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Pineapple - Novo General Megathread for the 19th-25th of August 2026 (thelemmy.club)
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The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.

The pineapple is native to South America, where it has been cultivated for many centuries. The introduction of the pineapple plant to Europe in the 17th century made it a significant cultural icon of luxury. Since the 1820s, pineapple has been commercially grown in greenhouses and many tropical plantations. The fruit, particularly its juice, has diverse uses in cuisines and desserts.

Pineapples grow as a small shrub; the individual flowers of the unpollinated plant fuse to form a multiple fruit. The plant normally propagates from the offset produced at the top of the fruit or from a side shoot, and typically matures within a year.

1772 illustration of an Ananas comosus pineapple which was given the early scientific name of Cardus brasilianus folius aloes by Banhius in 1623

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IMO, you can provide a dog a yard and that I'm and of itself is not enrichment, nor is just playing fetch in that same yard every day. You can totally raise a dog in an apartment if you do it right. You can do enrichment activities in the apartment that will stimulate them mentally and wear them out more than having them sprint 5 miles ever would. Thats why you'll still see active working breed dogs who are neurotic even though they get hours of physical exercise every day, they get the physical but they aren't challenged or given a job which is what they want.

Feed your dog using snuffle mats so they use their nose, give them folded paper towel/TP rolls filled with kibble to satiate prey drive instincts, do training drills and switch them up so they don't get bored. My old dog would get bored of fetch so I would make her stay while I threw the ball, and after 30 seconds I'd release. Or throw it, stay, heel, walk by the ball, THEN let her get it. She loooved the challenge! And this can even be done inside with sit/stay while you hide their favorite toy.

All that said, you even mentioned that you might not even have to settle for an apartment, and it sounds like you're not in a rush, so you could reassure them that youd try to find a suitsble spot instead of rushing into it. Or maybe the yard space isn't the real issue for your partner?

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