HappyTear Studios

Most wombats average around 30 to 40 inches, so fat Pat is definitely an outlier. For comparison here’s a more ‘regular’ wombat. 

Not owls though.

They'd look at the bait attached to a pole held by one human. Look at that human, and the human next to them, holding a large net. Look back at the bait. Back at the humans. Repeat a few times.

And every time, without fail. Even ones that had to have seen this play out before. Even ones that had previously been caught and tagged themselves.

They'd go straight for the bait.

We give our non-releasable animals enrichment. The vultures and corvids get puzzles, the falcons and hawks get destructables, the quail gets new hides.

The owls? They get their food on a different plate. Or, if we're feeling daring, we'll put it slightly under a piece of butcher paper. They never get it. They cannot comprehend that the food is there, just a little different.

I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material--I can't actually call it fabric in good faith--and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they're not made of asbestos. They're only separated by time.

There's no wood used in interior design unless it's a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every "apartment hack" I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.

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