Celebrating the Seasons

I don't do halloween, but this is a very cute pic! 

@HelloMissKitty: Thank you so much! Your cat is cute and I really like the haunted house. It's neat. Wouldn't mind having one myself though with my luck none of the cats would like it and Stella would be scared of it.

@Tarasgirl06: I'm glad to hear it. I haven't had the chance to adopt yet, but that will be what I do next. Frost and Ash were bought by my mom from breeders. I love them to death, but it's not something I'll do again. Ember, of course, was my happy accident. My next cat will be coming from a shelter or adoption center. I would love to rescue.

May you be many times blessed for that! Rescued has always been my family's and my favorite "breed" 

Tarasgirl06 said:

 
May you be many times blessed for that! Rescued has always been my family's and my favorite "breed" 

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My favorite breed is feline.  Hehe

Thanks. I'm trying to volunteer now. I probably won't be getting another cat any time soon since both my mom and Ember are set against it, but I will try to do what I can in the mean time. I do love the idea of rescuing. The boys might be expensive and sweet, but there's something special about giving an animal joy when they've had it rough. However, the adoption center does not seem to like me for they haven't called and it's been about a week. They should be happy to have me volunteer. The first time I went, I fell in love with a cat and nearly brought him home. He got adopted later that day. The second time I was able to enjoy having a cat lay on his back on my lap and pet his belly. Later on, I look on their site and he was not there. I'm not sure how he could have gotten adopted so quickly when no one was even there, but I don't know why else he wouldn't be on their site. So that would be twice a cat got adopted right after I left.

My favorite breed is "not human." I love pretty much all creatures and want to help them.

Animal Freak said:

My favorite breed is "not human." I love pretty much all creatures and want to help them.

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That makes two of us.  I despise spiders and I'm not a big fan of people, but other than that, I would love to help critters.  I even caught a cicada that had made its way inside and took it back out.

ALICIA88!  Why don't you like spiders?  Spiders eat harmful insects.  They don't go looking to hurt people.  Quite the opposite -- they don't want anything to do with humans, because humans are always trying to kill them.  Even the venomous ones avoid humans as much as they can.  In my culture they are looked at as very special! Please reconsider about spiders.  Spiders are really our friends.

I have to agree about the spiders not being all that bad. As long as they aren't on me, I'm good. If they're on my clothes, I'm okay but I'd really like them to be off my clothes. I tend to freak out when any bug gets on my skin, but it's mostly because I'm paranoid about them being poisonous and biting so I react without even looking at the bug. The only bugs I don't like are the ones that are truly harmful and don't seem to really have a purpose like ticks and fleas and mosquitoes. Other than that it's really just people!

Yeah, I'm pretty similar, except that given what I now know about spiders, I slow down and don't panic, but rescue the spider and walk him or her outside to freedom.  I've read that even poisonous spiders like widows and recluses do not kill healthy people.  Of course no one should encourage them   but they are really not as dangerous as common stories would have us believe.  I actually know someone who was bitten by a widow; he said it made him sick and he was kind of halllucinating after it happened, but he survived just fine.

I did a terrible thing when I was a little kid; a green katydid grasshopper lit on me, and I slapped it instinctively.  *sad green mess* 

As for people, I like gentle, compassionate, caring, intelligent people, like a lot of the ones on this site.  The rest? It's from *meh* to active dislike, and downhill from there. 

I'm ridiculously arachnaphobic and I swear, they can sense that.  Spiders are out to get me.  I have actually had them chase me rather than run from me.  No lie.  I've had 3 very bad spider bites in my lifetime (confirmed, there were other bites that may or may not have been from spiders).  Snakes eat harmful bugs, too.  So they're my friends.

Well, good on ya for the snakes, anyway.  I used to live in the Mojave, where there were many kinds of snakes including your garden-variety rattlers, Mojave Greens (the most venomous of the rattlers), red racers, sidewinders, and my favorite, the Pine-Gopher snake.  Here's a pic of Slither, who let us live on her (or his?) land.  I really liked this snake a lot and when we left, my ex said he got a promise from the buyers not to harm her (him).  (S)he's harmless to humans and eats rodents.  Not that I have anything against rodents, but that's their nature, like cats' nature is also to eat rodents.  Slither was about 7' long when I left.  Hopefully she's doing well. 

I lived in 29 Palms for a long time and after that, Yucca Valley for a while.  I randomly went out to the garage one afternoon and found a 6 foot long Bullsnake.  I think that's what it was, anyway.  We maneuvered it into a bucket and relocated it.  I wouldn't have minded letting it stay but my ex-husband didn't want it there.  The best I could do was talk him out of smashing its head in with his e-tool.

My mom put me in a nest of snakes when I was little. I'm not scared of them. Heck, even at the time I wasn't scared of them. I love them.

As for bugs... Well, they have a strong dislike towards me. I've been chased by bees, had a bee jump in my hair, mosquitoes try to eat me alive, and I just generally attract bugs. I went through phases though. When I was really young the ants were my friends. Then I got to a point where I was mad at them for invading my house. And then I realized that they're just doing what everyone tries to do: survive. I've also gotten myself to point of thinking about their lives so much that I freak when I accidentally smash a bug. I think I almost went into shock when I tried to shoo a bug off my computer screen and ended up killing it.

And as far as people go... Let's just say I haven't found the perfect person. I like the people that come up in articles on Facebook that risked their lives to save an animal or took in a stray off the streets. I've only found one person who is anything like me and she's one of my only friends.

There's something about me that attracts bugs, too.  I don't know if it's my specific mix of pheromones or what, but I'll get eaten alive when no one gets a bite.  Bees gravitate to me, as do wasps - which are evil little nasties.  Bees won't bother you unless you bother them.  Wasps will sting you if you make the slightest move.  Hornets will sting just for the fun of it because they're sick *******s.

I don't believe any creature is evil. They just do what they feel they need to. I have been chased by bees and so I am weary of them. My mom and I are not a good pair since they chase me and she's allergic. I'm not bothered by them as long as they keep their distance, but I don't like them getting too close. Otherwise the only time I feel the need to kill any insect is if it endangers my animals. I've had wasps get in my house and my cats want to chase them. A brown recluse got in the room with my rats while they were playing. It's in those situations I hold something against the insect. My children come first. Otherwise, I won't do anything to harm them. I even made my mom help me rescue a moth. I told her I owed it one because it didn't fly in my face while I was taking pictures of it so I couldn't let the cats eat it. It was too pretty to become a cat snack anyway.

Ah, a good mom 

I'm the same way about insects.  They were created just as we were, to live their lives.  Who are we to take them?  I try to live and let live, and I walk insects out if I find them in the house, especially crickets, who are very wonderful and who attract unwanted feline attention if I don't    I've always loved butterflies and moths, and I protect them when I can.  We don't get a lot of insects coming into the house, but when we do, they get walked out if possible.  In the Mojave, there were a lot of different kinds of insects and many did manage to come inside.  I was fascinated by them -- the variety and the unfamiliarity of them!  There was a butterfly migration the first spring I was there, and I stood right in the middle of them as they were flying through.  It was a magical moment for me.  Also up there, I got my first bee sting.  I was on part of the land where bees were, and two of them weren't happy with my presence.  They chased me.  I wasn't sure if I'd be allergic or not -- I'd never been stung -- so I ran as fast as I could back to the house, but one had stung me right by my eye!  It was very painful.  I felt worse for the bee, though, because of course it died.  I wasn't allergic, but it hurt for a few days even though I put a poultice on it.

Yeah, I'm the same about anyone threatening my family, too -- it's natural.  I'm a very peaceful person, but anyone messes with my  loved ones, the gloves are off.  

And yeah, people...the idea of them is nice.  I was raised in a very social background, and there would always be relatives and/or friends around.  That was really good, and the way we should be, being mammals and all.  But people in this society now?  Let's just say I don't find a lot of them very wonderful, either.  I have friends all over the world on social media and so on, but locally, I don't like most people because they're inconsiderate, uncaring, avaricious, untrustworthy, self-centered and just plain not very nice.    A friend of mine gave me this magnet that says, "I (heart) CATS.  It's PEOPLE I can't stand."  That pretty much sums it up, but I wish it were different and that more people were good. 

 Yeah, I have to say you're not wrong there.  Wasps can be pretty tough customers.  I don't have any problem with them personally, though.  I had a colony of paper wasps nesting close by my front door, and my gardener got really scared and wanted to take the nest out.  I said not to, and said, "They won't bother you if you don't bother them."  They never did bother either of us, and after they were done nesting, I just removed the empty nest myself.  They never built there again. 

Most of the insects that get in my house get eaten by my cats... I feel bad for the bug, but most of them are capable of flying so they have a fair chance of getting away. And I kind feel bad for my cats when you take the bug away because they'll be looking for it. Ember got upset once because Ash ate a bug and so she started looking for another one. She pawed at a spot on my wall hoping it was a bug. So I don't go out of my way to kill them, but I don't always go out of my way to save them either. I leave them be for the most part. I don't really like them being on my bare skin when I don't know what they are and I'm afraid of accidentally squishing them.

I haven't been stung by a bee. I have been stung by something though. I was young and didn't get a good look at it. It was just a black silhouette. All I could figure out was that it was smaller than a wasp but thinner than a bee. I had several stings on one hand and apparently another snuck around and got my other hand a couple of times. I've gotten used to bees though since carpenter bees like to nest in our porch, but it seems my presence angers most bees. Or my mom just always happens to be mowing when a bee is around and they take it out on me. One chased me around the backyard because my mom was mowing. It was also why I got stung.

I can't say I'm very peaceful. I have anxiety and often do not speak my mind, but I also threaten to hit people over the head with a frying pan. I haven't gone through with it.... yet. So I'm a bit violent when it comes to my own kind. Otherwise, I'm peaceful. Though you sound basically exactly like me. I don't have anything against the human species. I have something against humanity. If humane is putting a dog down because it bit someone or murdering animals because "there's not enough room" then I won't support being humane. If that is what it is to be human, then I do not want to be human. Humans are just another case of having been given too much power. It blinds them. They think they're superior because they're oh so smart, but really they're just bringing themselves down.

On the subject of insects, the other day, Connor and Murphy were chasing a fly all around the bedroom.  Then Murphy leaped at it and put his front paws together.  The fly disappeared.  He looked every which way and opened his paws and there was the fly.  He looked surprised that he'd caught it and it flew up and the chase was on once again.

 *Endless fun*