Open Thread

GG’d, good now I can day dream they bring it back at a juicy price of 650k and pray I don’t have to fight with DIBS for it

m4l, I agree with you. As I said, I gather from the email saying “no longer on market” that the house has been taken off the market. When a property is in contract or sold, I typically get an email to that effect.

I don’t want to pay more NYS & NYC taxes to be given out by Slimey Silver and NYC council members to relatives employed by convenient “non-profits”. But whatyya gonna do? I can’t even vote so I’m stucck.

Rob, first off the cats…

You can go the TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) step. This will prevent more from being born and will stop the howling and spraying (piss smell). Unfortunately once a cat is deemed feral (wild). They don’t take them into shelters or try to adopt them out because they haven’t been socialized (handled and accustomed to humans).

http://www.animalalliancenyc.org/nycfci/index.php

If you don’t want to or can’t handle the TNR method definitely call animal control. The kittens can go into heat and start breeding at just 6 months old. Then the problem will just continue to compound exponentially. It’s not a nice life for them.

With regard to your dog, I noticed this in the paper the other day about a low cost mobile vet clinic for cash strapped owners:

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/07/25/2009-07-25_vets_going_mobile.html

They’re trying to prevent more people from having to give up their pets because they can’t afford the vet bills. The shelters are bursting at the seams at the moment. Whenever the economy goes south it’s never good news for the animal world. So from the bottom of my heart thanks for doing something about those ferals.

F up 9% today. THat should benefit your 401k, y’all.