The calici virus has spread to two other sections. Eight more cats- mostly kittens- put down. Two more cats I know and like are being quarantined (or ultra-quarantined or something) to see if they break with it. Don’t know about the cats in other sections. I worked in the kitten room today and of the five remaining healthy kittens, one has a goopy eye and two have runny noses, which I’m told can mean the beginning stages of calici.
I hate that too. It seems like the people who need to honk their horn to leave their cars wait until I’m right in front of the car to do it (and it startles me every damned time, too).
I’m sorry to hear about all the cats and kittens, Dorothy. Stupid viruses. 
I’m sick and tired of seeing the word “tyranny” bandied about. Just because the government is doing something you disagree with does not mean it is acting in a tyrannical fashion. Cuddle up with your guns if that’ll make you feel better but please STFU about “tyranny!!!”
CRAP!!!
I am so sorry. And I’m pissed off. GODDAMNIT!!! This sounds much like the progression at my friend’s shelter. I have no suggestions, just lots of good wishes for critters and people, and bad words that this is happening.
For those who don’t know, calici virus spreads very easily and infected cats don’t show symptoms for quite a while. Long enough to infect all of the other cats in the room before Typhoid Kitty looks sick, and even then they present as though they have a little kitty cold. While shelters are usually kept very clean, and the volunteers know to sanitize their hands between cages, the crowded conditions and the ease of transmission can cause a heartbreaking disaster.
This just really sucks. GODDAMNIT!!! FUCK!!!
Oh. My. God.
I just got bitten by a fucking ant. I’m spoilering the rest of this post for TMI grossness.
An ant got into my pants and bit me on the private part. It really fucking hurts.
I can’t even tell if it’s bleeding, because there’s already naturally a lot of blood in that area around this time of month…
If you’re grossed out, don’t say I didn’t warn you!
At least I did manage to catch and kill the fucker.
My car accomplishes the “yes, you’ve locked it and set the alarm” confirmation with a relatively polite “tweep” (sorry, best I can do on spelling the sound). Agree that loud honks are unnecessary and annoying.
My car will do a little doublebeep if one of my doors isn’t completely shut when I lock them.
For short- to medium-term corpse storage, my parents found the bottom shelf of an upright freezer to be perfect for a beagle. If you go that route, can I plead with you to use an opaque garbage bag and a (or at least a) sealed cardboard box to disguise what you are doing? Looking for ice cream and finding a beloved dog is really disturbing, even for adult children.
I haven’t pinpointed exactly what it is yet but I seem to set off my Pontiac G6’s Panic alarm maybe once every month of two.
One time, I was inside, with the car off and door locked, and used the power lock to unlock the door and opened the door a second or two later. Panic alarm went off. I thought maybe I had opened the door too soon after unlocking it so I tried (unsuccessfully) to duplicate it.
Another time, I went into the grocery store to get something real quick, and left my wife in the passenger seat with the car running. She locked it while I was in the store, then unlocked it when she saw me approaching. Opened the door and panic alarm went off. Another very similar situation happened a few weeks later but no alarms went off.
Once or twice, I’ve started it with the remote start, pressed the keyless entry unlock button then opened the driver side door, only to set off the panic alarm. Can’t seem to duplicate that either.
I thought I was going crazy until the other day, when I saw a driver get out of their G6 while it was running and, for no apparent reason, set their panic alarm off.
Oh, and since this is the pit…fuck shit ass whore bitch cunt Bob Saget.
Huh? What’d Saget do?
I think that was the worst curse that Dude could come up with. 
What didn’t he do?!?
I am being attacked by a crazy, stupid person. The fuckhead believes that vaccines caused his daughter’s type I diabetes and that you can cure breast cancer with vitamin c instead of chemotherapy. I swear there’s a special place in hell for parents who are unable to cope rationally with a child’s illness.
This pile of shit gave a lunatic review of my book on Amazon where he accused my eldest daughter of being vaccine damaged. When called it, he said he didn’t write the review (even though it was on Amazon under the same name he was using to post there) and then promptly and cowardly deleted it.
The man is an anencephalic boil on the ass of humanity. A fetid pile of measles. A craven, half-wit with all the joy of an April snowstorm. I need a nap after reading that. Several actually.
What my lovely and talented partner in crime is omitting is that a comment on one of the places on which this pile of fetid offal is posted threatened us with bodily harm for daring to write the book in the first place.
So my mini-rant is this - fuck all y’all, you anti-vaccine morons who think that death threats, rape threats, assault threats, and other forms of intimidation is the appropriate response for having your lies and disinformation challenged.
I’m mostly of a “live and let live” attitude when it comes to people being stupid, even with their children’s lives (feel free to Darwinize yourselves right out of the gene pool). What I can’t tolerate with the antivaxx movement is that they want to take everyone else down with them! We’re trying to have a society here, people!
I’m not okay with children being placed at risk because of the stupidity of their parents. That’s why I support the removal of religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccines, and want the only vaccine exemptions to be legitimate verified medical ones. Courts have already placed limits on what parents can and cannot do to their children based on their religious beliefs - vaccines are going to end up in that “cannot avoid based on religion” category eventually, if I have my way (and am elected Goddess of The Universe).
Preach, sista.
I agree. And since this is pit I would like to state that menstrual cramps are Satan’s own evil. Men can never worship us enough for dealing with them. My entire abdomen has been a quivering mass of pain for the last 18 hours despise multiple Ibuprofen.
Same here. I almost want to overdose on Ibuprofen. Instead, I’ve been taking normal doses, and overdoing it with the caffeine, since I heard that caffeine can help with pain.
Though the doctor said caffeine could aggravate my heart problem… damn.
The ant bite hurts a bit less today. I hope it won’t get infected, but I have a feeling it will. :mad:
Hey, when you’re elected Goddess of The Universe, can I be in charge of parking lots and driving? I have a lot of ideas about how to fix things. 
Completely minor rant to something I’m overreacting to, but what else is this place for? My current online class has a message board that you’re required to post to during each week of the class. The professor posts a question, and the students are supposed to answer the question and comment on other students’ posts. Some of my classmates are apparently barely literate, but that’s beside the point.
I was having issues getting my answer to post, it kept coming up blank. I waited a while, still wouldn’t post. Waited until the next day, still wouldn’t post. Emailed professor, no response, and answers are due the next morning. So I type up my answer in a Word document and upload that. It works. Every other professor in every other class I’ve had is OK with students doing this. Not this guy. He sends me a rather brusque “Do NOT do this” message and docks me points.
I respond more politely than I wanted to and asked what I was supposed to do if it happens again. I also kindly asked for my points back since there’s no written prohibition of this practice and it’s standard with the other classes I’ve taken. No response as of yet.
Like I said, completely minor but it just pissed me off, dammit!