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Oh I totally agree. I think with animals as complex as cetaceans any level of interaction will change their behaviour, but this is 100% more benign than seaworld/marineland type business and offer a much better model for people looking to profit off of the public's interest in marine mammals.

There are lots of wonderful trips you can take in BC to see wild orcas in a very non-obtrusive way! I did one a few years ago (I'm not sure of the firm it was with) but having been to marine parks as a kid, it is a much more awe inspiring experience to see them in the wild!

I went to one of those places when I was a kid in Hawaii. I'm not sure if I would go back now because even the free access stations can muck up behavioural patterns in wild dolphins, but fwiw the place I was at was just a cove where wild dolphins were enticed to tolerate us with buckets of fish.

I snorted.

Yeah, they super would. His incitement of harassment is illegal, whether or not he is found guilty of rape.

I'm sure it depends a little on the cat, but it's not that hard. My cat, my boyfriend's cat, my family members' cats and most of my friends' cats all go outside on harnesses and leashes. Most of them learned later in life too, not just as kittens. They get over the faux-paralysis.
The one exception (my cousin's cat

Maybe it's because I'm in Canada, but even without my drug card, a 3 month supply of the Diane 35 generic costs me about 27 bucks. If I have the drug card, it's like, 8. I know this is super not the case across the board though, and again... Canada!

I came here to write the same thing. No one should be breeding these poor cats, and condemning another generation of them to a miserable life of health problems.

Seconded. When I was a kid we had an OTTB. The poor mare was 10 years old and essentially crippled. You can't race a horse at 2 with a skeleton that isn't fully formed and not expect this shit to happen ALL THE TIME. They pump them out, use them up, and drop them at the slaughter house auctions when its done. There is

So much this.

What frustrates me is the "but you teach them not to point them at people and safety rules, and it's fiiiiine." That works, if the person holding the gun understands fully why these rules are in place, and also has impulse control. These are YOUNG children, and telling them that a gun isn't a toy isn't going to cut

I have a bengal (a rescue) and while he's very friendly, he's absolutely bonkers. He is more energetic, more destructive,more territorial and more needy than any cat I have ever come across. I love him a LOT and he is super fun (always hopping in the shower with me, plays fetch, super smart, waits for me at the door

It sort of makes sense that without size on their side they'd need to be more tenacious, but I've always figured it's mostly "little dog syndrome" where they get away with all sorts of things that a larger horse would immediately be told off for because it's less dangerous/kind of endearing. Mine is a welsh/arab, and

Full disclosure: I would gleefully make fun of a fat groundhog, and that would probably include telling it to do crunches, mostly because I love the idea of a groundhog in a gym.

"Congratulations Canada, on legalizing newspapers in all ten states!"

I know that my mom has had good luck with Paige jeans - they're well cut, and are a higher rise without looking like a highrise/mom jean. I have a couple of pairs too and I love them. No muffin top and no belly pooch!

The one on the left is a Serval (not endangered) and the one on the right is hard to tell... possibly a cougar cub, lion hybrid or a hyena. The company they rented the animals from does supply hyenas, so that's likely it. The spots don't seem right for a regular lion cub.
Making a living by pulling baby animals from

Very good to know! I appreciate it.

No dude, I'm not. There are different types of tigers. For example: siberian tigers and bengal tigers - those are endangered. If a tiger is born and one parent is a siberian and one is a bengal, the tiger does not belong to either subspecies and is therefore not classified as an endangered species by the USDA, isn't