a big silly white & orange cat named skippy sprawls on a bed, looking deceptively dignified
a very sweet black & white cat named mama gazes contemplatively out of her carrier
(That spring I adopted a rescue cat who'd come in from the cold only a few days before Adonis did.
Unfortunately she developed a House-MD-worthy array of medical crises & passed a few months later.
2025 was godawful for an infinite variety of reasons, but Cait & Adonis remind me of the joys, too.)
I lost my own elderly white & orange boy right before Austin passed.
Adonis reminds me so much of Skipper, enormous & sturdy & skittish & dramatic & an absolute teddy bear.
Following along as Donnie came into Cait's life & blossomed into a big sweet baby helped so much with the grief.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git
Etymology – Noun – variant of get, term of abuse, from GET entry 2 ("something begotten")
www.etymonline.com/word/git
"worthless person," 1946, British slang, a southern variant of Scottish get "illegitimate child, brat," which is attested by 1706
/captain pedantic signing off
(3.) Most of the commenters seem to have missed this too, but:
(2.) Cats typically crouch while eating, but older/arthritic cats can have difficulty maintaining that neck position. Providing a raised feeder is a common solution to make it easier for them to eat without discomfort. (It also makes it harder for them to scoot it all the way across the floor)
(1.) "Calico" & "tortoiseshell" aren't breeds, they're terms for common coat colorations (like "tuxedo" for a cat that's mostly black with white accessories). Calicos have white, torties just have the orange & black.
it's fairly drinkable if you mix it with eggnog!
(source: teenage boredom one holiday weekend visiting friends of a friend of family friends)
fun fact: in french & italian, "gna" is pronounced "nya" :3
#2 is more anatomically accurate — a centaur's bizarro physiology is more or less defined by "entire human torso sprouting from ungulate's neck"
if it was from a spanish language classroom, it might be POOOOR — the bottom of the final letter was cut off, so it could be an R (or B) instead.
("POOOOR QUÉEEE"? "POOOOR FAVOOOR"? "POOOOR EJEMPLO"? 🤷🏻♀️)
