Have you ever thought maybe someone has jinxed you? Because I have definitely had better years. My neighbor and friend of over 20 years allowed her incredibly mean tom cat to roam and he kept coming to my house, beating up my cats. Ended up killing two of my beautiful queens, Taffeta and Trotsky. He hurt one of my ginger cats Marmalade and I suspect he additionally hurt my cat Saffron. She does this. She just gets pets and lets them go wild. Twice she's had dogs that rampaged around chasing or hurting my animals. When you tell her, she'll just shrug and say that's what animals do. So. We took matters into our own hands and got rid of her cat. We couldn't catch him, so. I won't elaborate, but my partner and I both wept over having to take some measures.
I was already messed up because as a few of you know, my cat Dumpling (who was my mom's cat)had a disastrous pregnancy. After surgery and days of her in the hospital, where I couldn't even see her because of stinkin' Covid, I had to opt for humanity and have her put to sleep. Keeping her alive was torture for her. The vet was kind though. They brought her out to me, let me tell her goodbye and love on her, then they sedated her in the parking lot in my arms. After that they took her in and put her to sleep. So i lost her, the kittens. And I spent thousands of dollars to literally put her through hell trying to save her.
Then Monday one of the guinea pigs I rescued passed away. I knew he was old, but it was still awful. And yesterday. Yesterday my bird cage got opened while I was asleep and my cockatiels got out and one of the dogs got one. I don't think the dog meant to hurt it, I think she was just curious. In any case, my partner brings me my Gabby Gadzooks who is injured. I just sat there in the bed and she died in my hands. The other bird, Marlarkey, who I've had for about 10 years was unscathed, but he's traumatized because Gabby was the love of his life. I bought her for him after his mom died.
So I just feel like I'm bad luck. And a bad person. So I've been hiding. I post stupid things on facebook every few days so my sisters think I'm okay, but apparently they have gotten wise to that trick. Dangit. Anyway. I thought I should come back and try to cheer up someone else if I can't cheer up me. I've missed you guys. I just didn't wanna bring anyone down with the constant horrorshow my life has been.
On the upside, I did have kittens that survived, so my living room is fulla adorable mewmews.
So what have y'all been up to while hiding from the plague?