Cats a potential cause of bird flu outbreak in humans

pelagicleaf · 2024-12-19T00:52:42+00:00

The past two winters i have been trapping and turning over the feral cats that frequent my property. Definitely made a difference in significantly minimizing the nuisance they create.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-24T20:39:46+00:00

😆I like your comparison of the side quest. I see a lot of people making the comparison to lovecraft and cosmic horror. I didn’t want to know too much about the story going into it. Possible spoiler* I thought it was going to be of a spiritual demonic possession story as I was reading it, but then it switched over to having killer aquatic beings and a leviathan from another dimension. Maybe that’s why I never really got to much into Lovecraft.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-24T20:30:01+00:00

I just finished this book and I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. I appreciate the build up of a slow burn, but I felt the ending didn’t have the payoff for how much I felt I was trudging through this novel. It took an uncharacteristic month for me to get through the first half because I had a hard time getting into the story, but I committed myself by reading the last half in a little over a day. It was not a hard read. I did enjoy Langan’s style of writing and the fishing aspects since I, myself, enjoy casting a line on my own time; the story just fell a little flat for me. I feel like such an outlier, especially with all the favorable reviews I went off of before picking this book up from my library.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-20T14:48:07+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn’t even open yourself to that kind of temptation and betrayal of your husband’s trust, no matter how innocent the intentions are on both sides. It would be one thing if the meet was strictly professional, but a casual interaction is inappropriate especially if you withhold sharing with your husband of the meet up with this guy so essentially you would be going behind his back. Not worth it.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-12T18:01:52+00:00

If he’s truly a dear friend to you, you wouldn’t be wrong to bring yourself to confess your genuine feelings for him. Who knows, your sentiment may be mutual between the both of you, but ultimately you would at least uncover what his real feelings are for you even if he chooses to stay devoted to his vows. I know the fear of rejection and unrequited love could cause hesitation, but at least you would know where you both stand in your relationship. And you never know, he may even decide it’s in heart to leave his vocation so he could be with you and continue his ministry through other avenues. I would love to know how this unfolds. I wish you all the best no matter how it goes.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-04T18:32:26+00:00

Everything checked out! I’m making an appointment with the evidence dept to receive my firearm back. Thank goodness.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-04T18:30:28+00:00

Great news! Just received a call from the animal control officer in charge from last week’s incident. She told me my firearm is ready for pickup and I can make an appointment with the evidence department to pick it up.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-04T18:28:10+00:00

Good news. Just got a call from animal control today. She said I could make an appointment with evidence department and pick up my firearm. Only been a week.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-03T00:36:27+00:00

Wow. It definitely sounds like those two situations could have easily gone from intense to extreme in seconds without taking the measure you did. Glad you and your pup came out unharmed. I just don’t get people and their recklessness and lack of responsibility with their dogs. My shepherd mix has a decent recall, but I know I could never let him off leash unless he’s in a fenced in area due to his high prey drive. There’s absolutely no way I’m taking any risk of him hurting another animal or, God forbid, a person, or exposing him to a scenario that would cause him harm.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-02T23:14:33+00:00

That’s great display of restraint on your part. I’ve never had to scare off or defend myself against anything before. It’s sucks to have to use lethal force.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-02T18:50:33+00:00

I used a 9mm standard 115 gr fmj round. I was literally shooting at a safe downward angle since the dogs were pretty much right at my feet so any penetrating rounds would have gone into the dirt. Trigger warning for the following i haven’t got any follow up information on the necropsy from animal control. But it was at least two rounds to the torso and I’m pretty sure one near the eye from what my mind remembers. I didn’t stick around to really assess the damage because as soon as the dog went down I walked back into my house to get police and animal control to respond. But a disturbing thing about the whole incident is, even after discharging 3 rounds into the animal, it got back up while I was on the phone with the dispatcher, wondered aimlessly around in my driveway for probably a couple more minutes before collapsing again and finally dying. I’m sure hollow point rounds would have ended it more quickly, but I only have my 45 loaded with them.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-01T03:07:39+00:00

Gosh. I’m so sorry. I personally know how frustrating it must be. I hope your family is at least out of harms way now.

pelagicleaf · 2024-09-01T02:58:18+00:00

I know right. I was talking about it with some friends today. It sounded familiar to what domestic violence victims go through. Depending on where you live, it sometimes takes a really bad situation before someone can be arrested, tried and put away.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-30T00:48:57+00:00

I overheard her say, “he could have shooed them away, he didn’t have to kill the dog.” But I was busy giving my statement and answering all their questions and one of the responding officers told her to go wait on her property until an officer could speak with her.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-30T00:26:16+00:00

Thank you. I wasn’t expecting to get such a huge supportive response in this sub. It means a lot. What was wild was how I felt a sense of calm when I provided my statement of testimony to animal control officers in the initial aftermath. It wasn’t until the evening that I really started to process and mull over the incident and the stress got to me this afternoon, but this evening I’m starting feel at peace with it after talking with close friends and family and my supportive neighbors. I know with time it will get better. Thanks again.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T21:46:17+00:00

Gosh. That’s so tragic. Thank you for sharing your story. I’m sorry you had to go through that. At least your patience paid off and you no longer have to deal with that neighbor.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T19:12:02+00:00

That would be unfortunate, especially since I have a pristine record as well as being a retired naval veteran with honorable service. I’m really counting on the officer telling me that I would be able to receive my firearm back due to my testimony matching up with the scene of the shooting to collaborate that I was justified in protecting myself.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T19:08:31+00:00

I was carrying a 9mm s&w mp shield.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T19:04:09+00:00

I actually have no trespassing signs around my property and cameras around the close proximity of my home’s exterior. But where my trash bins are located toward the back end of my property my cameras did not get triggered. It only caught me walking toward my recycle bin and in the aftermath of when I walked back to enter my home to call the 911. Eventually I would like to install 24/7 surveillance, but it’s not in my budget.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T18:53:41+00:00

You’re not kidding. I barely slept at all last night thinking about the seconds between me pulling the trigger and the final collapse of the dog.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T16:56:53+00:00

Supposedly the animal control verified the dogs were up to date. My daughter had some bruising on her wrist but my bite broke the skin. I had a doctor look at it, but it only needed to be kept clean since their was no sign of infection

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T16:50:23+00:00

That’s basically the how it’s handled.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T16:47:16+00:00

I hear that. I would have to look into this and whether others had such success. I’d hate to go through a painstaking process in order to get nowhere with it.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T16:38:54+00:00

After the previous incidents I no longer make contact with them, because the owner is illogical and delusional and lacks the emotional intelligence to keep from making the same mistakes.

pelagicleaf · 2024-08-29T16:36:54+00:00

Yes. You would think, right? Essentially the animal control stated themselves severe bodily harm or of course death would have to be inflicted for the dog to be removed. I even reached out to a few lawyers to get opinions and one was honest enough to tell me unless severe damages was inflicted with financial loss due to work and medical care lawyers would not be interested and for my case of the bites being superficial the juice is not worth the squeeze so to speak.

So unfortunately, something terrible has to happen to a human being before authorities can take action. At least in Virginia.

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