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1:17am August 4, 2015

seeklight:

This is my favorite cat of Instagram

1:18pm August 3, 2015

odditiesoflife:

Adorable Photos of Dogs Caught in Mid-Bath

Some look confused, others startled, but all of these incredibly cute dogs look just plain adorable. Wet Dogs is a series of portraits of dogs caught mid-bath. Bath time for dogs can be a vulnerable and messy experience as the expressions on their faces clearly communicate. These pooches are being photographed seconds before they shake the water off their fur. 

Photographer Sophie Gamand’s Wet Dog series reveals another layer of the human-animal bond — one with shampoo mohawks and wet fur. The photographer wanted to capture the complex relationship between humans and their pets. Their is a lot of codependence between the two and Gamand wants others to see dogs for what they are: more than just animals, they are life companions.

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1:15pm August 3, 2015
neurodiversitysci: animal-factbook: In order to calm down hyperactive puppies, many owners use classical music. When played over headphones, dogs react immediately and begin to settle down. Not sure if this is research supported but if it is, I wonder if classical music would also calm hyperactive people? I used to play the violin for my chickens when they were babies, and they’d fall asleep every time.

neurodiversitysci:

animal-factbook:

In order to calm down hyperactive puppies, many owners use classical music. When played over headphones, dogs react immediately and begin to settle down.

Not sure if this is research supported but if it is, I wonder if classical music would also calm hyperactive people?

I used to play the violin for my chickens when they were babies, and they’d fall asleep every time.

12:52am July 4, 2015
4gifs: Kitten tries to copy mom. [video]

4gifs:

Kitten tries to copy mom. [video]

8:07am June 17, 2015

huffingtonpost:

New Octopus Is So Adorable It Might Be Named Opisthoteuthis Adorabilis

The most adorable little octopus in the world looks like a cross between a Pac-Man ghost and a Pokemon creature.

Just don’t ask for its name because it doesn’t have one yet. But the octopus is so cute that “adorable” might become part of its scientific identity.

2:44am May 4, 2015

blackandwhitestriped:

Tiny pancakes for tiny babies!

11:52am April 19, 2015
This was a petting zoo my parents took me to a lot. My dad is feeding an animal while I’m delightedly flapping my hands.

This was a petting zoo my parents took me to a lot. My dad is feeding an animal while I’m delightedly flapping my hands.

5:58am February 22, 2015

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

Sometimes Lovette gets all playful and then when I don’t play with him he flops onto his side and looks despondent 

Kitty no

Kitty I’m sorry ;_;

Oh no.  I hate that feeling more than any other in the world, I think .  Both of us have chronic pain, but it’s hard to explain to a cat “You know how you don’t always want to be touched or bothered because your leg hurts so bad?  That’s how I feel right now, because I’m exhausted, in horrible pain, and nauseated.  And even though you’re an old lady in cat years, you can still outrun me easily through speed, size, and agility.  I can’t keep up. I’m terribly sorry.”

3:19am February 1, 2015

Scent

love can mean urine
sprinkled all around the house
sharing of your scent

     I stopped that at age twenty
     admiration: you still dare

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11:15pm January 25, 2015

My Great-Uncle Lindy :-(

Yesterday, I wrote a poem:
It talked about how my great=uncle Lindy was one of the people who taught me the traditional family value that when at all possible, family does not allow family to end up in nursing homes.  Even if that means, as Lindy did, moving in with your mother and caring for her for decades.
Yesterday, unbeknownst to me, my aunt and uncle put Lindy in a home.  He had gone for a walk at night without his dog and gotten completely disoriented, and he’s now living in a facility for people with memory issues.
It looks to me like a situation I have often feared happening in my family, including happening to me (which is why I have done a lot to set up care for myself that doesn’t involve either family or institutions).
That situation is:
  • Those who retain these values don’t have the physical or financial ability to put them into practice.
  • Those who have the physical or financial ability to put them into practice don’t retain these values strongly enough to actually do so, if they retain those values at all.
Which means the aging, disabled family member ends up living in a home.  It makes me want to cry.  Lindy is a great man, he loves animals, he always took in stray cats and dogs and got them food and medical care. 
I wish I still had an electronic copy (or any copy, really) of a photo of me with him taken by my mom in my early twenties, where we had the same crewcut, and nearly the same outfit (shirt, suspenders, pants), and the family resemblance made it all look uncanny.  There was a cat on my lap wearing a cone because of her recent eye surgery.
I never talked much to him, but I never felt I needed to.  Just being around each other was enough for both of us.  I felt like Mary Margaret Britton Yearwood’s poem about wild kittens:  

I see big cats race across the yard as my grandma talks in cat talk.

Cat talk sounds like this: Here kitty, kitty.

In cat talk, here kitty kitty means I love you.

I don’t see any wild kittens but I know they are there.

My boy told me so and my boy doesn’t lie about important things like kittens.

I am tired of sitting on the steps, so I hide under the house and sit in the cool black dirt.

I am a wild kitten.

My grandma can’t see me, but she knows that I am here.

That’s how I felt visiting Great-Grandma and Great-Uncle Lindy. I’d run around the backyard interacting with their cats (many feral or semi-feral), but they knew I was there and their love was enough.
I wish even more that someone could move into his house and take care of him the way he took care of his mom.  But he has no children, and all the people inclined to do this have no ability to do it, and all the people with the ability lack the inclination and the values.
Arrrgh.
2:30am January 18, 2015

eteru:

all she need is her tail