cool dude animals

No, this is not photoshop or a disoriented photo. Photographer Vincent TC captured a goose trying to land with lots of headwinds, in the Netherlands. The bird is trying to brake, briefly turning upside down except for the head.

I've had days like that. I've even had flight like that.

You have to watch the front of the red car. 70 pound dog picked up and spun around by a dust devel, captured by a neighbor's doorbell camera.



The dog was dazed for a few seconds, then went back to playing with the kids.

{{ Like an unexpected fair ground ride, for dogs. }}

A rescue dog shelter lays out rows of toys for their dogs to pick out each christmas.

https://twitter.com/DogsTrust_IE/status/1473201576919642114

Talking of cool dude animals, 2022 is the year of the Tiger.

{{ Ah I know that game  only too well!! But on a buckie binging night the shoes on the other, um paw!! Well unless I drunkenly step in that first too of course  }}

https://fb.watch/cM0bM8sd8w/

that one kept building and building until you couldn't hold the laughter in any longer.

I know, those kitty arms wapping at 100 miles an hour

https://fb.watch/d9EH9LGxj3/

It's kinda sad to think other continents don't have racoons. but it's difficult to camp if they are around, because they get into absolutely everything.

I took some city kids camping on a moonless night, and we had the treat of watching a bag of fritos climb a tree. It was a racoon of coarse, but it wasn't as reflective as that foil coated bag.

I saw a slow worm yesterday:





Never seen one before (they are quite rare in the UK these days), I thought it may have been a small grass snake at first (I have seen one of those before) it was maybe half the length of my forearm, didn't pay any attention to me at all and went on its way.

Also saw these, is the second a stag beetle? (also quite rare):




I'm pretty sure I also saw a freshwater eel the other day during a walk along a local river, was about the length of my forearm and very fast (I tried to snap a photo/video but the light contrast was too high) never seen one before and I've walked down that river many times (trout are very common, and I've seen pike several times but never an eel)

Also came across a few deer a couple of weeks ago, guess the hot weather is brining them all out...

never heard of a slow worm before. Looks like a snake to me.

Where I live you have to be on the look out for these Im totally terrified of them. I live under The South Downs and in the summer these brutes are everywhere. Yet people still take their dogs up the Downs, letting them run and chase toys in all the undergrowth. People say vibration and noise scares snakes off but, the odd dog has been bitten.

Are they venomous? If not you shouldn't be too worried about yourself: snakes generally only strike at beings who are persistent in their molestations. Dogs are a bigger worry because they are numbskulls about exactly that sort of thing.

{{ Its an adder. The only venomous snake in the UK. But itsnot massively so, painful and unpleasant and you'll need treatment, but your not going to drop dead on the spot, probably (the last person to die from an adder bite was in 1975. Since 1876 there have been only 14 fatalities).
They generally stay out folks way, but they are dangerous when nesting, as most animals are, and like most snakes they tend to lie out on rocks in the morning sun to charge themselves up and sometimes people dont see them till they are right on them.

Slow worms are cool. They arent snakes but lizards (you can tell as they have eyelids and blink) I used to have one as a pet when I was a kid, it used to wrap itself right round my waist for hours on end and just stay there. I once accidentally sat on its tail when it was doing that and got bitten- but they have no proper teeth, small backwards facing ones handy for eating insects but no fangs or anything like that, so it basically gives you a not very loving hicky!  }}

Oh weird. Yeah you can see that they don't appear as muscled as a snake does. They're kind of floppy looking. They remind me of Alligator Lizards:

Those bugs look bloody enormous!

cutest ever kitty


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MwYUkgaMLrA?feature=share

It's like a bloody cat mukbang.

whats mukbang?

edit, just googled it, it means noshing a lot of food, but look at its little legs and tiny furry tummy, its cute noshing.

so somebody brought home a pet skunk, and kitten wants to play.

https://www.tiktok.com/@zooarcade/video/7191184046137838894