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Blimpkin posted:The look on that sheep's face post shearing is one of like "gently caress yeah I'm the best sheep." I used to work at a veterinarian's office when I was in high school. One day the city dog warden dropped off this dog that had been found in an abandoned house - the owners had left it behind when they moved out. The dog was some kind of terrier mix and totally matted, it could hardly move. We had to shave almost all her fur off and it was smelly and gross but afterwards she practically danced, spinning in circles barking and jumping up and licking our faces when we crouched down next to her. It was the best thing ever.
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Dad asks little Maddie about her favrourite person... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWFfDyupGpQ mcbexx has a new favorite as of 17:32 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Photographer lets prostitutes view the rings of Saturn through his telescope: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/9314580440/in/set-72157627894114489 This man's work is beautiful and heartbreaking. He builds a relationship with addicts, prostitutes and the homeless, and shares their stories. I highly suggest you check it out-but not really if you want to feel good right now, it's heavy poo poo. The one picture above fits the bill for me, though.
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Chili posted:It is too early for a Christmas song, but it's never too early for a Tim Minchin song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q Good song. For content, not the biggest fan of Lee Evans, but I do like this song. Slightly NWS because of swearing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4BDdyBH-8
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QueenOfTheEyesores posted:Photographer lets prostitutes view the rings of Saturn through his telescope: Yes, this above photo is very uplifting, but that man's work is hard. It's gritty and sometimes uplifting, but not always. The above photo rocks though.
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QueenOfTheEyesores posted:Photographer lets prostitutes view the rings of Saturn through his telescope: This is some amazing work but really drops into the not cute and adorable section pretty quickly. 
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Blimpkin posted:Yes, this above photo is very uplifting, but that man's work is hard. It's gritty and sometimes uplifting, but not always. The above photo rocks though. Jesus. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/8366362996/in/set-72157627894114489/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/8572620840/in/set-72157627894114489/ I spent a couple of years homeless, and these photos are heartbreaking. You get your one trip through life, and the people on top look at the people on the bottom and go, "Welp, life isn't fair," and think that's all that needs to be said. The most infuriating part is listening to the conservative talk show hosts yammering on about how no one in this country is really poor, no one in this country is really hungry. Just look at location X, where they have it so much worse; these people should be grateful! Our next guest will explain why we need to abolish the stifling regulations and taxes that force the ultra-wealthy to settle for private jets with only one bathroom.
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A dude and his house-trained iguana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJuqpWpB74
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That was worth it for the part with the spray bottle.
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toe shoes posted:This is some amazing work but really drops into the not cute and adorable section pretty quickly. Oh definitely-that's why I said I recommend the rest of his work for a different mood. But giving disenfranchised women a view of distant beauty, removed from pain? That's one of the most uplifting things I can think of. Anywho WHO WANTS TO SEE SOME CATS?  This handsome boy's name is Lucas, a flame-point ragdoll. Five years ago, I was working at a movie theater in New Hampshire. During one grueling friday night shift, a co-worker who was taking the trash out came back in tears, saying someone had kicked a cat out of a moving car in our VERY CROWDED parking lot and sped away. She tried to chase the cat, but it ran away and she obviously had to go back to work or be fired. We all spent the rest of the night sending out reconnaissance to check on the cat and telling every customer to be careful on their way out to not hit it. Finally, at the end of the night, I raced outside to find the dirty white fluffball lurking near my car. As soon as I knelt down and made soothing noises, out it trotted, and I fell in love. I decided due to its punitive meow it was a girl (later disproven) and named it Lucy. I'd never had a cat before, my dad hated them (previous cats had pissed EVERYWHERE) and never let me get one. Sure enough, the first thing he said when I brought it home was "We are not keeping that." I begged off, promising only to look for a potential owner and advertise, whatever we could do. We sent the newly bathed and named Lucas to the basement in an improvised enclosure for the night. For the next two nights, we did just that. The third night, and with no replies to our ads, I went to the basement after getting out of work around 11pm to find my father sitting on a ratty chair, a few empty beers beside him, staring at Lucas. Lucas stared back with those china plate eyes. Without looking around, my dad just said, "I like him. We can keep him." Until the day my dad passed away, Lucas was his best friend.
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What a beautiful boy! God his coloring is amazing
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What sort of monster kicks such a sweet cat out of a car?  Thanks for taking him in. 
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Initially reluctant, then eventually enthusiastic cat owners always make me happy. This kestrel was posted in the GBS Critterquest thread. Normally birds of prey look so serious and sleek, but this one was caught doing his morning routine on a chilly day. There is a series of him warming up here. Just look at that fluffy belly! 
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Awesome a capella group does a Disney melody http://youtu.be/IOoMztym1LU
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Have some baby porcupines to brighten your day. From top to bottom, crested, Brazilian, and American porcupines.   
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How come the American version of animals always seems to be the least-cutest?
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Mizuti posted:Initially reluctant, then eventually enthusiastic cat owners always make me happy. That's how my family wound up with all three of the cats I had growing up. We got Sabrina, a little grey girl, because my mom had taken the dog to the vet and had taken my older siblings along, and my sister saw a box of kittens that had a little grey one just like her favorite stuffed animal. My mom picked up Sabrina, said "well dang, it's a boy - if it were a girl we could take her home!" to which the vet picked up the cat and said "Hey, congrats it's a girl you have a cat now." My mom wasn't willing to make a liar of herself so they brought home Sabrina. We got Kliban, a colossal brown and black tiger stripped Maine Coon lookin behemoth boy, because my mom was driving down the street and saw this poor, half-grown, half-starved cat limping down the side of the road with a broken tail. Took him in, nursed him back to health, fell in love. My Dad didn't want another cat, but my siblings convinced him to let Klibby stay as a birthday present to my mom, so they stuffed him into a cupboard and my siblings made a treasure trail around the house - my mom spent like an hour following clues that lead her to the cupboard and hears this frantic, pissed off meowing, opens the cupboard, and out leaps Klibby into her arms. He wound up going from being half-starved to maxing out at something like 28 pounds - he was fat as hell and one of the most loving cats I have ever seen, basically a big ol' blob of cuddles. Freud, a big black and white tomcat, was the third and the only one I remember getting (I'm the youngest of 4 kids, and we picked up Sabrina and Kliban both by the time I was about two). I was about six, and my mom was socializing with a sewing friend after picking me up from school, and had ordered me to stay in the car for about ten minutes while she said hi and picked up some fabric. Of course, being about six and ADHD as heck, I promptly ignored her to go wander around the yard, found Freud, befriended him, then got scratched on the hand when I tried to rub his belly (cat got mad as hell his whole life if you went anywhere near his belly), so we took him home to take him to the vet to get tested for rabies to be safe. Two weeks later we find out that we can't release him back into the wild because we had taken him in for too long. My Dad was adamantly against keeping him until he wound up being the only person Freud trusted for a solid six months. Freud, other than his hatred of belly rubs, turned into a complete sweetheart after a couple years and slept on my bed nightly for most of his life. He always had the goofiest purr, when he was really content and getting scratchies, he'd purr in falsetto All three of them have been dead for at least five years now , but lived long (18+ years) lives and were happy and loved . I wouldn't trade growing up with them for anything in the world.
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SynthOrange posted:What sort of monster kicks such a sweet cat out of a car? I once acquired a pet cat when my parents, out on a bicycle ride, saw someone throw a cardboard box out of a moving car. The box turned out to be full of dead and dying kittens who had been poisoned (rat poison, I believe), and we only managed to save one. People suck, and no amount of arguing about how we anthropomorphize animals too much, or how we eat X so why is Z different, will ever convince me that the people who did that deserve anything better than to be beaten half to death and buried alive like Tony Spilotro*. * Or at least like Pesci's character in Casino. Centripetal Horse has a new favorite as of 23:22 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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My cat twitching while sleeping https://vine.co/v/hbMld6hj9jW
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A pug watching the ending of Homeward Bound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnstd0ASQHg
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Mizuti posted:Initially reluctant, then eventually enthusiastic cat owners always make me happy. As a teen I volunteered with Oregon Zoo's birds of prey show, and I can confirm that kestrel falcons are like this all the time.  Other cute birds: spotted owls. They look exactly like ear-less teddy bears and were the softest birds in the program, even compared to other owls. Here's a wild Northern Spotted Owl in Washington State. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd3rbCAB6jg
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Tardigrade posted:Have some baby porcupines to brighten your day. From top to bottom, crested, Brazilian, and American porcupines. Someone posted this porcupine in the last thread and he's the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGz8jcbJjRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dnB3IapeAA
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Baby Porcupine Eats A Banana and Has Hiccups! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y4cQEEyuTw
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particle409 posted:Baby Porcupine Eats A Banana and Has Hiccups! Goddamn. It's like someone found a genie and wished for the cutest youtube video possible.
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Mizuti posted:Initially reluctant, then eventually enthusiastic cat owners always make me happy. I was pretty reluctant about our cat when we took her in - she was meowing out on the front step during a storm, and as you might expect from a cat taken in on the basis of being able to be heard from outside during a thunderstorm, she is an extremely noisy creature. When we got her she was skinny enough to cram through the gap under my door, too (it's an old house and so the lines are a bit out of true, the door gap is wide enough to shove a foot through) and so I was wakened at all hours by excessive meowing. Eventually though she got the hang of only meowing for attention when I'm up and about, and an affectionate/noisy cat is pretty good for a depressed dude sometimes. When I sit in certain chairs she likes to hop on and knead my belly, and if she's bored she'll flop around and meow for attention.  The ridiculous creature in question.
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I don't know how you guys feel about theatre, so this might not suit everyone. This is the esteemed play "Wedding in Brooklyn" written, directed and performed by Catbug. It's pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFWb7DG7zTc
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Let's have another porkypine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgq6XbJgGv0 Halfway through he gets all excited and starts spinning on the spot
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Mizuti posted:Initially reluctant, then eventually enthusiastic cat owners always make me happy. That was my dad with his cat. My dad has never been much of a pet person. He's alright with dogs (he get along with our beagle just fine), but any other pet has pretty much been a no-go. Now, my grandfather (mom's dad) lives out in the countryside, and there are always a ton of feral cats roaming his property. He generally leaves the cats alone, though he'll always try to adopt the kittens out to people if they're sociable enough. One time he found a litter of three kittens that were four weeks old and had been abandoned by their mom, so he took them in and fostered them until they were old enough to go to new homes. The two girl kittens found homes quickly, but the one boy was having trouble getting a home. He was tiny and scrawny and looked like he might not make it, so nobody wanted to take him. The same week grandpa was looking for homes for these kittens, mom found a mouse in the butter dish and told dad that they had to get a cat. When grandpa heard that, he offered up the kitten for free. My dad reluctantly agreed to it, but told my mom and little sister (she still lives at home) that they had to take care of it and that he wouldn't help with any cat-related chores. About six months after that, I came over to visit one day and I walked in on my dad holding this cat and scratching him behind the ears and telling him what a handsome cat he is. Even better, my sister got to pick the name of the cat, and she named him Joey, after my dad (Joel).  (ignore the date on the picture, I had just put new batteries in the camera and didn't set the date) The funny part is that he doesn't actually hunt any mice, which defeats the whole purpose of getting a cat in the first place.
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I can't remember who it is, but some goon who posts in here belongs to Refurb, who made Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/meganm15/how-refurb-the-cat-raised-1000-for-charity
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Pookah posted:Let's have another porkypine! This probably isn't the thread for this, but these videos of animals who don't normally experience being pet or tickled (like this porcupine, and people have posted videos of a lamprey being pet, penguins getting tickled, etc.)....these have to be strange and foreign physical sensations for them, yet they seem to enjoy them. Like I'm sure those lamprey eels have never been pet or snuggled with in all their aquatic lives, nor do they as species have any kind of genetic memory or instinct that would clue them into "being pet" = "affection" so... I don't know what I'm trying to say, but it blows my mind a little that they respond to being touched by a human being with happiness. Maybe it's just as simple as 
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goatface posted:Sugar gliders? Yep. They actually make pretty good pets. I miss the little bugger my friend used to have.
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Rabbit Hill posted:Maybe it's just as simple as Yeah, you only need to have nerve endings in your skin to appreciate petting. You can get really philosophical with this. People both appreciate the physical sensation of being touched and also appreciate the meaning behind the touch, like a big friendly hug or a soft seductive brush. Animals probably just appreciate the physical sensation and either don't care or don't seem to know the specific meaning behind the action. But they have just as strong of a reaction, if not stronger, than people do. They also touch each other a lot, like dogs licking each other, and the environment too, like bears rubbing up against a tree. So does people's relentless desire to attach meaning and significance to everything get in the way of enjoying some good old-fashioned petting? Or does it enhance the whole experience?
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Rabbit Hill posted:This probably isn't the thread for this, but these videos of animals who don't normally experience being pet or tickled (like this porcupine, and people have posted videos of a lamprey being pet, penguins getting tickled, etc.)....these have to be strange and foreign physical sensations for them, yet they seem to enjoy them. Like I'm sure those lamprey eels have never been pet or snuggled with in all their aquatic lives, nor do they as species have any kind of genetic memory or instinct that would clue them into "being pet" = "affection" so... I don't know what I'm trying to say, but it blows my mind a little that they respond to being touched by a human being with happiness. I think that about sums it up, they just like the sensation...maybe they have a memory of something else that gave that feeling and the petting/scritching feels the same so they're all "gimme more, I like that poo poo". That, and sensing that the person handling them isn't a threat, so it sort of relaxes them and keeps them calm and less prone to aggression.
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I don't even know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt5rBfNucc
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Rabbit Hill posted:This probably isn't the thread for this, but these videos of animals who don't normally experience being pet or tickled (like this porcupine, and people have posted videos of a lamprey being pet, penguins getting tickled, etc.)....these have to be strange and foreign physical sensations for them, yet they seem to enjoy them. Like I'm sure those lamprey eels have never been pet or snuggled with in all their aquatic lives, nor do they as species have any kind of genetic memory or instinct that would clue them into "being pet" = "affection" so... I don't know what I'm trying to say, but it blows my mind a little that they respond to being touched by a human being with happiness. Wouldn't you know it, there's been research done to prove that yes, it does feel good. Liu, Q.; Vrontou, S.; Rice, F. L.; Zylka, M, J.; Dong, X.; Anderson, D. J. (2007) Molecular genetic visualization of a rare subset of unmyelinated sensory neurons that may detect gentle touch. Nature Neuroscience 10, 946-948 To make up for dry science, have an aardvark and an aardwolf.  
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