I take a whole day off, which requires considerable planning because I’m over committed, and do something outdoors.

Oh my god hahaha I bet!

Price and squick factor?

I love this! Our doggos used to follow the ferrier around while he clipped hooves to munch on the clippings.

That is awesome advice - thank you so much for taking the time to dispense it!!

Exactly, because a lot of us try REALLY HARD to be kind and caring - we just can have a hard time with snap judgements involving kindness and caring because they can be confusing as heck.

Really?! Man, I’d tip the heck out of the person who is in charge of not maiming my squirmy/irate/knives-for-hands pets.

I was reading your comment and was getting ready to virtually high-five you and then read that you are autistic and now I want to be BFFs. I’m autistic too and the interactions that brighten my day the most are often with people in the service industry who enjoy what my boyfriend calls my “excessive politeness”. I…

I am SO worried about this with our pupper. He is only 4 weeks old right and we are registering him ahead of time in daycare, training classes, organizing get-togethers in our home to get him used to “intruders”, and trying to set up play dates with other dogs and whatever children we can wrangle. That being said, he…

They are all released to a rural rehab once they are no longer considered infants and display basic ‘coon survival skills like catching a crayfish. They are allowed to become feral at the rural rehab and are released from there into forests up north!

For real, see if there’s a rescue that deals with infant orphaned animals anywhere near you. The high that I get from hanging with those little buggers for an hour would be worth commuting several hours for.

Thanks! The face pats are the cutest and they ALL do it when you pick them up and cuddle them. It’s like a bunch of tiny blind people trying to figure out what your face looks like. Some of them would sit on my feet and hold onto my shoelaces like reins when I walked around their cage. They are ridiculously sweet…

We’re in Saskatchewan but like... Canadian prairie-dwellers are used to casual 10+ hour road trips right? Come out for a visit!

Oh that is so sweet. The little orphans that were at the rescue coveted my FitBit HARD but they never wanted to do normal “animal things” like bite at it - they just liked to gently touch it and sometimes sit on it. They’re damned clever, hey?! Was she eventually banned from the house due to mischief?

Ahaha I love Pumpkin!!

I thought you’d never ask :3

100% funded by a university professor, volunteers, and donations. We also don’t have them in our cities so they’re not really pests to us as much as they are in more metropolitan areas. The worst they do out here is get into farm outbuildings or rough up an occasional farm dog.

It can be pretty tough. I’ve been fit enough to compete in fitness competitions before and I’m currently in terrible shape because I’m juggling a demanding full-time job, my side-hustle is expanding to a legit business, and I’m in graduate school and doing my coursework component. Sometimes I just have literally…

Check your area for wildlife rehabs that specialize in orphaned infants! I was never like “’coons tho, am I right?” before I just stumbled into it during grad school but it is incredibly gratifying. An hour of helping the little guys can make my entire month better, on balance.

OMG they are. They have incredibly gentle little hands that are super soft - like softer than the hands of human babies - and, in my unique anecdotal experience, they only ever used their claws to climb and manipulate objects. They have an astoundingly broad range of “personalities” but some of them are total…