#🦝︴off-topic
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Omg look it's remy in the forest
Big ol noodle
Ooh black rat snake
Baby bantum update
Chicken and apple crumble
aw hell yeah
I’m such a big back i just ate the whole apple crumble on my own 😭
It’s just too good
@hoary wharf omg this argy looks like a sunset
That's fire
Really nice argy lol
Low level but that is no problem I just like the look lmao
@past bison 👆
Omg so prettyy
Sleep paralysis demon:
Terrifying lmao
Their saddle makes them look a bit scarier
Yeah the aureliax are very pretty.
They are on lost colony
Anyways ima head off cya :p
the way you wrote the message makes it sound like the chicken is inside the crumble lmao
hear me out tho
pork sausage and savoury apple crumble could work well
Nami’s new fountain is coming in 3 hourss 
Thats some bs bruh😭
TURN UP YOUR SENSITIVITY HOLYYYY
I have it low to make precise movements with the spear
Oh smart
@obsidian bay omg it has four round rubber things on the bottom so it doesn’t slide around, Nami won’t be able to push it at all 
I'm built different… 😤
No way they turned the smart guy into a fish
Stone turning sound effect bro
yaaaas!!!!
She hasn’t used it yet but I have the camera on it so I’ll know when she does 
fancy 🔥
I'm a little worried about Dennie, haven't heard from him recently
I wanna say Dennie left a comment in one of the threads yesterday. 🤔
That's good
Last time I saw him was like the 19th or the 20th
last message in here was the 18th
It was a reply that I saw last by Dennie to a picture of food and he was referencing Old Bay if that helps.
I can’t find it though.
I tried to DM, but nothing yet.
@knotty olive
Working on a big trial
We go to court in 10 days
Some idiot fell off a water tower half way around the country and somehow I got dragged into this
the hell
damn
Never even been to Idaho
Suddenly they flying me cross country for this
getting lucky
or unlucky depending on the injuries
I GOT MY PLANT A TRELLIS ❗️❗️
.
trying to get silver role
also Dennie i have news
Uu yeah he told you for silver role uu i dont know that much abaut this game so i cant help anybody or share some experiences from the game so yh kind hard to type alot
The human body is freakishly adept at.... just refusing to give in
Yes?
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HEAVY METAL TOXICITY
For elk I assume
What kind?
The y one
Or the one that breaks the sound barrier
Interesting
Fr
@obsidian bay Nami has used the fountain at night 
it be dat way
At first she was super worried looking because the water starts running when she gets close but then she was like oh it’s drinkable
True
I personally would not want to survive that, the injuries have to be extensive from a fall like that
would be hella bad
Radio is saying I should pay 9200 sek a month to live at home
I don't even get paid that much
It's payday today but I see no maneyz on my account 😔
damn
meanwhile im getting ready to spend money for myself
well, functionally its not my money
my mom said congrats your birthday is this week
keep it under 200 dollars
so im buying cool stuff
Yeppp
The what
Todayy??? But but it was friday?
Tbh if I moved back to my parents rn they’d have to pay me to stay there
💀
Yes but my boss is
Snål
I forgot the word
I get 25th or weekday after
Exactly
Rip
Lmao
Felt
My employer is nice but the job is meh
My boss is a nice person but an awful boss
Can't afford me working an extra 15 minutes
Bruh
Today on my way to the store i saw this funny flower that looked like it had my face on it. What if it's me in the future?? will we all just be wilted plants??? i dunno weird thought ha ha never eating gas station jelly beans again
Lmao
Deep thoughts
It’s already my birthday wasn’t it February last week 😭
No???
i’ve been outside way too much to think that it was February yesterday😭
But anyway happy birthday
It’s not feb bro it’s end of April lol
Fr
How is it, sound level wise
Nice and quiet?
I can hear a little blups when it’s running but it’s in the living room and I cannot hear it to the bedroom
Oh bless.
Our foutain is in the hall, where the dog bowls are and last night they drank it down just enough that it was making trickling sounds and I tried to ignore it
But after ten minutes I was ADHD laserfocus on the sound
So I had to get up and fix it
Which is fine but. Im gonna be judging this fountain on your personal review and then lobby hubs for it haha
Lmaoo
And like I am very sensitive to sounds
I don’t listen to radio or music or have tv on at home unless I am actively watching it
Like it’s dead quiet
so far the fact that
- its relatively quiet
- not constantly running (unless approached)
- RUBBER FEETS, BLESS. AINT MOVIN.
- size of water reservoir
- M e t a l
all in favor
I'm also still p interested int he filter system.
How was it as far as setup goes?
omg okay wait I looked at their other products
they have a litter box
THE CAT HAS GLASSES AND A TIE ON 😭 WHO DID THIS
Perfect for daily use, fits cats 2.6–30 lbs
Feels like it bro. Times flies when you're having fun.
Yesss
I can take a pic but the stainless steel lid detatches from the plastic lid and the filter goes in it. Very easy to just yoink and replace. Additionally they have a little sponge filter in the thingy that runs the water but that’s very easy to just pull out and replace when needed. It comes with three filters for both so two backups and rather cheap to get more from amazon. Also I ordered it from amazon because it was cheaper to ship here from there than website
You guys must be real fun at a party
Omggg I’m sold
From a teeny beby to a GARGANTUAN CHONKER
omg how much was it off amazon???
on the oneisall site its like 45 fo the black steel one
499kr so little over 46€ and free shipping
If we have a house I’m also getting the white one so Nami can have fountains all over lmao
11 filters 44 bucks off the site, not counting shipping
Oh damn that’s a good deal
I gotta order a pack of filters someday, I think I’ll change it montly or more depending on how dirty it gets
aw.. no black one on amazon.. BUT.. white for 47 and silver for 40...
HM.
judges
Lmao
Yeppp
If it breaks I’m getting new pump for sure I love the fountain
actually not too bad, price wise
...now to go compare on oneisall site
nah its already 20 bucks more pricewise on the site
🤢
amazon wins again.. 😭 stupid Bezos
Omg cheaper then running shoes 😭
Lmao I did find cheap running shoes xD
Nc😭
Nami demonstrating how the fountain is comfy to drink from
And she has attempted to play with it like she did with the plastic one, only this time the fountain did not move an inch despite her darnest efforts
I love having the camera next to her food and water so I can see when she does what
Damn that’s a whole bucket
Fair fr
If I had a larger dog I’d get a big fountain
Based on the size of our planned future dog she’ll be able to share with Nami lmao
Idk if I wanna ask for the 7L or stick with the 3.5L
I dont mind refilling frequently, and I really like the look of the 3.5 compared to the 7
like its nice
and the gooseneck means it's going to be clean all the time
Same it does look nicer
Also I imagine the smaller one is easier to wash
Yep
though, if I were to guess, this is just gonna be 'taller' so not like.. all that hard int he end
Truee
Looks like its meant to last 14 days
but honestly both cat and dog share the fountain so I would guess a week lmao
and I think the catit we have.. its a 2L?
and I'm filling it like 2x a week
And Keeonah is already used to the tiny spout of the Catit, so I dont think swapping to the 3.5L would be too hard
And I dont think Ansel would like the dribble of the gooseneck that the 7L would cause? Like.. TOO much motion
the rationalization process is real
Nami would not like that either that’s why I got this one spesifically xD
Damn
I thought of keeping the catit for when Nami goes to bf’s parents to be babysat but tbh the new one is so much more simple and nice I’ll just grab that one lmao
Also I swap the Catit filter 1x a month 🫣
but I also am gently rinsing it free of debris while cleaning the main chamber
which like.. not the best but they're so dang spensive :C
(like 3.5 weeks, not the full 4)
not a single thought
@serene radish
Bro these little creatures are so goofy
Do you have sns?
Use that if you have it
Horses don't kick you off for like predators n stuff
I raw dog it. I like the immersion
I kind of had a bit of a rush on horse back with a elephant rifle while running for dear life.
Augh you just launched me back a year
I used to be HUGE into RDO, I wis in a dedicated gang and everything 💀 I miss it
Which gang lol
Best horse in online, good taste lol
Have you ever tried taming grizzlies?
Quite fun too
🐴
be cool asf
anyone wanna play on xbox?
Yo, what am I supposed to do? I can’t access this…….
oh heck I forgor
youre not in there
my bad dawg
open mentions and click mark as read
Lmao you good brother 😂
Bet
anyways i bought a slingshot
yuh, and rattlesnake
steel ammo for hunting, clay ammo for practice
Sweet
200 of each for 400 rds total
Nice
also got a .357 cal blowgun
Reminds me of how I used to hunt with them
Epic!
to practice with and eventually also get a .625
Nice
and maybe hunt with if CPW says its good for small game
3/8ths inch for both the steel and clay
One second I need to translate this
9.5mm
yup, more or less standard hunting size for slingshots
and the slingshot i bought is a proper one
wrist brace and all
actually has a magazine to hold pellets in the grip iirc
That is great
Huh?
look at your typo lol
Lmaoo
Bro, I’m cooked
Not as cooked as rabbit squirrels
I’m going back to sleep and waking up tomorrow my brain is not functioning today
Lmao
I slept like 5 ish hours and woke up a billion times bc Nami kept walking over me to try to go behind the blackout curtain
Crazy little cat💀
squabbit
lmfao
but yeah i bought a slingshot and a blowgun
oh dear
Honestly at this point it feels like they’re just trying to stretch it out more than it needs to be
it be that way
Have fun 
i shall
I’m teaching a new coworker
But she’s worked cleaning before so it’s like I’m doing next to nothing lmaoo
That’s bc there is humans around
Those guys have a whole metropolis under the ground
My goodness, the eyelashes on this one
they're techncially whiskers like a cat 🥀🥀
Funky looking cat
Lawd there is teens at the bus station
Making weird ahh noises

God why are they so loud
You are all withing 2 meters from each other why are you screaming
because children suck
I had a dream last night, where there was a new map to COTW but there were no leaks of it, so it was super unexpected. The map was mostly shallow water, with few trees and bushes. The only flora could be found in small rocky towers that had light coming from them. I kept hunting on that map, and then I found something. A giant hole in the shallow water, and it led down a large spiral staircase that looked like an abandoned apartment building. I heard what sounded like a European badger mating call, but it was actually a ‘Melanistic Call’ whatever that means. I found the European badger, and it slowly turned into the wild haggis. I ran away from there, and found 10 glitched white tails (the ones that can’t move). I killed them all in one single shot, and I got an Xbox notification that I ‘ranked up to g1 in COTW’
Sorry for a lot of text btw 🥹 🥹
They do
It doesn’t even end when they get older, teens are just as annoying as toddlers
I should clarify, I meant the teen bracket 😂
children children just havent learned
They are sponges, ready to absorb how to behave and act in public
then you get monstrosities like the herd of teens who hoard the entire front area of the grocery store and talk 💩 when I go to hitch my dog up
What a great way to put it
I dislike all of them lmaoo
Fair.
I guess I'm more lenient to sponge-bracket because they have the potential to learn and be decent
Though - as an antisocial introvert
I aint wanna deal with any of it overlong
The only kid in my life I don’t mind is bf’s 13 yo cousin
He’s a solid kiddo who does not bother anyone, loves Nami and I can trust him to treat her well
Taught me how to shoot with his airsoft (?) gun
They are also capable of draining the psionic life force from any burrowing rodent depending on what beverage they drink
Anybody under 12 hasn’t really learned tho 😭
Elementary school doesn’t really teach kids that stuff unfortunately
Gotta learn the hard way always
“MR WHISKERS NOOOOOOO” “should have closed the window ”
😭
OMG THAT MEANS IVE LEARNT
Are you sure any substances werent part of this?
I am a minor
Doesn’t stop many people
Benedryl makes me have weird dreams, and I take it for allergies
so.. just a side effect 🫠
I’m so happy i barely have dreams that i remember
I had a dream where i ate a non gf pizza but instead of getting one from my friends i got my own whole pizza knowing non gf ones hospitalize me
Non gluten free
Good ending
Rip at least it was a dream
Theres so many foods i miss 😔
Have you had bread
We get gluten free bread and its pretty good
I haven’t had so can’t judge
How does gluten free breb exist😭
Ive had burgers with gf buns
But if it’s bad…. You might be building a pyramid without any support
We can tell bc theres like 0 structural integrity in them
Moved my cayenne pepper into a pot from the hydroponic thingy because it’s getting tall af. I’ll take her out on the balcony when the weather gets warm enough 
Ugh I just realized it’s two plants I need to take out the smaller into another pot so they have enough space to grow
sis lookin mighty leggy! do you have a support basket for her?
I do not but I have some support sticks
And some velcro type plant thingy to attach it to the stick
Yesterday she was real mad about the move but now she all happy again lmao
She gonna love the balcony sun when the temp hits 20
yeeeessss
If the transfer to a pot goes well enough I might take one or two salads, chives and the parsley out too and to the balcony
I need to water my balcony plants
@obsidian bay
Anything is stackable if you believe in it
Wish words
W A L T U H
I cant find the pic of his little cast
It looked friggen ridiculous
Literally tp tube, tongue depressors and duct tape
Vultures look like a disgruntled predatory chicken
He came to me thin and left thicc. 🤣
Most well fed guy
holy discord is shitting itself
no one has roles unless I click to view their profile and I can't direct embed rn and the NSFW channels are gone and a portion of my servers over 100k are gone
this server was gone but now reappeared
@obsidian bay tangs tank is being set up
And the..... what channels?
If ur on laptop ive found that happens sometimes
With servers disappearing
Pc or laptop
oh irl hunting and field to table are considered NSFW cos gore
it's fixed itself now though discord just shat itself for an hour
Brindle???
Oh yay! Hospital style or like, 3g?
#🦝︴pet-pics its a 10 gallon
Her eye is a lot better
oh Yaaaay
<@&393042322499305473>
Look at this yummy corvette I saw guys
I like the green color
who likes travis scott
More like who likes poop
GIMMIE A MINUTE
Sorry😭
We are being seiged and the mods are the angels😭
I trust in them
Thank you, we all appreciate your hard work/dedication to the community
Poop
@long ember
Why do you just have a picture of a blackhead vulture 😭
Read up
As a rancher we typically see blackheaded vultures as bad and generally shoot them for cattle protection and pest control because there more aggressive than turkey vultures.
Along with killing chickens and other animals potentially
There just really evil 😭
For baby cows they’ll peck there eyes out and then prey on softer tissues
he good
damn
Ew
Not sure if we can be friends right now
i mean, you can haze them too potter
you bop em with a paintball gun and scream at em and keep some dogs out with the cows they leave the calves alone cause they know theyre not easy prey
Two more workdays then three day weekend 
oh hell yeah
I can do this (I have to)
why the quotes
its giga illegal
federal law per the 1918 migratory bird act and you need a depred permit to shoot one
crime otherwise
like felony crime
up there with shooting an eagle
HOLY CRAP
I’m deep cleaning a summer cabin, I look out and there’s the biggest cat I’ve seen
MF IS 50% LYNX 50% O🅱️ ESE
They’re just fluffy 🥹💖
thou art still up
Perhaps
Fr
Can't sleep and my face feels like it's vibrating.
Fun times
Can someone help me, my internet connection is good but still cant connect to internet
regional server issues and outages for websites and databases
been an issue about 18 hours now
Discord was having a hell of a time earlier today
not really much to do other than wait for it to be back up sadly
It's only slow when i use crome but when playing it's all good
This has been happening for weeks
ah, not sure on the persistence then
although your internet being stable says its not your equipment or service
Ever since i upgrade to 100mbps my connection issue start.
My previous internet provider is only 30 mbps and didn't have any internet connection issue
we movie-ing
(I'm seeing the umamusume movie not some marvel movie)
dweebus preroll ads
Omgg I’ll have two weeks off in august
Same time as my bf

Also got a 70% contract at work and will get 15k krona every month which is not super good but also not awful and much more than nothing
it’s 1:30 am and my dog just howled in her sleep for no reason ?????
i’ve never heard her howl before, she’s a labrador, labs don’t even howl lol
finished the Uma movie
She dreaming!
Don't stifle her creativity, there's no moratorium on howling 😭
Lol
Also, ain't nothing in that picture a black headed vulture.
How was it twin
He’s missing the wrinkly chin
And the black head
YMAMUSUME 🥹
yuh
heads wrong color, beaks too short, heads to round, feathers too brown, tails the wrong shape, beaks the wrong color... 😂
They also don’t have the lifted nostrils like a turkey vulture
They both aren’t the prettiest tho
Why do you even just have a vulture
As I explained yesterday....
He was a rehab project.
Landed in a coyote trap and it snapped his leg, after he was cleared by a vet - the biosci professor at my college set me up to finish out his recovery
Do you not just have a child sized bird of prey in your yard?
If not you’re doing something wrong
Fair point
she couldn't have him in the campus bird enclosure because it was owl brancher season
aka: fledglings learn how to bird.. but because their parents make nests in the top of palm trees, they can'T easily make it back up, so the campus houses them until they fledge out fully, learn how to fly and are set back in the wild.
Btw tyk i was out birding and all of the sudden like 500 ducks took off and it was a adult white tailed eagle flying by crazy low
Gives students a chance to learn about them, their life cycle and how to care for them if they ever end up in captivity (lots of the bio sci students were pursuing vetmed/raptor rehab) and gives the birds a chance to thrive
thats so cool man 😭
Ik this might be a little offtopic from this but i really like it when people are comfortable sharing their interests with people even if its something conventionally nerdy
I like legless reptiles
poor slowworms 😭
The bro dont even got legs to locomote with
The eagle came by at about 40 meters in altitude i think about 120m away but you could see it great throught the binos
just wiggywaggle
thats honestly so cool
They don’t have the cloudy white head of a bald eagle but more of a cream color
They are literally nicknamed flying doors here 😭
I really wanna get more into bird watching but i dont think i live in a good area for it
All you need for birdwatching is just nature of any kind
Forest or water related areas are some of the best tho
lmao
I never saw it
It was night time and i was looking for stars
I also heard coyotes at night out there
great horned occasionally
screech
long and short ear..
I think there were reports of snowy's making their way through a few times
eastern screech
i wonder what she was dreaming abt tho. she never ever howls, even when she smells a bear/cougar.
usually she just woofs quietly in her sleep
Barred, saw-whet, snowy, great gray, burrowing, great horned, boreal, several pygmies, elf owls, barn owls, long eared owls, short eared and screech owls
I hope i can manage to get enough money for the gun i want before hunting
Happy pup things maybe. Sometimes keeonah howls in her sleep and its the cutest tiniest 'wooooo'
aww
and I damn near cry every time. SO CUTE 😭 🥺
no this was kind of a loud howl, i heard it across the house, it was rather unnerving to hear out of nowhere at 1:30 am
lol
We have barn, european eagle owl, little owl, european forest owl? Long eared and short eared
What owls are in texas
here’s her
there's like 15 owl species in texas alone man
ik she’s kinda fat but she used to be a lot bigger :P
Great horned, screech, barn, barred, spotted, burrowing, elf and pygmy
big sweet potato
Those are the ones you actually have a chance at seeing
But for those last three a smaller chance
North America doesn’t have nearly as many large raptors tho
Golden eagle, bald eagle and cali condor are the only really big ones
Arent cali condor very very endangered
What are they at now
Not sure i think a few hundred in the wild
Their low was 27 individuals now they’re at 390 in the wild
Owl
We have owls
large raptors are ones with like
But owls aren’t big raptors
human sized wingspan
Some owl get close
Okay well like owls are big to me
Eurasian eagle owl is a large one
That’s not that hard when you’re 3 feet tall
Okay well liek
lmfao
Im not
a whole 2 creamer cuppies tall
Eagle owls are very chonky tho
They are Like a flying trash bin
Dude i used to eat those whenever we went to restaurants
No one asked happie
Talk to my mela croc
In your smallness you confused a gecko for a crocodile
Dawg why is happie of all ppl calling me short
Happie I thought you were like
5'3 or smth
Oh weird
I grew
Okay well stop
Wear bricks tied to like ur shoulders or smth
So then it'll weigh you down
And keep you 6'1
186vm
Cm
when I was very little, like one creamer cuppy tall, my mom used to own a restaurant
ventimeters
so your mom had a restaurant when she was 14 weeks pregnant
Mind explosion
she'd have me refill the pinch-bowls on the tables with the creamers
I’ll wear em to my feet so i get stronger legs
Thats so awesome
Before that, and after that too
I do t think it'll work
nice
and then she'd have to hunt me down because I would run away with the leftover ones and start pretending I was taking shots like the dudes who would come and sit the bar in the evenings
I'd get set up behind the potted palm tree in the lobby, put on my best old man expression and just start slingin them back
full on wiping my mouth with the back of my hand like they did too
Tyk reminiscing in the server
Do you guys have like 1700 euros for me
I need a new lens for my camera
I need a camera
What do you want to use it for
Finally I got a thingy to store our shoes innn
I have 12 peso
That’s something
It’s because you technically still kind of can but need a permit and a strong reason to do so
So it is a turkey vulture?
yeh a depred permit, strted issuing them a few years ago i think
yeh its a turkey buzzard, just a subadult before the head goes red
Okay then he’s big chillin
Mr Toxy is chasing a pheasant
He wanted to pet him
Bro, is too wholesome
Yip😌
Bros tryna spawn that g1
Fr
Lol
We walked to lidl for the first time in the two years we’ve lived here
It’s 800 meters away
I walk there often but if we both go we usually drive lmao
he just wants a baller pet
Yep. Walter 😄
Stupid happie
Lots of strawberries lol
sum of the animals in my pz enclosures 🥺
IS THAT A A10 WARTHOG
we ignore the soaring warthog in the back
HE’S SO CONFUSED
He should be he’s being attacked by a mini bomber
(First habitat I ever built btw)
so to add to this
in order to even get a mtn lion tag/license
you have to take an aptitude test
if you get less than 80% on it you dont get the license cause its considered a fail
have to know all laws pertaining to them as well as determination of sex
in addition, unlike AZ, we actually regulate hound hunting them
no more than 7 dogs in a pack and the owner/hunter must be present for release as well as walk with the dogs
any damage to nontarget wildlife is a fineable offense
I always forget people hunt mountain lions with hounds on occasion
Oh no
mtn lions in Colorado, unlike basically every mtn west state are considered a big game animal
so, if you dont take the backstraps, tenderloins, and all 4 quarters
its wanton waste and CPW comes to air strike your house
figuratively speaking but they may as well considering its like 55,000 dollar fine and 5 yrs or more in prison
possible lifetime hunting ban that can be made reciprocal with all 50 states
but there's even more
It only goes down from here
you also must report any harvest you make with the Game Management Unit you took it from for proper recording, preferably with a semi precise or at least estimated location
and you must also take the pelt and head for inspection, determination of sex, etc and validation as a legally held item and proper recording, including taking a premolar for cementum aging to determine the cat's age
I like theres this whole process over there but here its just yeah if you injure, sell or have one you get in trouble
overall its been a really successful program since it means on serious and responsible people hunt them for the most part and it nearly eliminates conflict with ranchers because excess young dispersal toms are preferentially targetted
iirc last estimation from CPW was close to 5500 adult cats in the state rapidly expanding east
might hit 10,000 adults in the state with complete land coverage across the whole of Colorado by 2040 or earlier
which is rapid for a big cat
Thats true if it aint broke dont fix it always best to find a way to benefit both sides
may as well since the vast vast majority of the cats taken are high risk younger males that would end up soaking up state funds and costing ranchers money by going after cattle and sheep
I find it funny seeing people's reactions when I tell them pumas arent big cats
so the state specifically CPW gets revenue from test fees and license sales as well as prevent expenditure from depredation
its super cool and honestly I wish more states used colorado's system for them
Its really cool learning about other states and their whole deal with hunting laws and allat
if Cali adopted it they could simultaneously prevent the grey/black market surrounding pelts while saving money by preventing the need for officers/biologists to cull problem cats
and also unironically reduce traffic accidents
considering how many mtn lions get hit by cars in Cali
i find the general reaction to Colorado to be a mixture of interest and being impressed
and then there's montana
which is just
sad
its sad
Somehow are more roadkill than the deer
this is the main thing why the total hunting ban confuses me; adopting the testing and licensing scheme CO has would prevent car accidents and make the state money thatd reduce the strain on their wildlife division 😭
and it being difficult auto cuts out the idiots who are lazy shirkers
The thing with cali its just a toss up what they allow and dont allow
its basically a self regulating loop
At least this year they opened up mute swan hunting so
true; no hunting or possessing parts of a mtn lion but gill netting is still legal last I knew
Its a step in the right direction
which makes it the only of three states aside from NJ and South Carolina iirc
which is
a wild mixture
oh also I have elk and pronghorn news about CO's populations
Being huat
pronghorn boucned back rapidly from the 2022/23 winterkill of that year's fawns
so in about 3 years they went from 72,000 adults to
per last estimate'
90 to 95 thousand
still growing rapidly
Always wonderful to hear a species bouncing back and recovering
and the elk finally finished recovering from 3 winterkill incidents in 2007/8, 2015/16, and 2022/23
now being the largest its ever been at 312,000 adult animals
also making it not just the largest herd in the US but on the continent
Good lord
constituting about 28% of the US's entire elk population across all elk subspecies
and theyre expanding eastward to reclaim the remains of the wild country on the front range and prairie
so at current expansion assuming no more catastrophic winterkill these next 15 years
we'll be at half a million elk this state alone
which, if Montana and Wyoming cant figure out their management
will be like two thirds of all RME in the country
with most of the remainder being in California and Washington
for context Montana's herd is struggling
sub-20 calf to cow ratio for 7+ years now
Its kinda crazy a state can say they have 3 subspecies of elk one of them being endemic to the state
calf recruitment, being proportional survival of a given year's calves to reach yearling status, of sub 4% for 8 years
breh
real
imo I can agree
I never really looked into other state's elk populations now this conversation got me intrigued to dig around
theres honestly three states that can really flex about elk
Colorado because ours are so well managed and theres so many
NM because theres are also well managed but also regularly produce world class bulls
and Cali for the epic conservation success of rewilding all 3 subspecies and saving their endemic one
Montana however cannot brag
really any elk state can brag except montana
theyve all got smth
but Montana
Oh montana..
omg montana
their elk herd is like 75% to 80% bulls
which is....
high
calf recruitment and cow/calf ratio toileted like i said
but theres more
and its worse
cause they have 140,000 animals, less than half the CO herd
Its a really bittersweet story with the whole tule elk thing but glad they've bounced back and have way better numbers against all odds they managed to do it
they issue more cow tags than we do
consider that
half as many elk overall
fewer proportionally also by nearly half accounting for ratios
and whats more?
no separated seasons for rifle
rifle for elk in MT in one big 8 week block of constant pressure
Jeez..
i think some units start their late the day after so its 12 weeks total of nonstop hunting pressure
now block seasons can work if theyre done right
Wyoming does a block season for rifle
but its like 25 days
and then theres nothing aside from private tags for like a month
then youve got winter cow
so it doesnt spook the hell out of em
its still not optimal
meanwhile CO rifle seasons are on/off
and most activity is opening weekend plus that monday
so 1st rifle is like 7 days on
then like I think 5 days til 2nd
2nd is 6 days on
then like a week til 3rd
3rd is 5 days
then 3 or 4 days later is 4th
and then nearly 2 to 4 weeks after 4th is late private land rifle
means the elk never get pressured off of public land completely
unlike in MT
it also keeps them healthier cause less stress
in fact MT's horrible calf recruitment and pregnancy rates may be because the block season is stressing cows into miscarrying barely a month into the pregnancy term
again, there's such a thing as too much time in the season and too many tags
and their deer management is just
just shoot me
Theres 2 sometimes 3 month period here but with very limited and difficult to obtain tags
and this is where a block season works
if theres not many people hunting out there
a good example this is plains rifle
which is 2.5 to 3 weeks in a block in CO
Depending on the zone and subspecies you are going after
It can range from mid to late September all the way through October sometimes in November
the units it covers usually barely issue 150 tags
most of them less than 45
GMU 87 just north of me only issues 45 combined for buck and doe for the whole season
so long season works cause not many hunters
Last year some elk and deer came back with signs of CWD
ungood
although lower ratios make sense cause yall are overflowing with mtn lions
their stomach acid and protein enzymes actually break down the prion
Until they get run over
and their absence is likely why CWD is such a huge problem in the midwest
cause no big cats
well theyve got bobcats but
yknow
they can only do much and they prefer rabbits so
Literally the only threat to the elk here are pumas and occasionally black bear
poor bastards
how da hell does cali have less lions than CO
its not by much but there is less
Alot of big cities and large roads that cut into their natural territory
i forget lots of cali's wildland is wafflecut by rural highways and active roads
Most of the time its just habitat loss
Or farmland
Cali has ALOT of agriculture
i forget just how much farming is done in the valley
Grapes, almonds, oranges and avocados
often to the uh, detriment of the water table
Not to mention the amount of sheep and cattle farming
ey at least its not growing rice in a desert
ESPECIALLY cattle central Cali is loaded with dairies
thats not even rhetorical btw outside of the california rice farms the biggest producer is Arizona
in the phoenix basin
yknow the 4th hottest area in this hemisphere
2nd hottest on the continent
4 driest in this hemispher after the mojave desert, death valley, and atacam desert in that order
There's just too much for mountain lions to really boost their numbers
and i imagine this contributes to the traffic accidents
Yeah more big cities and roads are built the more they struggle
especially cause of suburban sprawl
big oof
Yeah..
were having issues with that on the front range too cause urban development basically bans skyscrapers in most of the cities
honestly I think if a city reaches 180,000 people it should be required to start reconstructing for higher density housing to reduce sprawl and walkability to remove the requirement for cars
Raccoons and foxes especially benefit from it though
Kit foxes here especially have become a little too comfortable
meanwhile our swift foxes are happy for the opposite reason
theyre on the prairie that is mostly just
Lol
cows
to the point theyre fully reestablished to their former range in the state
Hey at least its a bonus
CO is the only US state and/or Canadian province that can claim that actually
theyre still recovering everywhere else
the most amusing part is the majority of the funding that made the program possible
and also prevented human/wildlife conflict with them including by relocation and education
was fees from furbearer permits and income/sales tax on their pelts and pelts from other furbearers
i find it neat that CO some how managed to make trapping sustainable in such a massive way
How ironic
that it basically brought back a fox from the damn dead
ARISE
the furbearer and small game fees are also funding the rewilding of river otters here too
and helped support our rewilding of beaver and mink decades ago
At least its going into a good cause
with the exception of urban adapted ones like red fox, possum, and raccoom all our furbearers can more or less credit their recovery to fees and taxes related to licensure for hunting them and selling them
and ofc coyotes but
theyre survivors they refuse to die
so that sorta just comes with the real estate
I saw someone refer to them as canine cockroaches
the resilience is on par ngl
To be honest they arent wrong.
they literally get a boost from being partly killed off
which is partly why theyre still trapped for jacket liners and boot fringe
And wolves almost getting taken off the planet
that and so many are taken as nuisance animals that many farmers and ranchers just
pay some trapper to come to their operation and take a few on a foothold line
poor wolp
also speaking of furs in CO i mentioned that attempted commercial fur sale ban earlier
this is partly the issue
itd drive many trappers away from trapping and cause more human/wildlife conflict, namely with infrastructure threatening species like muskrat
on top of kinda gutting a huge portion of the state's economic revenue from garments
and reducing the very funding that we need to keep small mammals safe
not to mention that itd halfway strangle taxidermists and destroy many people's way of life
and also unironically open up a black market trapping window in CO
there's also the added layer of uh
will unironically corruption
because two of the commision board members who voted in favor of the ban petition
are former employees of the filing organization that pushed it to them
which uh
well
suboptimal
and sus af
Yikes and a half.
the other 4 are in some way affiliated directly or indirectly and all 6 have scandal for being selected out of the blue despite being less qualified than other options and the only thing they all had in common as appointees is they were associates and friends of the governor's husband which raised a lot of people eyebrows that an unelected spouse has more power over our wildlife management than the direct of CPW itself
What do i even say here but just wow..
Rather unfortunate turn of events
theres also other stuff thats like
very very political and is somehow worse
that id have to send by DM if youd like to know
Wouldn't mind taking a look at it
aight, will DM then
On a lighter note
Cali is considering the reintroduction of brown bears into the state
oh hell yeah
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSwZ2nRkdm4/?igsh=MWdybnp1djhqOXAzbg== @serene radish have u seen this🥺
their page is about hyrax
I follow that account
i love insta theres so many cute animal accounts
login streak reward
looked at a hare, hyrax & deer and asked if he could be a mix of all 3
That's a mara right
yes
@serene radish
what is the evolutionary advantage for this species
its so stupid bro i love it😭
you mean their general existence or the butt sniffing
general existence
unsure on the general existence but its for a reason im sure
His best
Broody bantum hen
do anyone be betting sports
I’m no biologist but I think you put your feet on the wrong leg this morning.
Why he sit like that? A dignified gentleman 😂
i drew this thing
new roller to 360 no scope all the der 🙏🙏
also has like 8 extra buttons and switchable mouse click triggers and what not
I did have to get a third party adapter if I wanna use it on my Xbox though because Microsoft made it you can only use Microsoft licensed controllers and I'm not feeding into their ecosystem of slop
It looks cool but i don’t have good enough motor skills to control that 😭
probably can’t talk about gamba in here
I wanna make one so bad
Do it
Guys they turned sisyphus into a insect
Whoever named the genus is absolutely wild for it 😭
Why is it so accurate
Every time I clean here (every two weeks) they seem to have more toothpaste
Did bro dirty
While many animals pant or sweat to cool down, it turns out echidnas instead opt to blow snot bubbles and perform bellyflops.
That’s definitely supposed to be a monkey
Im so congested and I keep sneezing
Its horrible guys
But at least I get a new light bc mine fell under the warranty
Same brochacho
Last night in class my nose was just dumping buckets and I went through like three different tissues just being stuffed in my nose because it was seriously like a nose bleed only not blood
Idk when the last time I got a bloody nose was
I don't ever get bloody noses, I just know from my family and friends that sometimes they're never ending
I’ve never had a bloody nose
But i know someone who gets them weekly
He has a vein in his nose that bursts when the the air gets dry
That's rough
It's super dry where I live, and luckily I don't have issues with nose bleeds but damn my nose burns sometimes because of it
@umbral cobalt who all is left from the pro clan
It's been a while since i've been active in the cotw discords
My raspberry is going for a world record of the amount of leaves or something of the sort
Oh she’s beautiful 💖💖 are you gonna trail her around something and keep her viney?
No clue tbh, I just want a little raspberry bush but I have no idea how to do that 😂
Look into how to prune them!! Helps make em bushier
Ooo I need to, thank you!
Npnp!! I’d help more but honestly we just cut, slashed, and trampled ours, since there were so many of those and the invasive blackberries lol
You may have to do some heavy trimming just a forewarning 🥹
She looks so healthy, and they’re such hardy plants. She’ll take to it just fine I’m sure 💖
Lmaoo
Yepp I googled a bit and it seems that I’ll be doing some pruning late next winter or early spring
Lovely plans!! May you and your plant army prosper
Bro is alive
Not really he’s barely active in pro’s i’ve only seen him in private servers
He is in here tho
Who all is still around?
Huh
Kawhi is back
Oh
Ello kawhi
Pretty well hbu
Meh, doin alright. nothing to complain about, nothing to write home about


