So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
And the serpent said to the LORD God, “Haha, says you.”
The whole notion of being docile around a police officer is an utterly terrifying norm. This isn’t the fucking hunger games. Citizens don’t need to be sweet to you, especially when you’re fucking wrong and they know their rights. They shouldn’t have to cower and fear and put their tails in between their thighs because the police academy has a tendency to accept shit heads who need to make up for their dominance complex.
Not to stomp all over this post or anything, but I got pulled over in Los Angeles in 2009. It was after a concert. The police tried to say I squealed my tires at them, which I definitely did not do, don’t know how to do, and besides the fact I had no music on and my windows rolled down so I absolutely knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did not do it. As a result, I was calm and relaxed, I wasn’t afraid. And it absolutely perplexed them, one of them even got angry and started to yell at me. They kept insisting I must be drunk, I kept saying, “Give me the test then,” but it seemed like that was the last thing they wanted to do. Until finally, one of them was getting so irate that his partner separated him from me, and gave me the test. Finally, I was dismissed, and the arguably nicer (though not by much) officer said to me, “Can I ask you a question? Why aren’t you afraid of us? I think my friend is upset because you’re not afraid of us and usually people are.” And I said, “If I haven’t done anything wrong, why should I be afraid?”
But after that, it sat with me, that they expected me to be afraid, and they wanted me to be afraid, and it sat with me that they completely made up a reason to pull me over. Since then actually, I’m much more afraid of cops than I ever was before that moment.
This is Orestes, my incredibly special fur child. He is in desperate need of a surgery to widen his urinary tract because of a chronic illness called struvite crystals. Even with an incredibly strict prescription diet to control his condition, the struvite crystals have grown and blocked his urinary tract 4 times in his short life.
He is going into the animal hospital for the 3rd time this week for struvite crystals blocking his urinary tract. He is refusing to eat or drink anything and is very lethargic. If left untreated, he will die.
Orestes has already been hospitalized for several days over night, had a catheter put in, been put on IV, been put on many medications, and has a prescription diet… but he’s not improving. He’s declining quickly.
Please help my cat and my family. We have no money left to afford any more treatment or the surgery. We have maxed out our credit cards trying to save him and our savings are depleted. The vet bills are climbing high and Orestes’ health is failing fast.
If you have anything to spare, even $5, it would be beyond appreciated.Anything at all will help us. We are desperate to save him and need any help we can get.
Thank you so much for anything you can give. If you cannot give, please at least pass this message along, reblog it, share it, etc.
Orestes is more than just a pet. He is our child, companion, and my literal life saver. Orestes has helped me through many bad nights and helps me tremendously with my PTSD. I and we cannot cope with losing him.
Again, thank you for any and all help. It is extremely appreciated.
TL;DR: Please help us out if you can. We’ve exhausted all of our funds and everything we have to save our feline, Orestes. We’re desperate at this point. Anything at all, even $5, will help us tremendously and is extremely appreciated. If you can’t donate, please at least share this so that other people can see. Thank you so very much. ❤
“I respect [insect/spider/thing] outdoors but IN MY HOME IT DESERVES DEATH” is one of the most common responses I see in regard to treating tiny creatures with respect and it’s just really sad people fall back on that so eagerly to excuse what’s still completely senseless destruction.
A bedbug or a tick or something else that wants your blood, sure, that makes sense, but a spider wandering into your house is still minding its own business hunting flies and crickets. It doesn’t know this big cave “belongs” to an animal that arbitrarily hates it for being there, and no, spiders do not just climb into your bed and bite you in your sleep.
The vast majority of flies, moths, beetles and anything else that small that ends up in your house actively *does not want* to be in such a place because it’s doomed to starve or dehydrate. Others are just trying to come in from the cold, and even if it’s your food they’re after, they don’t know that it’s “your” food. They especially don’t know that it upsets you for something 1/1000th your size to take a bite of that food; most other big animals don’t care, so they have no reason to be cautious of it.
People talk like it’s some kind of delinquency to be punished or something. It feels kinda more like reaching for a justification to enjoy a tiny moment of socially acceptable sadism.
Do what you really have to do to protect yourself from a deadly allergy or something but don’t be an asshole to something just because it made a wrong turn it can’t even comprehend.
Look at this face:
People honestly need to have more compassion for little ones who are visiting.
Education is a huge key to fixing this though! I’ve found that the more information about insects and arachnids you share with others, the more they start to understand that these are living creatures that deserve respect.
What about cockroaches? I’m mixed about them because they are quite cute.
A heavy population of roaches in a house can trigger asthma, and in theory, harbor some dangerous bacteria as their waste builds up. It’s usually only German cockroaches that get “severe” though (the tiny ones) while many other roaches have smaller, less intrusive populations. Larger species like American and Oriental roaches prefer moist conditions, so their presence is more often a symptom of rot or they, too, are just coming in from outside.
The risk of disease from roaches is pretty much highly exaggerated, as they can only pick up disease from their immediate environment. In a relatively clean house, the roaches will be fairly sanitary as well!
The really sad thing about “pest” cockroaches is that they evolved to be beneficial to us. They originally come from caves, where their scavenging habits would have made conditions comparatively cleaner and safer for other, larger animals living there. It’s only in the artificially sterile environment of a modern human house that they become a “contamination” themselves, and seldom even encounter the many predators that would have controlled them in a natural cave.
Most species of cockroach, though, just aren’t cave or house dwellers either way. A lot of people mistakenly think they’ve got a roach problem when they’re just seeing “forest” roaches who, once again, got lost like so many other creatures in the wrong place, and would rather be back outside!
Anyway here’s what I think is the most beautiful roach, Polyzosteria mitchelli:
Also note that roaches experience something a lot like friendship
If you have bugs (including if your indoor pets often get fleas), you most likely have cracks. If you have cracks, you’re wasting energy to heat/cool the outdoors. Keeping the bugs out will also drive down your energy bill. If you have a really bad bug problem, like we did, your energy bill may go down by fifty percent or more when you seal.
Go around your house and find where you see little gaps between your walls and ceiling or floor, and around doors and windows. You may see a lot of insects around these areas, or you may see spiders or spiderwebs. Seal these cracks, then sand and paint over the sealant.
(Hagrid was right: follow the spiders. Once you’ve sealed the bugs’ favorite gaps, the spiders will tell you where their next favorite gaps are.)
A few (well, in our case, a few dozen) cans of foam sealant can transform a leaky, bug-filled nightmare into a livable space.
There’s lots of slutspurting going on in the shops of Denmark and Sweden at sale time. It means ‘the final spurt’. It’s better than saying ‘end of sale’, isn’t it?
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