I have to say, Tom’s photo of the cat on the sled gave me life today. I figured we could use a little more lightness to close out the night.
Poor Scout…
Earlier tonight, I was at the bottom of a pile of fluff:
That’s Scout on the right and house panther, Sully, on the left. I was under that pile before I had to kick them off so I could get some work done.
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War for Ukraine Day 333: Deripaska
danielx
Kitty dandruff!
TaMara
@danielx: Might also be blanket lint, LOL
Old School
Doesn’t seem like an easy pile to get out from under of.
danielx
@TaMara:
Could well be. Natasha the tuxedo cat was parading back and forth shedding on me earlier, and I can’t believe a mostly black cat sheds so much white fur.
Renie
Not sure if this has been reported but today’s Santos reveal: He was the victim of an attempted murder and is now under police protection. Oh and someone stole his shoes in broad daylight.
Will it ever stop.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I caught that on the Maddow program. He was speaking Portuguese, but I believe the subtitles said “in the middle of Fifth Avenue”
Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Its okay, after Santos has his shoes stolen, Trump shot that motherfucker. Didn’t lose a single vote.
HumboldtBlue
I just watched Food On The Go on Netflix that looks at the impact of Italian immigration into the Americas — New York and Buenos Aires — had on local cuisine and what is considered Italian food.
Don’t watch if you have smoked a bowl and are buzzin’.
Also, food snobs are dicks.
Jackie
@Martin: Exactly what crossed my mind!😂
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I heard it was 55th and 5th which I believe is the St Regis and Penisula hotels.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
someone’s jealous of all this attention some bush league pathological lying grifter is getting….
Jackie
Trixie is the definition of “bratty little sister” in the top photo. Poor Scout, indeed!
mrmoshpotato
OMG! 🤣🤣🤣
Trixie must’ve been comfy.
How long did Scout tolerate that?
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: So, I should eat something, then watch it?
CaseyL
I miss having a kitty in my lap. Oscar has adjusted to Jeannie’s death by being more demanding in general, and wanting more affection, but still on his terms: he is not, and shows no inclination to become, a lap cat. Alas.
eclare
So cute! I was in a similar situation earlier, it is chilly here. I had a cat scarf.
HumboldtBlue
@mrmoshpotato:
Yes, just don’t eat beef. The Argentinians have forgotten vegetables exist.
Have a salad first.
dp
I don’t know how you do the Great Danes. I think they’re beyond awesome, but repeatedly losing big dogs at eight years old was just too much for us, so we went smaller.
eclare
Fuck. Another shooting.
NotMax
Yikes. Received notice of upcoming renewal of vehicle registration at end of February*.
Holy shnikeys, has the fee gone up!
*Never understood how, since the vehicle arrived at the dealership last March (went to look it over the day it arrived, before all the dealer prep) and I bought it that same month (had to wait it out over a weekend), it managed to receive a registration decal for February.
sab
@NotMax: When is your birfday? Sucks that mine is in February in Ohio. Always scraping the ice off to apply the new sticker.
NotMax
@sab
in May. Birthdate irrelevant in Hawaii when it comes to registration. That only comes into play for driver’s license.
Really shocked at the increase, 2½, nearly 3 times more than a year ago.
smike
@sab:
Don’t think NotMax has that problem, but waaaitaminnet… even in Texas we know to put the sticker on the inside of the windshield. I mean, really, y’all.
NotMax
@smike
Nothing obstructing the full view through the windshield. Sticker goes on the rear license plate here.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Same in California and Washington, and I think Oregon as well.
sab
@smike: Our stickers go on the license plate on the back bumper of the car.
smike
@NotMax:
@sab:
This I did not know. I believe we used to do that, as well. We used to have two stickers on the inside of our windshields, too, but they’ve whittled it down to one.
NotMax
@Smike
NY has the windshield stickers as well.
On Mom’s car it helps greatly if one is a contortionist when it comes time to remove the old one and scrape away the residue.
No removal necessary for the license plate ones. Simply slap the new one on top of last year’s.
AlaskaReader
@NotMax: So right in line with condo pricing…
Debbie(Aussie)
@NotMax: Here in Qld, Australia, we no longer have anything on our car. If necessary police can find details digitally.
JWR
@eclare:
Are you referring to this CA mass shooting…
Or this CA mass shooting?
I know, it’s hard keeping track of all these mass shootings, especially since CA can’t seem to catch a break this week.
Betty
@JWR: Iowa charter school?
WereBear
I show up wondering where everyone is and now two mass shootings?
These Republican fundamentalists are melting down on us, because Trump being revealed as actually the AntiChrist is putting them into shock, and some of them are snapping.
They are literally feeling Left Behind and there isn’t an alternate fantasy left to escape to. They would literally rather die than join the libs because that will mean they get sent to hell.
That’s my best guess, having been raised among them. That’s why they went Q. It was moving from Avon to Arbonne…
Baud
@WereBear:
Two of these CA mass shootings look like they’re older Asian men and, so far, they don’t look to political in motivation.
Soapdish
We call when our animals lay on top of each other “The Lumpy Pillow Game”.
JWR
@Betty: “Iowa charter school?”
Could be Iowa, but I was thinking specifically about CA. Here’s the IA story:
Princess
Mass shooting in Chicago yesterday too but it won’t make the news.
Timill
That FL rep who fell 25′ is now recovering at home “from a fractured pelvis, a punctured lung, and several torn ligaments in my neck.” Ouch.
theweek.com/house-of-representatives/1020319/florida-gop-congressman-out-for-several-weeks-with-punc…
Frankensteinbeck
@WereBear:
I don’t think it’s related to this shooting, but yes, an America where a black man became president and there is no longer a fundamental difference between men and women is an apocalypse scenario to them.
WereBear
@Frankensteinbeck: Thanks, that is what I was trying to convey. Believe I was mentally stuck on the ones for Lunar New Year… this has to end.
The ones who won’t call 988. They retreat from help.
I guess they need the eggs, as the old joke goes.
randy khan)
Good to see this place holding up its reputation as a politics and pets (or is it pets and politics?) blog.
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue:
“Don’t watch if you have smoked a bowl and are buzzin’.”
Ahhh, the best kind of food show!
prostratedragon
@Princess: We have those too frequently here, but for some reason they usually fall short of the 4 fatality threshold to be considered mass shootings that get reported nationally. Yesterday’s was inside an apartment in South Shore.
J R in WV
@danielx:
Black cat/dog fur is nearly invisible, unless it’s on a white caftan. Ask me how I know this…
NutmegAgain
I don’t know how I missed dog photos! They are terrific, as always. So adorbs. I’ve been pretty fuzzy in my brain pan lately–treating a dog for heartworm is no joke! The big grey oaf is currently down to only one dose of steroids a day, but it’s been months of 4 different antibiotics (both for the heartworm symbionts and the super nasty no-good ear infection from hell). Then the tx for the worms which really makes the doggy miserable–first dose of 3 (melarsomine). He’s been up every hour or two to go out and pee–I think it’s the steroids. Of course I’m up when he’s up. I finished raising babies decades ago!! But it’s worth it, he is such a good dog.