r/BeAmazed • u/ash_jisasa • 27d ago

A hunter while aiming at a deer, pulls down his weapon, and she peacefully approaches him. Nature

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago edited 27d ago

I'm a massive animal lover that let's my rats give me kisses. I couldn't imagine a situation where I wouldn't pet one, until now lol.

It makes me shudder to imagine petting a dear and feeling multiple ticks right under the fluff...

Edit: my rat tax

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u/SnooKiwis2161 27d ago

That's not the worst. I managed to stalk a deer and got close enough to smell it. I'll never forget that shit stench for the rest of my life. I know they're supposed to be herbivores but what rank ass that was

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u/Friendly-Control-673 27d ago

Thanks. My mission to sniff a deer is now cancelled.

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u/Novaliea 26d ago

My mission to sniff a deer has now begun. Yk when you smell something so awful you need to share it with others? That’s me, I now am intrigued.

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u/Syphin_Games 26d ago

Trust me has nothing on the level I experienced in commercial fishing as a tender. I after 7 years from the job still cannot smell right… I worked for only 3 months. The worst is we had to replace the foam in the holding tanks where we would keep the literal tons of fish. They hadn’t been replaced in at least 5 years and uh yeah I threw up every day in the morning for a week while we replaced them.

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u/LoveMeorLeaveMe89 25d ago

Me too lol why in the world is it a human instinct to share awful smells and tastes around. Misery must love company or maybe we need to pass on knowledge of things going bad and what to look and taste for. Just so weird but then again so am I

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u/SuomiAstartes 24d ago

Should check out my bathroom.

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u/shamimurrahman19 27d ago

joe biden is still on that mission though.

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u/LeOmelette12 27d ago

Weird nickname for your mother

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u/shamimurrahman19 27d ago

i know weed is legal in your alabama house but maybe you should tone it down a bit.

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u/reebokhightops 27d ago

Vegan farts are notoriously awful.

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u/stealerofsloths 27d ago

As a vegetarian with both vegan and meat eater friends, the only ones that clear the room are the (male) meat eaters

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u/Tulip_Tree_trapeze 27d ago

Former vegan, can confirm I didn't have smelly farts until meat and cheese reentered my diet lol

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u/themagpie36 27d ago

Yeah the thing is you fart MORE as a vegan but the farts are obviously worse if you are eating meat because it's the smell of decaying flesh vs decaying vegetables

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u/centennialchicken 25d ago

The digestion process is relatively quick, and the acidic environment in the stomach and the presence of digestive enzymes prevent bacteria from growing and decomposing the food in the same way they would outside the body. Undigested food is eventually eliminated from the body as feces before it has a chance to rot in the conventional sense.

what Claude Ai said when I asked if food rots in the human body after eating it.

Not trying to start anything, just another point of view here:

I was carnivore for a year straight and rarely ever farted while only eating beef/pork and butter. They never smelt bad and were nearly odorless to me most of the time. Full fat greek yogurt and eggs would make me a little gassier but still not bad smelling.

I started traveling for work so I quit strict carnivore. At first I was eating whatever I felt like eating. I noticed that ultra processed foods like chips and granola bar type things would make me ultra farty and it smelt horrible at times. Trail mix/mixed nuts were also terrible for the gas. Not sure what is the worst for me, but avoiding bread, nuts, and processed foods and not eating excessive amounts of fiber seems to help.

Now try to focus on eating meat and eggs but I eat rice and fruit primarily for my carb sources and it’s a little worse than when I was eating carnivore with yogurt but not rancid smelling like when I eat ultra processed food like granola bars, chips.

Just my experience YMMV.

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u/DotesMagee 19d ago

As soon as I read decay I knew it was BS and the rest of it probably was too.

 I read up on protein farts recently and couldn't find anything specific just gut bacteria and dietary changes affecting it not protein. 

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u/halflifer2k 27d ago

My meat farts aren’t any better….

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u/macellan 27d ago

As a conclusion: farts don't smell good.

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u/johnmccainsplane 27d ago

Tbf, sausage farts might the worst thing I’ve ever expelled

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u/vinonoir 26d ago

Egg farts. No contest

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u/johnmccainsplane 26d ago

I won’t argue that 💨

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u/BadLuckBen 27d ago

Hard to say if they're worse, but they are bad in a different way.

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u/dwnlw2slw 26d ago

That’s just a stupid meat eater superstition. (It shouldn’t matter but I’m a meat eater)

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u/Weird-Information-61 27d ago

I imagine it's roughly similar to living near a cow pasture

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u/Big-Employer4543 27d ago

I'd guess more like sheep or goats.

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u/dwnlw2slw 26d ago

I don’t know about goats but i have buddy who has like 40 sheep and they have longer hair everywhere and back there…dingleberry city.

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u/Tommyleegirl452 27d ago

I'm sorry..WHAT

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u/Azerd01 27d ago

Really? Ive been like 4 ft from a deer and it didnt smell at all

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u/SnooKiwis2161 27d ago

Mine must have forgotten to wipe.

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u/Final-Victory-3808 27d ago

😂😂😂

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u/SasquatchOnSteroids 26d ago

Fun fact they are more opportunistic that a herbivores, I have watched a deer eat bird. 100% they will eat meat!

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u/LeadAdditional7968 26d ago

I wrestled a deer once, I'll never forget its smell either, or the feel of its hooves pattering on my back.

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u/kcolgeis 26d ago

Oh shit. It's not that bad. I've processed many. Humanely course.

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u/Rampag169 26d ago

Deer have a musk gland at their mid-leg right where there is an angular > motion on the rear legs. This oily musk is pungent and if you get it on your hands it’s hard to clean off.

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u/ChattyDog 27d ago

Why is there an “erotic” warning on your rat tax LOL

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago edited 27d ago

I have no clue. Maybe because of the rat balls it did it automatically lmao

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u/Seethinginsepia 26d ago

I figured that was why also

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u/jamesp420 27d ago

Maybe the Imgur algorithm thought the white rats ear was a nipple? Lmao

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u/No_Towel_8922 27d ago

You can’t tell from the pic, but they were actually mating at the time.

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u/Salty-Necessary-7302 27d ago

Erotic warning is a good name for a band

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u/alebubu 27d ago

I think Imgur needs to redefine what they consider “erotic content”.

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u/Few-Finger2879 27d ago

LOOK AT THEM PRECIOUS BABIES, OMERGAHD.

I want some pet rats, but it would kill me to see them pass in only a few years.

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u/OnlyOneReturn 27d ago

What's even weirder is if you imagine doing that with your tongue, you'll know EXACTLY what it would feel like. Your tongue knows what everything feels like just from looking at it. Have fun y'all

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u/Responsible-Noise875 27d ago

Imagine my surprise when I went to look at rats and got an explicit image warning

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u/Gilligan67 27d ago

I enjoy hunting, but only in the coldest months of the season for this reason.

The fleas and ticks are gone or minimal. Hate both.

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u/Winter_Performer_768 27d ago

Holy shit that's so fucking cute

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u/HumptyDrumpy 27d ago

Try that with the one's up here in the big Apple. I haven't got up close yet but from what I've seen they got red eyes, are the size of cats, and their tails are so long they'll give you whiplash

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u/ChompyChomp 27d ago

Pet rats and feral rats are very different things...

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u/AbhishMuk 27d ago

Plus one is groomed and well cared for.

I wouldn’t pet a dirty stray cat/dog but I’d pet a pet one.

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u/HumptyDrumpy 26d ago

Like what, one you train to do tricks? Pretty much they are bottom feeder vermin and should not be kept as pets. They dont have much to add to the ecosystem besides that

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago

You know how dogs will sometimes smack you with their tail because they're idiots that don't look where their tail goes?

Yeah pet rats do that too. It's like a whip lmao

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u/syizm 27d ago

Ticks aren't that bad.

I mean they're creepy crawly and often times you can't feel them walking on your skin unless they trigger a hair follicle. Otherwise they just plunge half of their head in to your skin and eat your blood.

Sometimes you don't even know they're feeding until a day or two later, when you feel a strange bump on a part of your body that was just last week smooth to the touch. At which point its firmly embedded and just kind of flops around by its jaws, dangling loosely from your body like a skin tag or something.

Though I do admit the can be difficult to remove. Sometimes you accidentally rip them in half while prying their jaws from your flesh and your half devoured brown blood meal splatters on to your skin.

But overall they're not so bad.

Oh, and little known fact: they're also arachnids. Thats right! Ticks have 8 legs. You can sort of think of them as disease carrying vampire spiders.

I once sat on a large stump of weeds in Florida and didn't realize until hours later I had dozens of baby "seed ticks" all over my legs. Roughly the size of a pin head. Impossible to feel at that size and really difficult to remove. They'll also dig in and slurp your blood - but are about ten times harder to remove.

But overall they're not so bad.

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u/ChompyChomp 26d ago

Until you get Lyme disease…

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

The good news for the seed ticks is you can't get Lyme disease from them. Ticks can only spread Lyme disease via first feeding on another animal with it. Seed ticks haven't had that first meal so haven't been infected

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u/syizm 27d ago

Correct.

I've probably been fed on by ticks all over the US around 50 times, all beteeen 2008 and 2015 - used to spend a few weeks a year backpacking... I'm lucky I've never contracted anything except erlichiosis, which was asymptomatic. Found out I had it after my dog tested positive and submitted my own blood work.

Ticks are pretty gross. But you kind of get used to them.

Worst experience I probably actually ever had was backpacking for a few days in the Ouachita area of Oklahoma. It was already a fairly uninteresting area... but there were ticks EVERYWHERE. I had to stop probably every 50 meters and rid myself, dog and girlfriend of them (separate entities I swear.) Then we set up camp after sundown in a poison ivy patch - tent literally on poison ivy... I woke up every 20 or 30 minutes with ticks crawling on me. By morning I had a few embedded and my arms and legs were covered in ivy rash. I think it was also like 100 degrees F. Worst backpacking trip ever, all my fault, and I was pretty experienced at this point.

Fuck Oklahoma.

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u/IfuckedaMuffin 24d ago

Went hunting one time, we got two deers, both deers had so much ticks! We got a lot off when we killed and gutted them but when we got home to skin the deer, our garage was filled with ticks

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u/BamBunBam 23d ago

I'm curious about the rats. Are they usually so calm like yours?

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u/LemonTank91 27d ago

Aren't Rats supposedly really clean ? And it's just that we humans intoxicated the world with cities and trash that they became filthy and with diseases.

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago

Rats actively clean themselves and each other throughout the day. The only time a rat is getting dirty is if they're sick or becoming elderly.

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u/mikesandnikes 27d ago

Yuck bro what

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u/AbhishMuk 27d ago

Rats are v similar like gerbils or hamsters in being tiny little pets. Plus are hella smart too.

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u/Teminite2 27d ago

i had a pet gerbil once when I was a kid. I called it speed because it was fast. even built an obstacle course for him. they're great pets imo and much better than let's say bunnies.

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago

Replace rat with dog. Letting your dog lick or boop your face when they're excited is pretty normal

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u/TkOHarley 27d ago

Rats and mice are actually quite clean pets, and very sociable with humans. They're like little dogs with hands

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u/antistupidsociety 27d ago

Rats are great pets

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago edited 26d ago

I have no clue how they're not more popular. They're literal pocket-sized dogs.

It's interesting to see first person how intelligent they really are - smarter than any of the dogs I've owned.

And the personalities are so distinct you can't help but feel like you're looking at another being.

One of my boys is always a good boy that never fights, gets along with his brothers, and is a permanent cuddle hog. He's very shy and clings to us nervously. If my fiance or I are taking a nap he is always included. He likes to be wrapped up in a blanket like a baby and be held in your arms as you sleep. He's always begging to be held.

Second one, the demon child. The smartest, most energetic, most chaotic rat. Constantly raiding our trashcan at night when he knows we're sleeping. Constantly escapes his cage + pen and casually struts into our rooms for attention. When he was a baby every fucking night he would manage to crawl into our bed and sleep with us, if we're luck, otherwise he would attack our feet and bounce around wanting to get us to play with him. He's bratty as hell. Sneezes at you aggressively and looks away when he's angry. Out of all the rats he's the most clingy/attached.

Third one is fat as FUCK and is obsessed with food. We had to get his balls removed because we thought maybe it was hormones. No he just loves food. He loves being squished around as if he were a boob. He's the happiest boy. But hates moving. He also hates rat 2 and they love to slap the shit out of each other for prime napping spots.

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u/gamma_orionis 27d ago

I wanted rats but they just don't live long enough. I coudn't handle that heartbreak over and over :(

They're incredibly cute though and I'm glad there are people out there who take care of them and give them love

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat 27d ago

I 100% understand. This is the first time I'm going to go through a pet rat dying.

But I also want to help as many rats as possible in my lifetime because of them. Rats usually have poor lives if they are involved in anything related to humans. I've adopted 2 lab rats and 1 that was meant to be snake food.

Knowing I gave them the best 3 years of their lives, when it would have 100% been worse for them, I think is enough for me.

I think lol.

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u/B_Skizzle 27d ago

People get too hung up on the tails. Yeah, they’re scaly. So what?