, an interesting fantasy world and magic system, great emotional beats, great characters, and great LGBT representation. It's definitely a great show. There's one thing I do like about The Owl House the most though, and that's the characters. Sure, most of them are very rough in season 1 but in seasons 2 and 3 they get quite well-written and compelling. From our main protagonist Luz, to Eda to Amity or Hunter, the show has some solid character writing. But which character is my favorite? Well you've already seen the title of this post so let's talk about this little guy:

In this post, I am going to explain why King is my favorite character in The Owl House, by talking about his arc throughout the series and his development. This post WILL contain spoilers for The Owl House, so you have been warned.

First talk about the smaller reasons I like King before I talk about his development. First, I like how King acts as sort of a little brother to Luz. Their dynamic is a super sweet sibling-like bond. And also, King is just very funny mainly in season 1. His whole gimmick of thinking he's a king of demons somehow never gets old and is very funny. Plus it sets up his development in season 2. Alright...now I'm done.

So...let's talk about the reason why I love King, that being his development throughout the series, more specifically his development in season 2. I don't have much to say about King in season 1 other than he's a funny and cute comic relief character in that season.

Season 2 however is when King became a great character, starting with episode 3: Echoes of the Past. In this episode, Luz, Lilith King and Hooty go to an island that King claims he came from so he could prove that he was the king of demons. While they explore the cave and look at a bunch of murals, King in this episode tells the others a bunch of stories of what he did as the King of demons, saying that he was cursed by someone into his current tiny form. They get chased down by this rock monster thingy and Eda comes to rescue them.

Eda then explains the reason why King always acted like he was some kind of overlord. Eight years ago, while Eda was looking to hide from the EC while it was boiling rain she went to this island when she was looking for shelter. She went into the cave and found King when he was just a little dogo. Also...

Can we appreciate how adorable Baby King is? Like, awww just look at him he's SO cute!!! Okay so erm, anyway, she took King from the cave because that monster in it was going to kill them both, and she took home with her. When they got home, King was building a bunch of stuff out of random objects, and after Eda makes a remark about him being a "king amongst his subjects", it makes King wonder what a king really was, and Eda tells King what a king really means and that's how he got the idea that he was some kind of overlord.

After that, King's entire worldview kinda of crumbles. He begins to realize that all this time his memories of being a king with feasts, subjects, and all that stuff were all just memories of him as a baby pretending to be a King. What I like here is how this episode takes what was once just some running gag throughout the first season and recontextualizes it in the second, adding some context to why King thinks he's some kind of ruler.

For years King thought that this fantasy that he was some kind of king of demons was real, and that he was the king of demons that lost his memory. And now that he knows it's all been a lie, he breaks down. It also shows that King is still a little kid, which is why he believed this fantasy for so long; he's a child who thinks that he was this awesome amazing ruler who was feared and respected by all, only for it to be a lie. Anyways, back to the episode, King runs away to somewhere and Eda Luz and Lilith all go to find him on the island.

Luz finds King sitting on a log and goes to talk to him, and he's still upset. There's one line here that stands out to me;

King: Eda was right wasn't she? I'm not a king, I'm a nobody

Earlier the episode showed that this fantasy that King was the king of demons was very important to him, as shown by how he reacted when Lilith mocked his stories earlier in the episode. This line implies that believing this fantasy that he was some all-powerful king made him feel special in a way, and now that he knows he was never really a king, he thinks he's a nobody.

Alex Hirsch also does a great job voicing King here, you can hear the emotion in his voice during this scene. Luz says that maybe some of King's memories were real, and King goes and tries to remember some of the memories that were real. King reluctantly agrees and they go rejoin the others and they go back to the cave. After avoiding the monster in the cave, Luz shoots some fire at the hole blocked off by the rocks and they go up to the hole.

There they find some rooms that King finds familiar. He gets some of his memories reawakened and it's revealed that the monster thingy was trying to protect King, as it stops when King orders it to. The memory is King hatching as wil ol baby and then crawling to open the door, the rock monster carries them and they fall down the hole as they hear a roar sound. King says that the roar meant "son", which means that it was his dad. King says that he wants to find out who his dad is and they go back to isle leaving the island. Thus, an arc for King is set up about finding out who his father is.

So this episode was great! Like I said earlier, it takes a running gag in season 1 and recontextualizes it in a way that's interesting. It also does a good job of setting up King's arc of self-discovery this season.

The next two episodes I'll talk about are Eda's Requiem and Knock Knockin' on Hooty's Door. In Eda's Requiem King wants to win a race so he can record a message so his father can see it. They didn't win the race because King puked and they got 6th place. They do still record a message and post it online, and his dad does end up seeing it..or at least someone who looks like King's dad sees it. Before we continue...let's talk about this brilliant piece of subversion here.

See this guy? The first time you would see him you would instantly think that he is King's father. I mean, he looks a lot like King with the skull and general body shape, so it's very easy to assume that this is King's father. Buuuuuuut as we know now, he isn't King's father, he's a part of a certain group which I'll mention once I get to episode 17, Edge of the World. Anyway, the next episode I'll talk about is the one right after Eda's Requiem, Knock Knockin' on Hooty's Door.

This episode has Hooty trying to help Luz, King and Eda with some of their problems. Let's talk about the scenes with King, because...well this is a post talking about King lol. So here King really wants to know who his father is and Hooty tries to help King find out by trying to figure out what kind of demon he is.

After some funny scenes with Hooty trying (and failing) to figure out what kind of demon King is, he takes some of King's blood and runs a test. Turns out, Hooty still doesn't know what kind of demon King is and he says that King is "him". King is disappointed by this, and then King gets upset because he still can't know who his father is, as he's never responded to his message or wanted posters, and he thinks that maybe his dad is gone. He then gets upset that his dad was never there for him, that he supposedly disappeared and never talked to his son.

This scene definitely hits pretty hard as it shows King getting more desperate to find his father, and it's also when King ends up unlocking his powers. Basically, King shoots some yellow ring wave things whenever he roars or does the "weh" sound. And at the end of the episode we see this figure again and send a note to King, though Hooty eats it once he sees a bug on it.

This episode did a good job of continuing King's self-discovery arc and introducing his new powers. Now, let's skip to 9 episodes later in episode 17; Edge of the World. The episode's plot revolves around Luz, King and Hooty going to an island which transports them to the other side of the world to meet his dad. They do end up finding the same figure that sent the note to King, whose name is Tarak, though unfortunately, he isn't his dad. However, Tarak is one of the people in a village of Titan Hunters, witches who, as the name suggests, hunt titans. Later in the episode, Luz and Hooty meet the leader of the titan hunters, Bill. When Bill describes what a titan is, they realize that King is a titan, and that he is in big trouble.

They go to tell King that he is in danger, but when Bill finds out that King is a titan he sends a bird phone to tell Tarak about it and King gets taken to a ceremony where Bill almost kills him with a dagger. Luz and Hooty stop them before they could do that though and they run away. King gets enraged by this and says that the titan trappers weren't gonna hurt him. He also says that they "get him", and that they know how it feels to be left behind, and he also says that he knows that Luz is gonna go back to the human realm eventually, and that he is preparing for a life with them. Luz however tells King that he's a titan, and obviously, King is shocked by this revelation. The titan trappers eventually catch up to them but they end up escaping and destroying the way through. And the episode ends.

So this episode did a good job of concluding King's arc of self-discovery and wrapping it up. I like how King knows that Luz is going to leave the demon realm one day and go back to her mom, and that he's going to not be able to see her again, and King does care about Luz like an older sister so this would hit for him, and that the Titan Trappers would be his next family after Luz when she leaves. That gives more depth to King and I like that.

So, King is my favorite character in The Owl House. He's funny, he's cute, and his arc in the second season was great. There are other things I could talk about here, such as episode 19, but this post has gone on for long enough. Anyways, this is why I love King, so...bye.

[banamine-bananime]

the blues dogified according to me

tldr: caboose = komodor (or great pyr), tucker = mini bull terrier (or westie or fox terrier), tex = cane corso/dogo argentino, church = australian cattle dog, kai (and grif) = english bulldog, wash = malinois. bangs gavel.

caboose: i see great dane i do. i get it. it makes sense. however caboose refuses to make sense so i think it's way funnier if he's an LGD breed with the most baffling temperament for an LGD. why is he so cuddly and human-attached and goofy and Making Poor Decisions?? he's got the guarding drive but it's like AUGH SO SMALL I MUST. PROTECT IT. WITH MY MOUTH. WHY IS IT NOT MOVING ANYMORE. UHHH IT WASN'T ME. great pyr would be good but consider: komodor

photo: Laszlo Balogh

tucker: absolutely a horrible little terrier. annoying, cocky, mischievous, extremely yappy thing with no trainability that seems totally useless for anything but humping pillows, until, suddenly, he locks onto some goal with terrifying singleminded determination, persistence, scrappiness, and competence that you would never fucking expect. and then it's done and he's an idiot again. mini bull terrier or westie or fox terrier

photo: Otsphoto

Tex: powerful, large, extremely active, and will play rough and assert dominance and test boundaries. got a healthy dose of "chill, total doofus" in her, too. the kinda dog some moron (i'm not talking about the director nooooo /s) gets as a guard dog, not realizing she's less made to be singlemindedly, territorially dedicated to one person and one place and more to - despite being very loyal and affectionate to her people - not be tied down to them, needing the thrill of running and chasing and catching prey. the kinda dog some asshole gets for bite sports and his ego, not realizing one day she'll get fed up with his chains and shock-collars and cesar milan-ass "training" and play bite-sports with his organs (<- me being extremely Normal about tex getting bloody revenge). i was caught between cane corso for the looks and dogo argentino for the historical purpose of hunting and catching large game, so let's say a mix of them.

vvv tex's silly side and scary side battling for dominance vvv

photo: cannot find source :(

photo: Dogo Argentino Kennel Club

church: i thought about husky for the aloof pissiness, needing a job but assigning it to himself and being fucking crazy about it, and unrelenting loud and weird complaining, but i think husky assignments should be reserved for characters with a very particular and truly insane kinda energy. australian cattle dog works quite well imo: WILL NOT SHUT UP (lol "Potential for excessive barking, often in a high-pitched voice"), velcro dog to His Person, super smart yet also somehow extremely dumb and gets dumber the longer he's left without stimulation to spiral, STUBBORN, suspicious of strangers and Very Not Friendly

photo: Sandra Caldwell (lmao this dog looks so done with it all.)

kai: i considered her and grif together and have decided: Old English Bulldogs. for grif, the sleepy laziness and messiness. for kai, the happy, outgoing friendliness. for both of them, the lack of any trainability or motivation to do what someone says to do Just Because and thus seeming to be dumb as hell to humans who base that on how well they Do What Human Wants, until suddenly there's a way to get out of doing something they don't want to do or of getting something they actually care about and suddenly they're the smartest dogs on earth.

photo: IrynaKabuliuk

wash: he is SO cop-dog coded. i don't mean that like oh he's like a cop so as a dog he's a cop-dog. that would be boring and also incorrect. i mean cop-dog coded like having someone look at your suspicious, reactive nature, resulting anxiety and difficulty living In A Society because everything is a potential threat or insult and you have to defend yourself and deal with the Anger through violence, and say, "Oh yeah we can enhance and exploit the fuck out of this". *points* MALINOIS. if malinois had opposable thumbs they would throw a lot more knives and if wash didn't have a helmet he would bite a lot more people. anyways, i can't put it better than "Sometimes playing the mischievous clown, yet more often serious, the Belgian Shepherd is highly observant with strangers, typically reserved and aloof, and has strong protective instincts. As such, Belgian Shepherds need more extensive socialization than most breeds so that their watchfulness doesn't become suspiciousness or sharpness." also the athleticism.

carolina: don't have an individual breed assignment for her bc church and tex are the same breeds as the director and allison. she's got the ACD/general herding breed athleticism (it skipped a generation) and FASSSSSST and bidability and eagerness to Achieve and Win. she's got the cane corso/dogo argentino aggression and power and loyalty and guarding instinct. supermutt as in like superwoman.

[beardedmrbean]

Every time I see someone wanting to ban specific dogs breeds I die a little inside. Especially from people who are extremely pro second amendment. Wanting to ban dogs because some might be violent is no different than wanting to ban guns because some people use them to rob and murder. And most people who want to ban pitbulls can't even correctly identify one anyway, they're the dog equivalent of assault rifles, a meaningless buzzword meant to fearmonger.

I can't think of any 2A-OK people that run with the thought that any dogs should be banned. Admittedly I haven't paid much attention so it could be fairly widespread and I just don't know it.

Most understand that it's not the dog it's the person who has the dog, there are some that are likely far more easy to get to be dangerous than others, can't imagine a goldie or samoyed ever being violent feels like something that would take effort, even still there's no bad dogs just bad owners.

Gotta say this comes at a wild time because when I read the first bit I thought you were talking about the UK.

Up and down the UK, news headlines have been dominated by seemingly endless terrifying dog attacks in recent months.

In Surrey, a professional dog walker died when her own pet turned on her. In South Yorkshire, police reported four separate dog attacks on children in two days. In Birmingham, an 11-year-old girl was attacked in the street. And in Staffordshire, a man died last week, with grisly video footage of the attack emerging and horrifying the nation.

So what do all these attacks have in common? They are all believed to be the doing of the American Bully XL breed, an increasingly popular and hard to define sub-breed of the American Bulldog.

Now, with the attacks capturing attention at the highest levels of Government, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called American Bully XLs a “danger to our communities”, and vowed to add the breed — once it has been established in law — to the list of dogs banned in the UK.

1. Pit Bull Terrier

The breed that spurred dozens of sub-breeds, the Pit Bull Terrier (PBT) was bred for blood sport — and can be devilishly hard to define. 

According to DEFRA guidelines, authorities should use a checklist to identify PBT characteristics in dogs they think might fit the breed, including the shape of its head, shoulders, muzzle, eyes and rib cage. 

Traditionally bred for fighting, a spate of fatal attacks in England and Wales by PBTs between 1981 and 1991 led to the introduction of the Dangerous Dog Act, and the breed was banned. 

There are numerous sub-breeds which are not banned, however, like the Staffordshire Bull Terrier and the American Bully XL. 

2. Japanese Tosa

The Japanese Tosa or Japanese Mastiff is a breed of fighting dog that was crossbred with large and giant breeds including the Great Dane to produce enormous results. 

Spookily, Japanese dog fighting rules (the practice is still permitted in some parts of Japan and almost all fighting dogs are Tosas) declare that dogs mustn’t be noisy in the pit, so the Tosa is able to fight in complete silence. 

According to experts, if the Tosa isn’t properly trained it can be very aggressive towards strangers and other animals, earning it a place on the banned breeds list. 

3. Dogo Argentino

This Argentinian working dog was bred to hunt big game in packs. It is known for being highly intelligent, protective and ruthless, and should never be handled by anyone other than a breed expert — which is why it’s on the list in the UK and several other countries.

4. Fila Brasileiro

Also known as the Brazilian Mastiff, Brazilian Bloodhound, Cao de Brasil, Cao de Fila, and the Fila, this breed — originally used for hunting and working —  is known for being very nervous of strangers and surprisingly agile for its size. 

The Fila has a better reputation in Brazil, where it is praised for its loyalty, but its intelligence, strength and aggression have led to bans in the UK,  Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark, among others. 

5. To be banned by 2024: American Bully XL

The American Bully XL is the largest variation of the American Bulldog breed, which also oncluides the pocket and standard variation. 

It is thought to have been developed from cross-breeding with other breeds — including the banned Pit Bull Terrier. They are known for their heavy bone structure and strong, stocky build. 

The American Bully XL is set to be the first added to the list since the introduction of the law in 1991 — but there are complexities. It is not an officially recognised breed, so it’s difficult for officials to determine which dogs should be outlawed, and which should be added to the list. 

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First and last ones are the only ones I'm familiar with, also the prime targets nearly every time talk of a ban comes up.

#3 there is the only one I might have reservations about and there's gonna be ways to train them to behave too.

[intothetlkverse]

Decided to challenge myself by drawing every single TLK character out there, up until this point in time, and post it here. You can see the finished project on my main account, though I figured to post it on my tumblr just show I could proudly show off my work and a few of my head canons.

Here's all the jackal/wild dogs/foxes across TLK:

Starting off with the classic black-backed jackal family is parents Reirei/Reia(queen) and Goigoi(lazy) with their most prominent pups Dogo(young) and Kijana(youth). Kijana is the only girl of her siblings, which consist of Dogo and two other brothers. Since jackals have between 2-4 pups and we see eight when Reirei is using her cute sad eyes with them to try and convince Kion to let them say, plus three adult ones during most attacks, they all are Reirei and Goigoi's kids, bringing the total up to eleven kids from three litters. The three adult jackals we see with them are their eldest; Kulala/'Lala'(sleep), Zaizai(he will-Hausa), and Jabujabu(forgery-Hausa). After the defeat of the Outlander army, Zaizai and Jabujabu decided to leave to go find their own mates and territory while Kulala decided to stay and watch over her siblings and parents, taking care of the ones that weren't her parent's favorite pups Dogo and Kijana. Also Reia is Reirei's real name, though the nickname has been a part of her since she and Goigoi were pups, so she refuses to use it.

Next from T&P Show's episode "Doubt of Africa" we have Jackal/Jakkali(jackal-Hausa) the side-striped jackal. This guy hunted Timon and Pumbaa, though eventually with the help of an elephant herd and a leopard the duo were helping, caused him to retreat. Also from T&P Show, this time the episode "Congo on Like This" we have the Eurasian golden jackal disguised as a tarsier, Barakoa(mask). Here he's just a regular jackal with a galago sidekick who try to get revenge on Timon and Pumbaa, or just a meal in the jackal's case, though Simba ends up intervening just in time and kicking them both away.

Lastly, from King of the Jungle we have cut character Ndogo(small), another black-backed jackal. Apparently meant to be the main villain before Scar took over that role, he also apparently attacked Simba before being defeated, so I've decided to make him one Simba encountered in the Oasis, allying himself with Onye/One-Eye the leopard and his group of carnivores in "Monkey Mountain", along with the vulture Mshipa, the hyena Shriek and wild dog Fujo(chaos/mess), though again as defeated when the trio sends a nest of bees at them, then scares them with the echoing capabilities of the cavern on the mountain. After Onye's death, he and the others form their own little group to watch out for each other, though Mshipa decides to live his life elsewhere, eventually going to the Pridelands and becoming Mwoga's father.

Continuing with wild dogs, we get two with Mwitu(wild) and Mbwa(dog), a pair of brothers from "And on the Menu Tonight..." who chase after Timon and Pumbaa, but are distracted by them arguing who gets the kill before Simba leaps out and scares them away. They eventually would return back as part of the next character's pack, 'Snarl'/Zagezage(snarl-Hausa), the former leader of a pack of wild dogs in the Oasis, from "Timon in Trouble". While trying to pursue Timon with his pack, Timon ends up crawling into a rock pile to escape and the dogs try to dig them out, only to cause a rockslide which kills several of his members. When tries to rally them again, the rest flee and Snarl has to face Timon and a now adult Simba on his own. Before anything can happen, a boulder falls down and crushes him, ending his life. Mwitu, Mbwa, and several other dogs make it out alive and flee the Oasis.

Lastly from "The Shiny Stones" we have Udaka(catch). In the story, Timon finds some shiny stones, takes a liking to them, and decides to find more of them based on a parrot's direction, only to run into Udaka twice. Once he get a stone dropped on his head by a parrot, then once by a stone-filled sack by Timon as he makes a break out of Udaka's cave. He later would join up with Snarl's pack to try and hunt down that pesky meerkat, but after the rockslide he joined Mwitu and Mbwa in getting the heck out of dodge.

Edit: Both Fujo and Udaka were unnamed and I literally only discovered them after searching through the wiki, finding them in some of the comics, and assigning them names/personalities. In case you were curious how I come up with these characters/decide which ones to include.

Next up we have the last of the wild dogs and the first of the foxes, starting with an African red fox/Mbweha(fox) from T&P Show's "Puttin' on the Brits". He is a close friend of a lone wild dog Nkita(dog-Igbo), and the unusual duo travel together, sometimes being mistaken as one hunting or chasing the other. Apparently red foxes are a thing in Northern Africa, though they are more of a Eurasian species, though I wasn't gonna argue semantics this time, so here you go.

Next up we have Bhati(luck), a bat-eared fox from TLK's concept art collection. Wise-cracking and witty yet mature and friendly, Bhati acts as a sort of in-between, pseudo-messenger and partial majordomo to the Mbala/Malka's pride, or at least during the night shift. Very sly and stealthy when needed, her ability to stay hidden and only appear when needed has saved her and others' lives in the past. She served as a lookout and possible distraction for the evacuating cubs during Scar's reign and his paranoia regarding the male cubs, Chumvi, Tojo, and Mheoto. Bhati followed them out of the Pridelands and stayed with the pride, even after Simba's return, where she serves as one of Malka's many eyes and mostly ears, usually the keeper of goings-on in the land they inhabit.

Lastly we have TLG's Astuto/Atieno(born at night-Afrikkan), now a Cape/silver-backed fox, and her pup Msitu(forest). Though their original species of Darwin foxes are endangered, cape foxes are less so. The Tree of Life is known for being a sanctuary kingdom where rare a/o sick animals can find solace and healing at, though in the case for less endangered animals such as her, she and her pups will eventually leave the lands and find their way in the world. The reason for her being here is that some foxes are monogamous and mate for life, however she lost hers right before she gave birth. Since male foxes usually help rear their kits alongside them, she was in need of help and the Nightlands are known for being safe, hence why she petition the ruler's for a temporary stay. Though staying doesn't require payment, she has offered to keep in touch and act as one of their many scouts working outside the kingdom, sending information back about the goings-on.

[nat1vibes]

(Spoilers for Sousou no Frieren chapter 115)

BRO CASUALLY JUST TOOK MY MANS AND ''POP'' TOSSED HIM

Poor Eisen and Stark can't get a break.

Also, as they were chased by a bunch of demon dogs or what those were. It's was funny to see Frieren pull a One Piece Zoro syndrome.

But nat1vibes, asks nat1vibes. What is a One Piece Zoro syndrome.

Well dear. It's a term i just came up with. Reffering to the narrative leaps or circumstances which a writer uses to either take a character away, or have said character be in an injured state. Were as normally said characters actions or power would be enough to take away all urgency from a given situation or even arc.

Eisen being there, even if he seemed tired af if we account for Heiter carrying him (i assume it was not coz his legs are small and it paired well with Himmel carrying Frieren, coz bro can run on water) Would be of big help to the party being chased by them dogos.

Again, this is named the Zoro syndrome, with how Zoro from One Piece is the most notable case of this i remember. with two times that come to my mind (now spoilers for One Piece ofc) being in Arlong park. Where a Zoro without mihawk wounds would have soloed. And his non existence in whole cake island.

[spinnysocks]

It's not Halloween I know, but what do the Outlanders do during the holiday in your human AU? Forgive me on that last question I sent to you btw.

i'm very sorry for not answering your previous ask in time (asking about what the outlanders do leading up to spooky month), but good question! :D

jasiri will not rest until EVERYTHING is decorated. just like christmas and birthdays, she goes all out. though, halloween is kinda special because a lot of the outlanders are seen/used to be seen as scary so, i imagine it might be a favourite out of the holidays. they like to embrace being ‘scary’ sometimes

she hosts a halloween party at her place and oh my god the outfits. THE OUTFITS /vpos. i think i'd have to make an entirely separate post on who would wear what. maybe on halloween i will. i'd love any suggestions or thoughts :]]

let's cut to the chase — TRICK OR TREATING!!! i usually think about the outlanders in the same apartment block (different apartments for the different groups/species y'know) so i'm just imagining the kids knocking on everyone's doors for sweets 🥹 wema and tunu get so excited when they're getting greeted by everyone, meanwhile dogo and kijana take a handful of sweets & run and love it when there's tricks involved. for obvious reasons

the idiots probably trick or treat too. let them have fun!!! i'm just imagining them being all happy knocking on doors meanwhile janja/reirei/kiburi are supervising them lmao. or maybe janja joins the trick or treating too with chungu and cheezi's persuasion

“who invented this holiday” asks everyone exasperatedly because halloween is MADE for the skinks. so so so many tricks and pranks take place. there is no escape /silly

HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES!!! tamka and goigoi love doing apple bobbing, reirei is the best at it :] i don't know many other halloween activities I Am Sorry

toffee apples. that's the entire bullet point. toffee apples are good

at the end of the party they do horror stories. that goes about as well as you'd expect (the hyenas are clinging to each other for dear life, sumu is ominously questioning how someone in a story could die that quick, goigoi is snoring, jasiri is covering wema and tunu's ears, the skinks are laughing when someone in the story dies, etc!)

mzingo only enjoys this holiday for the rise in “good books” to read (he likes murder mysteries) and morbid decorations (although plastic)

dunno if this is a tradition worldwide but where i live there's fireworks on halloween. so at the end of the night there's a nice wholesome firework show to watch :)

oh my god i genuinely forgot about PUMPKINS. they definitely do pumpkin carvings. some of the carvings are definitely inappropriate or at least very messy hfgdj. at least they tried lmao

thank you for asking!! i did human au ideas for christmastime last year so this feels nice to do ^w^

[galtx]

GALTx eNews: Charlie Has A Message For You

Our sweet boy, Charlie, has a message for you: regularly testing your dogs for heartworm and providing them with veterinary approved heartworm preventatives is imperative.

Charlie is a young Irish Wolfhound /Dogo Argentino mix who joined the GALT family with heartworm. Now that he is in a foster home, he is in the thick of heartworm treatment. While the prognosis is good, treatment is neither fun for him nor cheap for us.

Heartworm treatment requires medications that are injected. The injections hurt and the medication can cause severe lower back pain that sometimes makes it hard for the dog to even get up and walk. Additionally, after each treatment, dogs have to be kept as calm as possible for 8 weeks to prevent potentially deadly complications such as a deceased worm causing an embolism. Any increase in heart rate is risky. Dogs receiving heartworm treatment should not run, play, or even jump on a couch. Charlie will have to spend months in confinement. That's hard for most dogs, but especially young dogs like Charlie.

A couple of months after the initial treatment injection, Charlie will be retested. If the test is positive, Charlie will receive another injection and suffer another period of limited activity. Some cases can be cured with just a couple of treatments. Other cases require additional treatments after some months of recovery time. We don't know how many treatments Charlie's case will require.

Charlie's first treatment cost $185. We anticipated his subsequent treatments will cost $325 each. Typically, achieving a negative result on a heartworm test costs between $750 and $1,200. We agree with Charlie that prevention is the best medicine and hope you'll talk with your vet today about heartworm preventatives for your dogs if they are not already receiving them. One bite from an infected mosquito is all that it takes.

You can help Charlie recover with a gift to our Nitsche Veterinary Care Fund. He will be adoptable as soon as he is well. Thank you!

6/17/24