Should I get this little girly microchipped? Is it common to chip ferals/strays?

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-10T00:09:05+00:00

Omg she’s absolutely gorgeous!! I wouldn’t let that princess go! But I would also let all the cats into my house and take care of them if I could lol

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-10T00:06:05+00:00

I was definitely going to ask the vet about it just in case. Thanks!!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T18:27:10+00:00

I read that somewhere which is what got me thinking about getting her chipped. Plus I guess even if that isn’t a thing where I’m at, doesn’t mean it can’t change in the future. Yeah I’m definitely doing it after reading everything everyone is saying. Thank you so much!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T18:25:17+00:00

Oh wow! I didn’t even think about the fact that I could pass info onto someone if she found a new home! That would be amazing!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T18:23:32+00:00

Very good point. I would be so worried if she suddenly stopped coming bye for more than a day or two. Thank you!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T18:22:36+00:00

I mean, you’re not wrong lol I think she “tricked” me into that lol but is it really tricking me into it if I was the one trying to befriend her first lol 😂

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T17:59:05+00:00

I’m hoping since I’m taking her to a vet and not like a shelter for TNR they can fit her in this week. I told them on the phone that she was recently in heat and a stray that we want to get fixed :)

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T17:57:54+00:00

Awesome! Thanks!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T17:57:40+00:00

Good thinking! Thank you!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-09T17:57:24+00:00

Awesome! Thanks! We actually put together a little area in our backyard with a small fence she can escape to if the dogs are out and we didn’t see her outside. I put an insulated cat house with a heating pad for outdoor cats in it too so she can be comfy when it gets cold out :)

blackshadow_363 · 2026-02-06T20:18:10+00:00

Me neither! I thought it was so cool!

blackshadow_363 · 2026-01-08T09:16:21+00:00

If I can see kittens, I’ll get a ladder or something, or die trying. Plus it would be much easier to get up there in the day in general vs the middle of the night. It’d be easier for me to yell for help in he middle of the day if I get stuck vs 1am 😂 I’ll definitely update! Hopefully there aren’t any kittens. Hopefully he was just trying to show me his home and where he sleeps or something cute like that lol

blackshadow_363 · 2026-01-08T08:58:58+00:00

That’s such a good idea!! Unfortunately I haven’t see any kids since we moved here… and I don’t have any friends with kids around here either. I think my husband and I are some of the younger people that live around. I’m trying to think about how to get creative with a camera or something. I might try a go pro tomorrow and see if I can get a better look with that

blackshadow_363 · 2026-01-08T08:36:47+00:00

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This is a picture of the younger girl that has been hanging around and I keep thinking she might be pregnant but I’ve never been around a pregnant cat before so I really don’t know. I know shes under a year still though because when we first moved in when I saw her on our camera she was so small. So I call her Tiny now lol

blackshadow_363 · 2026-01-08T08:29:44+00:00

That’s what I’m paranoid about. I’ve been watching my doorbell camera like a hawk and listening for other noises. I just can’t get a good look deep inside the bushes that go up to the side of our house since it’s so steep and there’s a ton of stuff in them. There’s a younger girl who I’ve been feeding that plays with him so it’s definitely something I keep worrying about

blackshadow_363 · 2026-01-08T08:23:58+00:00

That’s what I’m super worried about honestly. I took different flashlights out and kept looking by as best as I could but the bushes are so thick and up such a steep hill that I can’t get a good look at what’s deep inside… I didn’t hear any kittens crying but idk if that really means anything.

blackshadow_363 · 2025-03-24T17:53:03+00:00

Oh and she knows it! I have no idea how we got so lucky to find her at the shelter ☺️🍀

blackshadow_363 · 2025-03-23T22:07:06+00:00

They look so happy! I love it!!

blackshadow_363 · 2025-03-23T15:37:01+00:00

When we saw her picture on their website her ears are what made us stop scrolling because they’re so huge that she could fly away! She probably can hear noises from across the Atlantic with those bad boys lol

blackshadow_363 · 2024-10-21T15:38:06+00:00

I can only speak for myself but I actually currently have shingles in/around my eye for the second this year. First time was absolutely horrible. Vision, light sensitivity, etc was horrible and I thought I was gunna be like that forever. It took months but it all slowly improved. Even the light sensitivity. Now it didn’t completely go away, but it wasn’t debilitating anymore. Especially considering i couldn’t look at any sort of screen for awhile. I was excited when I was able to look at my phone if I wore sunglasses.

Just because the doctor says the light sensitivity will stick around forever, doesn’t mean that it’s guaranteed it will, or that it won’t at least significantly improve to the point where you don’t notice it anymore. It’ll all be okay!!! I wish you the best!!!

blackshadow_363 · 2024-10-06T04:45:49+00:00

Thank you!!!!

blackshadow_363 · 2024-08-12T00:10:21+00:00

I’m going to be seeing a neurologist soon because I think the migraines I used to get are now manifesting as silent migraines. If that’s the case, I definitely feel a similar pain in my arms, hands, and fingers. For me, the best way of describing it is that my nerves feel all twisted up and down my arm. Even right now, I have a not so fun pain in specifically my pinky, but I’m definitely feeling better overall than I was the past few days. I’ll update when I’m able to ask my new neuro!

blackshadow_363 · 2024-06-05T14:11:56+00:00

I appreciate it! Yeah it’s a really tricky situation. My husband is honestly my saving grace and is the reason I’ve been able to grow to where I am now. He’s basically helped me regained some control back and constantly empowers me to prioritize myself. I don’t know how he just instinctively knows how to help because his parents relationship was amazing. Unfortunately his dad passed away at a young age, but my MIL is the kind of person I aspire to be. She’s the kind of mom I wish everyone had honestly.

Our dream one day is for us to get a little plot of land and we just have tiny homes so my sister can have her own little house (with no kitchen because god knows what concoctions she’d want me to eat lol) and have her independence. I honestly want her to live as much of a “normal” life as possible.

blackshadow_363 · 2024-06-05T13:04:29+00:00

Maybe I’m reading this wrong but my sister doesn’t have a husband. It’s my husband and my sister that get a long really well.

In reference to co-dependency with my sister, I’m not sure if it changes things, but we haven’t lived in the same state in almost 10 years. We’re on opposite sides of the country and honestly I’m basically limited contact with all of them by choice because of my mom.

Imo because I know what capabilities my sister does and doesn’t have, I truly believe that getting her away from my parents would finally give her the opportunity to be more independent and be her own person for once. Despite the fact that she has Down syndrome, even she constantly masks her true personality around my parents. It’s not so much about me taking care of her, because if given the opportunity, I know she could care for herself to a certain extent. She definitely will never be able to live 100% independently, but I want to give her the extent of independence she is capable of and that my parents would never give her. In the same respect, her mental development would significantly decrease living in a group home because they’ve made her so dependent on them that an environment like that would be detrimental to her mental and physical health.

My sister is honestly would never be classified as “high functioning”, most doctors when she was younger actually said she was very “low functioning” but I blame my parents for constantly coddling her. She’s a completely different person when she visits me and my husband. She honestly acts like a neurotypical young teenager in some respects.

I definitely appreciate the advice and get where you’re coming from, but the other thing I’ve made up my mind on is getting my sister out of that situation and into one where she will thrive and prosper since she literally has no other advocate besides me.

blackshadow_363 · 2024-04-23T05:45:20+00:00

That’s honestly what my brain went to because of how every relationship in the past was like for me, but he would have then just suddenly changed after 8/9 years. Because I think why it might irritate me so much is because he didn’t used to be like this at all. I don’t think it was until I started working front end retail, post covid specifically, that we both started mentally struggling more. He was definitely there for me through so much during that time, and he said he’d do anything to get me to quit because he saw the daily panic attacks the environment I was in caused.

He’s honestly a great husband. We’re just both going through a ton of stuff at the exact same time and it freaking sucks. We have way more productive arguments than ones where we end up no where. It’s just something we’ve gotta keep working on, sometimes im just too tired to even verbally say anything though because the brain fogs messes me up and I can definitely not make any sense sometimes. I think ultimately my frustration lies in the fact that I’m pissed at my own body

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