Wild field rat? It’s not bad, I wouldn’t want to eat it by choice,
but it’s no worse than roasted squirrel. Now sewer rat? Oh HELL no!
You can figure anything that’s ever been flushed in the city,
is in their meat! Which tells just how strong those rats are…
Kima, ask her to marry you and take her to home base,
She’ll love you forever! I think Marise will have to
go through training,
but I don’t see any reason she can’t fly with you.
Looking at the still pictures in that video, the Chinese must
be WWWWAAAAAAYYYYYY ahead of us in either gene
engineering or transplant technology. Those stills of ducks
with rat heads (rat heads with duck bodies?) looked “real”! 😉
We got some good/bad news this morning, they boosted my wife’s
oxy to 5 liters when she’s out and about, but I was approved
for adopting a cat, now the fun part: deciding on which one!
These are rescued ex-pets, I really don’t know which one I can get.
I have to get the paperwork in hand first, so far nothing has shown
up in my e-mail. I kinda don’t want a totally black cat, neither myself
or my father can see well in the dark and I don’t want to wake the
house due to a cat scream at 4am heh. I’m kinda wanting a cat like
the one my wife and I had when we started out, large, very friendly
to us, and other than a weird desire to eat cardboard, fairly clean.
I’m too old and cranky to box train a kitten, not to mention being
attacked from under every bit of furniture heh.
That link won’t open, something about not allowing hotlinks. I agree, they
give all the shots and spay them before you take them home, plus if I keep
up with her shots, etc, she should live way longer than my father’s last one.
He was a stray my sister took in before we moved here and he had some
serious issues, not straight up mean, but you couldn’t pick him up and you
didn’t casually pet him. He did love both my parents and slept on their bed.
I know all about the puppy mills, my sister used to be animal control and I’d
help her out when they had shut down illegal ones, mostly tending to the
sick/weak ones, most times the animals in those were over-bred and didn’t
live long. The most popular breeds are so in-bred they have very bad health
from the get-go. Convolutions, weak hearts, organ failures are VERY common.
We fostered many of those, it broke my heart when we’d care for them, only
to find them passed away the next morning.
Yes, that is why if I get another Siamese, it will be a traditional one, not
a modern award-winner type. The show Siamese are being bred to have
a flat face, much like a Pug dog, and have the same breathing and
eating problems.
Breeders will choose popularity over health, much like many people do.
I’m hoping to get a common cat, little or no cross/in-breeding involved.
Talking about Bear had me missing him, I seen one cat at pet smart that
was almost the spittin’ image of him, only female. Kinda fat though,
that could be a real problem. I’ll take my time at it, and call them
often and check their web site for new entries. I need one that’s calm
and not overly playful. My father’s skin is so thin it wouldn’t take
much to injure him. My father passes away we’re going to move, I’ve
already had to chase off teens from that subdivision that were shooting
bottle rockets at our hay bales. The big, 6ft ones.
We got my wife a kitten back in 21. She went on Craig’s List and found
a couple with several strays they had rescued. We met them at a C-store
out in the toolies. They had a box with a half dozen or so all around
6 weeks or so. My wife picked out a pretty calico with a nice soft coat.
Named her “Patches” (cat actually answers to that name and comes when
called – when it suits her, natch). Fed her kitten formula (yes, there
is such a thing) till she was about a year old. Been feeding her Meow
Mix ever since. Side note: that shit’s gotten damned expensive –
when you can get it.
We fostered a mama cat that was almost due, poor thing looked like
hell, sadly she didn’t survive the birth. So we had to feed her kittens
from day one. my wife, our eldest and I took shifts. feeding, cleaning
etc… took about 3-4 weeks before their eyes were open and we
could feed them soft kitten food. Took about 10 weeks total for my
sister and I to find homes for them, although we did keep one we
also name Patches, he was a people cat, hated any strays that went
by. I go to tractor supply for the big bag of meow mix, cuts the cost a
fair bit.
Good and wise move on Wilson’s part.
Should ease future relations with his new CO.
Marise is still a civilian foreign noncombatant
and they are in a combat zone. Now, if it’s
“revealed” that she’s part of the militia of a
newly-allied power, that should change things…
Even if they don’t become allies and considering their limited
transportation capabilities, she will probably the ambassador of her
people which would need a watchdog so she doesn’t see classified
information or technology. And that’s just the worst case scenario.
The Empire functions so well, because it can be adaptable and
flexible when it wants/has to be. Command might throw a hissy fit
and loose some hair over this, but they will work something out.
I don’t see any problem IF she swears the oath to Teresa and
the Empire, even if she becomes the ambassador for the Empire
and the Laporidae, she’ll need to go back and forth, or act like
Taritha is for the Empire. It’ll be up to both of them and Teresa.
This is going to be a very interesting conversation with the head
Alpha and Kima.
The top story reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit back in the
Watergate era. A group of White House staffers have ordered takeout
and they are distributing the food. The person handing things out
says, “All right. Who ordered the rat burger and the pan ratty?”
Gordon Liddy was (in)famous for having eaten rat.
I did it on a dare when I was a teen, first job I had ever was mucking out a
milking parlor that had been abandoned for 5 years, I STILL “taste” that stink
in the back of my throat when I feed the cows here. The other farm hands
dared me to “prove” myself to them. I knew it was BS, but I never backed
down from a challenge back then, the whole young-n-dumb thing!
The worse part of the job was the dung beetles, they were so tough you
had to stab them with the shovel, whacking them with it just pissed them off!
Twice the size of a june bug, with hooks on their legs that could break skin. https://www.sfzoo.org/dung-beetle/
Which is why the other’s didn’t want the job… Well, that, and the
grossness of it. But I made enough to buy my first car, ’65 chevelle with a
bad case of floor pan rot.
The entire conversation I had with the woman from the shelter
was very depressing, she told me most of the cats they get are
pretty much because people want kittens, as soon as the cat
grows up they either turn them in or abandon them. I can attest
to that, by time my wife and I moved in there was at least 30
strays running around the property here. After buying 7 live traps
and setting them over and over, I managed to catch most of them.
many went to the shelter, some I had to put down, they were too
feral for even a shelter, one I caught trying to eat a live chicken!
I had to use gauntlets just to put them in the totes to take them to
a shelter. You do NOT want to bare-hand a terrified cat.
We finally put an end to it by posting signs on both ends of our road
stating that any stray/abandoned cat will be shot. It wasn’t true but
we had to do something to put an end to it.
Back when we built our house in late 96 -early 97 the subdivision was
just over a mile from the main road. There was a strip of undeveloped
land over a mile long and a good 3/4 mile wide that connected to more
undeveloped land for a couple of miles. At the time we built we were
outside the city limits of San Antonio. Occasionally we ‘d see coyotes
crossing the street out to the main road. We’d also hear ’em singing
at night. We didn’t have to worry about stray cats – OR dogs. Coyote
snacks! They’ve since then built all the way to the main road and
we’ve been annexed by the city. Coyotes have moved on. We now have
stray cats and packs of dogs running the neighborhood. I bought a.CO2
powered pellet gun after we were threatened by one of the roving packs
of stray dogs.
We have coyotes too but many of the cats would hide in the
barn or under the house in the crawl space. Although, I did
have to clear the hot fence wire once, one coyote was dragging
a cat and when the carcass touched the wire… well I did hear
a coyote scream that night Heh! 10,000 volts in the jaw!
A new subdivision is in the process of being built about a mile
away. hopefully they will move on as well. Right now there’s
about 50 houses built and lived in, the plan is 750 give or take.
Time to move ourselves, HOA’s HATE farmers!
I carry a .22LR hand gun when I’m in the pastures, for that
very reason.
FYI,, check your “new city / state HOA ruling”.. since quite a few
‘farmers’ have opted out of new annex’s HOA s. they (hoa) have
been pushing to get it grandfathered into the whole zip code zone.!
IE: denver- any new annex, even tho it is not, (miles away) a new
annex is considered ‘ city an county of Denver ‘. SO, it is illegal
to visibly carry or discharge. on your own property. ,, because it
is now considered the city of denver.!
I already did, I live in Indiana, it’s pretty lax here as far as on
private property. We even have a gun range setup,
pretty handy since I didn’t own a gun before we moved here.
We’re more worried they might have our area re-zoned since they started
building so many homes. the new subdivision is roughly a mile away and
focused on an old county road, that was mostly crop land but you know
how HOA’s are like. It leads directly to a state road, which in turn
leads to an interstate. The traffic on our road had jumped 10X since
they started, VERY annoying…
i meant the “rezoning”. i lived outside the ‘city’,.
but cuz of re-zoning i had to remove my range..
i now live in hell. (100+ most of the year) about
30 min to town, on the back side of a Large farm
i watch the back so it don’t get stolen/broke..
Wild field rat? It’s not bad, I wouldn’t want to eat it by choice,
but it’s no worse than roasted squirrel. Now sewer rat? Oh HELL no!
You can figure anything that’s ever been flushed in the city,
is in their meat! Which tells just how strong those rats are…
Kima, ask her to marry you and take her to home base,
She’ll love you forever! I think Marise will have to
go through training,
but I don’t see any reason she can’t fly with you.
I think they’d do well in the IMM,
other races seeing a mixed joined pair would
go a long way to proving Terran’s are NOT humans!
But it’s not rat meat, it’s Ruck meat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-9uLexlTs
Sewer duck.
Coming soon to a progressive controlled city/state near you.
Looking at the still pictures in that video, the Chinese must
be WWWWAAAAAAYYYYYY ahead of us in either gene
engineering or transplant technology. Those stills of ducks
with rat heads (rat heads with duck bodies?) looked “real”! 😉
It would be more believable if they had rat fur rather than a pasted on head.
That would make it very hard to pluck though…
Jeez, whats next, a Turdkey? What a crappy idea! ;p
How about a crabee? that sound like a sweet one.
OW! ok ok I’ll stop, jeez wifey…
We got some good/bad news this morning, they boosted my wife’s
oxy to 5 liters when she’s out and about, but I was approved
for adopting a cat, now the fun part: deciding on which one!
Might I suggest a panther?
These are rescued ex-pets, I really don’t know which one I can get.
I have to get the paperwork in hand first, so far nothing has shown
up in my e-mail. I kinda don’t want a totally black cat, neither myself
or my father can see well in the dark and I don’t want to wake the
house due to a cat scream at 4am heh. I’m kinda wanting a cat like
the one my wife and I had when we started out, large, very friendly
to us, and other than a weird desire to eat cardboard, fairly clean.
I’m too old and cranky to box train a kitten, not to mention being
attacked from under every bit of furniture heh.
The Pet Smart is offering some cats, plus the actual shelter isn’t much
farther away from me. so I’m sure if I take my time I’ll find a good one.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/07/IMG_3147.jpg
Your link produces an error like
“Access denied
What happened?
The owner of this website (www.powerlineblog.com) does not allow
hotlinking to that resource (/ed-assets/2023/07/IMG_3147.jpg).
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when I click it.
I don’t know for sure, but I’ve heard that farmed pets are less
healthy over their lives that common shelter pets.
That link won’t open, something about not allowing hotlinks. I agree, they
give all the shots and spay them before you take them home, plus if I keep
up with her shots, etc, she should live way longer than my father’s last one.
He was a stray my sister took in before we moved here and he had some
serious issues, not straight up mean, but you couldn’t pick him up and you
didn’t casually pet him. He did love both my parents and slept on their bed.
I know all about the puppy mills, my sister used to be animal control and I’d
help her out when they had shut down illegal ones, mostly tending to the
sick/weak ones, most times the animals in those were over-bred and didn’t
live long. The most popular breeds are so in-bred they have very bad health
from the get-go. Convolutions, weak hearts, organ failures are VERY common.
We fostered many of those, it broke my heart when we’d care for them, only
to find them passed away the next morning.
Yes, that is why if I get another Siamese, it will be a traditional one, not
a modern award-winner type. The show Siamese are being bred to have
a flat face, much like a Pug dog, and have the same breathing and
eating problems.
Breeders will choose popularity over health, much like many people do.
I’m hoping to get a common cat, little or no cross/in-breeding involved.
Talking about Bear had me missing him, I seen one cat at pet smart that
was almost the spittin’ image of him, only female. Kinda fat though,
that could be a real problem. I’ll take my time at it, and call them
often and check their web site for new entries. I need one that’s calm
and not overly playful. My father’s skin is so thin it wouldn’t take
much to injure him. My father passes away we’re going to move, I’ve
already had to chase off teens from that subdivision that were shooting
bottle rockets at our hay bales. The big, 6ft ones.
We got my wife a kitten back in 21. She went on Craig’s List and found
a couple with several strays they had rescued. We met them at a C-store
out in the toolies. They had a box with a half dozen or so all around
6 weeks or so. My wife picked out a pretty calico with a nice soft coat.
Named her “Patches” (cat actually answers to that name and comes when
called – when it suits her, natch). Fed her kitten formula (yes, there
is such a thing) till she was about a year old. Been feeding her Meow
Mix ever since. Side note: that shit’s gotten damned expensive –
when you can get it.
We fostered a mama cat that was almost due, poor thing looked like
hell, sadly she didn’t survive the birth. So we had to feed her kittens
from day one. my wife, our eldest and I took shifts. feeding, cleaning
etc… took about 3-4 weeks before their eyes were open and we
could feed them soft kitten food. Took about 10 weeks total for my
sister and I to find homes for them, although we did keep one we
also name Patches, he was a people cat, hated any strays that went
by. I go to tractor supply for the big bag of meow mix, cuts the cost a
fair bit.
I forgot he was a siamese/calico mix, had the body of the former,
but the marking of the latter. And had a shorter muzzle. VERY vocal
too!
Meow!!!
Kitty! here kitty kitty…AAAH! not the face!
LOL!! Nah….
Good and wise move on Wilson’s part.
Should ease future relations with his new CO.
Marise is still a civilian foreign noncombatant
and they are in a combat zone. Now, if it’s
“revealed” that she’s part of the militia of a
newly-allied power, that should change things…
Even if they don’t become allies and considering their limited
transportation capabilities, she will probably the ambassador of her
people which would need a watchdog so she doesn’t see classified
information or technology. And that’s just the worst case scenario.
The Empire functions so well, because it can be adaptable and
flexible when it wants/has to be. Command might throw a hissy fit
and loose some hair over this, but they will work something out.
I don’t see any problem IF she swears the oath to Teresa and
the Empire, even if she becomes the ambassador for the Empire
and the Laporidae, she’ll need to go back and forth, or act like
Taritha is for the Empire. It’ll be up to both of them and Teresa.
This is going to be a very interesting conversation with the head
Alpha and Kima.
Only real issue I see is fitting the Laporidae for spacesuits..
Yeah, I expect they have sensitive ears like the Catians do.
Plus they’ll need an extra bubble for over the tail since it’s
VERY sensitive.
The top story reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit back in the
Watergate era. A group of White House staffers have ordered takeout
and they are distributing the food. The person handing things out
says, “All right. Who ordered the rat burger and the pan ratty?”
Gordon Liddy was (in)famous for having eaten rat.
I did it on a dare when I was a teen, first job I had ever was mucking out a
milking parlor that had been abandoned for 5 years, I STILL “taste” that stink
in the back of my throat when I feed the cows here. The other farm hands
dared me to “prove” myself to them. I knew it was BS, but I never backed
down from a challenge back then, the whole young-n-dumb thing!
The worse part of the job was the dung beetles, they were so tough you
had to stab them with the shovel, whacking them with it just pissed them off!
Twice the size of a june bug, with hooks on their legs that could break skin.
https://www.sfzoo.org/dung-beetle/
Which is why the other’s didn’t want the job… Well, that, and the
grossness of it. But I made enough to buy my first car, ’65 chevelle with a
bad case of floor pan rot.
The entire conversation I had with the woman from the shelter
was very depressing, she told me most of the cats they get are
pretty much because people want kittens, as soon as the cat
grows up they either turn them in or abandon them. I can attest
to that, by time my wife and I moved in there was at least 30
strays running around the property here. After buying 7 live traps
and setting them over and over, I managed to catch most of them.
many went to the shelter, some I had to put down, they were too
feral for even a shelter, one I caught trying to eat a live chicken!
I had to use gauntlets just to put them in the totes to take them to
a shelter. You do NOT want to bare-hand a terrified cat.
We finally put an end to it by posting signs on both ends of our road
stating that any stray/abandoned cat will be shot. It wasn’t true but
we had to do something to put an end to it.
Back when we built our house in late 96 -early 97 the subdivision was
just over a mile from the main road. There was a strip of undeveloped
land over a mile long and a good 3/4 mile wide that connected to more
undeveloped land for a couple of miles. At the time we built we were
outside the city limits of San Antonio. Occasionally we ‘d see coyotes
crossing the street out to the main road. We’d also hear ’em singing
at night. We didn’t have to worry about stray cats – OR dogs. Coyote
snacks! They’ve since then built all the way to the main road and
we’ve been annexed by the city. Coyotes have moved on. We now have
stray cats and packs of dogs running the neighborhood. I bought a.CO2
powered pellet gun after we were threatened by one of the roving packs
of stray dogs.
We have coyotes too but many of the cats would hide in the
barn or under the house in the crawl space. Although, I did
have to clear the hot fence wire once, one coyote was dragging
a cat and when the carcass touched the wire… well I did hear
a coyote scream that night Heh! 10,000 volts in the jaw!
A new subdivision is in the process of being built about a mile
away. hopefully they will move on as well. Right now there’s
about 50 houses built and lived in, the plan is 750 give or take.
Time to move ourselves, HOA’s HATE farmers!
I carry a .22LR hand gun when I’m in the pastures, for that
very reason.
FYI,, check your “new city / state HOA ruling”.. since quite a few
‘farmers’ have opted out of new annex’s HOA s. they (hoa) have
been pushing to get it grandfathered into the whole zip code zone.!
IE: denver- any new annex, even tho it is not, (miles away) a new
annex is considered ‘ city an county of Denver ‘. SO, it is illegal
to visibly carry or discharge. on your own property. ,, because it
is now considered the city of denver.!
Grabbers; too stupid to live, illegal to hunt!
I already did, I live in Indiana, it’s pretty lax here as far as on
private property. We even have a gun range setup,
pretty handy since I didn’t own a gun before we moved here.
We’re more worried they might have our area re-zoned since they started
building so many homes. the new subdivision is roughly a mile away and
focused on an old county road, that was mostly crop land but you know
how HOA’s are like. It leads directly to a state road, which in turn
leads to an interstate. The traffic on our road had jumped 10X since
they started, VERY annoying…
i meant the “rezoning”. i lived outside the ‘city’,.
but cuz of re-zoning i had to remove my range..
i now live in hell. (100+ most of the year) about
30 min to town, on the back side of a Large farm
i watch the back so it don’t get stolen/broke..
Bunny ears?
Long story.
Thereon hangs a tale? er tail?
But… But… The cuteness!
Meow!