{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "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...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/173983318883/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/173729005463/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>became aware of a cat I know &amp; like that I could <i>maybe</i> volunteer to care for and hope his issues are just issues with his situation and his caretaker\u2019s just miffing it</p></blockquote>\n<p>met the cat today and now I feel bad for even having thought of it like that, like you hear midcentury autism and &amp;tc disorders being blamed on unloving mothers</p><p>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\u2013</p><p>well not \u201cwhiskers\u201d, cats actually have those, but the facial hair which drooped out to the side in this great arc, Yosemite Sam\u2019s mustache or Wolverine\u2019s hair points reversed<br/></p><p>dude looked like he shoulda been dragging a fish skeleton out of a cartoon garbage pail, I was born in 1983 and I\u2019d never seen a real cat like that, it was depressing<br/></p>"}