Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[DennisN]

This may have been posted before, but I can't remember...
A parrot tries to fit in with cats .

 

[DennisN]

 

[Rx7man]

Here are some of my babies, adolescents, the bull (a 2500 lb baby)

 

[collinsmark]

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My old martial arts instructor never cared much for that phrase. He would counter it with "Whatever doesn't kill you, . . might still permanently maim and cripple you."

(It was a caution against underestimation and carelessness.)

 

[fresh_42]

My old martial arts instructor never cared much for that phrase. He would counter it with "Whatever doesn't kill you, . . might still permanently maim and cripple you."

(It was a caution against underestimation and carelessness.)

Reminds me of a pun my Latin teacher once said: Better 5 minutes a coward than lifelong a dead.

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

Alex, the honking bird:

 

[berkeman]

Here are some of my babies, adolescents, the bull (a 2500 lb baby)

You forgot to post a picture of your dog!

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30730051_2211816415502797_1165854780711501824_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=bedef307c5ba9c0199f4da3d78d13d17&oe=5B63E935

 

[Chris Riccard]

don't you wish you could be in a harem, oh great lion of the dunes, haha

 

[diajoy38]

How cute is this one? Would so love to have one at home.

 

[jtbell]

Why a duck?

This house (not mine!) is a block away from the college pond, which hosts some ducks and geese. I have no idea why this one decided to wander over here. I've seen it sitting under this property's hedge a few times during the past week, and just now under their car. No sign of a nest, as far as I can tell.

 

[Psinter]

https://i.imgur.com/3Zmesib.mp4



But... But how?

 

[Rx7man]

@berkeman I don't have a dog.. though I guess that would be mine if I did

lickings, scratchings,.. calf is in heaven!

Zecca is VERY sleepy.. passed out and oblivious to the world


Sigma *just* had her calf here.. didn't know what to do with it.. Then she remembered she has to lick something.. I was the recipient of it.. After a while she started to pay attention to the calf, and nearly licked the skin off his back.. (he had a sore spot!)


Here's a bunch of the yearlings doing some lawnmowing for me

Found a Northern Alligator lizard on the road.. brought it home and put it in a rock pile where there's less traffic

 

[Psinter]

Here's a bunch of the yearlings doing some lawnmowing for me
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Are those cows? I've never seen that animal before.

 

[Rx7man]

Are those cows? I've never seen that animal before.

Except for the lizard, yes, they're cows.

 

[phinds]

Are those cows? I've never seen that animal before.

You must be a city boy. NZ has lots of cows. In fact I just read that your government is going to kill 150,000 of them due to some disease that they don't want to spread further.

 

[Psinter]

You must be a city boy. NZ has lots of cows. In fact I just read that your government is going to kill 150,000 of them due to some disease that they don't want to spread further.

The cows of my place that I have seen are black and white and they have big udders. I had never seen that cow. It looks fluffy.

I heard that if one eats a hamburger in a McDonalds of say the US and then eats a hamburger of a McDonalds of say an Asiatic country, the meat tastes different. Looks like they use different cows for the meat depending on the geographic location. Can't say if it's true because I don't really like red meat and haven't taken the time to test it. It might as well be a lie.

 

[Rx7man]

They're still young'uns.. Here are some mature ones...

My bull.. he's impressively big.. about 2400 lbs

A video of him from today

 

[Psinter]

Wow! That place is huge! You could build a house there. If I had a place that big, I would build an ecological house (actually hire others with expertise). Being very careful of insulation and would go with renewable energy. But I wouldn't use wood. I hate wood houses. Also, is that white thing at the top of the far mountains, snow?

For your bull weighting approximately 2400 lb it moves pretty fast. How do you measure the weight anyways? I'm curious.

 

[phinds]

The cows of my place that I have seen are black and white and they have big udders.

Yeah, that's just a slightly different variety. We have those here too. They are called Holsteins.

 

[fresh_42]

It might as well be a lie.

It isn't. MacDonald's uses local food. It might be from farmers, who exclusively produces for them, but they don't ship their ingredients around the globe.

 

[Rx7man]

 

[fresh_42]

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So your doing cowculus?

 

[Rx7man]

So your doing cowculus?

Derivative of x² is 2x right?

 

[fresh_42]

Derivative of x² is 2x right?

Sure. Tell that $y=const.$ and she will turn into $y=2x$!

 

[Rx7man]

Y = Const. is a bull (perhaps even a steer(castrated))... as is Y =|x|

 

[fresh_42]

Y = Const. is a bull (perhaps even a steer(castrated))... as is Y =|x|

THAT is a derivation!

 

[DennisN]

I caught a common blackbird on photo this morning, just before it was starting to fly:

 

[CWatters]

I caught a common blackbird on photo this morning, just before it was starting to fly:

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Interesting brickwork in the background.

 

[fresh_42]

I caught a common blackbird on photo this morning, just before it was starting to fly:

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As I looked at it for some time, I thought I were in the photo contest thread! Just a proposal. I find it a good picture for several reasons.

 

[phinds]

As I looked at it for some time, I thought I were in the photo contest thread! Just a proposal. I find it a good picture for several reasons.

How about this one?

In my back yard. I really love the solitary nature of the subject.

 

[DennisN]

Interesting brickwork in the background.

Yeah. It looks like the mason got bored:

"This work is so repetitive, let's do something different, let's try laying vertical bricks.
[bricketi-bricketi-bricketi...]
Oh, darn, that did not fit in, let's smooth it over by laying diagonal bricks.
[bricketi-bricketi-bricketi...]
Oh, darn, that looks even weirder. Nevermind, no-one will care anyway, it's just a darn wall.

 

[HartleyManson]

I'm definitely loving this thread. Here is a photo of my Pomeranian, Jared. Whenever I'm not home, he's the man.. uhmm, dog of the house. Plays with the kids, watch Netflix with my wife, and greets me with a cheerful bark whenever I come home from work. Of course, he deserves all the dog treats and chew toys in the world, due to his loyalty and friendship.

 

[berkeman]

I worked as an EMT at a "K9 Gladiator" race yesterday, where dogs and their owners compete in a 3-6 mile obstacle course which includes multiple muddy obstacles, navigating steep ravines, and lots of other natural and human-built obstacles. Dogs and owners of all ages and sizes compete, and it was amazing to see how the 100+ dogs that were there got along so well. It was super funny to watch the reactions of different dogs to the mud and other obstacles. The reactions ranged from "You want me to do what?" to "Dat was fun! Dat was fun! I'm going to do dat again now!"

This is the first time I've ever treated an injured dog, and access was not easy since he was down in a steep ravine obstacle with his owner. (He is fine now). Here are a couple of pics from the K9 Gladiator website and related sites...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...wT2BWxCzhsTcDVps7_FmvmB_P3T9A6yh95U1R24HCEbNA

http://www.k9gladiators.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/waterhazard2017.jpg

https://cal.patch.com/sites/default...96_1017073538451030_5873482105014452224_o.jpg

 

[phinds]

Gads! These people are gluttons for punishment yet they look so happy

 

[berkeman]

Gads! These people are gluttons for punishment yet they look so happy

Yep, watching them go through the last obstacle and across the finish line was fun. The last obstacle was a chute with the first part being a big box about 2 meters wide, 4 meters long, and about 1/2 meter tall. It was filled with plastic colored balls about the size of baseballs. When the littlest dogs went through it with their owners, all you could see was when they jumped 3-4 times to get across -- they would magically appear mid-flight, then disappear back into the sea of balls before their next jump. Hilarious.

The last part of that obstacle was just a simple water pit, presumably to help rinse some of the mud off before the finish line. One of the funniest moments was when I saw a black lab with his owner crossing the finish line together, and the lab had one of the red balls from the pit in his mouth. You could see he was super happy, "I got a ball, I got a ball" !

 

[berkeman]

One of the funniest moments of the day came at the first obstacle on the course. It was an above-ground mud pit made with hay bales as the walls, with thick black plastic sheeting draped over them to form a pool in the middle (which was filled with water and mud). One of the first smaller dogs to start the race (a dachshund) ran with his owner up to the mud pit and put his front paws on the side to look in, then basically said "no way!" and backed away from it. The owner jumped over the side and into the pit and said something like "See, it's not so bad, I'm in here now, come on in!"

So the little dog jumps up onto the entry side of the pit, and everybody watching is thinking, "This should be interesting...", and then the smart little dog takes off at a dead run around the OUTSIDE of the pit on top of the haybales. This catches the owner completely off balance (plus his feet are stuck in the mud), and the dog and leash end up pulling him over forward and he does a face-plant in the mud.

I almost had to break out my oxygen tank, some people were laughing so hard!

 

[Rubidium_71]

Happy birthday to Scarlet, she is 7 today.

 

[AlexCaledin]

 

[BillTre]

Giant bullfrog tadpole found in a shallow pond in Arizona.

Its thought to have some kind of hormonal problem, probably preventing it from metamorphosing, so it just keeps growing.
Little article with more pictures here.

 

[AlexCaledin]

Lovely cheetah purring

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmI3V0CBbMi/

 

[Psinter]

Quack!

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

Hilarious birds in this one...

 

[BillTre]

Had to put down our dog (12 years old) a couple of days ago.
She (Snooter) seemed to be part houndish and part pit bull.
She had a very interactive and entertaining personality.

Here she is celebrating X-mas about 4 years ago:

 

[collinsmark]

 

[Borg]

Delivery for Harry Potter?

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Drakkith]

Life's so hard...