With luck, he’ll have an adoption to celebrate soon.
Dog Stuck at Shelter for 4 Years Gets a Party
People, via NTMTOM
Whooza good actor? Is it you? IS IT YOU?
Ethan Hawke and Alison Brie beaten for acting award by “Good Boy” dog
AV Club, via NTMTOM
And finally:
Arne spotted this playful pair from Wrocław Zoo in Poland, which affirms it really happened.
Meanwhile in the ZOO in Polandpic.twitter.com/i9CBvyAHmh
— KnightCziwi⚔️ 🇵🇱 (@KnightCziwi) January 8, 2026
I’ve seen the “fight” between the tiny deer and the rhino on many news programs, it turns out they live together peacefully.
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I love that “fight” so much. Rhino gallops are just too cute for words.
That rhino better watch out! That deer means business!
Happy to see happy deer. Car ahead of me last night hit one on my way home. Luckily it got knocked off onto the grass so it wasn’t in the road to cause a hazard, but I was pretty certain it was not getting up and this morning I confirmed I was right. It had a friend who did make it across the road (and I thought the second one might, but alas..). I don’t think the car even slowed down. I always wonder what the other deer think when that happens. Also on my way to work yesterday I had to drive over what I’m 99% sure was a kitten in the middle of the lane (didn’t see it this morning but I don’t remember exactly where it was). It was not a good day for animals on the road. 😭
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Sorry. {hugs}
Dear fellow Cutetropolitans,
I’m not sure how people like 2026 so far, but could we just send it back and either do 2025 again or jump directly to 2027, please?
I didn’t quite expect 2026 to be all fun and games, but I would have never thought it would suck so much.
We have quite an unusual winter here, with a little more than half a metre of snow and -20 C temperatures at night. Normally we have snow here once in 4-5 years, just some powder-sugar coating on the trees and it lasts only for a few hours and that’s it. Now we have full traffic chaos, people with summer tyres etc – I cannot even get the car out of my yard – as soon as I shovel enough room for my car in the street, my “wonderful” neighbours get happy with the space and dump their own snow there.
There hasn’t been a day in 2026 when we had both electricity and water supply all day. 2 of my cats would need veterinary attention, it is not possible to get there without a car. I would do the 90 mins walk for them if it wouldnt be -20 C. I shovel roughly 5 hours every day, because I don’t know how quickly it will melt and I don’t want my basement flooded. The cats have only relatively minor issues, but in normal conditions I would still get them checked… I can handle the cold and the snow, but it came totally unexpected. The weather forecast said 3-5 cm of snow for every day. Today it has been 17 cm so far. I haven’t been able to do grocery shopping since the middle of December.
I’m quite prepared for the snowpocalypse, but some easy days would sometimes be appreciated. Thanks for reading my rant, now back to shovelling 🙂
i’m so sorry EMS for all the weather woes. I remember them all too well and those type of days are what got me to move from the East Coast to sunny California. Hopefully, the sun shines today and starts melting the snow so you can get out. Good luck!
Thanks, AJ!
The funny part was when I realised I haven’t needed a warm winter jacket since 2016. So I was standing in front of the wardobe praying that I would find something from 2016 that still fits me. You know sometimes clothes shrink in the wardrobe 🙂
I have a coworker who usually just wears a heavy sweatshirt. I have said you know it’s cold when G has an actual coat. But the coldest so far that I’ve seen this winter is around mid-teens (Farenheit) in the morning. And we’ve only had snow a few times, and only once that we had to actually shovel (and one where I had to clear off my car, but there wasn’t enough on the road for them to even plow).
I’m like your coworker. People always ask me how I’m not cold 🙂
I am sorry you’re going through so much, Ems, but there is not enough money in the world to pay me to relive 2025. Nor any part of 2026 so far. I do hope your weather woes clear up eftsoons and right speedily, to say nothing of your neighbors developing consciences and some common sense.
Thank you, Ricky & Bibi’s Mom.
Yes, I know 2025 was terrible for a lot of people. Let’s hope 2026 will improve sooner or later.
I’d like to return 2026 for a full refund please and get something much better.
I am sorry that you’re having such a hard time.
Sending warm thoughts and wonder if a cone or chair in those spaces. time honored tradition in boston, not sure if it would help.
Thank you, Kar.
The problem is my neighbours exactly know what they are doing. So as long as I can put down cones or chairs, they can just throw them away.
Your neighbors are dik-dik’s.
😂😂😂
So sorry, Ems. Unexpected weather drama can make everything else much harder to bear.
Thank you, Debg. Indeed. If I had seen it coming, I would have parked the car closer to the gate, that would have halved the time spent shovelling. Anyway, some little improvement is promised for tomorrow.
Seems like you’re getting the snow and cold we usually have here although this year hasn’t been too bad …yet.
Yes, it looks like that. I usually get only the beautiful Cutetropolis snow, which I don’t need to shovel 🙂
Oh Dear, I’m sorry to hear about your frustrations. Sending patient thoughts your way, and good healing for the cats.
Thank you, Tara.
Maszat looks more or less OK now, only Cicero needs a little healing.
Love the all dog posts today! If I lived closer I’d take Percy in a heart beat, sounds like an absolute sweetheart. Fingers crossed someone adopts him after his party. Plus I love the name, had a great uncle Percy that was a real character. I guess he used to run moonshine (that my great granny made) up in the Nova Scotia area and used to get in trouble with the police. One of my relatives told me the story of how the RCMP came looking for him one day, and whoever answered the door showed the officer into the living room where Uncle Percy was laid out in his coffin. Officer tipped his hat and said sorry to disturb you and then left. Guess he figured that closed the case.
AJ, it sounds like there should be a movie about your great uncle! That’s quite a story!
Except in the movie after the officer leaves Uncle Percy get up from the coffin and has a drink LOL!!
And then there’s the stories about my great granny and my grandfather. It seems grandpa was shhh “born on the wrong side of the blanket” and my great granny kept him, at one point he was sent back to live with family in Newfoundland. Grandpa used to tell me stories of playing poker with a French fur trapper named Louis Moosie. That whole side was very interesting. Thank goodness most of them have passed on now so if a movie was made, noone would be upset about all the family skeletons tumbling out of the closets. On my dad’s side, my dad lived through the German occupation of Greece during WW2 and had some wild stories of smuggling weapons, and helping downed Allied pilots. I think his BIL was at the battle of El-Amein after somehow escaping Greece with British forces. After that my dad was involved in the Greek Civil War on the government side. Then there were my uncles who were in business and politics. Compared to them, my life is boring, lol!
You definitely need to at the very least write a book about your family. It would be fascinating, and everyone would learn so much!
Write those stories down while you still remember, even if it’s just in a text file in Google Drive! My family is infamously reticent, and we’ve lost most of the stories when the people have passed.
Reposting from yesterday:
Update on Fred: Not a happy camper. He burst through his cardboard castle wall like the Koolaid Man, then there was a big chase scene, and finally we got him penned in a corner so he could get three–THREE–shots of sedatives. It took forever to get him sedated enough for the exam.
We’ll know more by the end of the week when all the labs come back. Fred will live in the bathroom until then, so we don’t have to chase him all over the condo.
Thanks, everybody, for your support. It means the world.
I had a cat like Fred years ago, he was a sweet heart at home but turned into the Killer Cat from Outer Space” when at the vet. Fingers crossed the lab results are good ✌🏼 ✌🏼
My Cicero also turns into a hissing, spitting, biting demonspawn at the vet while the others behave perfectly.
I still hope for good results, let’s hope the situation isn’t as bad as it seems.
Fingers crossed for a good outcome and hopefully the lil Taz has calmed down today. I know it’s no fun chasing them around to get them into a carrier. Stresses everyone out.
My boys are angels for the vet staff, but challenging to get *into* their carriers. Especially the 2nd one after I’ve gotten the first one in.
And feeling you, Ems, because today I missed my appointment to take my Nebula to the vet for a dental cleaning–he’s got some surprisingly serious gum issues, always has been more problematic that way than his brother. I missed it because my neighbors have been taking advantage of the fact that my neighbor across the street no longer drives, and are parking in his driveway. But when they block his driveway, it is basically impossible to get my car out of my garage (narrow street, hill, telephone pole, and antique one-car garages with virtually no driveway on either side of the street, hard to understand if you’re not behind the wheel of the cars trying to maneuver in or out). So no visit to the vet today.
I left work early to get the car out on the street where they can’t block me in, so I can make my every few weeks longer drive to the satellite office. And my very kind vet team rescheduled us for the day after tomorrow, so I’ll leave the car out at least until then.
But it’s LA, so at least I don’t have the snow visiting me without asking my permission.