If you’re trying to catch a housecat that’s gotten outside, don’t forget: they’re an ambush predator and you’re a persistence predator.
You have several times more endurance than they do – use that to your advantage!
Don’t run after them; that’s playing to the cat’s strengths, and vigorous pursuit may cause them to hide. Instead, follow them at a brisk walking pace until they get tired and need to have a lie-down, at which point you can simply pick them up and take them home.
Ok but no shit this tactic is what allowed humans to survive pre-civilisation
Some mammoth: *chilling, eating grass, mammothing*
My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.
When I got her, she’d been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when she’d barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and she’s gotta be excited or she just stares at me like “Sorry, the bork system needs charging”) and she’ll do it happily when she’s excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.
What kind of dog is Ezri? I love her!!
I… did not expect this post to blow up this much but I am delighted at all the tags and replies and Ezri has been told the internet thinks she’s a Very Good Dog. 😀
She’s a German spitz – in the same family as keeshonds and pomeranians. She might be crossed with something else as her freckled coat, non-pointy nose, and personality are not standard for her breed (they’re usually a lot more high energy and excitable – she’s super laid back and chill). She’s a bit less fluffy than breed-standard too, mostly because she’s grown out from her spring/summer trim (not usually necessary/good for her type of coat but she gets terribly itchy otherwise). It also makes her look like a puppy of a large breed:
Ezri’s best friend is Murder Cat, who is a gentle friend to humans and Ezri, but does things to mice that would make Hannibal Lecter go “Isn’t that a bit much?”
I got Murder Cat as a kitten, and she used to try to nurse on everything when she was small. Eventually, she settled on her favourite thing to nurse on, Ezri, who has never had puppies and a little confused at first but eventually went with it. She grew out of it, but they have stayed snuggly buddies ever since.
New Years here is full of fireworks outside and Ezri gets Vry Scared. I usually set her up somewhere with a snuggly spot right by me, and Murder Cat comes and does this all night:
She goes everywhere with me in my bakfiets (cargo bike) and lets me warm my hands in her fur on cold days.
And her ears disappear if I say her name to get her attention.
ok so great thanks for coming to my TED talk about my dog, good night, drive safe
I like when a fantasy story goes the extra mile to flesh out a world instead of just slapping on magic and different races and calling it a day.
Like, “there’s fantasy world wrestling” vs “there’s fantasy world wrestling and there are different leagues for each race/weight. Recently as a promotional stunt they had the lightest dwarf against the heaviest elf fighter. Was a fight for the ages!”
It’s not just that there are trolls at every bridge in the city, but that the trolls have unionized and oversee the maintenance and repair of their bridges. They take great pride in them and pass toll booths down through generations.
Unicorns were once super rare, but then breeders domesticated some and keep large herds now. Wild unicorn populations are protected and there’s heavy regulations on the unicorn trade, so you can trace exactly where each came from and what the breeding was.
Not just slapping a giant in the back of a bar scene, of explaining that there is a large door at the back made for deliveries and giant patrons. (and guests that grow to giant proportions while in the establishment) Legally only 1 giant, or 2 half giants, are allowed at a time.
Not just having the Elf district and the Orc district, but having mixed neighborhoods of races based on class and background. Yes there still are “Little Orc York” and such, but there’s also mixed couples, clans of various races, and guilds of all shapes and sizes.
I think i’ve requested this before and idk if anybody replied to it bc i forgot to check on it and ended up losing the post but does anybody have that picture of those girls standing around a very fat tuxedo cat w/ their knees slightly bent? Here’s an extremely quick + bad sketch of my memory of it the colors dont matter all I know is they looked like they were dressed up for a party
“Get familiar with Pia Alize Hazarika and Malathi Jogi. As profiled by FeminisminIndia.com, the Delhi-based illustrator and Bombay-based design student/writer were sick of hearing people try to explain to them why they were doing feminism wrong, so they responded in the way they knew best – with their creativity.
The duo created a comic series called Custom Cuts, which you can view in full on Tumblr, where they draw out typical scenarios and conversations where feminism gets misconstrued in society today. Whether it is discussing rape culture and the way society bends itself to protect perpetrators of assault because they are either A) the United States President, or B) a major sports star, the way the advertising industry has adopted a version of feminism that is more about capitalism than destroying systems of injustice, or simply explaining the important definition of intersectionality which is at the core of today’s movement (Kellyanne, take note!) these comics are brilliant.
“With ‘Custom Cuts’ we want to try to understand and explain the in-between spaces that emerge from widely differing contexts, and the custom-made feminism that lies between the labels of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feminism. While we’re at it, we’d also like to answer some of the questions we often get, including – ‘why are you so angry?’, ‘So, you’re a feminazi?’, ‘Is it feminist to be ‘girly’?’ and ‘how can a feminist like pink?‘” explain Pia and Malathi.”
