Progressive Pets

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www.thedodo.com/amphtml/daily-dodo/owners-of-ukrainian-cat-cafe-stay-put-and-protect-their-cats

Ukrainian Cat Cafe Stays Open To Care For Its 20 Residents Even During The War
“They are like family" ❤️️
By Caitlin Jill Anders
Published on 2/28/2022 at 4:26 PM
The Cat Cafe Lviv has been open in Lviv, Ukraine, for over six years now and has come to mean a lot to everyone who’s involved with it.

“I have a small team of several close people who have been working with me for several years and have become my closest friends,” Serhii Oliinyk, owner of Cat Cafe Lviv, told The Dodo. “The cats have also gotten used to these people, who help to take care of them and who play with them when there are few guests, because our fluffy residents love people's attention.”

The cafe is home to 20 cats who love to greet visitors and hang out with them while they enjoy a meal or just relax for a while. It’s been a safe haven for the people of Lviv, a place where they can come to forget the stresses of life and just play with cats who are always so happy to see them.

Many Ukrainians are currently fleeing the country in light of the Russian invasion, but not Oliinyk. He and his family are staying at the cafe.


“Our cats have been living in [the] cat cafe since the age of 4 months,” Oliinyk said. “They are like family. We realized that we would never leave our country, that this was the only place where we could see ourselves in the future.”

[abbey1227]

Mar 1, 2022 22:29:34 GMT merh said:

Mar 1, 2022 11:49:24 GMT abbey1227 said:

Destructive little pup.

Teething?

She should be done by now........but I think it's mostly that we haven't been able to leave her out as much as she'd like at the moment. So she's looking for extra attention

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Mar 2, 2022 2:04:53 GMT abbey1227 said:

Mar 1, 2022 22:29:34 GMT merh said:

Destructive little pup.

Teething?

She should be done by now........but I think it's mostly that we haven't been able to leave her out as much as she'd like at the moment. So she's looking for extra attention

Weather.
She likes the cold?

[abbey1227]

Mar 2, 2022 8:55:57 GMT merh said:

Mar 2, 2022 2:04:53 GMT abbey1227 said:

She should be done by now........but I think it's mostly that we haven't been able to leave her out as much as she'd like at the moment. So she's looking for extra attention

Weather.
She likes the cold?

Our work schedules aren't allowing for her to be out more than a few hours in the morning and a few at nite most nights.

She can't be trusted out unsupervised because of the destruction she'd do at the moment.

She's impervious to the cold apparently.

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I love the look on the cat's face

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I know this meme

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I imagine this is how deep I'm sleeping when I wake & wonder what day it is?

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Are dogs as obsessed with watching one in the bath?

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Mar 3, 2022 4:31:59 GMT merh said:

Are dogs as obsessed with watching one in the bath?

like most little kids........they won't leave you alone when you're in the bathroom/on the toilet

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A feud between mail carriers, wild turkeys comes to a deadly climax near Sacramento
Christian Martinez
Sat, March 5, 2022,

For months, mail carriers in the Sacramento County enclave of Arden-Arcade have been terrorized by wild turkeys, at times disrupting deliveries.

This week, tensions between the fowl and one U.S. Postal Service worker reached a violent climax when the carrier killed a turkey while on duty, officials said, prompting an investigation by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

"On Monday, one of the mail carriers actually had some kind of a stick or something in his vehicle," said Capt. Patrick Foy, a spokesman for the department's Law Enforcement Division. "And when one of the particularly aggressive male turkeys attacked him, he smacked it and killed it."

Foy declined to say what kind of violation could be involved but said the department had not issued a citation as of Thursday evening.

"Our job is to determine what exactly happened and then we fill out a report," he said. "We might send it to the district attorney and the district attorney decides whether or not a crime has been committed."

The postal service said it is investigating the incident, noting in a statement that employees "have had several altercations with aggressive turkeys in the area, including a recent attack on a letter carrier."

"We have been working with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to mitigate the issue," the USPS said. "However, this allegation is alarming, and if true, is inexcusable and does not reflect the efforts of our more than 650,000 employees who faithfully serve and deliver for America every day."

So far, the Department of Fish and Wildlife's investigation into the incident has revealed strange details about the area's turkeys and their behavior and treatment.

Investigators found that some residents had been feeding the turkeys "copious quantities of food", which is prohibited in California and could be a factor in the birds' aggressiveness.

"It probably contributed to the massive size of the turkey in question because it was eating just an unlimited amount of food every day from this particular household," Foy said. "We are addressing that issue as a major contributing factor to this overall problem."

The turkeys seem to have been targeting delivery workers in the neighborhood since October, when the postal service began reporting the situation to wildlife officials. Foy said the attacks had also disrupted deliveries from FedEx, UPS and other carriers.

Turkey attacks on humans are rare, Foy said, but are most often attributed to mating season, which occurs in April — so it "didn't really make sense that … they would be so aggressive back in October."

A wildlife officer and a biologist sent to look into the reports saw a group of four turkeys attack a mail carrier.

"He was swinging his mailbag at them, trying to fend them off," Foy said.

Foy said the department informed mail carriers that they were allowed to defend themselves and suggested the use of pepper spray, which postal service workers are allowed to carry.

"They said, 'Yes, we've been pepper-spraying them. We have been swinging our mailbags at them. We've been kicking them and they still continue the attack,'" Foy said.

Wildlife officials then tried and failed to capture the most aggressive of the birds.

After a temporary reprieve, the birds renewed their attacks in the last few weeks, and the postal service again reached out to wildlife officials.

Foy said the turkey that was killed Monday was by far the heaviest he had ever lifted.

"I've been around about 25 years, so I kind of know turkeys," he said. "And I just I looked at it, and I'm like, 'Oh, this is the biggest turkey I've ever seen.' "

Even more odd was the fact that the birds seem to spare the neighborhood's residents and non-delivery personnel from their wrath.

"I can't explain it, but the aggressive turkeys do not appear to be worried at all about the residents of this community," Foy said. "I watched it myself.

"I walked up to the turkeys myself, and they didn't want anything to do with me," he said. "But when that mail carrier pulled up, they immediately went on the offensive."

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times

https/feud-between-mail-carriers-wild-143009007.html

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Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two, releasing superstitions amid the sulphur springs
Legend has it there is an evil spirit trapped in the Sessho-seki stone, so what happens now that the stone is broken?

The Warrior Miura-no-suke Confronting the Court Lady Tamamo-no-mae as She Turns into an Evil Fox with Nine Tails. late 1820s,
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Mon 7 Mar 2022 00.59 EST

Predictions of dark forces being unleashed by an evil vixen hung over social media in Japan on Monday after a famous volcanic rock said to kill anyone who comes into contact with it was found split in two.

According to the mythology surrounding the Sessho-seki, or killing stone, the object contains the transformed corpse of Tamamo-no-Mae, a beautiful woman who had been part of a secret plot hatched by a feudal warlord to kill Emperor Toba, who reigned from 1107-1123.

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Legend has it that her true identity was an evil nine-tailed fox whose spirit is embedded in the hunk of lava, located in an area of Tochigi prefecture, near Tokyo, famous for its sulphurous hot springs.

Its separation into two roughly equal parts, believed to have occurred within the past few days, has spooked online users who noted that, according to folklore, the stone continually spews poisonous gas – hence its name.

While the stone was said to have been destroyed, and its spirit exorcised by a Buddhist monk who scattered its pieces across Japan, many Japanese prefer to believe that its home is on the slopes of Mount Nasu.

Visitors to the area, a popular sightseeing spot, recoiled in horror at the weekend after witnesses posted photos of the fractured stone, a length of rope that had been secured around its circumference lying on the ground.

“I feel like I’ve seen something that shouldn’t be seen,” one Twitter user said in a post that has attracted almost 170,000 likes.

While others speculated that the demon spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae had been resurrected after almost 1,000 years, local media said cracks had appeared in the rock several years ago, possibly allowing rainwater to seep inside and weaken its structure.

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The stone, which was registered as a local historical site in 1957, was mentioned in Matsuo Basho’s seminal work The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and has inspired a Noh play, a novel and an anime film.

Masaharu Sugawara, the head of a local volunteer guide group, told the Yomiuri Shimbun it was a “shame” the stone had split because it was a symbol of the area, but agreed that nature had simply taken its course.

Local and national government officials will meet to discuss the stone’s fate, according to the Shimotsuke Shimbun. The newspaper quoted a Nasu tourism official as saying he would like to see the Sessho-seki restored to its original form – presumably with its demonic inhabitant sealed within.

Dun dun duuun!

[abbey1227]

Mar 7, 2022 18:19:52 GMT merh said:

Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two, releasing superstitions amid the sulphur springs


The stone, which was registered as a local historical site in 1957, was mentioned in Matsuo Basho’s seminal work The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and has inspired a Noh play, a novel and an anime film.

Dun dun duuun!

I was watching some anime a few months ago and it had a group that turned into foxes

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When you're the night but you also want cuddles

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Raised in separate homes, but both littermates do the wino sit

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Really?
I can't get mine out of the apartment in a carrier without them yowling

Though Illy has been trying to sneak out this week