https://twitter.com/TheDreamGhoul/status/1121926645215047680
Commenter Joey Maloney sent along two adorable photos of her kitteh, Elvira (Mistress of the Dark). First up, day one at home:
And nine months later.
That is one happy adoption, I’d say.
This is from 1997 but still sweet.
That’s your reprieve from life for the moment.
Non-politics open thread.
Barbara
I mean to comment earlier when I saw the sad news of John Singleton’s death. He died of a stroke. I don’t know anything about his health in particular, but a lot of strokes are caused by or associated with high blood pressure. It’s one of the few conditions that has been reliably correlated with not just stroke, but also dementia. Taking medicine to control your blood pressure and getting a home monitor to check it at least weekly are things you can do to help prevent stroke and probably dementia. And especially if you are African American! The incidence of high blood pressure and stroke is higher among African Americans.
Felanius Kootea
That poor seal just wanted to play :(.
Adam L Silverman
You missed one!
Old Dan and Little Ann
My lab Yogi was running in the creek earlier today and squealed like a stuck pig 5 times. He’s only 8 months old so he’s not staying still for me to check him out. When I got home I finally saw a decent sized gash under his back leg paw pad. I called my regular vet to ask if I should bring him in. The people there told me to take him to ER Vet for precautionary reasons. After 2 hours of waiting the Doctor finally saw Yogi and she told me she’s afraid he may have fractured something because his paw is so swollen. He is currently sedated while getting his paw fixed along with some x-rays. Goddamn dogs! I swear to christ I’ve had my amex below $300 twice in the last years for less than a week. Both time it balloons right the fuck back up again. Sigh. Waiting on a midnight call for the update.
Ohio Mom
Even though I’m about to sign off to get ready for bed, I want to thank you TaMara for these respite threads. I need them.
I worry I am succumbing to the sort of political exhaustion that we are warned authoritarians create to cultivate compliance, but it might just be there’s plenty in my real life that is stressful and I have to pace myself. I’m not giving up the fight, just catching my breath.
I like knowing there are threads that aren’t going to overwhelm me.
Ohio Mom
@Adam L Silverman: I was pretty sure you wouldn’t link to a video of a cat that became an alligator’s lunch. That is something that clearly did not occur to the people (Floridians?) filming and enjoying the scene. Sheesh.
Adam L Silverman
@Old Dan and Little Ann: We’re keeping good thoughts for you and Yogi!
Leto
Started outpatient PT on Monday, and will have it three times a week for the foreseeable future. 90 min sessions. The therapist has set an aggressive schedule which I’m hoping will mean some more substantive gains in the coming weeks here. I’m so glad spring is here with warm weather (all apologies to posters who are still dealing with snow/shit weather). I get out of the apartment a few times a day to go walk along the river. Little by little, getting better.
Night everyone!
Adam L Silverman
@Ohio Mom: I would not post a video here of a cat being eaten. When I first saw that, that’s what I was worried was going to happen, but it fortunately did not.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom:
Me too. But I can’t deal with everything. I just cannot.
phein60
My wife had the greatest cat ever — I know, everyone thinks they do, but they are wrong –, who became our kitty much as we both became his [owners? providers? companions?]. Kai-kitty was an outdoor cat who was living under the porch at the rental house my wife and her roommate moved into in grad school. When the wife moved out to another place three years’ later, Kai showed up a few weeks after, so we let him in. Two moves, a wedding and two children later, Kai was still living with us in our first purchased home. All this time, Kai fended for himself outdoors even though he was down to one half fang and had no claws front or back.
We had to leave for parts north for a funeral for a weekend, and left Kai in our house with a clean litter box (he knew how to use it), two large bowls of food, and a replenishing water supply. After two days’ indoors, we returned, opened the front door, and there he was, waiting for us. I bent down to scratch behind his hears, and he jumped up and boxed me on both sides of my face and then ran out the door.
We never left him alone overnight after that, and he lived with us for another 11 years.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: (teeth now brushed, etc.). You are very pregnant and can’t breath. You are officially excused from thinking about anything besides whatever it takes to get you through the day.
How much longer until Spawn #3 arrives?
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman:
So much for live streaming the B-J meetup at a Chinese restaurant
@Adam L Silverman: house cat v. gator? Meh. Show me a house cat taking down a crocodile.
@Old Dan and Little Ann: that sucks! A couple of nights ago, my daughter’s housemate’s rescue dog went crazy Ann’s and ate a hole in the plastic food bin, followed by eating the food, then for dessert somehow got two bottles of dog medicine off the counter and ate all of those pills.
ER vet bill? $3,400. That’s a lot of cash to a $13 an hour dolphin trainer! Good thing she has rich parents.
Ohio Mom
@Adam L Silverman: My confidence in you is why I didn’t turn off the video and watched until the end. But whoever was behind the camera and his/her companions! No confidence in them.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Steve in the ATL: Holy shit. That is a nightmare.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: I will be 32 weeks on Saturday, and my doctor said that they will induce me by 39 weeks (because I am old) unless I go into labor first. I thought I might be going into preterm labor over the weekend but apparently everything is okay. I am tired.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Thinking good thoughts for you and Yogi.
@Suzanne: Tired must be a polite understatement! In AZ at 32 weeks at this time of year I can only imagine.
@Steve in the ATL: Yikes. I hope the vet bill is a mark of successful treatment.
Steve in the ATL
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: I believe the pet owner was the mark. That is an obscene amount. I would have given the dog a half cup of hydrogen peroxide to make him puke it all up.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
@Adam L Silverman:
Thanks!
SiubhanDuinne
Cat likes dolphin fish breath, that’s all :-)
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Steve in the ATL: No doubt the distraught owner was taken advantage of. However, an emetic could be unwise if the meds were potentially caustic on the way back up. Given that possibility I admit I would have consulted both vet and pharmacist friends prior to peroxide, but I recognize that not everyone has cell friends in those professions, so this isn’t a complete criticism of such a plan.
greenergood
Such a beautiful felid! Who looks just like my gorgeous 14-pound Gus who died two years ago at the age of 15 – he was a rescue, so I never saw him as a kitten, so it was nice to see the photo of Elvira as a kitteh. Makes me think that’s what Gus looked like before we met him. Now in the clutches of a (relatively) tiny rescue feline overlady – all black, 9 years, 6 pounds and rules the roost – like they do …
Jerzy Russian
@Steve in the ATL: Jesus, cats are not on the menu at Chinese restaurants. That was a pretty disgusting comment.