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ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social

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Dogs don't have alphas; Cats aren't sociopaths.
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Freedom ain't NOT free.
Occupied Dakota Territory/ Minneapolis
(she/her; autistic)
Special interests: 🐘🐶🐱 animal behavior, anthrozoology, anthropology, ethnology, & being a bummer about cute animal videos.
I'm a professional, accredited, force‐free, R+ pet trainer using a gift economy where folks give any amount at any time.
Profile pic: illustration of me, my cat, & pitbull by Ethan Kocak.
Header: "The Wounded Table", Frida Kahlo

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If there is some warlord gang shit going down somewhere, you can safely bet it was sicced on a population by the State. Then the State will use it as proof that a State is needed.

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A certain kind of radical feminist hates this movie, and I loooooove it. So on , I'm watching it to celebrate. Clip from "Poor Things":
https://youtu.be/Rt1eClGhLMg?feature=shared

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I wish this was the new Wednesday dance. https://youtu.be/SEBGdjkPtRo?feature=shared

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I settled on "It's Training Cats and Dogs" but I wish I had named my training business "All Cats Are Beautiful".

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Remember when suffragettes and anarchist women both bombed shit? needs more 💣.

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I never drink enough water and have issues because of it, so now I just have to eat really spicy food all the time so I want to chug water.

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When I was a zookeeper, I was always experiencing a euphoric awe when an animal did something really animal-ish, like when the wolves would howl when I approached them in the morning. It was the basis of my cognitive dissonance. Anyway, I get that same feeling from companion animals, too! Specifically when dogs are REALLY sniffing something or trying hard to communicate with me, and with cats I feel that way when they have a flehmen response or when they do acrobatics through the air during play. 🥰

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The flehmen response always reminds me of the animals at the zoo, which reminds me there is basically a lion in my living room (domestic cat). Here is a photo (random photo I got off the internet) of a tiger doing a flehmen response.

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(A Flehmen response is when they make this extreme grimace which enables them to push scent up into their olfactory organs and communicate chemically.)

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A better way to describe what causes my euphoric awe is when an animal shows their umwelten.

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@CorvidCrone it's so amazing. I have only seen companion animals do this.

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@HeavenlyPossum when my pitbull does it, all the muscles on his massive head twitch like crazy like he's chewing without moving his mouth.

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@CorvidCrone @HeavenlyPossum their face is less expressive when they do it

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@CorvidCrone @HeavenlyPossum if it preceeds a punch, then it might just be a normal grimace ?? Flehmen responses are usually pretty long

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@CorvidCrone @HeavenlyPossum everyone can do it but us.

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@CorvidCrone @HeavenlyPossum we think we are the masters of communication and we can't even chemically communicate

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@CorvidCrone @HeavenlyPossum oh yeah, lol! Spicy!

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@Wildduck English has no good word for it!

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Last night I came upon someone stealing a bike and did not care because they are unhoused and probably need it more. They kept asking if I was going to call the police. Absolutely not.

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I switched to a physical planner where I keep everything: family and work schedules, to-do lists, keeping track of everything, etc. I'm too tactile of a person to use apps and screens. This is way better.

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    @iwein @UnassumingKiwi A state is an association of people characterized by formal institutions of government, including laws; permanent territorial boundaries.

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    Your periodic reminder that spiders have facial expressions. 🥰

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    In case people I really like are wondering why I unfollowed them, it's always because you called (or boosted someone else calling) Jewish people Nazis. I will not use the Holocaust Inversion Trope, not even against fascist, genocidal Zionists, because it hurts Jewish people who are not fascist or genocidal or Zionist to see it, and I care about the requests of the Jewish diaspora not to do this. Nazis, by definition, want to exterminate Jewish people. What is happening in Israel is not about killing Jewish people, meaning the genocide that is actually happening is not towards Jewish people. Talk about similarities all you want to, due to the shared characteristics of fascism, genocide, imperialism, and an ethno-state. But both of us are not Jewish, so we do not have the right to dabble in antisemitic tropes as insults. I was sad to see you go.

    Edit: Holocaust Inversion includes "Final Solution" appropriations.

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    No wonder he left his cat to his neighbor.

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    If you work with encampments make sure you have plenty of fucking fire extinguishers and that they are accessible at all times and everyone knows their location

    If you don’t have money for fire extinguishers make it one of your mutual aid asks. Or idk, dm me for a few bucks because goddamn would you want your friends to live in a house with no smoke detectors if they didn’t have to??!?

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    @riotmuffin thr smoke detectors I mean. I haven't tried asking for a fire extinguisher

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