Hello, I'm Dragon! This blog is for anything that sparks my interest: youtubers like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, video games, cartoons and animation, cute critters, creepy things, etc... As for me, I'm a 28 year old gay trans man so there'll be lots of LGBT+ stuff on here too.
I know lions are usually the example used to debunk the whole ‘being trans makes no biological sense’ agrument but please let me introduce another trans animal, the pea pufferfish
Bee here, (as pictured before transition) was female for the longest time. Females have white bellies. But one day I woke up and boom, bee had a black stripe down their belly, a sure sign of a Male fish.
Turns out pea puffers actually change sex depending on their social environment. In fact, they’re sexless when young and can develope into males, females and anything in between. Some even remain sexless.
I’ve only had bee for about three weeks. In the shop, bee was surrounded by other puffers. The ratio of males to females caused bee produce a lot of feminine hormone, and so bee became female at maturity. But bee lives alone in my tank now. And without others around him, he produced Male hormone and is now Male!!!!
Long time no see, and now I’m asking for money ^^;
Gentlepeoples, I introduce to you: Bean.
“But Chris!” You cry, “You only have two cats! Who is this?”
Okay so, story time: My partner and I, @puppehgal, were walking home along a very busy road and we came across a very small Bean being very friendly with a guy. At first, we thought said guy was her owner, but apparently not as he gently pushed her away and crossed the road. When it became obvious Bean was about to follow him right into roaring traffic we got her attention and she switched onto us. Now, Bean was being incredibly friendly, much more so than normal wandering cat and we hadn’t ever seen her in the neighbourhood - we literally lived a few doors away from this. She was also very soft but very underweight, and had what looked like sores under her arms and on her belly. Still, possibly just a stray, right?
Except she had absolutely no fear of traffic and people. Twice she nearly wandered into the road as she followed us, and was far, far too friendly to be a stray. Strays will usually be cautious of new humans, even cats who are allowed out will be the same. She had none of that caution.
So my partner and I looked at each other, and both came to the same conclusion: we couldn’t just leave her. We’d come out to a dead cat. So up I scooped Bean, and took her to our tiny flat to shut her in our bathroom with food (which disappeared depressingly quickly) and water, a litter box and bedding. She purred the entire time and was ‘cuddling’ me, which is another sign she was owned.
In all, she seemed like a house cat that had got out.
I phoned round and managed to find a vet that was open on a Saturday and not too far from us, and off I toddled with her to said vet. We found out that she was only 2.9kg, very underweight, and had flea-allergic dermatitis (just like my Apostrophe) which she had made worse by fussing with the itches until they had become sore. Apart from that, she was healthy and hearty, 7-8 years old…and unchipped. No microchip.
The vets were nice and have cut down on the price of the checkup for being kind enough to pick her up and look for her owners, but the reality is we are right before a payday (oh the joys of living paycheck to paycheck) and have had to break into our rent money to care for little Bean. Rent is due in 6 days, and while I would happily pay any amount for her the reality is we need that money. We’re looking to raise about £50 ($64) for the checkup, price for the flyers to find her folks and for food/general care as that’s about what it’s taken and we’re fostering her for the foreseeable future.
If you can help,
the link’s here - even just a quid/dollar will help. If not, please pass this round.
As a note, any excess over the £50 will be going to Team Cat Rescue - a local Birmingham-based charity that is helping us with posting about the cat and has lent us a cat-crate to keep Bean in.
Thank you in advance!
As of 22.30 13/10/19 we’re up to £30! Thank you all so much! Only a little bit more to go <3
