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Help I finally started watching Chimp Crazy… 😞
Nov 20, 2024
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🐱I am a crazy. freak. about. cheetahs. (⊙ᴗ⊙)
when I was younger, like, 7 years old, and we had free will in class to make a presentation or write a speech on whatever we wanted, I would always pick cheetahs. no matter HOW MANY times i'd already done a piece of work based on cheetahs... i'd always do it again. I would actually make presentations all about cheetahs, in my free time, for NOBODY but myself. (•_•) I would watch David Attenborough documentaries, except i'd skip every single part of them that wasn't about cheetahs, then i'd watch the section about cheetahs over... and over... and over again. every time a cute little cheetah was on the screen I was fucking mesmerized. I could, and STILL CAN, whip out 10 random cheetah facts from off the top of my head, and i'd be able to keep going way past 10 if u let me. (◎‿○) (and, speaking of big cats... i'm also a freak about the way lion prides operate. ask me how the system of a lion pride works and how the lion king movie, as much as I LOVE IT TO DEATH, was totally inaccurate and simba would've been kicked from the pride anyways even if it wasn't for scar being a cunt. go on. I dare u.)
when I was younger, like, 7 years old, and we had free will in class to make a presentation or write a speech on whatever we wanted, I would always pick cheetahs. no matter HOW MANY times i'd already done a piece of work based on cheetahs... i'd always do it again. I would actually make presentations all about cheetahs, in my free time, for NOBODY but myself. (•_•) I would watch David Attenborough documentaries, except i'd skip every single part of them that wasn't about cheetahs, then i'd watch the section about cheetahs over... and over... and over again. every time a cute little cheetah was on the screen I was fucking mesmerized. I could, and STILL CAN, whip out 10 random cheetah facts from off the top of my head, and i'd be able to keep going way past 10 if u let me. (◎‿○) (and, speaking of big cats... i'm also a freak about the way lion prides operate. ask me how the system of a lion pride works and how the lion king movie, as much as I LOVE IT TO DEATH, was totally inaccurate and simba would've been kicked from the pride anyways even if it wasn't for scar being a cunt. go on. I dare u.)
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I had never heard about this before but someone referenced it in a Nextdoor thread where people were roasting someone for saying they saw a wolf… I have recurring nightmares all the time where I’m walking at night and I see lion and tigers and bears (oh my)! The way this is written is so compelling. What a tragic and bizarre story I can’t believe we allow people to own exotic pets :(
“Only once you slide up and down these slippery moral slopes can you see how much easier it is for all of these owners to believe that they are acting with kindness to animals that they love, and that their love is on some level reciprocated. Maybe something went very astray with Terry Thompson, and so of course it is now in the interests of the other owners to draw a firm line between what he did and what they do, but my hunch is that if one had visited him a few years ago, he would have expressed the same love and care and concern for his animals, and done so with conviction. The truth is that while, on a practical level, we may feel as though we can distinguish between better and worse owners, it is logically impossible to know for certain what the animals are thinking or experiencing. Every human who interacts with an animal and then makes claims about what that interaction means to the animal—in backyards or zoos or even on the plains of Africa—is making a claim neither they nor anyone else can verify.”
“Only once you slide up and down these slippery moral slopes can you see how much easier it is for all of these owners to believe that they are acting with kindness to animals that they love, and that their love is on some level reciprocated. Maybe something went very astray with Terry Thompson, and so of course it is now in the interests of the other owners to draw a firm line between what he did and what they do, but my hunch is that if one had visited him a few years ago, he would have expressed the same love and care and concern for his animals, and done so with conviction. The truth is that while, on a practical level, we may feel as though we can distinguish between better and worse owners, it is logically impossible to know for certain what the animals are thinking or experiencing. Every human who interacts with an animal and then makes claims about what that interaction means to the animal—in backyards or zoos or even on the plains of Africa—is making a claim neither they nor anyone else can verify.”
May 18, 2024
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🐆turns out theyre all killing themselves because its so sad and stressful
https://www.nomv.org/ Not One More Vet NOMV is tryna help the mental wellbeing of animal care specialists
https://www.nomv.org/ Not One More Vet NOMV is tryna help the mental wellbeing of animal care specialists
May 31, 2024
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It lends a reflective and wistful tone to written communications imo…
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My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌
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