Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "GeoBeats Animals" channel.

  1. they must have meant the resemblance to a wild rabbit
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  2. I think it's more common with dedicated owners of long-lived pets like parrots and turtles, since the potential for those pets to outlive their owners is commonly recognised. when people have pets with a 15 year life expectancy, it's common for them to not consider the possibility of dying that soon, but when you have a pet projected to live another 50-100 years, then the pet outliving you is an easy possibility for people to accept without being tied to accepting that they may die soon, which is a realisation most people try to avoid.
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  3. those dogs look hilarious when they're pretending to be ferocious.
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  4. yeah, I understand the point of fostering, but I think in this particular case the dog is too attached and insecure (would handle rehoming worse than most dogs), and I think the little girl makes for a good excuse to keep the dog, too. the mother doesn't sound like she would handle it well either. foster failing would be better for most dogs individually (they don't want to have to get used to new people again), but with this one more so than most.
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  5. wow, she improved A LOT! it might be good to show the vet who recommended euthanasia a video of how the cat was then and how she is now. that she's no longer just flopping around, but can walk, pounce a little, hold her head still and stand up for herself against other cats (in a casual way). the vet may not be aware that such a big improvement is possible.
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  6. interesting that the other ducks have expectations for what a duck should be like that sunny doesn't live up to, but the cats and dogs are fine with him because they're not so discerning about ducks.
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  7. putting down a young dog because they're blind is a pretty ignorant reaction. I thought it was generally known that sight is much less important for dogs than for humans. I think deafness is a bit worse for a pet dog, since you pretty much can't let them off leash because you can't recall them. plus other commands that can be important are much more difficult - smart humans can teach dogs sign commands, but those can only work when the dog expects a command and is looking at you, so deaf dogs can ignore you much more than a hearing dog.
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  8. with cats, it makes much less of a difference, but with dogs, deafness makes letting them off leash outside much riskier due to inability to recall, and it makes training and using commands more difficult because it requires the dog looking at you. some dog owners already have trouble with giving clear vocal commands rather than talking to dogs like humans, nevermind reading and using body language - those people would be way too dumb for a deaf dog. blind dogs are rather unproblematic, perhaps even easier to handle than seeing dogs because the blindness slows them down. just have some awareness of not moving stuff around in your home to keep paths clear for the dog to walk without bumping into or tripping over something. oh, and a lot of deaf cats and dogs are loud. they tend to instinctively meow/bark/whine, and a lot of them do it as loud as they can, which hearing animals rarely do.
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  9. I think the main problem is that many people including owners don't respect small dogs' personal space, and small dogs learn that the only way to keep people away is an exaggerated display of aggression. a lot of them wnd up doing it to anybody they don't know preemptively because it just becomes a habit.
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  10. omg I love that she does the stewie griffin "mom" thing xD also some of this does sound much more convincingly like cosmo understands many of those words than other talking animals claims going around (like dogs and cats pressing buttons).
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  11. I wonder if anybody is breeding rats specifically for longevity. that would be really nice. maybe it could even be combined with human-related life extension studies? I think I might recall that rats largely die of cancers, but of course preventing that is also specifically very relevant to humans. we won't be breeding humans for longevity, but maybe genetic rat longevity or cancer resistance could guide human mRNA therapies that imitate the function of those genes.
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  12. some animals do seem to understand death, but they tend to need to be around the corpse for a while to get it. I think for some mammels in captivity (especially those that give birth to single babies, like apes or horses), it is common practice with stillbirths to leave the dead baby with the mother until the mother leaves the baby, because they can take hours or days to evenrually understand that the baby isn't going to live, and if you take the dead baby away before they do, they can get very stressed out searching for it.
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  13. it's a compilation of successes, the cat definitely does not do all that with any reliability.
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  14. I'm pretty sure that's the situation with rabbits EVERYWHERE. they're cheap to breed and to buy, and people think that they can just keep them in a little cage.
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  15. yeah, I think it's largely lost on observers how impressive the very small amount of mistakes that these birds make is (unless you know other less perfectly imitating bird species for comparison). this bird is saying all the words in the right order, all the syllables in order, doesn't mix up consonants and pronounces everything distinctly, and also imitates and varies expressive intonation. a bird this good at talking and learning new phrases (or songs) would also be able to learn to say a sentence in any other human language perfectly much quicker than almost any human.
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  16. takes a pet like no problem
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  17. Abra Cadavra yeah it always makes me lose some respect for people when they buy dogs and really just want a pet like anybody else, so they have no excuse for needing a bigger selection of dogs than they would have with rescue organizations. I particularly hate how many people insist on getting puppies, because they want a puppy more than they want a dog. nobody should get any pet for how they are as a baby, because for most of their lives they won't be babies, so anybody who ONLY wants to get a puppy and not an adult dog should not have any dog in my opinion. in fact given how lazy most people are compared to dogs, I'd say that for half of them an old dog or a dog with a movement-impairing disability would be ideal to get the dogs and humans on the same page in regards to the length and speed of the walkies.
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  18. "I try not to encourage her" - he does though, by looking and laughing at her. she's just doing what gets her attention. if you actually want your dog to be more calm and quiet, you need to give the dog more attention when it's calm and quiet than when it's loud and excited. if you forget about the dog when the dog is quiet and only pay attention when it's loud, you are encouraging the loud behaviour.
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  19. the slothing is extremely hilarious, and he looks like one of the sweetest dogs I've ever seen.
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  20. it's similar with dogs. don't come too close, and also don't keep either your body or your face pointed at them (because that looks like you're about to move closer). I think with scared dogs, short eye contact that you break is good, whereas with scared cats I'm not sure if they appreciate any eye contact (they give less feedback than dogs). if you do make eye contact, break it with that cat slow blink. I also do it with dogs, but it's a cat thing.
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  21. random bill clinton xD
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  22.  @ROCKSTAR_RAT  if shock is what can kill swimming rabbits, an attentive pet owner can discern whether that's a risk for a particular rabbit in a particular situation or not by reading the rabbit's body language for signs of stress (I have no idea if the rabbit in the video looks stressed though, I've never had a rabbit). and gradual introduction of water seems like an obvious precaution, similar to how you might introduce a dog to water to avoid them hating baths. I guess swimming is pretty odd for rabbits so you might as well just not do it, but there probably are odd rabbits that like it, like how there are odd house cats that like to swim, too.
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  23. it is in fact the cat's meow
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  24. ​ @liquidityprovider1  *facter
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  25. yeahI figured he'd get big. also if I understand the video correctly, he is at most 4 months old in all the clips,so he's not nearly fully grown yet. I think he's some sort of pointer/great dane mix.
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  26.  @DawnOldham  I hear parrots as pets are extraordinarily demanding of attention, and a lot like having a (very loud and badly behaved) small child forever. so certainly not good for someone who likes a bit of quiet.
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  27. it sounds like those two squirrels have been bonded for quite some time. I think if they were able to breed, they already would have.
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  28. poor husband, she's giving the dogs treats for being loud 🙄
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  29. It's Daxx well, you don't need easter to buy bunnies as pets. japan seems to be in more of an exotic pet trend (though that's a very different price segment than rabbits). otters for example have been extremely fashionable as pets in japan in recent years in spite of the fact that they really are borderline unsuitable for being kept in any kind of indoor environment (it sucks to keep them without a sizeable body of water, and they stink and are crazy). I bet sugar gliders are big in japan, too.
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  30. seems like a special cat
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  31. that thumbnail is a cool visualisation of the typical eye positioning on a predator species vs a prey species - humans have eyes pointing forward to enable both to focus on prey very well, whereas rabbits have eyes directly on the sides of their heads to watch 360° around (and above) them.
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  32. yeah I've heard of that before but I'm still surprised, I think that's a lot older than horses get. I think around 35 is very old for a horse. I've seen 30 year old horses, this donkey looks half their age.
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  33. I think it would be pretty funny to teach a dog that can say a good "no" how to use it. ^^
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  34.  @BunnyQueen97  not exactly, they probably had different colours
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  35. I think it's actually possible that this one was abandoned during a fitness test that he failed because of his blindness. lots of animal parents reject their young when they notice a disability. it makes evolutionary sense to not feed young that don't have a decent chance of surviving and procreating. in animals with litters of multiples, the other litter mates get fed more that way, and in animals with only one young per birth (horses for example, which also reject foals quite often), not feeding a disabled baby lets the mother gather fat reserves for the next breeding season. I think in most cases, it happens right after birth/hatching, but it's plausible that blindness in particular would take a while for the opossum mother to notice - sylvester was able to feed and hold on and navigate in close proximity, and looked generally normal. what a lot of animals are wired for is for parents to reject young with large physical deformities.
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  36. he does have somewhat large ears, but shouldn't he have larger ears than that if he got legs that short from basset hound genetics? well, I don't know how dominant or recessive the giant ears are, and I'm pretty sure that the short legs of various breeds are a specific form of dwarfism that's either not expressed or expressed 100%. I wouldn't exclude the possibility of a dachshund cross, crosses between small and large dogs do exist (with the mother being the big one). I've seen a german shepherd-dachshund cross that looked like an almost full size german sheperd but with dachshund leg proportions like hank.
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  37. based on the idea mentioned in the video that rabbit psychology is shaped heavily by being prey animals, it could be that rabbits (maybe just some of them) automatically get anxious when they're alone because they feel unsafe. rabbits in the wild live in groups for safety in numbers. not only can predators usually only attack one rabbit at a time, so each individual rabbit is safer with others around (plus the many rabbits may distract the predator and make it hard to focus on one), but also the extra rabbit eyes, ears and noses increase the likelihood of a nearby predator being spotted in time. it would make evolutionary sense for rabbits to get anxious when there are no other rabbits nearby because that would be an unsafe situation in the wild. if a rabbit is alone, every predator around is going to focus on just that one rabbit, and there aren't any other rabbits around to warn it.
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  38. different cats have very different personalities. some cats (I think males in particular) do mean stuff like sneak up on you from behind or approach from the front pretending to want to be pet just to bite you. and most cats seem to do the belly rub trap. xD cats tend to on average be a bit more headstrong in enforcing their personal space than dogs. you need to show them that you can be trusted not to touch them without their permission (also very important for your son to know). the same really also applies to dogs as well as most other animals, but the percentage of dogs who won't mind you being rude is higher than the percentage of cats.
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  39. american opossums are quite ugly. australian ones are very cute.
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  40. they haven't, they still plan to give away that dog. :(
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  41. fear of frogs? that makes no sense.
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  42. Quagmire that would be an argentine black and white tegu, which are quite famous for being the most dog-like of the big lizards in character and making really good pets for a far too large and expensive to keep lizard.
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  43. no, I think they made him a dog. xD
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  44. Miss Jackson & The Grief Content ranbits breed like rabbits, and only require a vegetarian diet, which is a lot cheaper than carnivore feed. baby rabbits are probably some of the easiest mammals to sell to impulae buyers via pet store fisplays in most countries because they're very cute. I think a lot of people just assume that all pet rodents can be and normally are kept in little cages, and for people who believe that, I think rabbits can seem particularly appealing because their bigger size tends to make them seem more personable than guinea pigs or hamsters.
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  45. aww it's cute that her duck mom is her best friend even though she grew up apart from her.
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  46.  @BunnyQueen97  that's not true. common rabbits here in europe and anywhere else (they're a common invasive species) live in groups/colonies in shared tunnels. the solitary ones around here are hares, which don't burrow either.
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  47. *during birth
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  48. I disagree somewhat. leaving a good foster home is generally not good for an individual dog (it's good for the next one), but still being young is going to be helpful for this one, as is the fact that she's very outgoing and not scared. a real indication that a dog is a worse candidate than average for rehoming would be if that dog took a long time to adapt to its life and to the people in it. it's going to be difficult to find the dog another home of equal quality though, because that looks excellent.
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  49. I would absolutely not have thought that bats carry their babies in flight much. I thought they left them hanging in the colony cave.
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  50. 18 years for a dog that big? damn
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  51. "say 'mama'!" smol demon noise
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  52. this is your brain on peanut butter any questions?
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  53. kathy smith that's hilarious. I'm convinced that dogs have a sense of humor and make jokes.
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  54. flying foxes are not one species, the name is used for 61 species in two genera. and many other fruit bats outside of those two genera also are cute. it's mostly the big eyes that make the difference, and it helps that fruit bats tend to have noses and ears that more closely resemble other mammals because they're not intricately evolved for super precise echolocation.
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  55. hmm I wonder if they know what a merkin is.
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  56. I like how some of the pittie types seem to be very good at making weird noises.
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  57. those are some of the most expressive animals I have ever seen. they seem very entertaining and remind me of cartoon characters.
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  58. cats love having shelves to walk on. if they're scared of people or other animals, being higher upmakes them feel safe.
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  59. yeah, this doesn't look very safe to me either. what's shown in the video does have a playful character, but that snarling indicates that there is some real irritation involved. and the wife is encouraging it by giving the dogs treats for being loud or "dramatic". not only is she abusing her husband by training the dogs to be louder, but she is likely also training the dogs to antagonise one another.
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  60. it is largely genetic, but he looks even more muscly than many pit bulls. you can tell that he gets a lot of exercise despite being blind.
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  61. seal videos
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  62. maybe, but I think it's hard to say in advance when it's for an indeterminate amount of time. if you know that it's only for some defined number of weeks or months, it should be easy enough.
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  63. that's a perfect dog!
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  64. you'll get a very bad reception if you try to drop off you own dog's newborn puppies at a shelter.
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  65. I get the sense that these people are VERY good at dog training.
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  66. you lap, I dog
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  67. that squirrel does not look physically capable of being wild.
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  68. when you're breeding dogs, puppies are very replaceable. if the story is true, the main problem was that the puppy got rejected by his mother, so he was going to require bottle feeding and all that.
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  69. how is that like a lizard? smiley was eating with her tongue, lizards typically use their tongues very little to eat.
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  70. :}
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  71. in fact a lot of people would say that it's unacceptably unsafe to have a big pit bull-type dog around small kids like those when the dog sometimes doesn't recognize family members and growls at them. there's a whole movement of people who suck at dog communication/training, got a pit bull anyways, and then something happened where the dogs bit people and now, because they don't want to accept responsibility, the owners go around telling everybody that pit bulls are evil and "just snap" completely out of the blue and attack people and especially kids. I watched a BS "documentary" about that once, and one mother campaigning against pit bulls told a story of her own two pit bulls pulling her baby from her arms and attacking the baby, and her reaction was to run away and call for help... she didn't even realize what a bizarre dysfunctional relationship with her dogs that indicated, that a mother would be so scared of her own family's dogs that she would run away as they attacked her baby. it's so weird what sorts of relationships some people have with dogs, and then they think that they can judge that there's something wrong with the dogs...
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  72. Pavan Kumar birds poop a lot, that's all.
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  73. I'm getting an cermet vibes
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  74.  @k.ferguson9385  the wife is deliberately making the dogs louder. she said she gives them treats for being loud. she said her husband doesn't like it, but she doesn't care. this behaviour from the wife is absurd, even the way she tells it makes her look really bad.
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  75. I've seen in mentioned in other videos like this that some other such oddball animals in farm animal sanctuaries get along better with animals not of their own species. I suspect that there is a tendency for members of their own smecies to be more judgemental and weirded out by them because they have an opinion about what an animal of that species should be like. the goats judge rhea for goating wrong, the pigs don't.
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  76. 1:37 pretty sure that's a dog making a joke
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  77. the rescue wanting to adopt out those two cats together was also a smart move to weed out people who would exclusively want a dwarf cat, which would indicate a likely bad attitude of them being smitten by the cuteness, but not properly appreciative of cats, perhaps falsely assuming that the cat really is permanently a kitten with kitten behaviour, and possibly thinking that they could get away with less space and exercise for the cat by getting a dwarf - when in reality, the main practical difference when getting pets with dwarfism is that vet costs are quite likely to be much higher due to the potential for many dwarfism-related illnesses and disabilities.
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  78. I think he looks soft
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  79. is that SNORING????
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  80. does she get them all desexed? or at least all the males (castration is easier than spaying)? I would think that she absolutely has to in order to avoid a population explosion, but it may also be a bit expensive?
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  81. maybe somebody from an animal rescue organisation could talk her out of it and get her to help out with an organised rescue instead while keeping a reasonable number of animals at home?
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  82. very underwatered cermet
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  83. actually fennecs don't have those big ears because they need them to hearprey underfroune - other apecies can hear plenty good with wmaller ears. red and arctic foxes hear rodents under snow well enough to pounce directly on them. fennecs have big ears because those add skin surface that helps to cool down the body as blood circulated through it. animals from hotter places have big ears (elephants, painted dogs), and animals from cold places have small ears (wolves, arctic foxes). I think with canines it's particularly noticeable because they're otherwise very similar.
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  84. apparently most bottle-reared wombats still turn a bit hostile towards humans once they're ableto take care of thmselves (mightbe especially males like this video alluded to). I havw seen other videos on youtube of adult wombats that didn't, and they were pointed out as rare exceptions. for releasing them, it's ideal. they largely rewild themselves.
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  85. I think full blindness from old age is somewhat rare in dogs, though many get bad vision from catracts (if your dog's eyes get cloudy, that's what that is). generally, blindness is one of the less bad health issues for old dogs because it isn't painful. there are plenty of worse things to worry about than blindness though, such as cancer, painful joint issues, or cardiovascular disease (the latter two are the primary reasons why it's a massive problem if your dog is fat, because it makes them die early and painfully). pet health insurance could be nice, but if you can't afford it, you should probably at least google around for tips about a reasonable minimum of medical checkups your dog should have that may be able to detect issues early enough to do somethingabout them (look for sources other than vet clinics that benefit from getting people to apend as much money as possible at the vet). if your dog is a specific breed or specific mix of breeds, you can look up diseases that are particularly common with those breeds (sadly dog breeding in general has long been very irresponsibly focused on creating aesthetics, and almost all breeds have specific bred-in hereditary diseases because getting those out of the gene pool was not considered very important). and you can look up how to monitor an old dog's health yourself, like looking for lumps that could be cancer every one in a while and such.
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  86.  @whispermcgaughy7251  like I said, look for sources of information that don't benefit from getting you to spend money. if you take your dog to a vet and ask for advice, the vet is financially incentivised to tell you to bring in the dog often and buy all the tests and treatments they offer. it's not in their interest to tell you how to get the most benefit from whatever budget you can afford, and certainly not to tell you how to do things yourself that could potentially prevent issues that would require veterinary care. that's probably why from what I hear, many vets are very tolerant of people overfeeding their pets - because it creates problems that the vet ends up getting paid for (and of course those owners also tend to be very exhausting to confront, because in their mind, they are being nice to their pets by constantly feeding them). there certainly are vets who largely prioritise the animals' wellbeing, but they're likely to lose money by doing it.
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  87. that is an very sporty cermet!
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  88.  @saragois6054  yes, I have yet to hear of any place where you're not allowed to breed any animal you're allowed to keep
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  89. very cute, but he's definitely fat to an unhealthy degree and the diet is not working. I don't believe that vet.
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  90.  @DrummerGrl001  I think it really is an imitation of stewie
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  91. wtf this video needs a sadness trigger warning
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  92. 1-2 years life span???? I would have guessed at least 3-5! :(
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  93. trial baby success 👍
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  94. that's a BIG CHUNGUS
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  95. bullshit. somebody in the family is overfeeding him, and not with vegetables. it is physically impossible for a physically active cat like this to get that obese without getting fed way too much. and speaking of physical activity, the video shows them encouraging this cat to jump, which is a really bad idea. fat cats are naturally not careful enough about not damaging their joints, they jump harder than their joints can take and cripple themselves.
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  96. *have
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  97. you could keep plants only in hanging pots.
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  98. rehabbing bats is brave, considering that they are the animals most likely to have various extremely deadly human-transmissable diseases, only possibly rivalled by primates. australian fruitbats specifically are known to transmit at least two very deadly viruses to humans. one is a lyssavirus that is only known to have infected three humans (all died), so it is thought to not be very transmissable, though one case was a wildlife caregiver, and the other two were even lesser contact incidents than are to be expected for a rehabilitator, in which people had very brief contact with a bat and got scratched. the other one is called hendra virus, it's best known for infecting horses through bat poop and killing 75% of them, but has also infected humans more often than the lyssavirus, and killed 60% of those.
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  99. at first I thought they put a wig on gertrude. those feathers are quite something.
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  100. there are restaurants that keep bears as attractions? 0_O
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  101. no peanut butter after midnight!
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  102. I like opossums. the american ones are just ugly and do creepy poses as a defensive posture.
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  103. DOG BREEDERS HATE THIS TRICK
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  104. typical double merle breeder - merle dogs are popular, so they figure it's worth breeding double merles to get more merle puppies that can be sold for more money, and just have the 10% or so that are disabled killed.
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  105. orange cats generally, I think
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  106. basically the forrest gump of opossums?
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  107. yeah a lot of parrots live that long. the behaviour here is apparently very typical for a cockatoo, they are known for being the most toddler-like and extremely attention-hungry parrots.
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  108. -sad music -talking about pet in past tense OH NO ☹️
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  109. I think she's fully or mostly pomeranian. pomeranians might be the most plushie-like dog breed, they look like poofy teddy bears.
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  110. "affects about 20 dogs in the world"? that can't be right, I have seen at least 3 or 4 already on youtube. I have even seen a video of a wild raccoon with short spine syndrome. and I have seen big ed.
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  111. so how much of spain did she burn for the gender reveal?
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  112. he kinda looks like an big cermet.
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  113. Natalie Martinez legally you are correct that it's banned to take any amphibians from the wild in a lot of places. practically, it can be totally fine if you're invested enough in it do take care of them ok and to know what species you're taking. frog and toad tadpoles are easier to keep than most aquarium fish before they change from vegetarians to carnivores. salamanders and newts are a little more difficult because they start out as carnivores and require live food (I think). in a little aquarium with a big enough water surface for gas exchange (not a fish bowl) with pond water from the place of origin and some plants, with maybe a low flow bubbler filter thing and not too many tadpoles, kept at a cool enough temperature, there isn't much that can go wrong. obviously you should only take eggs from what you know to be non-threatened species that are common to your area. really the biggest excuse to do it is that the survival rates of amphibian eggs and tadpoles are super super low, it's like one in a hundred that even makes it out of the water. if you do an ok job, you are massively boosting the survival chances of those couple of eggs you put in your aquarium. just put them back where they came from when they get ready to go on land, otherwise you'll need to make a much bigger effort to build an aquarium-terrarium combo in a way bigger tank, and start feeding them insects and what not.
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  114.  @k.ferguson9385  she said in the video that he has a problem with it.
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  115.  @k.ferguson9385  why are you defending her? she is abusive.
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  116. what's up with the bottlefeeding of adult kangaroos?
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  117. I don't approve of rehoming this dog.
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  118. "oh no, she's talking in past tense! :(" - me watching the video
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  119.  @waltervega8730  they are fine, but they are showing some aggression towards one another. this is a well known issue with same sex dogs living together. the clips in the video look like they're largely playing, but not entirely. I know that dogs growling and barking seemingly aggressively is often not serious at all. I think the snarling is a somewhat worse sign. it's a more direct threat to bite.
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  120. 0:39 that's an extremely tolerant cat
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  121. pet owners stop blaming your pets for being fat challenge (impossible)
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  122. I think that was slowed down
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  123. hecc
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  124. sounds like the people who had those goats in a garage bought them very small, as the goat version of "teacup pigs".
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  125. I would guess that he does have some kind of mental disorder that's not normally very noticeable (though I wonder if there is something of the sort that occurs in other mammals with outward-turned eyes like those) which, largely temporarily, got a lot worse through the combination of malnutrition and solitary confinement - in humans as well, some types of malnutrition can cause or worsen psychiatric symptoms, and solitary confinement commonly does as well, which is why past a few weeks, it is generally considered to be torture. obviously the US has its very own definition of a whole list of things that are not torture when the US does it, and america keeps an uncommonly high percentage of the huge percentage of its population that's incarcerated in solitary confinement long-term or permanently.
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  126. he looks like he's REALLY enjoying the hay! xD
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  127. lulu does NOT look like a 13 year old big dog! :o
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  128. 2:58 you can see that her front legs are malformed somehow, too. mochi is clearly the result of reckless breeding for cuteness only, causing various health issues. do not breed or buy munchkin cats!
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  129. yeah, this chihuahua needs a diet though.
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  130. it's probably very useful for his outdoor survival to have grown up with the one dog that he needs to avoid, that should make him much more likely to be cautious around other dogs. in fact, considering the intent to release, they definitely should not have socialised this bird with dogs at all, you shouldn't socialise any animal intended to be released with any other species of animal, or at least not potentially dangerous species. hand-raised and released wild animals bonding with humans is also dangerous for their later wildlife, but it's much harder to avoid, and may in some more social and parental species be less bad than isolating the animal entirely. and a released smaller animal getting close to random humans is much less likely to get them hurt than doing the same to dogs or cats, since humans are less likely to attack them and even if they do, they're likely to not be as fast and coordinated.
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  131. huh? where do shelters euthanize healthy friendly kittens? wouldn't those normally be at the bottom of the list?
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  132.  @danjordan1979  🌻🙂
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  133. that dog is all ears
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  134. squeak
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  135. feral means descended from domesticated animals. the pigs in hawaii come from escaped domestic pigs, there were no pigs in hawaii before humans brought pigs. I think the hogs in the mainland US are also entirely non-native, but those might involve some more direct european wild boar ancestors that may have been introduced to america for hunting. certainly some of them look like it.
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  136. "soylent green is people" "spam is pigs"
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  137. she's not having conversations. she just thinks she's being asked what she's thinking of, and her answer is always "bird". that noise is only for "I see birds", a lot of cats do it. zoe is clearly obsessed with birds, she says "bird" even when she's not looking at them. other cats meow, zoe says "bird".
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  138. there already is a proper mini husky breed
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  139. birthday april 1st? that's quite funny.
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  140. 1:59 well if you say it like that xD
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  141. floofy piebald tabby
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  142. dogs>cats, but this cat is not dog-like (except maybe if he walks particularly well on leash, which the video didn't show).
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  143.  @pairrynwatson4229  yes, but it was too short to show if the cat's behaviour was unusual.
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  144.  @iwillstealbradyandlockhimi3523  even cats that like to walk on leash typically don't do it like dogs. they don't heel and they don't tend to walk long distances, they just go around investigating and expect the human to follow.
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  145.  @TheDiner50  livestock guardian dogs are bred to live and work largely independently of humans. but they make bad pets because of it, because they have a really strong tendency to make their own judgment calls on who to threaten or attack, and are a lot less interested in human guidance or approval than other dogs.
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  146. 3:45 random gameboy sound
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  147. duck noises
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  148. very cute little idiot dog, but she needs a diet.
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  149. that is one happy dog
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  150. pretty birb
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  151. I hope the new owners are up for it, because this is always going to be a high maintenance dog. the belgian malinois is known as pretty much the most behaviorally difficult dog breed. they're extremely high-strung, and if they're not occupied enough, they have a strong inclination towards aggression and destruction. except for some much larger guard dogs and livestock guardian dogs (or wolf hybrids), they're the breed that dog professionals are most scared of.
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  152. 2:41 the kid watering the alpaca xD
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  153. it could be related to vets seeing so many lazy owners lacking dedication that they just assume that they can estimate how much effort is too much. though an early diagnosis of swimmer syndrome in particular really does appear to be too minor of a problem to recommend euthnasia (like this woman said in the video, that can be largely fixed in a few weeks). vets should generally not make recommendations to euthanise for reasons other than the animal's suffering, and instead just clearly communicate the amount of effort and the costs for the owners, and what results are to be expected.
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  154. I always appreciate you uploading videos that show that old dogs are perfect for a lot of people.
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  155. maam your birb looks weirb
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  156. I didn't even know anybody bred dachshunds in those colours.
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  157. aww... it's pretty hilarious though that peewee is deaf while having ears like a fennec fox.
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  158. I think we know what a wombat is.
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  159. when she said "PKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHHHHHH", I felt that
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  160. 2:46 interesting dog introduction technique, looks like it works well.
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  161. I find black cats prettier than many other cats
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  162. don't name your pets for being fat, make them not fat! that's very unhealthy especially for cats.
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  163. I see they know about the trick of putting funny clothes on pibbles so that strangers are nice to them.
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  164. I would guess that it's made for newborn babies
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  165. other dogs about the mail carrier: "this fucking guy keeps trying to break into our home! 😡" piggie: "my friend visits me every day! 😛"
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  166. no
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  167.  @gamer-px5cu  cats a dumb as rocos compared to dogs, dogs have like two times the brain power.
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  168. in germany we have some prety dumb dog breed bans too, but in my city, there at least is an exception that those breeds can be owned if the dog came from a shelter.
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  169. uhm actually she's leucistic, not an albino.
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  170. that dog is absurdly cute.
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  171.  @lisabelle7553  that's because you know less xD
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  172. 1:30 I love the bow
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  173. I feel sorry for his previous owner. I wonder where they went where they couldn't take the bird... maybe an elder care home? he's clearly very used to being very close with nice humans, and he doesn't seem to have any plucking issues like a lot of cockatoos, so I think he was cared for well.
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  174. aww... ivar acts grumpy all day, only sleeps with snuggles at night
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  175. I knew a dachshund that liked to chew on brooms, but if you took a broom from her and leaned it against a wall right infront of her with the bristles up, she would immediately have no idea that the broom was still there, and never figured out that she could pull the broom down by the handle. otherwise she mostly made herself known by having the most extreme obsession with excitedly licking everybody's hands and shoes. not once did I manage to pet her without having her chase my hand to try to lick it. well, that was mostly an issue of the owner failing to train her, but the broom thing clearly was stupidity.
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  176. looking particularly dumpy
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  177. talking in past tense oh no, not again :(
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  178. 🧐
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  179. does turkey have feral donkeys?
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  180.  @uptick888  what do you mean?
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  181. wendy peeters she also said that possums were around before the dinosaurs, which isn't true at all.
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  182. 4:00 his eyes look really weird, what is that?
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  183. why are they afraid of grapes? xD
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  184. "each den has a kitchen" [x] doubt
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  185. hybrid vigor hybrid cuteness
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  186. 0:12 "she's hyperallergenic" OOF thanks, american education system!
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  187. that cat is less adoptable???
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  188. my favourite nonsense unit is stone.
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  189. ok you tricked me
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  190. he does jumpy zoomies because that way he can exert a lot of energy without much risk of bumping into things.
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  191. who is she kidding? she's definitely keeping that dog.
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  192. the power of toxoplasmosis
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  193.  @jasongaylor2232  that would be dogs
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  194.  @1Thunderfire  it's a joke. I'm discovering that apparently cat people are as dumb as cats. ascribing unconditional love to cats is idiotic. I like cats though, they're probably the second best pets. dogs are of course better, but dogs have a domestication head start in the tens of thousands of years over any other domesticated animal.
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  195. excellent thumbnail, but that south-eastern US thing where they say "whenever" instead of "when" is so F*ing irritating! 😬
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  196. kinda sounds like they're describing that annabelle is autistic. it would fit the fact that she's uncomfortable with new people and new things despite not having experienced anything that would explain her being fearful.
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  197. the extra skin and the velvety fur seem shar pei-like
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  198. that's a great dog right there!
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  199.  @TheBaumcm  the point is that deaf cats do
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  200. 2:13 "you have now offended the monkey" sounds kinda meme-worthy
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  201.  @jennyjohn704  YUP
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  202.  @TheSubso  ew a fauschist
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  203.  @TheSubso  probably, since I don't remember ever seeing a comment from you. but I only get replies like that from fauschists. maybe you would know that fausch bad if you knew him better.
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  204.  @forzafan92  typical cat person
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  205. "from fish to frog" uhm no, they're called tadpoles. xD many amphibians in many places have been dropping in numbers often due to climate change and spread of parasitic fungi (plus pollution and habitat loss of course). most amphibian larvae can be found in bodies of water that are too small for larger fish to inhabit, most commonly small ponds and stagnant canals (or in reed-peotected parts of bigger bodies of water). you may be looking in the wrong spots because you're going where there's a lot of water, but those places are normally too dangerous for amphibians in terms of aquatic predators. if you go out early enough in the year and at the right time of day (typically in the evening, I think), you can much more easily find mating spots of frogs and toads by following their calls rather than trying to find their eggs or larvae.
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  206. "he's very lazy" - no, he's obese because you overfeed him.
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  207. guys, the issue with being an animal control officer isn't so much that you see abused animals, but that you're constantly bringing animals to be euthanised. that's like half the job if you're lucky.
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  208. one of the dumber youtube comments I have read this month
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  209. he kinda looks too floppy and long-nosed to be all lab to me. maybe some great dane?
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  210. ao he IS grumpy xD
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  211. I like that they called him chupey because he looks like a chupacabra xD
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  212.  @estibon3872  I disagree. it has nothing to do with hunting, and with some cats, it is genuinely mean-spirited. what I mean is more bullying than playing.
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  213.  @k.ferguson9385  you are deranged.
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  214.  @lisaturtle1106  youtube user #9001 upset about the mention of putin, but incapable of recognising a ukrainian flag
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  215.  @GeoBeatsAnimals  :D
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  216. so ia she related to dingoes, or just other asian/indo-pacific dogs that look similar?
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  217. baby rhinos are super cute, these people have a very nice job. it's kinda like they're running a very animal-friendly farm, but with very interesting species, and they're raising animals for release, not for slaughter.
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  218. it would make sense for many more people to adopt old dogs, given that many people aren't willing to provide enough physical exercise to a dog to meet a young dog's needs, and then get frustrated by hyperactive or destructive behaviour of the dog. old dogs match most people's lifestyle better. there are substantial downsides though, like the obviously shorter remaining lifespan (so if you keep adopting old dogs, you have way more deaths to deal with), and also the likely higher vet bills than in a dog's younger years.
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  219. and you can try it yourself, it's called MDMA.
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  220. woooooo!
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  221. some cats drool
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  222. I think she got hurt once going up that particular set of stairs, so now she's very careful with that one even though the other stairs are identical.
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  223. "lizard"? it IS a lizard.
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  224. 3:19 sounds like he has OCD, which I suppose makes sense for herding dogs, aince they're supposed to feel compelled to keep the herd orderly.
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  225. good luck with the cancer :)
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  226. 2:20 bird
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  227. this is the result of merle coat pattern breeding. merle dogs are very popular, but they have very seriously increased incidence of hearing and vision problems, and this is especially pronounced when greedy breeders try to produce the maximum number of merle puppies by breeding two merle dogs together. basically they calculate that if merle dogs are significantly more popular, they can make more money if all the puppies are merle with 1-3/10 being disabled and unsellable. this dog in the video is the result of that, referred to as a double merle. I agree that merle dogs are pretty, but please do not buy them, only adopt them, to not support their breeding! same as other breeds bred to suffer unreasonably just for particular looks, such as pugs and bulldogs (reduced ability to breathe and pant adequately), shar peis (skin problems from unhygienic skin folds, eyelashes rubbing on eyeballs) and king charles cavallier spaniels (insufficient skull dimensions cause brain damage). really, you shouldn't buy dogs at all as long as there are other dogs being euthanized because there are too many that would make perfectly good pets and all you want is a pet. but merle dogs are among those you especially should not buy.
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  228. what do you mean, it's illegal? wild capture is illegal in many places, and some places ban import of non-native species for fear of invasive species, but I think bans on captive-bred amphibians are rare.
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  229. that's a pretty clumsy way to cut a feral cat's ear to show it's been desexed - I think the standard way is to cut off less, but make it a more obvious V shape at the tip. that's easier to tell apart from the ears juat being held asymmetrically.
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  230. YUP
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  231. Amber *there
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  232. I'm almost positive that greta is not the same species as that orange mouse. the reason why mice are seen as dirty is not because they are themselves dirty, but because they live, piss, shit and die inside human food stores. and from what I've heard of bad mouse infestations, their accumulated excrement smells horrible.
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  233. selling a mother horse without her 2.5 months old foal is a pretty messed up decision. I guess perhaps the owners really needed the money, and they didn't find a buyer who would take the mostly blind foal? :/
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  234. well then dogs are god's way of apologizing for horse girls! :<
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  235. 1:55 that's very cute
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  236. green iguanas are one of the very worst common petshop purchases, arguably the worst among reptiles (pretty much their only rival are giant tortoises like sulcata). they are sold extremely commonly and quite cheaply because they breed easily and look very pretty, and nobody guesses how big they get when they see 20cm baby iguanas in a glass tank. not only do they get huge, but they also are infamous for being more aggressive and energetic than most lizards (individual character varies, this is a nice iguana). rock iguanas for example typically make better big pet lizards, but they're not as pretty, so not sold as often. probably the only lizards more absurd for people to keep as pets are large monitor species, like most commonly the asian water monitor. well, those probably aren't even as mean as green iguanas, but their bites are more dangerous (green iguanaas are generally vegetarians with rather small teeth, monitors are meat-eaters, their teeth are ridiculously scary and some have venomous saliva).
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  237. that's a practice baby right there
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  238. birds are dinosaurs. I want to point out though that feather plucking is a sign of mental illness, and that being a house pet, even of people who love her and know how to take care of birds, made jersey sick. she doesn't actually need to be treated like a baby. there is nobody there to treat these birds like babies in the wild, and those wild birds are doing way better mentally than she is. this is an adult animal, not a baby, her mind is not evolved to play with humans, but to find food, build nests, defend herself, care for actual baby birds, and socialize with her cockatoo mate. if you just look at jersey compared to wild cockatoos, it's pretty obvious who is getting what they need and who isn't.
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  239. those are super fancy cats. zoe is a white/silver bengal, zeke is a toyger.
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  240. I bet keith turned the house upside down when the family was away because he wasn't getting his usual secret treats from the sitter, the sitter was ACTUALLY sticking to the diet plan. the official dief plan might not even be enough, the owner said that he's supposed to gets third of what other cats get, which seems too little. I don't understand how these people convince themselves that the cat is gaining weight on a third of a ration.
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  241. SHE'S SO FLUFFY
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  242. sounds like the muppets song mahna mahna! :D
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  243. that cat must have bewn pissed when the crow got the catio, and the dog was friends with the crow, too! xD
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  244. ​ @hillarytrump9146  cringe
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  245. that cat isdoing a surprisingly good job of maintaining all that fur.
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  246. 0:33 her chest barely clears the ground while running xD
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  247. hmm I'm no birb guy, but I think I can kinda tell that this birb is young because she hops very bouncy, but seems to not yet have figured out how to talk really clearly.
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  248. that's a very cute puppy, and dogs do great with one hind leg. when they walk, they havr to hop a little, but when they run, you can barely even tell the difference.
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  249. that is one massive potato!
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  250. looks likea pointer/great dane sort of dog to me.
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  251. somewhere there has to be a russian can that says "normal" all the time
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  252. or don't have a wife that encourages your dogs to be louder with treats.
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  253. QueerJamie there are many old domestic breeds that are much healthier, and most feral pigs (certainly the ones in hawaii) descend from some of those. it's only been in the past 100 years that we developed real intensive farming methods and bred animals exclusively for efficiency in a particular intensive farming model. with meat-producing breeds like pigs and broiler chickens, the main goal of that breeding has been for them to grow very quickly given particular feed and environmental conditions, because with fast growth the farmer can reduce the amount of feed required for just keeping the animal alive, with a higher percentage of the energy going into growth/meat production. and of course with a quicker rotation of faster-growing animals, the same farm facility can produce more meat per year. today's meat breeds are bred to be an ideal product at a young age, and it doesn't matter how they would fare after that because when used as intended, they have a clearly defined short life span. older breeds that were not created for intensive farming don't have that and were commonly several times older when slaughtered. it's probably most extreme with chickens - those used to be like 6 months or older at slaughter, and today they're 5 weeks old and easily twice as heavy.
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