Kittens! Puppies having happy endings!

I tried a feliway plugin when Devi was being evil bitch kill towards Loki. Didn't seem to have an effect. Moving did.

Feeling frazzled. Swim was rough, pool was fucking cold. Took 1000 yds (that's 20 minutes) before I wasn't acutely aware of the cold.

I'm so screwed with xmas shopping. I need to clean. I need to pack.

I haven't scooped the litterboxes yet. Catsitter coming by for keys now. Eating dinner now.

Glamcookie, THANK YOU for whitefonting whatever it was about the chihuahua. I cannot read/hear about animal cruelty without shutting down. (Which is not criticism of DJ for posting about the puppy; there's no way she would have known that about me.)

I have to go hug the pets now.

The difference between bad vodka and good vodka is like two trips through a Brita filter.

MythBusters proved that.

I thought they disproved it.

I thought they proved it but the cost of filters made it a wash. The filtered vodka ranked pretty well at the tasting.

I hugged the black and tan coonhound (who was found in a ditch as a puppy), and he tried to steal my chili.

No respect, I tells ya.

The dalmatian didn't like the hug and flailed until she was free.

The cats gave me the stink-eye, so I didn't even try to hug them.

Freeloading furry ingrates.

I cannot read/hear about animal cruelty without shutting down.

Me, too. It affects me like no other thing.

I cannot read/hear about animal cruelty without shutting down.

Me, too. It affects me like no other thing.

Oh, my god. I mean, reading/hearing about humans in pain/trauma/abandoned *deeply* upsets me. I can't really articulate how much.

But reading about animal cruelty? I can't even cope.

(One of the cats has decided to come over and drape herself across me, which is about as close to a hug as I think will happen.)

Glamcookie, THANK YOU for whitefonting whatever it was about the chihuahua.

No prob. For the record, nothing actually happened to the chihuahua, but it could have - and I'll leave it at that. Also, I hugged on my kitties, too.

I cannot read/hear about animal cruelty without shutting down.

Me too. It twists me up inside. People who deliberately hurt helpless creatures should be dropped in a shark tank sans cage.

I have a kink in my neck. It's pissing me off.

Hugs pets tight, not that it is an effort because the cat is sleeping next to my feet and the dog is snuggled next to me on the couch.

My neighbor got a new puppy today to keep her elderly dog company. I've thought of that with Brandy, but she finds younger dogs annoying. Brandy has become extremely dependent in her old age. She has to go to work with me. If we go out one of the boys has to stay home, or she has to stay with friends. She howls and cries and works herself into a frantic state if left alone.

The last time we tried leaving her at a neighbor's house when we went out we had to go pick her up at 1am. My friend was just going to keep her overnight since she knows them so well and plays with her kids all the time. She started howling and my friend was afraid she was going to have heart failure on her watch. Brandy was ok with visiting until bedtime, then she wanted her mommy.

By my side she sleeps 23 hours a day calm and content. Alas, not all the places I have to go will welcome her. It's tough.

So, I skipped to the end to see how Theodosia's interview went. I hope they recognized the awesome.