Archive for the ‘pets’ Category

this is not okay.

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Donate to your local rescues to help fund people who protect and rehabilitate animals from abuse. Some organizations like Champaign County Humane Society provide an outreach program that teaches little kids how to take care of dogs and cats to break the tradition of abuse. Here’s a couple I follow online or have been involved with at some point.

Delaware/ Pennsylvania/ West Virginia:
Lost and Found Dog Rescue http://www.lnfdogs.org/info/display?PageID=1347

Illinois:
Catsnap of Champaign www.catsnap.com
Champaign County Humane Society www.cuhumane.org
Jellystone Bark’s Rescue Rangers of Oswego http://www.adoptapet.com/adoption_rescue/79127.html

North Carolina:
Carolina Cares Bullies http://www.carebullies.org/adopting.html

Pennsylvania:
Animal Friends of Pittsburgh http://www.thinkingoutsidethecage.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Donate

Wyoming:
Rescue Rangers of Casper https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rescue-Rangers/256817539087

Why don’t people see dog breeds as just that: “dogs?”

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

They’re dogs, not some object that can be thrown away. They are living things that depend on the people around them to shape their lives, regardless of their breed. A dog breed is essentially like a human’s race: each animal/person is a unique individual to be judged as such. Whether they be a pom, a pit, a daschund, or a dobe, it’s a dog.

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

While I’m out and about, putting around on the bike, studying for the certification test, or in robot mode at work, I’ll start thinking about something that I want to post about. Subjects include my current joint issues with the impending cold weather, how I now eat less beige food due to the gluten-free diet, what I plan on doing with photo stuff, my motorcycle, where Altria is planning to get to next, etc. I even think out my paragraphs, what each will be about, and how I will go about interjecting lulz in my srs business. Then I go home to either 00J and/or fuzzy kitties and I immediately stop thinking about anything vexing.

fuzzy zzzs fuzzy eees

SOMETIMES IT IS ANNOYING TBH. Does this mean I’m old now? Either that or I’m addicted to reddit.

I’d really like www.haddadinkphotography.com to launch this week. I THINK IT’S HAPPENIN.

aCHOO

Friday, March 18th, 2011

(5:43:41 PM) MACHELLLE: sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
(5:43:52 PM) MACHELLLE: steph i want to be not allergic to cats.
(5:44:10 PM) SJ: hahahaha
(5:44:16 PM) SJ: i want you to not be allergic to them too
(5:44:26 PM) SJ: prretty much i want most peopel to not be allergic to them
(5:44:31 PM) SJ: is tom wooing you
(5:44:59 PM) MACHELLLE: YES
(5:45:04 PM) MACHELLLE: HE IS LIKE AN ORANGE CLOUD LION.
(5:45:21 PM) SJ: hahaha
(5:45:33 PM) SJ: he’s so DENSE i couldn’t believe he weighs so much!
(5:45:52 PM) MACHELLLE: AN ORANGE CLOUD LION FILLED WITH RAINNNNNN

Mural Completed

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Finny the Doo is completed! All fourteen feet of it. This mural totally brought me back to the painting vibe. Next up is a portrait drawing. Here’s hoping I still got the touch with charcoal!

I have my cheerleaders at my side… er, back. They got my back.

with the cats

Chinchilla taking the lid off a snack jar

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Fiona thinks she’s a singer

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

(1:36:55 PM) therunn: i’m glad they have their own youtube channel
(1:37:01 PM) therunn: the internet needs more cats

As I continue believing my cats are the cutest, funniest little fuzzballs to grace the earth, I finally got video of Fiona’s night warbles. I think I was in bed longer than she deemed appropriate this morning and turned up the volume. Unfortunately, you, too, will have to turn it up because my phone sucks ass at capturing sound.

The first night I moved into this place, she and JP took turns singing to the darkness, effectively scaring the shit out of me in an already strange place with strange sounds and possible ghosts.

I finally captured my cat’s squeaks on video

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

JP, my Himalayan rescue, can’t meow. He tries but you only hear the failed pushing of air when close enough to him. He does, however, possess a fantastic squeak. He used to only do it when I come home, but now he regularly squeaks when it’s time for brushing or the litter box is getting cleaned. I’ve seen him squeak at bugs he can’t reach as well as things in the yard through the window. He now takes to squeak singing at night, chiming in to Fiona’s already melodramatic night cries. Still working on getting a recording of that.

Apparently only female humans like the biebs

Friday, August 20th, 2010

The shelter had a kitty named Lil that looked this this kitty. She hated EVERYONE who cleaned her cage yet somehow passed the safer test. I ended up running into her new owners months after she was adopted, and she looooves men and hates all women. All the employees who worked with her were female as well as the volunteers. MYSTERY SOLVED.

fiona thinks my corgi is real

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

At the shelter I used to work at, they did “safer” tests, testing dogs and cats on their ability to interact with other people, live in a shelter environment, and (for dogs) interact with other dogs in a friendly manner. For dogs they were nervous about, they used a stuffed animal that was the size of a lab and looked like a “pointer,” similar to this toy. The dog stands in a dominant posture with a straight back and its head erect.

My corgi is in an alert position, but I don’t think he’s very domineering with his short stature. Fiona thinks otherwise, and JP doesn’t know what to think of him at all. Yaayyy puppies as presents!