Just a skeleton moving through the world

he/she/they, collecting too much yarn

[girldraki]

[girldraki]

[talesfromtreatment]

you said you used to work at a "kill shelter", for lack of better wording. how often are animals actually put down to free up space?

I did not work at an open intake shelter. I worked at a very well funded limited-intake shelter.

But i am a huge supporter of open intake shelters and their staff. They do extremely vital and often heartbreaking work while getting shit on by lots of people. I will defend them and what they do to my dog breath.

I don't know often animals have to be euthanized for space. It's going to vary based on time of year, shelter size, funding, foster programs, etc.

The numbers of frenchies and doodles entering the shelters is definitely starting to increase, so all these indiscriminate breeders going for the next greatest trend are actively contributing to that happening though.

[neverwalka1one]

I _did_ work at an open-intake shelter, aka 'kill' shelter. We were the shelter that animal control brought all the animals they found in the county, we were one of the only local shelters who would accept any pet people wanted to abandon, we were responsible for housing all of the animals being held in court cases (fighting rings, dogs found during drug raids, hoarders, etc).

We tried so, so hard to get every pet out alive that we could.

But there'd be days, very frequent days during the summer, where we'd literally take in more pets during a day than we had cages in the entire shelter. Some pets would leave every day, of course - adoptions, some taken by rescue groups, some taken by 'no-kill' shelters looking to fill their spots with cute, adoptable pets.

But then there were the rest.

The ones that were too old, too shy, to sick, too angry. The ones that for one reason or other never caught anyone's eye. Then what do you do? There's one kennel, and two pets. One just got there. The other has been there for weeks. Both are super sweet, super cute - there's nothing wrong with either, they just don't have a home.

A lot of shelter staff ended up with multiple pets because of this. But even then. There were so many pets.

So please don't disparage kill shelters. If you don't want that situation to happen, help, damnit. Help with TNR programs. Spay and neuter your pets. Don't buy from backyard breeders. Donate to your local shelter (the one I worked for way back finally got enough funding to build a new, bigger facility - doesn't solve the problem for sure, but it took some of the heat off). Even doing things like volunteering to socialize the pets in the shelter can help those pets keep enough of their sparkle that they'll get adopted. Stop bitching about the problem and get in there.

[x-arlecchino]

Looked back into this ask I made and i wanted to say thank you! I wasnt bitching, I was geniunely asking because as many people have pointed out nobody wants to put down a perfectly healthy animal, abd theyre so demonized I wanted to get some real statistics!

[shirtsthatgohard]

[dogpuppy]

[pangur-and-grim]

as part of my pet care instructions, I have to tell people that Pangur vomits white foam when she's hungry

[carolinalockhart]

so ime this is actually due to going too long without eating. older cats can build up stomach acid pretty aggressively. if you give your kitty a quarter of a famotidine (pepcid) tablet daily she'll stop doing this and it may save her some stress. (not a vet, just a former hospice foster)

[pangur-and-grim]

oh interesting! my solution has been to do small meals throughout the day (because I work from home), but when I leave on a trip I can't really expect the care-giver to replicate that, so I say "one meal in the morning, one meal at night, and don't worry about the foam."

I'll look into the famotidine tablets though, thank you!

[scrungledwung]

You can also ask your vet about getting her a prescription for Omeprazole, our elderly girl started doing the same thing and we figured out it's from pretty bad acid reflux

[a-book-of-creatures]

Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

[facts-i-just-made-up]

It could be a sign of a bad temperament.

[byjove]

me if I was an archeologist working on the Tumulus of Bougon: we gotta get the hell out of here. yeah. I’m sorry. excavation canceled.

[byjove]

why are all the movies about cursed tombs about cursed tombs in Egypt (I know why, colonialism) when the shit they found in Western European tombs was profoundly more disturbing and inexplicable

[byjove]

sick as fuck to put that old woman in there with the skeletons

[byjove]

wait I think they meant the skeletal remains of an old woman and not an old woman and Neolithic skeletal remains

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Love the idea of the old woman still being an old woman all this time later

[scrungledwung]

What was she gonna do, get younger?

[pseudomantis]

Ok😀

[pseudomantis]

[frot-cember-deactivated20241214]

fill my bed put some liquor in it

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[raraeavesmoriendi]

NOT THE CRABS WE EXPECTED BUT STILL SOME CRABS WE DESERVE!!!

[mortallycrispygardener]

[shiftingbonesofapoltergeist-dea]

I'm sorry WHAT

[smallerontheoutside]

'lazy people don't feel guilty about not doing anything' is insane to me and I have been trying to make my brain believe it for a long time, it shocked me to my core when I first heard it

[astropithecus]

An important corollary to "if you were faking your mental illness, you could stop whenever you wanted."

[spellinwaiting]

not many people know this but when talking about your multiple pronoun-using friend you build up a combo meter for every subsequent unique pronoun you use

[cookiethebirddoll]

bus is my friend. shes no train but shes trying her hardest in a world that hates her

[busket]

is it crazy to say that the only reason people make jokes like "i bet (conservative male politician) has a grindr account 🤣" or other jokes about republicans being closeted homosexuals is that they think being secretly gay or being a hypocrite is more shameful and worthy of mockery than holding homophobic beliefs

like no matter how you spin it, the punchline is always "i bet theyre gay lol thats weird". even when you try to defend gay people you cant help but to make our existence the butt of the joke

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"If someone hates gay people then they're secretly gay" not only implies that homosexuality is humiliating by treating their supposed gayness as a source of humiliation, but also says "homophobia is an internal community problem, not something perpetuated by straight people, and it's solely gay people's responsibility. Straight people aren't involved."

[aethermancy]

im sorry this has been living in my head rent free since styanax prime came out

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.