Hi, idk if you have answered this before. What’s your opinion on celebrating birthdays to pets? I guess it’s part of anthroposomething them.

drferox:

It is an example of anthropomorphism, but it’s also potentially part of the human-animal bond, which is why we keep pets in the first place. That bond is important and should be nurtured and if that means your dog (or cat, or fish, or bird, etc) gets a special day once a year, so be it.

The animal probably doesn’t understand the significance of an annual celebration though, the dog probably just enjoys the attention. If you’re both having fun, I don’t see the problem with it.

Lots of people celebrate a ‘gotcha day’ instead of a pet’s birthday though, because they simply don’t know their birthday but do know their adoption day.

The animal has no idea what’s going on, but that doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy the treats and attention. As long as you understand that, go for it. 

TFP soundwave being a sassy boy is the best HC, but in addition I like to imagine that Soundwave acts stoic and edits his voice to be really menacing. He actually sounds like a 21 year old and acts like one too. This brings me to a scenario (regarding how the humans mistake SW for Arcee because of his legs) that KO for example would point out that he has feminine legs and that leads to ‘You know what these legs can do?’ ‘What?’ Then SW proceeds to gracefully jump and kick KO across the room.

He’s got so much bottled-up sass, no one but Laserbeak has any idea. 

If he grew up on an ideal planet, minus Functionalist nonsense and his time in the arenas, he’d probably have been more like Jazz.

cool-critters:

Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus)

The Etruscan shrew is the smallest known mammal by mass, weighing only about 1.8 grams (0.063 oz) on average. It has a body length of about 4 centimetres (1.6 in) excluding the tail. It is characterized by very rapid movements and a fast metabolism, eating about 1.5–2 times its own body weight per day. It feeds on various small vertebrates and invertebrates, mostly insects, and can hunt individuals of the same size as itself. These shrews prefer warm and damp climates and are widely distributed in the belt between 10° and 30°N latitude stretching from Europe and North Africa up to Malaysia. They are relatively rare and are endangered in some countries.

photo credits: wiki, thefeaturedcreature

Source: cool-critters

I can imagine a sleep-deprived Arcee getting the bright idea to cook whatever corpse she’s planning to eat, unaware that Soundwave has hacked the security cameras nearby…only to watch her meal blow up in her face. She’s more offended that anything, probably, mostly at herself for thinking it was a good idea. Soundwave’s silent cackling makes all the decepticon communications fritz out for a second. Years later, Soundwave probably teases her by playing the recording of her reaction on his mask

This is excellent. 

I also like the idea of Arcee not actually hating Soundwave. She’d like to smack him a few times for various things, especially this, but he’s not overly violent or savage. 

allaboardtheloonyexpress:

why-animals-do-the-thing:

rainnecassidy:

kedreeva:

kropotkindersurprise:

2015 – Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American.

I’m reblogging this again because I finally realized why this is so funny to me, as a bird person.

In the first gif, what you’re seeing is a man who has zero idea how to handle a bird. That’s a heavy bird, and he’s got his arm stretched out as far as it will go in an attempt to keep the bird away from his face. What that does is create unstable footing for Uncle Sam. The handler is there trying to hold up Trump’s arm, but the bird has already realized it needs to leave or it will fall. In the first gif the bird is not attacking Trump- it is trying to get away from him so it doesn’t get hurt.

In the second gif, what we see is a bird that remembers what just happened and is blaming Trump for it. Uncle Sam sees Trump reach for its tether, and makes a lunge at Trump’s hand to keep him away. The bird /does not/ want to hang out with Trump because it has learned that Trump has no idea what he is doing.

Uncle Sam is rejecting Trump based on Trump’s proven inability to properly handle Uncle Sam. And that is both hilarious and beautiful.

Good bird.

Always reblog Uncle Sam telling Trump to fuck off

This is a better explanation of these gifs than I could have given!

I had to reblog this, for obvious reasons.

Source: kropotkindersurprise

barbiegal:

i say this like once a month but modern artemis would absolutely be a country butch lesbian wearing aviator shades and a messy ponytail and a camo jacket and hunting boots, she’s in a bigass silver truck with a deer skull mounted on the front, she’s got her gold shotgun next to her and there’s like 10 girls in the back of the truck with beers and she’s doing donuts in the bass pro shops parking lot blasting like dixie chicks