Can I come over for breakfast? I’ll bring some very good coffee.
I had to put a litter of kittens and their mom down today. And Bill isn’t home so I can’t snot up his shirt, so you guys have to listen to me instead. FIX YOUR PETS, GODDAMIT!!! Its cheap and easy and stops untold suffering. And keep your cats inside, the birds would appreciate it.
Five needless killings today. The kittens should have never been born, the mama shouldn’t have been able to breed If anyone here has an intact pet because you don’t know what you need to do to find help, PM me. I’ll find something for you.
Come on over! We have our own very good coffee, but you can bring yours if you like. You can meet our cat, Squirrel, and the two Basset Hounds, Ellie and Bessie. They are all rescues, have been fixed and chipped, and all of their shots are up to date.
I’m sorry about the kittehs. As much as we want to, we can’t save all of them.
My kitteh is spayed, but she does go out in our cat-proofed back yard - she watches the birdies, but that’s about it - she’s almost 14 years old! I think the birds are actually laughing at her!
But I agree - spay and neuter your pets.
We watched not one but two cars try to run over a pedestrian in the crosswalk where I normally cross to get my groceries today. I have had to run to not get run over twice in the past year there, too. As a guy who was crossing the other way as cars were trying to run over us a couple of weeks ago said, “You could get killed here easily!” He is unfortunately far too right.
I love basset hounds, their ears are so silky and their voices ring happily in my ears.
You have good coffee and home made turnovers? Hey gang, party at Cheez_Whia’s place!!! I’m so there.
I understand the need to cull the herd, and cats are a very big herd, but dangit. This shouldn’t have happened. They were very nice, cuddly kittens and the mama was very sweet and adoptable as well. Its not their fault that mama got Felv while outside and mating. Its the fault of the idiots who let an unvaccinated and intact cat outside and then moved away and left them.
Arggh.
Wants to see picks of your furry family members. I’ll just bet that Squirrel runs the pack.
In other news, the protester who stayed chained to the truck and had to smell Bill’s puke until the police got there and used bolt cutters to arrest her…she is threatening a lawsuit. We are amused. (she did have the key to the lock, after the cops cut her loose, she used the key so she wouldn’t have dangling chains rubbing over her handcuffed arms.)
I’ve got a really cool mirror on a stick. My old one only extended 3 feet and had a small mirror. This one goes out to 6 feet and has 2 mirrors, a small one about an inch dimater and a bigger one that is about 3 inches.
It won’t help me find Lucky, but other cats might be more cooperative.
You are starting work in another state on Monday. Why are you sitting watching TV instead of packing? Oh, right, because you intend to put just enough clothes and toiletries and meds in your bag to last you a few days, and are expecting me to fill in all the blanks for you.
My husband had this problem, and it turned out to be a fungal infection. He turned up his nose at my suggestion that he smear his scalp with Monistat, and instead got prescription shampoo from a dermatologist that cleared it up in literally one application.
My glasses are broken. My dad is trying to fix them. I can’t see a damn thing without my glasses. I’m having to lean in and squint at this computer screen, and it still looks blurred.
I’m Doping/web surfing on TOS’s tablet that his aunt + several other family members & friends got for him while he was hospitalized. (It was an absolute godsend for him. Gift hint for anyone who knows someone who is bedridden … )
Anyway, I’d forgotten that to test it out when he first got it, some pics were taken. Of him. Still on a trach, still surrounded by machines and bags and tubes and digital monitors and readouts.
He’s napping on the couch right now next to me, and the cats were arrayed in a particularly cute manner around him so I went to take a few pictures on said tablet. And ran into the OMG TUBES AND BAGS AND MACHINES pictures. And now I can’t stop sniffling. There appears to be some sort of salty liquid running from my eyes.
LacunaeMatata, I thought of you. Parallel experiences and all that …
… I was just about to hit “post” and he laughed in his sleep and wiggled his feet against my back. sniffles
The neighbors poison mice. I can tell because one fled through some mysterious rowhouse passageway and died behind the back of my unfinished wood dresser drawer. Old Victorian rowhomes can be a real joy sometimes. Stink is… not so eliminated as I had hoped. Anyone know how to make unfinished wood not smell of dead mouse?
Poisoning rodents is almost always a bad idea. They die in inconvenient locations or they are predated because they’re easy pickings and poison the predator.
Squeee!!! What a beautiful girl Squirrel is. I just love her bold splashes of color. I knew she was in charge because she was a cat, but didn’t know that she was a calico. Had I, I would have known without doubt that she was in charge.
Your dogs are so pretty, do their ears flap up and down while they are running? Watching that just tickles me pink.
Anti rant: I tried out a new place for breakfast this morning. The greeter walked to a table in a back corner and the waitress came over and told the very young and probably new greeter that she wasn’t paying attention.
I was alone and carrying a dead tree book, so obviously I didn’t want that table, I wanted this one and she walked me to a table by a window. After the waitress brought my coffee and took my order, she told me that she wasn’t going to bother me because I was reading and to put my coffee cup at the edge of the table if I wanted anything. Breakfast bill $8.99. Amount left on the table $20.00. Food was usual diner fare, but I’ll sure go there again.
As much as we want to, we can’t save all of them.
