#walk my dog

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[northgeorgiadogtraining]

How Do I Choose the Right Leash for My Dog?

We Americans really like our stuff.  It isn’t that we like our stuff, we like having more stuff.  Even better than just having more stuff is having new stuff.  We run out to the dealership to get this year’s model as soon as it hits the showroom.

We love stuff with the newest technology.  I bet there are several of you that have the newest iPhone in your pocket and you are still paying off the installment payments on your last iPhone.  We love bigger stuff.  We just replaced our seventy-five-inch flat screen with the newest eighty-five-inch 8k HDD. 

If it means that something has more buttons, is newer, is shinier, or simply really cool looking; we have to have it.  If you ask someone why that got that shinier, newer thing, they will normally reply that “they just had to have it”.  It is the blessing and curse of being American.

Now, I am not trying to say that this is good or bad.  It is simply my perception of the world and norms around us.  With this said, why does this have anything to do with leashes?

A leash is a training tool that we use to direct our dog and encourage proper behavior.  Because of our dog’s natural learning process, it should be as simple as possible.  If you were paying attention to what I was saying earlier, when we go out to get our dog a leash, we will gravitate to the fanciest thing with buttons, plastic, or batteries.  The best training tool for our dog is something simple. This creates a conundrum.

Robin and I have a great dog training article that will help you pick the best leash to train your dog.  Spoiler alert: it isn’t the one with buttons, plastic, or batteries. Please read our dog training blog titled “How Do I Choose the Right Leash for My Dog”.

https://northgeorgiadogtraining.com/best-dog-leash-gainesville/

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Learning anything about marine mammal training will make you re-evaluate so much of your relationship with your own pets. There is so much force involved in the way we handle domestic animals. Most of it isn’t even intentional, it just stems from impatience. I’m guilty of it myself!

But with the exception of certain veterinary settings where the animal’s health is the immediate priority, why is it so important to us that animals do exactly what we want exactly when we want it? Why do we have to invent all these tools and contraptions to force them to behave?

When a whale swam away from a session, that was that. The trainer just waited for them to decide to come back. If they flat out refused to participate in behaviors, they still got their allotment of fish. Nothing bad happened. Not even when 20-30 people were assembled for a procedure, and the whale chose not to enter the medical pool. No big deal. Their choice and comfort were prioritized over human convenience.

It’s almost shocking to return to domestic animal medicine afterwards and watch owners use shock collars and chokers and whips to control their animals. It’s no wonder that positive reinforcement was pioneered by marine mammal trainers. When you literally can’t force an animal to do what you want, it changes your entire perspective.

I want to see that mindset extended to our domestic animals.

[damianito]

Chuuya will not remember. Dazai will.

[los-colores-de-folie]

Loyal.

[tubbytarchia]

so ranchers huh

[lotus-pear]

in love with tragedy

[zivazivc]

. . . 😳

[lazer-t]

3D Animation Commission

Character belongs to @dog-beast

[iztea]

i personally believe chuuya simply DIY-ed a makeshift leg cast with the stuff he found in prison but ended up bridal carrying dazai out anyways because they wouldn't have made it in time at that pace

bonus:

[strawijuice]

Put em on a leash 👏✨️

Ps,commissions are open~☆

[trans-lunarinjection]

communists arent going to steal your house. except for people in usamerican suburbs. we are going to steal your house, and speficially make your lawn the place where everyone's dogs shit on. And we're going to make you watch.

[shadowhaert]

missing someone bad for you

trista mateer / trista mateer / sue zhao / u.k / u.k / clementine von radics / trista mateer

[xxplastic-cubexx]

oh noooo or whatever

bonus aka The Real Motive Behind This:

SURPRISE double bonus. textless ver of the first pic under the cut

[kiwoa]

i don't post her here often, as she *hates* cameras, but i figured for today she deserves to be shown as the brilliant star she is. happy birthday, opal!

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Around tumblr lately I’ve seen people with the opinion that not only are free roaming cats bad (correct) but also supervised cats in catios or on leashes (????). I assume it must stem from that “ecology of fear” post from a few months ago, but to me the sudden appearance of these kinds of posts just strikes me as odd. I’ve seen multiple posts like the below one in just this week.

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If your cat is contained to your yard/catio/the sidewalk, then it still allows for predator-free safe places in your neighbourhood for wildlife, and creates predictability for them too. That’s one of the reasons why hiking trails ask people to stay on the trail— so you (and your dog, horse, cat, etc) can safely enjoy nature while still giving it space. It is possible to exist outdoors in natural spaces like that while maintaining wildlife comfort. If it wasn’t possible to do that, dog-friendly or (even just hiking trails in general, since humans are predators too) simply wouldn’t exist.

The problem with free roaming cats is that they break boundaries between human area (ie. trail, back porch) and wildlife area (foliage, etc) and there is nowhere the wildlife can go to exist that is safe from predators.

Idk, this is just my opinion but I just think there can be more nuance to the outdoor/free roaming cat issue than “never let your cat step outside under any circumstance”.