If you love your Dad reblog this. If not he dies in 13 days.
stop fucking making posts like these come on
(via doncasterscupcake)
Society: Your only valuable asset is your beauty. That is the most important thing about you as a woman.
Woman: Okay…? *uses her beauty to get what she wants and become successful*
Society: Wtf you can’t do that tho??
(via islandangelita)
"I’ve spent most of my life chasing the person I want to be. Because 20-year-old me will have better friends, and 25-year-old me will land a killer job, and 30-year-old me will be madly in love. And me 6 months from now will be skinnier, and me a year from now will be more confident, and me some time from now will be better somehow. So much better. For years, this is what I thought. That if I could just wait it out, everything would get better.
It took me a long time to realize that life doesn’t work that way. Older doesn’t mean happier or easier, and it certainly doesn’t mean better; it just means older. Life isn’t a well plotted screen play, or a checklist, or, God forbid, some waiting room. We have got to stop waiting. Because life isn’t about growing up to be all that we’ve ever wanted; it’s just about growing.
It’s about love, and change, and crying yourself to sleep when it’s all too much. And working at a burger joint, and kissing your best friend even though he might not like you back, and calling your mom every Sunday because you miss her like hell. It’s fights, and promotions, and hospital visits. And then it’s this: another wedding of another one of your college friends, the third one this year, but this time you meet a groomsman who’s just as down on love and you dance all night. And this: he cries when you say “I do.” And this: a kid with your eyes and his dorky ears.
Or maybe not. Maybe it’s this: you write everything, everywhere, all the time, even when the prettier kids make fun of you, and the short teacher with the big nose tells you it’s good. Really good. And this: you’re living in a shoebox, by the skin of your teeth, but there’s a bar across the street that lets you read your poetry, and every time you do, someone in the crowd finally knows what it feels like to be understood. And this: your words being published. Your words. Being bought by people who could be spending their money on anything at all. And you sit in your twin bed where you’ve written your entire novel, a dozen empty coffee mugs still dirty on the nightstand, and you scream until your lungs burn.
It’s all of these things, and bad things, and good things, and the raw realization that it doesn’t get better or worse, it just gets different. It just changes. Always, always changes. And somehow that makes it more wonderful. Because future you may have the friends, and the boy, and the job, but she didn’t get it by waiting around. She is a product of you. Right now, tomorrow, changing and growing every moment that follows. She is kind, and breathing, and beautiful. But she waits for the day she doesn’t have to worry about paying a mortgage bill, and she worries too often about what people think of her. She still doesn’t have it together.
And maybe that’s what I’ve learned after all this time: nobody has it together. We’re all just here, floundering around in pursuit of being something more. Broken, thoughtful creatures with too much time on our hands, desperate for the companionship of someone who reminds us that we are not alone. We don’t have much of anything figured out. Maybe we never will. But more importantly, I think that’s how it’s supposed to be."
It took me a long time to realize that life doesn’t work that way. Older doesn’t mean happier or easier, and it certainly doesn’t mean better; it just means older. Life isn’t a well plotted screen play, or a checklist, or, God forbid, some waiting room. We have got to stop waiting. Because life isn’t about growing up to be all that we’ve ever wanted; it’s just about growing.
It’s about love, and change, and crying yourself to sleep when it’s all too much. And working at a burger joint, and kissing your best friend even though he might not like you back, and calling your mom every Sunday because you miss her like hell. It’s fights, and promotions, and hospital visits. And then it’s this: another wedding of another one of your college friends, the third one this year, but this time you meet a groomsman who’s just as down on love and you dance all night. And this: he cries when you say “I do.” And this: a kid with your eyes and his dorky ears.
Or maybe not. Maybe it’s this: you write everything, everywhere, all the time, even when the prettier kids make fun of you, and the short teacher with the big nose tells you it’s good. Really good. And this: you’re living in a shoebox, by the skin of your teeth, but there’s a bar across the street that lets you read your poetry, and every time you do, someone in the crowd finally knows what it feels like to be understood. And this: your words being published. Your words. Being bought by people who could be spending their money on anything at all. And you sit in your twin bed where you’ve written your entire novel, a dozen empty coffee mugs still dirty on the nightstand, and you scream until your lungs burn.
It’s all of these things, and bad things, and good things, and the raw realization that it doesn’t get better or worse, it just gets different. It just changes. Always, always changes. And somehow that makes it more wonderful. Because future you may have the friends, and the boy, and the job, but she didn’t get it by waiting around. She is a product of you. Right now, tomorrow, changing and growing every moment that follows. She is kind, and breathing, and beautiful. But she waits for the day she doesn’t have to worry about paying a mortgage bill, and she worries too often about what people think of her. She still doesn’t have it together.
And maybe that’s what I’ve learned after all this time: nobody has it together. We’re all just here, floundering around in pursuit of being something more. Broken, thoughtful creatures with too much time on our hands, desperate for the companionship of someone who reminds us that we are not alone. We don’t have much of anything figured out. Maybe we never will. But more importantly, I think that’s how it’s supposed to be."
— ramblings of an overthinker (via yourhandwrittenletter)
(via rowfasterloveharder)
GOD, I’m still upset about the “keep your cats inside” post. I read comments saying that cats “hunt wild birds and endangered species”, like what the hell?!
Are you serious?! If you’re upset about that, then YOU, as a human being, should stop fucking flying around in big planes, stop polluting the earth with your big ass car, stop killing the environment with harsh chemical cleaners - but CATS are the reason for wild birds and other small animals going extinct?!
I. Am. So. Done.
Cats have caused many extinctions, yes. The existence of other environmental hazards doesn’t negate the harm that cats do to wildlife. It especially doesn’t negate the amount of harm that can come to cats by allowing them to roam around outside unrestrained and unsupervised.
Do you think pet dogs, pet birds, pet hamsters, pet reptiles, and pet fish should also be set loose in the environment as well?
Hey, so consider this:
I work with a white-tailed Sea Eagle. His name is Gustav. Gustav is a lovely bird, but he’s also a nonnative species. If I wanted to pull the lazy man’s way of enriching him, I could throw him out into the wild and let him do what he likes, but he’d probably wreak havoc and cause a lot more destruction because he’s not native to where I live. The animals around here have no idea how to deal with Gustav, because he’s a bird none of them have naturally been exposed to, and if a bunch of other people threw out their Eagles, they could breed, nest, and introduce a species that could singlehandedly destroy native mammal, fish, and bird populations. Additionally, what if others’ Eagles are aggressive? What if they were diseased? By letting Gustav run free, he could not only hurt other birds and pets, but he could get hurt by some, too, and that would all be on me. Additionally, I won’t always know where he is. What if he runs into somebody who hates Eagles, and who shoots him? What if he gets stuck in a trap, or flies into a window, or even gets hit by a car? Those are all very real possibilities, and the dangers he faces and goes through are all on me.
In conclusion, it’d be irresponsible and abusive of me to let Gustav fly free, no matter how well I think I know him.Similarly, cats are a nonnative, highly invasive species, and they’ve built feral colonies all over the globe at a rate much quicker than an eagle can do. They pose a health hazard, an environmental hazard, and an ethical dilemma because those feral colonies are always growing between lost pet cats and hundreds of births.
Your pet cat travels much further than you expect, too, and there’s no way you can control the full area she’s in and keep her out of all the dangers. Just as it’s abusive of me to let Gustav face the outside world and all its dangers, it’s abusive, neglectful, and overall bad for you to let your cat go outdoors as she pleases.Lastly, they have made an enormous and undeniable impact on the environment. Cats are singlehandly making the recovery of certain bird species very difficult, if not impossible, and have wiped out an entire species in the past. Here are just a few of the birds that have been directly affected by irresponsible cat caretakers:
- Stephens Island Wren, extinct
- Newell’s Shearwater, endangered
- Hawaiian Petrel, vulnerable
- Piping plover, threatened
- California Clapper Rail, threatened
- California Least tern, endangered
- Kakapo, critically endangered
Exactly. I like that you covered not only the potential environmental impact, but also any potential harm to the animal itself.
what’s with people telling me to stop smoking because second hand smoke can cause cancer??? who cares when so many OTHER things do too?? LIKE HERITABLE GENETIC MUTATIONS IN ONCOGENES!! STOP BREEDING, PEOPLE, THEN MAYBE I’LL STOP SMOKING. TIL THEN I’M GONNA BLOW SMOKE RIGHT INTO BABIES’ FACES!!
that is what that argument sounds like to me and I am too tired of it to be nice about it anymore. the average person cannot directly prevent the wide-scale destruction of habitat by developers or cease the dumping of industrial chemicals the world over, but they can keep their fucking cat inside so it doesn’t damage local wildlife populations that are ALSO threatened by those things. a lot of species can actually adapt to live in gardens, you know? but not if there’s an alpha predator sitting right there. you can plant all the native flora and include all the micro climates you want in your yard but one cat that likes killing frogs and song birds can turn it that urban oasis into a desert.
Cats are not native, ey? Well, they are in Germany. We’ve got wild cats. Are you writing from an American point of view? Then it doesn’t concern me. According to NABU, interview linked in one of my responses, we don’t have the same problem as you do in the U.S.. Why? Because small animals are used to cats as their predators.
Now, guys: America is not the world. Open your minds a bit. You. Are. Not. The. World.
(via the-spanish-1nquisition)
Have already answered this before - another thing though… I have read multiple interviews and statistics regarding outdoor cats in Germany now. And we don’t really have that problem, a speaker of the NABU organization actually said that cats will never endanger small birds so much that they (the birds) will go extinct.GOD, I’m still upset about the “keep your cats inside” post. I read comments saying that cats “hunt wild birds and endangered species”, like what the hell?!
Are you serious?! If you’re upset about that, then YOU, as a human being, should stop fucking flying around in big planes, stop polluting the earth with your big ass car, stop killing the environment with harsh chemical cleaners - but CATS are the reason for wild birds and other small animals going extinct?!
I. Am. So. Done.
Cats have caused many extinctions, yes. The existence of other environmental hazards doesn’t negate the harm that cats do to wildlife. It especially doesn’t negate the amount of harm that can come to cats by allowing them to roam around outside unrestrained and unsupervised.
Do you think pet dogs, pet birds, pet hamsters, pet reptiles, and pet fish should also be set loose in the environment as well?
Bird, it’s worth noting that the post you responded to suffers from a pretty obvious red herring fallacy. It is arguably an attempt at fallacy by privation (”dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument,” per Wikipedia), and also suffers from phrasing that adds in a moral high ground fallacy. Finally, the post suffers from a very strong judgmental language fallacy.
In other words, this isn’t an argument worth continuing. I agree that outdoor cats are a pretty significant toll on the environment, but the arguments presented here are irrelevant to what the OP is complaining about. Though it’s easy enough to counter. Not everyone travels via flight, there are clean vehicular alternatives to gas-powered cars, and there are environmentally friendly cleaners that can be used as well. The first means slower travel, the second means a very expensive vehicle, and the third just means doing research and finding an appropriate product.
It’s also worth noting that the first has a very minor impact on the environment (excepting crashes), the second has a direct impact on wildlife hit and the atmosphere (China puts out more pollution in a day than every car in America puts out in a year, iirc), and the third has a more direct impact on the oceans.
All of which are irrelevant to the argument that outdoor cats are an invasive species with a strong tendency to hunt and kill native species regardless of rarity or usefulness to the cat.
We have documented extinctions because of outdoor and feral cats (an estimated 33, mostly on islands), y'know, an invasive species. Audubon society (the major bird protection group in the US) estimates over a billion songbirds killed yearly by outdoor cats. Estimates for small mammals and herps goes up to 20 billion. Yes, there are other factors, but cats remain a huge concern. And how hard is it to keep your cat indoors? It’s safer for your pet, too.
Feral cats are also a driving cause of the extinction of the Scottish Wildcat (fewer than 100 remain), which they compete with, hybridize with, and spread disease to. I wouldn’t doubt they have a significant impact on other wildcat subspecies.
In Germany, small animals are USED TO predators such as cats because there are wild cats in the forests.
Plus: the real “problem” in Germany are cats that have been pets and are now wild (e.g. left their home or were left alone). Solution? Not to keep your cats indoors. But mass castrations. You know what that would solve as well? The masses of cats that sit in animal shelters. Source: https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/voegel/gefaehrdungen/katzen/15537.html
Keep in mind that not all of the bloggers on this platform are from the U.S.. Keep in mind that the U.S.A. is not the world. Keep in mi d that your personal experience is not the whole universe.
(via kinka-juice)
GOD, I’m still upset about the “keep your cats inside” post. I read comments saying that cats “hunt wild birds and endangered species”, like what the hell?!
Are you serious?! If you’re upset about that, then YOU, as a human being, should stop fucking flying around in big planes, stop polluting the earth with your big ass car, stop killing the environment with harsh chemical cleaners - but CATS are the reason for wild birds and other small animals going extinct?!
I. Am. So. Done.
Cats have caused many extinctions, yes. The existence of other environmental hazards doesn’t negate the harm that cats do to wildlife. It especially doesn’t negate the amount of harm that can come to cats by allowing them to roam around outside unrestrained and unsupervised.
Do you think pet dogs, pet birds, pet hamsters, pet reptiles, and pet fish should also be set loose in the environment as well?
Bird, it’s worth noting that the post you responded to suffers from a pretty obvious red herring fallacy. It is arguably an attempt at fallacy by privation (”dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument,” per Wikipedia), and also suffers from phrasing that adds in a moral high ground fallacy. Finally, the post suffers from a very strong judgmental language fallacy.
In other words, this isn’t an argument worth continuing. I agree that outdoor cats are a pretty significant toll on the environment, but the arguments presented here are irrelevant to what the OP is complaining about. Though it’s easy enough to counter. Not everyone travels via flight, there are clean vehicular alternatives to gas-powered cars, and there are environmentally friendly cleaners that can be used as well. The first means slower travel, the second means a very expensive vehicle, and the third just means doing research and finding an appropriate product.
It’s also worth noting that the first has a very minor impact on the environment (excepting crashes), the second has a direct impact on wildlife hit and the atmosphere (China puts out more pollution in a day than every car in America puts out in a year, iirc), and the third has a more direct impact on the oceans.
All of which are irrelevant to the argument that outdoor cats are an invasive species with a strong tendency to hunt and kill native species regardless of rarity or usefulness to the cat.
We have documented extinctions because of outdoor and feral cats (an estimated 33, mostly on islands), y'know, an invasive species. Audubon society (the major bird protection group in the US) estimates over a billion songbirds killed yearly by outdoor cats. Estimates for small mammals and herps goes up to 20 billion. Yes, there are other factors, but cats remain a huge concern. And how hard is it to keep your cat indoors? It’s safer for your pet, too.
Feral cats are also a driving cause of the extinction of the Scottish Wildcat (fewer than 100 remain), which they compete with, hybridize with, and spread disease to. I wouldn’t doubt they have a significant impact on other wildcat subspecies.
Have already answered this before - another thing though… I have read multiple interviews and statistics regarding outdoor cats in Germany now. And we don’t really have that problem, a speaker of the NABU organization actually said that cats will never endanger small birds so much that they (the birds) will go extinct.
In Germany, small animals are USED TO predators such as cats because there are wild cats in the forests.
Plus: the real “problem” in Germany are cats that have been pets and are now wild (e.g. left their home or were left alone). Solution? Not to keep your cats indoors. But mass castrations. You know what that would solve as well? The masses of cats that sit in animal shelters. Source: https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/voegel/gefaehrdungen/katzen/15537.html
Keep in mind that not all of the bloggers on this platform are from the U.S.. Keep in mind that the U.S.A. is not the world. Keep in mi d that your small mind is not the whole universe.
(via kinka-juice)
GOD, I’m still upset about the “keep your cats inside” post. I read comments saying that cats “hunt wild birds and endangered species”, like what the hell?!
Are you serious?! If you’re upset about that, then YOU, as a human being, should stop fucking flying around in big planes, stop polluting the earth with your big ass car, stop killing the environment with harsh chemical cleaners - but CATS are the reason for wild birds and other small animals going extinct?!
I. Am. So. Done.
Cats have caused many extinctions, yes. The existence of other environmental hazards doesn’t negate the harm that cats do to wildlife. It especially doesn’t negate the amount of harm that can come to cats by allowing them to roam around outside unrestrained and unsupervised.
Do you think pet dogs, pet birds, pet hamsters, pet reptiles, and pet fish should also be set loose in the environment as well?
Bird, it’s worth noting that the post you responded to suffers from a pretty obvious red herring fallacy. It is arguably an attempt at fallacy by privation (”dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument,” per Wikipedia), and also suffers from phrasing that adds in a moral high ground fallacy. Finally, the post suffers from a very strong judgmental language fallacy.
In other words, this isn’t an argument worth continuing. I agree that outdoor cats are a pretty significant toll on the environment, but the arguments presented here are irrelevant to what the OP is complaining about. Though it’s easy enough to counter. Not everyone travels via flight, there are clean vehicular alternatives to gas-powered cars, and there are environmentally friendly cleaners that can be used as well. The first means slower travel, the second means a very expensive vehicle, and the third just means doing research and finding an appropriate product.
It’s also worth noting that the first has a very minor impact on the environment (excepting crashes), the second has a direct impact on wildlife hit and the atmosphere (China puts out more pollution in a day than every car in America puts out in a year, iirc), and the third has a more direct impact on the oceans.
All of which are irrelevant to the argument that outdoor cats are an invasive species with a strong tendency to hunt and kill native species regardless of rarity or usefulness to the cat.
We have documented extinctions because of outdoor and feral cats (an estimated 33, mostly on islands), y'know, an invasive species. Audubon society (the major bird protection group in the US) estimates over a billion songbirds killed yearly by outdoor cats. Estimates for small mammals and herps goes up to 20 billion. Yes, there are other factors, but cats remain a huge concern. And how hard is it to keep your cat indoors? It’s safer for your pet, too.
Feral cats are also a driving cause of the extinction of the Scottish Wildcat (fewer than 100 remain), which they compete with, hybridize with, and spread disease to. I wouldn’t doubt they have a significant impact on other wildcat subspecies.
I can’t believe how much attention my post about outdoor cats got, you guys. I understand your statistics and read through your comments because you never learn enough - consider this though: my post was a comment to another one about how far cats actually go (which you cannot control) and that you should keep them inside to keep them away from danger and birds / small animals.
Us human beings, we always try to control everything, we think we own every single thing on earth. We are the cause for so many cats sitting in animal shelters and most of the cats that are kept there have been outdoor cats before because they were left alone outside or, like my little ones, put in a box and thrown out of a driving car.
Have all of you who commented ever tried to keep an outdoor cat inside? Yes the transition is possible but they suffer so much, they literally sit in front of the door and cry, no matter how “interesting” you make your indoor space. Why? Because the outdoors is their natural habitat. Why do we have the right to keep them away from where they belong when we are the cause for there being so many cats on thr streets?
I understand that outdoor cats are the main predators for small birds etc. at the moment - but a serious question: what was the original “state/amount” of birds and other small animals when we started the statistic(s)? Have we humans endangered those small animals before our pets did and then there were too many cats on the streets which put those animals even more in danger?
Not a provoking question but actually interested in your answers.
Other than that: yes, I do argue that we can actually do more ourselves and to not blame it all on the cats. It’s easy to find one cause. But there’s never only one, we are the actual cause of so much pollution, of animals dying etc.
And we are not kept inside to stop endangering animals, to be kept away from danger, to stop spreading diseases, are we?
(via kinka-juice)
i want a house overflowing with plants. i want a big dog who thinks he’s small enough to fit in my lap. i want huge windows that flood the floorboards with light. a porch with a swing that we’re constantly sweeping ash off of. i want ivy growing all around. a bathtub big enough for the both of us.
(via leafeau)
