Once my kitty Milo was missing for two days and came home with blood all over his face and a tire track on his behind. The vet said he had probably been hiding under a car and had gotten hit when it started up. I was so upset, even though he healed without major complications...I can't imagine how I would feel if my baby came home with NO FACE. Poor kitty, I am glad she is better now.
I'm an editor and my trademark is using green ink. It started because everybody in my office used a different color so you could tell who marked what, and I took green from the woman I replaced. It looks very friendly, I have to say (although my victims, er, writers never see anything I mark by hand).
OMG. When I was packing up to move from RI to NYC, I found all my cat's missing toys. They were piled in the closet. A foot-high pile of toys, piled in a closet corner.
Why? Who knows. Planning for the Kitty Rapture? Cat Armegeddon? Was she dealing catnip? Who knows.
@NewsBunny: When I was moving, we found probably 100 bottle caps under my couch. My girl loves bottle caps. And she always would lose them under the couch. It was pretty funny. When she saw all the bottle caps, I think she must have thought "Ohh! Treasure!"
@NewsBunny: This is my (late) kitteh, except it was under the couch. EVERY toy we thought had disappeared forever was under there. When we discovered her hiding place, the look on her face was very much "And now I have to kill you."
@NewsBunny: I know my cat does this but I can't find out where her stash is. She's always stealing stuff from me and she also puts her balls there. Sometimes I'll see a ball that's been missing for weeks (after I searched the apt) and she'll bring it to me. We'll be moving soonish and I'll finally be able to find out where she puts her stash.
@RiotGrrrl: I always do an under couch check every few months and clean the toys out. When I moved my living room furniture around, I found TONS of missing cat toys.
I teach in NYC public schools and unfortunately know about the red ink thing. Why don't administrators worry more about the, oh, I dunno, no gym and no recess and no music thing?
WHY are kids watching Summer Heights High? I hope my students never find out about it. I don't know what I'd do is some kid asked me if "[I] got [my] period or WAT, Miss." BUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH.
@AllThatYaz: Regarding the red ink, it seems to me that "You're a stupid whore" will sting no matter what color ink it's in. So focus on what they're writing, people. Not what they write with.
Can we please stop blaming TV for the stupid decisions kids make? There was a girl in a class of mine years ago that did a report on how South Park was anti-semetic. There was no subtext to the argument, just the jokes by Cartman.
I was just like, "how could you not get that these jokes are meant to make him look like a monster?"
@Evlsushi: Whaaaa-? I thought Cartman was the protagonist of South Park. You're on crack, he's obviously the little g that all the homies want to be like.
That reminds me of my golden retriever growing up: he would sneak into our neighbors (multiple neighbors, like all 8 of them) garages and steal tennis balls. Then he would puncture and destroy them, finally leaving them broken in effigy on said stolden-from neighbor's front lawn.
@evil_green_eyes: You know? I thought he was really dumb and sweet but telling stories about him really paints a mafia picture. Or like...a KKK picture...
But none of the neighbors had cats or dogs or anything. Perhaps he was just warning them that he was the king of the neighborhood.
Now that everybody has dogs (and mafia Butch is passed) my new dog Rocky likes to run into their yards and make the dogs chase him just to fuck with them. Then he runs just outside their invisible fences and mocks them.
@Issit: Oh gosh, I can't pick out a name, I've already picked out the next kind of dog I want (pomeranian) and Rocky's only 4.
Since dogs live 10 years (give or take, especially big dogs) we generally get a new dog when the old one is 5 or 6 so that the old one can feel younger playing with it and help us raise it.
We got Marble when Butch was 7, then butch died five years later, so we got Rocky when Marble was 6. Marbles 10 now, but he's still doing pretty good, so we don't need to worry about him dying.
You probably didn't need to know the math behind my pet replacement, but there it is. Oh, and I tell them that when they stop playing with me a puppy comes. Rocky is still playing with all his little heart (and Marble has started playing again since we figured out his thyroid condition).
@Snowbunny: We have a similar theory: We got Abbey when Casey was 2 1/2. Then we adopted Skye when those two were 12 and 10. Casey passed away this spring at 15, and this summer we adopted Lucie, a baby. Now we have a 13 year-old, 5 year-old, and 8 month-old.
I have caught all of them snatching the golf balls and tennis balls from our next door neighbor's Chessie many times. And once, Abbey brought us half a bunny from the down-the-street neighbors. There were many jealous dogs that day.
@Snowbunny: Don't need to know, love to know though. It's a great system. My first dog (actually our third, but the first that was really mine) lived to nearly 17 (teh awesomest ever). She had a litter at 5, and her puppy, who's hitting 12 this January, is still with me.
I've been craving new puppy, for old dog's benefit as much as my own, ever since my nearly 17 year-old dog died (4 months ago). I know I won't be able to resist much longer...
@Issit: I had to wait over a year to get Rocky and it almost killed me. Marble was pissed for a real long time, let me tell you, but Rocky follows him like a shadow and I think the old boy has gotten pretty used to the hero worship.
It's so cute when Rocky follows Marble: Marble is a big ass fatty basset hound and Rocky is this fluffy, perky scottish terrier. It's like opposites. Following each other.
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In the words of Dave Chapelle, if a man could fuck a woman in a cardboard box, he wouldn't need a car.
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She also stole all my coupons off the coffee table and ate them. Bitch.
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Why? Who knows. Planning for the Kitty Rapture? Cat Armegeddon? Was she dealing catnip? Who knows.
Eleanor is a very strange cat.
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WHY are kids watching Summer Heights High? I hope my students never find out about it. I don't know what I'd do is some kid asked me if "[I] got [my] period or WAT, Miss." BUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH.
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I was just like, "how could you not get that these jokes are meant to make him look like a monster?"
Do people not get irony and sarcasm?
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And this is why people suck balls.
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(am i the only one who was forced there on family vacations as a child and HATED it there? i still harbor some resentment.)
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I went skiing in Upper Michigan last winter and it was magical.
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But none of the neighbors had cats or dogs or anything. Perhaps he was just warning them that he was the king of the neighborhood.
Now that everybody has dogs (and mafia Butch is passed) my new dog Rocky likes to run into their yards and make the dogs chase him just to fuck with them. Then he runs just outside their invisible fences and mocks them.
My animals are rude!
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Since dogs live 10 years (give or take, especially big dogs) we generally get a new dog when the old one is 5 or 6 so that the old one can feel younger playing with it and help us raise it.
We got Marble when Butch was 7, then butch died five years later, so we got Rocky when Marble was 6. Marbles 10 now, but he's still doing pretty good, so we don't need to worry about him dying.
You probably didn't need to know the math behind my pet replacement, but there it is. Oh, and I tell them that when they stop playing with me a puppy comes. Rocky is still playing with all his little heart (and Marble has started playing again since we figured out his thyroid condition).
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I have caught all of them snatching the golf balls and tennis balls from our next door neighbor's Chessie many times. And once, Abbey brought us half a bunny from the down-the-street neighbors. There were many jealous dogs that day.
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I've been craving new puppy, for old dog's benefit as much as my own, ever since my nearly 17 year-old dog died (4 months ago). I know I won't be able to resist much longer...
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It's so cute when Rocky follows Marble: Marble is a big ass fatty basset hound and Rocky is this fluffy, perky scottish terrier. It's like opposites. Following each other.