Mellepell

I 1000% understand how hard it can be to control frustration, especially in a public setting where your dog freaking out inexplicably feels humiliating, but what the dog NEEDS is a little understanding and compassion. Not frustration, not gentle mockery for their fear while nothing is done to mitigate it. Better handling of the issue in general, too - turning and facing your dog while keeping full leash opposition is not going to encourage them to come TOWARDS you - but fundamentally, what is needed is a little empathy. Some recognition of how differently dogs experience and process the world and that consequently their perspective will often differ from ours!

Broadly speaking, the pet industry in America is a contradiction. People lavish their dogs with all sorts of goodies, and brag about how obsessed they are with their dogs, and react with empathy to the horror stories of neglect and mistreatment we hear all too frequently, but then don’t extend that empathy to their dogs in day-to-day life. They disregard their pets’ expressions of emotion, and do little to nothing to accommodate them and mitigate stress and uncertainty as much as possible.

I DON’T think this is from a lack of empathy in general, but a disconnect regarding how dogs process the world. We as primates are so sight-oriented, it’s easy to anthropomorphize and forget (in general or in specific instances of behavior) that dogs primarily experience the world through their noses, and that their senses in general work very differently from ours. But I think an equally large portion of the issue springs from oversimplification of animals as intelligent, emotional beings.

At all costs, ignore that group. They're one of the biggest sources of horrible misinformation about ball python care and their admins are tools.

Their admin are horribly entitled. I got a message from one saying she blocked me for not responding to a tag about a question she had. Like I OWED her my response. The question was apparently about whether I condone bad mouthing BPE in my groups.

My answer is yes, I condone and promote making it absolutely clear that BPE is garbage on any social media platform in anyway possible.

And instead of taking that (deeply flawed and unhealthy, mind you) notion and maybe... I don't know, learning to manage negative feelings that aren't productive, people have just decided that it means that any time they don't like something, they have to find some grand, noble justification for their dislike.

yes, we all know you aren’t eating dead animal flesh on your plate. but crop agriculture is HEAVILY reliant on animal agriculture. what do you think fertilizes the soil for all the produce you eat? here’s a hint: animal poop.

“but vegan fertilizers exist!” sure, but exactly how likely do you think it is that your produce was raised with vegan fertilizer? probably extremely unlikely. why would a farmer go out of their way to go buy fertilizer when their dairy farmer neighbor probably has plenty of manure? why would a farmer with crops and animals just ignore his own source of fertilizer? they usually don’t! it makes more sense for a farmer to use manure from their own farm or neighboring farms than to go out and get huge quantities of artificial fertilizer (and it’s much more sustainable to compost and fertilize, so long as it isn’t overapplied).

organic standards, which are considerably strict, allow organic farms to use manure from non-organic farms, because they need manure THAT badly. which means it’s pretty possible your organic kale or spinach was grown using manure from a CAFO or otherwise just non-organic animal farm.

“i don’t eat honey because it exploits the work of bees!” what do you think is pollinating those crops you eat? it’s bees, and more likely than not, they were kept by humans. and yeah, they probably had some of their honey taken. so what? how is refusing to eat honey but still eating crops pollinated by bee work any less exploitative? you won’t eat the thing removed from their hives (which keeps them from swarming and dying off), but you’ll eat the crops that they spent days pollinating? how is that any different? the fruits they pollinated might not be an “animal product” like honey, but it’s a result of animal ‘work’ just as much as honey is.

“it’s about doing the least harm possible, not being perfect!” so what? I would argue raising my own animals for meat and providing them with comfortable lives up until slaughter instead of buying products coming from god-knows-where is “doing the least harm possible”, but most ARAs will continue to demonize me and everyone else who cares about where our meat comes from. I would argue that intentionally supporting farmers using good environmental and animal welfare practices instead of doing nothing at all (and buying crops reliant on these Poor Exploited Animals) under the guise of caring about animals is “doing the least harm possible”, but all farmers are evil, right?

Here’s your potash. Nice eh? Creates sink holes sometimes when it’s underground. Hence why they perfer open pit mining. But the open pits create deforestation and they need run off streams. And all this is better then animal fertizer?

you can “rescue” a cow or pig from a livestock auction and keep it but you’re just, like, purchasing the animal from the people who are selling it

during calving/kidding/etc season baby farm animals are e v e r y w h e r e and especially pigs you can get them for SO CHEAP you could buy up every really cheaply sold meat animal off your local craigslist site and still not be “rescuing” anything, particularly. like. if people want to spend their money keeping livestock that’s…. fine…. obviously i do that… but its fucking absurd to act like buying livestock FROM A LIVESTOCK AUCTION is “rescuing” it rather than… um. participating in a livestock auction

but… as far as animal activism goes

that wouldnt stop the factory farm from keeping their chickens in cages like that? like they just had a bunch of low-production hens that were slated to be turned into dog-food and you paid them money to give them to you instead

the cages they vacated would be filled again instantly and nothing would change about the way eggs are produced in this country. there will always be more battery cages than there are square feet of pasture to put those hens on

Like there was this small AR group in my town years back that would rescue buy steers (young castrated bulls) with the intention of rehoming them as pets but like… the entire purpose of a steer is to be butchered for meat so you’re immediately limiting the scope of people who are going be willing to take in one of these cattle. I think that group only ever actually rehomed like one of these fuckers and there was soft news story published in the paper about it but it was such a wildly futile endeavor. In the end, they kind of just faded out of activity and like, they still kept all the cattle who they weren’t able to find homes for (I drive past their “sanctuary” sometimes) so that’s good I supposed but lord, just what were those people thinking. 

Keep seeing some posts circulating about popular websites and wanted to make a version for apps.

These are apps I’m way too addicted to. Am I missing any?

P.S. I’m on an iPhone so these are iPhone apps, but probably have an Android version too.

Edit: Sorry for all the time I’ve taken away from your life

Commaful - popular fanfiction, story, and poetry community 👑

Bettr - the reason my friends are jealous of my Insta

Sweatcoin - get paid to walk

Spellbound - addictive horror 👻 and romance stories

Helix Jump - legit the most addicting game on my phone

Calm - Award-winning app for meditation and sleeping better

Tenkyu - tilt your phone and watch the relaxing magic happen

Slime Road - bet you can’t hit the bullseye ⚾️

Hempire - become a plant mogul

Dune! - Ride the sand dunes like a baller!! so much fun

Go Fish - win trophies by catching hella fish

Hotspot Shield - free proxy/VPN to bypass school filters

Terrarium - build the ultimate garden empire

Golf Orbit - ever played golf on mars?

Ball Blast - Just shoot the balls. Simple right? ;)

Sling Drift - beep beep - level 70 is insane 🚗

1Q - get paid to answer simple questions

Crowd City - Become the popular kid in town by running around 

Bee Factory - become a honey tycoon

Wind Rider - fly through a city in a wing suit

Spill it - drop balls and break glass

Fire Balls - shoot balls at obstacles. gets pretty hard

Paper - can you conquer all the territory and win?

Two Dots - a fun puzzle game. easy time killer

Planet Bomber - let’s nuke some planets

Ice Racing - race down a mountain at record speeds

Splashy - bounce the ball accurately to survive. requires focus

Snakes Vs. Blocks - even more fun than the original snake hehe

Twenty48 Solitaire - best toilet game

Knock Balls - shoot down blocks with a canon - surprisingly relaxing

Wishbone - fun game for comparing stuff like hair, celebs, sports

Hole - fuck up a city muahaha

Dosh - get paid to shop

Sweatcoin - get paid to walk

Yarn - stories that are seriously creepy af