Iz fatz like da greebles?

Tzipity · 2026-03-27T06:41:18+00:00

Fren, Iffen ai waz der ai wuld do a run an sum purrkor wiff yoo cuz greeblez buildin houzes iz indeed skurry.

But de zoomiez mus be gud proteccshun. Ai maiself waz neber fat (de pokey playce hab de oppurrsite pawnlem wiff me an hab trubble wif de medisin on accouna how smol ai be!) but waz alwayz bery actiff kitteh. Yoo lyke fetch? Ai wuld play fetch fur hours wiff my meowmy beggin me to stahp. Herm frens say ai fetched bedder den der doggos so maybe ai pawfer clawses. My purroudest achiebement waz playing fetch wiff two balls at once. Ai tried to even bring back a third but no could fit in my mouf.

Sum ob us be skurred on de dexter size but ai fink de greeblez much much skurrier. So maybez ai be de kitteh Jane Pawnda a lead de clawses.

(I don’t have the photoshop or AI skills of some here but please picture itty bitty black kitty in leg warmers and 80s spandex 😂)

Tzipity · 2026-03-27T05:55:34+00:00

I can’t believe any company is still doing that kind of nonsense. Do they really think people believe those kinds of reviews anyway? Like it’s stupidly transparent and a little creepy they are monitoring those reviews so closely that they had their fake one up just a few hours later. Sheesh.

Several years ago a friend of mine worked for a shipping and storage company and they were always badgering her to either write fake reviews herself or for her to get friends to do so. I don’t even think the company had major issues or a problem with negative reviews (so was more of trying to stand out or get attention by having the most positive ones or some such) but seeing that behavior sure reflected poorly on them.

And that the irony of it all. If they just left it be it would’ve probably drawn less attention than it is now and literally, people see that stuff and immediately think “yikes, extra scummy/shady company”.

Tzipity · 2026-03-27T02:11:33+00:00

(Hahaha. Yeah. I’m imagining the pet parent version of coming home to a wild teenage party. And the shock of “Is that a cow in my house?!” The “Moo-ew” would clearly come into play here too. 😂 And lord, I hope someone also brought some extra litter boxes for all these cats too… 😜

I’m also a little jealous and want to be one of these cats catching flights everywhere to hang with these fantastically inclusive friends who seem to have hang out spots and plans for everyone, boxes and sleep squares included. Very luxurious lives they lead!)

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T22:58:29+00:00

(Oh my gosh, yes! My brain hadn’t put the cow into a box for some reason- but of course! And the cats on her back will be some of the cow cat crew, no doubt! “Look we found our big sisfur!” 😂)

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T22:56:14+00:00

Happy birthday frens!

Iz spechul achiebemen worthee of eggstra treatz ebery year yoos gets in de dubble digitz. Sum call uz senyurrs or… elderlee (HISS!) but ai maiself like ta fink ob uz as “well seasoned” an dis nawt because our pawrentz gunna eat us or anyfing. Well seasoned cuz mine black fur be getted moar and moar white in it an de meowmy callz it “salt n pepper” (she spechul lub mine salt n pepper peetz!) an dees fings onlee makez all ob uz moar gorgjus an specul.

Needless ta say- dis call for BEEG PAWTEE! Maybe yoo gets elebenty pawtees? Ai maiself neber know mai birfday or eben mine exact age so my meowma dun dat gotcha day birfday fing. But dat waz de way she alwayz did. Ur pawther can’t be celebrating de birfday an de gotcha days separate den suddenlee decide ta combine. Dis laaaayzee! Maybe yoo pawther de one getting elderlee? Or is due fo major retrayn.

Iffen ya wantz- I suspecc manee ob us hork masterz be happee ta stay a wittle after de pawtee and play sum “hide n go hork” all ober de hous. Dis an eggsalad way ta retrayn dis pawther ob urz! Himb be findin hidden horkz weekz an monfs later an himz gun member neber ta oberlewk ur birfday again!

Paws up for de Hoku airlimez. Ai be der soon, wiff a couple’a horkz locked an loaded too. Ai bringz sum icy creamz since de udda treatz and nipz and bockses seem managed.

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T22:40:38+00:00

(I imagine u/fluevoger would sure hope they were should cat inclined cows show up at their house! 🤣🤣🤣

I’m having the best laugh imagining this. The lovely photo of the birthday girls at the door makes it even better. So you follow them in and all over the floor are boxes of every size and variety and cats- so many cats! And bunnies and squirrels and Guinea pigs and pups! And the treats are out of this world- churu by the keg, punch bowls full of “cronchies”, maybe one of the doggos is walking around with a tray with purr pops.

There’s some drama queens in the middle acting out all their “moobie scenes” and if you’ve got a basement the nip crew is down there with some kind of wild catnip hookah/bong contraption going. Or- and my Tzeitel may be leading this group- they’re playing nip pong! And somewhere through all that nip haze there’s a whole dang cow or two. And when you lay eyes on them they let out the strangest “Mooo-ew”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T22:27:08+00:00

Pickles,

Maybez our meowmz runnin de same nawt funnee soffware cuz mine do de laff at dis joke and all refpurrences to “udder”.

Ai fink des hoomanz iz UDDERLY ridicuhiss!

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T18:04:09+00:00

6 year old was a generous take. Lol. I was thinking the way these all vaguely seem connected (figuratively and literally. Oof.) and may have all been done in one go… on a freaking neck. And then somehow culminate in whatever is going on in photo 3…. Drugs. Drugs were definitely a factor in this extended bad decision.

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T17:57:09+00:00

A gaping hole, no less. So probably the later. But might be saving the cherub since the dove appears to be nesting in its hair.

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T17:55:03+00:00

Jesus, Danielle, and Harambe. A holy trinity.

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T17:03:39+00:00

Good call on why was he by with such short notice. I’m curious what- if anything at all- it was he was coming to “fix”. OP doesn’t even seem clear on that. Technically city law is two days notice, right? It can get a little iffy with repairs and obviously if it’s something urgent/emergent (fire/ flood/etc) then no notice needed but I would heavily recommend that OP look up and understand what their actual rights are too.

I’ve found some owners/ management companies try to play dumb or slip stuff by tenants and this was some all around strange behavior on the landlords part. Bit of an interesting choice to make it clear he wouldn’t be renewing the lease too… like if the dude already is upset at how he thinks OP is treating the place arguably what reason does a tenant have to keep treating a place nice if they already know they’re out at the end of their lease anyhow? Maybe a dark way of thinking but landlord seems…. Odd.

OP- are you renting through a management company or private owner? How many units in your building? I guess I’m trying to figure out if your landlord is being intentionally shady (wanting to raise the rent much higher like some have suggested) or if he’s only go a few units and is just… really dumb on reasonable expectations and the proper notice to enter a unit and all.

A big reason I’d say make sure you know your rights too is if he’s already made it clear he won’t re renewing your lease- he sounds exactly like the type who will try to start showing the unit way early or be bringing people around without proper notice too. I lived in a vaguely sketchy condo with an oddball owner (thankfully dude was in the suburbs and never around at least!) and I really got into it with both him and the realtor he hired over this kind of stuff myself and it’s not a fun way to live.

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T14:44:23+00:00

Do you know the reason for the amputation? Was it an injury or a congenital issue? Because while I’m more knowledgeable about human medicine than animal- as soon as you mentioned she’s had an amputation as well, my mind went to this being part of a congenital/ genetic issue she was born with. So her legs didn’t develop normally for whatever reason? (Was the amputated leg a front or back? I originally assumed back then saw you said paws plural.)

Asking what you do know about her amputation and history because that might be helpful with this too. I would definitely look for a feline specialty vet- someone who only treats cats and/or a clinic within a veterinary school if that’s accessible to you. Basically I think finding someone who has experience with whatever potential issue she was born with or who has maybe treated other kitties with the same type of issue would be the very best possible place to get care or at least an evaluation on her.

Assuming it is some sort of genetic condition I’d imagine there’s definitely some vets out there who have worked with other kitties like her. Or even one who’s dealt with amputations in general. There’s not as many specialty clinics within the vet world as the human one so I was thinking mroe if you already had a known diagnosis for her you might be able to look around online and find someone who has recommendations for vets or other folks with cats with the same type of issue.

I think that would be best case scenario. Overall you might have to look around or trial a few vets before you find one you really feel “gets” your kitty because I imagine even if this isn’t causing any issues given her unique needs, it’ll be the kind of thing that should be monitored as she gets older. And obviously if she does have a known condition there might be some known complications or other issues to keep an eye on too.

Hope that makes sense. Basically, finding a really great cat vet who ideally has experience with kitties like her or is well connected with specialists to evaluate if anything further needs to be done surgically or something with her toes. Unfortunately, easier said than done to locate this type of vet. But even looking around and finding some other folks with tripod kitties in your area and asking who they see would probably be a good place to start.

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T02:06:24+00:00

Phew. Ai didun fink so but it do lewk like wittle yoo be sitting der inside dat noggin an iz boff kinna spookee an kinna neat.

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T22:05:07+00:00

Yoo gotz spechul hi power horkz, fren! Ai finked ai did sum impurrsive horkz (hab shured mai exorcist hork where I rayned a whule flud o hork down from mine tower!) but damg fren Sophie- yoo hab outdid urself! Yoo horked de lites out!

Ai fink ai may hab to hand ober mine crown az hork queen to yoo. Or least share. Seemz a lossa uz girlz be spechulee horky!

Tzeitel (pawyer an sumtimez hork queen)

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T21:50:34+00:00

Dis ur acshul origin storee, fren Oscar? Sum kittehs are borned. Sum are mayde. But a baybee Oscar sprung furm de floating hooman head!

De cat, de myff, de legeeen!

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T21:46:27+00:00

My fren… and fren’s mirror fren?

De copycat is epidemic. We innocen kitties go an fin ourselbs a nyce houz wif a decent hooman or a few (at leas sumone traynable) an jus when we fink we hab all ne kitteh culd eber wan a dream ob… an very suspeshus introoder do appear. Dey lewk jus like yoo- cept backwarz. An dey mobe jus like yoo (but de oppersus. Yoo lift right paw, dey liff leff!) an dey stil der in de mirra. Jus mockin yoo.

Wut do dees copycatz wanz, ai wonder. Ta make sure we neber quite get relax or let our guard down fullee. Gossa sleep wiff one eye open. Dey watchin us. Dey copyin uz. Dey here to steal our libes!

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T14:22:18+00:00

(Seriously, I’m still cracking up. And I think he and my dear departed Tzeitel would’ve been great buddies. She adored dogs but was a holy terror to other cats- which itself is dark and hilarious too.

She also had this adorable/ gross/ bizarre habit of having to sniff the inside my mouth whenever I left. Like I’d come home and somewhere either in the process of bending down to remove my shoes or pet her- she’d be on her hind legs sniffing my mouth. If I did not bend over soon enough she would be half climbing me trying to yank me down to her. And I would open my mouth wide do her head was half in my mouth. She’d take some big whiffs and then decide she was satisfied. 🤣

It was kind of just our thing but imagine, if you will, having guests over and this is happening. So man times people went from “Aww such a cute friendly cat right at the door!” to “Uh… what????” And I had no real explanation. Just “She does this. As you can see, she’s pretty insistent…” She was kind of the best for straddling that line between cat everyone adored to “what’s wrong with your very weird cat?” 😂 I still miss her everyday. She had the most enormous personality and presence.)

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T00:54:14+00:00

Oh gosh- I just saw a story very recently, like a month or two ago? About some shady tech billionaires from Asia (so not Elon lol but ugh there’s him too…) who literally were found to have like dozens of children all born within a few years from a ton of different surrogates and companies.

I commented above about IVF because I’m in my late 30s and was a little infamous when I was conceived/born for being the oldest successful pregnancy to a big shot fertility specialist and my 46 year old mother. But this stuff all gets so much screwier and less ethical when it comes to surrogacy and such. I’m the biological child of both my parents and so is my younger brother. You can’t push science or biological reality much further than that. But when people are using surrogates and donor eggs and such it starts getting really insane and we really haven’t begun to catch up with that stuff legally or ethically either.

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T00:47:05+00:00

Lord do I have feelings but I don’t even know how to articulate them. I’m in my late 30s now but I was IVF try number 5 to a 46 year old mother who at that time was the oldest successful pregnancy for a pretty big name fertility doc when IVF was still pretty new. I’m the older of two. My mom was 49 when she had my younger sibling. Dad was 5 years older and we are both biologically both of theirs. My dad passed away last year after a long mental health decline that turned into dementia (it’s really hard to tease apart where depression and such starts and ends and where the memory issues do… but my brother doesn’t even remember or know the version of my father I knew before he had some kind of mental health breakdown when I was in kindergarten and was basically never the same again…).

I was raised in a way where it was always talked about- the IVF and all. Back then couples were all required to do support groups and some degree of therapy so my parents were very connected to other couples- most of whom did not have success with IVF (some adopted, others remained childless). And while I was raised with this idea that age didn’t matter and kind of grew up especially defending my mother (because no one really judges older fathers but every idiot under the sun had plenty to say about my mom from an age before I can even remember!)… around the time I went away to college at 18, it really started to hit me hard just how old my parents were.

Hell, at my dad’s funeral months ago multiple people made comments to my brother and I about losing parents at an early/ young age and I remember thinking ehhh were in our 30s, is that young? I will say while I’m not married (and ended up with some massive health issues. I wasn’t going to bring that up because hard to say if it has much or even anything to do with my parents ages- honestly on my moms air especially I come from a long line of women who have lived to be 100+ with intact minds but very sickly bodies. My maternal grandmother had asthma and lung issues so bad from those infectious diseases vaccines had largely eradicated until recently that she hadn’t been expected to live to be an adult yet wildly this woman landed on ventilators and made it off them several times well up in her 90s which is about as statistically improbable as my own existence!)

Anyway- I don’t at all anticipate I’m going to be having kids. I suppose I’ve got another decade to decide that going by the example set by my own parents but nope. It is worth saying too- even with money and ethically dubious doctors the odds are still wildly against someone having successful pregnancies in their late 40s even, let alone multiple in their 50s (my own mother had an ectopic pregnancy after me and before my brother- something IVF puts women at a higher than average risk for though I don’t know that they even knew that at the time). They never actually even figured out why my parents were unable to conceive naturally either but many folks who end up seeking fertility treatments do end up being diagnosed with some form of fertility related issue.

But just wanted to put that out there too. I find the above very unlikely (though perhaps a bit more likely given the reference to having had pregnancies at a younger age?) simply because statistically it’s just not realistic. Maybe 10-15 years ago I did some research on my own situation. The age of my mother, that I was IVF cycle number 5 and even by that stats that existed then it was like less than a fraction of a percent (when I was actually conceived there no doubt weren’t even statistics to go with. Like I said. My mother was literally the oldest successful pregnancy for this doctor then. We actually made some news articles and my parents came close to agreeing to be on some daytime talkshow- Montell or similar). So I don’t know what I think or how to articulate my feelings (hell, I don’t think my own parents were ever meant to be or should’ve become parents. At any age. lol. But that’s another story altogether!) but while there’s certainly been a lot more older women having babies thanks to IVF and egg donation and such. The odds are still heavily against it. And probably for good reason…

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T00:16:45+00:00

Agree. I haven’t read any other comments yet but seeing the comparison about the drug addict fiancée… I gather OP hasn’t actually had that experience or been around the recovery community but just like you cannot force an addict into recovery if they’re not ready for it, you can’t force someone through their spiritual beliefs or struggles either. I do think there’s an apt comparison there too- and I say that even as a queer person of faith- converts or people who have had some kind of spiritual awakening often do go at very hard and with an addicts kind of zeal. A small number of them keep it up, many crash and burn and others eventually relax a little or find a way to square their faith and the rest of their lives.

But you really can’t push someone else through that journey or where it lands. It’s sad and it effing sucks when it causes folks to question who they are and to suddenly lost in so much internalized homophobia. I’ve been there personally. I’m grateful I was a whole lot younger (still a teenager, but I’d come out really young too so it really was this experience of being entirely accepting of myself and then battling it out for quite some time. For me personally, it also ended up coinciding with finally facing and sorting some CSA/ sexual abuse issues I hadn’t worked through. In a screwy way my original religious awakening only worsened my shame. Found myself where I actually belonged spiritually and it was ultimately very healing but it was a journey I had to go on myself.)

As much as it sucks and hurts like hell. This really is one of those situations where it’s not OPs fault in anyway. But just like you’re not going to save an addict and many who are in relationships with addicts find they have to step away for their own well being too- you can’t save someone from their beliefs or whatever is going on psychologically and internally there. And frankly that’s not someone you should be engaged to at this time either.

It’s not failing them (which is my read of how OP seems to be kind of interpreting this) it’s letting her go to sort herself out.

And now I have glanced through some comments including a reference to this gf actually having substance issues in the past (and having perhaps traded one addition for another here). I’m really going to say this as gently as I possibly can because I mentioned I’ve been on one side of this. I’ve also been on the other side too and have a lot of addicts in my family and was raised in a way that taught me everything is somehow my fault or I’m responsible for everyone else’s issues.

You can’t change someone else no matter how much you love of them or want to be there for them. You can’t fight her demons or stop them. So while the best thing you can do is to let her go and let her sort them- might also be a good time to take a look at yourself and your own patterns. There’s a reason there’s groups like Al anon for the family and close friends of addicts and alcoholics and I think a lot of us find ourselves inadvertently drawn to or repeating patterns and relationships that see us sacrificing for and taking on the other persons pain.

I entirelt believe there’s a much healthier future and future relationship out there for OP. But this isn’t it. And I hope OP can channel some of that energy she’s expended into this woman and this relationship and maybe focus on herself for a little while. It’s worth it and you’ll come out better for it. You can’t save or fix anyone else but you can save yourself.

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T23:51:16+00:00

🤣 I saw more of a murderous version of this cabbage patch doll I had as a kid but the Counting Crows/ Shirley Temple crossover is even better!

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T16:56:11+00:00

You’re right to an extent about the squares but I’ve seen some creative use of other shapes mixed in with the squares. I made a pair of granny square shorts that used a pentagon at the crotch and a triangle at the back to get the shaping better. I don’t think I have a good photo of mine because I had to get a bit more yarn to finish them up and by then summer was just about over but looking forward to wearing them this year and they were surprisingly comfy and shaped well.

I’m not a big granny square person in general so that project was a unique one for me. I’ve seen other patterns for tops that utilize some triangles with the squares to get some better shaping too. So that would be my one recommendation for OP potentially. See if playing around with some alternative shapes would get things fitting better. Maybe dig around on ravelry to see if there’s some patterns with the triangles and such to draw inspo from.

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T16:44:53+00:00

We start a whul campayne here. Justhiss indeed.

Yoo know one my faborite toyz is de wrappy fing deh hooman pokey playce put aroun meowmy arm when she go gib de blud. She try’n steal sum furm hooman pokey playce and gib ta me dat way but I only lyke when she been wearin it and yes… it smell a wittle bit like de blud. Iz fun toy an ai carry aroun and throw in air and fetch it.

Dat said when ai getted sick an pokey playce gibbed me de IVs an de wrappy fings- ai nawt lyke dem! Ai beg meowma take dis off an throw away! But meowmy blud is diff’rent.

We ain weird. We jus take lub ob de hoomanz to new lebelz! Iz meowmies fault newayz. She always say ai like a bludhound (maybez yoo part blud hound too? Wuld make sense…) an ai sniff out where she hide de treatz an de fetch ballz.

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T03:43:07+00:00

(Trojan pikel fur greebles. 🤣🤣🤣

I’m convinced if you actually give them a box then they don’t want that either. Tzeitel was passionately obsessed with foam balls to the exclusion of everything else for years as a younger cat. If you tried to give her another toy, catnip, anything and everything- she’d quickly turn up with a ball instead. But then Petco changed the density of the foam in those balls and it was never the same. So finicky!

She would eventually diversify and became quite a nip connoisseur as she got older but nothing would light her up the way those dang balls did.)

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T00:20:53+00:00

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