It’s a humane procedure called tipping. When a feral cat is captured, vaccinated, neutered and released back into the wild, the vet removes the tip of the ear so that anyone who sees the cat thereafter will easily know that it has already been fixed.

Different and morally weaker, which somehow makes them more deserving of such a fate

Your shelter cat updates are the reason I stop by here every SNS. I look forward to it every week. 32 cat pics is just right. Pay no mind to the idiot who can’t just scroll past stuff they aren’t interested in. Keep the fuzzbutts coming!

is Lydia missing part of her left ear, or is it just folded back in the photo? i hope it is the latter (the former would be ok if it comes with a story of her being a badass)

Absolutely--this can literally happen to anyone. When we blame addicts, the poor, the mentally ill, we are trying very hard to pretend that they are somehow different and we are safe.  HA.

“people in society believe addiction is the addict’s fault, and they don’t really give a shit if an addict dies”

WHY the FUCK would you suspend a student with drug issues? “Hey, you have a potentially serious problem, let’s keep you OUT of a theoretically structured and supportive environment.” 

They were my students when they were in high school. I usually refer to kids as students rather than former students. I know that designation creates confusion, but I look at it like this: once they've been in the class with me, they're forever my students, and I am forever their teacher. 

Pay that troll no mind, Krispy. Your posts and pics help several cats either find their forever homes or several humans find a moment of joy every week. 

I am sorry you feel this way.

I might die from that kitten yelling at you.  💞💞

Ember looks like Charlotte Rampling. I love her mild haughtiness.

It’s a parody of the modern American workplace.

I’ll I see is “ME ME ME” from your completely idiotic comment. I’m asking people to be reasonable, you’re telling me to go fuck myself. I would love to see you make that argument to me in person.

Boo-hoo, a stranger on the internet couldn’t use their brain like a civilized human to come up with a reasonable retort to my comment, and instead called me a bad name. Waaahhh.

6'3" is not abnormal. The problem is not over-sized people, it’s under-sized seats.

These are the same assholes who merge onto the highway and immediately head to the leftmost lane even if they are not passing anybody.

Agreed, what the hell is wrong with taking shoes off as long as your feet are clean and don’t smell? People across the world take their shoes off and are in socks when they walk into people’s homes, so what’s wrong with doing it on a plane that you’re stuck on for untold hours? Sorry if the sight of socks offends you,…

I would pick up their shoes and hand them off to a flight attendant. That’s your storage area, so I’d just let the attendant know that they aren’t yours, so they probably need to go to lost and found.

I never understood the appeal of Necco wafers. Near as I could ever tell, their flavors were clove, menthol, tobacco, wormwood, and arsenic.