We have more reason to despise that previous owner of Simba and Lucy.

Simba is at least 30% under what his body mass should be, and has folds of skin hanging. He is the first cat I have ever seen that has split ends on his fur. And it's so coarse and rough. He has dermatitis, probably due to piss poor diet and no grooming, and allergy affected eyes. Luckily we have the medicated eye ointment to treat them. After one treatment, his eyes stopped weeping. Will get dosed twice a day for a week.

Lucy: that poor little muffin must have been slapped or hit, because when you go to pet or brush her, she squints her eyes down, flattens her ears to the sides, and ducks. She does relax once she realises that it's pats she is getting.

The both of them are protein starved, and eat 5 serves of meat, fish, or quality canned food a day. Lucy eats a bit less of it than Simba, as she isn't as underweight as Simba is (probably was at least catching mice when she got out) but he will finish what she leaves. After just 3 days of proper feeding, and twice a day gentle grooming, Simba is showing a few patches of the gold glint on his fur. Lucy's fur is also getting softer in patches.

They both are starting to come into the house. Simba has made himself more at home indoors than Lucy. Probably because her ex humans used to keep her locked in the attic of their house. It's all good. She comes in a bit further every time.


And to keep it legal:


Lucy soaking up some afternoon sun.



Simba lounging in the lounge!

I have two things: a history lesson, and a serious question.

1.) The Donner Party Tragedy was a terrible event that took place in 1846-1847. Trapped in the Sierra-Nevada mountains, half-starved, the Donner Party was the most well-known tragedy of the western migration. The website linked above has a detailed account of the journey, and it's actually quite fascinating.

Suspected foul play, dates that don't match to events, varying accounts of things (like a stabbing), et cetera.

At any rate, The Donner Party got so desperate for food that some of them, after eating everything possible, including shoes, clothes, et cetera, eventually ate those in the party who died. Which brings me to my question:

2.) Could you eat human flesh?

I know it sounds terrible, but reading through the diaries, seeing the mention of cannibalism (and the hesitation, in part, of other people in mentioning it in their memoirs) got me thinking. They were so hungry, having not eaten for days, having already killed all their animals... What else could they do to live?

But at the same time, they must have known how others would react to hearing of such a thing. It would be shameful to recount in the future, and it would probably bring shame to your own family. It would have been considered scandalous, and possibly even a sin.

Personally, I don't know if I could do it. I guess, though, to people living in 1847/1847, the killing and skinning of animals (doing it, seeing it) was perfectly normal. Today, it's not normal. So to them, it might not have been so difficult to skin and dry the meat of their fallen party. It's not as if they killed them, themselves; the people who were eaten died of starvation, going insane, etc.

But you know, you'd be scarred for life, with the knowledge that you ate someone, and you knew them, their family, their face, their name.

Imagine how terrible it must have been for those people-- for anyone, really, but especially for these people, who traveled months together, side-by-side-- to have to have resorted to eating those that died. I can't imagine what it would be like to be forced into that situation, to have no other choice. I think that I would rather die, but these men had families-- wives, children-- depending on them to bring help. And really, it's not as if you can feel pain once you're dead, you know? It's such a debatable thing.

Note that later wagon trains of emigrants remembered and feared something similar happening to them. This resulted in a lot of people left on the side of the trail. Cholera victims are most worth mentioning. Since they usually died fairly quickly anyway (within 24 hours), many were left to die. (Sometimes a "watcher" was selected to stay behind, dig a grave, and catch up to the train when the victim died, but oftentimes the watcher was in such a hurry they dug the grave before the victim died. Imagine watching your own grave be dug. Quite a few were buried alive.) If the wagon train halted too many times, too often, they could be caught in the snow like The Donner Party.

It was, no doubt, on the mind of every emigrant as they reached that particular general area. (Now called Donner Lake, it was formerly Truckee Lake, named after an Indian who guided a train through the mountains, there.)

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What pokemon games are there for the Nintendo DS?

I have emerald,  ruby, sapphire.......eh...I thought I had leafgreen and firered.....huh oh well

besides those what other pokemon games are there for the DS?

A random photo from Pokemon Ranch I took!


Somebody give it a caption. :3

Hey guys, just a reminder that your deadline for this photoshoot is two days from now! No one has asked for an extension yet, but it seems like that's probably going to be a necessity.

I was watching Cats 101 and they were showing Bombays. They look so much like my Jasper. But I thought he was a Domestic Shorthair. So, I ask my kittypixers, what is he?
ETA: Earlier Evy [my 6 month Tabby] as lying on top of Jasper and grooming his head. Jasper put up with it for a good minute then growled cause she started on his face and left. The grooming in general, that is a sign that they like each other?

→ vocaloid (miki) x19
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→ trapeze x23
→ hetalia x20
→ misc x5



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→ vocaloid (miki) x19
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→ hetalia x20
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Okay, plot officially changed.

( Here's a synopsis, if anyone's interested in reading it/is willing to tell me what they think of it. )

Not sure how I feel about this, but I think it'll give my novel a lot more drive. With her actually loving William, she only had a half-hearted reason to go to California-- which was, essentially, to be with him sooner/save time-- but now she's got a really good reason to leave Missouri. I think I'll write her and William's relationship as one of those "everyone expects it" romances. (You know, they grew up together as close friends, et cetera.)(Which I swear was in a movie or something, but for the life of me, I can't remember what.)

I'll stick with the title Equilateral for now, even though my love triangle (HAR HAR HAR, why yes, it does amuse me!) isn't a love triangle. (I could add another woman to the mix, though, considering Louisa's going to be viewed as a man by the others. Hmmm...)

Also, genre is practically Historical Fiction/Romance/Drama/Spiritual now.

I'll stop posting about my NaNo story for tonight, I swear.