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Late Night Respite Open Thread: Animal Urges

by Anne Laurie|  October 24, 20221:35 am| 20 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Pet Blogging, Respite

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Cherish joy!

Coyote found a squeaky toy I accidentally left outside. Turns out coyote love squeaky toys too.
by squanchinthepark pic.twitter.com/gZlu13yc59

— B&S (@____B_S____) October 21, 2022


Someone got ? last place ? at the dachshund race but first place in the everyones heart?? pic.twitter.com/468NhefL6Z

— Anthony Musa (@anthonydmusa) October 16, 2022

Here she is in full pic.twitter.com/Z91l2Qaa2t

— Anthony Musa (@anthonydmusa) October 16, 2022

I haven't decided what I'm doing for the cats' jack o'lantern this year, but here are some scary ones from the past: nail clippers, spray bottle, and vacuum cleaner. pic.twitter.com/b6Knjl0AL3

— Cats of Yore (@CatsOfYore) October 1, 2022

Cat response:

Always loved Sabotage!!

Anyhoo, 'Tis the Season, Happy Halloween!!

"Hi, I'm Jack, the O'Lantern family's Cat, don't I have a magnificent sphincter?" pic.twitter.com/YvBEcGsY5F

— Spawnton 󠁿󠁿 (@sarge_0l) October 15, 2022

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  1. 1.

    Origuy

    October 24, 2022 at 1:43 am

    I think Bella is the same dog that was on the American Rescue Dog Show that Rob Riggle and Joe Tessitore hosted. They had categories like Best Snore and Best Couch Potato. It was adorable. You can still watch it on Hulu, I think.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 24, 2022 at 1:44 am

    It’s like when you leave a big box out on the savanna, and some cheetah crawls into it.

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    October 24, 2022 at 2:11 am

    Just from reading the last few threads here on BJ, I’m discovering some disturbing things. How can it be that races for the NY governor, Oregon governor, WA Senate Seat, etc are apparently so damn close according to the polling? What has gone so catastrophically wrong? This feels like fucking 2016 all over again, except even worse. Republicans are making inroads where they absolutely should not be. And what about the effect of Dobbs?

    What am I missing here?

  4. 4.

    Anne Laurie

    October 24, 2022 at 2:32 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Go read Cole’s post, just before this one.   The media, in service to its Repub owners, is trying to make you discouraged and/or crazy.  Don’t give them the satisfaction!

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    October 24, 2022 at 2:36 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    1. Calm down. Take a deep breath. Focus on what you can do: encouraging everyone you know to vote, and casting your own vote.

    2. Calm down. Take another deep breath, and remember this is a respite thread.

    ;

  6. 6.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    October 24, 2022 at 2:53 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    @Amir Khalid:

    Thanks for your kind words of encouragement. I do try to keep all of this in mind, but what commenter Eolirin from that thread, a normally optimistic commenter, said really stuck with me. I can’t really come up with any counterarguments

  7. 7.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    October 24, 2022 at 3:00 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    (1068) Airplane panic attack – YouTube

  8. 8.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    October 24, 2022 at 3:17 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    @Amir Khalid:

    Seriously, though, thanks for the encouragement.

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    lol, I actually saw that movie a few weeks ago. It still holds up pretty well

  9. 9.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    October 24, 2022 at 3:26 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Do you know who the guy in the cab was?  It was Howard Javis of Prop 13 infamy.

  10. 10.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    October 24, 2022 at 3:40 am

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    No way, really? Had no idea, but it’s kind of funny knowing that. He didn’t mind looking like a fool, I guess

  11. 11.

    sab

    October 24, 2022 at 3:57 am

    Does anyone remember Shreve Stockton’s coyote Charlie? He used to do doggish things like that.

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    October 24, 2022 at 4:15 am

    Good (late) morning from Athens (GR)! Heading home, though I wondered why on a ferry boat yesterday when it was 72°, sunny and we’d been swimming in the Aegean earlier in the day. It’s been a lovely break from American ‘reality.’

    Back to it. Soon. Ah, well.

  13. 13.

    oatler

    October 24, 2022 at 4:50 am

    The pumpkin sphincter was sui generis.

  14. 14.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    October 24, 2022 at 7:55 am

    @RaflW:

    The Athens lounge for AA is pretty decent. And if you’re routing back via Madrid, that one’s freakin beautiful.

  15. 15.

    TS

    October 24, 2022 at 8:06 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    What am I missing here?

    Not reading b.s. media. Quit with the doom & gloom

  16. 16.

    oatler

    October 24, 2022 at 9:49 am

    Whozis? I thought I thought this was a dead thread, killed by Yours Truly four hours ago.

  17. 17.

    J R in WV

    October 24, 2022 at 10:10 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​
     

    How can it be that races for the NY governor, Oregon governor, WA Senate Seat, etc are apparently so damn close according to the polling? What has gone so catastrophically wrong? This feels like fucking 2016 all over again, except even worse. Republicans are making inroads where they absolutely should not be. And what about the effect of Dobbs?

    What am I missing here?

    We’ve been here so many times already. The polling is p=bought and paid for by fascist republican owners, and so gives those people the answers they have paid for: “You Masters of the Universe are beloved and will win everything!!”

    You need to quit looking at spurious results and chill out, both at home and on the web. I am so tired of your panic attack posting. Please give it a rest.

    When it is safe again for you to come out and play with the grownups I’ll take you back out of my pie safe.

    Now go lie down and take a nap, you will feel better with a rest.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 24, 2022 at 12:01 pm

    @J R in WV: The billionaire parasite owners need tumbrel rides.

  19. 19.

    craigie

    October 24, 2022 at 12:26 pm

    That’s quite a backyard to leave your squeaky toy in. Should check to make sure there are no lost tiaras out there.

  20. 20.

    StringOnAStick

    October 24, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The Oregon governor race issue is because the very blue dog dem who lost the primary is running as an independent, and Mr. Nike, the richest guy in the state, gave her a bunch of money to do so.  After that happened, he started dumping money into the coffers of the R candidate.  The purpose of the blue dog is to split the ticket so the R wins; she knows it and so does Mr. Nike.  Hopefully the voters figure it out.  The state legislature will remain blue.

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