Chicken is to quail as pork is to Canadian bacon; one tends to have more flavor and different tones, and the other definitely should have plenty of seasoning, but both are good and both are clearly somewhat related.
My cat, Storm, is an indoor/outdoor cat, because we believe he deserves that freedom. He’s smart, tough, and always comes home (we lock the cat door after dark when he comes in). But he is a tomcat and gets into fights with the neighborhood cats.
Sometimes when he does get into fights, he gets abscesses from his wounds (this has happened twice).
The first time I was in eighth grade and I saw something white in his fur and so I got the tick spoon thinking it was an engorged tick. Only for it to start oozing. I screamed and ran to my mom who was in the garage and we had to clean up all the pus. He stayed in the dog crate overnight until we took him to the vet and they drained it.
The next time was this summer and I was lying in bed with him and saw a large lump on his hip so I told my mom and scheduled a vet appointment. The next day we took him in and they sedated him, lanced the abscess, and put tubes in and a cone on his head. He spent the week in a dog crate in my room.
That week was utter hell.
He would cry in the middle of the night and bang on the crate bars and pull at his cone. I didn’t get a wink of sleep. He eventually pulled out the tubes while I was walking my dog and he got the cone off.
Then he decided to be an asshole and pee on my favorite shirt.
Jerk.
Not sure why you chose to submit this after reading the FAQ, since this isn’t where to send questions and this doesn’t look like a question anyway, but allow me to offer you some feedback.
Your cat is not a ‘Jerk’ for peeing on your favourite shirt. He probably doesn’t understand ‘favourite’ and in any case cats don’t pee on things out of vindictiveness or revenge. They urinate in unusual places, like sinks, bath mats, beds and clothing on the floor when they are stressed or have a urinary tract issue. He is not a jerk, he’s just a cat, and you’ve misunderstood him.
It would be ideal for your cat to not be getting into fights on a regular basis, whether you secure the yard, build an enclosed catio, or consider harness training. The ‘freedom’ you have decided he ‘deserves’ has been the freedom to get into fights, putting himself and the other combatants at risk. While this certainly drums up veterinary business, it’s not ideal for the cat. He will probably not come home one day, even if he is ‘tough’ and ‘smart’ he only has to be slow or foolish once.
He should also, if he has not already, get a Feline Aids test. And if he’s positive, he should not be permitted to free roam and infect other cats, which he will do.
This situation does not look like one of a cat being an asshole to me.
That was a week of your cat being in pain and trapped in a small box with no comfort or entertainment of COURSE he was upset! You have a very stressed cat.
Get your cat neutered. Stop letting him outside to get in fights. Something is going to kill him, no matter how tough or smart he is. If he manages to survive, he is going to be in pain many times in his life, and he is going to spend a significant amount of time in serious distress, which you may not even know about because of how good cats are at hiding their pain.
He may be tough, but there are wild animals that are tougher, and there are animals that move in packs. All it will take to take him away from you for good is a particularly fast raccoon, a large dog that catches him off guard, several dogs that corner him, a coyote, a large owl or othe bird of prey, a car that comes out of nowhere, a human who hates cats, a human with a rifle who mistakes him for a pest animal, a lingering infection from an abscess you don’t notice, bleeding to death from eating poisoned rats, and the list goes on and on.
In addition, he’s killing small animals, slowly, violently, needlessly, because that is what cats do when allowed to go outside.
Since you haven’t neutered him, he’s probably responsible for a lot of litters of feral kittens that are going to live short, violent lives, and may not even make it to adulthood.
You need to take better care of your cat. There are many ways to keep a cat happy indoors, where he won’t come back with massive abscesses or potentially never come back at all. Start acclimating him to spending more time indoors, and start setting up your house to work properly for an indoor cat, before you lose him.
with some bugs it really does feel less like the larval stage is the ‘baby’ stage and more like its the ‘normal’ stage and the bug’s final form is just their extra special final form they use to fuck
I was actually distraught as a child when I found out that an antlion was “just” a “larva” to something else but later I learned that they spend two to three entire years that way and the adult only lives for a couple of months.
Butterflies are also shorter lived than caterpillars; we can think of them more as the caterpillar dispersal system.
We also always hear about how “mayflies only live a few days” but that ignores the fact that they, too, spend years as aquatic nymphs.
same for dobsonflies, which live for maybe a week as adults, but for years as enormous highly predatory aquatic larvae called hellgrammites.
except with dobsonflies, all forms feel a bit extra. If they were pokemon they would be some late generation multi-form legendary
Pretty, graceful adult dragonflies live only for like seven months, but beforehand they spend five years as this
aquatic predatory incarnation of bullshit, which hunts other aquatic insects and even small fish with its big fucking xenomorph mouthparts.
not to make a long thread longer but i think the ultimate manifestation of powered up final fuck form is 17 year periodical cicadas
like they arent just hibernating or something, they spend the length of a human adolescence as these nymphs living underground and feeding on fluids from roots. and after 17 years their population group emerges in eerie synchronization and they all molt into their adult stage, which only survives for a few weeks . like 99.5% of their life is spent in their “baby” stage and the final .05% of it is a powered up flight capable adult form that exists solely to scream and fuck
Literally drove around for 20 minutes looking for a parking space. The line for early voting wraps around three blocks and is more diverse than I’ve ever seen in this town.
There’s a very tiny woman in line who wears size 2 shoes in children’s. The very tall man ahead of her overheard her say this and now they’re standing together taking photos of his size 21 feet next to hers and bonding over being unusually sized adults.
So rather than spend $80+ on an “electric hen” I just made one myself for about $15. Basically, it’s a heat mat (facing down) built into a sloped stand creating this little pocket of heat so chicks can get in under it to get warm. Just like they do with a mama hen.
Added a bit of cardboard over the top because their birds, they will poop on it. And replacing that bit of cardboard is easier than cleaning the heat mat.
if you need binders/breast forms/makeup/etc but don’t want your parents to know, now is the best time to get it.
you can order whatever it is online and when the package comes in if the ask what it is you can say something like “it’s a secret!” or even just sssh them. they’ll assume it’s a present for whatever holiday you celebrate and probably won’t press the issue.
oh my god this is amazing
I normally don’t reblog stuff like this but this is a very important life hack!
make sure you actually buy a present though or else this is all going to fall apart. it doesn’t have to be expensive, e.g. a “best dad” mug, socks, a bath bomb, multi-tool variations of everyday objects, soap, tea, a candle, et cetera.
anyway Sherlock Holmes is public domain so catch me writing a story in which Holmes’ seemingly timeless nature and is explained in canon as Holmes being a restless preternatural entity discovered (summoned?) by the original Dr. Watson, who acted as its companion/custodian as it careened around doing the only thing that could preoccupy its wildly inhuman mind, ie, getting all up in people’s business and freaking them out with how much shit it knows.
the Holmes entity can die, but always reappears within a generation and without fail seeking out the latest in the Watson line. the Watsons, grown savvy over time, and now devote much of their time to a.) preparing the younger members of the family for Holmes’ inevitable return or b.) desperately trying to get the hell out of dodge and live a normal life before it can happen to them as well.
just uuuuh. like a very knowing story about the inevitability of the Holmes and Watson story, centered a creepily inhuman Holmes and the long-suffering family who have spent more than a century documenting it.
This is so so so good
well damn Kayla, positive reinforcement is my biggest weakness and now I have to write it
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