This can not be comfortable

Got home, it was logged in the corner. It saw me, freed itself and swam up to me. Then proceeded to stick itself right back in the corner

This can not be comfortable

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tarra_hills

Sometimes they remind me of cats.

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Creek cats

Educational-Corgi946

Hahah YESS!!!

Additional-Dirt4203
Mv3_25

Where is it? I can't find her...

Additional-Dirt4203

Just casually upside down in the plant. I get heart attacks nearly daily from Derp because they sleep like they’re dead. 😆

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bobijo33

Nap time

uh-leesh-ah
Only_Research45

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mine like fell asleep like this for a long while… not realizing his pellet was on the ground

Dull_Indication3035

Guess it wasn't this little guys turn with the braincell today

L30N1337

Husky energy

ThornTheKitty

My boy Clubber likes to use his filters in the tank as back massagers, he crams himself under them (literally dug in the sand to do it). I think we might just have a couple of water cats.

SnakePlantMaster

Wow. So judgmental. Have you tried it? Evidence suggests that this must be comfy or all the cool kids wouldn’t be doing it. Just saying.

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uditukk

it?

kingoftitth

is it weird to refer to animals as english? Im pretty fluent, and a lot of it comes from online usage at a young age, but I always learned in school it is the correct pronoun to use for anything other than humans

veyeruss

Usually you only use "it" to describe an animal if you don't know its gender. Once you know the gender, most people switch to him or her. Especially if it's your own pet, I've personally never seen someone refer to their pet as "it"

uditukk

it could be because I'm indigenous, but i was always taught that anything with a soul shouldn't be called it as it implies something is simply an object.

furyfox13

Anything can be referred to as "it"

uditukk

Can be isn't the same as should be. I can call anything a composition of atoms, but that doesn't mean I should go around referring to living beings like that.

furyfox13

Not gonna hurt the animals feelings

uditukk

The way we speak translates into the way we act. I prefer to be more mindful of my word choices, regardless of others' comprehension or lack thereof.

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Oooohhh, then you probably don't like that I regularly fat-shame my Lotl and Angelfish....

uditukk

i don't mind that lol i'm fat + do the same thing

KauaneTot

I don't think its weird. Im not that fluent but I saw comments of ppl calling animals "it" before knowing the gender... i did too haha

TotalDream3986

I refer to animals as he/she... and babies it/that thing. Im broken 🤣

nightraving

no, it’s weird to refer to the animals you share a personal relationship with as if they were things, especially when you know their gender.

also david attenborough always refers to the animals he talks about as he or she, so essentially god is saying this is the way.

🫡

furyfox13

"God"

nightraving

haha I mean cmon, David Attenborough is basically the animal god by this point (yes I wasn’t being entirely serious by saying that)

furyfox13

Him and Morgan freeman can fight for it

nightraving

fair play 😂😂

duckweedlagoon

Then there's Doc Pol who has his hand up a cow's rear, trying to pull a calf, and he will call the mama cow female and male pronouns in the same sentence. It's cool. As others here, he is also an ESL speaker and when doing things like pulling a calf out of a screaming mama cow – the cow doesn't really care. Doesn't seem to matter to pups when they're getting shots either. As long as you give them respect as living beings, pronouns are not that big a deal

Hmmm..... 🤔

Educational-Corgi946

Hahaha omgsh love this!! He’s gorgeous

TotalDream3986

Hahaha, love these little creatures, I often find Freak in some unusual positions... usually face first in the sand

This-Highlight3482

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This guy somehow got into my phone.. and turned into a drawing… idk how but they’re real silly creatures (I drew this)

lightlubi179
somebody_randomm