US zoos do not practice population management via euthanasia for vertebrates - they use contraception or don’t house animals that shouldn’t breed separately. I would also like to point out that contraception use in animals is no more dangerous than in humans. Finally, if a sanctuary allows you in to see their animals…

Thank you! I’ve been reading your sns posts and thinking of you.  We are also having the first grandchild of both our families and there have been some babies before for the cousins etc but they’re all 10+ years old now so the baby craze is in full swing haha. I’ve also had a lot of problems with that aspect…

Im 36 weeks and still don’t feel much connection to my baby. This is, I gather, not abnormal.  Also I refused to buy any baby stuff until after our anatomy ultrasound (19 weeks for us, but we had to go back 4 weeks later since she wasn’t super cooperative) and I still haven’t actually bought anything for her really -…

I agree with the other posters that your bf should be compromising here but I also understand that sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to. So, to answer your question: you could look into local rescues and see if you can basically be a foster for your own cats until they can be adopted. A lot of times…

It does seem a little bit crazy to be jumping to “abuse! How DARE he LAUGH about this!” So quickly, especially as you say we don’t actually know even via the quote, what sent him into the panic attack. Also per Wikipedia Karamo and fiancé have been together eight years so it would seem the relationship is pretty…

If you think it might help, or even if it will just make you feel better, you could wear a sweatshirt or sleep with a blanket a few nights before you leave and then leave that item with Cat. Also, if you think he might be bored, there are some pretty cheap (less than $10) toys that you can put some of his kibbles in…

Is it going to be a full 3 days? I leave my cats for a full 48+ hours semi regularly without feeling guilty - they get an extra litter box and of course extra water and food. And they’re fine! Unless kitty needs meds he will ok. It sounds like going to see your loved ones is a major welfare concern for you, and of…

If you’d rather the hair get caught in the harness and basically pull the tail off the spine instead of surgically, with anesthesia, shortening it that’s your opinion. I don’t necessarily agree that any tail needs to be docked particularly since no draft horses technically need to be “working” in harness ever anymore…

Yep. The bones in a horse tail are probably around a foot-ish long. They can get caught in the harness, so working cart horses generally have them docked. Docking tails isn’t inherently cruel as long as you leave hair so they can still switch flies, which it does look like they’ve done here since there’s enough hair…

You have already been really brave, and I’m sure that you can handle anything this new job might throw at you. A lot of times the what if’s are so much scarier than the actual thing. Also, if it is an hour drive away, would it be possible to commute for the first 30 days or so? Then you don’t have to completely…

It’s never a risk to apply to a job! Go for it! Your current position seems to offer you nothing except no change, which as someone who HATES change I totally get, but your work life will never get better if you don’t make a change. The worst that will happen is they don’t call you back and you are out absolutely…

Er, is the DJ Khaled blurb supposed to be sarcastic (I have such a hard time with the new dirtbag authors’ tones)? When you fall off a jet ski and you are not in any way injured and you have a life jacket on you just ... float. Like, you don’t even have to swim? You can just do absolutely nothing and you will live?…

Not how that works, animals don’t care that they’re mating with family. Normally either the related male or female leaves the area. If she was still in with dad she was almost certainly on birth control and therefore he would have no interest since she would have to be in estrus. Also is very normal for one male lion…

That’s not how animals decide to fuck - pheromones/estrus and family scents generally guide that but a lioness is 1. Not going to be “jealous” of a male mating with another female and 2. Doesn’t care if it’s her cub or not. Inbreeding generally doesn’t happen because females who can be in estrus usually aren’t with…

Nah, foals start eating solid food within a couple weeks of birth. It’s not a significant portion of their diet AT ALL, but they’ll be chewing on hay and eating mom’s grain pretty quickly. They’re a lot like human babies and spend a lot of time putting things in their mouth to figure out what they are. 

Are you maybe confused in that homo sapiens are fertile all year long? Like, we don’t have a “breeding season”? Because no, humans are only actually fertile about 4 days out of every cycle and then half of fertilized eggs don’t even implant. If humans had thirty kids in their lifetime you would have to be having…

The only time I’ve ever heard of this is when my husband’s Canadian cousins (we’re from the US) asked if we were going to have one and I had to politely pretend it was something we’d consider and not the crass money grab it is.

Clicker training and positive reinforcement training are the exact same thing. The clicker is used as a “bridge” between the cue and giving the reinforcer. Basically anything can be the clicker, for my dogs it is the word “good!” in a certain tone. As long as it is consistent it doesn’t matter. And positive…

Every time there is an article about exoctics in captivity the commentariat around here has a field day with vilifying zookeepers and the jobs they do. I hope you all realize that the ONLY reason Fiona has managed to survive and thrive is due to the excellent care her keepers have given her, as well as the decades of…

I also have a couple dresses from there, one bought right off their sizing and one that I sent my measurements for and had the hemline altered. I love them both!