i am so delighted by cats, i love that we have little bendy animals that climb all over everything and break shit and dart around our homes at top speed and we’re totally cool with it like “ah yes, there it goes again”
I’m uncomfortable with the realisation that if someone asked him, Brainstorm would install heelys in someone’s pedes.
Rodimus: I wanna wheely away from my feelies
Brainstorm: Say no more, you glorious twinky disaster
Okay, but they wouldn’t just be regular heelys. They’d have extra features that no one asked him for but he included anyway because he can. Like click your heels together to turn them into guns that can also help file your taxes.
Probably paintball. With added hazard of Gravescratch, having dipped his servos into paint, trying to pounce out at them. He’s not much interested in interacting with the twins frequently and for long periods of time, they’re too loud and energetic for his introverted self, but he’ll play with them now and then, and his version of paintball is more like paintclaw.
Three-way board games probably also happen, with lots of playful elbowing.
Blackspark has access to plenty of movies from plenty of different planets, so movie nights with snacks are frequent. Gravescratch will get involved in those as long as the twins stay relatively quiet. He brings his own snacks, though, usually dead things. Has to keep those away from the twins or they’ll try and eat whatever he’s got. Not good for their tanks.
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Protected contact is when there is a barrier between you and an animal. Usually mesh or fence or caging. Free contact means no barrier between trainer and otter. Usually inside the animals enclosure.
You don’t really want to see zoos allowing free contact with large, dangerous animals like big cats. Any facility that has its keepers work free contact with things like tigers and lions is extremely suspect. Elephants, rhinos, and hippos are pretty much never free contact because of how big they are and how much damage they could potentially cause even by mistake. On the other hand, free contact is fairly common with things like smallish monkeys, most birds, and the smaller marine mammals.
Salting or burning them can cause them to regurgitate while still attached, which can introduce weird pathogens into your bloodstream. Pulling at them can rip their teeth off and leave them embedded in your skin. The best way to remove them is to scrape sideways at their mouthparts, using your nail or credit card or something like a spatula to pry them off.
Salting leeches kills them by drying them up, like with slugs, and will remove them but with the aforementioned hazard. You can get all kinds of nasty infections from leech vomit.
If you can stand it, you can always just leave them on until they let go on their own. They drop off once they get full of blood, and they’re pretty much harmless. I did calculate once that about 110 leeches could drink enough of your blood to kill you, but you should be fine leaving leeches on ‘till they drop off if you have fewer than that. Most people can’t put up with that for too long, though, it’s freaky.