Comments on: Open thread 10/1/2025

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:56:48 +0000

Opossums really are good at playing dead! One Christmas Eve my daughter and I found one on the boat dock. We managed to get it in a big plastic box and took it to the wildlife rescue clinic. All during the 1/2 hour drive I was convinced it was dead – honestly, it did not move so much as a millimeter and did not even look like it was breathing.
Plus, it smelled incredibly bad. Like dead bad.
Anyway, rescue people said it was a little disoriented and dehydrated but otherwise, fine.
Took days to air out the car.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:23:20 +0000

The malevolent yet risible seaborne schauspiel has been ended.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/navy-intercepts-gaza-flotilla-begins-detaining-activists-after-final-call-to-change-course/

By: Skip

Skip — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:46:16 +0000

Friendly dogs need frenz

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:37:51 +0000

I am intrigued that the wild animals went along with what should look to them like a wolf, but obviously doesn’t. Is the domestication of dogs so radical that they don’t know what kind of animal they are chumming around with?

By: Lee Also

Lee Also — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:56:21 +0000

Kate — I belong to one of the numerous Dull Men’s Club on Facebook, which has members from all over the world. Someone posted a photo of a possum, and i thought, “That’s not a possum.” And then I realized: A) I am used to “opossums”; B) The poster was from Australia which has possums; C) And it was indeed a possum, from Australia.

My dog cornered a poor baby opossum once. My dog was barking, and so happy about it. The poor little fella was doing his best to play dead. The mom was about ten feet away, not looking too happy. I dragged my dog away from his new friend. When I went out later, the little fella was gone, I assume with his mom.

My dog was bringing home either a new turtle every day, or the same one for three days straight. The poor little guy. Or guys. I was surprised how tightly they can shut their shells, and how fast they actually move. I would take it (or them) back outside, and in less then an hour, it (or they) had totally skedaddled.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:36:27 +0000

I gotta say that Trump sure knows how to wind up/troll Democrats, this guy’s an Expert.

After all of the shit the Democrats have thrown at him over the years, Trump trolls Schumer and Jeffries, and it looks like he really got under their skin, and no matter how much they scratch, they can’t stop the itch.*

I don’t know about you, but I found these AI deep fakes pretty funny.

Humor is the best weapon.

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt3A8HpOGDY

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:00:24 +0000

My wife and I were on our way to bed late one night, but Moon, one of our keeshonds, was outside in the backyard.I called for her and she came bounding into the house, carrying something in her mouth. That something was a deer’s foreleg and hoof! How in the world did she get that? Did a deer attempt to jump over the fence, misjudged the leap, and tore off part of it’s leg? If so, where’s the rest of the deer? Is it bleeding out, in agony, in the backyard.? It was pitch dark, so we went outside with flashlights to search but we couldn’t find the deer.
The next day we decided that the probable explanation was that a carrion bird was flying over the back yard with the leg, but dropped it.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:21:55 +0000

That was funny, thanks for sharing. Dogs are such guileless, happy creatures.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:55:38 +0000

My favorite is when our English Springer Spaniel brings home a possum (okay, opossum). She drops it near the house in exchange for a reward. We bring her inside, and after a few minutes of caution, the possum slowly looks around and then skedaddles.