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[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's making me think about that "Place vs Place, Japan" meme except it's "Ferret vs Ferret held by a trans woman"

Like, other comments here are saying that this is about wanting to eradicate ferrets, but notice how Renée says "one vote from women" — so this definitely seems like TERF shit to me

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (3 children)

She filibustered some TERF shit out of parliament the other day by talking about ferrets.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...HOLY SHIT THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED‽

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

...........Hæ‽

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First Sunak's threats to expand the badger cull to outright extermination, then this. Why are British reactionaries suddenly possessed by this raging, relentless hatred of mustelids?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

This is mustelid erasure and i wont stand for it!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is deffinitely transphobe swiss cheese brainworms but aren't ferrets smelly?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In the U.S, most ferrets have their scent glands removed before they're sold as pets, so they don't smell unless you put your nose right up behind their little ears

I don't know how it works in the UK, but the ferrets I have with their scent glands intact smell absolutely fine until they're provoked, then they spray and it smells kind of bad for a minute

Sort of like a sweaty onion

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this a humane procedure or is it on par with declawing

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's some spirited debate about it in the ferret community

Personally, I don't like it because unlike a spay or neuter, it's not really helping the animal (ferrets can get really sick during estrus if they don't rut)

Not to mention, the spray really doesn't smell as bad as some people think

Nowhere near as bad as skunks

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Skunks seem like amazing pets ngl

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but they do have a very noticeable smell

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Skunks are members of Hamas confirmed??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh really? Do you know when about this practice started? My parents had ferrets a while ago and say they always stank. I didn't realize they could be descented.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

As the popularity of ferrets as pets has gone up, more and more breeders are having the procedure done

The number one breeder in the U.S. is Marshall's, and the ferrets they don't sell to testing labs are descented for sure

And keep in mind, that the removal of the scent glands doesn't make them completely scent free, they'll still smell like a little animal (because duh), and if you don't maintain their living environment, they will make it smell just like a dog or cat would

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Of course she's a Covid skeptic too.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

doctor chicken camp the plague rat terf sounds like a bad improv comedy bit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Enjoy the dichotomy between her emphatically screeching "My body my choice" when it comes to spreading the plague while also desperately wanting to control what trans people do to their bodies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

bougie-wink I would probably try to make more sense if I didn't consider mending the rifts in my soul to be everyone else's job

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

Birtain not content to just eradicate the common stoat any longer. Genociders gonna genocide i reckon.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you whip your floppy out to show everyone

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Gettin floppy on main hyperflush

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

These guessing games are too hard for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The UK Labour government is endorsing ~~mustelids~~ rodents and this just goes to show the calibre of their party
Discusting!! /s

I wonder if this tweet is a reference to the recent filibuster in parliament tho?

[CW: cognito hazard]

https://youtu.be/jQT7UNrzQDU (the actual filibuster footage starts at 1:14 if you want to spare your mental wellbeing and you don't want to get the backstory)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: