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Bertrand Hustle posted:Basically every experience with Canada geese I've either had personally or heard about has been that they are just complete fuckers. If a goose has babies nearby or is looking for food or just takes a fancy to that patch of grass you're standing on, it will bite the poo poo out of you or just beat you about the face and head with those goddamn wings. I've been honked at angrily, but I've never actually been attacked. That may be partly luck, but it's also partly having the basic situational awareness to think "huh, one goose is sitting down and one is standing. That might be a female incubating eggs and a male standing guard. maybe I shouldn't walk right by them." When people talk about getting attacked for no reason I think of a guy I knew growing up who talked about getting stung by bees totally unprovoked. I took him at his word until I saw a bumble bee pass within like two feet and he spazzed the gently caress out. Full on  Animals aren't robots, but they're also not capricious demons. If you get routinely harassed by some kind of critter, you're doing something wrong and failing to learn from the experience.
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Bees and wasps are actually evil and want to kill me. having allergies to them make them much scarier then they are
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darthbob88 posted:Same, TBH. Even when I go out of my way to deliberately antagonize them, they just waddle away. I'm beginning to think the local geese are just defective. If the geese are nice, why do you go out of your way to deliberately antagonize them?
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Ariong posted:If the geese are nice, why do you go out of your way to deliberately antagonize them? Plot twist: he's actually a goose.
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Ariong posted:If the geese are nice, why do you go out of your way to deliberately antagonize them? 1. I was a child and therefore an rear end in a top hat. 2. Experiment, to see if I can actually get them that pissed off. I never actually tried to hurt them, just to scare and annoy them. Even when I got between them and their goslings, they just tried waddling faster to get away from me.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:If you get routinely harassed by some kind of critter, you're doing something wrong and failing to learn from the experience. I'm inclined to agree in most cases, but mosquitoes must seek me out because they know I'm allergic to them and they hate me, specifically.
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Depressio111117 posted:I'm inclined to agree in most cases, but mosquitoes must seek me out because they know I'm allergic to them and they hate me, specifically. I've read they're attracted to type O blood.
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A quick crosspost from the foster thread of Butterscotch being a big ol' fatty:
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I've read they're attracted to type O blood. I'm O- and have walked through the woods and ended up looking like I have chicken pox from all the bites..
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I've read they're attracted to type O blood. I'm A-, I dunno what the gently caress. And I became allergic to their bites in the past two years or so (a condition with an astoundingly colloquial-sounding name). Now when they bite me it swells up about ten times the size that bites used to. I got a bite on my ankle this summer and it looked like I had broken the drat thing. Anyway cute stuff.   
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Depressio111117 posted:Anyway cute stuff. Cheese Onion is a pretty good cat name.
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Former DILF posted:you clearly live in some pussy rear end bullshit canadian town because canadian geese mind their loving manners in my hometown I'm not terrified of them, they're just assholes. They do none of those things here. Blue Footed Booby posted:I've been honked at angrily, but I've never actually been attacked. That may be partly luck, but it's also partly having the basic situational awareness to think "huh, one goose is sitting down and one is standing. That might be a female incubating eggs and a male standing guard. maybe I shouldn't walk right by them." I've seen them try to nest on the green area next to a sidewalk and threaten anyone on the sidewalk, and 'not walking sort of vaguely near them' is not an option because that's the only sidewalk on that street. They don't usually attack, but they make a lot of noise, hence 'rear end in a top hat' rather than 'menace'. They also don't need to be nesting, or in pairs, to claim territory. Up here, they sometimes decide that a puddle in the parking lot is theirs, and thus the entire section of parking lot is theirs. I've seen them attack (both parked and unparked) cars to try to get them to back off. God help you if the puddle sticks around long enough for them to try to nest near it. They really like the grass next to parking lot puddles, as it turns out. I live in Alberta, and nearish a park with a pond, which I presume encourages them. (They are usually just fine near the pond though; it's when they go elsewhere they become assholes.) Maybe it's different where you guys are. Edit: actually the very best was the time one nested in the greenery next to a strip mall and wouldn't let anyone in the store on the end without a threat display. Prism has a new favorite as of 16:24 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 7, 2017 16:18
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Dad uses baby as a puppet.
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bobjr posted:
And a sister.  Whole gallery here: http://imgur.com/a/r6JQ5
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Trig Discipline posted:And a sister. Which of your cuddly orange gays is that?
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That's Franklin. Seen here helping me do some mixing yesterday: He got really stressed with the move to Japan and basically licked all of the hair off of his belly and lower legs. He's stopped licking now that we've settled in, but he grows hair very slowly so he's just going to look like this for the next year or so:  And yeah, he splays out like that pretty much all the time.
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https://twitter.com/yy221126/status/904351820780191745 https://twitter.com/yy221126/status/905773334872309760 The continuing adventures of a cat who is incredibly upset that the door handle is the wrong way up.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:
Oh man, he is so mad about it and he totally knows whose fault it is too, or at the very least who could fix this great injustice.
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Trig Discipline posted:That's Franklin. Seen here helping me do some mixing yesterday: In my house we call that a "splang".
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From the schadenfreude thread:ekuNNN posted:Crocodile attack!
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:https://twitter.com/yy221126/status/904351820780191745 Of course there's a white cat, a black cat, and a black and white cat. Always got to complete the set.
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I seriously need to clean up in here. Keep getting dust in my eye...
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That second kea is definitely trying to get people killed. Respect.
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https://twitter.com/BabyAnimalPics/status/906028589681860610 so hungry
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Some sort of vulpine themed pastry perhaps? https://twitter.com/Nucorn/status/906017821074718720?s=09
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That cat is thinking back wistfully about the last gently caress he gave, how long ago it was...
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Who ordered the chicken wraps? https://twitter.com/ProducerKen/status/906144798888873984
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