Wait. If it’s pro bono, it means you did it for dog biscuits?
Okay, I have a mini-rant. It’s Saturday June 5 evening, and people are shooting off fireworks all around town.
Uh, dummies? You’re a whole month early! What are you thinking?
Where I live (Johnstown, PA) the current batch of fireworks are to celebrate various high school graduations.
I said the same thing today, one of the local tribes started selling fireworks so idiots started lighting them up already. Anything that “blows up or goes up” is illegal in my town but nobody cares. It sounded like a warzone this afternoon.
Listen, Cat Lover, I did it as a public service. For the benefit of the dull-witted among us (present company excepted, I’m sure) Exhibits A and B clearly show lovable goofy Dogs, possessed of undying loyalty, just wanting to play. Exhibit C clearly shows an evil Cat that is obviously plotting the murder of its owner(s) in their sleep. This is the age-old pattern, yet some of us – not to belabor the “dull-witted” angle – just can’t see it.
For the last few days, I’ve been suffering from clogged ears or sinuses or something. I feel fine but sound is muffled and tinny. I’ve had to watch TV with the closed caption on. But you know what I can hear? A kitten. A kitten outside my office window in the backyard. Fuck. I heard it earlier and was hoping I was imaging it but no, it’s definitely out there. And it’s 3:30 in the morning. I am not going out to find it. It doesn’t sound in distress, just occasionally meowing. I’ll deal with it tomorrow. I guess the “drop your kittens here” sign got turned on again. Fuck.
Were you hit by the Canadian hot front? I’m originally a MN boy, and saw my home town was hitting 99f yesterday, while down here in MO it was in the low 80’s - WTF is up with that?
So, of course, I couldn’t go to sleep with a kitten alone outside. I went out around 7 to look for it. I couldn’t find it but I did hear a small meow. I went around to the side yard by the neighbor’s house and finally found it huddled in the corner of his house by the fence. I got a box and went back to get it. I picked it up and it freaked out when I tried to put it in the box, jumped down and ran away. I searched the neighbor’s yard but no luck. I did hear another meow and it sounded like it was across the street. I waited for about 15 minutes but never heard it again. Of course, it’s terrified of me now and won’t make a sound. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I just made the situation worse.
Maybe a can of tuna will alleviate the kitten’s fears?
Those are adorable dogs! You are a man rich in goofballs!
My gaze trembles a bit before the cat.
I would be delighted if those were my dogs, but the first one is @JohnT’s dog Luna, and the second is a classic Border Collie. The pictures of Luna and the fearsome cat Toby (belonging to @chela) are from the Pet Pictures thread. But they’re fine exemplars of their respective species – the affectionate and friendly Dog and the murderous and conniving Cat!
A little over 13 years ago on Sunday morning I got a phone call from a friend. She had heard mewing coming from under her trailer and when she investigated she found two tiny black kittens. She brought them in and tried to feed them, but they wouldn’t eat. She wanted to know if she could bring them to me; we took them to the vet at the local PetSmart, who told us that they were probably only a few weeks old. So I bought kitten formula, wet and dry kitten food.
And that is how I became a kitten papa.
Very early this morning, 2:37 AM to be exact, a car alarm went off. The car was parked across the street. My bedroom window overlooks the street and was open due to the warm weather and the fact that I like having the window open. It took forever to shut off! Then, just as I was finally about to fall asleep again, it went off again! At 2:57 AM.
Repeat 3 more times. Then twice more after I got up at 5.
What I want to do is put a note on his windshield saying, “If you are going to park on this street overnight, please disarm your fucking alarm.” That would probably set off the alarm again, though.
I was nice, I said please!
That cat doesn’t look murderous and conniving at all. It looks very peaceful and in need of scritches.
And many years ago, on Thanksgiving eve, I found a tiny black kitten mewing in a pile of leaves behind my house. He learned to eat cat food and use the litter box by watching my much larger cat, whom I guess he thought was his papa. The kitten had very large ears, so I named him “Eeyore.”
In other news: This past New Year’s I came down with conjunctivitis, which lasted until February. Well, it’s back. Have to see the ophthalmologist tomorrow. Damn!
Toby has da grumps 14 yo, still grumping. Inside at night he yowls incessantly to be let out.
Sullivan is his competition
Goofy looking yet conniving to get in that junk drawer !
https://i.ibb.co/hcFqJTf/3-E0-C0134-8636-4575-803-A-DA2059-F71-A58.jpg
Ohh he’s so beautiful.
I miss my Merlin.
While I do agree that the Border Collie looks like a noble, intelligent example of a canine, I must take exception to Luna…starting with Are We Sure Luna is Actually a Dog??? According to @JohnT when Luna was first faced with snow, she refused to romp. That’s much more catlike than doglike!
Toby appears to be disgruntled by a poorly trained slave. You can’t blame him for that!
@aurora_maire you must be so upset and poor kitten. Hopefully, kitten will cry outside another cat lovers’ tonight and they will have more success.
@chela what a handsome kitty!
I think the goofballs are always the most fun. Sometimes the most frustrating, but so entertaining.
You know what I hate about sports? They always run over their scheduled time, meaning that the things I actually want to see, like 60 Minutes and the Kennedy Center Honors, are going to be that much later.
Bloody golf.
I saw/heard the kitten a few times earlier in the day. It was in a unruly bunch of vegetation around a tree in my neighbor’s front yard and I left some tuna near the edge . I checked back about 15 minutes later and it was eating. Then two big dogs ran up and it ducked back into the plants as I shooed them away.
The next time I heard it, it was under some bushes at my fence. I slid the rest of the tuna toward it but it slipped through the chain link fence into my neighbor’s jungle of a back yard. I heard it later near his shed. For the last couple hours, I haven’t heard a peep. It either has moved away or, having eaten a little, is sleeping.
My neighbor is not home and I’m not going into the mess of his yard. His grass and weeds are about a foot tall. I’ll keep checking until dark and maybe I’ll get lucky. I’ve set up the spare room just in case. It has such a sweet little face. It’s black with a thin white line down its nose. I hope it’s going to be ok.
Poor kitten and poor you! Is there any way you can get your hands on a trap? Of course this is all happening on a weekend, darn cats. Many emergency vets have traps available, but there might be a charge.
Fingers crossed!!