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Yesterday kittens, today puppies! I don't think they really need more introduction than that. Going to try to feature breeds I haven't yet, though.

German Shepard

St Bernard

Whippet

Chihuahua

Boston Terrier

Samoyed

Basset Hound

Coonhound

Rottweiler

Lhasa Apso

Newfoundland

Alaskan Malamute

And finally...

Jumping Spider

This is a baby Philaeus chrysops on a thumbnail! These jumping spiders don't grow very big- an adult one could probably still fit on a nail, but only one at a time. They're very impressive- growing from the tiny thing you see there to these:

Adult Female

Adult Male

That's all for today, though! I hope you enjoyed, and do come back tomorrow for more babies of various sorts.

You're killing me. I want a dog so bad I could cry.

Also looking forward to the baby post!

omg all those tiny floppety ears ;___;

Fluffy spiders... ^_^

Real talk.

German Shepards are just the best.

d/w/t

So many cute puppiesssss. ;3; Even the spider is cute!

BOSTON TERRIER! MY FAVORITE! OH THANK YOU!

If you happened to do a Boston Terrier day, I SO would not complain!

I am contemplating, not a Boston, but a Border Terrier...but I am getting conflicting breed info all over the place, and one pet selector quiz online recommends the Border Terrier at 98% as a good fit, when another selector-type questionnaire is all, NO WAY MAN WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO THIS SWEET DOG WHY WHY.

Thing is, we are also dealing with health issues in the household that may necessitate a service dog in the potentially near future. I'm deaf, but haven't needed a service animal because I can function pretty well on my own; I'm all about better living through high technology, bedshakers, lamp signalers, etc., etc.

However. I may soon be the primary caregiver for an ailing parent, who is literally not going to have the breath to yell loud enough for me to hear (ditto bells and whistles); if I'm concentrating on actively listening, I'll hear/possibly be able to identify Random Noise #11100000 in my creaky old house, but if I'm distracted (or even worse, asleep) there's no way.

I did read one site that said Borders were good working dogs, and some have been used as service dogs; thing is, I also don't have the $25K required to go through the Lions training with one (I'm hoping I will be able to find the cash for a purebred Border), or the time, as the official process includes being off work for months, which is completely out of the question. So I was hoping the (alleged) work ethic of the breed would lend itself to DIY/customized training.

There are no other pets or children in the household, and for the time being, the dog will be on its own from about 7:30am to around 5-5:30ish (no I can't take the dog to work with me, as it would not "officially" be a registered service animal). The only other concern would be, just how hypoallergenic is the breed really? I've got serious chronic rhinitis, and am always battling to keep the dust, etc. at bay. Also, if you can recommend a breeder in the Canadian Maritimes (who is willing to ship), me love you long time, Internet.

Am I asking too much? Feel free to flame on, if I am. :-(

i love the jumping spiders!! we have them all over the greenhouses at work and they are honestly the most adorable things!

and also the puppies, they're cute, too. =] sometimes i'm sad mine are adult dogs now and aren't all floppity and rolly-poly.

Puppies are yay!!!!!!

This is the silliest thing I've ever asked, but could you put the spiders in a separate comment so its easier to avoid them?

I'm sorry- I could do that, but I'd actually prefer rather not to if I could help it. The way these posts were originally started by

cuteanimalpics was to get people used to seeing spiders or seeing them in a different light as opposed to AAA GET IT AWAY. I understand some people will have that reaction, and I could make a seperate post, but that would sort of defeat the original point, which was to have both cute and/or interesting animals and spiders being placed in the same context.

For what it's worth, it's actually working on at least one preson. I used to be arachnophobic to the point of shutting the tab FAST if there was a picture of a spider in it, then I sort of forced myself to like... "Okay, you can look at these cute animals, but you have to look at the spider too, okay?", and now I find myself curious about some of them and a few get a nod of appreciation.

The baby spider today is so teeny!

Yay! I'm really glad to hear that. Actually, looking at pictures in a controlled setting is one way that people use to address arachnophobia. There's an article on it here which has lots of pictures- but they're all of cute puppies and dogs and there's no spiders, so it's pretty safe to read about what arachnophobia is and how it can be handled.

Heh, it'd suck if you wanted to read that but had a dog phobia, too XD Thanks for the link! And yeah, I'm slowly desensitising myself to them.

I'm also using these posts as desensitization. It helps that you tend to feature cute-ish big eyed fuzzball spiders and describe them as if they're cats and show them chilling out and being harmless on people's hands :)

(TMI time - things with too many legs in proximity to people's hands used to freak me out so hard - I nearly had a panic attack once from a *description* of a fictional crustacean biting someone.)

BTW, I'm amblypygid anon from the other week. I requested that post partly because whip scorpions give me an even more powerful ohgodnokillitwithfire! response than spiders do, and I wanted to make myself look at them in a positive context. So yeah, thanks for normalizing arachnids for us phobics!

I just scroll enough to see the very top of the picture and then adblock it.

Same here. Thank goodness for adblock.

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Please! Educate me, Internet.

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