Someone Help Me

Someone help me

This is absolutely heartbreaking. An animal is a life, no matter if it has fur or scales or fins

this is literally no way to treat any animal, and it’s completely avoidable.  

.5ppm+ ammonia is inexcusable - this betta was literally burning alive every second he was in that water - and it’s entirely from lack of care.  not to mention his fins are literally rotting off and he is completely emaciated - this fish was not being fed.

for example, here is my completely healthy male dumbo eared betta, arwen:

his back has a nice curve outward to it, meaning he is a healthy weight.  his stomach has a gentle swell, meaning he was fed recently and an appropriate amount for his size.  he doesn’t have fin rot, meaning his fins are not blackening and necrotic - literally rotting away.

for comparison, here is the doubletail male i got today:

both his back and stomach are sunken in - this betta is both emaciated and hasn’t eaten in several days at least.  his fins are necrotic and rotting away - he is quite literally decaying while still alive.  he is also VERY pale - meaning he is stressed and sick. (NOTE:  the healthy betta used as an example isn’t a double tail - which means exactly what it sounds like. he only has one tail while the betta i got today has two)

this is a comparison between the two from above:

it was difficult to take a picture of arwen from above because a healthy betta is very unlikely to sit still when your hands are hovering above them - my betta would be excited and dancing around for food, because they are conditioned to associate my hands above them with eating.  in general, a healthy betta isn’t going to sit still for a picture.  aside from that, i think it’s very apparent the difference between the two.  arwen’s body is all gentle, healthy curves. his head isn’t large in proportion to his body and it doesn’t look weirdly disjointed from the rest of his body.

i’d normally post this to my fish blog, but i think it’s extremely important for people to really SEE this cruelty for what it is and understand just how easy it would be to provide proper care. i don’t suggest anyone “rescue” a betta from petsmart or any other store- especially walmart.  that being said, i just couldn’t leave him, he was belly up and i knew if i didnt take him no one else would - not like it would have mattered because i got him at closing and i know he wouldnt have survived the night had i not taken him. i also saw an opportunity for education - because i have 10k followers on this blog.

this is his new home. a clean, warm environment dosed with aquarium salt and stressguard(a fish antiseptic).  i will have to monitor him closely for a while, change out his water daily and dose him with more antiseptic and aquarium salt.

this is the difference in just 5 hours

please, properly care for your animals, and dont support companies that don’t.

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Colin’s birthday video

So as you know, Colin’s birthday is coming up on September 3rd, and @powertothelocalcliquer and I are going to make a video to tell him how much we love him and appreciate his music. We would love it if you guys would participate, the more the merrier! Okay, this is what we’re planning. Record a LANDSCAPE video of you saying happy birthday and anything else really you want to say to him and just wear merch or cosplay or whatever you want to do. Please make sure there’s no music in the background, and if you want to hold up a sign or a piece of art you’ve made you can do that. Just make sure the clip is 10-20 second long. (Don’t cosplay Jesse please!) and email it to vesperteenproject@gmail.com We will be accepting submissions until September 1st, so the earlier the better!!

This definitely includes bugs like crickets and roaches! They're gross but don't be fucking cruel what the hell is wrong with people

I still don’t understand people who think it’s perfectly acceptable to outright torture “unpleasant” animals. I’m not saying you can’t smack mosquitoes, but pulling their wings off alive, going out of your way to make sure they die slowly, is creepy and horrible to do no matter what. They aren’t bloodsucking parasites specifically to spite you, they aren’t being cruel or mean. Any animal deserves at least a quick death if it has to die, and you can’t say “that’s just a bug” because I’ve definitely seen almost everybody come together with rage over cruelty towards butterflies or ladybugs..

People show the same attitude towards reptiles, rodents, anything they don’t like, as if an animal being dangerous or inconvenient is an actual act of “evil” on that animal’s part and they have to suffer some kind of karmic punishment for …….the way they evolved I guess?

I’ve even heard of people getting stung by a jellyfish and going out of their way to leave it in the sun to dry up and die. We don’t know what if anything jellyfish can “feel” but that doesn’t make an act like that any less twisted. That overall senseless, spiteful obsession with vengeance is just creepy as shit.