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having a fear reactive nearly 1.5yo pup this terrifies me. luckily we've never come across an off leash dog but i also muzzle my girl just in case. she does well off leash with other dogs in a controlled space but NOT when she's on leash and doesn't know them. leash your damn dogs!

Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it's time for me to talk about offleash dogs

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Pigeon wings under a UV light

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tumblr it's been a very long time and much has changed.

almost a year ago (March 1, 2023) Tencha passed. she was just over 16yo! she lived a long and full life and i really can't believe it's been a year, nearly. it broke me in ways i didn't know i could still be broken. she now rests in a lovely hand carved wooden urn that has flowers on it, as she loved to smell the flowers in the front yard.

i couldn't remain without a dog, though. Candy kept looking for Tencha and so i halfheartedly started checking local shelters online. it didn't feel right but the more i looked the easier it became. i wasn't looking for a dog under 1yo as i really didn't have the time or energy for a puppy.

2 weeks after letting Tencha go we all went to see the dogs at a local shelter. the 2 i was interested in weren't there but this little red dog was. i saw her profile online but her coloring reminded me of Candy and she was a puppy. not what i was looking for. needless to say we did take her out, she met the 3 humans plus Candy, and eventually came home with us that night. very quickly she helped to heal all 4 of our hearts and settled into the house. maturity wise we estimate she was about 6 months, not the 8 she was listed as, when she came home...which means she's nearly 1.5 now. more than just healing hearts, and being extremely good at making herself comfortable, she woke Candy up and they've been active and playing together since night 1. Candy is just over 15yo now with some bad arthritis in her lower spine and you'd never know. They play ALL day every day. The puppy takes correction well and they are the goofiest pair of pups. The new pup's name? Rowan.

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Tencha!

heyyyy so i haven’t posted in for fucking ever but.....Tencha is going to SIXTEEN on November 25th and that is super whack to me. she’s kept me alive for 15 years and despite being ancient is doing rather well. but she’s ancient so ofc i worry. wondering what to do for her Sweet 16 lol. prolly gunna make her a cake, etc. 

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night drive, norway

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ok so what if you worked in an old office building that had cool gargoyles on the outside. that’s sick, right? you don’t get why no one else thinks the gargoyles are awesome. you didn’t even watch that old 90′s gargoyle cartoon because you were too little when it was airing, but you’re vaguely familiar with the plot. you always did like the thought of statues and pictures and paintings having secret lives where no one could see. 

in the summer, when it turns out the windows open, you leave a cup of coffee out on the ledge for the gargoyle that’s nearest the breakroom. it’s funny. it’s just a cute joke. your coworkers laugh, but not really at you. it’s harmlessly silly, and frankly working in an office kind of sucks. no one minds something extra to smile about. 

the next day you go to get the mug back. the coffee’s gone, but the cup’s half full of rainwater and cigarette butts. haha, cute joke, someone else must be in on it. you wash the cup and put it back out fresh for the gargoyle. everyone’s calling him greg now. everyone smiles over greg’s morning coffee. greg needs his fix! greg is a valued employee. keep up the good work, greg. you set a mug of coffee out for greg every morning, now. 

the stuff in the coffee mug that’s left behind keeps changing, though. it’s different every morning: always rainwater, but also cigarette butts, coffee grounds, a handful of gravel, some bottlecaps, gross old pennies. receipt papers, pigeon feathers, half a shoe.

then one morning it’s a whole, wrapped snickers bar. still in half a cup of dirty rainwater, but the plastic’s fine, the candy inside should be good. 

‘huh. thanks, greg,’ you say, and after you get greg his coffee, you open the candy bar and have it right there, sitting on the windowsill. 

‘so that’s what you guys eat,’ the gargoyle says, satisfied. 

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“You’re the only (x) year old I would date” is a warning sign

“I feel bad about dating you because you’re so young” is a warning sign

“But because it’s US I know it’s ok” is a warning sign

“This would be bad between any other couple” is a warning sign and you need to run

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“She’s like a second chance for me.  I was widowed very young.  My husband died in a car crash.  Our daughter was only six at the time, and I barely got to see her because I was always working.  She was mainly raised by my mother.  I remember on the weekends she always wanted to go to the cinema, but I’d suggest other activities because it was our only chance to talk.  But things are different with my granddaughter.  I have all the time in the world.  I can focus on her completely.  She lives in another town, but she visits once a week and we spend the whole day together.  I look forward to it all week.  I prepare her favorite foods, mostly cheeseburgers because she loves cheeseburgers.  We go on walks.  And we sit in the park.  And we paint a lot.  And we read books.  This morning we played hide-and-seek in the apartment.  Her head was always sticking out, but I pretended not to notice.” (Barcelona, Spain)

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This was literally my childhood.....I look at pictures of me as a kid and I wasn’t fat or overweight but from my earliest memories I remember being body shamed. It only got worse as I got older. As a teen and adult I’d go long periods barely eating and have panic attacks when I did. I still struggle with it sometimes x_x

You ever just, like, hear the way some women speak about/to their daughters about their eating habits/weight/appearance and you’re just like….oh no wonder she has low self esteem and an eating disorder? We had this mom come in with her 15 year old today at the gym and signed her up for a membership so she (and I quote) “will look good on vacation and won’t embarrass me on the beach”. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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What is going on with the world??

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Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home.  The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”

If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese.  Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.

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When I was a kid, I would only eat the yolk from an egg. Didn’t matter if it was boiled, fried, poached or deviled, the yolk was all I wanted.

My reason for this was “the white makes me feel sick”/“it hurts my tummy”. And everyone did what most folk do when kids say such things, they roll their eyes and call you a fussy eater and complain to anyone who will listen about how hard your child is to feed.

They won’t eat sandwich meat, they won’t eat minced beef, they won’t eat nuts, they won’t eat tomatoes, they won’t eat pasta, they won’t eat fish or spinach, they barely eat fruits and ugh you should see the tantrum they kick up when you try to give them yogurt for a healthy snack. And get this, they will only eat the yolk from eggs. What an annoying kid, right?

So, anyway, as it turns out egg whites are high in histamine while egg yolks are not. Everything I listed up there, is actually high in histamine or is histamine releasing and as someone who just found out after 20+ years of abject misery and several near misses with anaphylaxis that they have histamine intolerance disorder/possible MCAS, I feel really fucking validated about childhood me being a fussy eater.

So uh, pro tip to parents, while there is every chance your kid genuinely is a fussy eater, please also consider that there may also be something at play going on and they’re not just doing it to personally piss you off. Whether it’s a food allergy, intolerance, sensory/texture issues or an issue as insidious and hard to detect as mine, please don’t assume your child is just being difficult for funsies. And please don’t force them to eat something they say makes them feel sick. There’s probably a valid reason, and it warrants investigation rather just assuming your kid exists to tick you off.