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Life update. I do mention Boo a bit, but I wouldn't throw the trigger warning on this. And there are cats at the end.

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Boo Kitty passed away today of respiratory failure, according to my former house mate, who took care of her after I left the US.

She was my father's cat when he passed away and moved in with my two cats and my housemate.

She was fourteen years old and an adorable cuddle bug.

I visited her whenever I came back to Madison. And now she won't be there. She was loved by all who knew her. And she will be remembered.

This is when I first met her, when I had flown back to Florida to go through my Father's things after he died. Boo Kitty was trapped inside the house; she was flea bitten and scrawny from not enough food, but.. that's still Boo.

At the time, my focus was to try to find her a home. I wasn't going to put her in a normal shelter, I wasn't going to let someone euthanize my father's loving cat. I couldn't abandon her.

I couldn't find a home for her, so she stayed with my mother until I had a friend pick her up and fly with her to my home in Madison.

And that... wasn't great for her, but far better than a shelter. She never really got along with my cats (she'd secretly tolerate Issun as long as I wasn't watching), so I had to rotate her in and out of her own bedroom. Around a year later, I had to start rotating all three of my cats out of their own dedicated rooms.

I had a room mate at the time, and we had discussed him taking Boo Kitty if he decided to move out, so she'd have a life without my other cats. After all, she'd been around him about as long as me.

Fast forward nine years and I was the one to move out, rather than him. He bought the house from me, so we decided to have Boo Kitty stay behind with him. I had told him if anything changed about his situation, he could contact me and I would absolutely pick her up to bring her back with me. I couldn't abandon her, but I knew that he could take just as good of care of her as I could. And my home here in Norway would be a worse place for her.

And now she's gone.

I knew this was likely to happen. She was an indoor/outdoor cat that primarily lived in a home with someone who smoked indoors and had worse problems with litter box cleaning than I do. She didn't have the healthiest years before she came to me and she was fourteen years old.

I fully believe my house mate did everything he could to keep her safe, healthy, and comfortable. I don't blame him in the slightest. And, logically, I know I made the right decisions regarding Boo.

Emotionally though? I blame myself, because of course I do. No, I likely couldn't have done anything about what happened. Maybe by working at home I would have been able to catch what was going on faster, but she could have also lived a shorter life due to the stress Issun and Zoan would be putting on her, or the fact that she'd be living in a home half the size.

I've been writing this post for around an hour now, mostly crying my eyes out because I lost one of my kitties after dealing with Zoan's medical issues that scared the crap out of me and made me think I was losing him.

I'm sorry, Boo Kitty. I love you. You were loved by many and you knew it.

That's the important part, right?

.. right?

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hhh....it's Thursday.....congrats on making it here

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I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.

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So fucked that little animals can have bad dreams what do you mean they have to deal with nightmares too

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If I'd have to guess, something weird is cached in the data for the app, and that corrupted data isn't getting removed on an uninstall anymore. Android or iOS?

(also, Kriatyrr's suggestion is a good one - ad blockers work in Firefox for Android for YouTube even)

Okay asking tumblr for help bc my googling hasn't resulted in answers....

Every month or so my Youtube app on my phone will give me a "something went wrong" error, and there is no solution to it except to remove the app and reinstall it. Until now. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and I'm getting the same error.

I need this app bc every podcast app has ads but most podcasts that post on Youtube omit their ads so I can listen to the podcast uninterrupted while I sleep. DO ANY OF YOU, TUMBLR FRIENDS, KNOW WHY THIS IS HAPPENING AND HOW I CAN RESOLVE IT?

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How do you expect me to be a productive member of society under these conditions

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My mom made TNT - dynamite salad. TNT stands for "Tuna Noodle and Tomato", for reference.

Extremely cheap and easy to produce large quantities. She originally made it for her nephews when she was living with her sister.

Hey what’s the weirdest, morally neutral parenting hack thing you do? For us our 2.5 year old refuses to take any kind of medicine so we mix her meds in sugar free root beer and call it magic root beer

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okay the non-american burger absolutism seems to be "on a burger bun = burger" so i have to ask the australians out there: does that mean a yumbo is a burger

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

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For when stabbing someone doesn’t have enough erotic subtext…

Patreon - everything else

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you know that phenomenon where vaccines are so effective that people forget how scary the original disease was? I think Americans are like this about government

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what "no sugar added" should mean: the natural sugars of the other ingredients like fruit are the only source of sweetness in this product

what is actually means: we added a fuckton of artificial sweeteners