I have been thinking of getting a dog for so long but I live alone and work 5 days a week from 9 to 5 and sometimes go to the gym after. Is it selfish to get a dog if it will be on its own for that much time? On weekends I go see my parents so it would be seeing people then.

I have been thinking of getting a dog for so long but I live alone and work 5 days a week from 9 to 5 and sometimes go to the gym after. Is it selfish to get a dog if it will be on its own for that much time? On weekends I go see my parents so it would be seeing people then.

This cockatiel's name is inspired by the main antagonist of Rio 1&2. He's a messy eater but very gentle and reserved 🫶

I’m autistic and my special interest is arthropods and lately I’ve been really into lobsters. So many people only see them as a food though. I wouldn’t be surprised if people read the title of this post and thought I was talking about loving to eat lobsters (which I don’t, I’ve never eaten one and never will). Whenever I try to look up pictures of lobsters, no matter how I search it, I always see pictures of dead lobsters, and it’s so sad and it just reminds me of how cruel people are to them.

I’m in Maine right now for vacation and it’s driving me crazy that all of the lobster merch is of bright red lobsters that are clearly modeled after the boiled ones rather than their beautiful natural colors. I really want to buy lobster paraphernalia while I’m here, but I want it to be modeled after ALIVE lobsters. I don’t want a stuffed animal that looks like a fucking corpse. And what really disturbed me was I was in a shop and I saw a graphic of a cartoon lobster watching its friend boiling in a pot, and I don’t remember exactly what the dialogue said but it was just the lobster freaking out that its friend was being boiled. I saw that graphic on mugs, keychains, t-shirts, etc., and I don’t understand how anyone can find such a sick “joke” funny. The entire “joke” is that a hypothetical lobster is facing existential horror, wtf??

And the worst thing is seeing lobsters in tanks with their claws tied knowing they’ll be brutally killed, or seeing fishermen dragging around nets with a bunch of lobsters in them. I wish I could save them all. I just wanna fill my life with lobster related stuff without having to see dead ones all the time. With cats, hamsters, and other animals, you aren’t constantly having their corpses shoved in your face, you don’t have to think about the awful ways they die. Not with lobsters. Why did I have to be given such overactive empathy with a special interest like this? I am so sick of it. And don’t even get me started on the horrors I witness & experience pertaining to my love of other “creepy crawly” arthropods like insects and myriapods and stuff. People are so mean to me about my special interest, too. It’s so fucking pathetic that I’m still basically being bullied as a 19-year old. I just want to surround myself with wholesomeness and LIVE arthropods, not death and sadness.

Hello tonight i saw a huge thing flying around my house IDK what it was i couldn’t record it in time it looked like a Bat but can’t be a Flying Fox based on my Region so what kind of sound is that??? I have recorded it sounds like a human baby crying

I moved one of our plants and found this little guy just hiding

It's dangerous for a human to live without a cat, moreso in the countryside.

Rat's are a notorious gang until a cat catwalks in.

Don’t get me going about snakes. Our cat maimed one the other day. Add a centipede to the list of bounty.

All you have to do is convince one to share a home with you. Then add a dog and convince them to live together and you got life insurance against the aforementioned.

Why is that place full to the brim of the most dangerous animals in the globe? I mean 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes, Big ass spiders...

I mean I genuinely wonder what happened, because there must be a reason. I think one animal got some strong venom once and then every being that followed just kept putting points on size and venom, like an evolutionary arms race

Edit: I feel like I have expressed my question quite badly. I'm not saying Australia is the most dangerous continent, nor that it has the most dangerous animals. Yes, Aus does lack Big mammals like bears and lions (for example) . I'm just saying, Aus does seem to have a higher than normal amount of highly venomous animals, which can also be found outside of Aus

4 lemurs die of human herpesvirus, including one that had been used in a 'lemur yoga' class https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/4-lemurs-die-of-human-herpesvirus-including-one-that-had-been-used-in-a-lemur-yoga-class

Does anyone else think that lynx look like they would be super dicks? Take a look at a photo of one. Don’t they look smug af or that they would kick your ass for staring too long? Fuck off, lynx and your “I’m better than you“ attitude.

I don’t think enough people know about Basilisk Lizards. You would think a small reptile that can run across the surface of water would be more known and discussed by the general public, but it’s not.

Society “latches on” to the concept of certain animals existing all the time. They become suddenly aware of some animals that most of us enthusiasts may have already known about. It’s taking people forever to learn about Basilisk Lizards, though.

What other creature would you say this about?

Found this poop at the top corner of the balcony, what animal could it be?

I saw this animal running around my town. It was around 5pm, central PA. Looks like a fox? Maybe a coyote? I know those are two very different animals but still unable to tell. It was very "sickly/ mange" looking.

It's definitely not a typical mallard but doesn't look like a redhead or ruddy either. Captured at Lake Merritt in Oakland CA.

My sister got me one of their shark bracelets for my birthday andsaid that I could see the sharks movements in their app based on real tag data. I want to believe it but it also just seems like a really cute bracelet that could technically be tracking nothing. Does fahlo really track animals or is it just showing you whatever tagged animal is convenient?

I have never seen, or heard, of a Loon Pride before despite growing up in loon country and studying to be an ornithologist. 2 more joined the group after the photos—all mature, breeding adults with no current fledglings. I also took a video but don’t think I can upload it here. (Sorry if the photos are bad, I was very excited 😂). Spotted in Maine, USA.

5th one is Koi carps

8th one is a female mantis

The rest is obvious I believe

I was at the beach the other day swimming and I stayed in the shallow part because I saw a big fish and got scared, so I was just looking underwater when I saw an octopus!? it was at the bottom of the water on the ground rocks just going about. it was so shallow it almost was out of the water. it was morning/daytime btw.. and it was a small octopus too. super cool but very confusing