so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back
the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing
If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:
1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)
2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats
Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.
Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.
If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.
You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.
Oh nooo I hadn’t noticed that my cat’s automatic feeder was getting low on food so as usual she dashed off when she heard the machine start but I couldn’t hear the usual sound of her food falling into the bowl so I went to look and my poor cat was just. Sitting there. Staring at her empty food bowl. Then for a second she glanced up at me then right back to her bowl with the biggest, saddest, most bewildered eyes you could ever imagine on such a small creature. I filled her bowl and the machine right away ofc but I still feel a little guilty 😭
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“If you meet them, meet them as a friend.”
“If you don’t, they’ll be the last things you ever meet, aside from your Maker.”
“Researcher H'ort'uni'ma signing off. Please heed my warnings. For your own sakes.”
“I leave this recording to anyone who may find themselves in the depths of this facility.”
“I leave to you, believing you have an understanding of this language, and that you are cautious but curious to have made it here.”
“I knew- I knew from the start, that we were not simply Researchers, not when it came these … things. They’re smart. Some fought back but others … ”
“Do you know what it’s like to watch a creature, spindly, strange, violent, and energetic stop, sit, and watch you right back? To see the intelligence in a species you’re constantly told is lacking intellect, one that is a purely instinctual beast? When the Monster Grin in it’s slwo approach, drinking in your fear?”
“it’s a terror one cannot describe.”
“When certain subjects escaped, we couldn’t find them. We assumed they died in the walls, at least until we caught one having killed several guards when the were too lax about their jobs.”
“These things, these monsters- They learn. They Track. They Hunt.”
“If you encounter them, play nice. Leave them be, like you should all wild predators.”
“I tried to warn them. I should’ve made more of a stand- I should’ve spoke up more, but I didn’t, and now I pay the price of cowardice.”
“Visiting the Third Terrestrial body of the Sol System was the worst idea anyone ever had, right up until they had the idea to commit the abduction of a dominant species of said world.”
“Humans are Apex Predators of a Deathworld. We believed ourselves too smart for them. Turns out, we were too prideful to realize the truth.”
“If you meet them, meet them as a friend.”
“If you don’t, they’ll be the last things you ever meet, aside from your Maker.”
“Researcher H'ort'uni'ma signing off. Please heed my warnings. For your own sakes.”
yeah i drive the truck that isekais all those lonely 20yo NEETs and bored salarymen. it’s a really hard job. they keep sending me to workplace counselling after each hit. “it’s normal to feel guilt at ending someone’s life,” they say. how do i tell them that’s not what makes me feel guilty? “but it’s okay. he’ll live a better life in another world.” yeah, with 100 girls who could have lived normal lives but got drafted into being in these boring dudes’ harems. how many women’s lives have i ruined. and they don’t even know. they don’t even know
Also I just had a wave of feeling guilty for participating in the dangerous crow boy whose job it is to destroy plastic meme, because, hey, I’m an author. How would I feel about this if it was my characters? How does the author feel?
Anyway I googled dangerous crow boy whose job it is to destroy plastic and the first thing that came up was a blog post the original author wrote about how she’s DELIGHTED that her dangerous crow boy whose job it is to destroy plastic has become a tumblr meme and she also answers a ton of the questions people have been asking about the dangerous crow boy whose job it is to eat plastic.
here’s the site, fair warning, not the most entirely sfw, but should clear everything up
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