In Indonesian folklore, the Kancil (Mouse Deer, a real species the size of a chihuahua!) is a trickster animal, always stealing food and getting out of trouble with a smart tongue. A Balinese setting for the Character design challenge theme ‘Centaurs’ this month.
We trim regularly (or, when the cats start sticking to the carpet.) The boyfriend's cat has to be tricked into it, and while she doesn't bite or really even try to scratch, she does try to cling to my shirt when I'm getting her into position. She does not believe that this is not a good way to convince me not to trim her nails. She's so panicky, I have to have the boyfriend help me to hold her down, because he's the bright burning center of her universe. Super ButtButt, on the other hand, is fine with me trimming her nails, and prefers that I do it without help from the assistant food guy. It's really funny, because to look at her, from her size and general "fuck you" attitude, you'd expect to need hockey gear to do it.
Do not declaw your cats. Today my friend who works at a local rescue received an application for a cat adoption. There’s a section for “Do you plan on declawing your new cat?” and the person checked the box for yes and wrote “We have expensive furniture.”
ok then don’t get a cat
sorry but if you’re going to mutilate your animal to avoid ruining your expensive furniture then a cat is not the animal you need
So many reasons not to do this
-it’s EXTREMELY painful. they don’t just remove the claw, they remove the TOE up to the first joint.
-if your cat escapes your home, they have absolutely ZERO way of defending or feeding themselves (not that your cat should be allowed outside for any reason but that’s a whole separate rant)
-your cat will be in pain while walking. because they removed that actual bone, your cat’s weight is now balanced on that second bone in their toe, not the first as was designed. Painful.
-Your cat may even lose the desire to be touched. literally we adopted this adolescent cat whose owners abandoned him because he was an escape artist. they had already declawed him and for the longest time he wouldn’t even let us get near his feet. like we couldn’t touch him if it wasn’t his head or the base of his tail.
do. not. declaw. your. cat.
Alternatively:
-buy little nail caps. they sell them at pet stores and they come in all sorts of cute colors
-buy furniture guards. figure out where your cat is most aggressive with scratching. buy a furniture guard and place a cat tree or scratching post nearby and use some catnip or treats to attract their attention to it
-literally just trim the nails with nail clippers. be careful not to quick them. if your cat starts fussing, take a break and come back later to avoid accidents due to them moving around
don’t declaw your cat
Declawing can actually kill a cat.
I mean think about this.
Declawing often results in behavorial problems such as toileting outside the litter box, aggression and anxious behaviors.
Chances are, an owner who cannot deal with those consequences of their cruelty either abandons the poor animal or takes it to a cat shelter that euthanizes “problem” animals that cannot be realistically rehomed due to said “problematic” behavior.
If the animal was abandoned, it cannot survive in the wild due to being declawed and rased as a domestic pet.
The fact that Cat declawing hasn’t been outlawed in every state in America is absolutely outrageous.
Okay, new rule: if you regularly consume the blood and flesh of a demigod in a room full of chanting elders you’re not allowed to call other religions primitive and evil
This is oddly specific and leaves some very interesting questions unanswered.
Catholicism sure does sound weird when you put it that way.
…Catholics are reblogging this to complain-
that Jesus is not, in fact, a demigod, but rather fully divine and fully human.
Self-described “bionic girl” and pop artist. Hell yes forever.
are we not gonna talk about the fact that the music video these gifs are from, and the song that plays in it, is essentially a giant “fuck you” to society’s views of “disabled people are broken/useless/should be pitied”? or the fact that she WILLINGLY CHOSE to have her leg amputated? [due to medical reasons, there were other options presented to her, but again she said “fuck it” and chose the amputation because that was the safest option in her opinion, and she never once lets this decision hinder her or change anything about her.] Or how she has teamed up with the Alternative Limb Project who not only supplies her with these downright masterful prosthetic limbs but also helps other amputees afford such limbs for themselves? And helps said amputees express themselves and be creative with their newfound limbs? [fyi, the glowy leg is NOT cgi, that is 100% real, LED powered prosthesis. Fuck yeah engineering, baybee!]
Viktoria Modesta is quite possibly the greatest thing to happen to pop music and maybe even modern society as a whole, because she is literally proving that disabled people are not broken, they are not weak; they are strong, can put “normal” abled bodied people in their place, and look downright amazing while doing so. She is an inspiration and if you don’t think that is incredible then get the fuck away from me, you are not worth anyone’s time.
Key difference though between the right-wing fear of Obama and everyone else’s (as well as some of the right wing’s) fear of Trump is that with Obama it was all imaginary speculative nonsense. He never took anyone’s guns and was never even going to. He never said anything to make anyone believe he was going to. Trump on the other hand actually promised to cut life-saving benefits our country can easily afford, eliminate environmental regulation that was if anything only too loose to begin with, criminalize immigrants who aren’t hurting anybody, force an entire religion to register itself on suspicion of hypothetical terrorism, overturn reproductive rights and “undo” marriage equality, just for starters.
Whether he’s capable of doing all those things isn’t the point. He said he would. They’re his own words. He is on the side of the people who want to do these objectively horrific things. Obama NEVER fucking said any of the shit conservatives were panicking over. Not any of it. Not once. He gave the nothing to actually worry about at all for eight years and Trump in just one year has directly threatened millions of innocent people in dozens of ways for no justifiable reason.
This morning (on NPR, no less) I heard the anchor ask the interviewee (paraphrased): “What are the risks if Trump’s campaign rhetoric is actually more than rhetoric?”
And I couldn’t help thinking:
Shouldn’t you have been asking that question during the campaign?!?!
Did the interviewee say, “What do you mean, ‘if’??”
everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn.
he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team’s trailers and shit.
and now there’s Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they angered god but it was really just drunk hillbillies
when you’ve been taught that something is fundamentally wrong with you from a young age and even if you have some friends now or you sometimes feel cared about, that inadequate feeling persists.
If your job can be taken by a hypothetical unskilled, non-English-speaking illegal immigrant or outsourced worker, I’m going to give you some bad advice.
I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave millennials: stop whining, you’re not entitled to anything and nobody owes you a job.
I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave minimum wage workers: stop being lazy. Get a skill. work harder and you’ll move up.
I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave sexual assault victims: you should have made better choices and this wouldn’t have happened to you.
And when you find that this advice is not helpful or even true, then instead of attacking your fellow worker, the one who’s willing to work for less than a legal wage to feed his family, maybe you should go after the structures of power that allow and incentivize your employer’s choice to relocate your job.
Some hostile alien: I could kill you if I wanted to, human.
Bones: Yeah? So could another human being.
Alien:
Bones: So could a dog.
Alien:
Bones: So could a dedicated duck.
Alien:
Bones: You aren't special.
Similar laws are on the books in Arkansas and Georgia and mirror the one Mike Pence signed in Indiana back in March. Read more
Okay so what happens if someone who had a miscarriage can’t afford $2000 dollars? They just go to jail?
wow
yikes
in the case of a MISCARRIAGE?
… mine ended up all over my bathroom floor. It was so early that I would have been asking them to cremate my sodden clothing and towels. For, apparently two fucking thousand dollars, at a time when I couldn’t afford a cheap-ass couch, let alone TWO GRAND.
Of course, expecting them to talk to literally any women who have had to deal with this was probably too much to ask.
