Crazy animal lady thread - sperg about your pets here

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Rewire Tea said:
Right now, he is pissed about it (he hisses every time the kitten so much as moves in another room) but he's been good with kittens before.
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I've seen that happen a few times before. Adorably the last one ended with a tsundere-cat where she STILL hisses at the younger one, but whenever younger one leaves the room or goes to the vet the older one starts pacing and looking around for her until younger one comes back.
 
NoReturn said:
I've seen that happen a few times before. Adorably the last one ended with a tsundere-cat where she STILL hisses at the younger one, but whenever younger one leaves the room or goes to the vet the older one starts pacing and looking around for her until younger one comes back.
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That's the relationship my late old lady cat and the surviving one (a big orange tabby idiot) had lol.
 
I have crabs. No, not those crabs. Hermit crabs. They are all little assholes and I love them. Even when they trash the tank or get a craving for a molting friend.
 
I want to share more pics of my doggy and I can’t edit my last post to add them, so I’m putting them here.

He’s curled up at my feet now, sleeping in the knee hole of my desk. God, I’m so blessed to have him love me.

ETA: the little dog with her back to the camera in photo 1 is a neighbors dog I look after sometimes. She’s got Pyr blood and hoping she learns some cues from big baby boy.
 

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anliteralidiot said:
I'm getting ready to move some of my chickens from my mom's house, to my husband and I's house tomorrow.

I love my chickens. Almost as much as I love my cats! But I like to spread the good word of owning chickens more, since people think they're dumb little farm animals. They are dumb, don't get me wrong, but they're also very nice.

I've sperged about my favorite breed, the silkie, in the bird thread, but to summarize:
  • Their feathers are mostly downy, making them little cotton balls
  • Blue skin!
  • They fucking love sitting on eggs
  • They are very calm
  • They sometimes require little headbands to keep their feathers out of their eyes
The white one is our #1 Mom, she's currently sitting on a nest, so this is from March. As you can see, she's perfect. She's a great mom, and my husband and I love her.


The gold one is half-silkie, so she has the drive to sit on eggs. She's only just matured, so we didn't know she was even on this nest. We thought she was too young. But to our surprise, she's actually smuggling 8 ping-pong ball sized eggs in this picture. We've since candled the eggs (it's where you check if they're fertilized), and she's down to 6, but lmao she's fucking smuggling these eggs. My husband loved watching her tuck the eggs back under herself after we candled them.
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Fucking owls got my favorite hen, so I am upset and drinking. But the goldie hen in my post did successfully incubate 4 eggs into little nuggets. (This is from late July).

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And I'm working to convince my husband to name a separate hen Barbie-Chan. :P

She's got 5 "teenager" chicks, and one of them is trying to pull a CWC on her. Despite theirage and sizee and such. She is still protective of them all, and fucked up my husband's hand when he was separating them.

I'm going to spend my weekend building chicken tractors.
 
anliteralidiot said:
Fucking owls got my favorite hen, so I am upset and drinking. But the goldie hen in my post did successfully incubate 4 eggs into little nuggets. (This is from late July).

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And I'm working to convince my husband to name a separate hen Barbie-Chan. :P

She's got 5 "teenager" chicks, and one of them is trying to pull a CWC on her. Despite theirage and sizee and such. She is still protective of them all, and fucked up my husband's hand when he was separating them.

I'm going to spend my weekend building chicken tractors.
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Feels. I've had ducks in the past, and the whole thing was really fun except for when the ducks died. That part was always really sad.
 
I have more cats than I'm going to admit to (don't worry, it's nowhere near double figures). They are all rescues/ foster fails (yes I foster too) and range in age from around 16 to around 4 - no-one knows quite how old some of them are because they were either strays or had been through multiple homes before they arrived here.

Half of them are Ragdolls, which I got asked to foster at various points because there's someone at home all the time & they are very needy - fortunately they are also extremely easy going & are great with foster cats once they come out of quarantine. They are completely derpy balls of fluff who follow me everywhere & I adore them.

One of the others is a semi feral who has been through so many homes because of her anti social attitude that she landed with me as a foster & stayed because she is essentially not suitable for re-homing. She still hates people, although she mostly tolerates me, so I just let her have her own space & live on her terms but she's not really a pet as such, I just feed her, provide vet care (no easy feat as she can't be picked up), brush her when she will allow it and let her come & go as she pleases.

I also have a chihuahua who arrived as a completely neurotic short term respite favour - nearly 6 years ago! She is no longer neurotic and LARPS as a cat in order to fit in 😂
 
My betta's bump finally ruptured, though I'm not sure how. The only thing that isn't entirely dulled in the tank is a few pieces of driftwood that he could've gotten poked by, but even then they aren't sharp. To my surprise it didn't seem like any fluid was in there, just a buildup of dead scales.
I remember accidentally scraping his head a few months ago when I had to move apartments and scoop him out of the tank for a bit. Maybe the new water from another source and me being lax on changing the water led to an infection (which would explain the cloudy eye that developed a few months after moving, even when I've been trying to adjust my cleaning times and amounts to try and clear them up)
On the bright side, he isn't lethargic and is eating regularly. Sometimes he'll swim down to the bottom of the tank and rest in the same spot for about ten minutes, and then go back to swimming as usual.
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I still don't wanna dox my girl, but I did want to stop by and say she's here with me sleeping on a bookshelf as I write this.
 
anliteralidiot said:
Fucking owls got my favorite hen, so I am upset and drinking.
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I'm so sorry to hear that. It's tough losing an animal/pet in any way but losing one to predation is particularly tough.
anliteralidiot said:
I'm going to spend my weekend building chicken tractors.
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Google informs me that a chicken tractor is far less interesting than the image that immediately popped into my brain. It's easier for me to show you and I tried to put together a little something to remember your lost hen by. She's riding eternal, shiny and chrome, on the big farm in the sky:
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Android raptor said:
My rhino roach molted a few weeks back
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I give it out to insect people, I think a lot of bugs/arachnids are so cute, but I'm so afraid to touch them or go near them. I do wonder if they have the capacity to recognize their carers? I had no idea these guys shed. The molting seems more manageable than animals with fur. My rabbits are shedding right now and it's worse than any dog or cat I've ever seen. Clogged the vacuum up like 3 times this week even with brushing.
 
BelUwUga said:
If it's anywhere near as satisfying as peeling of a big dried layer of Elmer's Glue in one piece he's got to be on Cloud 9 right now.
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Especially since sometimes molting goes wrong and that can easily be fatal with inverts. That's one of the big downsides about keeping them, how delicate they can be.
cowboytakeshi said:
I give it out to insect people, I think a lot of bugs/arachnids are so cute, but I'm so afraid to touch them or go near them. I do wonder if they have the capacity to recognize their carers? I had no idea these guys shed. The molting seems more manageable than animals with fur. My rabbits are shedding right now and it's worse than any dog or cat I've ever seen. Clogged the vacuum up like 3 times this week even with brushing.
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I think some can recognize different smells of different people, at least longer lived ones like rhino roaches. How molting goes down exactly can vary a bit by species but its always a long, risky process for invertebrates because they're literally shedding their old skeleton and growing a new one.

My bratty red knee also molted about a month or so ago. Here he is eating a superworm looking so handsome (until he kicks his butt bald again, he's a brat and kicks hairs over everything) 20220820_115628.jpg
 
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