annoyingstripper:

imleft-handed:

Public Service Announcement!!

Guys please get tested, the more you know the better. It’s very important you keep up with the stays of your health and make sure your partners are getting tested too. I know everybody love sex but make sure it’s good clean sex.

That is all….

reminder that having an STD isn’t dirty or shameful, it’s part of being a human and it happens!

there are cures and treatments for just about everything at this point, but you gotta catch them early on to keep them easily treatable and manageable and to prevent from spreading something you might not know you have, to other people.

so, get empowered, know your status, get tested early and regularly, know your partners statuses, don’t have sex with people who refuse to get tested or refuse to practice safe sex cuz they’re whack, and lastly if something does happen don’t feel ashamed, it’s happened to bunches and bunches of other people too. we are human beings. we need to remove the stigma, so people will actually go get tested and treated. that’s why i take issue with people saying “clean” versus “dirty”.

it will be confidential between you and your doctor, and you’re not alone. what’s MORE embarrassing is not knowing you have something, spreading it around to a bunch of people, and then having the moral obligation of having to call each and every one of them and telling them to get tested for x,y,z. so catch it early.

there are free clinics and sliding scale health services all over most towns, just hit up google

shitbagmcjones:

elfgirl931:

ayellowbirds:

takingbackhyrule:

how-to-care-for-hamsters:

1. Do not keep them in pairs. Hamsters are loners – keeping them together often results in stress, fighting, injuries and death. They are very happy alone. 

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2. Minimum cage size

• dwarf hamsters: 30 x 20 x 20 inches (80x50x50cm);
• bigger hamsters: 40 x 20 x 20 inches (100x50x50cm)!

NOT like this: 

• Living in cages like this for them is like a human living in an elevator – a lot too small and even dangerous! 
• For them it feels like this:

• Behavior like this is a signal for stress because the cage is too small or that they need more bedding:

Better:

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3. Your hamster (always!) needs a hamster wheel – and it must be a lot bigger than you might think! 

• Hamster must be able to run with a completely straight back
• on a closed surface
• with a closed back wall! 

NOT like this: 

Results of those wheels are: spine problems, backache, stress, injuries! 

• Minimum wheel size for dwarf hamsters: 9-10 inches. 
• Minimum wheel size for bigger hamsters: 12 inches! 

Better: 

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4. Do not buy them plastic tubes (at all): 

Those tubes are not suitable at all: Hamsters get stuck or suffocate in them easily. 

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5. Your hamster needs enough bedding to dig and build tunnels.

NOT like this:  

Better: 

Your hamster will be extremely happy and dig around and build tunnels all day (night). 

A study also found out that (golden) hamsters need up to 12-36 inches of bedding, so just do your best do give them the highest amount of bedding possible. 🙂

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6. The less plastic the better! 

NOT like this:

• Plastic gets swallowed, splinters, can injure or even kill your hamster. 

Better: 

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7. Hamsters ALWAYS need a sand bath.

Hamsters love rolling around in the sand, for them it’s like showering. How would you feel without a shower? 

• You can use those little baths as toilets, but you still need a bigger sand bath!

Better:

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8. Hamsters need a house with at least 2 or more chambers to store food, sleep etc. Also make sure that your hamster does have enough hiding places like coconuts, small houses, toilet rolls! 

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9. Do use unperfumed toilet paper for nesting material, don’t use “hamster wool” -> it can tangle around a limb and seriously hurt and even kill your hamster! 

NOT like this: 

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10. Never ever ever put your hamster or any animal in a hamster ball. 

They can’t get out, might suffocate or panic, might run against furniture and seriously injure themselves. The ventilation is terrible, your hamster can’t see/smell/hear enough or use any of their senses properly.

In some countries they even discuss about banning those by law! 

Even if you think that “your hamster has fun in it” – please don’t use them! 

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Please reblog and spread this information.

Pet stores often are very misinformed and sell terrible cages and have little to no idea how to keep a happy hamster – please be careful when trusting them. In the end they often just want to make money – and the hamsters suffer. 

Please adopt, not buy hamsters – there are too many hamsters in this world that we need any more breeding. 

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MASTERPOST: Cheap Cages And Supplies For Hamsters – IKEA

~ more to come ~

(Sorry for the spelling errors – I made this post in a rush.)

i literally had no idea, so i feel like this really needs to be stressed

Much like with bettas, there’s a lot of companies out there making a huge profit on habitats that are completely unsuitable for your pets, and counting on consumer ignorance.

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also reblogging cause the proper enclosures look cute and fun to build, made me want a hamster tbh

fozmeadows:

This morning, my 5yo asked us if his new boy-kitten would grow up to be a daddy cat. We said that no, he wouldn’t, and were about to explain that this is because the kitten is desexed when my son said, “Oh, that’s right – because if you don’t grow up to be a mummy or a daddy, then you’re not a boy or a girl, you’re just a person!”

It turns out, he’s been lowkey assuming that there are three grown-up genders: mummy, daddy, and adult, such that anyone who isn’t a parent is, in some sense, nonbinary. We explained that, while he’s right in thinking there are people who aren’t boys or girls, your adult gender isn’t determined by whether or not you have a kid, and used examples of people we know as proof. He accepted this with a nod, then went off to play with the kitten, 

We had a related conversation at bedtime last week, when the “story” he’d chosen was a book of facts about Australian animals. One of the entries we read was about the barramundi fish, which are all male as babies and only turn female during spawning season. This prompted him to ask if human boys could turn into girls, too, and while he was a bit too sleepy for a detailed conversation, I said something along the lines of, “yes, there are some people who look like boys when they’re little, but who realise they’re girls and change when they get older.” He accepted that, too, and then we read another entry about a particular type of bat.

These are only two small examples, but it’s endlessly fascinating to me to watch how kids are trying to figure out what gender is and what it means from the world around them. There have been times when my son has come home saying that pink is for girls, because that’s what he heard at school, and so we have a conversation about how colours are for everyone. The point is not only that children absorb what’s going on around them and try to process it through an individual lens, but that how adults answer their questions plays a massive role in comprehension, too. Don’t tell kids they’re silly for asking these sorts of questions or act as if the truth is obvious: they’re not, and it really isn’t.

forest-of-stories:

faithhopeloveandtherapy:

sorisikigai:

fulfilledd:

PSA: “Healthier” does not mean low calorie, low fat, low sugar, low carb. Healthier does not mean less.  Healthy is relative to each person’s needs.

Also, guilt-free is not a description for food.  Guilt is not an ingredient; it is a feeling.  No matter how many ingredients or calories you remove from that food, the guilt is in your mind, not the food.

I won’t stop reblogging this.

I have to remind myself of this continually. That other people’s definitions of “healthier” are often the polar opposite to what “healthier” needs to mean for me.

I don’t know if I’m in a position to endorse everything above but I will reblog for the words about guilt.