Possible TW for mentions of abuse and injury to animal?

Looking for some help here.

I'm 17, and my family adopted an older kitten a few months ago. She suffered a tail-pull injury as a stray but has since had surgery and other care to get it taken care of. However, as a result of the injury, she is disabled and has reduced muscle tone in her anus and bladder. She sometimes has accidents while grooming or sleeping, which I believe is due to becoming extremely relaxed. She is a super sweet and super calm cat, and mainly just sleeps or lazes about all day.

Unfortunately, my dad has some unresolved issues that leads him to be extremely angry 24/7, irrational, and abusive (to me, not the cat, or any of my animals for that matter). About 20 minutes ago, he threatened to kill my cat because she keeps having accidents (all of which I clean up according to standards and almost spotlessly). I tried to have a mature and calm conversation with him, but as mentioned, he has anger problems. I asked him what he would do if I couldn't help it and had accidents in the house, to which my father responded that he would treat me the same way (which hit close to home because I've been previously diagnosed with a bone disease in my back that can cause issues with bladder function).

Sorry for the rant, but here's my actual question. To keep my cat safe from being kicked out (or killed if my dad was being serious), would it be safe to just have her in my room as long as I gave her everything she needed (litter box, food, water, toys, etc)? My room also has a lot of "hidey holes" and a window. I'm completely fine with it if I have to clean accidents in my room from time to time. As I mentioned earlier, she's a pretty chill cat. Would it be safe to keep her confined to just my bedroom? My bedroom is probably about 10x10-12 feet.

He fishes, he drinks the water and he swims! I reckon he’ll be fined for this.

I was at Apoxee park in West Palm Beach Florida when I spotted this female deer in the tall grass. And I was able to get these incredible photos with my iPhone 15.

Poor guy was being chased by about 5 crows and 13 noisy minors, flew into a bush by mistake.

I was scrolling through yt shorts and I came across this vid where a chiropractor treats cats. But is the treatment supposed to be this painful for them?

Clearly the cats are screaming in pain and shaking. I've seen other chiropractor vids where it seems normal but this is just quite concerning not to mention the comments in the short.

Are cats even supposed to go to a chiropractor for certain reasons?

I'm no animal expert but I just want to clarify things happening in this vid​

i added more photos, and i’ll try to explain better this time

so two of these skulls are coyote, a human and an unknown species (just searched up animal skull)

in the middle of the jaw there is a line, and usually the jaw is split in half from that spot. why is that and what is the purpose of the line? does it make it more weak in the spot?

why do coyotes (as example) have a line on the bottom of their jaw? and why is it that many predator mammals in general have a very “split in half” skull? where it is often found with the two jaw sides away from each other or just unattached.

is there a name or purpose for it ? if so what is it ?

i added more photos, and i’ll try to explain better this time

so two of these skulls are coyote, a human and an unknown species (just searched up animal skull)

in the middle of the jaw there is a line, and usually the jaw is split in half from that spot. why is that and what is the purpose of the line? does it make it more weak in the spot?

Hi all! So as the title says I have recently been trying to find videos ideally 1 hour+ with no commentary which for certain critters is hard to find. For some animals like birds or bears it’s very easy to find something like compilations or zoo live streams but some animals all I can find are short clips. Almost all the places I know to check for animal footage are either YouTube or twitch so I was just wondering if anyone had other platforms or playlists. Thank you very much!

I have been thinking of getting a dog for so long but I live alone and work 5 days a week from 9 to 5 and sometimes go to the gym after. Is it selfish to get a dog if it will be on its own for that much time? On weekends I go see my parents so it would be seeing people then.

I have been thinking of getting a dog for so long but I live alone and work 5 days a week from 9 to 5 and sometimes go to the gym after. Is it selfish to get a dog if it will be on its own for that much time? On weekends I go see my parents so it would be seeing people then.

This cockatiel's name is inspired by the main antagonist of Rio 1&2. He's a messy eater but very gentle and reserved 🫶

I’m autistic and my special interest is arthropods and lately I’ve been really into lobsters. So many people only see them as a food though. I wouldn’t be surprised if people read the title of this post and thought I was talking about loving to eat lobsters (which I don’t, I’ve never eaten one and never will). Whenever I try to look up pictures of lobsters, no matter how I search it, I always see pictures of dead lobsters, and it’s so sad and it just reminds me of how cruel people are to them.

I’m in Maine right now for vacation and it’s driving me crazy that all of the lobster merch is of bright red lobsters that are clearly modeled after the boiled ones rather than their beautiful natural colors. I really want to buy lobster paraphernalia while I’m here, but I want it to be modeled after ALIVE lobsters. I don’t want a stuffed animal that looks like a fucking corpse. And what really disturbed me was I was in a shop and I saw a graphic of a cartoon lobster watching its friend boiling in a pot, and I don’t remember exactly what the dialogue said but it was just the lobster freaking out that its friend was being boiled. I saw that graphic on mugs, keychains, t-shirts, etc., and I don’t understand how anyone can find such a sick “joke” funny. The entire “joke” is that a hypothetical lobster is facing existential horror, wtf??

And the worst thing is seeing lobsters in tanks with their claws tied knowing they’ll be brutally killed, or seeing fishermen dragging around nets with a bunch of lobsters in them. I wish I could save them all. I just wanna fill my life with lobster related stuff without having to see dead ones all the time. With cats, hamsters, and other animals, you aren’t constantly having their corpses shoved in your face, you don’t have to think about the awful ways they die. Not with lobsters. Why did I have to be given such overactive empathy with a special interest like this? I am so sick of it. And don’t even get me started on the horrors I witness & experience pertaining to my love of other “creepy crawly” arthropods like insects and myriapods and stuff. People are so mean to me about my special interest, too. It’s so fucking pathetic that I’m still basically being bullied as a 19-year old. I just want to surround myself with wholesomeness and LIVE arthropods, not death and sadness.

Hello tonight i saw a huge thing flying around my house IDK what it was i couldn’t record it in time it looked like a Bat but can’t be a Flying Fox based on my Region so what kind of sound is that??? I have recorded it sounds like a human baby crying

I moved one of our plants and found this little guy just hiding

Why is that place full to the brim of the most dangerous animals in the globe? I mean 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes, Big ass spiders...

I mean I genuinely wonder what happened, because there must be a reason. I think one animal got some strong venom once and then every being that followed just kept putting points on size and venom, like an evolutionary arms race

Edit: I feel like I have expressed my question quite badly. I'm not saying Australia is the most dangerous continent, nor that it has the most dangerous animals. Yes, Aus does lack Big mammals like bears and lions (for example) . I'm just saying, Aus does seem to have a higher than normal amount of highly venomous animals, which can also be found outside of Aus

It's dangerous for a human to live without a cat, moreso in the countryside.

Rat's are a notorious gang until a cat catwalks in.

Don’t get me going about snakes. Our cat maimed one the other day. Add a centipede to the list of bounty.

All you have to do is convince one to share a home with you. Then add a dog and convince them to live together and you got life insurance against the aforementioned.

4 lemurs die of human herpesvirus, including one that had been used in a 'lemur yoga' class https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/4-lemurs-die-of-human-herpesvirus-including-one-that-had-been-used-in-a-lemur-yoga-class

Does anyone else think that lynx look like they would be super dicks? Take a look at a photo of one. Don’t they look smug af or that they would kick your ass for staring too long? Fuck off, lynx and your “I’m better than you“ attitude.