Progressive Pets

[merh]

Oct 31, 2022 9:48:05 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 31, 2022 3:49:12 GMT merh said:

Poor baby

[abbey1227]

Oct 31, 2022 10:16:42 GMT merh said:

Oct 31, 2022 9:48:05 GMT abbey1227 said:

Poor baby

I just love the glee on young Cruella's face

[merh]

TIL cats were a common wedding gift among Vikings due to their association with the goddess of luck, Freyja. Men favored women who loved cats, believing that it increased the likelihood of a happy marriage.

[merh]

I’m Castle. This is my tree. I peed on it in Home Depot so my mom bought it. She says it’s ugly, but it’s ours now.

[merh]

You think people won't work here?



They have to get cats working in Russia

[catman]

So that's where the working cats from the local shelter end up!

[merh]

Don't talk to me or my son ever again!

[merh]

And he's angry at you also!

[merh]

Human wouldn't give a fuck, would they?

Rats will avoid doing things that cause harm to other rats. If given a choice between getting a reward, or avoiding harming their friend, rats will chose their friend over a reward. This behavior, known as harm aversion, is evidence that rats feel empathy towards their fellow rats.
www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/ynq2rf/rats_will_avoid_doing_things_that_cause_harm_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Rat wants to chew on cage bar, but other rat's tail is in the way, so the first rat gently moves friend's tail a couple times.

[abbey1227]

Nov 6, 2022 20:29:44 GMT merh said:

Human wouldn't give a fuck, would they?

Rats will avoid doing things that cause harm to other rats. If given a choice between getting a reward, or avoiding harming their friend, rats will chose their friend over a reward. This behavior, known as harm aversion, is evidence that rats feel empathy towards their fellow rats.
www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/ynq2rf/rats_will_avoid_doing_things_that_cause_harm_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Rat wants to chew on cage bar, but other rat's tail is in the way, so the first rat gently moves friend's tail a couple times.

A consistent number of humans will go out of their way to make sure another human gets harmed

[abbey1227]

Nov 4, 2022 17:55:14 GMT merh said:

[merh]

[merh]

Nov 7, 2022 1:26:00 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 4, 2022 17:55:14 GMT merh said:

When I was in kindergarten my sister (in 1st grade ) had this girl who was always a bitch to her that started being nice.  After a week or so the girl said she was sorry that her dog ate my sister's cat.

Nice dog.

Then there were the 2 huskies that dashed into our back yard & turned the feral pregnant cat that lived there into a pull toy.

Or the co-worker who warned her sister-in-law to not let the cat out who let her cat outside. When the inlaw called the cat in one night, a coyote ran up, turned the cat over & took a chunk out of the cat. Yeah dead cat.


But cats are evil...

[Prometheus]

Nov 7, 2022 1:11:57 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 6, 2022 20:29:44 GMT merh said:

Human wouldn't give a fuck, would they?
Rat wants to chew on cage bar, but other rat's tail is in the way, so the first rat gently moves friend's tail a couple times.

A consistent number of humans will go out of their way to make sure another human gets harmed

Yyyyyyup

[abbey1227]

Nov 7, 2022 6:43:56 GMT merh said:

But cats are evil...

it's always about sides with you. 

Can't it just be the reality of what life is on this planet?   

[merh]

Nov 7, 2022 8:22:51 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 7, 2022 6:43:56 GMT merh said:

But cats are evil...

it's always about sides with you. 

Can't it just be the reality of what life is on this planet?   

Oh, I know cats & dogs can get along & it's the owners who often encourage their dogs to attack small animals.

AND cat owners can help their pets live longer by keeping them inside plus that reduces the bird murders. When I was in Mira Mesa I would find de-legged crickets that had mistakenly wandered into the house. Azlan played with them until they stopped moving & those big back legs always seemed to come off in the process. 

At least Sandy at the grasshoppers he caught

[merh]

[merh]

OK.
So is it a boy or a girl, dude?

How you define this?

Kitten found with no sex organs in veterinary first in Tyneside
Published 2 hours ago

A homeless kitten is the first to be seen by vets at an animal charity that is neither male nor female.

Hope, a tabby-and-white kitten, was found with no internal or external sex organs after they were examined at a Cats Protection centre in Gateshead.

Animal officers said there was no term for the cat's condition because it was so rare but added it had been "exciting to discover Hope's special status".

The charity added the 15-week-old pet was healthy and ready to be rehomed.

Hope was originally thought to be a female cat when it was handed in by a family to Cats Protection's rescue centre in Warrington, but vets found no external sex organs.

Cats Protection's senior field veterinary officer Fiona Brockbank said it appeared to be a case of agenesis, the failure of an organ to develop, which she and her colleagues had never seen before.


Cats Protection said Hope had been a "delight to care for"
Ms Brockbank said: "There's an outside possibility of some ectopic ovarian tissue hiding away internally but we think this is extremely unlikely.

"This is so rare that there isn't really a commonly used term for this condition," she added.

The charity said examinations have shown Hope will not be otherwise affected by the condition.

Tyneside Adoption Centre manager Beni Benstead said the kitten had been a "delight to care for" and added they would "bring someone many years of fun and companionship".

"Discovering Hope's special status has been an exciting time as none of us have seen this before or are likely to again," he added.

[abbey1227]

Nov 7, 2022 22:25:42 GMT merh said:

OK.
So is it a boy or a girl, dude?

How you define this?

Kitten found with no sex organs in veterinary first in Tyneside
Published 2 hours ago

A homeless kitten is the first to be seen by vets at an animal charity that is neither male nor female.

Hope, a tabby-and-white kitten, was found with no internal or external sex organs after they were examined at a Cats Protection centre in Gateshead.

Animal officers said there was no term for the cat's condition because it was so rare but added it had been "exciting to discover Hope's special status".

The charity added the 15-week-old pet was healthy and ready to be rehomed.

Hope was originally thought to be a female cat when it was handed in by a family to Cats Protection's rescue centre in Warrington, but vets found no external sex organs.

Cats Protection's senior field veterinary officer Fiona Brockbank said it appeared to be a case of agenesis, the failure of an organ to develop, which she and her colleagues had never seen before.


Cats Protection said Hope had been a "delight to care for"
Ms Brockbank said: "There's an outside possibility of some ectopic ovarian tissue hiding away internally but we think this is extremely unlikely.

"This is so rare that there isn't really a commonly used term for this condition," she added.

The charity said examinations have shown Hope will not be otherwise affected by the condition.

Tyneside Adoption Centre manager Beni Benstead said the kitten had been a "delight to care for" and added they would "bring someone many years of fun and companionship".

"Discovering Hope's special status has been an exciting time as none of us have seen this before or are likely to again," he added.

Nature is always throwing out mutations. Often enough, it's a genetic dead end, like this.

But here's the definition of it.........it's rare, but it does happen..........

Ambiguous genitalia is a rare condition in which an infant's external genitals don't appear to be clearly either male or female. In a baby with ambiguous genitalia, the genitals may be incompletely developed or the baby may have characteristics of both sexes. The external sex organs may not match the internal sex organs or genetic sex.

[merh]

Nov 7, 2022 23:32:18 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 7, 2022 22:25:42 GMT merh said:

OK.
So is it a boy or a girl, dude?

How you define this?

Nature is always throwing out mutations. Often enough, it's a genetic dead end, like this.

But here's the definition of it.........it's rare, but it does happen..........

Ambiguous genitalia is a rare condition in which an infant's external genitals don't appear to be clearly either male or female. In a baby with ambiguous genitalia, the genitals may be incompletely developed or the baby may have characteristics of both sexes. The external sex organs may not match the internal sex organs or genetic sex.

Male or female?

The article said there didn't appear to be any internal organs.