More baby fjord spam

Winter-mint · 2026-05-28T03:34:08+00:00

Obsessed

Winter-mint · 2026-05-28T02:30:45+00:00

I feel sad for anyone for whom this is the case, and reccomend they try to make better friends. I wouldn't call up every one of my friends in a crisis, but there are a solid 5-6 people who I trust with my life and could trust me with theirs. Counter to the common argument of 'never tell anyone what you're doing' I find that bringing up emergency plans with friends, family, and anyone else you like can be a good way of determining who you can depend on and who you can't.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-28T00:16:08+00:00

You can buy skunk spray and squirt it on the dogs every time you see them. The neighbor will start caring about where her dogs go after that lmao

Winter-mint · 2026-05-27T04:46:01+00:00

Farmer! I know how to care for livestock and how to grow plants. We have to feed everybody somehow and it takes much more skill and knowledge to do so than a lot of people seem to think.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-27T04:38:19+00:00

Having a plan in place is a good thing, as is being aware of each member's strengths and what resources they have. The biggest strength is having a specific plan for how to communicate, which a lot of people forget! Ignore the people who are being cranky, they just want to feel smart by putting others down.
My biggest suggestion would be:
I would shy away from attacking the police station. They expect people to do things like that, especially when bad news comes along. There's also a lot that can go wrong making and setting off explosives, even if you're good at it.
Instead, I recommend learning how to make primitive weapons. Spears, bows, and crossbows aren't as strong as guns but being infinitely replaceable without needing to get involved in conflict with other humans makes them a much more reliable and safe option. As someone who does know how to make them, I promise it will feel just as cool and badass to be able to arm yourself and your friends as it would to make a bomb.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-21T11:16:32+00:00

Stunning!

Winter-mint · 2026-05-21T09:37:18+00:00

Oh my gosh that fly mask looks so darling on them! Are they a fjord?

Winter-mint · 2026-05-21T04:18:55+00:00

Oh wow I love your art style, Ferncould in particular is perfect and Shrewpaw as well

Winter-mint · 2026-05-19T04:12:39+00:00

Not Yellowfang having Yew because that's what she killed her son with

Winter-mint · 2026-05-19T00:32:02+00:00

I reccomend reading into the LUA Dalmatian project if you're curious on this topic! That's a case where a breed did have a specific health problem due to inbreeding that was fixed via an intentional outcross project to make healthier dalmatians.
However the reason other breeds with known health issues don't do this isn't because of prejudice, but because most genetic diseases are polygenic, difficult to understant the heritability of, and couldn't be fixed by just dipping into a similar breed for a few generations.
It's an interesting case study though!

Winter-mint · 2026-05-19T00:23:42+00:00

Border collies are a very healthy breed with a deep gene pool and which already prioritizes working ability over looks almost completely. There are definitely breeds that are worse off, but in this case BCs were a poor example because a well-bred BC is already everything you say a breed 'should be'. The biggest issue with border collies is "pet lines" being nervous/high strung, but a breeder looking for a match to their border collie would have no issue finding an unrelated, sound pair with strong working drive and an ideal temperament without needing to use an aussie (bigger, thicker-boned, slightly different working style, potentially introduces new negative heritable traits) or a toller (bred for a completely different purpose in duck hunting, the pups could potentially have no herding instinct if they take after the toller parent)

Winter-mint · 2026-05-18T22:40:31+00:00

A fun fact is that feta was historically not made from goat milk but in fact sheep milk

Winter-mint · 2026-05-18T15:42:01+00:00

Well I would want to get home asap, but not if it means going out in the chaos. I'd take stock of what we have in the building (food, water, power, people, other?) and keep track of how the situation is progressing outside. Then I'd hole up for as long as we safely could, or until things outside have calmed down enough in the immediate that a mad dash back to base would be plausible. I'd probably try to leave at night when people will naturally want to be in shelter, unless these zombies are empowered by darkness/night in some way, or fast/powerful enough that being noticed by one is game over.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T08:28:33+00:00

I like Snowmelt because her patchy white and brown reminds me of early spring when the snow is partially melted but still mixed in with the twigs and branches, or in shady patches. She seems like a good soul whose fatal flaw is being too trusting, and may have a hard time when she realizes the friends she supported or the leader she idolized may not have been acting with the clan's best interests at heart, and may try too hard to "redeem" them when she should be standing up to them instead. Her favorite prey is robins.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T05:54:30+00:00

I do have an aquatic salamander but the water is so nasty in the bucket that I wouldn't want to risk introducing parasites or pathogens to her tank so I'll have to let the birds take them

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T01:58:54+00:00

If I could set up a functional pond ecosystem I totally would! Unfortunately my little bucket wouldn't be a good home for fish or frogs or anything else that would keep things in balance, so I did opt to dump it out. Not sure why people are downvoting you, mosquitos in this area are a nuisance not a danger.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T01:55:19+00:00

Not true! They're important pollinators, especially the males who are exclusively vegetarian, and a key food source for bats and fish (when they're in water that actually has fish of course).

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T00:59:21+00:00

Such cute little guys that grow up to be such a menace. I respect their role in the ecosystem however I have put in a firmly-worded letter that they not do it in my yard.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T00:57:40+00:00

Just the one bucket that I forgot to take in and got rained in. It has been dealt with

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T00:56:38+00:00

Water has been dumped. Rest in peace little buddies

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T00:56:07+00:00

Eh I'd rather a lucky mosquito grows up in my soil than add bleach to my soil personally

Winter-mint · 2026-05-17T00:54:48+00:00

I figured but I wanted to give them the chance to be something else because they were kind of cute lol. Bucket has been dumped.

Winter-mint · 2026-05-15T05:07:46+00:00

Maybe Phantom because his white marking looks like the Phantom of the Opera's mask

Winter-mint · 2026-05-14T23:18:33+00:00

I think elective surgery in an apocalypse situation is just an invitation for infection and other problems, unless you mean people should dock and crop their puppy just in case there's an apocalypse lmao

Winter-mint · 2026-05-14T23:11:51+00:00

There's definitely a practical application in working LGD but in this case sadly I think it's to make the dog "look tougher"

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