wet and French and gay and on fire

ra ra rasputin russia’s smollest uwu bean

this post snuck up behind me and stole my spinal cord like sub-zero

by all accounts, his bean was not smol.

why would you take an already objectively horrible post and do this

Animal Crossing villager, swaying gently side to side on a beach: bwa bwee bwa bwee bwa boh ^o^ bwa bwee bwa bwee bweh bwa :) 

me:

chipped

I normally never reblog anything but this, speaks to me on such a high level that I have to keep it here

This is so beautiful and took a lot of patience!!! ✊

DAILYFLICKS 10K CELEBRATION → FAVORITE 80s MOVIE PER MEMBER LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) - nat (@neve-campbells)

Why do wild opossums look like this?

And ‘pet’ opossums look like this?

It’s because people don’t know how to keep them. Wild opossums have incredibly varied diets with everything from mice to bugs to mushrooms to berries, and they’re always on the move.

When people have a “pet” opossum, they have to have picked it up as a baby and habituated it to humans, and now they treat it like a house pet. Many of them are fed trash diets of dog food, raw meat scraps, and processed meat like hot dogs or hamburger. The lack of calcium at an early age leads to metabolic bone disease, which bows the long bones of the limbs and weakens their bodies. So they can’t climb anymore and don’t walk or run nearly as much. Combined with a poor diet, they gain weight quickly.

Many ambassador animals in rehab centers and zoos can develop the same problem. Especially rehab centers, a lot of captive Virginia Opossums are surrenders from people who realized keeping them is illegal, but the MBD has already started. Even with a better diet, they can become overweight really easily. It was such a struggle to keep the opossum I worked with at a healthy weight because something as simple as too much fruit in her diet would start pushing her weight up again. Even then, I don’t think we ever managed to get her to a “normal” range.

They look buggy eyed because what looks like the “whites” in that last picture is a sign of fat deposits in their face and around their eyes.

Please, please, PLEASE reblog this! It’s so important, and it’s a very visceral example of how inappropriate, unskilled and unnecessary captivity harms wildlife. Even the professionals can run into challenges keeping their charges in good health, and that’s in spite of their very best educated efforts. So you can imagine how poorly captive wildlife in the hands of those who don’t know what they’re doing will fare. (Heck, my very first comic was on this topic!)

The wild is the best place for wildlife, and good rehabbers know this and will do everything they can to get an animal back into its natural habitat unless it literally won’t survive out there. The “I saved a baby possum I found and kept it as a pet and it’s sooooooo cute!” people are the problem, as they’re the ones taking an animal that, with proper handling, could have gone back out into nature and had a much better life as well as diversifying the gene pool.

reblog this post to give the person you reblogged from a fruit gummy

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if kirby had access to the internet he would go on google images and look at pictures of fruit

kirby and yoshi would send each other emails with cool pictures of fruit attached

LOVE OF KIRBY

possums ???? why they look like that (shape)

reblog to give the person you rb'd this from a hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows

I wish I had the confidence of Q Anon people making shit up.

I wish Lusamine from pokemon gave me the sloppiest tornado vacuum BJ in the world.

your wish has been granted

rest in peace king, hope it was worth it

bella googling “cold one” and finding beer ads moodboard

One of the things I resent most about being Animal Brain Apex Predator trapped in Maximum Productivity Society is that I have to work when the weather is gross, instead of following my natural instinct to burrow myself into something dry and soft and sleep until Optimal Foraging Conditions

It is dark and cold and wet and miserable and I have a warm dark quiet hideaway full of food and drinking water that is safe from interlopers and for some ungodly reason instead of holing up there to conserve my energy, I am standing up in a brightly lit beige room for several hours. A possum wouldn't put up with this shit. I'm going to bite someone