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she flailed her arms dramatically while staring into my soul until I lifted her off of the damn brick

It's harder than a piece of wood but almost looks too new to be truly petrified. I found it underneath my neighbor's demolished deck.

I was trying to get a video of this beetle rolling tortoise dung but he froze when I started recording and then fell over? I watched him for several seconds and he curled up and didn't move. I haven't checked if it's still there but is that normal? Defense mechanism maybe? Is he dead? Also what the hell kind of beetle is this? Thank you

Definitely not the first to do this, but I cut this out on my vinyl machine a while back. IYKYK.

The first photo is Joey, who I adopted in 2014 when he was six months old. He passed away from FIV in August 2023.

In March 2025, I was visiting my gran's gravesite with my mom when we heard meowing. We looked around and found her. The photo on the right is Zoey. We have a small family graveyard on the property, and the house had been abandoned for about a year, so we figured she had probably belonged to a relative who had been squatting there.

She had worms, was pregnant, and was skinnier than you could imagine. She'd been snuggling up to a horse on the property that belonged to another family member, and thankfully, the horse was well cared for.

She reminds me so much of Joey at first glance. They have the same eyes and so many of the same little features, but their personalities couldn't be more different. I named her after him because she felt like a little piece of him had found her way back to me.

As promised, 37 whole seconds of the Corndog in action 🐢🪏 (minus a snack break here and there)

She's been hard at work for 4+ days. She goes back to her fenced enclosure on her own when the sun sets and I close and lock her gate. I wanted a longer time lapse but my SD card filled surprisingly fast 😄