Kiki's White Trash and or Nerdy Birthday Bash Funeral

[Tesumph]

Been there, done that. Our state did notify us that a birth certificate was required. I assumed that the hospital issued birth certificate would work. They accepted as a temporary document. I ordered a state issued birth certificate. Got it, left it in the envelope that it was delivered in. A couple of years later I ran across the envelope which looked identical to an envelop that I received a queen bee in. Without looking inside the envelop, I tossed it (along with 2 copies of the birth certificate). The next time my license came due, I couldn't find the birth certificates. I ordered replacements. They were due to arrive within a couple of days of the license expiration. They got delayed. They would not accept the hospital issued birth certificate again. They issued me a temporary license and I had to have the new one expedited (ouch) and take it in as soon as it arrived.

If they had told me the first time that I could have taken the state issued one in after the fact, I would have had it filed and taken care of before I threw them away.

Should've just given them the bee.

 

[MROO]

That's so sad, I'm sorry Bee. ❤
My neighbor's brother got bit on the pinky by a cat. A week later he was on a ventilator in hospital staving off a blood infection and fighting for his life. He ended up losing his entire forearm but he lived. You hear a lot of these horror stories in vet med.

Cat bites are nasty ... even from healthy cats! DS adopted a feral youngster (18 months-ish) from a local shelter. She'd been there several months and was coming around nicely, so my Cat Whisperer was allowed to bring her home. Her first weekend here, poor Hana had a sudden face-to-face meeting with Crazy Dog ... and sunk her teeth into DD's thumb in a panic. It infected almost immediately, but kitty and kid were all up to date on shots, so a course of antibiotics and a double quarantine later, all is well with us, the doctor and the Health Dept. Extra Bonus ... after the wild explosion and panic associated with that first meeting, Crazy Dog now gives Hana a very wide berth!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I don't have the heart or the cojones to process my own birds. Maybe one of these days ...

I said the same thing for years but I finally did it this year and so can you!!! I just processed 9 quail last week and back this spring I put down 2 sick chickens. Didn’t process them but was my first time killing anything. Quail was first time killing anything healthy. You can do it!!! My birds are mostly all pets and I still did it! Of course with the quail I knew I would have to kill some of the boys eventually and my parents had a harder time with it than I did but still.

 

[Nabiki]

Cat bites are nasty ... even from healthy cats! DS adopted a feral youngster (18 months-ish) from a local shelter. She'd been there several months and was coming around nicely, so my Cat Whisperer was allowed to bring her home. Her first weekend here, poor Hana had a sudden face-to-face meeting with Crazy Dog ... and sunk her teeth into DD's thumb in a panic. It infected almost immediately, but kitty and kid were all up to date on shots, so a course of antibiotics and a double quarantine later, all is well with us, the doctor and the Health Dept. Extra Bonus ... after the wild explosion and panic associated with that first meeting, Crazy Dog now gives Hana a very wide berth!

Cat bites are nothing to mess with. I've gotten bitten by my cats a couple of times, and even after doing a complete cleaning, I watch the site like a vulture watches the city tourist in the deep desert. If it starts to swell, I'm on the phone to the doctor, and he gives me antibiotics. I've done that twice, and the doctor has always said that I did the right thing.

 

[MROO]

They always take the water toys away after the 4th. No pools here either:

Yeah ... just TRY to buy a bathing suit after the fourth! I'm getting Halloween adverts already and the Christmas projects are already showing up in the craft stores! OUCH!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Maybe if I had someone else do the dirty deed, I could process them ... but only if I had birds that all looked alike. If I could tell which one I was gutting, I'd be no good. What can I say? When it comes to the critters, I'm a wuss!

A lot of my quail all looked the same and they were all bickering and hurting each other and crowing like crazy so it made it easy haha though I miss the crowing now it was nice. And also once you skin or pluck them they all look the same

 

[ShrekDawg]

Learn to read reversed or just hold it in front of a mirror. I had no problem reading it. Another option is to download the image, open in a good photo editing program and click on mirror image.

All good ideas thanks!! The phone in front of the mirror thing is brilliant

That was the short version ya twit.
Toxoplasmosis can also cause seizures, confusion, joint and muscle pain that lasts for months, and lesions in your retina that eventually end in blindness.
Many babies are stillborn and the ones that survive are very sad cases.
Anyway I'm not trying to write an essay on this... been there, done that.
There's also prions like CWD (which we still don't know much about) in deer or zoonotic diseases transferred by blood either directly or through insects but WHATEVER. Stop making me reply! I can't help myself!

Holy mackerel!!! You’re scaring me

You really couldn't read it backwards?

nope! Well, I could read like most of it except like the last few lines haha like I could read some but it took extreme concentration and hurt my head

 

[ShrekDawg]

Black beans and jasmine rice with balsamic glaze.

And got 4 more quail eggs today. up to 11 now. They’re really putting out now LOL

 

[MROO]

I said the same thing for years but I finally did it this year and so can you!!! I just processed 9 quail last week and back this spring I put down 2 sick chickens. Didn’t process them but was my first time killing anything. Quail was first time killing anything healthy. You can do it!!! My birds are mostly all pets and I still did it! Of course with the quail I knew I would have to kill some of the boys eventually and my parents had a harder time with it than I did but still.

Nope. Not even gonna try. I can put down a sick animal ... wouldn't be the first time. I don't know how many hamsters or injured birds I've "done in" over the years, but it's more than I care to count. The hardest was a pair of very small baby bunnies that Mama had started to snack on, but it was the only kind thing to do, so I made it happen.

I don't keep that many chickens - currently only about 20, including four chicks - so I know them all "personally." Nearly all of the chicks we hatch and raise go to 4H youngsters who want to help save the Nankin breed. The 50/50 hatching ratio generally keeps the extra males to a minimum. Those that do stay live happily and forever in my bachelor flock. It currently numbers eight, with three, maybe four, scheduled to go to other breeders as soon as travel resumes. I don't ship, so it's strictly pick up or meet-up for delivery and the new owners aren't comfortable traveling, yet. Hopefully they'll still want their fellows when this lets up a bit.

So, at least for the foreseeable future and unless I end up somewhere I can raise birds in a large enough quantity to not get so attached, my birds are all about eggs and eye candy ... and that's okay with me!

 

[MROO]

Oh! Big surprise! I'm all caught up. I've got some calamari to fry!