Miranda Friel✌️❤️

Writer. Blogger. Amateur photographer. Music lover. Avid reader. TV & concert junkie. Consumed with wanderlust. Animal lover. Optimist.

[y2k @y2kpopart]

*NSYNC performing their debut single "I Want You Back" live on The Dini Petty Show, just three weeks after their self-titled album landed in North America (1998)

[Miranda Friel✌️❤️ @Miranda003]

@caliiinoel Disgusted and flabbergasted because who would even want that? His character wasn’t even good

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

My greatest disappointment as an adult was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

This is Utah’s first wildlife overpass crossing avoiding danger with vehicles.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Hera Kita 🪓🐾Final Girl VTuber @xHeraKita]

Hey everyone! Professional dog trainer and certified animal behaviourist here!
This is absolutely a very precious Great Dane puppy.

But let's talk about the thing everyone is confused about... His ears.
Ear cropping is a surgical procedure that involves cutting away the outer pieces of the ear (called the pinna) to remove the floppy bits. The remaining cartilage gets forced upwards using tape, bandages, and flat wood as support (similar to thick popcicle sticks). A process that is called "posting".

Ear cropping today is almost entirely done for aesthetic purposes, and there is absolutely no health benifits to doing it.
It had originated for breeds that were expected to face injury. Dogs used in dog fighting (which is now illegal) and less nerfarious things such as livestock guardian dogs.
Think of it like "No capes!" except the cape is two pieces of long floppy skin attached to the animal...

Do you know the breed Doberman Pinscher? The beautiful "Anubis" looking dogs? Well... What if I was to tell you they too are born with beautiful floppy ears!

Pitbulls and other bully breeds are all born with floppy ears. Dogo Argentino, Cane Corso, Mastiffs, and even Schnauzers are all dog breeds that are born with floppy ears but commonly get them cropped.

Ear cropping and tail docking are almost one in the same. There are MANY dog breeds that get their tails docked as well! HOWEVER tail docking has more reasons behind it than just dog fighting and aesthetics that humans place on animals. But that's a whole other topic...

I'm personally heavily against ear cropping, unless there's a medical reason that it had to be done in the first place, which is HIGHLY unlikely.
It doesn't help prevent ear infections. That's a myth.
Anyone who is comfortable doing, what is essentially, cosmetic surgery to their dog, while at the same time not being comfortable neutering their dog, shouldn't have a dog.

Ear cropping is slowly becoming outlawed in may vet practices. Please love your animals for how they are, and not how you want them to be perceived.

If you have any other questions about dog breeds or ear cropping, feel free to ask in the comments!

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

This is a reminder that we live on a planet where lightning turns sand into glass, dolphins give each other names, the ocean glows in the dark, and rain has a scent before it falls. You stand here with a beating heart, a steady moon above, and a world quietly, absurdly beautiful.

[Nashville Zoo @NashvilleZoo]

On Thursday, we asked our community to stand with Nashville Zoo in protecting the animals, habitats and future of the Zoo from a proposed data center next door.

Please keep sharing and contact your local representatives ➡️ https://t.co/q2ISQnxLBK

[🇵🇸 | WillowTheBirdwatcher | Arcee’s #1 Fan @Dopamine_Fan]

this Datacenter is only 200 meters from the zoo. These things make constant noise & heat the surrounding areas by up to 16 degrees. The Nashville Zoo is home to over 350 species of Leopards, Tigers, Rhinos, Zebras, Giraffes, Alligators, Monkeys, & more. Please sign the petition

[seni @cineseni]

15 YEARS OF ONE OF THE BEST FRIENDSHIPS OF ALL TIME SCOTT MCCALL AND STILES STILINKSI <3

[so @orsmmer]

15 years of the best slow burn in tv history

[leyton archive @leytonarchive]

sometimes people write (or paint) the things that they can't say ❤️‍🔥☄️

[💋 @carebearxs]

15 years of the funniest scene in tv history

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The box turtle in the road this month is likely a pregnant female on her way to lay eggs. Slow your roll on country roads, especially after rain.

Eastern box turtles nest from late May through early July. Females leave the forest to find dry, open ground for their nests, traveling up to a mile from their home range in the process. They look for fields, woodland clearings, gardens, lawns, mulch piles, and roadsides.

Most road-killed box turtles every year are nesting females.

If you see one on the road and it's safe to stop: move her in the direction she was already heading. She has a destination she's been traveling toward, sometimes for over an hour.

Don't take her home or relocate her elsewhere. Box turtles have a tiny home range they know intimately, and a relocated turtle will spend the rest of its life trying to walk back, usually dying before it gets there.

If you see her digging in a soft patch of soil at the edge of a road, leave her alone. She'll finish in 30 minutes to an hour and return to the woods on her own.

[Nashville Zoo @NashvilleZoo]

Stand with us to protect the future of Nashville Zoo.

A proposed 69,000-square-foot data center is planned next to the Zoo, but no environmental impact studies have been conducted. Sign our petition to help protect the animals in our care ➡️ https://t.co/q2ISQnxLBK

[Miranda Friel✌️❤️ @Miranda003]

I’m about to give up on driving, y’all, because what do you mean I now have to watch for 2 goats running out in front of me😩

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[The Kelly Clarkson Show @KellyClarksonTV]

'Dare You To Move' by Switchfoot 🎶 #Kellyoke