Dogs and other pets that aren’t cats

[doug rr]

thanks guys...probably going out with Bach suite #3...he always liked it

[wease]

Goddammit.

The last week or so we’ve noticed a new stray cat walking around our house. Quite lovely. Just stark white from head to toe. Like all the other strays, I run them off when I’m here. This morning Oliver Chud is just going nuts barking at something outside the window. He always barks at animals other than birds so I figured there was a squirrel out there teasing him. I was wrong. There were two little baby white as snow kittens hopping around playing. Just cute as can be. So I made the mistake of sharing the cuteness with Mrs Wease and when she got to the window, a jet black one hops out of the bushes. So Mrs Wease immediately starts in with the “we have to make sure they’re safe” and “it’s supposed to start storming, we can’t leave them out here.” We go outside and see that they’re coming out from under the house. Mama Cat has made her way thru a hole (which I now can’t plug because i don’t want to trap them under the house) and has had her litter underneath the house. Then when we came back in, another black one comes out. So now, there are 4 kittens living under our house that have already been claimed as ours. We already have two cats inside that are quite destructive. Indeed, we’re literally waiting for one of them to die so we can bring some antique furniture into the house we’ve accumulated since moving in.

Goddammit.

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I wonder if we have any Haitians in the area…

[Peeps]

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I know that look very well

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Well…

We now have another cat. After the fiasco with the newborns a few weeks ago, the oldest Weaseling convinced Mrs Wease she needs a support animal. So we agreed. She was getting all the paperwork ready at school, Mrs Wease found one and contacted the family everything set to pick it up this afternoon. Then she finds out one of her suitemates is allergic to cats. So now it’s ours until she gets into a place where no one is allergic and cats are allowed.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Higgs]

My wife will 100% take them all wease. While in Rome (left just today, currently in Sorrento, doing the Amalfi via car tour tomorrow) we visited these amazing ruins at Largo di Torre Argentina, which was also apparently where Julius Caesar was killed. The main reason for the visit though? It's also a cat sanctuary where they house and spay 6000 stray cats every year. Once I told the wife about it it became THE place we had to visit.

It was actually quite lovely, ngl. But yeah, the wife loves cats, big time.

[E.H. Ruddock]

There were too many cats in Rome. It was annoying

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There sure were! And Mrs Wease had to pet every one she came across.

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Enjoy the Amalfi drive tomorrow, Higgs! It’s gorgeous!

[spike]

My wife will 100% take them all wease. While in Rome (left just today, currently in Sorrento, doing the Amalfi via car tour tomorrow) we visited these amazing ruins at Largo di Torre Argentina, which was also apparently where Julius Caesar was killed. The main reason for the visit though? It's also a cat sanctuary where they house and spay 6000 stray cats every year. Once I told the wife about it it became THE place we had to visit.

It was actually quite lovely, ngl. But yeah, the wife loves cats, big time.

Ha, we stayed in an Airbnb next to that spot our first time in Rome. I thought I heard they were in the process of excavating that site though?

[BurtReynolds]

Trying to figure out if I should put the old boy down soon. He's starting to get incontinent and he seems to have some internal infection or something that I'm not sure he'll fight off. He can barely stand, but still walks good enough and likes to go outside... Nearly deaf and mostly blind... Plenty of energy and eats well... might be senile...

Lots to weigh here.

[Peeps]

just contemplating if he wants to go into work today

[Peeps]

Trying to figure out if I should put the old boy down soon. He's starting to get incontinent and he seems to have some internal infection or something that I'm not sure he'll fight off. He can barely stand, but still walks good enough and likes to go outside... Nearly deaf and mostly blind... Plenty of energy and eats well... might be senile...

Lots to weigh here.

ugh. ill hope for the best burt

[BurtReynolds]

Hang in there old man...

[BurtReynolds]

Doug Jr. didn't pull through this time...

16 years wasn't nearly long enough. But he saw more of the world than most dogs.

[tragabigzanda]

goddamit i am sorry burt. Lower left is legend.

[BurtReynolds]

thanks

He was always down for a new adventure, but now I think I'm adventured out...

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[tragabigzanda]