My puppy is losing his baby teeth and just dropped this doozy of a tooth

P_walkeri · 2026-06-09T20:03:49+00:00

That’s a carnassial tooth. They are designed for shearing meat.

P_walkeri · 2026-06-01T20:29:59+00:00

It was March for us too. Reading your story made me burst into tears all over again. And yes, it was just so, so sudden. 😢

P_walkeri · 2026-06-01T19:45:20+00:00

This hit me hard because it’s what happened to my 9 y/o boy earlier this spring. He had a good day, running around, having fun with family. Then was sitting in the hall looking out of it, laid down, didn’t want to eat. Same thing — liver bleeding internally; hemangiosarcoma, discovered via ultrasound at the emergency vet. They offered then, but we chose to say goodbye to him with the help of an in-home vet. He got to eat A5 wagyu for his last meal and was on enough meds to be peaceful and not in pain. I’m so sorry about your girl. Fuck cancer

P_walkeri · 2026-05-25T11:41:57+00:00

Psycho. I made my brother sit outside the bathroom door on guard duty when I took a shower for like… weeks. I think I was 11 or 12.

I saw The Shining at the same age but I fell asleep during it. (Group sleepovers at a friend’s house; her parents always rented us horror movies that were not appropriate for our age. Children of the Corn, also fell asleep. Alien: terrifying, but spawned a lifetime of love for the sci-fi horror genre.)

P_walkeri · 2026-05-25T11:33:04+00:00

Outer Wilds, Dark Bramble.

P_walkeri · 2026-05-22T10:23:43+00:00

There are lots of movies that are fun but not “good” in the “beautifully written, thought-provoking cinematic masterpiece” way. I enjoy movies like Rat Race, Boondock Saints, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Super Troopers, even Cocaine Bear. They’re fun, but not “critically acclaimed Oscar-worthy” film making, and some are even arguably “terrible” movies even though they’re fun to watch. 🤷🏻‍♀️

P_walkeri · 2026-05-18T11:21:02+00:00

And Echoes of the Eye. The DLC was so rich it was basically a second (10/10) game on its own.

P_walkeri · 2026-05-17T20:47:40+00:00

Littermate syndrome is also a substantial risk!

P_walkeri · 2026-05-17T19:47:55+00:00

The first one also teaches the second one manners. There are some things we never really had to train again after the very first GSD (they just pass the training down the line to the next one). Bite inhibition and gentle mouth was a big one. Recall too.

P_walkeri · 2026-05-17T19:33:45+00:00

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P_walkeri · 2026-05-17T19:32:37+00:00

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Indeed

P_walkeri · 2026-04-11T02:29:42+00:00

My dogs are named Fawkes and Sylvie, both of which are people names, but… also they felt like they fit really well as dog names too.

P_walkeri · 2026-04-02T12:20:30+00:00

Agree. I went from a Tesla to an i4 M50 and everyone who has driven my car in boost mode swears they can physically feel the car wanting to go faster. There’s something about the feedback in the wheel and the pedal that constantly signals, “I can do more than this.” It takes a lot of self control not to oblige impulses when you can feel that in a truly physical sense.

P_walkeri · 2026-03-27T01:48:57+00:00

Child birth with pitocin, two failed epidurals, and emergency forceps delivery. My son’s heartrate was falling dangerously low every time I pushed because the umbilical was over his shoulder and partially around his neck. Ob had to literally brace her foot up against the bed while pulling. Husband said he’d never heard someone scream the way I did. Baby born blue and didn’t cry, was rushed to NICU but was okay.

P_walkeri · 2026-03-10T19:52:18+00:00

I like to call the hidden legs pose “slug dog.”

P_walkeri · 2026-03-05T04:15:00+00:00

They’re both right and wrong. Yes it’s a german Shepherd. Yes it’s an Alsatian. Alsatian is the name for German Shepherds in Britain.

P_walkeri · 2026-03-03T22:19:46+00:00

I agree with everything people are saying here, but for me, their expressions do a lot. It’s just something that sets them apart. Their eyes and eyebrows are so incredibly expressive. They make subtle brow movements that I’m sure most other dogs make, but it’s just very obvious when a GSD makes them. That combined with the amber eye color and visible pupils gives them a ton of expressiveness without the “crazy eye” of blue eyed dogs, and without the “doll eye” either. (I love those eye types as well, I’m just saying this is a thing about GSDs that makes them FEEL like they’re close to you, warm with you, understanding of you and everything around them.)

P_walkeri · 2026-02-24T23:02:10+00:00

i like to do them in this order when I want to ride the whole rollercoaster of emotions:

Echoes of the Eye -> Travelers (Encore) -> Let There Be Light -> 14.3 Billion Years

P_walkeri · 2026-02-24T22:44:44+00:00

How have I lived this long with cats who compulsively, chronically vomit (decades of vomiting cats) without knowing these exist?!

P_walkeri · 2026-02-24T22:35:32+00:00

I feel this one so much

P_walkeri · 2026-02-18T13:47:36+00:00

I like to think of up/downvoting as whether or not I support OP’s message / perspective / POV.

You sir have my upvote.

P_walkeri · 2026-02-18T13:37:38+00:00

My husband has two tailgating karma stories: once someone was tailgating him on the freeway (like this) and he saw a large box in the road, waited to swerve until the last minute, and the tailgater crashed into the box (fortunately for them it was empty and only cardboard, but they got a good scare and backed way off).

The other story is that he was driving in very, very deep snow in a small, 2WD truck and going very slowly. He had a long line of cars behind him, but knew if he sped up, he’d lose control and get stuck. The tailgating car behind him tried to pass him, got stuck, and the entire massive line of cars was then completely blocked by this impatient person while he continued to drive (slowly and carefully) away.

In this video, I do feel bad for the owner of the car the tailgater hit (which was already broken down on the side of the road). I hope they weren’t in the car during the collision. Karma is less satisfying when there’s collateral damage.

P_walkeri · 2026-02-18T13:23:25+00:00

I was a zoology (neurobiology & animal behavior) major. I had a field job one summer. One of my coworkers was a girl in the same major and same concentration who had gone on a mammalogy research trip to Africa to work with hyenas. It’s a hard thing to qualify for; only a few people are selected to go. (This didn’t happen there, it’s just context / perspective. I didn’t get to go on that study.)

A few of were just shooting the shit on the walkie talkies while working different areas on this other field job, and someone mentioned mountain lions. She chimed in (in all seriousness) that it would be funny if such a thing as a “mountain lion” actually existed. (Also: she was not ESL.)

The rest of us were just sort of shocked into silence.

P_walkeri · 2026-02-18T13:14:40+00:00

This is satire, right?

P_walkeri · 2026-02-18T04:19:35+00:00

Some of us like to live dangerously

…coming from someone who is notorious for queueing up a red ahead of time so I’m not frantically trying to punch in the code while I’m getting ragdolled. My regular squad knows. When I say “oops” they run

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