Wow. Why do they do this? Poor cats. Essentially dooming the poor things because they don’t even grow up outdoors, so they don’t develop proper skills (not to mention the obvious effects on the environment).
Anyway, outdoor cats aren’t considered animal abuse by the general public, but it can’t hurt to call the local SPCA (or other rescue) and animal control and ask them about it and if they have any advice or if they’ll potentially do anything. They might not be able to stop the neighbor from taking in the cats, but someone can probably trap adopt them out once they’re thrown out of the house.
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By “kick the cat out”, do you mean put them outside and continue to feed them, or just outright abandon them and stop feeding them at all? Abandonment is illegal.
You can, though! If you give them the same signals that another dog would. You make a soft noise in response, immediately stop stepping on them, crouch, and give them pets+rubs as appeasing gestures.
This is a hilarious AF story about how the USPS once lost a box of my bugs and had extreme regrets. If you are bug phobic, this is your warning. There’s no photos of the bugs, just the poor mangled box.
Lets begin! Some of you probably remember earlier this year I lost a shipment of dubias. Since I was busy working with the seller on what the heck to do about that I forgot to ever post the full story. It’s great, I promise.
In Jan I ordered a shipment of dubias like usual, and it’s normally only 2 days to get here. By the 4th day in the mail I’m wondering what is the hold up, but also figure hey, holiday rush is still on, no biggie. Now, these only have to go from Kansas to Oklahoma, so when I pull up the tracking info I’m surprised to find they detoured to Cali. No biggie they’ll be a little late until the box totally disappeared.
There was suddenly no tracking info available for this package, it vanished into the postal system along with my 200 dubia. After a week of live bugs being in the mail I’ve given them up as unlikely to arrive alive. By the 2nd week I’ve accepted they are never coming home. This is where I am wrong.
I get a mystery package, not that unusual honestly. But the damaged notice? Now that was odd indeed! Opening the box was pretty crazy too:
Weird a garbage bag? WAIT A FAMILIAR GREEN STICKER!
By George it’s those lost dubia, poor bastards. Now at this point I should have known something was up, I mean why bags? Why 2 bags? But the only thing I can do is sit here and look at this poor destroyed box.
THOROUGHLY destroyed might I add. Also very slightly soggy? It was raining in Cali at the time it was there though, this makes some sense. Likely got left out somewhere. But wow it sure got a number done to it!
Now I’ll have to make a note here, the company I buy from does 2 things that are highly relevant here. Firstly, they send a small deli cup of food for your bugs with every shipment. Secondly, they also put a smaller box inside the larger one that contains the bugs.
Dubia food: busted open and missing. Inner box: OPEN. Bugs: ALIVE but half are missing
SUDDENLY THE BAGS MAKE SENSE. SUDDENLY I REALIZE SOMEWHERE A POSTAL WORKER HAD A BOX LEAKING DUBIAS ALL OVER THEIR POST. I LAUGHED SO HARD I CRIED.
After everything I’ve written/posted recently fic wise, I 100% needed to take a break to return to my first love – fluff. And thankfully Wrai commissioned me to write some sweet sweet Cosmos/Soundwave first date fluff based on a fun idea of theirs, so I had a fucking blast with this.
Title: First Date
Series: TFIDW
Ship: Cosmos/Soundwave
Tags/warnings: Fluff, first date, Soundwave being a dork, Cosmos also being a dork
It wasn’t until Rumble and Frenzy had given him a look that Soundwave considered that, perhaps, he had misunderstood Cosmos’ request.
“It’s just refueling together.”
“It’s never just refueling,” Rumble insisted as he crossed his arms over his chest. Frenzy nodded his agreement.
“Cosmos doesn’t ask just anyone to refuel with him around here. When you told us to make nice with him, we had to literally drag him to share some engex with us.”
“I think he’s just mad that we tell better jokes than he does.”
“And hold our engex better.”
“Jealousy is so ugly.”
“Sharing engex is not the same as sharing energon,” Soundwave argued.
Millie Bobby Brown was awarded sexiest actress and she’s 13 years old.
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. She’s still a child and she doesn’t need to be subjected to disgusting sexualisation because male producers and media workers can’t keep their junk in their pants for 2 seconds and want to be able to make pedophilia look okay.
She’s a thirteen year old girl and you’re sexualising her the same way you’ve sexualised every child star.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Legal adults shouldn’t be sexualising child actors, this includes the IT cast and the STs cast. These kids are exactly that, KIDS.
As someone who was subjected to years of abuse as a child I can’t fathom why anyone thinks it’s okay to openly sexualise and make sexual comments about minors?
What the fuck??
What the actual fuck
Like I’m literally gonna fucking throw up
So the screencap is a result of translations, where the original article referred to her as one of the “hottest” actresses, meaning “most popular right now”. Poorly and unfortunately translated, yes, uncomfortably believable, yes, but not actually as bad as it looks (and yes, I googled “millie bobby brown sexiest” to check this out, and yes, I’m very uncomfortable about that being on my search history, though happily pretty much all the results were just articles saying “Don’t call Millie Bobby Brown sexy”).
A lot of the comments about how terrifying this is and how these will “bite a limb off” are bugging me a bit.
Alligator snapping turtles aren’t actually very dangerous at all provided you aren’t deliberately sticking your limbs in it’s mouth. They are quite weak swimmers, and very slow on land as well. Remember, these are ambush predators that have no reason to be fast, they just lay around and wait for something to swim into their mouth to check out it’s wormy looking tongue. Plus, their camouflage is generally enough to keep them from having to flee from predators. Even if they were speedy enough to chase down a person, they aren’t exactly inclined to. Like almost any other animal they want nothing to do with you. Even if you accidentally stepped on one hiding underwater it’s not super likely you will be bitten, they can’t reach their head back and bite something that isn’t pretty much directly in front of their face unlike common snapping turtles. Also, they are a threatened species so perhaps fear mongering about them is a bad idea.
These guys are in the category of animals that aren’t dangerous unless you screw around with them, but will very much hurt you if you mess with them. The worst they’ll do otherwise is lunge at you in an open-mouthed threat display (with no real intent to bite) if you bother them. To get one to bite you, you’d have to actually try.
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