[realoutdoorcats]

cat allergies dont exist now ig............... everybody can be around cats and their shedded fur.......... FUCK anyone who has family members with cats and they need to keep them outside so they wont die........ but ig all outdoor cats will die bc people dont know how to watch where they're going..........

Novel Idea: If you have, or live with someone who has, such severe allergies to an animal that you can provide it with the minimum amount of care to keep it happy and safe than you shouldn’t have that pet.

You’re not entitled to a cat, the world does not owe you a cat, if you can’t take care of the cat - which, again, includes keeping them in a safe and controlled environment - than do not have a cat.

[catsindoors]

The “all outdoor cats will die because people don’t know how to watch where they’re going” bit is the fucking best.

Swerving and stopping short are not safe maneuvers, don’t you dare blame people for not risking their lives and the lives of their passengers, especially their children, because you can’t be asses to take care of your pet properly or just not have that pet.

If you think your cat is smart enough to stay out of the road, you’re wrong. “But my cat-“ you’re wrong. “My cat has never-“ you’re wrong. Your cat has no idea that these weird human construction is inherently dangerous, they don’t have some intrinsic knowledge to look both ways before crossing the street, or use cross walks, or whatever other mythical fantasy you’ve built up in your head.

Even human children don’t have this down. Even raccoons, quite intelligent creatures, who spend their lives fending for themselves and have a healthy dose of caution regarding humans die regularly on the roads.

I’ve had to practically pick up a cat to move them as they lay on the road while a car barelled down on them, because the warm was road and good for sleeps and cat’s are furry little idiots unaware of their own mortality.

Not to mention that cars aren’t even close to being the only risk to free-roaming cats.

[the-awkward-turt]

PSA: If you have had ANY contact with a bat or a bat has been in your house...

…if you have had ANY unprotected physical contact with a bat: You need to go get rabies shots or catch the bat (if you can safely do so) so it can be tested for rabies.

In the US bats are the most likely animal to give you rabies. A rabid bat will mindlessly bite anything it touches and their teeth are so small that many people will not notice the bites. Unless you have had a clear view of the bat the entire time and are 100000% sure it didn’t even nick you with its teeth then you should get the shots.

…if there is a bat in your house: If you did not see the bat enter and have not been observing it the entire time it was in your house you may have to go get rabies shots or catch the bat (again, only if you can do so without exposing yourself to further risk) so it can be tested.

This is especially true if you wake up and a bat is in your room (it could have bitten you while you were asleep) or if the bat has been in a room with a child or incapacitated adult (who may not be able to tell you they were bitten or notice it).

There was a tragic case of a boy who woke up with a bat in his room, shooed it out without touching it, and thought nothing of it. Later he died of rabies because the bat had bitten him in his sleep without him knowing.

RABIES IS INCURABLE ONCE YOU SHOW SYMPTOMS. If there is ever ANY question whether you may have been exposed to a rabid animal you need to go get the rabies vaccine IMMEDIATELY before the virus is able to spread inside your body.

The rabies vaccine is no longer painful stomach shots, it is now a series of normal shots in the arm over the course of several days. There is no reason to put this off if there is ANY chance you could have been exposed. Rabies is not something to mess around with. Once you show symptoms you are pretty much guaranteed an awful death within days.

[the-awkward-turt]

Bringing this back because a kid in Florida recently died because his parents didn’t know this information and waited to take him to the hospital.

Bats are wonderful bug-eating friends and important parts of our ecosystems but they are not for touching. Stay safe!

[the-awkward-turt]

Unfortunately bringing this post around again due to another tragic and entirely preventable rabies death in the US.

The man never even knew he had been bitten; at first everyone (doctor included) thought his stiff and achy neck was due to a pulled muscle until the worse symptoms started to show up. His wife said they would wake up with bats walking on their bed and that they regularly removed the bats from their home with their bare hands.

Always seek medical attention for any possible unprotected contact with a bat. Rabies is 99.99% fatal once you show symptoms. It is not worth the risk.

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur radiates an energy but I’m not sure what kind...

oh, YOU know

[whatireadandmore-deactivated201]

[rabbitglitter-deactivated201906]

Dear cis men regulating reproductive rights 

[mollysdailykiss]

ALL THIS

[letsgetsalty]

Got a pistol shrimp for the little goby! I didn’t realize at first but she only has one claw! They took right away to each other, they’re still shy but I see them sitting together at the edge of their rock sometimes!

[letsgetsalty]

I forgot to mention! Pistol shrimp have amazing regenerative abilities, so her claw will grow back! The one she has now looks like a dominant claw, so it either was to begin with or has grown into one because she lost her dominant claw.

If they lose a claw and the remaining claw isn’t a dominant one, it can grow into one so the shrimp has protection until the other grows back! when the lost claw regrows it’ll be a non-dominant, smaller one. So the shrimp basically switch handedness!

[britishhusbands]

DRAG THEM 🙌🏼

[hustlerose]

fuck every democrat who says the issue of trans rights is a “distraction.” fuck every single liberal who say that the threat of stripping every trans person of legal recognition is a red herring or a losing issue and if we focus on it too long we’ll throw the election. we’re talking about human rights, access to medical care, sex education, discrimination, citizenship, and a whole lot else, for millions of people.

trans people aren’t a “distraction.” we’re human beings. the fact that so many liberals turn their backs on trans people is fucking despicable.

[randomslasher]

Okay…but this, right here? This is exactly what the Republican party wants. Young voters turning against the Democratic party and either not voting at all, or voting in favor of some third party candidate that has literally zero chance of pulling in enough votes to win. They want division among the ranks. They want to split our vote. 

In political terms, calling something a ‘distraction’ means it’s a distraction tactic, not that the issue itself isn’t important. The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves. They deliberately drop issues that they know are hot-button topics because these are the topics that have the potential to be the most divisive. 

They’re awful but they’re not dumb. They know trans rights is an issue that could potentially split the democratic vote. It’s an issue that’s very heavily weighted toward the younger side of the party, which again, was a deliberate move on their part. If they can convinced you that the “big bad Democrats don’t care about you little trans and nonbinary kids so why bother,” then they’ve effectively won the election in a walk because the democrats went in divided–again.

Look, the democratic party isn’t perfect. Not by a long shot. But it’s literally the only party that has a snowball’s chance in hell at overtaking the republican majority right now. If we as trans and nonbinary individuals ever want our identities respected and protected, it’s the only party that’s going to be able to get us there, because it’s the party going in the direction we need to go. If you want to vote in favor of our rights, then vote Democrat. No number of videos with pennies is going to change the fact that right now, in this political climate, third party candidates are not going to have enough power to effect the changes we want. 

Warning against something being a distraction doesn’t mean “don’t look at it or worry about it,” it means, “hey, I know this is majorly upsetting, and absolutely something needs to be done, but don’t let it divide us.” It’s literally because the issue is so important that democrats are warning against it as a distraction tactic–if we want to prevent that kind of change from happening under republican rule, we have to keep our heads and not let them keep us from voting as a unified party. 

Please don’t let the political rhetoric make you think that the democratic party isn’t going to be fighting for us and our rights. That’s kind of exactly what the Republican party wants you to think. It’s a division tactic. Don’t fall for it.

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

I’ve been voting since 1998. This is what they do every single election.

[sovietnam]

[feministism]

[twilightrenaissance]

literally how can you hate this masterpiece 

[mitigatedchaos]

Watching these videos of people keeping exotic animals on the Internet.

Then you look it up, and it’s like…

[cinema-shots]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

[shuseph]

i am in tears

[baptizm-deactivated20200524]

I think about this video once a week

[zsnes]

he doesnt want to lose the hair he has

[swolizard]

I’d pay top dollar to watch this for an hour

[blkbutterfly816]

Why isn’t any form of martial arts in the Olympics

[sirduke]

@warriormale Check this out

[warriormale]

Very impressive.

WarriorMale

[sammysstevens-deactivated201903]

faeries can’t lie which is why hozier said “no comment” as to whether he is one of the folk, but then in another question, said “time moves differently in the fae realm” and qualified his statement with “i’m joking,” which suspiciously falls in line with the fact that the fae are notorious for being mischievous. therefore, we can make the assumption that his statement was not a lie but also not the full truth. in this essay i will 

[toothmuncher3000]

kill “cringe culture” and replace it with “healthy amount of shame culture”.

eg: leave kids who like undertale alone but let’s keep societal shame a necessary thing so that we don’t end up with greasy 21 y/o boys who walk their girlfriends around on leashes in public lol

[bloggersremorse-deactivated2018]

This is the kindest expression I’ve ever seen in my life no one has ever looked at me with this much empathy and understanding

[princesstigerbelle]

I would die for this cat

[mzingalwa]

This cat wouldn’t want you to.

[princesstigerbelle]

You’re absolutely right