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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