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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/TQwxuIs.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/181nFnV.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/Ok7j63y.mp4

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StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

Universe Cat contains multitudes

Caedus
Sep 11, 2007

It's good to have a sense of scale.



Heya Cute Thread, Fiona and I are in a real tight spot at the moment. I'm off work with an illness and my sweet dumb kitty got sick and needed to go to an emergency vet. She's doing ok but I tapped every financial resource I have and still came up short so I put together a GoFundMe for her. I've witnessed a bunch of goon fundraisers absolutely knock it out of the park and I've been thrilled to have be part of those in a small way, so I'm hoping to have a little of that karma come back my way. I'd appreciate literally anything, and if you can't help, spreading the word is appreciated just as much! (I got mod permission to post this and I'll only bug y'all once)

Fiona's GFM






https://twitter.com/SkookumSam/status/1194425076759719937

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/mdIZ5oX.mp4

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1195962391852306433

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVMP6BqcqU

Sininu
Jan 8, 2014

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/Y9hVd5l.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/QseAcME.mp4

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK has a new favorite as of 20:42 on Nov 17, 2019

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!
https://i.imgur.com/hqMiO87.gifv

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon

ILL Machina posted:

A sleepy dog and a bird

My gosh, this is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while. I had an elkhound who blew his coat in tufts like this and we could lift them off of him as he slept, but he did not have his own personal birdy groomer.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
That titmouse is going to have a super warm nest. :3:

Sanguinary Novel
Jan 27, 2009
If you did brush an animal, like two floofy cats, and put the fur in a little hanging cage thing, would birds take the fur for nests? Might be a nice thing to hang out in the spring

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

fool_of_sound posted:

Cheetahs don't attack people because adult humans are too large for them to hunt safely and effectively.

Usually that means they'll attack small humans or children if they can find them alone. There are other big cats that are kind of notorious for that and that's also why certain kinds of animal sanctuaries have age minimums. Do not carry a human baby near a chimp, for example.

Cheetahs apparently just...don't. While most carnivores will attack anything they know they can beat cheetahs in particular just never go after people at all. Why? Who knows?

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


My theory on Cheetahs is that we partially domesticated some of them before they went through their population bottleneck and the survivors are just predisposed to leave humans alone.

Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...
Barkeep Cat would like to know what your pleasure is.
https://twitter.com/Bodegacats_/status/1196238455665090561?s=20

raverrn
Apr 5, 2005

Unidentified spacecraft inbound from delta line.

All Silpheed squadrons scramble now!


Jim Bean.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Bat eviction

https://i.imgur.com/mGOqRok.mp4

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!
Holy poo poo that's a lot of loving bats under that... what, is that an AC unit? A heat exchanger pump's external section?

Either way also pretty surprised by how chill they are about the whole thing. Cute bats.

Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!


I started counting along. One, one bat, ah ha hah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5hMqkUcdfs

Otteration
Jan 4, 2014

I CAN'T SAY PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP'S NAME BECAUSE HE'S LIKE THAT GUY FROM HARRY POTTER AND I'M AFRAID I'LL SUMMON HIM. DONALD JOHN TRUMP. YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT.
OUR 47TH PRESIDENT AFTER THE ONE WHO SHOWERS WITH HIS DAUGHTER DIES
Grimey Drawer

PurpleXVI posted:

Holy poo poo that's a lot of loving bats under that... what, is that an AC unit? A heat exchanger pump's external section?

Either way also pretty surprised by how chill they are about the whole thing. Cute bats.

I've got a bat house that has about an inch-thick space for them inside. It's about 3/4 the size of a box for a ream of paper outside. Supposed to hold, like 70 individuals, IIRC? They are tiny.

Build a Bat House

"I love bats because mosquitoes LOVE to bite me. Pesticides can be harmful to mosquitoes’ predators as well as mosquitoes. According to Bat Conservation International, one little brown bat can eat 60 medium-sized moths or over 1,000 mosquito-sized insects in one night!"

Otteration
Jan 4, 2014

I CAN'T SAY PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP'S NAME BECAUSE HE'S LIKE THAT GUY FROM HARRY POTTER AND I'M AFRAID I'LL SUMMON HIM. DONALD JOHN TRUMP. YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT.
OUR 47TH PRESIDENT AFTER THE ONE WHO SHOWERS WITH HIS DAUGHTER DIES
Grimey Drawer

Kwyndig posted:

My theory on Cheetahs is that we partially domesticated some of them before they went through their population bottleneck and the survivors are just predisposed to leave humans alone.

Cheetahs' (new) bottleneck is now, of course:

"The cheetah is widely known as the planet’s fastest land animal, but unknown to many, it is also Africa’s most threatened big cat. Today, there are estimated to be only 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild."

https://www.panthera.org/cat/cheetah?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2bHdlPPy5QIV2CCtBh0QbQ6eEAAYASAAEgKnC_D_BwE

https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/cheetah

Etc.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
Hence why I feel domesticating them is probably the long term best option for their conservation

MockingQuantum
Jan 20, 2012



Sanguinary Novel posted:

If you did brush an animal, like two floofy cats, and put the fur in a little hanging cage thing, would birds take the fur for nests? Might be a nice thing to hang out in the spring

I have three dogs with double coats and I put the undercoat fur we brush off them into a little cage like the ones you can buy for bird seed suet cakes, and it gets cleaned out with regularity by the birds.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Usually that means they'll attack small humans or children if they can find them alone. There are other big cats that are kind of notorious for that and that's also why certain kinds of animal sanctuaries have age minimums. Do not carry a human baby near a chimp, for example.

Cheetahs apparently just...don't. While most carnivores will attack anything they know they can beat cheetahs in particular just never go after people at all. Why? Who knows?

Or maybe they're just smart enough to do it when there's no witnesses.

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

drrockso20 posted:

Hence why I feel domesticating them is probably the long term best option for their conservation

Count me in as a volunteer for the "have a cheetah as a pet one day"-program.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/eSE89AZ.mp4

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

The dog's tail tells a whole story through that clip.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

Cheetahs have proportionately smaller heads than most cats. In their evolutionary quest to Go Fast, they've lost a lot of strong muscles and heavy bone structure around their head. They are specialized for hunting impala and other small gazelles, after all, which tend to be on the fragile side, so the fact that cheetahs don't have the bite strength similarly sized cats do isn't a problem for them.

So they look at humans and go, nope, can't handle something like that.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/KNc5dpM.mp4

IMJack
Apr 16, 2003

Royalty is a continuous ripping and tearing motion.


Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1196214521280512002?s=19

Rabbit Hill
Mar 11, 2009

God knows what lives in me in place of me.
Grimey Drawer

Hiro Protagonist posted:

Thurston is slowly becoming my favorite internet cat, and this just further cemented it.

The cat's awesome; his owner always sounds like he's whining at the cat and being all negative.

Like, hey pal, maybe Thurston is yelling out in triumph, "YES! IT IS A SHRINE TO ME! I APPRECIATE YOUR HOMAGE TO ME AS YOUR RIGHTFUL KING, MY LOYAL SUBJECTS! RAWR! :black101:"

And instead the guy's going, "Oh it's not big enough? But we did it all for youuuuu! Why don't you appreciate ittt? :qq:"

Guy, he does. He destroyed it by mistake, not design. That's love right there.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1195563136335544320

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/NXEfP3S.mp4
Chonkasaurus has arrived, you may kneel before me...

Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014

Taco Defender

Actuarial Fables posted:

November pupdate:



Someone went to the groomer for the first time. You can actually see his eyes now.



e. re-added the quote picture

Actuarial Fables has a new favorite as of 03:14 on Nov 19, 2019

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!

Actuarial Fables posted:

Someone went to the groomer for the first time. You can actually see his eyes now.



Needs a before shot. Can't click buttons

Otteration
Jan 4, 2014

I CAN'T SAY PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP'S NAME BECAUSE HE'S LIKE THAT GUY FROM HARRY POTTER AND I'M AFRAID I'LL SUMMON HIM. DONALD JOHN TRUMP. YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT.
OUR 47TH PRESIDENT AFTER THE ONE WHO SHOWERS WITH HIS DAUGHTER DIES
Grimey Drawer

drrockso20 posted:

Hence why I feel domesticating them is probably the long term best option for their conservation

Hoping we can let a bunch of them live in a place where they can be wild and well also too. :)

Not like that either:

https://i.imgur.com/NXEfP3S.mp4

:(

Otteration has a new favorite as of 04:16 on Nov 19, 2019

Safari Disco Lion
Jul 21, 2011

Boss, if they make us find seven lost crystals, I'm quitting.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

The dog's tail tells a whole story through that clip.

A FRIEND OH BOY A FRIEND. .....friend? Yup. Knew you were a new friend. :smugdog:

Actuarial Fables posted:

Someone went to the groomer for the first time. You can actually see his eyes now.



e. re-added the quote picture

I love him. Please squish those big paws for us. :3:

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Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.

Actuarial Fables posted:

Someone went to the groomer for the first time. You can actually see his eyes now.



e. re-added the quote picture

His bandana and socks are :kimchi:

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