kontextmaschine:

became aware of a cat I know & like that I could maybe volunteer to care for and hope his issues are just issues with his situation and his caretaker’s just miffing it

met the cat today and now I feel bad for even having thought of it like that, like you hear midcentury autism and &tc disorders being blamed on unloving mothers

dude was a bag of bones, spry enough I still had to chase him behind furniture to grab him and give him his pill and syringe squirt, but just so scrawny, perhaps the bulkiest thing about him was his–

well not “whiskers”, cats actually have those, but the facial hair which drooped out to the side in this great arc, Yosemite Sam’s mustache or Wolverine’s hair points reversed

dude looked like he shoulda been dragging a fish skeleton out of a cartoon garbage pail, I was born in 1983 and I’d never seen a real cat like that, it was depressing