Today’s Memeday has been pre-empted by cats

In the second photo, the outside cat is kinda weird looking 😉

I like the one with the raccoon. I can’t believe how calm the cat looks. My house growing up had an overhang just below the 2nd story windows and in front of that was a tall pine tree. Occasionally a raccoon would climb the tree and get on the overhang and start pacing around in front of the mine and my parent’s bedroom windows. The cats would go into full freakout mode. They would run back and forth between the windows, yowl, and hiss. Of course, this usually happened at about 3 in the morning so it would wake the whole house.

@Alan

They will steal your purse.

@ IP

I’d forgive them for that; they’re just so adorable.

(I’d probably then see if we could go into some joint enterprise criminality; I can see a lot of opportunities with my forensic awareness and their ability to clamber through small spaces)

I see raccoons all the time, despite living in the middle of a city. One I came to recognize easily because it was small and had a missing front paw. Haven’t seen it in years, though. Then there is the occasional skunk. Once one of them blocked the way to my door. Fortunately, it didn’t stay long. Thought I saw a young deer a couple of times, but both times it was around midnight, really far away, and in a very poorly lit area. So I’m not 100% sure what exactly I was seeing, but “young deer” seemed the best bet based on general size and shape.

The last city I lived in, there was nothing like that around that I was aware of, except for the occasional coyote warning. But I never actually saw one.

I live in a medium sized town in the Appalachians. We used to have some raccoons around but I haven’t seen them in awhile. There are frequent visits to the yard by groundhogs and skunks as well as occasional ones by deer. Well away from rural areas, I saw a young black bear in US forestry land this week. (and a family of geese the previous day)

I’m so envious; I love raccoons. I really hope I get to meet one someday.

One time I saw a mom raccoon leading her babies across the sidewalk and up a tree. It was so cool! They’re still a relatively rare sight for me even though there’s a lot of them. They’re pretty good at staying hidden. Do they not have them in England?

@ freemage

with boxers around their ankles was creating his own personal hammock.

Why do they do that? And more importantly, when you remove them, why do they look at you like you’re the one who’s being unreasonable!

I have another raccoon story. In college I lived in a townhouse one year that had a faulty door. It would pop open if you didn’t shut it pretty hard. One night someone left the door swinging open and a raccoon strolled in like it owned the place. Luckily it left on its own and we didn’t have to do anything much. It didn’t seem want to stay in a brightly lit place full of humans yelling at it.

@Paradoxical Intention: Thank you for the brain bleach! I so needed that after coming across yet another MGTOW/MRAsshole Twitter page

Fabulous animal stories above! Raccoons are just adorbs. We don’t have them in Aust. but we have possums which are pretty cute, especially the brushtail ones. They come into our back courtyard at night to eat leftover cat bickies (ok I lied they get their own bickies, not leftovers). My best friend has a possum who visits and whenever she (the possum, not my friend) has a new baby, she brings it into the kitchen to meet my friend. The resident cats have no problems with her.

And, as we are sorely in need of warm fuzzy stuff – last night I saw a news story about a group of vets who go around to homeless and otherwise disadvantaged people and give their pets free healthcare, food, bedding, etc. There was a homeless man with a gorgeous black and white cat named Patrick; he said that he could actually get assisted lodging in a boardinghouse, but he wouldn’t be able to keep Patrick. So he stays on the streets – he said Patrick was his “best mate”. The cat clearly adored him. It gave me happy tears 🙂

Correction: 7 and a half years. My lady brain can’t math.

@Mish: Her name was Cheska, and I was her #1 person. She would steal a hand towel from my parents’ master bedroom and drag it upstairs to my bedroom as a present and then sleep on me every night.

Well here’s something that just made me laugh out loud:

*trigger warnings for details of whining manbaby rage*

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/a-dating-app-had-a-perfect-response-to-asmallminded-misogynist–Z14EblakZEb

If there’s now a dating app that only allows women to initiate conversations, then I might just go and finally get myself a smart phone.