• @[email protected]
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    42 hours ago

    All the people who let their cats roam, run the risk of this and other horrible things. If cat owners are too selfish to care about the local ecosystem and their neighbors, maybe their and their Kitty’s safety will get them to listen.

    Found a half a cat in my yard a few weeks back, cause the neighbors wouldn’t fucking listen when I kept telling them that there are coyotes in our area

  • FauxPseudo
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    2812 hours ago

    I foster extra spicy kittens and tame them so they can be adopted. Each time one bites me I think about how I have almost no insurance and this could be the one that unalives me. Those puncture bites are amazing. This little predator weighing less than 1% what I do can do me in with just their teeth.

    My pet geese are so much safer.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 hours ago

      Foster also, just had a foster fail.

      But man, even if it killed me, still totally worth it.

      • FauxPseudo
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        910 hours ago

        We had four cats die within a year. All orange boys.

        Then one day I get a call from a place I’m doing Trap Neuter Release. Some mom just dropped three kids on a porch. I go grab the kids and set a trap for mom. I get the kids home. Three orange girls, two are bobtails. I’ve been on the hunt for an orange girl for years. Jackpot.

        Really hoping we get mom because these are bottle babies. Get mom. Orange girl with even less tail.

        I know I’m probably keeping mom no matter how feral she is. Definitely one of the kids too.

        Time to make the decision. Which kid to keep. Wife vetoes me. We are keeping them all. Plus two more orange girls that will show up over the year. I have six orange girls. Probably more than anyone on the east coast. So much foster fail. So few braincells.

        Eventually tame mom after 12 months and multiple attempts on my life. So many orange girls.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          Omg.

          We were up to 6, chain reaction of cats really.

          Last two of those, found one standinf in traffic, ran out and scoped her up, we were close ever since. Second was my wife’s foster fail, turned out she was pregnant and didn’t know.

          Last one was a tortie who got attached to me, haven’t done a ginger yet, used to do a ton of bottle babies, those were painful.

  • @[email protected]
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    4419 hours ago

    20 years later…

    Kid: Dad, why did everybody turn into cat-zombies?

    Dad: They caught Dipshit Nigel Disease, son.

  • FuglyDuck
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    7721 hours ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong…. But isn’t finding a new bacteria rather common for people who look at bacteria?

    • @[email protected]
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      5319 hours ago

      Yes.

      For a long time identifying bacteria required growing them on different media. If then bacteria didn’t grow on the media, we didn’t know what it was. However for most pathogenic bacterium we did figure out how to culture them.

      Then molecular biology advanced to a level where we can amplify and sequence a single bacterium’s DNA. This has led to a continuous stream of new species discoveries from different environments.

      Finding a new pathogenic bacteria for humans is still a rare discovery.

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    22 hours ago

    If that happened to me, and I got rid of it, I’d ask if the infection could be named after me.

    I want it to be remembered that I won.

    • @[email protected]
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      5422 hours ago

      Sure, he gave permission for them to publish the paper about him. But, did he give them permission to address him solely as “48 year old obese man?”