u/Batwhiskers — reddlx

Image 1 — Keep ur kitties indoors!! (Dead kitten warning)

Image 2 — Keep ur kitties indoors!! (Dead kitten warning)

Image 3 — Keep ur kitties indoors!! (Dead kitten warning)

Keep ur kitties indoors!! (Dead kitten warning)

I was walking my dog a few weeks ago when I saw a cat on the road. She’d been ran over many times and had sat there for weeks in the summer heat.

I couldn’t fucking stand it man. I peeled her off the road with no gloves. It broke my heart. I took her home, and when I washed her bones I realized they were super bendy and “rubbery”.

I assume she was just a kitten, due to the cartilage and rubbery bones. It’s so sad dude. Keep your cats inside if you can. I’ve worked with cats so I do know some are too feral to be indoor at all, but if you’ve got one of those in your local cat colony the best thing to do for it is TNR. TNR, TNR, TNR.

i understand it’s not the best solution we have, but it is one! Ive worked with cats to get them acclimated to being inside and friendly to humans, most cats that are okay with humans will do fine inside. It’s better to let your kitty go through a bit of a stressful time than to have Mr. Mittens end up in someone’s maceration bucket!!

u/Batwhiskers — 5 hours ago

▲ 10 r/WildlifeRehab

I found a very sickly fledgling, and I could tell something was off because the poor guy wasn’t moving at all and was gasping for air. I decided to pick him up only to check him out for bites or injuries, and he didn’t fight at all. That really concerned me. He wasn’t moving or running from predators, so I decided his condition was severe enough to take him to a vet.

It was at most 15 minutes from when I found him to when he passed. I was holding him when he went stiff and just… went limp. It was horrifying to witness. After his death was when I noticed the issue. His little spine was bent in such a severe way that it went through his chest. It was so severe I thought that it was his little crop poking out, as I’m so used to chickens and them having crops. With my chicken background i figure it was likely a severe, severe case of wry neck as it wasn’t a break, it was a *twist*. There was nothing that could be done for the baby. Little thing couldn’t even hold his head up. Like this was fucking brutal. Nature is fucking insane… man. This will be a lot to process, haha:(

I do have a rose bush where I put the baby birds I find that have already passed, i find it blooms prettier and fuller than my other rose bushes. But man, I’ve never had an animal literally die in my hands. My main worry was if I scared him while he was passing. I was making his temporary “nest” when he passed, so I was still holding him. And I’m worried me holding him gave him a heart attack or something. I know he would have died either way, but fuck man this is haunting me.

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u/Batwhiskers — 10 days ago

▲ 44 r/freeart

I’m looking to practice translating a moodboard into a character! I only do on-base adopts atm due to severe tremors in my hands and brain damage making it harder to learn how to draw, but I love to make characters with bases! It’s so much more accessible for me. I will sometimes draw on the base and add on small details, but this isn’t always the case due to the reasons above.

I have over 200 bases to choose from, with many different animals, both feral and anthro! I’ll pick out a few moodboards that interest me and draw them! I am a slow worker, so expect the finished product in about or less than a week!

If you have a toyhouse please let me know so I can send you the character there as well! <3

Examples of my work below! Credit for both me and the base user is required when posting elsewhere! Please credit @Iliac_Inventions on insta for my work. <3

I’m on mobile, so I’m unable to add captions to my pictures. For any information on any bases used, please ask and I’ll be more than happy to tell!

u/Batwhiskers — 10 days ago

▲ 2 r/ptsd

I’m not exactly here to vent, I’m just desperate for some help. Of some kind. I’m posting here bc I know some of yall are in a similar situation and also bc I’ve been therapist recognized for cpstd.

My mother is my abuser, and it’s still hard for me to come to terms with that. I had a friend who said I’m being groomed by her, but it’s hard for me to see that. I want to trust my friend but I don’t want to hurt my mom. The thing is she doesn’t even realize she’s doing anything bad. I know for a fact that if I tell anyone about the sexual aspects of my abuse, she’ll probably feel so bad she’ll hurt herself. I don’t want that to happen.

I also see no reason to get help, as I only see bad things coming from it. Police in my town are absolutely ass and don’t do anything other than take down people for smoking weed. Also, I am severely disabled and need a caretaker every day to survive and make sure I don’t literally explode the stove or start a fire when cooking lmao. I cannot survive without help, she’s the only help I have.

I don’t have any friends I can live with, nor any family support that’s better. I cannot imagine even telling anyone who knows her because I don’t want to damage her reputation in any way. I love her and I don’t want to hurt her. I don’t believe she means to hurt me, but she just does things in a blinding rage and blacks out.

Don’t want to get too deep into the abuse, but I have level 2 autism. I have been triggered into such severe meltdowns I regularly hit my head and cause myself concussions, to where I now have a moderate-severe brain injury. I’m pretty confident that if I stay in this situation I’ll die via severe brain trauma or suicide. But I don’t see any escape for me.

I am schizophrenic, my mom is not. I do not think anyone would believe me. I have documented experiences of psychosis, my mom just depression. Not saying she doesn’t experience it, but it’s not on her record. There is no evidence I can gather to help my case, as most abuse is non touching sexual or mental. I don’t know man I feel so lost

My friend I used to have cut me off, one of the reasons was bc I wouldn’t stand up to my mom, aka say no when she wanted to take over my therapy and health and make her less helicopter-y. But the thing is, I can’t. I’m scared for my life and mine. If I tell her, she may kill herself and I’ll be on the streets. I’m disabled to where I’ll die on the streets shortly. And I cannot live with the guilt of killing my own mom, my brother already had killed himself in the past I can’t deal with that too :(

I would describe what she does, but sometimes I can’t even remember it. It’s all a blur of fear and screams and I know I’m complicit too bc I make her mad but it hurts so bad. I don’t want this life anymore, but I’m terrified to die

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u/Batwhiskers — 10 days ago

▲ 1 r/birds

My little cousin called me over because she had found a baby bird. I went to check the little guy out and see if I could put him back in his nest, but it was about 10 feet off the ground and I had to stand on my older cousins car to even see it. When I saw it, it was absolutely in bad shape. Like there was no way this nest was holding the rest of these babies for long, and they would definitely all fall out one by one. I tried adjusting it and fixing it but it was beyond repair. I absolutely would never take a nest down unless the babies are in danger, like they were.**Unless the baby bird is hurt or the nest is destroyed, put the baby back in its nest. The idea that human scent wards off birds is a myth! If so, they wouldn’t be shitting on our cars lmao**

I took the whole nest down and scooped all the babies up and brought them inside. I heated a water bottle up a bit and covered it with paper towels, and made them a makeshift nest out of paper towels as well. There were 4 in total, but very unfortunately only 3 survived.

The one who passed had did so long before I got to them, as I could tell she died much younger/smaller than her siblings. I’m a taxidermist so I’m pretty experienced with identifying when death happened, and it happened likely a few minutes to hours after she was born, so I’m putting it on some congenial deformity that couldn’t be helped. I placed her body in a rose bush.

I knew better than to feed these sweethearts, and I only messed with them to gauge how strong they were (ie. If they can hold their head up or move around), so they got very little human contact from me! I know this guy who works for my local wildlife bird hospital, he takes a lot of the game birds offsite when they’re full. I hit him up and he offered to take the birds!! He’s suchhhh an angel I swear. Ugh idk what me and these babies would do without him! He knows how to feed them and care for them properly, he’s a professional hehe

He took them to the hospital yesterday! I think they’re doing well. I’m so proud of them, they survived so much:)

u/Batwhiskers — 13 days ago