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What I woke up to this morning... https://photos.app.goo.gl/jSGopVbydUrr1QmB7

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My husband changed my ring tone on my cell phone so I would be quicker to answer. I keep the cell phone in my back pack where I don't usually hear it ring and can't easily get to it to answer. My husband decided that he would make it harder to ignore. He recorded his voice, "Diana answer the phone! Diana answer the phone! MEOW!" He ended up with a cat meow sounding anguished. By the time I heard this final "scream" I usually could get to the phone and answer it. So one evening as I came home I heard the end of my cell phone message, "MEOW! MEOW!" I tried to check my cell phone, but the sounds were coming from one of the abandoned cats in our building's parking lot hiding under the car and begging for food. I think this is so funny. My husband has passed away. Mr. Cat--are you my reincarnated husband?

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I love cats. So entertaining

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Or in the words of pinky the cat: Do Not Comply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZW3_5Gr4s

(make sure to watch until the end, and understand that someone that really has the back on the wall is way more motivated than a woke bureaucrat or a paid journashill)

The scream at the end of the guy had me in tears x)

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Oh my! Quite the adoption promotion video! 😂😂😂

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I ain't no "cat of the week"!

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His scream sounds exactly like the guy being eaten by the shark in Jaws.

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SHARED 😂

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LOL. We were away one year after Christmas and a friend was coming in to feed the cats. The kitties knocked over the tree setting off the motion detector/alarm resulting in police false alarm call. Another year, cat-sitter stayed here and kitties knocked over the tree setting off the motion detector resulting in police false alarm call. That year, we had to pay for police call (2nd false alarm that year). We're 12-hours in with the tree up this year, and so far so good.

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Love cats 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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I sit in my favorite chair and our black cat thinks it’s cool to jump up and play with the tree. Then the calico jumps up and plays with the black cat. So I get up and rattle the treat dish, and they leave the tree until I sit down again. One year it was me that tipped the tree over not the cat!

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I've been that drunk!

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Too funny. It wasn’t from drinking. The tree is on a table that tips and I leaned on the table and over it went. Same table flipped my mother’s fancy china set when a neighbor girl leaned on it and the china broke. Ugh.

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May I suggest a more stable table? 😉😜😀

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Thanks! I just needed a peg. It’s an antique.

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When we were little (in the days of incandescent tree lights) my dad wired the tree to the ceiling so we nor the kitteh could pull it over

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You post the best cat photos. Love it!

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I forwarded your email to one of my vaccinated friends who has explicitly forbidden me to ever talk about vaccines to her because she is fully vaccinated and doesn't need any anti-vaxx horse medicine or worthless supplements. I thought my anti-vaxx sentiments would ruin our friendship. But no. As long as I share animal videos and avoid vaccines and politics we are pretty much safe to enjoy each other in other ways. She LOVED your recent post. She did not know she was loving an anti-vax bad cat! But I did. See? You are not unlovable. What you said is true: "you like to pretend that you don’t like bad cats, but deep down, you know you do…" I really enjoyed that she is loving an anti-vax cat--if she only knew. But you and I know. That is enough. (For now) :)

(NOTE I started being only opposed to mRNA vaccines, but I'm fully anti-vaxx now. I do believe it's better for everyone not to get vaccinated with anything except maybe rabies, but I wouldn't impose anti-vax mandates. I think the best way to support public health is to let doctors and patients decide what they think is best. Not rely on pharmaceutical companies and eugenicists. It is incorrect to lump anti mRNA criticism with all vaccine criticism, but that seems to be the label to discredit the people who don't accept Covid vaccination.)

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What's the case for rabies? That getting bitten bypasses the normal ingestion route?

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Do you mean why get vaccinated for Rabies? Maybe this is vaccination propaganda, but I heard that rabies is 100% fatal after being bitten unless you receive rabies vaccine which is described as incredibly painful. And you need several injections. I believed that people could only get rabies by getting bitten by an infected animal. Check out this link: https://www.cdc.gov/rabiesandkids/people.html. It seems it's spread through saliva--NOT air not blood. Look it up in Wikipedia. They claim that only vaccines can save us. But you don't need to get vaccinated unless you are bitten and the animal tests positive for rabies. There is no normal ingestion route for catching rabies or getting vaccinated. You get 7? vaccinations over 14 days.

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Sheesh. I wonder what that one is responsible for. Diabetes maybe?

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https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/specific_groups/hcp/adverse_reaction.html

Once initiated, rabies prophylaxis should not be interrupted or discontinued because of local or mild systemic adverse reactions to rabies vaccine. Usually, such reactions can be successfully managed with anti-inflammatory and antipyretic agents, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen.

When a person with a history of serious hypersensitivity to rabies vaccine must be revaccinated, antihistamines can be administered. Epinephrine should be readily available to counteract anaphylactic reactions, and the person should be observed carefully immediately after vaccination.

Although serious systemic, anaphylactic, or neuroparalytic reactions are rare during and after the administration of rabies vaccines, such reactions pose a serious dilemma for the patient and the attending physician. A patient’s risk of acquiring rabies must be carefully considered before deciding to discontinue vaccination. Advice and assistance on the management of serious adverse reactions for persons receiving rabies vaccines may be sought from the state or local health department or CDC.

DILEMMA: Death by rabies or death by vaccine?

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Vaccines are unsupportable if you believe Terrain theory over Germ (or virus) theory. I mean it's possible I could talked around if it was going straight into the blood (mosquitoes maybe) but saliva? But then how does that work, humans have been hanging around with dogs for eons. Dogs would not gain by killing the host.

Vet gives dog rabies, dog gives human rabies thesis?

Also vir is Latin for poison. And 'us' a rather derogatory Ancient Greek word for the masses.

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No animal can give us rabies unless it is infected. Dogs can lick us all the time. They don't usually have rabies unless they have been bitten and infected by another animal. Rabies is rare. It's not dogs that lose or gain by killing the host. It's the rabies virus that loses by killing. In the case of rabies, I guess it survives because animals can bite another animal before they die. Dogs get it from other wild animals. Raccoons are most likely to get rabies. It doesn't matter how you are infected (blood, saliva, air). Once you are infected, you need to consider how you will be treated. Your treatment depends on the infection. Rabies is very slow to develop and sometimes people don't know they have it until it gives neurological symptoms. That may be a month or more after the start of the infection. Vet does NOT give dog rabies. If a dog gives human rabies, it's usually an abandoned dog not a pet.

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And the Romans more often than not had their tombstones inscribed in Greek rather than Latin.

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Better lawyer up, kitty!

My first dog knocked over our tree. Twice in his first Christmas post-adoption. After that he remembered it wasn't a pine-scented burglar. Second dog just kinda gave it side-eye.

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We used to have a tree every year, My cornish rex kitties always loved it. Only one chewed on the branches and I just sprayed a little bit of bitter spray on

They always sat under the tree, like it was their tree.

Since Pierro died in 2016.... I can not recover from that loss.

I have Miles and Princess now, but Princess is wild and crazy. She knocks over everything

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Our cats have always sat under our *artificial* tree. Only one ever climbed it along the inside. A photo of my 19 year old soul mate sitting under the tree is placed there every year. She died in 2004, and no, you never recover. In November of 2019, our black cat who climbed the tree was diagnosed with lymphoma. We were given 3 more weeks together. We had almost 3 months but no tree went up that year or the next. Last Sunday I had a vague idea to set it up so I took advantage of it. It took all afternoon and I kept saying, "yeah, this is why I've not done this for 2 years!"

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Do what I did this past year..un-decorate the tree after the Holidays and leave it up! (Mine is is an artificial tree with lights, that is tall & slim and tucks into a corner of my small living room.)

During the year I often turn on the lights at night when I’m watching TV…it gives the room a warm glow!

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It messes up the room though bc I have to move furniture out to accommodate it. Our son used to set it up the day after Thanksgiving and our deadline for taking it down was valentine's day! 😂 He has his own place now and I keep trying to get him to set ours up, but no go. He has his own tree of course and leaves it up as long as he wants!

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I do the same bc it gets dark at 4:30 pm. It is a mood lifter.

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❤️

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My cats did this once many years ago, so we secured future trees with ropes. :)

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If a tree falls in Schrödinger's living room and there's only his cat around, does it ever hit the ground?

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AccordIng to Zeno's Interpretation it would stand at 45°.

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🤣🤣 My cats always did sh1t like this.

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hahahahahahaha! a close relative of my cat, clearly!

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Where were the cats a few years ago? I saw none for about two weeks or so.

Off in the other dimension dreaming up plans?

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Wonderful metaphor . . . .

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That was entertainment.

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lol, Déjà vu ~ How did you get a picture of my cat?

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An "attractive nuisance." They brought this on themselves.

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lol, was just calling someone out on stocktwits who was speculating what THEY were about to do!

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