Did you hear about Freya the walrus?? :( what are your thoughts? Was the right course of action taken or was it just lazy?
it was a bad situation with no good outcomes, but I think it was the only thing they could have done.
see, walruses are a weird combination of "absolute juggernaut" and "surprisingly delicate"- even female walruses regularly clock in at the ton-plus range!
they're also SHOCKINGLY fast on land when they really want to be, and are entirely capable of rushing down and killing a human via horrific blunt force trauma if they decide they've had enough.
and the whole "surprisingly delicate" thing- walruses are difficult to sedate and transport properly even when they're in good condition and not half starved, so there's no way they would have been able to safely capture Freya and take her back to the Arctic circle where she belonged since it was over 3,000 miles away. she would have just died of stress en route.
walruses also require very specific and intensive care when they're in zoological institutions, meaning that you can't just go around calling up every random aquarium in the area asking if they can take a walrus! any aquarium that has a space for a walrus... already has a walrus.
and to cap it off, due to the constant media storm and hoards of gawking tourists invading her space, Freya was starting to be very concerningly habituated to people! which is a recipe for absolute disaster when you're talking about an animal of this size and temperament. if the authorities had ignored the issue and allowed people to continue to approach her, she absolutely would have eventually injured or killed someone.
so tldr they had a very large non-native animal on their hands that they couldn't take into captivity or relocate back into it's native range, and it was becoming very clear that the situation could not continue as it was going without possible loss of human life, so they did the only thing they could and euthanized her as humanly as possible. a terrible end to a miserable situation, but it wasn't really anyone's fault at the end of the day.
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the lodger's new roommate or the lodger's old roommate, a tale of woe
i mounted them using the forty pound command strips and the lodger ripped them down thrice. message received
also, i'm into site specific maps lately and thinking a lot about hand drawn maps. i drew a map of the roads between my girlfriend's house and mine and i like how it turned out
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i'm making cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and roasted chicken this weekend. a makeup dinner for the traditional thanksgiving feast i missed last month
this year has been so packed full of change for me. a struggle that has plagued me for the last four years ended in a most dramatic way. a brutal passage that i survived, mostly, intact. i wish it could have ended some other way, but at least now, it's finally over
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smart phones are a curse upon humanity, I literally just tried to zoom in for a closer view on a photograph
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When reviewing this, the photographer and I both thought it looked like a vendor screen with Sagira ready to hand out a quest, so she edited it accordingly 😁 I love the flavor text and symbols, heehee.
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