RL Peeves
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I’ve only been in the shelter world a little over a year now, but I’ve decided that in a majority, bordering on almost all, the phrase “<animal name> just seemed to choose us!” Is bunk. Most of the time the animal is naturally gregarious or was really well socialized. They jump on ~everyone~. They play with ~anyone~. When we ask, “Why did you love this cat?” Please tell me what the cat DID that you enjoyed. Don’t just tell me it felt like they chose you. That doesn’t inform me at all, and honestly makes me wonder if you will cope well when they might be shy living somewhere new for a bit.
Now, that said, sometimes God does intervene so that a particular animal goes with a particular person. My pot babies where shy af and had hid for every single person who entered that room. The first person they ever came out for after going back to the shelter was the woman who adopted them.
But most of the time, nah bro, they didn’t choose you. You loved their personality.
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On Friday, I had a three-hour training session at work.
About when to send an email instead of hold a meeting.
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@junipersky when I got my new cat from the shelter, there was just something about her little face in the picture that said to me that we would fit, and then I met her at the shelter and she did the thing that Roz’s cat does where you put your hand over her head and she jumps up for pets.
I took her “brother” too because they were bonded, even though I had only intended to get one kitty and I only wanted a girl, but he was washing her head and I was like well ok.
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHY YOU LIKE THEM THEY ARE ALL ADORABLE
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@sao BUT YOU KNEW!!!
And I am so so so happy you took both! I low key judge the people that complain when we have bonded pairs, and even more when they accused of of trying to scam them out of money. (Fun fact, we refuse to adopt to these people even if they do end up applying for a single cat…)
I also feel AWFUL for the people who would take a bonded pair but their landlords won’t let them.
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@junipersky Honestly it’s wonderful having them to entertain each other. I’ll try and get pairs every time I’m looking now.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
I low key judge the people that complain when we have bonded pairs, and even more when they accused of of trying to scam them out of money.
Honestly, the absolute worst part of being involved in animal rescue is people. Just straight up people.
I’ve been involved in it on and off for most of my adult life and this past weekend, the rescue we recently adopted from lost two dogs to deaths that were horrible and graphic and entirely preventable if people weren’t such monstrous pieces of shit. One of those dogs I’d spent the last three months partially funding, given his extensive rehabilitation needs, and getting regular updates from the hospital where he was healing.
The amount of ugly crying I’ve done in the last 48 hours is ridiculous. People are the worst animal on the planet.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
I low key judge the people that complain when we have bonded pairs, and even more when they accused of of trying to scam them out of money.
Honestly, the absolute worst part of being involved in
animal rescueANYTHING, EVER is people. Just straight up people.
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Buying an audiobook of your favorite book and it being narrated by someone so disinterested they just left the stutters and stammers in the final version.
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Dear Neighbors -
I understand that you have tiny humans that need to be entertained to keep them from devolving into shrieking little goblins, but.
BUT.
When you are watching Encanto at such a high volume that I can clearly make out every word of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” through the walls, at 8:15 in the fucking morning, you have guaranteed that I am going to have that earworm in my brain for literally an entire day.
I will remember your cruelty.
Sincerely,
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My company renewed their contract with the state health department to keep testing Covid till next spring.
Sigh. Three years. I was really excited that we weren’t going to renew after the current contract expired.
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Speaking of small humans–
I realize that it is hot. I realize that it is summer. I realize that I live in an apartment complex and that means that people are gonna make noise. But I swear to god the kids upstairs are playing hopscotch over my head, and it’s really annoying.
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“Over the hill. Is that forty or fifty?”
“It’s fifty, it has to be fifty, that’s when you get the grey balloons and stuff, right? If it was 40 I would be over the hill.”
(This is an IT meeting, so there was about thirty seconds of silence here.)
“Sunny, I have some bad news for you.” (They used my other nickname tho.)
“…”
“…”
“You guys are all babies and I hate you.”
ffffffffffffffffffff
the entity previously known as Sunny
