Please for the love of god

Do not declaw your cats. Today my friend who works at a local rescue received an application for a cat adoption. There’s a section for “Do you plan on declawing your new cat?” and the person checked the box for yes and wrote “We have expensive furniture.”

ok then don’t get a cat

sorry but if you’re going to mutilate your animal to avoid ruining your expensive furniture then a cat is not the animal you need

So many reasons not to do this

-it’s EXTREMELY painful. they don’t just remove the claw, they remove the TOE up to the first joint.

-if your cat escapes your home, they have absolutely ZERO way of defending or feeding themselves (not that your cat should be allowed outside for any reason but that’s a whole separate rant)

-your cat will be in pain while walking. because they removed that actual bone, your cat’s weight is now balanced on that second bone in their toe, not the first as was designed. Painful.

-Your cat may even lose the desire to be touched. literally we adopted this adolescent cat whose owners abandoned him because he was an escape artist. they had already declawed him and for the longest time he wouldn’t even let us get near his feet. like we couldn’t touch him if it wasn’t his head or the base of his tail.

do. not. declaw. your. cat.

Alternatively:

-buy little nail caps. they sell them at pet stores and they come in all sorts of cute colors

-buy furniture guards. figure out where your cat is most aggressive with scratching. buy a furniture guard and place a cat tree or scratching post nearby and use some catnip or treats to attract their attention to it

-literally just trim the nails with nail clippers. be careful not to quick them. if your cat starts fussing, take a break and come back later to avoid accidents due to them moving around

don’t declaw your cat

Declawing can actually kill a cat.

I mean think about this.

Declawing often results in behavorial problems such as toileting outside the litter box, aggression and anxious behaviors.

Chances are, an owner who cannot deal with those consequences of their cruelty either abandons the poor animal or takes it to a cat shelter that euthanizes “problem” animals that cannot be realistically rehomed due to said “problematic” behavior.

If the animal was abandoned, it cannot survive in the wild due to being declawed and rased as a domestic pet.

The fact that Cat declawing hasn’t been outlawed in every state in America is absolutely outrageous.

DO NOT. DECLAW. YOUR CATS.

It’s a pity they didn’t cast Ryan Reynolds as Jay Gatsby, since he’s both the green lantern and deadpool…

what the fuck kind of mutant ass pun bullshit is this

why doesn’t the x-mansion have wheelchair ramps

it’s literally his house

how does he get in and out of his own house

when your creators forget to give you a way to leave your own fucking house

Sounds like Sims…

He is capable of astral projection why would he ever leave? He can possess a Tibetan sherpa if he wants to feel the wind in his hair again - or feel his hair.

Yeah,but sometimes you just wanna get out and stretch your legs, you know?

>stretch your legs

he has a stupid fucking hover-chair that floats over stairs and these fucks are still griping about handicap accessibility

Me and my mutual followers that never seem to actually talk but we like and reblog each other’s posts:

Joe Biden disappears before inauguration day and Donald Trump’s term is plagued by the mysterious Phantom of the White House

Favorite ongoing comics: Saga

full offense but some of y’all just have to let people enjoy things

there’s a line between constructive criticism and actively shitting on someone’s fun

i’m such a “wait don’t get out of the car yet, this is a good song” type of person

Please say a prayer for everyone working retail this week

no but people who don’t like pacific rim because it wasn’t logical or scientifically accurate like

yes

we know

we don’t care

it is an homage to that genre. the original godzilla was a dude clearly in a rubber suit stomping cardboard tokyo and we were supposed to just accept that. pacific rim is a movie where a government council sat around like “what are we gonna do about these giant aliens coming from the ocean?”

“let’s build equally giant robots to punch them in the face”

“yes perfect” and like, that was of course the logical response because it’s friggin cool

mako didn’t use the sword because she had to wait until the perfect cinematic moment to do so

this movie is a love letter to painfully dumb action movies, but it is also one of the smartest movies i’ve ever seen. it’s just telling a story in a different way. instead of having audience vehicle main character explain everything to us, the movie shows you a world and asks you to accept its premise, and then lets you discover the story yourself.

this movie glorifies platonic love and familial bonds, this movie is about how we as people are stronger together, that it’s not one lone hero guy who can save the world, but the unity of all of us. it’s about the sheer unmitigated gall of humanity- “fuck this noise, we’re canceling the apocalypse!” it’s about the stupid dumb loud optimism that looks at the world and wants it to better, demands it be better, and does so with fists of steel.

it’s bombast and noise and i love it to bits so shut up and sit down and let me enjoy my giant robots punching giant monsters in the face okay?

this is such a good post…..such a good post….pacific rim stayed truer to the kaiju movie genre than 2014 godzilla did

Sometimes you just gotta know what kind of story you’re telling and Pacific Rim is an out-fucking-standing example of that

the year is 2017. a ufo lands in your backyard. out steps a group of aliens.

you gasp. “are you here to find our leader and kill him??”

the alien in front seems alarmed. “no, no, we all come in peace, why would you-”

“oh.” you sigh dejectedly. “i just- we have a really bad president. like really evil bad, i just thought-” you start to tear up.

the alien places a hand on your shoulder. “hey now, it’s okay, maybe you can tell us all about him and we’ll- we’ll see what we can do.”

hey listen, this is the funniest thing i’ve ever recorded in my entire life as someone who plays video games, it’s unedited and live and you have to see it

that’s almost too cruel almost

I had to do this once with Privateer II: The Darkening. It gained a bit when he said “I bet you didn’t play it through, I bet somebody just told you how…” and I was able to smile gently and say “God, possibly, since I wrote the game.” And plainly the Deity was with me that day, as I happened to be carrying docs from my UK agent (who’d done the deal) that showed not only that I was the writer, but the five-figure sum I had been paid. …It was a happy day for me. Not so much for him. I’d never had a referent for the word “slink” for a full grown male before. As in “slink away in utter dejection.” I smiled for at least three days without stopping. And am smiling now… I had completely forgotten about this.

Reblogging because “I beat the game” is fantastic, but “I wrote the damn thing” is even better.

I’m not a gamer but I’ll always reblog these.

Vicious. I love it.

#friendly bard approaches with a nice song

wow. 

No matter how many times I see this, I never fail to be impressed by that last sentence.

This is also why I’m against the banning of classic books. They’re samples of their time.

i think the best practical joke any video game pulled was Skyrim opening their game making you think the rebellion was this amazing noble cause against an oppressive government (as most fantasy universes frame it), but then you pretty much immediately find out that the stormcloaks are just racists with swords and the empire isn’t really all that terrible save your standard government problems. 

yall are gonna have to stop sending me messages about how im an imperial government of tamriel apologist

the greybeards aren’t any help either. or the blades. Skyrim is just a bunch of rednecks who hate each other.

THE DARK BROTHERHOOD WAS GOOD TO EVERYONE

they killed people for money

But at least they weren’t racist about it

I hate when akinator asks that one really specific question and you know he’s fucking got you

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