What's something good that happened today?

[Ciderpress]

Raccoons are such assholes. I feed a trio of feral cats and like 80% of their food goes to two huge fatass raccoons. Yet then they kind of become pets too, and I feel guilty for not feeding them cause they're fuckin cute and I'm easy to manipulate.

Don't feed stray cats in the first place is the lesson.

[atomicpaul]

yeah, we had a leather sofa in the past. ragnar destroyed it over the course of about six months, back then he was the only cat. we now have a fiber costco sofa, but we still catch the little jerks clawing at it sometimes. we yell. they scatter. but we aren't always here. it's held up better than the leather sofa did, i think we've had it for like two years now.

we used to have these long strip-like sticker things to put on the corners of furniture that supposedly prevented clawing, but we found shaping aluminum foil (and maybe with some scotch tape to hold it up) to be fairly effective at first.

we try to direct them to claw at the tower, we found some calming spray on it shortly after we built it kinda helped them get used to it. our three also ignore most standalone scratching posts.

because our house is all laminate, we buy cheap rugs. they claw at these, sometimes, too. we don't stop them because they're cheap rugs. so far our sofa is still mostly presentable.

[atomicpaul]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Raccoons are such assholes. I feed a trio of feral cats and like 80% of their food goes to two huge fatass raccoons. Yet then they kind of become pets too, and I feel guilty for not feeding them cause they're fuckin cute and I'm easy to manipulate.

Don't feed stray cats in the first place is the lesson.

there are two animals outside of cats and dogs i would like to have as a pet. a raccoon and a relatively small pig.

i once spent time around a semi-domesticated baby deer in this lady's apartment. it was very cute. i think it was some kind of situation where the mother had been killed and this woman was a vet tech and had taken it home to foster and eventually release, but i think deer that are used to humans probably aren't gonna last long around here.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Raccoons are such assholes. I feed a trio of feral cats and like 80% of their food goes to two huge fatass raccoons. Yet then they kind of become pets too, and I feel guilty for not feeding them cause they're fuckin cute and I'm easy to manipulate.

Don't feed stray cats in the first place is the lesson.

yeah, there's like 3 separate cat colonies in our neighborhood a group of ladies setup traps and gets them fixed then releases them which is good but everyone is over feeding them so we get raccoons, skunks and possums in our backyard from it plus the cats

my most recent indoor cat was one that wandered into the neighborhood for the food and was about to get his ass kicked by our colony until i scooped him up

[magnetaress]

Spayed and neuter cats r good for controlling the stray/feral cat civ pops because they can be well fed healthy and territorial. The problem is when they aren't sterile.

[magnetaress]

I shower 🚿 again! Took less than a week this time.

Had to get the funky hospital smells off.

[Ekco]

did you have to wrap your medical boot up or is it off already? either way grats, showers are nice.

i take too many showers because i like the sound of water and i can think better in there.

[magnetaress]

I got this nifty inflating boot that thankfully comes on and off

And yea the sound of water and feel of it is pretty great!

[Ekco]

upgraded my motherboard bios and nothing bad happened.

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

upgraded my motherboard bios and nothing bad happened.

Yay! 🥳

That's always a scary moment. Big reason I got battery backups.