creekfiend:

She splooting ON TOP OF SILVER?

sidetongue:

utter chaos at the beach this morning

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ccakey:

mood

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doberbutts:

Okay but is waking up to your puppies cuddle-wrestling on top of you anything except heaven?

dndogs:

my friend wanted matching photos of her dogs for wall art and I’m so jealous that I don’t have enough dogs to do this for myself

jazzhell:

jazzhell:

i’m in love with these terrible dogs

They’re just so well shaped……….

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pocketdogs:

play?

k9kesi:

“Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can’t support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There’s such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and for the mistakes we make because of those illusions.”

— Dean Koontz, from “A Big Little Life.”

hey doc! can cats fall into the same ‘my stomach hurts, so I won’t eat, so I’m hungry, so my stomach hurts even more, so I won’t eat’ trap that people can fall into? I had to bring a cat to the vet on wednesday night for just … so much barf, and the vet found nothing wrong, gave him fluids and an antiemetic, and sent us on our way. it’s SATURDAY and I had to take him to the vet again because he just refuses to eat??? and they found literally nothing wrong??? it’s like he’s on a hunger strike.

gettingvetted:

petshrink:

theflashisgone:

ask-a-vetblr:

vet-and-wild here.

That’s a really hard question to answer because animals can’t exactly tell us why they don’t want to eat. Physiologically, it’s reasonable to think that this could happen, but we’ll never be able to know for sure. Stress, pain, illness, and nausea can all cause an animal to go off feed.

Ferox here.

Sometimes cats do seem to ‘blame’ food for making them sick. It’s not uncommon for them to completely go off a food that was force fed to them while ill, or what they were fed in hospital, plausibly from the negative association with hiw they felt at the time. Sometimes they want to eat but just wont unless given something completeky different.

I offered Morgan some a/d during her last presumed pancreatitis flare, and she gave me the most hilariously disgusted look I have ever seen a cat make.

Ooh it’s behavior nerd time! Taste aversion is one of the most widespread and strongest phenomena in learning theory. In most situations, what happens immediately following an action is what is considered the consequence. This is why we say you need to mark or reward a behavior within 1 second for the connection to be made.

Taste aversion is unique because feeling ill can be paired with something eaten hours ago. This is presumed to be an evolutionary survival instinct. If a food makes you feel sick, avoid it so you don’t get sick again (or die). When I was 5 I got a stomach bug after I had eaten fresh raspberries earlier in the day. I avoided eating fresh raspberries for a good 10+ years after that. It is an incredibly potent learning concept. It’s also the reason I never force feed animals or feed them in the hospital the food I would want them to eat when they get home.

I wish that dogs would have a food aversion to things that gave them foreign bodies…