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Butters looking goooooood!
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Jeez, after not updating the thread for so long, so nice to come back to the goodfeels. Even though, it'll be some time until we can foster again, I'll try and make more buttery updates. We did just come home today and after the requisite stuffing of his face he herded us into the bedroom when he promptly floomfed me: 
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Dec 11, 2017 20:40
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your giant son missed you 
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Dec 11, 2017 20:54
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This went on for some time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Wk7aRSOhA
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Dec 11, 2017 21:57
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Chili posted:This went on for some time: I have never seen him so content while not actively eating Speaking of eating, do you guys still use the food maze with him? tarbrush fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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Dec 11, 2017 23:52
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I'm at cuddling right now, will have pics soon.
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Dec 12, 2017 00:18
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tarbrush posted:I have never seen him so content while not actively eating Yup! Mostly, anyhow. The only problem with it is that it slows him down too much and it allows for his brother to poach.
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Dec 12, 2017 01:46
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Chili posted:This went on for some time: He is a good cat.
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Dec 12, 2017 10:55
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I've got new fosters for the holidays again! Usually kitten season has died down by now but this year has been mild so we still have kittens coming in. So I got Abner and Menorah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZedQ0UkvWA This is actually the second time I had them, about 2 weeks ago I had these two plus their brother Clay. Unfortunately after just a couple days with me it was pretty evident they had some sort of GI infection so they went back to the SPCA for monitoring. Just today these two got cleared to go back to foster, and I think they might have remembered us because they've been purring pretty much non-stop since I got them out of the box. Sadly Clay probably will not be rejoining them, usually it's policy at this particular SPCA that once cats have been separated they don't put them back together due to cross-infection risks. Which is a shame because I was hoping to get more pictures of Clay being super dignified like this one: 
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Dec 14, 2017 20:23
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^ Clay is a dork and those are awesome names. Also I recently stumbled across a dog on a rescue website in NH who got his head stuck in a yellow jacket nest as a puppy and has a ?permanently? deformed ear that sticks straight up. I waaaannntt him (and can't have him) His name is...Jack. EDIT: HE'S NOT ON THEIR PAGE I think he found a home! 
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Dec 24, 2017 04:35
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I'm looking at taking on a dog or two in the new year and my first port of call is the local Dogs Trust rescue. I say "or two" because while I currently work from home that won't last forever and it seems like a good idea for animals left in the house to have company, but of course with rescues that's not always an option, so we'll have to see how it goes. I spoke to the handlers at the trust around a year ago but as I was about to do a very significant renovation on the house they recommended (as I suspected they would) that I wait until after that's all done. That is now very likely to be wrapped up by the end of January bar some painting and odd bits, so I'm gearing back up again. When I was there last I looked at a few dogs to get an idea of mutual fit and one of them was a border collie called Fern. Well it turns out Fern is still there after a year and that's not cool by me; if at all possible I will give her a home as soon as I have a working one myself. I'm aware of the extra effort that goes into keeping a border collie happy, engaged and exercised and I'm happy to give that, but what sort of things should I expect from her long term stint in the kennels? The trust's description talks a lot about her needing space, direct interaction, quiet, and time.
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Dec 24, 2017 16:22
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Happy holidays from the 'scooch https://twitter.com/Bscotchthecat1/status/945112785809281024
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https://twitter.com/Bscotchthecat1/status/946244719180500992
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Dec 28, 2017 06:02
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What a good lump he is.
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Dec 28, 2017 08:04
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That cat might know how lucky it is.
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Dec 28, 2017 21:04
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JackMann posted:What a good lump he is. Hey, he's half a lump now.
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Dec 28, 2017 22:05
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spookygonk posted:Hey, he's half a lump now. A dollop.
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Dec 29, 2017 02:44
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A lozenge of Buttery Candy
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Dec 29, 2017 02:47
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He's gone from Butterscotch to just Butter Soon he'll just be a Butt 
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Dec 29, 2017 03:19
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C. Everett Koop posted:He's gone from Butterscotch to just Butter Based on chili's comments about butter's morning routine, he's already achieved butthood.
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Dec 29, 2017 03:24
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Azhais posted:Based on chili's comments about butter's morning routine, he's already achieved butthood. He is such a butt. You don't even know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpg_Tpe5KxA
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Dec 29, 2017 08:25
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Oh gosh, I totally forgot, here's the cat cuddling from earlier in the month. https://imgur.com/a/ceifn
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Dec 29, 2017 08:28
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Chili posted:He is such a butt. You don't even know: What, you don't want sweet loving fur jammed against your nose every night?
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Dec 29, 2017 12:06
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One of my two 12-year-old cats passed away last summer, and the other is really ready for a new buddy, so I went to the shelter today and put a deposit on a six-month-old gentleman. But, now I'm getting paranoid and so I'm seeking reassurance: should I be at all worried about the new kitten bringing anything contagious home to my current cat? The details: this is the same shelter where I got my cats eleven years ago, but it's looking much more run down than it did back then. It's very bare (nothing like the shelter in neongrey's cuddling pictures!) and rather smelly, although everything seems to be clean (so I have no idea what smells so bad) and the animals look fine. While their adoption process used to be relatively stringent (mandatory waiting period of a day or two, need to provide vet records of previous pets, everyone in the household has to come in to meet the cat), this time I could have walked out with my new cat then and there. However, they do seem to be looking after the health of the cats: the currently sneezy ones are in a separate room that you need to have a volunteer escort you into, and there's an FeLV-positive kitten they're actively seeking a home for in a cage in the lobby plastered with warnings to observe proper protocols. Also, this shelter adopts out enough cats that I'd imagine I would have heard rumors if there were a problem with cats from there getting sick. Basically, I have no actual reason to suspect there's likely to be a problem, but I couldn't bear it if anything happened to my older guy. Should I just chill out?
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Actias posted:One of my two 12-year-old cats passed away last summer, and the other is really ready for a new buddy, so I went to the shelter today and put a deposit on a six-month-old gentleman. But, now I'm getting paranoid and so I'm seeking reassurance: should I be at all worried about the new kitten bringing anything contagious home to my current cat? Having an FeLV-positive kitten in a public space like that definitely makes me kinda wary. In the shelter that I work at, we've kept and adopted out FeLV cats, but they're in cat condos that have no means of access for shitheads that like to poke with their fingers before they read signs, and we don't really even show them to potential adopters unless they've already been FULLY briefed on FeLV and what it means when taking a cat home. The fact that they're looking for an adopter for a -kitten- with FeLV is unusual as well, in my experience; kittens are extremely vulnerable to the disease, and early transmission can often be a death sentence for a cat that's below a year or so old. Speaking on the other bits: - it will pretty much always stink at least a little bit in any animal-containing areas (one of our quarantine rooms has been animal-free for upwards of a month at times and still kinda smelled), if the cages/runs look clean, they may well be - sometimes there is a weird disconnect between the standards of the kennel and adoptions departments - our adoptions department recently implemented an incredibly ill-advised month-long waiving of landlord checks, in an effort to smooth out the adoption process (it worked exactly as well as it sounds like it would and we saw a huge increase in returns in that month) - a dedicated isolation area is pretty standard, though it does still place the shelter above some others - there are numerous shelters that will straight-up start the euth process if a cat or dog shows signs of things as common as URIs because they just don't have the resources available to handle them My best advice would be to ask questions. So long as you're not being a jerk about it, showing a greater degree of concern for the ongoing health of your animal than the average adopter is a pretty rad thing to see! It puts our adoption counselors at ease to know that people are taking steps to Do Better for their pets. Ask about their recommendations for the shut-down period when you first bring your new little guy into your home. Ask about their standard medical exam, and his results. At six months, he may not have undergone a behavioral assessment, since kittens are weird malleable dweebs and aren't always easy to pin down behaviorally yet, but you can ask about his behavior notes (if any) just the same. The more information they're able to provide you with, the better; even if it's "he's undergone our standard assessments and we can't find anything wrong with him" that at least gives you something to work off of.
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neongrey posted:Oh gosh, I totally forgot, here's the cat cuddling from earlier in the month. https://imgur.com/a/ceifn Pineapple 😍😍
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neongrey posted:Oh gosh, I totally forgot, here's the cat cuddling from earlier in the month. https://imgur.com/a/ceifn That is a drat wise little girl to agree with her mom that a kitten's not right for them. Kittens are adorable and horrible assholes in equal measure, in my experience.
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Cythereal posted:That is a drat wise little girl to agree with her mom that a kitten's not right for them. Kittens are adorable and horrible assholes in equal measure, in my experience. We got a somewhat neurotic kitten (runt, abandoned, etc) that did a pretty good job of teaching me to calm the gently caress down and respect her space as a hyper seven year old so I could pat her. 
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Dec 30, 2017 15:40
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neongrey posted:Oh gosh, I totally forgot, here's the cat cuddling from earlier in the month. https://imgur.com/a/ceifn Do not let it happen again!  (I have a soft spot for cats that pre-purr before you even touch them...)
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MikeJF posted:We got a somewhat neurotic kitten (runt, abandoned, etc) that did a pretty good job of teaching me to calm the gently caress down and respect her space as a hyper seven year old so I could pat her. She clearly murdered a flower, theres a feather of a bird she might have murdered, and shes giving you the death stare. Lucky you lived past seven.
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Dick Trauma posted:(I have a soft spot for cats that pre-purr before you even touch them...)  
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It's been a long year:
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Chili posted:It's been a long year: I made an unreal noise upon seeing this picture, oh my god.
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Chili posted:It's been a long
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Cythereal posted:That is a drat wise little girl to agree with her mom that a kitten's not right for them. Kittens are adorable and horrible assholes in equal measure, in my experience. Yeah, I was surprised she agreed, I was expecting to have to convince her. My kittens were fine but I got two and they already were very attached, being sisters, so they had each other to take our their kittenness on. Dick Trauma posted:Do not let it happen again! You might die at my place then, I can put an ear to Cassie basically any time and she will be in the middle of a deep full body purr.
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Chili posted:He is such a butt. You don't even know: This, combined with an earlier video you posted of something similar to your SO, makes me wonder if Butters is trying to suffocate you and make it look like an accident.
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Chili posted:He is such a butt. You don't even know: My Rocky was a lot like that. Eventually he learned that meowing at my door would not get results, and he'd let me sleep, but it took a long while. If he did get into the room, he'd keep me petting him at all times. If I tried to go to sleep, he'd bite my nose. I miss him.
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This is kind of a rescue-y tale! Over the past year we've noticed a hawk hanging out in our yard. Can't be sure it's the same one every time but its flight pattern is pretty consistent. This morning, I noticed it sitting on the ground, in the snow, and wasn't looking great. I gave it a couple of hours cos sometimes birbs just need to chill. After a few hours of no movement though, I called up a nearby wildlife rescue place. They told us they couldn't come and get it but if we could bring the bird to them, they'd look after it. I then asked the question "How stupid is it for me to go and try and get this thing." To which she replied, "Eh, just go for it." Challenge accepted. Bird, heretofore named, Hudson Hawk was successfully wrangled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7bP7xmVxA It was concerning when I picked it up because it offered very little resistance and made virtually no noise. I feared the worst on the drive over but when we got there I was delighted to find its fluffy chest rise and fall. We dropped Hudson of with our local wildlife rescue people. It's a teeny tiny operation ran out of an awesome woman's house. We're gonna be checking in on our birdy-buddy and sponsoring his re-entry. It was a good day! The bird in question is a red-shouldered hawk. One of these beauties:  Some not so glamorous transportation pictures:  As soon as I got the bird in the tub it pretty much shoved its head in the blanket.   as gently caress talons
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Good job Chili! My coworker and I saved a teenage bald eagle with an injured wing earlier in the summer. And by saved I mean call every number we could to find someone to come out (because you can't touch 'em). But I'm still proud we helped the birb.
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That's pretty much the same technique I use to deal with spiders
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