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@why-animals-do-the-thing what the heck?
This is priceless. Fur is a great nest-building material. Normally, birds get it from snags on branches or (maybe, I’m not sure) dead animals. I know some people who actually put out a bird-feeder full of hair for the birds after they brush out their dog, specifically so that it can be turned into nesting material.
This is a very brave birb who has learned where it comes from and just decided to go get some from the source, and a dog who is probably too asleep to care.
This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.
Video by Christina Hunger
Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.
They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).
They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.
As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.
So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.
The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.
In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.
And also that is a very good boy.
you are the dancing queen
young and sweet, only seventeen
my favorite part of this video is the fact that the person making it clearly really cares deeply about that stuffed shark thing so like they don’t actually mess it up with makeup lmao
I can’t fucking breathe. Holy shit. This is basically my entire personality and interests in a video. I will never recover from this.
STOP IT
I can’t even pretend for a second this isn’t something I would do lol
I would totally try this just cause turkeys are so dumb it’s funny :3
Mother cat with kittens came to meet an old friend.
I can’t believe we’ve already found the best animal video of 2016.
That is too adorable. You can tell the mother cat actually does trust the dog just by her body language. Typically a mother will watch her kittens closely and be very protective of them, here she completely trusts the dog to play gentle with them. This is just too damn cute.
When he bops the kitten and looks up at Mom to make sure he didn’t overstep!
The dog is trying to make himself as non-threatening as possible!!
This is part ½ so I’ll just paste the story explaining it here so that you’re not all completely appalled at me before you see the second video😂
Ok, so I’m walking the dog around the corner from my man’s new spot right, and behind there, there’s a little creek so I walked her along there up until you couldn’t walk anymore. All but two houses going down that way have their backyard fenced or gated, but there’s a definite distinction as to what is people’s backyard and what isn’t so I stayed as far off to where it’s obvious that it isn’t backyard as possible.
Mojito is chasing iguanas and I’m talking to my mom and out of the corner of my eye I see an older woman coming my way. My first thought was she must be telling me to come move, understandable, whatever.
I let her get a bit closer, put my mom on hold for a second and in the most respectful way literally said “I’m sorry m'am, am I trespassing? Would you like me to leave?” Because if I was it was totally understandable ya know?
That’s when all holy hell broke loose.
This butter biscuit proceeds to start pointing her finger and talking shit for literally no reason. I couldn’t make out what all she was saying at first, because I’m steady listening to my mom in my ear tell me to walk away, and then of course I started yelling back at her because she picked the absolute worst time to try me. BUT IM WALKING AWAY.
She starts following me and at that point I told my mom I had to call her back so I could record this woman, because she was going bananas.
She wasn’t making any sense. Telling me I’m from south Miami like I even knew what that meant, literally getting in my face, following me as I’m trying to just walk away.
This kumquat actually admitted that I wasn’t on her property, yet continued to talk shit so I’m like you know this is harassment, right? If you just admit that I’m not on your property, then tf are you bothering me for?
SHE THEN PROCEEDS TO GRABBING AT ME AND MY PHONE LIKE A BANANA NUT MUFFIN. NOT ONCE BUT TWICE. I gave her two grabs before I punched her dead in her head, AND THEN IM SUDDENLY THE BAD GUY. To make a long story short, this is Florida, she was the aggressor FOR SURE and she got arrested for assault💁🏽
The funny thing is is that I wasn’t going to press charges initially, because she’s well into her golden years and just got clocked in her dome by an angry black stick. You would think that would teach anyone a lesson, right? Naw.
The cops went and got a statement from her and came back and one was like….are you SURE you don’t wanna press charges? She was literally telling them that they couldn’t arrest her and all this noise so NO, she didn’t learn a lesson.
There is an adorable pug in the film called JB, and when asked if he misses the dog, Taron had one response: “That fucking dog.” He added: “George, as he’s known, is very pretty and very cute, but he is not obedient. I’ve suffered urine, I’ve suffered anarchy and all manners of craziness with that bloody dog. They say don’t work with animals and children, and I’m sure children are tolerable, but don’t ever work with a pug…”
My Rottweiler has a serious frisbee problem.
> I don’t know whats funnier, the fact he cant gain any traction on the tiles or the fact that hes going crazy over a frisbee.
> Your dog whines the ESPN Sportscenter theme song.
> No one has ever had more fun than when watching a dog try to move quickly on a linoleum floor.
lmfao awwwwwe
I hope when I get a dog I can train my dog as well has he has his trained
Raccoon dogs look very similar to raccoons but have no genetic similarities between them. They belong to the Canidae family, which are known to have distinct dog and wolf like characteristics and appearance. These animals are both carnivorous and omnivorous mammals.
They are monogamous and will mate for life. It is only if the mate dies or is killed, will the other search for a new mate. Two mates will hibernate in one den. During this period they will maintain close body contact to keep each other warm and will groom each other as well. This is a trait not practiced by canines, as dogs neither hibernate and nor are they monogamous in nature.
Raccoon dogs are also known as tanuki, and they feature very heavily in a lot of Japanese folklore. They also get super fluffy and adorable when their winter coat comes in.
If you want to see one in real life, only place in the entire United States that houses tanuki is Zoo Atlanta - they’ve got two bonded brothers named Thor and Loki. Tanuki are really uncommon in zoos around the world, although I’m not sure why - IUCN lists them as ‘least concern’ so maybe they’re just so prevalent as to not be thought “worth” exhibiting. They’re super cool little canids, though, so definitely worth a stop if you’re in the area.
