Not my normal post, but please spread this around!! I live fairly close to the fires and I know that is bad and how frightened they are! I lost my house in a fire once and the experience was traumatic. So if you, or someone you know lives in the area of the Paradise, or Malibu fires, please do this or share it if you don’t!
No no no no no. Do not leave food and water out for the animals. Definitely bring your animals in because the wild ones will be more frequent in your area but do not leave out food and water for them. They will become dependent on people and if that happens then they cannot survive on their own which harms them more in the long run. The department of wildlife has warned of this as it gets spread through social media every time we are on fire. The animals will be fine. They can find what they need.
Actually, you should probably leave out pans of water, because these animals are fleeing fire and need to cool down and recharge. Food, no; water, yes. They will be able to find food, but leaving some water out for them won’t hurt anything, I don’t think.
water is probably fine, I think? but absolutely avoid any contact with wild animals who show up. keep your own animals indoors out of reach, and stay out of their way and let them go about their business. stay safe out there!
OK we do this pretty much every year in CO and this is how it goes:
WATER IS FINE, WATER IS GOOD. Animals fleeing the fire are more dehydrated than anything else. I reccomend filling up a kidde pool with a couple inches from the garden hose, and leave a couple large rocks in to stablize the pool/let things like birds and bees drink from it. Also include a 2×4 with one end in the pool and the other over the edge to be an escape route for smaller animals. I also reccomend leaving some plates with a bit of water in them for really small animals like spiders, snakes, toads and other things that would have difficulty getting into the pool.
Beyond the necessary stuff to keep your own house safe in the event of fire, SKIP THE YARD WORK- you probably shouldn’t be exterting yourself in the smoke anyway, and fleeing animals will appreciate the additional cover.
LET THEM NAP. Most animals that come to your yard will usually keep moving within a day or so and are only there to rest until they’re well out of the smoke. If you find an animal in your yard that isn’t obviously injured or ill, just give it a wide berth and let it rest. If it’s in EXACTLY the same place after 48 hours, then you should call animal control.
KEEP FOOD, PETS AND CHILDREN INSIDE. Keep your trash in the garage, bring in birdfeeders, and if you let your cats roam… just don’t in general, but right now is a super bad time becuase there’s hungry coyotes about. Stick your head out the back door and give your yard a quick look before letting the dog or children out and supervise them while they’re outside.
EXCEPTION TO THE FOOD RULE: GARDENS. When animals learn there’s food in houses or trash cans, that’s not great. Foraging food off of plants like munching your tomatoes and that zucchini you weren’t going to eat is less of an issue, because it doesn’t really teach them to associate humans and houses with food. Let them monch your crops.
SECURE YOUR HOUSE COMPLETELY- lock doors, block off any pet doors you have, cover your window wells, and lock all your windows, even the ones on the upper floors. This will keep both displaced wildlife AND smoke out of your home. If possible, see if you can seal off your attic. If not, make sure your attic acess is secured. Racoons and bears are sneaky.
OBEY ANY AND ALL EVACUATION NOTICES, BURSH-CLEARING INSTRUCTIONS AND ANY OTHER INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO YOU BY EMERGENCY SERVICES. Stay safe kids.
“celebration”: bit of an overstatement. soundwave: merely going about usual duties with slight sense of renewed determination from having passed new milestone of survival. and also wearing party hat
laserbeak: appreciates her own extra hat as well. apparently this makes her “double the forgeday-haver” as myself. this is blatantly false but i will allow it if it makes her happy
May your Monday be motivated like these baby sting rays attempting to scale their window
*your Monday, whatever it may be
For anyone curious, this is a very common behavior among stingrays in aquariums. Stingrays normally flutter along the bottom of the water, and they rarely, if ever, encounter steep walls. When it finds the side of the tank, a stingray in an aquarium simply keeps going as though the tank wall is the bottom of the tank. This is why you see rays in touch tanks coming up to the surface and sticking out a little bit- they’re programmed for “swim along solid surface”. It’s not going to do them any harm, it’s not stressful, it’s just what they do.
In other words, these lil guys, who do not have swim bladders to keep them still in the water, are probably pretty confused as to why they keep sliding along the ground. They can’t just hover in place like most fish do.
Anonymous said to @ask-drferox : I’ve seen a couple of vet shows on TV where people seem to opt
against amputation any time a limb is still attached, and it doesn’t
make any sense to me. A vet talks about months of healing time and the
potential that it will never heal at all, and someone goes “okay, yeah,
that sounds good”, but I see all these Youtube video of 3-legged dogs
and cats seeming perfectly happy. Seems to me like healing a shattered
leg is probably rougher on the animal than just removing it. Right?
On the one hand, amputating a leg takes about 2-3 weeks to heal, while healing a fracture takes at least 8. So certainly amputation looks like faster healing time and with potentially less pain depending on how mangled the leg is.
But, if you amputate a leg for injury, you can’t do that again in the future if the animal mangles another leg. If you are talking about a breed prone to arthritis, or an individual with other joint pathology, they may not cope as well on 3 legs as they would have on 4, even if the 4th leg isn’t perfect.
Some people also have very strong aversions to amputating their pet’s limb, which is a fair initial assessment, it is a big deal, or figure they can always try to heal the leg first, and amputate if they can’t get it to heal adequately. You can always change your mind and amputate later.
Sometimes you don’t have a choice, for example if there’s a bone cancer or no nerve function. But if you have the choice, it’s reasonable to try to preserve normal function as much as you can.
Those happy Youtube videos certainly have a place, they’ve vvery helpful in convincing people who were otherwise trying to choose between amputation and euthanasia, but trying to save the leg isn’t unreasonable when you consider the future of that animal. What if it tears its cruciate when it’s only got one hind leg?
Both a bad fracture and an amputation require major surgery, and the initial post-op recovery period is similar for the first 2 weeks or so, but a fracture repair requires more confinement, and possible bandages, for a longer period of time than an amputation does.
thinking bout Roddy doing his level best to cuddle Megatron. Roddy is sure that in his entire evil life, nobody’s ever held him in their arms because, well… Megatron. It’s not easy, he can’t cover enough surface area. Megatron is way too large and there’s only so much of him.
tired of Rodimus aggressively starfishing on him, Megatron barks at him cease this. you know I’m capable of mass displacement. and he knows he’s made a huge mistake when Rodimus’s optics dilate until they’re taking up his whole face. his existence is a farce now, just a never-ending series of capitulations to rodimus’s every whim, and the only thing he can do is sigh and wait for Rodimus to tell him how small.
The fiddle-string snake (Imantodes cenchoa), also known as the blunthead tree snake,is a species of rear-fangedcolubrid snake endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America. They are known for their slender bodies and large heads, of which the eyes make up 26%. Their excellent vision helps them hunt for frogs, lizards, and reptile eggs.
the satin edges are there as a cruel joke to really emphasize just how coarse and scratchy and weirdly dry the rest of the blanket is
Those blankets are fine if they aren’t old. You just don’t know how to properly use a blanket I guess
Yeah, I was under the impression that “using a blanket” involved putting it on a bed, sleeping under it, and occasionally coming into physical contact with it. After encountering many instances of this specific blanket, I have come to the conclusion that the proper way to use a blanket is to:
1.) put on thick rubber gloves to minimize contact with coarse fibers 2.) pick up blanket (carefully!!!) 3.) place blanket into wood chipper
Honestly I think these particular blankets are woven from the utricating hairs of a tarantula.
Gotta agree with Glumshoe on this one.
I am offended that y’all don’t love these blankets, my baby blanket was this type of blanket like honestly if a baby can live with this type of blanket so can you
Babies cannot eloquently express their displeasure. If babies could write irritated posts on the internet about their least favorite textures, I’m sure they would.
Also, like, sensory issues exist for some people??
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