#and the petting zoos

[bumblingest-bee]

jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is "god i wish i could go to jurassic park." like yeah it's a blatantly obvious don't create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.

#bee posts nonsense #the scene from jurassic world with the baby dinosaur petting zoo.... life could be a dream.. #jurassic park #don't create the torment nexus

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Learning anything about marine mammal training will make you re-evaluate so much of your relationship with your own pets. There is so much force involved in the way we handle domestic animals. Most of it isn’t even intentional, it just stems from impatience. I’m guilty of it myself!

But with the exception of certain veterinary settings where the animal’s health is the immediate priority, why is it so important to us that animals do exactly what we want exactly when we want it? Why do we have to invent all these tools and contraptions to force them to behave?

When a whale swam away from a session, that was that. The trainer just waited for them to decide to come back. If they flat out refused to participate in behaviors, they still got their allotment of fish. Nothing bad happened. Not even when 20-30 people were assembled for a procedure, and the whale chose not to enter the medical pool. No big deal. Their choice and comfort were prioritized over human convenience.

It’s almost shocking to return to domestic animal medicine afterwards and watch owners use shock collars and chokers and whips to control their animals. It’s no wonder that positive reinforcement was pioneered by marine mammal trainers. When you literally can’t force an animal to do what you want, it changes your entire perspective.

I want to see that mindset extended to our domestic animals.

#‘oh I can walk my dog off-leash down a crowded street’ why does that matter????? #the horse world is ESPECIALLY bad about this too #edit: the whips is referring to horses I have not seen anyone whip their dog #pets #horses #animal training #dog training #dolphin training #dolphins #belugas #orcas #killer whales #cetaceans #marine mammals #zoos #aquariums #cooperative care #vet med #vetblr

[kedreeva]

For those of you non-reptile folks out there (or the reptile folks who haven't heard/don't know yet)- "Prehistoric Pets"/"The Reptile Zoo" is one of the worst faces of captive reptile keeping. Jay Brewer, the guy that runs it and faces it on youtube, is basically running the equivalent of a reptile puppy mill, and sensationalizing it for views.

He keeps his animals in enclosures that are far too small for them, participates in mass breeding without care for the health or well-being of the animals involved, including creating morbidly obsese animals to have the "biggest" ones for clout and so that he can breed them as fast and often as possible since they don't get too skinny from being bred too often while being massively overfed. He's also well known for cutting eggs (which by itself is.... eh but-) where he removes the entire top, pulling live babies out, and putting them back in, which is ridiculously dangerous to the baby.

This year he's going to be getting his own television show. I don't know the name of it yet, but given his behavior on youtube - where he purposely elicits stress responses, defensive behaviors, and bite attempts from large reptiles purely for views, with no interest in whether these actions are in the interest of the animal's best welfare - I doubt he is going to improve any. The producers are GOING to try to sensationalize it a la Tiger King.

Please, I am asking you to not support this man or his new show. He represents the worst side of the hobby, the people that have no business being in business, no business keeping the animals he does. Don't spite watch, don't curiosity watch; pirate it someplace if you must, but any views that count toward success of his show only puts more into his pockets to continue doing things he shouldn't, and it's his animals (and the animals his popularity convince others to buy thinking they can do the same as him) that pay the price for it.

Please understand that he is NOT a good representative of the reptile keeping community, and that so many people do not find his keeping, handling, or practices acceptable. Despicable would be a better word.

#reptiblr #the reptile zoo #prehistoric pets #jay brewer #animal abuse #bad things

[chaparro0456]

Tim: So are we going to talk about the elephant in the room

Damian stole a full grown elephant from the zoo 

Damian: His name is Dumbo if we’re going to talk about

Bruce: Damian you have returned the elephant

Damian : HIS NAME IS DUMBO AND IM GOING TO TRAIN HIM TO FLY AND RIDE INTO BATTLES !

Dumbo does a war cry !

Damian: he has a heart of a warrior!

Jason: I blame dick for this

Dick: why me ?!

Jason: You’re the one that keeps showing him Disney movies

Dick: Sorry for trying to give a regular children movies and not the Braveheart movie

Jason: It’s a good movie !

Bruce : Damian you can’t keep dumbo

Damian: you may take my life but never take my freedom!

#dc comics #damian wayne #tim drake #bruce wayne #dumbo #damian acts like a kid #dami is baby #Damian robs a zoo #Damian gets a new pet #fandom #jason todd #dick grayson #batfam #batboys #braveheart

[hauntedtoybox]

ombrez animals alligator plushie by the petting zoo

#toycore #plush #plushcore #plushies #stuffed animals #kidcore #alligator plush #pastel #op #the petting zoo #plushblr

[thevalleyisjolly]

Donna and the Doctor would absolutely be drift compatible and in fact would probably invent levels of drift compatibility only previously before theorized as completely impossible. Under no circumstances whatsoever should they be allowed to pilot a giant robot together.

#doctor who #they'd either start a kaiju petting zoo or accidentally on purpose flatten buckingham palace; who's to say

[plushieanimals]

coatimundi plushies 🍃 forest & twelth / fiesta / fiesta / fiesta / fiesta / the petting zoo

#fiesta fiesta fiesta fiesta!! lol #coati #coatimundi #plush #fiesta #i’m like..85% on the brands but i think 3 & 4 could be the same plush #animal den #first & twelth #the petting zoo #plushblr #plushies #plushie #plushcore

[extrashortshorts]

can i give caterpillar buggy a pat pat?

He can't stop you anyway

#words #monkey d. luffy #d stands for david #bug #op petting zoo day

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was eating popcorn in a movie theater, and at the end of it, they had this really big "popcorn mill" (it looked like a petting zoo) where you could refill your bucket once with a comically sized kernel of popcorn (about the size of my head). I had a full bucket of popcorn at the end of the movie (unrealistic) and because I wanted the big ass kernels I quickly ate a shit ton of my popcorn just so I could sneak out two of the kernels.

#dream #triv.txt #eating #popcorn #food #movie theater #theater #petting zoo

[n7keidence]

wipes the smirk off astarion's face and replaces it with genuine joy and excitement

#astarion #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #i want more pets in camp larian let me have a goddamn zoo #my art

[jonasgoonface]

poor traits of punks

#anarchy #folk punk #punk #goonface #moonbandits #human petting zoo #cute

[pampanope]

A Christmas at Shadow Company: Home (Alone: Graves version)

Aight, I marathoned all the Home Alone movies and came up with this but got a bit busy so I didn’t finish in time for actual xmas 🤣💀

Also hc Graves would be this level of trap menace

#pmc or petting zoo? #ma boi 7-11 requires Graves to be safe n happy to function #phillip graves #call of duty #mwii #mwiii #shadow company #cod graves #graves cod #mw2 #mw3 #shadow 7 11 (cod oc) #my stuff

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Are dolphins still being captured for aquariums/parks and is it ethical (or complicated?)

Thanks for the ask! Yes, captures unfortunately do still occur in unregulated countries, though far less frequently than in the past. One of the most infamous examples is the annual dolphin drive in Taiji, Japan. While the main purpose of this hunt is to kill animals for meat, a small number of young, attractive dolphins are kept alive each year for sale. Nowadays, only unaccredited institutions purchase these dolphins, and even the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums now prohibits its members from acquiring captured dolphins. Although Taiji is the most well-known, the majority of cetaceans captured from the wild in the 2000s/2010s came from Russia, which recently prohibited the practice.

Western parks and aquariums have not purchased wild-captured cetaceans in decades. The last captures in US waters occurred in 1989, and the last foreign imports were in the early 1990s (long before widespread public sentiment turned against dolphinariums). I do not believe the practice was ethical, and almost all my colleagues would agree with me. Some of them were indeed brutal affairs, such as the infamous Penn Cove captures, in which several young Southern Resident killer whales (including the famous Tokitae) were taken. Multiple animals were inadvertently killed, and the hunters clumsily attempted to hide the deaths by stuffing the whales’ corpses with rocks. The bodies resurfaced, and following public backlash orca captures were no longer performed in the US.

As awareness of animal welfare grew amongst scientists and the general public in the 70s and 80s, collections of smaller cetacean species became considerably less vicious. They were typically supervised by a veterinarian, and care was taken to ensure animals were not physically harmed. However, these were still undeniably stressful to the animals.

I’m glad the practice stopped. Dolphins are not endangered, and I don’t think we can justify the trauma of removing healthy young animals from their pods. Of course, I make exceptions for individuals that are ill, injured, or a danger to themselves or humans (like Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s Izzy)—and these situations are never taken lightly. And if a species ever became endangered (highly unlikely for bottlenose, but a possibility for belugas), that would also be cause for reevaluation.

Dolphins do quite well in modern accredited aquariums. In the United States, all managed dolphins were either born in human care or have been out of the wild for over 30 years (excluding non-releasable rescues). While there are valid concerns about cetacean captivity, ongoing wild capture is not one of them.

#honestly I find the claim that accredited aquariums fuel taiji #to hold the same merit as claiming accredited zoos fuels the illegal pet trade #anyway thanks for reading! #this was longer than I intended #orcas #killer whales #belugas #dolphins #cetaceans #marine mammals #animal welfare #answered asks #anonymous

[stickyfrogs]

We have received a Wonderful Letter from ZoosVictoria to thank everyone for their generous donations to the Amphibian Bushfire Recovery Centre in memory of Gumby! 🐸

Jens and Voigt read out the kind words and Round Frog looked at the pictures at the bottom! (Tiny and Tall! 🐸🐸)

Thank you again to everyone!

#Jens #Voigt #Round Frog #Gumby #frogs #pets #animals #amphibians #green tree frogs #white’s tree frogs #white lipped tree frogs #zoos Victoria #amphibian bushfire recovery centre #conservation

[rayven81194]

okay first of all

patheic wet cat <3

second off, I think Missa should get Phil a black cat named ‘Meowsa’ or something like that

he is already a pathetic cat of a man, which could count as Phil already having it but it’d be cute

#they are so #asww #shaking them like a rattle #i can’t physically or verbally show how much i love their characters #just #AAAAAAA #qsmp #qsmp pissa #pissa #qsmp death duo #death duo #death family #qsmp death family #qsmp missa #missasinfonia #qsmp philza #philza minecraft #put it in the petting zoo #instead of Missa

[hauntedtoybox]

the petting zoo ombrez dragon (x)

#plushcore #plushblr #plush #plushies #stuffed animals #toycore #kidcore #rainbow #pastel #dragon plush #the petting zoo #op