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Happy Feral Cat Day!
Filed under: 11378, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crazy Cat Lady, Maspeth, Maspeth Queens, New York City, Queens, Staten Island
Jesse writes:
Thank you for covering feral cats (and domestic cats), as well as doing posts about TNR workshops. I’m writing to see if you’d consider doing a post for National Feral Cat Day (on very short notice – it’s 10/16!) to raise awareness about feral cats and what people can do to help.
Every neighborhood in NYC has feral cats and most people innocently feed them, not knowing you can do anything else to help out these feline underdogs. But they can – through Trap-Neuter-Return! Our website with general information is here. And the workshops, including one on 10/16, are listed here.
We’re always willing to provide feral cat content at any time, National Feral Cat Day or not, so please keep us in mind!
Duly blogged!
Miss Heather
Photo Credits: Yours truly— with the help of a few feral feline friends from Queens.
Maspeth Photos Du Jour: Bob
This evening my buddy Carnade and I went on a quick sojourn around Newtown Creek. It was at the end of 58th Road that we met Bob. He seemed surprised by us and we were certainly surprised to encounter him: a man in a van smoking a cigar and watching the world go by. We explained to him we were taking photographs of the creek. This interested him (a retired DEP employee) considerably and he told us stories about coming to Newtown Creek in the 1950’s a child. Bob then proceeded to explain to us why he happened to be in such a desolate area on a Saturday evening: he is not allowed by his wife to smoke cigars. Period. He clarifies:
So I come down here, have my cigar and turn on Sean Hannity. That gets my anger going.
Your secret is safe with us, Bob!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Slide Show Du Jour: Two Feet, Two Boroughs, Three Bridges & Four Hours
Filed under: 11101, 11206, 11211, 11222, 11378, Blissville, Blissville Queens, Crazy Cat Lady, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Laurel Hill Queens, Maspeth, Newtown Creek, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
As I intimated yesterday I took a four hour photo walk with an occasional contributor to the New York Shitty photo pool and full-time Greenpointer: Noah Devereaux. He was the tour guide. Where he went, I followed. Chattering a great deal of the way. The following should give you some idea of our route.
We started at Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenue at 6:00 p.m. and, almost four hours later, ended up back there. The following slide show (including the lovely, if surreal, shots of the ecological wonder that is English Kills— which grace the beginning of this post) features everything in between. Enjoy!
As always you can (and should) view these images in large format by clicking here.
Miss Heather
A Very Special Dung of The Day
(Or: Queens Crap)
My buddy over at Queens Crap (who was kind enough to send me this lovely find) opines:
My initial reaction–sort of round, shiny pellets of roughly medium-blueberry size–is rabbit. It doesn’t look like carnivore–raccoons, et al produce something that looks like cat crap, which is something that you’re all too familiar with. It’s not goose, which looks kind of like soggy, greenish Tater Tots.
And with that sidewalk and fence shadow suggesting an urban area, the color, and my impression of size, it’s not deer.
So, rabbit leads for now.
Indeed. It looks like the Easter bunny came early over in Maspeth!*
Miss Heather
P.S.: Special thanks goes out to my buddy Crappy for sharing this find. We make a great turd tag team!
*And Bushwick too for that matter.
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