I had a vet housecall yesterday as 1 of my cats goes into shock when he leaves the house (Orko) and the vet told me not to bring him in anymore and O'Tim is borderline feral (i.e. I can pet him but he regresses to feral if anyone has to handle him and tries to bodyslam the windows to get out of the apt - this is the cat who was dumped on me as " ( Read more... )

I swear to god I feel like I live in a time vortex.  My weekend was okay.

Friday night I went to Lowes with S to get:
- an over-the-door shoe rack because this is what I've been reduced to
- galvanized aluminum bins for the feral cats' food
- fan pull chain extender
- a roll of screen to patch up what the raccoons did or install new screen in that ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you work in caretaking fields but I am trying to figure out decompression methods.

I was thinking about it on the subway this morning -- there is so much anger and hate in animal rights and so much Secondary Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/compassion fatigue in animal welfare (you're sort of forced to deal with housing the ( Read more... )

My friend S just sent me this and I totally want to make it (you know, in all my spare time):


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