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[kittydesade]

So of course right after I'm all "yay no migraine!" I get distracted last night by a random cat with a collar and tag who, it turns out, actually does live across the street and down a bit and was just outside because why not. I don't think it's necessarily the best idea for humans to let their furbabies roam outside a fence or something, given how fast cars peel down our street? But they knew and it was okay, so after a nervous hour and a half we determined the cat was fine and if I see her again I'll just herd her into her yard. But that derailed my entire evening.

And now there's a strong possibility that I won't make capoeira tonight because I feel hot/cold and my head is congested to the point where my teeth hurt. I mean I could function through a class, but I don't think it would be for very long? Plus I've well learned the consequences of physically taxing myself when I'm coming down with something.

I just. I'm incredibly annoyed. Since DragonCon I've gotten maybe a good week of solid routines and then either I'm migrainy or I'm sick or I'm just unable to get to bed on time. Ugh.

And now that I'm finally acknowledging I'm probably fighting off something I'm trying not to feel down about everything and ugh I'm never going to get anything done. At least half of that is the sick and exhausted. But. Argh. I may start writing my to-done lists again. Or, no, that's not the problem, I need to go back to my Habitica to do lists is what I need to do. Be more on top of it. I think that one fell victim to post dragoncon crash, which may need to be a more structured "for two weeks I will do fuck all and then slowly reintroduce routines" type thing. Anyway. Okay, that's one solution. Now I just have to live through the rest of today without wanting to curl up in the closet and sleep the rest of the day. This may or may not be achievable, but I'll try.

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[untonuggan]

UGH PEOPLE WHY

because of playing Ingress I have been out late-ish and seen a lot of probably-feral cats which of course means catching them for TNR requires more skills than I currently have and ... oh fur babies.

like tbh I probably am going to learn how to do TNR, but when I have the spoons so hopefully soon? IDK

[kittydesade]

If it helps? TNR is definitely not the first step, as far as I've done. First you feed them, put out a little shelter box or several if you have them, and get them at least used to you coming around. Then you can hopefully do TNR without getting shredded. (Though I've also been lucky in that we've only had two untipped ferals, one we got and released again, the other doesn't come around so regularly that we can be sure of getting him and not one of the others.)

Anyway, feeding and hanging around them so that they get used to you might be the first do-able step. And then worry about TNR!

[untonuggan]

these are like...random cats we see fleeing in the night while we're driving in a completely different area of the city. so I don't think we can necessarily do the things you are saying, SADLY.

but this does remind me I need to check with the county run farm that had an unneutered blind cat roaming around as a barn cat and see if they actually did get him vet care.

(edited to add: he was really good with people and could totally be adopted into someone's home)

[kittydesade]

Aaahhh boo. Ah well. Hopefully someone is in the area who intends to, anyway. See, this is why I like the ear-tipping method of marking spayed/neutered cats rather than the tattooing on the belly one because you can tell if you can see the head that they're taken care of and don't have to worry about that.

AWWW cat. I hope they did. The boy is tentatively looking around here for a home for one of our ferals who is also really good with people and could totally be adopted, but he wants an indoor household and so far all we have are farm ones. (TBH I think he wants to adopt him into our house or a friend of his' house but we at least have FIVE indoors already and noooo.)