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Do your pets have any funny little habits?
Started by Gizmo ·
Do your pets have any funny little habits?
Do your pets have any funny little habits?
One of mine always seems to know when I'm about to sit down and immediately comes over wanting attention. Doesn't matter how many times it happens, it still makes me laugh.
What’s something your pet does that always makes you laugh?
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dogs arent colorblind. they just dont get red
Started by datawrangler92 ·
dogs arent colorblind. they just dont get red
saw yet another "dogs see in black and white" post today with like 40k likes. no. theyre dichromats. two cone types, so they see blues and yellows fine but red and green both come out as a muddy yellowish brown. same deal as red-green colorblindness in people, roughly. this has b...
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my dog howls every single time i play this one obscure shoegaze album... only that one!!
Started by Stargazer6 ·
my dog howls every single time i play this one obscure shoegaze album... only that one!!
ngl ok so this has been going on for like two weeks and i finally have to ask if anyone else's pet does this. my beagle mix Pickles couldn't care less about pretty much any music i play. He sleeps through everything! But the second i put on this tiny indie shoegaze record i bough...
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Best type of crumbling roadside attraction?
Started by glitterfuel ·
Best type of crumbling roadside attraction?
ok so i drove 40 minutes out of my way last weekend to see a GIANT CONCRETE COW and half its face was gone and i have NEVER been happier. these places are DISAPPEARING people. we need to settle which kind is the best before theyre all gone. also i asked the cow how it was doing a...
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my parakeet learned to do my car's turn signal and now i cant tell if im merging or not
Started by glitterfuel ·
my parakeet learned to do my car's turn signal and now i cant tell if im merging or not
ok so Biscuit (green parakeet, about 3, VERY opinionated) rides along in his little travel cage when i do day trips. i'm not saying every trip is to see a half collapsed fiberglass muffler man, but i'm also not NOT saying that
anyway this weekend i'm in the kitchen and i hear cl...
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Sandhill crane keeps pecking at my sliding glass door every morning... how do I get him to stop??
Started by PickleballPam58 ·
Sandhill crane keeps pecking at my sliding glass door every morning... how do I get him to stop??
He shows up around 7:15, right when I'm heading out to pickleball... tap tap tap on the glass for a good twenty minutes. I think he's fighting his own reflection?? Tyler says it's probably a male and he thinks the reflection is another crane trying to take his territory... tbh he...
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Herons at the retention pond... one of them stands on one leg for over an hour, is that normal??
Started by PickleballPam58 ·
Herons at the retention pond... one of them stands on one leg for over an hour, is that normal??
ngl so I walk past the retention pond every morning before the 7am pickleball group... and there's one great blue heron who parks himself in the exact same spot by the drainage pipe like, and lately he's been standing on ONE leg for an hour, maybe more I timed it Saturday because...
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my cat has figured out the exact second my alarm is supposed to go off and now she shows up 4 minutes early
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
my cat has figured out the exact second my alarm is supposed to go off and now she shows up 4 minutes early
for context my alarm is set for 6:15 i use an old wind-up alarm clock because i refuse to let my phone sit next to my head all night, but thats a different rant... about two months ago she started hopping up on the nightstand right before it goes off. she just stares at me. then...
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my cat follows the sunbeam across the floor all day... does yours do this too??
Started by Stargazer6 ·
my cat follows the sunbeam across the floor all day... does yours do this too??
ok so i work from home on saturdays (aka i sit around with 6 half-finished hobbies everywhere) and today i finally noticed that Pickle moves about every 40 minutes!! shes chasing the patch of sun as it slides from the rug to the couch and then to the one spot by the bookshelf i a...
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Worst offense at the grocery store parking lot?
Started by PickleballPam58 ·
Worst offense at the grocery store parking lot?
ok so I was at Publix yesterday and a perfectly nice looking man just left his cart right next to my car... the cart corral was maybe 20 feet away!! I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying... Tyler says I need to let it go but I really cant lol... so what bugs you the most out t...
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the "1 dog year = 7 human years" thing is just made up
Started by datawrangler92 ·
the "1 dog year = 7 human years" thing is just made up
ngl saw it again on a vet office poster of all places. there's no science behind it like, it's a rough ratio someone pulled from average lifespans decades ago and it stuck
dogs age really fast at the start and then slow down a lot. a 1 year old dog is basically a teenager, not a...
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my cats are about to find out daylight saving time ends and theyre not going to take it well
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
my cats are about to find out daylight saving time ends and theyre not going to take it well
clocks fall back november 1st, so in about four weeks all four of my cats are going to show up for breakfast an hour "early" and act like its my fault theyre honestly more accurate than most clocks i own. dinner is 5:30 and at 5:28 theres a lineup in the kitchen the orange
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whats the weirdest thing your pet is scared of??
Started by Stargazer6 ·
whats the weirdest thing your pet is scared of??
ngl ok so my cat Kepler (yes, after the telescope I name everything after space stuff, i cant help it) is scared of exactly one thing in this whole house, and it
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Which kind of vandalism actually counts as art?
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
Which kind of vandalism actually counts as art?
so my neighbor put googly eyes on the bronze goose statue by the library and the town council had an actual emergency meeting about it. i was there. i was the only one who showed up to defend the goose tasteful vandalism can be art and i will die on this hill, probably alone. any...
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city council wants to cap pets at three per household and i have four cats
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
city council wants to cap pets at three per household and i have four cats
So the city put out a notice saying they're "considering" a limit of three dogs or cats per household. Apparently it's about nuisance complaints, which is funny because my cats haven't left teh house since 2019 The loudest thing any of them does is knock a pen off my desk at 5:40...
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