cat=$((cat+1)) ๐บ
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I'm back from the vet this morning with an official adoption for Geuloush. He is a fully-grown male cat who has probably been abandoned by his former owners in the summer. ๐ก
We put notices around our house in search of them, but failed to get any feedback. The poor thing was starving and in bad shape. After a month of care, he is now loving and healthy. ๐ He'll be neutered soon. He is an exact copy of Miolek our number 3 , the photo above shows that very well.
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davidrevoy
Note: I had a lot of fun making the search notice I printed in the neighbourhood. I wanted a "Ms Publisher from the late 90s" look, with "Comic Sans" font, curvy shaded title art and gradient, dotted frame, a clipart, bad use of all caps, red colour, etc.... With a bad printer, the result was a work of art. ๐
maloki@rage.love
they are so adorable!
โmirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
@maloki ๐คฌ why do humans do that to cats ๐ฟ thank Bastet you were able to help him!
โgekitsu@toot.cat
what handsome fellas they both are! <3
โkallaria@mastodon.art
oh les beaux chatons ๐ป
โwhattheceej@aus.social
๐ original
davidrevoy
@whattheceej ๐ฌ Oh no. Poor thing! ๐
2 โThe surgery (expensive, unfortunately) will protect him; young 'whole male' cats are problematic in the city, for others and for themselves: they spread sexual diseases, fight and mark their territories (and get more scratches, sometimes loose ears, eyes, etc...) and make wild stray kittens. They rarely live more than 3 years.
The vet estimated this one to be 3 years old, in very good health. Rare to find a male like this. He'll be also tested for AID.
justin@toot.io
but cat=$((cat+1)) without defining cat=3 yields cat=1 ๐ค. On the other side, congrats! ๐ฑ ๐
davidrevoy
@justin Right! ๐
Fixed:
~ ยปยปยป cat=3
~ ยปยปยป cat=$((cat+1))
~ ยปยปยป echo $cat
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Thanks!
2 โmmu_man@m.g3l.org
got help from Clippy?
davidrevoy
@mmu_man ๐คฃ ๐คฃ ๐คฃ That would have been the full experience.
I wonder now if someone had the audacity to fill a 'wish list' on LibreOffice tracker for a Clippy alternative. :troll:
(and I wonder if this person will be me ๐ )
8 โlanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
The one true way of posting notices. โ
draco@wandering.shop
aww, congratulations for the adoption! I hope your kitties are going to get along well :)
โsysop408@sfba.social
now do one on perforated line feed dot-matrix printer paper in Printshop banner style FTW!
โdavidrevoy
@sysop408
ASCII art on a perforated line printer (directly connected to the keyboard, no monitor) was my favorite 'game' when my dad kept me at his work in the 80s. The tip of the printer was like a sting, very noisy, each characters felt engraved, in a sort of light-grey monospace courrier font. That was glorious.
4 โkate@federatedfandom.net
we acquired a new cat recently under similar circumstances...
kate@federatedfandom.net
pretty sure our miss Lois is pregnant tho x.x
davidrevoy
@kate ๐ฎ Oh wow. I hope you'll find owners for the future kittens.
kate@federatedfandom.net
same! It was a surprise but, oops, we fell in love with her
๐ผ๏ธ originaldavidrevoy
@kate
Oh wow, what a beauty! ๐
davidrevoy
@kate
Thank you for doing that too!
The amount of abandonned pets (in France) boomed and was estimated 60 000 this summer, vet said. She told me ID of cat was now legally an obligation, and to abandon can be punished up to 2 years of prison and 30 000โฌ.
kate@federatedfandom.net
honestly, there's so much data about the impact of feral cats on local ecosystems... doesn't seem like a bad idea. Aside from, I am extremely tender hearted and seeing abandoned companion animals makes me Sad.
โpuniko@mk.absturztau.be
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org โ:neocat_lul:โ you nailed the 90s ms publisher look there
โpelicangut@aus.social
โ"Is anyone missing Missy?"
davidrevoy
@pelicangut ๐คฃ
pepper1700@hachyderm.io
๐ฑ++
โdavidrevoy
@pepper1700 ๐ shorter and better syntax!
โpiofthings@mastodon.social
happy for Geulosh ๐ awesome!
grum999@masto.ai
:ablobcatattentionreverse: :blobcatflower:
If it was possible, I'll adopt all homeless cats :blob_cat_heart:
But my apartment is already too small for my @maou and as he frequently have buddies Ohana&Pruneau or Mojo&Obรฉlix with us during vacation...
Geuloush looks happy now in his new familly :blobcathappy:
davidrevoy
@grum999 @maou Same! I hope I'll not have more, but I can't resist when one sleep outside in my garden and looks bad. If it continues, I'll have to build a little wooden garden house or officialy start a shelter. ๐
โsearchparty@mstdn.social
Tabbies are the best! How could anyone abandon a pretty kitty like that? Very good of you to take him, with three other cats already there. Is everyone getting along?
davidrevoy
@searchparty Thanks! Yes, no idea how this one could be abandoned, because he looks so well domisticated (he is the type of cat to jump on knees, or roll on the feets to show belly, and has a hunger for cuddle).
2 โMy three others started to let him exist around. Distance of 40cm is ok, they don't cuddle or sleep together. If they contact, they start to growl at him. Sometime a paw just hit without claws, he is not yet super adopted, but no drama. I hope this will improve.
sindarina@ngmx.com
Awww, happy he found a good home, welcome Geulosh! ๐ป
sindarina@ngmx.com
I do feel like we deserve a family portrait with all four, now ๐ค
You know, to mark the occasion.
jcbritobr@mastodon.social
Adopted one that appeared in my house. Nice cat. Very lovely and He is a gentleman. ๐
๐ผ๏ธ originaldavidrevoy
@jcbritobr ๐ Majestic eyes!
โ70hz@livellosegreto.it
soooo cute!!!
โ(I'm the staff of a green eyed tabby, too!)
sybren@mastodon.art
Congratulations on the your owner!
Is Goulash a common name for a cat over there?
davidrevoy
@sybren Thanks Sybren! No, Geuloush is unique. It's composed of "gueuler" a verb to scream , to yell in French. And the -uล Polish suffix , a cute diminitutive.
3 โhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-u%C5%9B#Polish , So, "Gueuluล" or "Geuloush (easier orthography for the vet)"; โ "the cute yeller" in a way. ๐
sybren@mastodon.art
hah, little screamer, I like it :)
โkrita_artists@mastodon.art
Congratulations!
โZekovski@pouet.chapril.org
โMaybe it's because it is a #standardIssueCat .
davidrevoy
@Zekovski Oh my.... I just read https://www.reddit.com/r/standardissuecat/comments/ylgfpx/what_is_a_standard_issue_cat_we_have_made_a_guide/ , and it is exactly that syndrome. My #2 is also a StandardIssueCat (SIC). I now have to make a photo of the three SIC together. Thanks for the discovery, I sent it to my wife and we had a good laught. Good to see it is a common phoenomena. โบ๏ธ
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