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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.
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. He'll be neutered soon. He is an exact copy of Miolek our number 3 and here is a photo of them:
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.
@davidrevoy got help from Clippy?
@mmu_man
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.
(and I wonder if this person will be me )
"full of scratch"
@davidrevoy aww, congratulations for the adoption! I hope your kitties are going to get along well :)
@davidrevoy now do one on perforated line feed dot-matrix printer paper in Printshop banner style FTW!
@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.
@davidrevoy we acquired a new cat recently under similar circumstances...
@davidrevoy pretty sure our miss Lois is pregnant tho x.x
@kate Oh wow. I hope you'll find owners for the future kittens.
@davidrevoy same! It was a surprise but, oops, we fell in love with her
@kate Oh wow, what a beauty!
@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 30 000€.
@davidrevoy 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.
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org you nailed the 90s ms publisher look there
@davidrevoy
"Is anyone missing Missy?"