The Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[HottieMama]

I have a shit-ton of "unnamed" anxiety at the moment. I can feel it in my chest and it's rising into my throat... I wish I could pin-point what is causing it....

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

I'm so sorry, C_in_C!
I really like what you said in the last sentence.

Thank you.

Thank you.

 

[the captians wench]

Glad to hear. I hope this means that you are doing much better. I hope that your first day back is a good one!

Thanks.

I really hope I make it the whole day. My GM decided she was going to be a bitch and convinced my supervisor that if I came back with any restrictions, then I'd milk it and wouldn't pull my weight. At this point, I'm doing as well as I can with out going back to work, but we just don't know how I will handle my normal work load. So we'll see.

If I hurt too bad, I'll just got to hospital. The worker's comp will get sick of paying ER visits and tell McD to wise the fuck up.

The good news is that it's just muscle/ligament pain, so I won't hurt myself too badly by pushing myself.

 

[graceanne]

I'm sure we do, but...I actually am not a huge fan of no-kill shelters. I love the idea, but it's just not practical. Here's why:

1) A no-kill shelter will still have to make "the choice", in that once they reach capacity, they need to either make the initial hard choice of refusing an animal, or make the easier choice that becomes harder later on by taking the animal but then struggling to house, feed and care for it. If the latter, all animals then suffer due to decreased resources.

Most reputable no-kill shelter, like the one in Portland, won't take any more animals than they have resources. When my upstairs neighbors went to jail for robbing a convenience store, they called me from jail and asked me to find a good home for their cat. I called the shelter, and got on their wait list. It took me three months to get her (the cat - I didn't know her name and didn't rename her since we weren't keeping her) in, but it was worth it because she was VERY adoptable. In fact, I told them flat out that she'd be an awesome pet for a shut in or a grandma looking for a companion pet cause she was so friendly and chatty.

2) Everyone wants to give their animals (for good reasons!) to no kill shelters. Compounding the above problem.

3) This part is conjecture, but I have developed the impression that a lot of people don't go to no-kill shelters first to FIND animals. After all, those animals are "safe", whereas the animals on deathrow at the "pound" are not. Thus, we further compound the first problem. More animals coming in, less animals coming out.

That is an issue, no doubt. Luckily there are very few shelters in our area. There's one in troutdale, but it's very small so most people go to the portland one because it's got a better selection.

4) In no-kill shelters that solve the overpopulation problems by fostering animals out, you then develop the problems that arise in foster homes. Animals mistreated, in similarly overpopulated homes, animals just not paired with the best home so their attitude worsens, etc...etc...

Eh - depends. My mom works for the Cowlitz County Shelter, which is a no-kill shelter in Washington (which is why I know so much about this stuff). They are VERY careful about who they let foster their animals, but more importantly it's rare for an adoptable animal to be fostered out. It's normally the ones with issues that get fostered, and that's only if those issues are fixable. For instance my mom fostered a dog that was on the kill list because she bit. She was a breeder in a puppy mill and had never been held or petted in her whole life. Mom thought that with some tender loving care she would be a good dog, so she took her home. Molly has a good home now, with a lady who is very patient with her food issues (she still has some food aggression issues). Mom has also fostered a few cats with small kittens, and she fostered her dog, Marly (she ended up adopting her), because Marly was starving to death when she was brought in, and no one was going to adopt a dog that looked as bad as she did. My sister fostered a cat that had had to have surgery to become adoptable and had to be shaved until her fur grew back in and she could be adopted. Stuff like that - normally foster families aren't taking the animals with no problems, they're rehabilitating the ones who can become adoptable.

Do not get me wrong. I am NOT saying all no-kill shelters are this way. And I fully agree with their mission. From a practical standpoint, though, I'd rather see animals raised by an able family who finds them, until death or until they personally find a good home for them. It puts a bigger burden on the people who find them, but I think that, overall, it distributes the entire burden more evenly so that the shelters (kill and no kill) are better able to do their jobs.

Oh, I agree. Just putting in my two cents.

I think that your Portland Humane Society has a pretty good policy by putting down the sick and unadoptable pets. It's much more practical than just WE WON'T EVAR KILL YOUR ANIMAL EVAR!!!

Yeah, I feel bad for those animals, but they can't afford to keep animals that won't ever find a home. If they did that, they'd eventually fill up and not have room for the animals that are adoptable.

 

[intothewoods]

DOM DOM DOM DOM DOM


Ahem. I feel better now.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

psychotic bunny successfully soothed with the power of pettings!!

 

[BiBunny]

psychotic bunny successfully soothed with the power of pettings!!

Yes, that does work rather well for psychotic bunnies.

 

[Kurokami]

I met my new neighbours today, while carrying my guitars into the house. My wife was unloading a box full of... intimate objects from the car. I'm super glad that box was sealed. They seem like nice people

 

[bhndblueyes88]

tonight isn't one of my good nights.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

I have a shit-ton of "unnamed" anxiety at the moment. I can feel it in my chest and it's rising into my throat... I wish I could pin-point what is causing it....

Absolutely know that feeling.

I also get the 'omg I'm going to burst into tears' feeling, but without any bad/sad thoughts or anything going on. Purely just the physical response.

It's weird.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

DOM DOM DOM DOM DOM


Ahem. I feel better now.

lol

Times like this, I sort of wish we could do blinky, glittery text with prancing unicorns in the background. You know. To show the proper respect and all. *nods seriously*

 

[graceanne]

So I've just finished putting the last two months of threads in the library, and I gotta say - YOU ALL WERE BUSY WHILE I WAS GONE!

That said, one of the things that's cool about being the librarian, that makes me laugh at myself, is when a discussion is brought up that hasn't been brought up this year, I'm thrilled cause that means there'll be something to put under this years category.

I'm such a dork.

 

[kiwi_submissive]

I really felt at sea last week but am feeling a bit more settled this week.

 

[TarevaChine]

When it is time to get up for work, I feel like I can sleep forever. When I don't have to get up, I can't sleep!

UGH!

 

[HottieMama]

Still verging on panic. MotherOfFuck...this sucks...

 

[Mz_Cunningham]

I feel all.....eugh, I better not be getting a cold

 

[Lilac_Sky]

I feel all.....eugh, I better not be getting a cold

Amazingly, that is exactly how I was feeling at the same time today.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Sometimes when I watch my pup sleeping, his face is really restless and his nose wiggles and his ears flop...like he is a puppet of some kind trying to communicate or play charades. But then sometimes, if he is really dreaming deeply the way his nose flares and moves along with his twitching eyes he reminds me of Falkor the luck dragon and I expect him to awaken laughing heartily. He is the coolest pup evah, even if he can't actually fly.

 

[the captians wench]

i survived

 

[redslady]

i survived

Good to hear, that first day back can be a bitch to get through.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Sometimes when I watch my pup sleeping, his face is really restless and his nose wiggles and his ears flop...like he is a puppet of some kind trying to communicate or play charades. But then sometimes, if he is really dreaming deeply the way his nose flares and moves along with his twitching eyes he reminds me of Falkor the luck dragon and I expect him to awaken laughing heartily. He is the coolest pup evah, even if he can't actually fly.

How do you know he can't fly? Have you ever tried to teach him?

People who neglect their pets sicken me.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

I really felt at sea last week but am feeling a bit more settled this week.

I don't know...you still look a little wobbly there. Is she gonna brace herself? Is she gonna fall over? Is she gonna slap one of those little seasickness patches on her left asscheek?

 

[TarevaChine]

I don't know why I feel the need to make sure everything is perfect in the hotel room before leaving.

 

[kiwi_submissive]

I don't know...you still look a little wobbly there. Is she gonna brace herself? Is she gonna fall over? Is she gonna slap one of those little seasickness patches on her left asscheek?

There's nothing like bracing sea air to clear the mind.

Actually yes i am a bit wobblyish, just got home from a night out and even wore really high heels both are bad enough on their own.

Mmmm nah those seasickness patches don't work. Actually I have not tried one on the asscheek before, I wonder if that would work?

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Still verging on panic. MotherOfFuck...this sucks...

*pats and adopts Bob Marley voice and does a little dance*

Don't worry! 'bout a thing! Cuz every little thing...gonna be alright ^_^