Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.
It is usually lazy, but it is the deferring moral responsibility that particularly irks me. Nobody should believe it’s ok to leave their animal without necessary veterinary attention by saying “Well, I sent Dr Ferox a message, job done.”
But more than that, it’s bad for us Vetblrs, and not just on Tumblr.
I stopped counting how many times old acquaintances, people I haven’t seen since school, have hit me up on Facebook to say “Cool, you’re a vet! Can I ask you about my X…” and I’m just sitting there like “Neat, it’s my time off and you want me to jump back to vet mode. Glad to know you respect me as a person.”
It would surprise some of you to know that I came on Tumblr for fun. I joined to keep up with some of my friends and learn about the things that they liked, and all the rest of *gestures around vaguely* this just sort of happened. I resisted at first, but veterinary medicine clearly owns me, so I might as well own it too.
But when I’m trying to relax and just get vague, cryptic messages about pet problems that I have no way of accurately answering, I honestly despair.
Not only from the moral load that makes me now feel responsible, even though I am not in any way, but because it doesn’t give me adequate down time.
And people do seem to think I’m now responsible for their pet’s welfare because they sent me a message. I even had one person tell me their dad was going to shoot their cat if I didn’t tell them how to treat it at home.
And I can’t actually do anything.
It’s distressing. It’s cruel to both the animals and the vetblrs, and this entitlement to our free time is a significant contributor to our poor mental health.
So I encourage people to call the vet, not message the other random vet. One is trying to relax and have some sort of life. The other is already on the clock and waiting for your call.
this is the masked bee! she has no friends and hates everyone. Sometimes when she has kids she raises them alone and doesn’t let the father come for day trips. she loves pollen but does not like waiting for it so she chews flowers open which is essentially stealing. we love her anyway.
these bees are homalictus bees! they are the rainbow gay bees. Females tend to live together in one nest and guard the entrance. one time we found 160 gay girls bunking together. They’re so irridescent and small that they might look like flies but they are really just tiny lesbians.
and this is the blue banded bee! she may look like she’s wacked out, but really she is pretty chill. she just wants to live independently (or with some friends) in a nest or burrow and look after tomatoes.
this is a cuckoo bee! she is really cool! she goes into other bee’s houses and lays eggs there, and then when the baby hatches it eats the host bees’ pollen and lays waste to the hive, murdering and eating all the other bee babies! BUT ONLY if it’s mother bee didn’t kill them all first.
thank u dark bee tumblr
This is the most successful thing ever!
this is dawson’s burrowing bee! they are one of the largest bees in australia and they burrow into the ground to make nests. males are so aggressive that they will literally fight and kill each other to get a female! and if a particularly aggressive male does not get a female he will murder all of the other males out of rage! (and sometimes the females will be casualties of these brawls – here is a video of a bee brawl where a female get decapitated. these bees are very large and kind of look like half bee half cockroach. but the females’s fuzzy white heads are pretty cute! [photo credit]
and dark bee tumblr comes through for us again… we are so fortunate. thank u dark bee tumblr. thank u
I’m mad that they missed the opportunity to use “les-bee-ans”
This is a tree bumblebee- they’re pretty similar to honeybees in that they have big nests with a polyandrous queen. However, these guys love to be around humans and in gardens, and are super resilient- there are now large populations in Iceland. They have a more complex social hierarchy than most bees, with multiple worker castes. If a worker gets close with the queen she can mate with a drone and lay her own eggs in with the big pile, but eat the eggs of any workers beneath her that try to do so.
This is a valley carpenter bee- the only bee that can thermoregulate and had a circulatory system complete with aortic arch. Carpenter bees are good because they are too big to get into many flowers and have to be extra hairy to get pollen. They live in raw wood in small family units of all females (mothers and daughters or sisters) and are excellent cooks and workers. Males cruise around mating with multiple females and then leave.
These are green sweat bees- they burrow in the ground and live in apartment complexes, where they all use the same entrance but then have their own separate burrows rather than one large room. Some have kids, some don’t, so someone’s always around to keep out invaders. Unlike most bees the males actually do quite a bit of pollinating and go out in groups.
dark bee tumblr has graced us once again with even more forbidden and secret bees we are truly blessed
Coming at you with another Australian native bee; tetragonula carbonaria or the sugarbag bee. They are a stingless species instead using resin to trap and entomb invaders that get into their hive as shown below (which doesn’t happen often because these bees are tiny and the entrances to their hives are also just as tiny).
Like honey bees they are eusocial. Meaning they live in hives with a queen, drones and worker bees that create these complex hives that are completely different to honey bee hives. With honey and pollen pots built on the outside of the hive and the spiral structure in the middle made up of brood cells, where in the centre the queen sits.
do you dare pass through the sticky traps and enter the B E E S P I R A L
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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