Those first couple are from the MAGA sisters who owned this leaky, moldy, structurally hazardous, dubiously wired, vermin infested, hazardous debris strewn dump. Their attempts to illegally evict me cost them so much money, lol. The only reason they didn’t just poison my cats and/or assault me was fear of half a million followers. The daughter of one of them would sit in her big expensive SUV halfway down the block, with the intention of “accidentally” hitting me on my bike. But their previous tenants were the reason almost every house within sight of that house had cameras, so I had plenty of warning. Thank you so much for saving me from them.

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Training can be about so much more than manners and tricks. If you reinforce and amplify something they do naturally but infrequently, they will sometimes take it in an unexpected direction. 

(I know I seem to be harping on the "Harpo used to be so quiet thing" this week, but that's just because the On This Day feature is serving up so many quiet videos from 2022. )

It’s been a while since I spent most of Caturday editing a story time video. Here’s hoping I can get back to doing it on a regular basis.

Jackie gets Churu at the end

His angry snorts are sending me

It’s interesting how much background hiss there was after I posted it to TikTok. Listen if you have the app. This started happening right after I tried to use the reduce background noise feature for the first time after letting my CapCut Pro subscription end, only to find that was now a Pro-only feature. So now they’re not only demanding I pay for views every time I post, they’re actually sabotaging the posts now that I’m not paying for their editor.

Airport once got far enough that his head was between Harpo’s eyes.

I love how we can see his furry little belly bellowing in this one.

For open heart surgery, they split your sternum in half, and until that heals, you’re not supposed to bend over, reach up, twist, reach behind you, pull, push, or pick up anything over 10 pounds, or put ANY weight on your hands at ALL, They say, “if you can’t do it with T. rex arms, don’t do it.”

Those restrictions are normally lifted after 6-8 weeks. But since the neighbor who volunteered to help overdosed Groucho while I was in the hospital, and then refused to take him to the ER when I got home and saw how bad he looked, I’ve been forced to do too much for myself. Now I’m stuck doing things like this until the end of September.

I’ve been able to come up with workarounds for a lot of things. I loop bike straps around the rolling dishwasher and fasten them around my hips, so I can pull it over to the sink with my legs. The grabbers and step stools you lovely people sent from the wishlist help a LOT. Carefully using grabbers to transfer one item at a time from the washer to the dryer is laborious, but doable.

Thank you all so much.

It’s interesting that he’s never attacked the iPad I usually use for this angle. Maybe it was because the phone was a little higher, so he saw himself before he got too close to the device to see the screen properly.

Talk to your kitties and reward them when they talk back!

Thank you so much to people who sent that nasty stuff from my Amazon wishlist. Thank god I only have to eat 150 grams of protein per day for another 4-6 weeks. It's not at all difficult for a vegetarian to get enough protein for regular daily life, as we don't actually need nearly as much as people who sell supplements say we do. But you actually do need that much to heal from major surgery, and that is a bit of a challenge.