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TW: animal death / animal neglect

I went out with my mother this morning to get some Necessities from the store. on the way back to the house, we found one of the outdoor stray cat’s we’ve been feeding, Dahlia, on the side of the road. she’d been hit by a car and hadn’t made it.

as heartbroken as we were, there was a bigger issue.

four days ago, Dahlia had a litter of kittens in the stormage ditch just off the side of our property. 

pictured below, the ditch

it’s about twenty inches around, and twenty foot long. the far end of the tunnel is crushed and inaccessible. the kittens? fifteen foot into the tunnel.

below is a series of pictures of me, crawling into said tunnel.

this is right before I went in so deep, the flashlight couldn’t make me out.

there were six kittens in total. unfortunately, due to the confined space of the tunnel, and how the kittens were hunkered, I could only get them out one at a time.

it took me almost a full two hours of army crawling in, and then army crawling backwards out of the tunnel, to collect all of the kittens.

all six kittens, safe and accounted for! 

they’re four days old, and presently don’t have eyes or ears open.

1.) The hunting family DID NOT force the woman to eat meat. They didn’t. She tried to force them into her vegan lifestyle but they didn’t try to force her into theirs. So stop trying to act like they’re the bad guy.

2.) Hunting is 100% more ethical than the meat industry. It’s sustainable, it exists solely on the ‘kill only what you need’ axis. That’s the entire reason these people switched to hunting their own food. They hate the meat industry.

Both moms are stay-at-home moms while the dads do the work. The children of both don’t really do any chores past small stuff. So IN THEORY the families are pretty similar.

Hunter mom tried her best to create a vegan diet despite lack of knowledge. She went with the daughter to all the protests that vegan mom usually goes and while she found the stuff really weird, she kept that mainly from the child. She did all the chores in the house and pampered the dad a bit when he came back from his 15-hour job. She never belittled them for their lifestyle, only was honest about finding it confusing (like that the humans don’t cook, but they cook for the cat [WHO HAS TO LIVE VEGAN. THEY ARE ONE OF THOSE NUTJOBS THAT KEEP A CARNIVOROUS ANIMAL AND FORCE IT TO BE VEGAN]).

Vegan mom did chores on like the first 1 or 2 days as asked and then tried to skip them or ditch them on the son (she doesn’t do any chores in her own family, the dad has to do everything on top of his job). She tries to trick them multiple times into not eating meat out of pure selfishness and arrogance, she wastes food too (she threw away perfectly good food like chilli con carne and then claimed it was cause it looked bad). She stands outside in the garden x minutes/hours a day cause she believes that the sun will fill her with vitamins (you are so close yet so far from understanding sunlight and vitamin production) and says she hopes to one day be able to live on a sun diet. Even though hunter family never forces or even encourages her to eat any meat, she cries every time they do. Hunter family seemed willing to reduce their meat consumption initially, but dad gets very quickly pissed off about vegan mom’s wastefulness, lazyness and her general attitude.

Also, the vegan family has leather furniture but seem to not realize that animals die for that, so I am not fully certain they understand what kills animals and what doesn’t in regards to animal products…

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*Comparison of a DogCroc’s skull to a Sarcosuchus skull. (Sarcosuchus is the largest known crocodile species and was large enough it could even prey upon a T-Rex and could weigh up to ten tonnes and be over forty feet long.)

However the BoarCroc (Kaprosuchus) was twenty-foot long and could gallop across land and preyed upon dinosaurs.

The only animals today that skim feed are a group of birds called - get this - skimmers:

Black skimmers are, if you didn’t know, ridiculously weird. Like, ridiculously.

This is how their beak looks:

And from the front:

Because the way they feed - flying over the water and dragging their beaks through the water until it hits something - is so incredibly silly, they have a ton of adaptations to overcome the challenges. After all, water is much more viscous than air, so the drag from the water should be enough to rip the jaw off - or worse, snap the neck. On top of that, they have to have a way to actually secure the prey.

Mark Witton has written a lot about skimmers; so has Jaime Headden. Here’s a graphic Witton made listing specific adaptations towards skimming in skimmers:

That’s a lot - 17 adaptations just for stabilising the head/jaw! If we found a fossil of a skimmer without ever seeing a live one, we might not be able to guess what they were doing, but we’d sure as heck know they were doing something weird that required ridiculous reinforcement of the head and neck.

(Image by Mark Witton)

So there’s 26 direct correlates to skimming in skimmers! To argue that pterosaurs skim-fed, we should look at whether these adaptations are present in various lineages. 

And the answer is….they’re not. 

(Image by Jaime Headden)

Pterosaur skulls tend to to be much wider, often with teeth sticking out all over the place. This is completely opposite from the expected knife-like jaw to slice through the water - it’s easy to see how this Rhamphorhynchus could lose all its teeth if it tried!

(Image by Jaime Headden. Note that this crest shape may not be accurate)

When the 2000 followers will be BEFORE new year we will send a box of nice things to someone! And when time enough Human will sketch dogblr dogs and give them their personal holiday card thingy or something! IF we reach those 2000!

Please send us a message if you are a dogblr and want a Christmas card (including your address), a card in return would be awesome as Human wants to cover the whole fridge with those cards!

For the giveaway, make sure to follow and SHARE this post! Any cool ideas are very welcome and it would be most awesome if it went to a dogblr as the box will be containing dog stuff! Or ferret or cat or horse or reptile stuff if you prefer those things, I mean we do not discriminate! (only against Humans I guess..?)

I giveaway blogs I guess. That seems to be a thing.

So..yeah..! Fun idea?