Well. Guess who is back from the vets with a clean bill of health and is surprisingly happy to be back?
Little Stray Kitty!
Or should I say: Little Stray BOY Kitty 🤯
Whether his love for #notMyCat is platonic or romantic, what matters is that he's happy and true to himself 🥰
The important bits: He's free of feline aids, leukaemia, and well... his balls now too.
No obvious issues with his leg or anywhere else. He's just missing his white front floof as they had to shave it for blood tests.
And really does seem happy to be back here, not there!
It also highlights (and you can see it in this vid) just how tiny he is for a boy cat. Poor thing definitely had his growth limited by how hungry he was.
Vet reckons about a year old.
So the next step is to keep him in the spare room again for a week or so while he heals up.
Then our plan is to open up the upstairs/hallway to him for a few more days. After that, living room door and access to outside again.
He may just disappear off again after that. Fair enough. Important thing is that he's been done now. He can't create any little feral kitties like he was created.
He's welcome to stay though, should he decide to hang around. And he's chipped in case he needs our help in future.
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So let me tell you about the only time in WW2 that the German Wehrmacht and the US Army fought ON THE SAME SIDE in WW2.
This is the Battle of Itter Castle.
Wörgl. Austria. May 1945. The town watches as the German army fall back towards the 'Alpine Fortress', but the SS are arriving in force behind them.
Worried about atrocities, resistance leader Alois Mayr makes a huge decision:
He asks the Wehrmarcht to stay and defend the town.
More specifically, he asks Major Sepp Gangl. Gangl is a HIGHLY decorated soldier. Two Iron Crosses. Worked his way up from the ranks. Fought in the 1940 Blitzkrieg. Four years in Russia. Fought in France. Survived the Falaise Gap.
Kids today don't know how to build their own decks in CCGs anymore, do they?
I blame the internets. Cookie-cutter decks on the ladder in Kards.
Not that I'm complaining, I'm happily building around them. But where's the fun in playing cookie decks?
Create, play, tweak, refine and (often) discard. To me, that's the JOY of CCGs. You're seeing what works and is fun, with a lot of failure or cool near misses on the way.
if all you're doing is googling meta deck lists then you might as well just let a bot do it.
And the thing is, I don't think a lot of people realise it makes you easier to play AGAINST if you cookie deck
(unless the meta on the game is truly broken. Paging Hearthstone to the red courtesy phone).
Because when you cookie you don't learn the mechanics of WHY a deck works
The hardest part of helping Little Stray Kitty at the moment is not being able to explain to her that this is for her own good.
Once her kitty flu has cleared and no owner has come forward, we can get her to a vet then let her out.
Sad kitty. 😔
She's got toys, kitty YouTube, is enjoying watching the birbs from the window and we're spending time in the room with her.
But there's still periods of slightly sad meowing. She's a feral, outdoor cat and this is alien to her.
Ultimately, it's just two weeks (pre/post snip and vaccines) of restriction to make sure she has a better life for a long time, including getting her new limp checked/sorted.
But you can't explain that to a kitty who just doesn't understand why she's not allowed to leave.
His train nerdery seemed initially be a blessing for La Compagnie Internationale as they tried to sort out a route for their Orient Express, but...
...well. Things escalated quickly.
Read on... /1
So Compagnie Internationale seemed to have utterly lucked out.
Not only was Boris all "OMG YESSSSS" when they asked to run the Orient Express through Bulgaria, but he became one of their biggest customers, regularly booking out whole carriages for himself.
But Bozza wanted more
Soon, he was turning up in engine overalls and asking to ride in the cab, when he wasn't chilling in his private carriage.
Compagnie Internationale told train crew to let it slide.
Because:
1) He was literally King of Bulgaria 2) He was spending a TON of cash