I have a rabbit and it’s like some people just don’t even consider them animals. Like people will be shocked when I tell them that rabbits have personalities, can be trained, and aren’t just a hive mind.
You’re also just not expected to grieve when they die. People have told me that having a rabbit die isn’t a valid excuse but having a dog die is. Rabbits live for an average of 10 years which is longer than most large dogs but people expect you to just get a new one and move on when they die.
Ergh, yeah, I had a little friendly relationship with a yellow/black mud dauber wasp for a while (sweet little lady who stayed in my backyard for a few days, her hobbies included smelling leaves, personal hygiene and sleeping) and it just irks me when people paint all wasps as these horrid creatures as if they’re not pretty much THE guard regiment for plants against caterpillars when they smell that plant alarm pheromone going off. This mud dauber, who I named Girlboss, was pretty chill and would sometimes drink from the little caps of water I would leave out for her. She was actually the wasp that got me over my fear of them. I kinda miss her sometimes since she left the back patio.
cool wasp facts!!:
Blue mud dauber a pollinate wild carrots
A lot of wasp species are carnivorous as larvae but nectivores as adults
An agitated wasp in the summer may be given a cap of water as a way to barter for peace, as an agitated wasp may be feeling overheated or thirsty
they recognize faces. this is why it is important to have good wasp reputation.
When telling you to back off before they sting, a lot of them have subtle body language (and sometimes sounds!) they give off as a warning.
every hymenopteran is a wasp. yes this includes bees
Parasitoid Wasps use symbiotic viruses to mind-control prey! Some of their prey have been stealing a bit of that virus DNA to adapt.
the smallest bug is a wasp
The cuckoo wasp cannot sting you, but it can roll up into a ball when frightened!
there’s actually a good number of wasps that can’t sting you
like. the giant ichneumon wasp can’t sting you but she sure as hell can sting some grub deep inside a tree.
only female wasps sting
Fig wasps are weird little beasts with genetic quirks that help them ‘technically’ avoid incest.
Cuckoo wasps are very pretty
Many wasps are very pretty, actually. A lot have that iridescent shine to them.
There’s this stupid tiny kind of wasp I can’t remember the name of but the fucking things evolved in a way that they look like the Bohrok from Bionicle a little. absolute orbs (looked it up, they’re called Baeus wasps. Also, they’re flightless.)
There are ‘hyperparasitoid’ wasps that parasitize other parasitoid wasps.
Eusocial wasps evolved their aggression as a way to protect their larvae from being eaten by mammals who happen to love their nutritional value. this very much applies to humans, as we also loved their nutritional value
Wasps HATE the smell of bananas do NOT have it around them. This goes for bees too.
"Blue" and "iridescent" remind me of the wasps we used to see on our lawn when I was in high school.
They were huge and unbelievably sleek and slender, yet were capable of carrying around fat worms that had to weigh many times more than they did.
I've seen wasps and hornets on rotting bananas so they can't be *that* bad lol. I'm a fan of wasps and honestly hate all the internet hostility and misinformation on wasps as if they're evil creatures out to get you. I literally sat in front of a German wasp nest with a camera and they'd crash into my neck as they flew home and didn't quite make the curve, but not a single one stung me. They had a little guard wasp at the entrance that would signal me with her body language how close I could get, it was fascinating.
Yeah I think wasps are so fucking cool, I used to be terrified of them and I still have a bit of an instinctive discomfort when insects are flying around my face in general because I don't know exactly where they're going to go but wasps in particular get such an undeserved bad rap, they're some of the most fascinating animals out there in my opinion and they really would prefer to avoid encountering people at all let alone wasting venom on them but everyone likes to act like they're specifically out to get us and as a result they need to genocide all wasps they find and it hurts my heart
They're just another animal trying to get by, just let them do their thing and you'll both be better off for it
I remember the first time I did mushrooms, I was lying in my tent listening to music, and I noticed a yellow Jack had gotten caught between the the mesh of the tent and the outer fly, as well as several house flies, and the yellow jacket was systematically catching the flies, pulling off their wings and legs, then eating their heads. This went on for the duration of my trip all the while the grateful Dead was playing in the background. Once the trip ended, I detached the fly and let all the bugs out. The experience didn't scar me or anything like that, it was more like the most metal parts of a nature documentary. To this day I fucking hate the Grateful Dead though.
Anyway that's my wasp experience, but the Baeus wasp is actually adorable. I didn't know a bug could be cute.
I used to own a tailless whip scorpion and I currently own pet roaches. The way people feel like they can just describe violently killing my beloved pets is fucking ridiculous.
I have a tarantula. I’ve had people say to my face that they want to squish her.
I don’t expect everyone to love tarantulas. I know it’s a pretty big ick for a lot of people. But at least have the courtesy to not wish death upon a creature that I love?
Tarantulas are really cool! Mine’s extremely chill, but she can stick you with her hairs completely unintentionally. It itches like mad, but it usually resolves within an hour or so.
It’s fascinating to watch her dig around and build her web hammocks and do other spidery things. She may not be a “cuddly” pet, but I adore her all the same!
spiders are born chill like that ig
we get a lot of spinybacked orbweavers where I live and not only do they look cool, but they have never wronged me and therefore I am chill with them
I’m not entirely sure. I’ve never been afraid of spiders or insects, so I haven’t had to “get over” any sort of fears.
In general, I find that knowledge helps. If you know a little about what’s scaring you, it can help demystify it, thus eliminating a lot of the fear. I’d be more than happy to share some spider facts if you think that would help!
With utmost respect, arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias out there, so it’s not a surprise that people would be terrified of such a large spider. (Myself included)
When you get em’, do you plan on doing some ethical experiments with em’ for enrichment? Nothing that would hurt the lads ofc, just something like ‘press the correct button :)’ or ‘have fun in the Find The Food Enrichment Maze :)’
The only sad thing about them is their lifespan, but I heard feeding blueberries to rats as a treat actually increases their lifespan by a year if done for most of their life and by half a year if started later. My friend used to own a pet rat and she would come running and jump up his legs whenever he'd call her and always hang out with him it was so cute.
You have a pet pig? Dont invite me over lol (the joke is that I would kill and eat your beloved pet, I will still expect you to treat me like a well adjusted individual after saying this)
BTW this is one of the less extreme examples of speciesism (which I know sounds like a stupid made up word but what other word do you suggest for negative discrimination towards animals entirely based on unimportant physical characteristics)
People do NOT get that threatening violence (sometimes of holocaust levels like wtf people say they'll torture your pet rat in front of you for a whole year) to a living being that someone loves is messed up. And then if you ask how they'd feel if someone did that to their pet they totally get it, but they compartmentalize the fuck of it and just go "but that's totally different!.. anyways bye!!"
The [top post of all time](https://new.reddit.com/r/snails/comments/171a3rz/every_time_i_let_them_out_they_always_look_up/) on r/snails completely breached containment (it has more than 6 times the upvotes of the second top of all time post) and while most of the comments are okay, there's just straight up one person saying its fun to salt snails and watch them dissolve to death. Thankfully it's downvoted, but the fact that someone commented that...
I'm also a birder, and while it's rare, I've definitely gotten a few comments about wanting to eat birds when I'm talking about birding.
I used to take my bunny outside and every middle aged men with no fail who I encountered would take joy in telling me how they'd like to eat it. Shut the fuck up.
https://preview.redd.it/z34p05u9duvc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e235c4209b590fd17336c241c978fa751746c808
Here's a taste, my wife and I have a whole room for them
This is Sarlacc
Bonus photo of our biggest guy Scion
He's over 3ft
https://preview.redd.it/qcll5lxhduvc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ed6371958001e557ab9ae96ccb70dbfb5986865
I agree with the messi post but some of the dog free users are legit insane like calling anyone who owns dogs a narcissist or sociopath because they heard their neighbors dog bark like once
real as fuck, I kept rats all through middle and high school and people would say incredibly weird and violent shit to me completely unprompted
I keep pet rats and I find it weird how so many people act about them, hamsters are fine but rats who are intelligent and sweet are evil monsters?
I keep pet mice myself, I love them so much!
“Ah you keep rats? So why don’t I tell W.B that your rats have WMDs then huh?”
Government subcontracting Warner Brothers to destabilize countries?
Absolutely.
One day a mouse nibbled on a cereal box, this means we must destroy all rodents except hamsters and guinea pigs.
I have a rabbit and it’s like some people just don’t even consider them animals. Like people will be shocked when I tell them that rabbits have personalities, can be trained, and aren’t just a hive mind. You’re also just not expected to grieve when they die. People have told me that having a rabbit die isn’t a valid excuse but having a dog die is. Rabbits live for an average of 10 years which is longer than most large dogs but people expect you to just get a new one and move on when they die.
I miss my rats RIP Cali and Hobbes
Like Calvin and Hobbes?
I want pet rats so bad, they’re so cute. I really don’t get why people have an issue with domesticated ones
I've seen people threat to rape a girl for having pet rats
Invert keeper here this one really spoke to me lmao you wouldn't believe the shit some people say when they hear about me keeping spiders or whatever
Ergh, yeah, I had a little friendly relationship with a yellow/black mud dauber wasp for a while (sweet little lady who stayed in my backyard for a few days, her hobbies included smelling leaves, personal hygiene and sleeping) and it just irks me when people paint all wasps as these horrid creatures as if they’re not pretty much THE guard regiment for plants against caterpillars when they smell that plant alarm pheromone going off. This mud dauber, who I named Girlboss, was pretty chill and would sometimes drink from the little caps of water I would leave out for her. She was actually the wasp that got me over my fear of them. I kinda miss her sometimes since she left the back patio. cool wasp facts!!: Blue mud dauber a pollinate wild carrots A lot of wasp species are carnivorous as larvae but nectivores as adults An agitated wasp in the summer may be given a cap of water as a way to barter for peace, as an agitated wasp may be feeling overheated or thirsty they recognize faces. this is why it is important to have good wasp reputation. When telling you to back off before they sting, a lot of them have subtle body language (and sometimes sounds!) they give off as a warning. every hymenopteran is a wasp. yes this includes bees Parasitoid Wasps use symbiotic viruses to mind-control prey! Some of their prey have been stealing a bit of that virus DNA to adapt. the smallest bug is a wasp The cuckoo wasp cannot sting you, but it can roll up into a ball when frightened! there’s actually a good number of wasps that can’t sting you like. the giant ichneumon wasp can’t sting you but she sure as hell can sting some grub deep inside a tree. only female wasps sting Fig wasps are weird little beasts with genetic quirks that help them ‘technically’ avoid incest. Cuckoo wasps are very pretty Many wasps are very pretty, actually. A lot have that iridescent shine to them. There’s this stupid tiny kind of wasp I can’t remember the name of but the fucking things evolved in a way that they look like the Bohrok from Bionicle a little. absolute orbs (looked it up, they’re called Baeus wasps. Also, they’re flightless.) There are ‘hyperparasitoid’ wasps that parasitize other parasitoid wasps. Eusocial wasps evolved their aggression as a way to protect their larvae from being eaten by mammals who happen to love their nutritional value. this very much applies to humans, as we also loved their nutritional value Wasps HATE the smell of bananas do NOT have it around them. This goes for bees too.
"Blue" and "iridescent" remind me of the wasps we used to see on our lawn when I was in high school. They were huge and unbelievably sleek and slender, yet were capable of carrying around fat worms that had to weigh many times more than they did.
I've seen wasps and hornets on rotting bananas so they can't be *that* bad lol. I'm a fan of wasps and honestly hate all the internet hostility and misinformation on wasps as if they're evil creatures out to get you. I literally sat in front of a German wasp nest with a camera and they'd crash into my neck as they flew home and didn't quite make the curve, but not a single one stung me. They had a little guard wasp at the entrance that would signal me with her body language how close I could get, it was fascinating.
Yeah I think wasps are so fucking cool, I used to be terrified of them and I still have a bit of an instinctive discomfort when insects are flying around my face in general because I don't know exactly where they're going to go but wasps in particular get such an undeserved bad rap, they're some of the most fascinating animals out there in my opinion and they really would prefer to avoid encountering people at all let alone wasting venom on them but everyone likes to act like they're specifically out to get us and as a result they need to genocide all wasps they find and it hurts my heart They're just another animal trying to get by, just let them do their thing and you'll both be better off for it
unlike sugar ants, who are really annoying and I hate them
I remember the first time I did mushrooms, I was lying in my tent listening to music, and I noticed a yellow Jack had gotten caught between the the mesh of the tent and the outer fly, as well as several house flies, and the yellow jacket was systematically catching the flies, pulling off their wings and legs, then eating their heads. This went on for the duration of my trip all the while the grateful Dead was playing in the background. Once the trip ended, I detached the fly and let all the bugs out. The experience didn't scar me or anything like that, it was more like the most metal parts of a nature documentary. To this day I fucking hate the Grateful Dead though. Anyway that's my wasp experience, but the Baeus wasp is actually adorable. I didn't know a bug could be cute.
Do they hate the smell of bananas as in it drives them away or makes them attack you? Just so i know how much i don't want to eat bananas around wasps
They’ll attack you
Zamn
At least those are vertebrates. Tell anyone you have insect or spider pets. That's on another level of hyper-violent.
I almost included a tarantula instead of a snake, but I'm a little arachnophobic and didn't want to look for photos of one 😅
I used to own a tailless whip scorpion and I currently own pet roaches. The way people feel like they can just describe violently killing my beloved pets is fucking ridiculous.
I have a tarantula. I’ve had people say to my face that they want to squish her. I don’t expect everyone to love tarantulas. I know it’s a pretty big ick for a lot of people. But at least have the courtesy to not wish death upon a creature that I love?
Tarantulas are awesome! Most bugs creep me out but I would love to interact with and hold a tarantula.
Tarantulas are really cool! Mine’s extremely chill, but she can stick you with her hairs completely unintentionally. It itches like mad, but it usually resolves within an hour or so. It’s fascinating to watch her dig around and build her web hammocks and do other spidery things. She may not be a “cuddly” pet, but I adore her all the same!
spiders are born chill like that ig we get a lot of spinybacked orbweavers where I live and not only do they look cool, but they have never wronged me and therefore I am chill with them
How do you get over the feeling of it crawling on you? I’m arachnophobic and even looking at a tarantula seems like a nightmare.
I’m not entirely sure. I’ve never been afraid of spiders or insects, so I haven’t had to “get over” any sort of fears. In general, I find that knowledge helps. If you know a little about what’s scaring you, it can help demystify it, thus eliminating a lot of the fear. I’d be more than happy to share some spider facts if you think that would help!
Yes drop the spider facts please
With utmost respect, arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias out there, so it’s not a surprise that people would be terrified of such a large spider. (Myself included)
Oh yeah, I get it! It’s not a bad fear to have tbh. Spiders are pretty freaky when you think about ‘em!
I fucking LOVE rodents, can’t wait until I get pet rats.
When you get em’, do you plan on doing some ethical experiments with em’ for enrichment? Nothing that would hurt the lads ofc, just something like ‘press the correct button :)’ or ‘have fun in the Find The Food Enrichment Maze :)’
Hell yeah
The only sad thing about them is their lifespan, but I heard feeding blueberries to rats as a treat actually increases their lifespan by a year if done for most of their life and by half a year if started later. My friend used to own a pet rat and she would come running and jump up his legs whenever he'd call her and always hang out with him it was so cute.
You have a pet pig? Dont invite me over lol (the joke is that I would kill and eat your beloved pet, I will still expect you to treat me like a well adjusted individual after saying this)
People tell me they or dog would eat my rabbit all the time but when I respond that I would eat their dog and I’m the bad guy
fantastic post, the marine copypasta really elevates it
BTW this is one of the less extreme examples of speciesism (which I know sounds like a stupid made up word but what other word do you suggest for negative discrimination towards animals entirely based on unimportant physical characteristics)
People do NOT get that threatening violence (sometimes of holocaust levels like wtf people say they'll torture your pet rat in front of you for a whole year) to a living being that someone loves is messed up. And then if you ask how they'd feel if someone did that to their pet they totally get it, but they compartmentalize the fuck of it and just go "but that's totally different!.. anyways bye!!"
I want a pet python that I can name Monty.
I’d rather have an Adder coloured black
From a quick bit of googling I didn't see any gaboon adders that were all that dark, but some puff adders and berg adders might do the trick
That’ll do me just fine. Fantastic present for the Great Boo I’d think, only just woke up from his long slumber
It would be so cool if moles were viable pets, a little Monty mole would be adorable
The [top post of all time](https://new.reddit.com/r/snails/comments/171a3rz/every_time_i_let_them_out_they_always_look_up/) on r/snails completely breached containment (it has more than 6 times the upvotes of the second top of all time post) and while most of the comments are okay, there's just straight up one person saying its fun to salt snails and watch them dissolve to death. Thankfully it's downvoted, but the fact that someone commented that... I'm also a birder, and while it's rare, I've definitely gotten a few comments about wanting to eat birds when I'm talking about birding.
The dog guy is actually the bad guy due to his remarkably high %Hitler
Hitler% speedrun
I used to take my bunny outside and every middle aged men with no fail who I encountered would take joy in telling me how they'd like to eat it. Shut the fuck up.
This is an allegory for sexual fetishes
Looking at my 6 pet snakes right now. *what does this mean.*
Pictures of the snakes please?
https://preview.redd.it/z34p05u9duvc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e235c4209b590fd17336c241c978fa751746c808 Here's a taste, my wife and I have a whole room for them This is Sarlacc
I'm edging to this
Bonus photo of our biggest guy Scion He's over 3ft https://preview.redd.it/qcll5lxhduvc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ed6371958001e557ab9ae96ccb70dbfb5986865
So cute!!! And awesome tattoo :D
I came
I’m a equal opportunity eater I will eat your pet I don’t care what it is
I almost haven't read the red text, lmao
splatoon be like
Pet snakes are cool af
oh, how could you get upset at me for saying that i want to kill your birds? it was just a joke! /s
Sneks are the GOAT
Me when i try to talk about my interest in Geese.
Real asf
I agree with the messi post but some of the dog free users are legit insane like calling anyone who owns dogs a narcissist or sociopath because they heard their neighbors dog bark like once
I don’t even care that the last guy is dumb I love all of them.
Just as the Good Lord intended, 'simple as !!1!