We had a tenant move out of one of our rental properties and leave behind a mountain of trash.
As awful as that was, it got worse.
They also left behind two cats… to die.
One was locked in the garage with no food and no water.
The other was trapped in the house with no food and had water only because the toilet seat had been left up.
If we hadn’t gone back into that garage for another week or two, that cat would’ve been dead.
I genuinely can’t understand how someone could do that to an animal.
The crazy part?
These cats are unbelievably sweet.
We brought them out to the farm and we’re working to acclimate them into becoming farm cats now. Hopefully they’ll have a much better life ahead of them than the one they came from.
People can leave trash behind.
That can be cleaned up.
Leaving living animals behind to suffer is something entirely different.
POV: you're rolling around on the Red Planet
You’re looking at six years on Mars in around two minutes. This timelapse contains images captured by our Curiosity rover between 2020 and 2026 from one of its navigation cameras. https://t.co/yfDUkHzBgF
Make new friends, but keep the old.
A new photo captures the Moon's near side on the right (the side we see from Earth, identifiable by its dark splotches) and its far side on the left. The Artemis II crew are the first to see the far side with human eyes.
The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.
The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.
But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
Unhealed trauma will sometimes give you a high tolerance threshold to emotional abuse and mistreatment. Just because you can handle it, doesn't mean you have to accept it. You deserve healthy love, remember that.