Open Post & Kitties Update

[kimberlysteele]

It has been a month of cat drama for me. After having to put my beloved Kiki down in July, I "adopted" one of my feral kittens, Shadow, from the back yard. Since he let me touch him and pet him while eating, I picked him up in late July, put him in a carrier, and took him to the veterinarian. He had a bad flu and was scrawny. The vet confirmed he was wormy, gave him some meds and immunizations, and we were on our way. The original plan was to let him go in the yard again once his kitty flu was gone and he was old enough to neuter.

Shadow is the son of Miss Blondie Piggy, a feral who has been frequenting the house since we moved in and started feeding the neighborhood animals. Piggy was the bane of our local trap neuter release person because she had litters of kittens year after year and could not be caught. In July I bought and started trapping with a Tomahawk drop trap. It did the trick: I caught Piggy within ten minutes of setting the trap out. After I caught her, the TNR person got her spayed. We had hopes of keeping her in the house because she seems to like me. Here's a photo of her briefly in my house. She was not happy!



Piggy jumped at the window, hoping it was open, and nearly taking these blinds down in the process.



Because it wasn't working out, I set Piggy free. By the next morning she was back in the yard, eating.

Then it was time to catch the last of my colony: Shadow's twin brother, Silhouette.



Unlike his brother, Silhouette never let me come near him. I drop box trapped him about a week after his mom was returned home. All went well until I took him to the same vet where his brother had been healed. We got to the vet, he let me handle him for about a minute, then he got spooked and bit my hands severely.

Luckily I treated my hands in time, thanks again to the TNR person's advice. I soaked my injured hands in very warm Betadine water (water with lots of Betadine in it) for 20 minutes 3 times a day for several days. I also got some antibiotics from my husband's doctor the next day.

My hands healed within about a week.

Little Silhouette, like his mother, was also unfit for indoor life. I turned him over to my TNR person and she got him neutered. Within a week, he too was back in the yard, eating breakfast and dinner every day.

Tommy (orange kitty) is also Miss Piggy's son. He was one of my first captures, and was the second feral to let me touch him and pet him. The first one was a gray and white cat I named Sir Puss in Boots, and he let me pet him one day and would cry for me outside the door every morning and night after that, wanting to be fed, played with, and touched. The only reason I didn't take him inside was because Kiki was still alive and she had always been a solitary cat who wanted me all to herself. Sir Puss and Boots disappeared one day, never to be seen by me again. I believe he was one of the renter neighbor's cats and they moved away. Please keep him in your prayers.

This is Tommy, who loves to play with Kiki's old toys and to be petted.

Shadow is doing really well inside the house.  He's inquisitive, bold, funny, mischievous, and fearless.  He can be quite a brat and has gotten a few time outs.  Overall, he's a sweet boy.  He was just neutered last Tuesday.  He did calm down a bit with the neuter.  He still has mad kitten energy.  I pity the mice who try to get into the house this winter...

Comments

Miss Piggy

[randomactsofkarmasc]

I am glad to hear that all your cats are doing well.

But mostly, I wanted to say how much I enjoyed Miss Piggy's scowl. That is a first-rate eat-poop-and-die kitty scowl if I ever saw one. I laughed out loud.

Re: Miss Piggy

[kimberlysteele]

LOL! It sure was...

[illyria2001]

Such cute cats!

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Cute!

—Lady Cutekitten

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks!

[methylethyl]

Awww, you are making me miss having kitties! In the rental we just moved to, we do have a little male tabby that belongs to the next-door people-- he is friendly and comes over to visit now and then.

So glad to see that Shadow is thriving!

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! He is high maintenance and is always getting into trouble... sometimes it's really nice when the neighbors have all the responsibility!

[lp9]

Glad to hear Shadow is settling in so well! We recently visited friends who have both a cat and a dog--they played together so well, it was super cute. Makes me wonder how our dog would do with a cat friend. He has a pretty strong personality, so I'm not sure it would work!

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you. I might adopt a sibling for Shadow once he's an adult and we have catified the house quite a bit. Introducing someone new is a long process, lots of keeping them in separate rooms for the first few weeks, and then slowly acclimating them to each other's smell and eventually closeness.

[methylethyl]

We had a dog and cat when I was a kid, and they got along fine. Not friends or anything, but the dog was friendly, and the cat tolerated having her ears licked and mostly ignored the dog. We had the cat, first, though-- she kind of trained the dog to respect her while the dog was still a puppy. I'm not sure how it would work the other way around. I've had friends who had yard dogs and house cats and that ended in a kitty massacre when the dogs got in the back door one day, so... it can go very very wrong also.

[(Anonymous)]

How do you give a cat a timeout? Confiscate his toy for a few minutes?

—Lady Cutekitten

[kimberlysteele]

Basically I put him in a room that I'm not in and shut the door, that's it.

[(Anonymous)]

Now how are we supposed to have an open post when such adorability is right in our faces??

Their little faces are an inoculation against sadness

[kimberlysteele]

They're even cuter in person!

[mollari]

I'm really happy to hear Shadow is settling in well!

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, so cute! That is indeed an impressive scowl on Piggy's otherwise pretty face. I hope you keep posting photos of the kittens so we can see how big and handsome they get as they grow up! I'm sorry Sir Puss in Boots is gone, but I pray he is well and happy wherever he is.

--Sister Crow

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you. I think Piggy may get to the point where she allows me to pet her despite the fact she does not want to live in the house. Aladdin (not pictured) lets me pet him now. He's a big gray guy. I'll keep posting about the kitties!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly, I'm relatively new to your blog and to JMG's, too, and the occult is not something within my experience. I am curious how confident you are in your Ogham readings as to the fate of the vaxxed and unvaxxed. I am in the US (blue state, unfortunately) unvaxxed and freaking a bit right now. Would love to see the tide start sharply turning soon, although I know your reading calls for more strife before the tide turns. Thanks,

Maxxy

[kimberlysteele]

Hi Maxxy,

The funny thing is how very atheist I was only seven years ago. I don't know if you saw my posts buried deep in JMG's Magic Monday and Coronavirus Open Posts... over there, I talked about seeing (in my mind's eye) the entity or one of the entities who has been messing with people and screwing up divinations. To me, he appeared as a gray-colored Mephistopheles, full of hatred, sly, and scheming.

Of course I always maintain I could be wrong. That said, I have reasonable confidence in my readings because I believe mine, unlike the readings of others, were not influenced by nefarious influences. I believe I may have gotten some insulation from my musical efforts with the Orphic Hymns.

My Ogham say that it gets a great deal better for the unvaxxed by late October and I am inclined to believe them. I don't agree with JMG that the vaxxed/unvaxxed are free of collective karma. I tend to think like a sociologist -- there are some broad, sweeping trends for which all the participants are culpable despite being swept up like droplets of water in a wave. To get the vaccine right now, especially if you're aware of what's happening because of peer pressure to get the vaccine, means that you play a part in that pressure, like it or not. My thoughts are that those who took that way out will have to pay for it somehow because of the immense suffering it caused, just as those who are fearful yet smug in their comfortable residences and bingeing Netflix/eating takeout as others lose their careers will have to pay for those comforts, most likely in old age or in future lives. I believe it works this way because my own fears and arrogance in previous lives have been working themselves out in the challenges of this life. Not all of those arrogances were a result of my unique soul, lots of it was me being a product of my times.

Personal divinations

[(Anonymous)]

Are you familiar with anyone who has performed divinations that predict happy and glorious outcomes for following the herd, and certain disaster for those who don't?

I've never seen any, personally. Am I just stuck in an echo chamber?

Re: Personal divinations

[kimberlysteele]

I haven't seen them, but then I don't get around much in any sense of the word. If you find them, please let me know.

My readings don't predict certain disaster. That's not the style of the Ogham. They are gentle. They warn of imbalance. Keep in mind I do not believe they are predicting a mass die off for the vaxxed. They are saying that the vaccine narrative will fall apart, which is a vastly different statement than say 10 - 80 percent of them dying or becoming handicapped.

[(Anonymous)]

Kimberly. if you haven't been, you may want to check out Karl Denninger's Market-Ticker and forum. He is great at breaking down data and he's been right pretty much every step of the way on Covid and the vaccines. His Ticker today https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243546 breaks down data from the UK and he says it proves the vaccines make you more likely to contract Covid even if they do provide some short term protection from suffering serious illness. Of course, the protection will shift over time and with future mutations.

Maxxy

Thank you for this

[kimberlysteele]

I hadn't seen his blog before, thank you so much. He seems to know his stuff. I hope that people figure out how damaging the vaccines are and immediately stop taking them, including second shots and boosters.

Music

[lp9]

On some other threads there was a bit of discussion about music to lift the soul and I thought I'd recommend Aurora. She is a Norwegian singer/songwriter who started writing songs around age 10-11; I think she is now in her 20s. I first discovered her singing with Wardruna on "Helvegen" (Road to Hel) and proceeded to go through most of her catalog online.

Her songs feature a lot of references to divinity, reincarnation, the importance of nature, with dreamlike lyrics, and her voice is amazing. I saw an interview where she mentioned that she dedicates each of her songs to a god or goddess. And if you are into videos, it's absolutely worth watching her live. The live versions are superior to the studio/produced versions of her songs.

She is definitely unusual and outside the mainstream. My family is not into her at all, but I thought some of the readers here might enjoy her music!

Re: Music

[kimberlysteele]

She's interesting, thanks for the recommendation. I recommend Shel (band). They are a sister group who are wonderful singers but have the edge of being top notch instrumentalists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogw15jdM_Yc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZiWOcciQQo

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly,

Wow, those kittens are adorable. Tommy looks like he's in heaven. We had a cat just like that, named Punkin'.

I wonder if anyone here would know what to do with some old Supernatural TV show stuff. My friend is trying to get rid of the DVD set and a book about the show. I've noticed quite a bit of inverted pentagrams with symbols written throughout the book and possibly on material in the DVD set. I have no idea if the crew of the show used real glyphs or if they just made up scary looking symbols.

I'm going to be cautious and assume the symbols and letters are real, so I don't know what to do with it all. I advised my friend not to sell the set and book in case he's passing on the demonic garbage to another person. He's quite happy just to get rid of it.

I don't have a backyard to throw the book or DVD sleeve into a fire. Yet I don't think it's a good idea to throw it away without doing something.

Do you or any of your commenters have an idea? Maybe it is okay to sell it all?

Thanks,
Jon

[kimberlysteele]

I don't think there's anything to worry about from edgelord crap like Supernatural. There is a big difference between the goofy dabblings of that show versus the film Hereditary, which is basically a film invocation of a real demon I won't bother to name. Supernatural's primary function was so lonely women from the ages of 15 - 50 could get hot and bothered over the two male lead actors. (In a slightly different era, it would be on sale near the wine and chocolate for strategic reasons) Burning it or whatever won't help diminish their appeal. Also you can get Supernatural from the local library or via streaming service. Just sell them and do a banishing ritual if you feel your imagination has been sullied by watching it.