I had a cat who also lost all the bones in her body when I'd put a harness on her, but would miraculously recover once I carried her outside and attached her to the tether so she could be outdoors safely.
Farrah doesn't exactly love being put in her little thundersuit, but she doesn't fight it. And once she's in, it really doesn't seem to bother her too much. We only use it when she's in stressful situations, traveling, or when her skin irritation pops up (she likes to lick at it 😬.) We're so lucky she's just a very agreeable kind of kitty, always has been! This cat struggling did make me giggle, though. Poor little guy!
We’ve been giving Gigi 3 meds, by dropper, twice a day. She hates that. If you don’t grab her by surprise she runs away and hides — really well. We wrap her in a towel during the operation because she slashes. But once you give her the meds she just strolls off and acts like you’re her friend. The number of doses tapers down starting today, thankfully.
I've been having to give ear drops to a large, very fast dog who doesn't want them. I usually just wait until he jumps onto to sofa to snuggle in the evening and grab his head and squirt them in before he knows what's happening. I get a few indignant glares, but he gets over it as soon as his ear feels better.
I spent most of this summer chasing my 14-year-old smol kitty around my house, either to get her into her carrier to take her to the vet, or to try and put drops in her eye due to an infection. Sometimes I was successful.
Our cat when I was little--Nansen--was apparently a big hunter when I was a baby and we lived in the woods in a cabin. She would bring me mice and birds and bats and deposit them in my crib. By the time I could remember her she had morphed into a giant stuffed animal basically--I could just scoop her up in my toddler way and drag her around. I also would put doll bonnets on her and she didn't care.
Every night before I went to bed my dad would pick her up and dance to Cat Stevens' Moonshadow (complete with holding her paw in his hand like how you dance). Then he'd do the same with me and off to sleep I'd go.
I'm not big on dressing up dats and cogs (a slip but I like it). Cats have sensors built in to their coats. Their coats keep them warm but also help them to sense the environment. It makes them nervous, I think, to have to wear human clothing, although they will put up with it to humor us.
How many times do I have to say it? Animals are NOT our playthings to anger and humiliate by dressing them in moronic outfits. That's what children are there for.
My goddog loves an outfit. We were getting ready to go to a July 4th party and she couldn’t wait to be seen in her new party dress. She is smiling in every photo on that day.
Re: Shitler’s loss of small dollar donors, IMHO this is probably as good an indicator as any for his voter’s enthusiasm, or more accurately the lack thereof; couple that with the decision by his campaign to outsource his GOTV to private companies, and he could be looking at a genuine rout. 🤞
Trump directs new threats at Jack Smith, the special counsel.
“You have to get the killers, the murders, and mentally deranged, you have to get them out,” Mr. Trump said. “And we should throw Jack Smith out with them, the mentally deranged people. Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged and he should be thrown out of the country.” It was not immediately clear what legal mechanism, if any, might allow such an action." [NYT]
Washington Post Says It Will Stop Endorsing Presidential Candidates
“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election,” wrote Will Lewis, The Post’s chief executive. “Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
"Questions about whether The Post would endorse a candidate this year have spread for days. Some people have speculated, without any proof, that the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, was being cowed by a prospective Trump administration because his other businesses have many federal government contracts."[NYT]
'Trix, the story says nothing about that mutt's clearance having been revoked. Clearances also expire. Five years after they're initially granted, I believe. Sometimes getting a new one is almost as easy as renewing a driver's license, sometimes they require a full re-application and re-investigation just like the original clearance, but in any case you gotta NEED a clearance to get one. If the guy was no longer doing that kind of work, then that's that. And I really doubt that the guy's own attorney would bring his clearance up if it was actually revoked for any reason. That fact, at least, would be discoverable and admissable in court, even if the specifics aren't.
Dear Queen Rebecca.....Have you received my note about a Wonkette White House Press Correspondent? I believe it would be a great opportunity and will increase subscriptions......
One thing I don't understand about the Whitewater story is why the Police Chief didn't write his Governor to ask for resources? The States get a lot of Block Grants to deal with stuff, why is the first ask to the Feds?
My late bi-polar sister, during the peak of a manic phase, once drove from Los Angeles to Charlotte in 53 hours. If I started driving from San Francisco to Detroit now I might make the party, except for MEETINGS all day today. #&$^#&@!
Well, as an antidote to my previous despair-scrolling through polls, here's Matthew Yglesias, who argues that all the polling firms are putting a thumb on the scale for Trump:
The only way to get an accurate pulse on the average American is to hunt them down in a Wal Mart and ask them these days. And then balance it out by hunting down an equal number of people in other stores like Target, Trader Joes, Michaels, JoAnnes, and Whole Foods.
Thanks for the apple article! Starting comparing and eating apples again after discovering the Envy, and applerankings.com is a huge help in the store. Wondering if this is another sign of oldness, like watching birds. I really love birds.
I'm amazed how much enjoyment elderly-me gets from simply walking in the same fields and forests all year round, just noting the tiny and huge seasonal changes.
Thanks, I live in N.E. we see a lot of Macs. I'm gonna find a few of the good ones on the list!
Lol, McIntosh-A seal skinned Canadian letdown.
The National Apple of Canada, this dense curling stone has the refreshing tart kick of an icy northern winter. Unfortunately, it comes dressed for the cold, with a caribou-skin Inuit parka snuggly protecting the interior of its grainy snow-white flesh. Beware – this tumour-swollen reindeer nose has perhaps the thickest most intractable skin of any apple this side of the Prime Meridian. In fact, in an emergency, the McIntosh apple could be hollowed out and used as a makeshift shelter appropriate for the harshest of arctic storms.
The Macoun apple, named for Canadian pomologist William Tyrell Macoun (pronounced “MacCowan”), and developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 1909, is my favorite. A cross of Macintosh and Jersey Black, I think it does a fine job of preserving whaat people loved about Macs for so many years, while drawing the tartness and the snap from the Jersey Black.
I'm choosing to believe that MacIntoshes were ruined by being constantly bred for everything except flavor and texture, and wildly inappropriate shipping and storing.
"If you are a rightwing dipshit on twitter, the Benedictine Sisters would like to gently correct your mistake" Any former or current Catholic school kid knows you do NOT mess with the nuns.
Your hed gif source: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/cats-not-really-into-dressing-up
And meme chat (a good one by Luckovich): https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/e9ab39b6-8739-498e-8033-ff412830eebc?utm_source=share
holy cats! that gif!
thank you, you excellency!!
That cat is so dramatic he has Lee Strasberg on speed dial.
Cats are natural method actors.
Dressing up your cat when they don’t like it is telling your cat not to trust you.
I had a cat who also lost all the bones in her body when I'd put a harness on her, but would miraculously recover once I carried her outside and attached her to the tether so she could be outdoors safely.
Farrah doesn't exactly love being put in her little thundersuit, but she doesn't fight it. And once she's in, it really doesn't seem to bother her too much. We only use it when she's in stressful situations, traveling, or when her skin irritation pops up (she likes to lick at it 😬.) We're so lucky she's just a very agreeable kind of kitty, always has been! This cat struggling did make me giggle, though. Poor little guy!
We’ve been giving Gigi 3 meds, by dropper, twice a day. She hates that. If you don’t grab her by surprise she runs away and hides — really well. We wrap her in a towel during the operation because she slashes. But once you give her the meds she just strolls off and acts like you’re her friend. The number of doses tapers down starting today, thankfully.
I've been having to give ear drops to a large, very fast dog who doesn't want them. I usually just wait until he jumps onto to sofa to snuggle in the evening and grab his head and squirt them in before he knows what's happening. I get a few indignant glares, but he gets over it as soon as his ear feels better.
I spent most of this summer chasing my 14-year-old smol kitty around my house, either to get her into her carrier to take her to the vet, or to try and put drops in her eye due to an infection. Sometimes I was successful.
I remember becoming an expert cat-swaddler when one of our felines required dosing with a couple different medications for a while.
It was...an experience.
Oh, wow! That sounds terrible. I'm really glad to hear the tapering off process has begun!
I am neither brave enough or foolish enough to attempt to dress up Cat the Ripper for Samhain.
I have enough scars already.
Our cat when I was little--Nansen--was apparently a big hunter when I was a baby and we lived in the woods in a cabin. She would bring me mice and birds and bats and deposit them in my crib. By the time I could remember her she had morphed into a giant stuffed animal basically--I could just scoop her up in my toddler way and drag her around. I also would put doll bonnets on her and she didn't care.
Every night before I went to bed my dad would pick her up and dance to Cat Stevens' Moonshadow (complete with holding her paw in his hand like how you dance). Then he'd do the same with me and off to sleep I'd go.
She was very mellow.
Aww! <3
Both your dad and Nansen sound absolutely wonderful!
When I finally got married and I had my dance with my dad, we danced to Moonshadow.
Oh, honey. That made me tear up a bit. What a beautiful choice!
My mom was crying like a crazy person.
I would be ugly crying myself, too!
What a cool story and memories!
Once, a cat bite sent me to urgent care for a butt load of Augmentin, but he 𝘴𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘳𝘦 looked good in that wee derby...
I understand you, cat. This is how I’m feeling, as I’m drag myself to the office this morning.
Meow, me ow, soon you ow.
"Fucking cat! Sit still!"
"Arrogant human servant! You die for this!"
That kitty will extract his revenge, I have no doubts.
Stay away from the kitty-human snuff porn gifs.
Cats can be so dramatic.
https://youtu.be/g04wZeRc5ZU?si=95tUG1k3La6Vu-ln
Now I know what the inspiration for the song " Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered " was.
And then the murders began!
I'm not big on dressing up dats and cogs (a slip but I like it). Cats have sensors built in to their coats. Their coats keep them warm but also help them to sense the environment. It makes them nervous, I think, to have to wear human clothing, although they will put up with it to humor us.
Hey... We had to adapt. I still feel yucky in pants to this day.
And then the murders began ...
How many times do I have to say it? Animals are NOT our playthings to anger and humiliate by dressing them in moronic outfits. That's what children are there for.
My goddog loves an outfit. We were getting ready to go to a July 4th party and she couldn’t wait to be seen in her new party dress. She is smiling in every photo on that day.
Oh, yeah? Hey, you thew it down, you got the gauntlet:
https://substack.com/profile/192348633-morganx/note/c-74023275?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=36ip5l
That's the ticket.
And husbands.
Thank you
So. Much. Drama.
Re: Shitler’s loss of small dollar donors, IMHO this is probably as good an indicator as any for his voter’s enthusiasm, or more accurately the lack thereof; couple that with the decision by his campaign to outsource his GOTV to private companies, and he could be looking at a genuine rout. 🤞
Trump directs new threats at Jack Smith, the special counsel.
“You have to get the killers, the murders, and mentally deranged, you have to get them out,” Mr. Trump said. “And we should throw Jack Smith out with them, the mentally deranged people. Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged and he should be thrown out of the country.” It was not immediately clear what legal mechanism, if any, might allow such an action." [NYT]
Washington Post Says It Will Stop Endorsing Presidential Candidates
“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election,” wrote Will Lewis, The Post’s chief executive. “Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
"Questions about whether The Post would endorse a candidate this year have spread for days. Some people have speculated, without any proof, that the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, was being cowed by a prospective Trump administration because his other businesses have many federal government contracts."[NYT]
Roots? Like in 1877 when you still set type by hand? GFY, WaPo.
COWARDS
'Trix, the story says nothing about that mutt's clearance having been revoked. Clearances also expire. Five years after they're initially granted, I believe. Sometimes getting a new one is almost as easy as renewing a driver's license, sometimes they require a full re-application and re-investigation just like the original clearance, but in any case you gotta NEED a clearance to get one. If the guy was no longer doing that kind of work, then that's that. And I really doubt that the guy's own attorney would bring his clearance up if it was actually revoked for any reason. That fact, at least, would be discoverable and admissable in court, even if the specifics aren't.
Dear Queen Rebecca.....Have you received my note about a Wonkette White House Press Correspondent? I believe it would be a great opportunity and will increase subscriptions......
One thing I don't understand about the Whitewater story is why the Police Chief didn't write his Governor to ask for resources? The States get a lot of Block Grants to deal with stuff, why is the first ask to the Feds?
My late bi-polar sister, during the peak of a manic phase, once drove from Los Angeles to Charlotte in 53 hours. If I started driving from San Francisco to Detroit now I might make the party, except for MEETINGS all day today. #&$^#&@!
Well, as an antidote to my previous despair-scrolling through polls, here's Matthew Yglesias, who argues that all the polling firms are putting a thumb on the scale for Trump:
https://xcancel.com/mattyglesias/status/1849794210695663735#m
(posted electoral map shows Harris with 314)
The only way to get an accurate pulse on the average American is to hunt them down in a Wal Mart and ask them these days. And then balance it out by hunting down an equal number of people in other stores like Target, Trader Joes, Michaels, JoAnnes, and Whole Foods.
Eerie Benedictines? Well, they can be somewhat ominous at times, but I wouldn't go as far as calling them eerie...what's that? Oh...
I read Our Liz's take on that story at Above the Law last night. Good times had by all.
It's in very poor taste to have video of the brutal murder of an innocent cat as your headline gif.
That cat is being treated very unfairly. Like no cat in history.
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“ Buried in the backyard;
revenge of the Cats:
That human had it coming”
*aaaaanimal abuuuuuuuuse*
Have to have my Tab's and Coffee in the morning ☕ and Bless the Witchy Kitty 🎃 will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Thanks for the apple article! Starting comparing and eating apples again after discovering the Envy, and applerankings.com is a huge help in the store. Wondering if this is another sign of oldness, like watching birds. I really love birds.
That website is a hoot. Gala apples are my go-tos, but Pink Ladies are my favorite when I can find them.
I'm amazed how much enjoyment elderly-me gets from simply walking in the same fields and forests all year round, just noting the tiny and huge seasonal changes.
Have you tried an Opal yet? A yellow apple that's plain delicious.
Thanks, I live in N.E. we see a lot of Macs. I'm gonna find a few of the good ones on the list!
Lol, McIntosh-A seal skinned Canadian letdown.
The National Apple of Canada, this dense curling stone has the refreshing tart kick of an icy northern winter. Unfortunately, it comes dressed for the cold, with a caribou-skin Inuit parka snuggly protecting the interior of its grainy snow-white flesh. Beware – this tumour-swollen reindeer nose has perhaps the thickest most intractable skin of any apple this side of the Prime Meridian. In fact, in an emergency, the McIntosh apple could be hollowed out and used as a makeshift shelter appropriate for the harshest of arctic storms.
The Macoun apple, named for Canadian pomologist William Tyrell Macoun (pronounced “MacCowan”), and developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 1909, is my favorite. A cross of Macintosh and Jersey Black, I think it does a fine job of preserving whaat people loved about Macs for so many years, while drawing the tartness and the snap from the Jersey Black.
I'm choosing to believe that MacIntoshes were ruined by being constantly bred for everything except flavor and texture, and wildly inappropriate shipping and storing.
Our Walter's latest post.
Simple, clear, but profoundly insightful and on the mark.
https://walterwellstone.substack.com/p/trump-is-not-a-fascist
"If you are a rightwing dipshit on twitter, the Benedictine Sisters would like to gently correct your mistake" Any former or current Catholic school kid knows you do NOT mess with the nuns.
From my own tabs:
Juanita Jean's "Friday Cartoons" is very full of cartoons this week, and some very good ones too!
https://juanitajean.com/friday-too-many-toons/