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Mangy Beast

@reggiemess / reggiemess.tumblr.com

Reggie, he/him Animal stuff, art, and other stuff. Stop asking me what purpose a species has. This blog supports useless creatures. I volunteer at a museum and take pictures of neat skulls and skins. My personal collection is much smaller and less exciting. My art is not strictly sfw. Bug haters do not interact. I also run @gulopets (my dog's blog) @zoiboiz (borzoi reblogs) and @mustelidmess (mustelid blog)
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Tav: It's a shame we killed that guy. Seemed more lonely than cruel. 😔

Not even five seconds later: *discovers a secret room dedicated to poison and torture with a corpse in a barrel*

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gulopets

Okay so this is bothering me.

Doing research on tail docking I keep running across the claim that there was a tax in England on pet/non-working dogs, and docked tails were used as a way to show that a dog was used for work and thus exempt:

It sounds fine. It even makes sense when looking at dogs in England at the time that are docked versus ones that aren't.

But the thing about this claim- which I see referenced in academic journals: I CAN'T FIND A FUCKING SOURCE FOR IT.

I've found an article on a different dog tax that makes no mention of working dogs or docked tails, which is sometimes incorrectly cited as a source for this. I've been shown a countess mentioning this tax in a parliament debate thingy. The closest I've found to an original source is an old article in a periodical that makes reference to 'ancient forest laws.'

I haven't though found a single source that shows evidence that this tax was ever a thing.

WHERE did this come from? Was is just hallucinated in 2007 in front of parliament? Did the article about a different tax get incorrectly cited and then that citation just got repeated because nobody actually checks citations? Is this an inference someone made? Am I just missing a very obvious keyword in my searching?

If someone has a source for this claim I would love to see it!

#this is what i was on last night#i am fucking frothing at the mouth over this#i hate this sort of shit lmao#ive even helped spread it!#WHAT is going on here
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This is a photo of a wolf according to my fiance.

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"Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love" is the sort of line that you'd expect to come from a guy audibly masturbating on a phone call with the public library but it's actually from a song written for sub-mid cover bands to sing at weddings for 19 year olds.

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partlysmith

what most people don't know about Easter is that if Jesus sees his shadow after emerging from the tomb, we get six more weeks of sin

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todaysbird
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trailcams
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reggiemess

Let's take a moment to look closer at these guys! Look at the ones that are in the big groups! Compare them to the one that's sitting at the farthest bottom left. See how their faces look greyer (they'd be striped in a clearer photo) and lack the mutton chops?

They're all BABIES!

And look at where they're all facing and moving towards- they look like they're all watching and following the adult! They're little fresh green sprouts just learning how to Bird!

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bogleech

Source is SHARKEEE ON TWITTER who posts tons of original amazing wildlife shots and videos but I needed to show you what lamprey look like mating, you won’t regret it especially not when one of them is still so worked up it starts swinging a boulder around with its face

#fish sex