#theramblingfluff

I’ve only used two, one of which broke (and I can’t remember the name of).The Drinkwell 360 is pretty great though, it’s easy to disassemble to clean or repair, and I think it’s dishwasher safe (though I just clean it in the sink). I’ve had this water fountain for almost 5 years now and it’s still trucking along.

Something that will make everyone go "wait, that thing hunts!?"

the slow loris!

they’re omnivorous and active hunters that can and will eat any small animal they can physically cram into their mouths, up to and including birds! (which they catch while they’re asleep)

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NOW WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY THAT?!!?!

Jauney… ;-;

Well, that’s a dramatic oversimplification of just about everything.

But I suppose “Every dog breed has both positive and negative qualities, and the metric for what ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ mean depend entirely on the owner and are not objective in any way. Regardless, while every dog is an individual and breed traits only provide an average rule of thumb, the fact of the matter is that different breeds DO have specific requirements that, if not met, will result in a dog that is neither stable nor happy. Some dogs are inherently prone to human reactivity or dog aggression that cannot be socialized or trained away. Stigmatizing that fact only makes it harder for these breeds to find happy homes and increases the likelihood of a tragedy, which makes their reputation worse; a tragedy that could have been avoided by being honest and forthright about specific breed traits and breed histories, and prioritizing education about the needs of the dog to ensure they are only placed in appropriate homes” doesn’t sound as good on a bumper sticker.

There are no inherently bad dog breeds; but there are absolutely, objectively, 100%, bad dog breeds for you. (”You” here meaning a general “you”, ie, any individual person.)

oh, one of my favorites!  Again, they’ve got a few problems: PKD and hip dysplasia most notably.  They’re also very well known for having a few neurological ticks, with severe separation anxiety topping that last.

But it’s the DEVELOPMENT of this breed that really gets me.  The original breeder, Ann Baker, tried to make a fucking FRANCHISE out of the breed.  She wanted to treat breeders like a goddamn McDonalds.  She wanted ONE ragdoll breeder per state.  These breeders weren’t allowed to just breed their cats how they wanted either; they had to follow some VERY specific rules, which mostly meant ‘inbreed like your cats are the House of Habsburg and it’s the 1700′s.  Which is why I believe that they are so prone to weird anxiety problems now.

like the drama was SO INTENSE that people who loved ragdolls but hated Baker just went “...FINE, we’re going to build our OWN BREED CLUB away from you!”  When they tried to call the breed ‘ragdoll’, Baker went ‘no, that’s illegal’. 

And that’s how the ragamuffin breed was created.  It’s literally just ragdoll under a different cloak! the original ragamuffin standard actually included some pretty specific shade against Baker, which I still find hilarious.

i know the dog show world is full of drama but come on