the solitary brethren of ephrata

SHERIF ELHAGE

One horrible common comment on farmers or hobbyists who have had their livestock killed by dogs and been forced to handle the dog themself or call animal control to handle the dog is “It’s just a [chicken/goat/duck/rabbit etc.] and that’s a dog, imagine how awful the owner is going to feel.” As though the lives of pets matter less because they’re not dogs? As though someone’s livelihood couldn’t possibly rest on the lives of their chickens? Would you say the same thing if that dog had burst into somebody’s fenced yard and ripped the throat out of a cat or smaller dog instead of someone’s prize hen? It is an owner’s job to secure the containment and safety of their pets, if they do not care enough about their dog to keep it from endangering its life and the lives of other small animals, the pain they’ll feel when it’s dispatched can’t compare to the trauma of that farmer waking in to find their flock decimated.

Marcin Ryczek: Man Feeding Swans (2013)

i love you little cat figurines by Rosina Wachtmeister...

The Evil Dead (1981)

Evidently autumn.

St Mary Magdalene, South Holmwood, Surrey

waiting

kendall house, abandoned, illinois

fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die