I'll never forgive my great-great-great-grandfather for getting my great-great-grandfather that greenland shark
Back in the middle of the 90ies, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a big thing and my mother thought it would be a good idea to gift my sister and I, a pair of red-eared sliders. I kept mine for years and eventually my sister gave hers to me. So I kept two turtles for decades. I have been known as "the guy with turtles" since I'm a teenager now.
One of them just passed away this spring, after more than 27 years, and she was not that old for her species, in captivity. The other one is still alive behind me, basking under the UV light, and it could be alive for another decade. And I like Mittens (his name) but he's taking a lot of space in my apartment. It's obvious both of them would have had a better life outside, in nature, rather than in my sometimes depressive care.
Don't gift animals.
I agree with not gifting animals, but it sounds like your turtles had a good life. 27 years is a long time and way longer than the life expectancy of a wild one
Also lobsters. Lobsters can live for 100 years, but way less if gifted at Christmas.
Oh man. That's great! I love the pace of these videos.
Same here, thanks @cosmic.
I haven't watched that guy for a good while but he sure has given Leon a better life than a dinner plate.
...slowly puts greenland shark back on the shelf
replaces immortal jellyfish
Never in my six decades on this earth, as an Australian, have I ever heard of a lung fish Christmas gift. It is about as likely as giving someone a giraffe.
That’s the joke
Ah, I'm an idiot!
Never been caught so far, but with internet trends nowadays, you never can tell.
Well played...
Can you regift a giraffe?
Same goes for a Greenland shark. We're talking about multi family generational commitment. You don't know if your grandkids, grandkids can handle that kinda responsibility
Puppys too?
One of my favourite tragicomical video game achievements was in Firewatch:
Adopted a turtle as a pet. The average lifespan of a box turtle is fifty years. It will outlive you.
And this is why I will not get a pet. I'm by definition incapable of taking care of them because they might outlive me.
I mean you can always make bbq
That’s the beauty of fish as pets, not only they are fun but also very nutritious
Well, cats and dogs are quite nutritious too, I suppose, so this realy goes for most pets.
Yes but they have hairs everywhere do you have any idea how hard it is to get rid of the fur?? You haven’t thought of the fur you bitch
You can cook em in hot water to losen the hair. It's called scalding.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/dehairing L
Or you can just skin mammals and birds like a normal person
It’s not hard. If it’s larger than a grouse it’s pretty messy, though.
And I wouldn’t want to do that to a family pet. They’re family.
I will remember it if my pet pisses me enough to turn it into a pie. I always joke that this day will come
Maybe for my cats lmao. I'd be lucky to get 100 calories outta my tank
I have a pond where the bigger ones swim I don’t even know their species but they look tasty
christmas, just 152 days away
id take it if the animal was meant for consumption and not as a pet
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