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Here’s How to Radicalize a Normie, a video essay on how the Alt-Right and their fellow travelers recruit. Clocking in at 41 minutes, 6756 words, 633 individual drawings, and 27 sources (including three full books), it is by far the longest and most heavily-researched video in The Alt-Right Playbook. I am very tired.

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Transcript below the cut.

Say, for the sake of argument, your friend Gabe is starting to worry you.

Gabe’s always been just, you know, a regular guy. Not very political. He likes video games, sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, and anime. White guy shit. The only offbeat thing about him is you suspect there’s like a 20% chance he’s a furry. For all intents and purposes, Gabe is a normie.

But recently Gabe’s been spending a lot of time on some radically conservative forums, and listening to radically conservative podcasts, and picking some radically conservative arguments with you and your friends. You never would have expected this, not from Gabe, and, given the speed it’s happened, it’s worrying to think where it might be headed.

How have the Alt-Right gotten their hooks into your friend?

If you’ve ever known a Gabe, this video is for you. Here’s How to Radicalize a Normie.

Step 1: Identify the Audience

What you need to know before we begin is: around 2013, the Nazis went online.

Hate groups in the US, as tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Center, had been growing in number since the noughts, but, between 2012 and 2014, they dropped by almost a quarter. Patriot groups dropped by over a third. However, hate crimes stayed about the same. Radical conservatism was not shrinking, but decentralizing. Still radical, still often violent, but now full of white nationalist nomads unlikely to join a formal organization.

This didn’t make them harmless. What it did was protect their asses from the typical hate group cycle: getting the public’s attention, making allies in conservative media, swelling their numbers, and then eventually disgracing themselves with failures, infighting, and, often enough, members committing horrific acts of violence, which come with social and sometimes legal consequences for all the other members.

So the Alt-Right and their fellow travelers these days don’t so much have members. They have hashtags, followers, viewers, and subscribers. This insulates them from their own audience. If Gabe, as a member of that audience, were to go out and commit a crime on their behalf, there’d be little doubt they had a hand in radicalizing him, but it’d be very hard to claim they told him to do it. On some of these sites, where Gabe spends hours and hours of his day, he’s never created an account or left a comment; the people radicalizing him don’t even know he’s there.

This distributed nature is what makes the Alt-Right, and the movements connected to it, unique. (You may remember a notable proof-of-concept for this strategy.) Doing almost everything online has, as compared with traditional hate movements, dramatically increased their reach and inoculated them from consequence. The trade-off, as we will see, is a lack of control.

And so we come to Gabe.

Gabe exists at the intersection of the kinds of people the Alt-Right is looking for - straight white cis men who feel emasculated by modern society, primarily, though they do make exceptions - and the kinds of people who are vulnerable to recruitment. Gabe fits the first profile in that he got bullied in high school, and often feels he has to hide his nerdy side for fear of getting ridiculed. The Alt-Right also has success with men who can’t get laid or recently got divorced or feel anxious about an influx of non-white people in their community. These things can make one feel like less than the confident white man they’re “supposed” to be. And it’s the closest they will ever come to being minoritized.

Regarding the second profile, it’s important to know that Gabe is not categorically different from you or me. He’s a cishet white dude - his problems are not unique. There isn’t a ton of research into the demography of the Alt-Right, but there may be a higher-than-average chance Gabe has a history of being abused or comes from a broken home. You don’t know if it’s true of Gabe, he’s never said. But most abuse survivors don’t become Nazis. The things that make people like Gabe recruitable tend to be situational: it happens often during periods of transition, as dramatic as the death of a loved or as benign as moving to a new city. Things that make people ask big life questions. Gabe has concerns like economic precarity, not knowing his place in a changing world, stressful working conditions. In other words, Gabe is suffering under late capitalism, same as everyone, and it’s entirely plausible he could have gone down the path to becoming a Leftist.

This is not to make an “economic anxiety” argument: the animating force of the Far Right is and always has been bigotry. But the Alt-Right targets Gabe by treating his “economic anxiety” as one of many things bigotry can be sold as a solution to. It is their aim that, when dissatisfied white men go looking for answers, they find the Alt-Right before they find us.

Step Two: Establish a Community

Were Gabe pledging an old-school hate movement, there would probably be a recruiter to usher him into an existing community. But that’s the kind of formalized interaction modern extremists try to avoid. Online extremism has many points of entry, and everybody’s journey is unique, so rather than be comprehensive we will focus on what are, in my estimation, the two most common pathways: the Far Right creates a community Gabe is likely to stumble into, or infiltrates a community Gabe is already in.

The stumble-upon method has two main branches, one of which is just “Gabe ends up on a chan board,” which we’ve already done a video about. The other is kind of the polar opposite of 4chan’s cult of anonymity: Gabe ends up in the fandom of a Far Right thought leader.

These folks are charismatic media personalities (that’s charismatic according to Gabe’s tastes, not ours; I don’t understand it, either). These personalities may gain traction on any number of platforms, from podcasts to reportage to blogging, though the most effective platform for redpilling is, and yes I am biting the hand that feeds me, YouTube. They may get Gabe’s attention through fairly standard means, like talking about or even generating controversy to get themselves trending, while some of the more committed will employ dubious SEO tactics like clickbait, google bombing, and data voids (just pause for definitions, we don’t have time).

What they tend to have in common, especially the most accessible ones, is that they don’t present themselves as entry points to the radical Right. In fact, many did not set out to be Far Right thought leaders, and may not think of themselves as such (though they are often selling products, of which the Alt-Right are among their biggest purchasers, and it’s not like they’re turning the money away). How they present is the same way anyone presents who wants to be successful on social media: accessible, approachable, authentic. The face-to-face relationship a budding extremist forms with their recruiter or the leader of their hate group’s local chapter are here folded into one parasocial relationship with a complete stranger.

Why this person appeals to Gabe is they’re not selling politics as politics, but conservatism as a kind of lifestyle brand. They rely heavily on criticizing or ridiculing the Left: feminists are oversensitive, Black people unintelligent, queer folks doomed to loneliness, and trans people insane; I dunno if it’s a coincidence that these are all things Gabe thinks about himself in his low moments. By contrast, they don’t sell conservatism as having sounder policies or a more coherent moral framework, but that abandoning progressive principles and embracing conservative ones will make Gabe happier. Remember, Gabe isn’t looking for white nationalism or misogyny, what he wants is the cure to soul-sickness, and these friendly micro-celebs are here to offer a shot of life advice with politics as the chaser. It is extremely important that politics be presented as a set of affects, not a set of beliefs.

The second pathway is infiltration, which is its own beast. Media personalities sometimes become gateways to the Right almost by accident: they do something edgy, a part of their audience reacts positively, and, facing no real consequence, they do it more; this leads to further positive reinforcement from conservative fans, the rest of the audience acclimates, and the cycle repeats, the personality pushing the envelope further and further based on what flies with their increasingly conservative audience. In this way, they become a right-wing figure by both radicalizing and being radicalized by their audience.

Infiltration is deliberate.

The Far Right will reliably target any community that has 1) a large, white, male population, 2) whose niche interests allow them to feel vaguely marginalized, and 3) who are not used to progressive critique of said interests. This isn’t to say progressive critique doesn’t exist, or hasn’t been baked into the property from the beginning, but that it has been, so far, easy for white guys to ignore. As such, progressives within that community probably don’t talk politics much, and women and minorities are perfectly welcome to post, same as anyone, but just, you know, don’t, don’t make identity politics, you know, like, a thing.

Given Gabe’s proclivities, he’s probably already in a number of fan communities where he can geek out and not get teased. And this is where the Far Right will go looking for him

Communities are at their most vulnerable to infiltration at times of political discord. This can happen naturally - say, a new property in the fandom has a Black protagonist - or it can be provoked - say, a bunch of channers join the forum and say provocative things about race to get people arguing - or both. Left to its own devices, the community might sort out its differences and maybe even come out more progressive than they started. But, with the right pressure applied in the right moment, these communities can devolve into arguments about the need to remove a nebulously-defined “politics” from the conversation.

The adage about bros on the internet is “‘political’ means anything I disagree with,” but it’d be more accurate to say, here, “‘political’ means anything on which the community disagrees.” For instance, “Nazis are bad” is an apolitical statement because everyone in the community agrees. It’s common sense, and therefore neutral. But, paradoxically, “Nazis are good” is also apolitical; because “Nazis are bad” is the consensus, “Nazis are good” must be just an edgy joke, and, even if not, the community already believes the opposite, so the statement is harmless. Tolerable. However, “feminism is good” is a political statement, because the community hasn’t reached consensus. It is debatable, and therefore political, and you should stop talking about it. And making political arguments, no matter how rational, is having an agenda, and having an agenda is ruining the community.

(Now, it is curious how the things that provoke the most disagreement tend to be whichever ones make white dudes uncomfortable. One of life’s great, unanswerable mysteries.)

You can gather where this is going: a community that doesn’t tolerate progressivism but does tolerate Nazism is going to start collecting Nazis, Nazis whose goal is to drive a wedge between the community and the Left. Once the Left acknowledges, “Hey, your community’s developing a Nazi problem,” the Nazis - who are, remember, trusted, apolitical members of the community who might just be kidding about all the Nazi shit - say, “Did you hear that, guys?! Those cultural Marxists just called all of us Nazis!” Wedge. Similarly, any community members who say, “but Nazis though” are framed as infiltrators pushing an agenda, even if they’ve been there longer than the Nazis have. They get the wedge, too.

This is how fandoms radicalize. They are built as - yeah, I’ll say it - safe spaces for nerds, weebs, and furries, and are told that the Left is a threat to their safety. Given a choice between leaving a community that has mattered to him for years and simply adjusting to the community’s shifting politics, the assumption is that Gabe will stay. This assumption is right often enough that a lot of fandoms have been colonized.

What is true of both of these methods - Gabe finding the Right or the Right finding him - is that Gabe does not come nor stay for the ideology. He’s here for the community, the sense of belonging, of being with his people, of having his fears validated and his enjoyment shared. The ideology is simply the price of admission.

Step Three: Isolate

There is a vast, interconnected network of Far Right communities out there, and Gabe is, at this point, only on the periphery. In order to keep him in, they need to disrupt his relationships to other communities, and become, more and more, his primary online social space. Having made this space hostile to the Left, they now seek to break his connections to progressives elsewhere in his life.

This is hard to do online. The whole appeal of moving radicalism to the internet is that your away-from-keyboard life doesn’t have to change. You are crypto the moment you log off. Some thought leaders will encourage their audience to cut ties with Family of Origin, or “deFOO,” but, even then, they can’t monitor whether the audience has actually done it the way an in-person movement could. And so alienating Gabe from the Left is less controlled, and, consequently, may be less total. How much Gabe isolates is up to him.

But the vast majority of Far Right media presumes an alienation from the Left. Part of conservative bloggers and YouTubers making the Left look pathetic is doing a lot take-downs and responses. This is a constant repetition of the Left’s arguments for the purpose of mockery, and, for Gabe, it starts to replace any engagement with progressive media directly. He soon knows the Left only through caricature. It also trains him, if he does directly engage, to approach the Left with the same combative stance as his role models. (For reference, see my comment section.) And this is only if he doesn’t partake in one of the many active boycotts of “SJW media.”

In addition to mocking the Left’s arguments, they also, curiously, appropriate them. This is one part sanitization: liberal centrism is more socially acceptable; indeed, many figures on the outer layers think of themselves as moderates, even as they serve as gateways to radicalism. But, also, many of Gabe’s problems could be addressed by progressive leftism, so they sell him racist, sexist versions of it. Yes, there is a problem with workers being underpaid and overextended, but the solution isn’t unions, it’s deporting immigrants; yes, there is a chronic loneliness and anger to being a man in the modern age, but it’s not because of the toxic masculine expectations placed on you by the patriarchy, it’s women being slutty; yes, wealth disparity does mean a tiny percentage of elites have more influence over culture and politics than the rest of us combined, but the problem isn’t capitalism, it’s the Jews. And it’s hard for Gabe to reject these ideas without, in the process, rejecting the progressive ideas they’re copied from; the Right’s “take the red pill” is, to the untrained eye, similar to the Left’s “get woke.” (Or, at least, the bowdlerized version of “get woke” that is no longer specifically about race which came to fashion when white people started saying it, grumble grumble.)

Take the red pill or reject them both; either is a step to the right.

As this rhetoric slips into his day-to-day conversation, even as seemingly harmless “irreverence,” it may strain relationships with people who are not entertained by this shit. Off-color comments about race and gender can certainly be wearying for female and non-white friends, which can lead to a passive distance or an eventual confrontation [“why is everyone but me so sensitive?!”], which only seem to confirm what his reactionary community says about liberal snowflakes. If he says these things on social media, he may get his account suspended, and, if he comes back under an alt, you can bet his new reactionary friends will be the first to reconnect, applaud the behavior that got him banned, and repeat should he get banned again. A few cycles of this and he’s lost touch with everyone else.

Also, his adoption of the insular, meme-laden terminology of this community makes him less and less comprehensible to outsiders.

Over time, sources of information get replaced with community-approved ones: conservative news, conservative YouTube, conservative Wikipedia if he’s really committed. The Algorithm soon takes note and stops recommending media from the Left. He stops watching shows with a “liberal agenda,” which usually means shows starring women and people of color. Now, there is evidence that the human mind responds to fictional characters similarly to real people, and that consuming diverse media can decrease bigotry in ways roughly analogous to having a diverse group of friends, which is one of many reasons we say representation matters. By consuming a homogenous media diet, Gabe stymies his ability to have even parasocial relationships with anyone who isn’t a cishet conservative white dude or one of their approved exceptions.

To the extent that any of this happens, it happens at Gabe’s discretion and at his own chosen pace. It has not been forced on him, only encouraged and rewarded. But the fact that it hasn’t been forced can make him all the more willing to accept it, because it seems safe to consider; even though his life and social circle are changing to accommodate, he does not feel committed. But many Gabes have walked these halls, and, if they close the door behind them, there’s nowhere left to go but down.

Step Four: Raise their Power Level

(...and they say we ruined anime.)

Consider the ecosystem of the Alt-Right as layers of an onion, with Gabe sitting at the edge and ready to traverse towards the center. (No, I’m not just going to reiterate the PewDiePipeline, though, if you haven’t seen it, go do that.)

The outer layer of the onion is extremism at its most plausibly deniable. Without careful scrutiny, the public-facing figureheads could pass as dispassionate, and the websites as merely problematic rather than softly fascist. It is valuable if Gabe believes this as well; that, at this stage, he believe the bigotry is simply trolling, the extremists an insignificant minority, and any report of harassment faked. That he believe where he is is as deep as the rabbit hole goes. And that he continue to believe this at each successive layer.

People in the deepest crevices of the Alt-Right self-report getting redpilled on multiple issues at different times in their journey to the center of the onion. If Gabe’s first red pill is about the SJWs coming for his free speech, he’ll think that’s all anyone in his community believes; there’s no racism here, people are just making a point about their right to use slurs. Then, when he gets redpilled on the white genocide, he’ll laugh at those Alt-Lite cucks who tried to sweep the race realists under the rug, and at himself for having once been one, but acknowledge that those channels and websites are still useful for onboarding people, so he won’t denounce them. At the same time, nobody takes those manosphere betas seriously.

And this process is reiterated with every pill swallowed: gender essentialism, autogynephilia, birtherism, Sandy Hook truth, pizzagate, QAnon if he’s really out there. The heart of the onion is typically the Jewish Question, but these can happen in any order, and in any number. But each layer sells itself as being, finally, the ultimate truth. Each denies the validity of the others; the layers ahead don’t exist, they’re made up my liberals, while the people behind are asleep where you are now awake. That’s why they chose “the red pill” as their metaphor: take it, and everything will be revealed. That’s why it cozies up with conspiracism. But what’s supposed to follow is that this knowledge help Gabe in some way, and it doesn’t. Blaming immigrants doesn’t actually fix the economy, and hating women doesn’t make men less lonely. But, having been alienated from everything outside the onion, once that sinks in, the only recourse on offer is to seek out the next pill.

And pills are easy to find. Those within the network have laissez-faire relationships, even as they, on paper, disavow one another. When they need a source or a guest host, they aren’t going to go to the Left; they’re going to feature each other. The Left is the enemy; their ideas are beneath consideration, and the only reason to engage them is for public humiliation. [Shapiro’s book.] But you can interview “western chauvinists” and that doesn’t mean you’re endorsing them, just, you know, it’s fine to hear ‘em out, nothing should be off-limits in the marketplace of ideas. Besides, Nazis are apolitical.

And because these folks keep showing up in each others’ metadata, regardless of what they say, Google thinks there is definitely a relationship between the guy “just asking questions” and the guy denying the Holocaust. Gabe is softly exposed to many flavors of conservatism just slightly more radical than he is now, and is expected, at the very least, to not question their presence. This is an environment where deradicalizing - listening to the Left - would be sleeping with the enemy, but radicalizing further? You do you, buddy.

Gabe��s emotional journey, however, is somewhat more complex. If you’ve spent any time reading or watching reactionary media you’ve probably noticed it’s really. fucking. repetitive. It’s a few thousand phrasings of the same handful of arguments. Like, there’s only so many jokes about attack helicopters! But these people just crank out content, and most of it’s derivative; the reason to pick one personality over another isn’t because they say something different, but because they say it differently. Gabe just picks the affect it’s delivered in.

Repetition dulls the shock of the most egregious statements, making them appear normal and prepping him for more extreme ideas. Meanwhile, the arguments themselves? They’re not good. (BreadTube will never run out of shit to debunk.) They are repetitive because they’re not good. They’re mantric. A good argument you only need to hear one time; if you can follow it, internalize it, and explain it to someone else, you know you’ve understood it. But a bad argument can’t convince you on its own merits, so it will often rely on affect. This can be the snappy, thought-terminating cliche, or the long, winding diatribe that sounds really sensible while you’re hearing it but when someone asks you for the gist you can only say “go watch these 17 videos and it’ll all make sense.” Both these approaches are largely devoid of content, but, gosh, if they don’t sound sure of themselves.

And that mode can be very persuasive, but it doesn’t stick the way a coherent argument does. It needs to be repeated, the affect replenished, because the words matter less than the delivery. There needs to be a steady stream of confident voices saying “we’ve got this figured out and everyone else is stupid” or Gabe’s gonna notice the flaws. They are not well-hidden.

And the catch-22 of returning to that stream over and over is that these communities are stressful even as they are calming. People afraid they will die virgins go to forums with people who share and validate that fear, and also say, “Yes, you will die a virgin.” People afraid Syrians are coming to kill us all watch videos by people who share and validate that fear, and also say, “Yes, Syrians are coming to kill us all.” Others have already pointed out that rubbing your face in your worst anxieties is a form of digital self-harm, but I need to you understand the toxic recursion of it: Gabe is going to these communities to get upset. Every emotion is converted into anger, because sadness, fear, and despair are paralyzing but anger is motivating; Gabe feels less helpless when he’s pissed off. And so, while he’s topping up on reassuring nonsense, he’s also topping up on stress. And, being cut off from everything outside the network, the only place he knows to go to release that stress is back to the place that gives it to him. It’s a feedback loop, pulling him deeper and deeper on the promise that, at some point, relief will come.

It is a similar dynamic that keeps people in abusive relationships.

When someone in Gabe’s community makes a racist joke, they are presenting Gabe with a choice between the human interaction of laughing with his friends and his societal responsibility not to be a fuckin’ racist. And not laughing seems ridiculous; everybody’s friends here; no one’s getting hurt; this is harmless. And so the irreverent race joke draws a line between the personal and the political, and suggests that one can be safely prioritized over the other. One way to look at radicalization is being asked to stick with that seemingly innocuous decision as the stakes are raised incrementally: first with edgier humor, and then comments that are funny because they’re shocking but you couldn’t really call them jokes, and then “funny” comments that are also sincerely angry, but, in each instance, since he laughed with his bros last time, it stands to reason he should keep favoring the personal over some abstracted notion of “politics.”

This is why the progressive adage “the personal is political” is among the most threatening things you can say in these spaces.

I’m not trying to make a slippery slope argument. Most of us who laughed at edgy jokes when we were teenagers didn’t grow up to be Nazis. It is a slippery slope in the specific context of being in community with people trying to radicalize you. Gabe is a lonely white boy in need of friends, and laughing at a racist joke is personal, while not laughing is political. Staying in a community that has Nazis in it is personal, and leaving is political. The personal is what brings people together and the political drives them apart. (The “only if some of them are bigots” part of that sentence is usually lopped off). There’s this joke on the internet that nerds perceive only two races: white and political. Following that logic, what could be more apolitical than an ethnostate?

They are banking on his willingness to adapt his beliefs to suit an environment that meets a need. That same need can be satisfied by white nationalism. There are few things more seductive to people who doubt their own worth than being told you are valuable simply for being white. And you can sub in male, cis, straight, allosexual, or able-bodied. It just takes priming: by the time Gabe officially embraces bigotry, he’s already been acting like a bigot for months. The red pill is simply the moment he says it out loud.

Change Gabe’s surroundings, and you change Gabe.

Step Five: ???

The final step in a traditional extremist group would be getting a mission. But that is one thing the Alt-Right can’t do. Once you start giving clear directives, you can’t play yourselves off as a bunch of unaffiliated hashtags and think tanks; you are now a formalized movement accountable to its followers, and can be judged and policed as such.

To my mind, Charlottesville was an attempt to become such a movement, taking things offline and getting all the different groups working collectively. And, as so often happens when these people get in the same space - especially with no official leaders or means of control over their members - it backfired. Their true colors came out before they were ready and a counter-protester lost her life.

This would be the point where, historically, an extremist group starts to disintegrate. Their veneer of respectability gone, they’re now hated by the public, the media wants nothing more to do with them, and everyone not in jail turns on each other or goes underground. This is also the point where the liberal establishment says, “My job here is done,” and utterly fails to retake control of the narrative, allowing the next batch of radicals to pick up more or less where the last one left off.

But to an already-decentralized group like the Alt-Right, Charlottesville was bad but eminently survivable. People retreated back to the internet, with its code words and anonymous forums, but that’s where much of the work was already done anyway. The platforms where they organized kept tolerating them, the authorities still didn’t classify them as terrorists, and any disgraced figureheads were replaced with up-and-comers.

The major change in strategy is that it doesn’t seem anyone has tried to formalize the Alt-Right since.

So where does that leave Gabe? He’s gone through this whole process of largely hands-off indoctrination - and I should stress his journey may look like what we’ve outlined or it may look different in places, this video is not comprehensive - but now he’s swallowed every pill he cares to, he blames half a dozen minorities for everything he sees as wrong with the world, and no one will give him anything to do. You’ve got this ad hoc movement frothing young men into a militant fervor and then just leaving them to stew in their own hate. Should we really be surprised at how many commit mass shootings?

This is a machine for producing lone wolves.

Leaving men to take up arms of their own volition is a way of enacting terror while being just outside the popular conception of a terror cell. There are also, of course, more classic militias that will offer Gabe clear directives - they’re recruiting from the same pool. And Gabe may stop short of this step, settling in a middle layer that suits him or finding the inner layers too extreme. But violence is the logical conclusion of an ideology of hate, and, should Gabe take this step, he can approach violence in the same incremental fashion he approached conservatism.

He can start with yelling at people on Twitter, and then maybe collective brigading, DDoS attacks, sharing dox, leaking nudes, calling their phone numbers, texting them pictures of their houses from the sidewalk. These acts of cruelty become games of oneupmanship within his community. All this can start as far back as Step 2, and get more intense the deeper he goes. Some people join explicitly partake in harassment and violence the way Gabe joined to talk about anime.

But this behavior can serve as a kind of buy-in. The Left and the feminists and the LGBTQs and the Muslims and the immigrants are all, within his community, subhuman. You’ve maybe heard the conservative catchphrase “feminism is cancer”; well don’t treat cancer by having a respectful exchange of ideas with it, but by eradicating it down to the last cell. Cruelty against the Left is framed as righteous.

From any other perspective, posting someone’s bank information is something you might feel ashamed of. Which creates a psychological imperative not to consider other perspectives. A thing that keeps people in is staving off the guilt they will reckon with the moment they step out. Gabe is also aware that anything he’s done to the Left could be done to him if he leaves; some communities even keep dox on their members as insurance. And the things he’s been encouraged to do to the Left will likely make him feel that the Left would never take him now; the radical Right is the only home he’s got. Harassment becomes another tool of isolation.

Steadily, options for Gabe are whittled down to being a vigilante or a nihilist. There are periods of elation: moments the Alt-Right feels it’s winning - or, more accurately, the people they hate are losing - are like cocaine. They are authoritarians, after all. But the times in between are mean and angry. They are antisocial, starved of emotional connection, consuming incompatible conspiracies that may at any point run them afoul of one another, devoted to figureheads who cater to but cannot risk leading them, and living under constant threat of being outed to the Left or turned on by the Right for stepping out of line. Gabe took this journey for the sense of community and purpose, and, but for the rare moments everything goes their way, the Alt-Right can’t maintain either. They can only keep promising his day will come, a story he could get from a $5 palm reading.

The feeling there’s nothing left but to kill yourself or someone else is so common it’s a meme.

But there is always a third option: Gabe can leave.

Pre-Conclusion: For Fuck’s Sake Do Not Make Gabe Your Whole-Ass Praxis

Before we continue, I want to state plainly that Gabe went off the deep end because he found a community willing to tell him that, because he is a cishet white man, the world revolves around him. Do not treat him like this is true.

If a fraction of the energy spent having debates with America’s Gabes were spent instead on voter re-enfranchisement, prisoner’s rights, protections for immigrants, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, and redistricting, Gabe’s opinions, in the societal sense, wouldn’t matter. Reactionary conservatism is a small and largely unpopular ideology that is only so represented in our culture and politics because they’ve learned how to game the system.

And I get it. Those are huge problems that are going to take years to address, where, if you know a Gabe, that’s a conversation you could have today. And, if you think you can get through to him, it is worthwhile to try. This is a fight on many fronts and deradicalization is one of them. But it is only one, so please keep it in perspective. It sends an awful message when we spend more time trying to get bigots back on our side than we do the people they are bigoted against.

Your value as a lefty does not hinge on whether you can change Gabe’s mind.

Conclusion: How Gabe Gets Out

He may just grow out of it. These communities skew young, and some folks hit a point where hanging with edgy teens doesn’t feel cool anymore.

He may become disillusioned after the movement fails to deliver on its promises.

He may become disillusioned if something goes wrong in his life and his community isn’t there for him, if he feels they like his race and his gender but don’t actually care about him.

He may be shocked if he sees the Alt-Right at its worst before being appropriately conditioned. Charlottesville was a step too far for a lot of people.

His community may turn on him for any perceived unorthodoxy, and he may leave out of necessity.

He may be separated by circumstance from the community - a trip with no internet, hospitalization, arrest - and not be able to top up on the rhetoric. This may lead him to question his beliefs.

His community may disappear, either tearing itself apart or getting shut down by authorities.

He may have incidental contact with populations he’s supposed to hate, and have trouble reconciling who they are in person with what he’s been told about them. In his community, people bond over shared intolerance, but, suddenly, being tolerant helps him make friends. (This is one reason the Alt-Right has made a battleground of the college campus.)

He may form or revisit relationships outside the network, people who can offer him the connection he’s been looking for. This may reintroduce outside perspectives. More importantly, it rekindles his ability to have healthy relationships at all, something the Alt-Right has estranged him from.

As with recruiters, it seems these “escape hatch” relationships can sometimes be parasocial; coming to respect a public figure who is on the Left, or is critical of the Alt-Right.

Someone he is close to may compel him to choose, “me or the movement.” A lot of young men leave to save a romantic relationship.

Hearing stories from people who’ve already jumped may help; there aren’t a lot of public formers, and some raise suspicions as to their sincerity, but it is getting more common, and may be the closest we get to exit counseling for the Alt-Right.

He may become aware of the ways he’s being manipulated, or have them revealed to him, maybe because he stumbled into BreadTube, I dunno. Knowledge that you are being indoctrinated is no guarantee it won’t work - you are not immune to propaganda - but it can help one resist.

And he may revisit a core belief system that used to guide him, be it religion or social justice or a really wholesome fandom, and be reminded of the identity he used to have.

Moments like these, in isolation or in aggregate, can inspire Gabe to jump. They are also good times for friends to intervene. The reach and the impunity that comes with the internet means it has never been easier to fall into reactionary extremism. It has also never been easier to get out. People who exit skinhead gangs often fear for their lives; for Gabe, there’s a chance getting out is as simple as going to a different website. Much of his community does not know his name or his face and he may not important enough to dox.

What doesn’t get Gabe out - not reliably, not that I have seen - is an argument with a stranger who proves all his facts wrong and his ideology bunk. Facts don’t always work because facts don’t care about his feelings. This was about staying in a community, and holding onto an identity, that mattered to him. It was about belonging, and that is something a rando from the other side of the culture war can’t give him and probably shouldn’t be responsible for.

The theme here is human connection. Before he can do the work of disentangling himself, and facing the guilt of what he’s believed and maybe done, he has to know there’s somewhere for him on the other end of it. That the Right hasn’t ruined him. They’ve told him all of history is groups fighting each other over status, and, without his clan, he’ll be an exile. He needs a better story.

I don’t know that lefty spaces are ideal for this, in no small part because bringing someone who’s a bit of a Nazi but working on it into diverse communities is… questionable. And it probably wouldn’t be good for him, either; having just gotten out of a toxic belief system, he’s going to be deeply skeptical of all ideologies. In a perfect world, people who care about Gabe could build for him - to use a therapy term - a holding space. Someplace private - physical or digital - where Gabe can work out his feelings, where he is both encouraged and expected to be better but is not, in the moment, judged. That comes later. It is delicate and time-consuming work that should not be done in public, but we find these beliefs, built up over the course of months or years, tend to fall away very quickly with a shift of environment. Change Gabe’s surroundings and you change Gabe.

But, instead, a lot of people who jump are functionally deprogramming themselves, which is working for a lot of them, but it’s haphazard, and there are recidivists.

If you don’t personally know a Gabe, or have training as a counselor, you may not be in a position to help him. Possibly there are things you can do to disrupt the recruitment process or prevent infiltration of spaces you’re in - I’m looking into it, but talk to your mods - but, elephant in the room: meaningful change will require reform on the part of platform holders. Tools to disrupt this process already exist and are being used on groups like ISIS, but they’re not being used on the Alt-Right because they try oh so very hard not to get classified as terrorists (and also any functioning anti-radicalization policy would require banning a lot of conservative politicians, so there’s that...).

But what makes our story better than theirs is that the fight for social and economic justice, though it is long, and difficult, and frustrating, when it works, it fulfills the promise the Right can’t keep: it materially make people’s lives better. I am not prone to sentimentality, or to giving these videos happy endings. But one thing we have that the Alt-Right doesn’t is hope.

#video essay

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The First Time - an L.A. By Night Fanfic

I received a positive response to my inquiry about people being interested in my new L.A. by Night fic, so here we go. Because I got my start on fanfiction dot net back in the day, I’m going to give my warnings thusly:

I obviously don’t lay claim to any of the characters involved. This fanfiction is part one of several, maybe as many as five parts, depending on when I run out of ideas. It is intended for a mature audience, and it is the beginning of what will end up being a pretty heavy multi-part Jasper/Annabelle story. SPOILERS for the end of campaign 1, but not for the one-shots. This is going to go off canon pretty quickly, so consider this an AU. Written before the premiere of Season 2.

Annabelle is going to try to help Jasper with his problems in finding food. He reluctantly accepts her help. They both have a better time than they thought they would.

Very, very special thanks to @cravatfiend, for their encouragement, ideas and enthusiastic reactions to reading the first drafts.You are the weird person into weird things. I dragged you into this fandom and we are both hopelessly down the rabbit hole now, friendface. ;)

First posted Jan. 11, 2019.

Now can also be found at my Ao3.

The Entire ‘Feeds From’ Master List Can be Found Here

The First Time

When Jasper excused himself early from their coterie meeting, Annabelle was the only one who followed him. Though Victor asked if anything was wrong, Jasper brushed him off. He was fine. He didn't like Victor or Nelli involving themselves in his problems. They both said they understood him, and perhaps they did, but despite their shared experiences, it was only a surface level of understanding. Other than sharing their already mutual coterie spaces, neither of them had done anything else to help him.

Annabelle caught him just before he got to the elevator, just before he disappeared.

“Jasper, are you okay?”

There was something in her tone that made him stop, or maybe it was because she had followed him and she was the only one making an effort. Normally, he did not like being followed. That was his job, not the other way around. Tonight, however, he was feeling more vulnerable than usual. He hated it, but he knew that he had to do something about it. He glanced at her over his shoulder and put on a fake smile.

“Sure, I'm fine.”

Annabelle saw through it instantly. She thought he looked awful, like what he did before his early and frantic departure from the Highland. It wasn't his physical appearance, nothing could be done about that, but it was something in the way he moved, in his tone of voice. There was something very important bothering him. She glared at him critically. “No, you're not,” she said softly.

He sighed.

“When was the last time you ate?” Annabelle asked, zeroing in on the issue.

“I can take care of myself.”

He went to leave, to continue to brush her off, but she was not having it. She closed the distance between them and put her hand on his elbow. His muscles were tense, like a bowstring that's been pulled back. He didn't pull away from her.

“Jasper, I... I know you can take care of yourself, but one of the things that has helped people survive as long as they have is others helping them when they needed it. Please, let me help you.”

His icy, inhuman eyes met her deep, dark, emotional ones. There was a beat where he weighed his options. She was stubborn, one of the most stubborn Kindred he had ever met. She was also still kind, still had the streak of humanity that he had all but lost a long time ago.

“Alright,” he relented. “Come with me. We'll talk.”

Her eyes lit up a little with this forward progress. “Okay, where are we going?”

“We'll go... back to my home,” he said reluctantly. “It's private.” He glanced back to the board room. The others could be listening in.

“Okay,” she nodded. She trusted him, but while they were in the elevator, she sent Victor and Nelli a text to tell them she was with Jasper and they were going to talk. She felt a little guilty about doing so. It made her feel like she was going on a dangerous date and texting someone about it just in case things went south and she needed the cavalry to come in and get her, or someone to tell the cops about the last person she was with if she went missing. She pushed those thoughts out of her mind. Jasper was her friend, and she had no doubt that if he really had wanted to hurt her, he would have done it already. Jasper was invisible now in the elevator, but she knew he would have seen her text.

“I can call an Uber,” she offered. She had a mental image of Jasper sitting perfectly still and invisible in the back seat while she chatted with and distracted the driver.

“No,” came Jasper's disembodied voice in her ear. She suppressed the urge to flinch. “We'll walk. It's not that far.”

She nodded and started walking. She did her best to ignore the shivers Jasper had given her down her spine.

They left campus and headed for the L.A. River. Once they were more or less alone and definitely out of ear shot, Annabelle felt it safe to be able to talk to him out loud, but softly.

“Jasper?”

“Yes?”

His voice was coming from her left. She glanced towards him, swishing her hair out of the way, but of course, she couldn’t see anything.

“You never answered my question. When was the last time you ate?”

“I haven't really... not since Tara.”

Annabelle blinked in surprise and mild alarm. “But that was weeks ago!”

“I know.”

“But, you...” She was suddenly much more afraid. His Beast, his hunger... it must be so bad, but he was only just now starting to show any sign of it. She admired the restraint, the willpower he had been quietly using all this time.

“I ate a stray dog the other night,” he admitted, “I haven't found another solution yet, but I will. Don't worry.”

“You ate a dog?! Of course I'm going to worry, Jasper,” Annabelle snapped. “You're telling me you haven't eaten in weeks! I – argh!” She made a sound of frustration and sighed. Anger wasn't the answer. “This has gone on long enough Jasper.”

“What are you going to do? Kidnap someone for me to feed on?”

“No! God, no! I... why don't you feed on me instead?”

She had said it without really thinking. She stopped walking and got the vague feeling that he had stopped too.

“No,” she heard him say.

“Well... why not?”

“Because... I don't want to hurt you.”

She hated that she couldn't see him. “You won't hurt me.”

“I could though. If I lose control, I could kill you.”

“You won't though, Jasper. You've never done that. You're too strong to do that.”

He was quiet for several moments. She wondered briefly if he had left. She tried to keep her voice steady. “Are you still here?”

“Yeah,” he said very softly. She didn't think he had moved based on where his voice came from.

A thought surfaced in her brain. This wasn't the first time she had thought this, but it was the first time she was going to ask about it out loud.

“Has anyone ever offered themselves to you before? To be fed on, I mean.”

“Let's keep walking.”

She thought she could hear him move, but she wasn't about to let him leave without her. “Jasper-!”

“Come on,” he invited her along. He wanted to walk and talk.

She fell back into step beside him, or so she assumed.

“To answer your question, yes, I have been offered,” Jasper's voice came in hushed tones by her side. “At the Succubus Club, I could have fed and no one would have protested. I've been to other vampire social gatherings and declined to feed there. But that was the others being polite and having to obey social rules. Outside of those circumstances, no. No one has offered themselves to me before. No Kindred, and definitely no mortals.” He chuckled softly. “The little game you were playing on campus before Victor and Nelli and I found you... I can't do that. It's different for me, for Nosferatu in general. We can't...” He sighed quietly, forming his thoughts into words. “We don't tend to get very many opportunities where people are happy for us to feed upon them. Have you ever seen Nelli feed?”

“Yeah. She um... she gets people who want to sit with her and she kisses them and...” Annabelle made a face. It was kind of disgusting.

Jasper chuckled again. “Yeah. I can't feed like that. No one is ever going to want to sit in my lap with champagne.”

Annabelle tried to play it light. “Oh, I don't know... there's a lot of weird people who are into weird things out there.”

“It's nice of you to say so, but none of those people have found me yet. To be honest, I don't know what I'd do if they did.”

Annabelle smiled a little. They walked in silence for a few minutes. They were close to the river now. She found her thoughts circling back around to her biggest anxieties about choice and consent. “So... you've never gotten consent before you fed?”

“No,” he said quietly, reluctantly, truthfully. “I wish I could though. As I said, that's not an option for most of my kind. Being a Nosferatu is like... hard mode vampire. We don't get the luxury of having people want to be in our company, and most of us aren't wealthy enough to pay people to be with us. People see us and scream and run, or scream and attack, unless they have been mind controlled, but in that case, are they still giving their consent?”

She chewed that over in her mind. It had dreadful implications.

They were quiet again until they were almost at Jasper's front door. Victor had paid to get the door replaced so it would be just as secure as it had been before. It was a nice gesture, but it didn't change the fact that the location of Jasper's home was still known to them, and that he wished it wasn't so.

“My offer still stands, by the way,” Annabelle said at the door. “You can feed on me if you want to, just to get you through the night, just until you... can find another option. Please, let me help you, Jasper.”

He become visible suddenly. His hand was on the work hatch-like door and he was pulling it open. He paused and looked at her, and she was relieved to be able to see his face. He seemed deep in thought, considering his options once again. As she watched, she saw him flinch and growl to himself. She knew then that this was his version of talking to his Beast. They all did it, Annabelle knew, some more vocally than others. She waited to see what he would do, what, if anything he would say in reply.

“Okay,” Jasper said at last.

Part of her was surprised, and almost hadn't expected him to say that. “What?”

“Okay. I'll do it, but... there are conditions.” He ran his tongue over his lips. “I want you to be safe.” He glanced around suddenly, up and down the river. They were alone, but he still seemed spooked. “Let's go inside.”

She nodded and followed him. He held the door open for her, and made sure it was shut tight behind them. He led her through the twisting path down to his living area, through the secret passages. He moved with utter confidence. This was his space. She wasn't hesitant, but she had to admit she was a little nervous.

“This is the first time I've had someone in here... who I've invited,” Jasper said as they emerged into his workshop room. Annabelle saw that Tara's cage was in the corner. She swallowed.

“Why is that still there?”

“The cage? It's very difficult to take that apart. I built it to be very... durable.” he smiled to himself and Annabelle could see his fangs. He was remembering something amusing, something she probably wouldn’t find amusing at all. Her nervousness grew, and doubt bloomed inside her. She found herself involuntarily taking a step back. Jasper saw her reaction and frowned. It was his own fears and doubts coming back to the surface. He hoped that saying yes to Annabelle to let her help him wasn't a mistake.

“Are you going to use the cage again?” she asked him softly.

“I hope I won't have to, but...” he shrugged. She took his unsaid meaning. It's still there if he needs it.

He moved past the cage, towards the pivoting door that lead to his living room. He beckoned Annabelle to follow. He correctly assumed that Annabelle would be glad to be out of the cage room.

Annabelle found his living room was more or less as it was when she, Victor, Nelli and Strikes the werewolf had been through. Some of the books on the table had changed, but the furniture was still sparse. Jasper turned on the lamp and gestured to a chair, offering it to her to sit. She did so. It was fairly comfortable, but in an inexpensive way. Far from any kind of plush leather seating that Victor and Nelli couldn’t seem to do without. Annabelle found her gaze drifting back to the closed metal door on the other side of the room that lead ultimately down to the labyrinth. She swallowed, and tried not to shiver thinking of that place. She forced herself to look at his painted landscapes instead. It was beautiful and sad, to think of someone who spent so much time in the dark tunnels under a modern concrete and glass city to want to admire green, rolling hills instead. Maybe that was why he liked to live near the park as well, she thought.

Jasper sat in another chair near her. He seemed suddenly awkward, unused to pleasant company in his personal space. He pulled his hood back, exposing the black veins that crossed his bald scalp and disappeared down the back of his neck. It was his equivalent of letting his hair down, she supposed, now that they were in the comfort of his sanctum. Annabelle caught herself wondering if the whole rest of his body was darkly veined like that... and surprised herself by some small curious bit of her wanting to see his torso without the black hoodie.

“So, um...” she said, trying to break the awkward tension.

“So...” Jasper said at the same time.

They laughed. Tension broke.

“So... feeding?” Annabelle asked. She wasn't so nervous as to want to back out on her offer to help Jasper.

“Right.” Jasper licked his fangs as he collected his thoughts again. Back on track. He leaned forward so that his elbows rested on his knees, his hands clasped in front of him. “Are you're still sure you want to do this?”

“I am,” she said with a nod.

Jasper nodded back. “Okay. So, here's how I want it to go. Just... going to lay out a plan here. I'm only going to take enough from you tonight to keep me going for a little while. I don't think that this should be a reoccurring thing between the two of us.”

Annabelle nodded, agreeing and following along.

“I'm not so hungry yet that I'm about to frenzy like I did before,” Jasper continued, “but I don't want it to get to that point, and I know that you don't either, so that's why I'm agreeing to do this, just this once.”

Annabelle nodded again.

He had been looking at her, but his gaze moved down and away. “I don't think that the others need to know about this.”

“Oh, no. No, I agree.”

He looked at her again, sharply. “Ever.” There was a note of warning in his voice now. “We'll never hear the end of it if they do find out.”

“No, I totally agree. I won't tell anyone. I promise.”

Jasper nodded. “And... if you want... you can count me as owing you a favour afterwards. A boon.” He made air quotes around the word 'boon.'

Annabelle's first instinct was to deny him that. “Oh no, I'm not doing this for-”

“Actually, I insist,” Jasper cut her off. “I owe you one. This is... kind of a big deal. Kindred usually don't take feeding from other Kindred lightly.”

Annabelle nodded. “Okay,” she said softly.

Jasper nodded as well, satisfied. “Take off your jacket, please.”

“Um... okay,” Annabelle stripped off her red leather jacket and lay it over the back of her chair. She was wearing a grey T-shirt underneath with an Anime character printed on it. She was still a little nervous, but now it was a little more excited than fearful. She wondered where this excitement came from.

She could see Jasper considering her body in a way she had never seen him look at her before. His eyes drifted over her neck very, very briefly and settled on her hands. He reached one hand for hers. “May I?” His voice was soft. He was nervous too. He wasn't used to getting permission, or having it given.

“Yes,” Annabelle said, steadying her courage. She offered Jasper her hand. He took it and turned it over to expose her wrist. His fingers were long, pale and cold. He looked into her eyes, one last time, one last chance to back out, but she wasn't going to.

Jasper moved. Without letting go of her wrist and hand, he slid off his chair and down onto one knee on the floor in front of her. He was so tall, his limbs so long, that this was a more comfortable height for him to do this from without her having to move from her chair. It was a submissive gesture she wasn't expecting. He exposed his fangs, his terrifying long, gleaming, dangerous canines and with a tenderness that surprised her, sunk them into her wrist.

She gasped at the sudden pain of it and resisted the instinct to pull her hand back. His grip on her hand wasn't at all strong. He was just using one hand to lightly steady her wrist against his mouth. She could pull away at any time if she wanted to end this early.

She gasped again when the pleasure hit a half a second later. Oh, she wasn't expecting that either, not at all. A kind of ecstasy began to cloud her brain. It reminded her oddly of sexual pleasure, of her first time in bed with Elleanor or Mark, but at the same time not quite the same at all. She had a sudden sensational memory, one she had heavily suppressed until now, of an entirely different set of fangs entering her throat and the smell of well-worn black leather. She could feel her Vitae moving down her arm and into Jasper. Her Beast squirmed in her chest. She could feel something delicious and eager coiling down deep inside her lower belly. If her heart could still beat, it would have been hammering away like a rail road piston going full steam. She wondered if his heart would be doing the same if it could, and decided that yes, yes it would be.

In the haze, she managed to notice a few things about Jasper. His eyes were tightly closed while he fed from her, and his free hand, the one not holding hers to his mouth, was clenched in a tense fist. It was as if he were holding an invisible leash, and whatever was at the other end of that leash was straining against it with all its might. She could feel Jasper's lips, his tongue, his fangs and the rest of his teeth on her, violent and a little disgusting but at the same time, so, so gentle.

She realised suddenly that he was holding back with every ounce of his being. He could bite down harder, she could tell he wanted to, but he was resisting. It was intimate and much more... loving than she imagined. She concluded that none of this was how she pictured it would go. She had a sudden urge to touch him, maybe to caress his head, but her other hand was clinging tightly to the arm of the chair and by the time she wrenched her fingers free, Jasper had let her go. What had seemed to last for ten or fifteen minutes was really only a few seconds.

She felt him run his tongue one last time over the wound he had made to seal it closed and he released her arm. She withdrew it slowly back to her chest, staring at him. She was breathing hard, a left over human reaction to the extreme stimulus she just went through. She felt dizzy and light headed and she was glad they had done this with her sitting down, or she feared she may have swooned like some Victorian lady in a too-tight corset. Her hand trembled, just a little.

Jasper was perfectly motionless for a moment, still on one knee, staring up at her. She could see a faint line of red on his lower lip, which he quickly licked away. He seemed to realise the pose he was in, and lowered his other knee and leaned back so he was still on the ground, but a little further away. He didn't want to be further away from her though. He had been expecting this, and was fighting it back. Both he and his Beast wanted to be closer to her, to be consuming her still. Instead, he was giving her space to recover. He watched her, and waited.

“That was..” she panted. She took another moment to collect herself. “That was good,” she exhaled. “I didn't know it would... feel like that.”

Jasper gave a tiny, humble shrug. “There's a reason why most vampire victims stop fighting once they're bitten.” He cocked his head a tiny bit to the side, still watching her, unblinking. “Did you never notice?” Annabelle would have found it creepy before, but now she found it oddly... adorable.

“Yeah, but... wow...”

Jasper made a small sound of amusement. He smirked a tiny bit. “You'll be dizzy, maybe weak for a little while. I tried not to take too much, but... you should probably feed tonight also, if you can.”

Annabelle nodded. “How do you feel?”

“I feel better.”

He certainly looked better, Annabelle thought. A lot better. She told him as such.

“You look better.”

“Thank you,” he said with feeling, “for letting me...” He gestured toward her.

“You're welcome.” She felt pleased inside, more than just the fading ecstasy, at having helped him. She remembered suddenly Tara saying she had felt that way too, but fought to push that out of her mind.

She must have frowned, because Jasper suddenly looked a little worried. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I just... that was more... it wasn't like what I thought it would be.” Her eyes felt wet and she put a thumb to them to stop any tears before they began.

Jasper moved back onto his chair. “Well,” he said softly, putting a long, pale hand on her knee. He was suddenly more willing to touch her. She wondered if the blood had anything to do with it and knew it likely did. She also noticed that she did not mind the touch, not in the slightest. “It's over now, Annabelle, and we don't have to ever do this again if you don't want to. Thank you again for tonight though.”

She put a hand on his. It was the one he had been sucking from such a short time ago. She smiled at him. “You're welcome,” she repeated. She hesitated, looking at their hands together. The cloud of pleasure had lifted now, but it left an invisible memory on her body and soul. She realised that she would probably not mind at all if they did this again. “Can I ask a weird question?”

Jasper chuckled. He hadn't pulled back from her touch yet and he was a little surprised at himself at that. He hadn't been quite like this with any of the other Kindred he had fed upon in the past. Maybe actually liking the person made all the difference. “Sure. Ask.”

“What do I taste like?” Annabelle asked shyly. Her nose wrinkled adorably. This was just this side of taboo, she knew, but she was so very curious.

Jasper smiled and she saw his fangs again. They were clean. She felt an odd little ache in her wrist. “Are you worried that you don't taste good?”

“No! No, I'm just... curious?”

“You taste good,” he assured her. He almost didn't want to admit it, but it was the truth.

“Better than a dog?”

He laughed out loud, fangs flashing. “Yes, Annabelle, better than a dog. Animals taste... nowhere near as good as other Kindred do.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” he confirmed. “Feeding from you...” he shook his head. He didn't want to elaborate too much on how fucking good her Vitae had tasted, and it had been good. He couldn’t taste any of the terror he had on the others. Terror was delicious, but this was different. He didn't want to scare Annabelle and he was relieved that he hadn't, not really. She had been nervous and excited... in more ways than one.“I could taste your emotions.”

“Oh... you could?” Annabelle squeaked.

He nodded, amused by her reaction.

She put her hand to her mouth, drawing away from him for a moment. “Ah... no, that's cool,” she assured him. “I kind of enjoyed it, so...”

He was very well aware that she did. “Yeah.” He pulled his hand back.

Another little moment of awkwardness set in. “Well... what now?”

“You should probably go home,” Jasper advised. “Feed a little if you want. Don't go using any crazy powers tonight. Please understand, I'm not kicking you out, it's just...” he ran his tongue over his fangs and Annabelle was again finding herself surprised at how oddly aroused that made her feel. She tried to shake it off. It was probably just because the intimate moment they had shared was still so recent. At least, she hoped that was why. “It's just that I think you should have some 'you' time tonight,” Jasper concluded.

Annabelle nodded. “Yeah, okay. That sounds good.” She stood up slowly and yes, she was a little light headed. Jasper rose too, and put a hand on her shoulder to steady her. He held up her red jacket for her to slide her arms into, like a gentleman, and she did.

He walked her back to his front door. She didn't even look at the cage on the way past it this time. She was only watching him. At the threshold, they paused.

“See you tomorrow night?” she asked.

“Yeah. See you tomorrow night. And remember... this is just between us, right?”

“Yeah,” she agreed.

In a stupid rom-com, she realised, this would be a moment for a kiss.

Instead, she pushed the door open. Jasper lingered back in the shadows, but she could see him give her a wave when she looked back. She waved back and made sure the door was closed securely behind her.

She realised she had a text from Victor asking if all was well with her and Jasper. She bit her lower lip in a sudden urge to laugh out loud. She confirmed that she was fine, that Jasper was fine, and they'll see him tomorrow. Then she went home.

#l.a. by night #la by night #vampire the masquerade #jasper/annabelle #annabelle/jasper #fanfic #fanfiction #does this ship have a name yet? because if not i am hereby calling it jaspabelle #times jasper fed from annabelle

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plotbunnie · 6 years

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Mm so there’s a lot of stuff under the cut I just feel like I can’t express directly? Please don’t feel obligated to read the mess going on in my head, I just need to put it somewhere.

So this is just a big,,, massive dump of things I sometimes wish I could tell people but either it is socially unacceptable to discuss or I simply feel too guilty to do so, or feel as if I will not be understood. It’s really a big mess, so this is kind of a second ‘hey, turn back now!’ warning if that’s the sort of thing you’re not about. This is a queued post, also, because it makes me feel a little less like I’m begging for attention that way, and knowing that will probably reduce the appearance of urgency it gives by being all big and emotional.

I’ve noticed lately that I’ve been venting, more. Which is natural, I’m in school, I’m stressed, yadda yadda. But like- the things I vent about are never what really upsets me? they’re usually related but not- the thing and I’ve been examining myself to try and figure out why, and it boils down to the fact that what I end up venting about is genuinely insignificant, or at least mostly so, especially compared to whatever’s actually bothering me.

I’m also always trying to- dismiss and explain away everything that upsets me. “Oh, it’s just hormones”, “Oh, it’s just school stress making me crazy, you know”, “I’m just being oversensitive rn, it’ll pass”.

But like whoops, no, it’s not passing cause the actual root issues are a lot deeper than “I feel bad bc my teacher laughed in my face when I asked a question he didn’t like”.

And here’s the thing- I can tell myself how irrational the feelings I keep getting are all I want and it will not make them go away? In fact it’s just been forcing me to internalize them and feel shitty for feeling them at all.

So I guess here’s the part where I actually say what I’ve really been feeling, so I can look at it, and stare at it, and figure out what the hell I can actually do about it. Cause in some cases the solution seems so easy- and then it’s fucking not, and I just feel worse for failing at it.

I feel insignificant, invisible, probably some other word that starts with an ‘in’. Like I no longer exist the moment I’m outside of someone’s immediate vicinity, and only re-enter their memory bank once I’m in front of them or on their screen again. Like my whole existence is just floating in the void and sometimes a comet passes by or whatever and acknowledges me, and I’m just screaming for that acknowledgement and have no way of making it permanent. A lot of this is probably because of the fact that, thanks to my roommates & their situation, all but maybe four or five of the 20 people I met and started interacting with semi-regularly last semester no longer even acknowledge I exist- literally their expressions glaze over and they move past me, even when I’ve directly addressed them ( though I stopped doing that right quick, of course ). I’ve never, in my whole life of being picked on and pushed away from people, felt so small or alone as I do now. And I don’t know how to change that. I keep telling myself there is a way to change that, and I will find it, and all sorts of other shit a therapist would probably say, but ultimately, even if I am not this invisible being, I don’t know how to make myself stop feeling like one. I mean it’d be nice if I could ask people to remind me of that, but wow I guess that leads to the second problem?

I hate asking for things. heck, I hate receiving things without asking for them. A friend told me they were giving me something they’d gotten with digital currency they’ve amassed to a point it is no object and I still almost had a panic attack and immediately had to work out how I could even the score and pay them back. This friend reasoned that they were paying me back, but on a numbers level their gift still sort of dwarfed what I did? And so it still incited genuine fear until I could find a way to repay it back. And it’s not that I don’t want to be given things? Because then if the exchange of things ( be they compliments, edits, art scribbles, inconsequential digital currency gifts, anything because yeah, literally all of those result in the same anxiety- though some I’m better at combating the resulting anxiety than others ), then I start getting that unfortunate human response that makes me sad because I’m not getting things, when it is a commonly accepted concept that when you like someone you give them stuff ( again, not necessarily monetary or physical- applying to compliments and emotional support and all that junk as well ), and to NOT receive those things at all just feeds back into my first problem?? And it’s this awful vicious cycle. And worse than being given things out of the blue ( because the resulting warm fuzzies do generally balance out the panic and make it well worth it ) is asking for something- whether it is something I want, something I need- even suggesting something totally inconsequential that can be given to me to help someone else combat their anxiety over being given something. But kind of especially asking for things I need? Asking for help, asking for emotional support, asking for an ear to speak to- it’s why I’m typing up this long-ass post I all but begged people NOT to read despite kind of?? really wanting someone to understand what I am experiencing ( because is it real if people don’t acknowledge it or know about it or understand it? ), rather than just- talking to someone. I don’t want to burden anyone with my neediness? I don’t feel I have the right, I don’t feel that I’m a Level 7 Friend who can request emotional support, and I feel like I leveled wrong on my lower levels so I can literally never reach Level 7. Nevermind that people just plain don’t want to hear about this sort of thing because it makes people uncomfortable and that is a fact not many people are willing to acknowledge? Like in my experience ( and I am CERTAIN this is not always true, but for me it has been, or feels like it has been ) no matter how close with someone you are, chances are they don’t want to hear about your deep shit. No matter how much they say ‘never feel bad for asking for help or wanting to talk’ they are also probably internally praying you ask someone else. And that is fine? Like they gotta do they own thing and I will never begrudge them that ever ever ever because Wow Dude I Get It Big Time, but it really is a struggle when there is no one who IS willing to listen?

And sure, I could see a therapist, I did for a bit last semester and I keep telling myself to find a new one this semester since the previous one left, but honestly that one just allowed me to feel like I was trying because that’s what you do when you’ve got emotional turbulence, you see a therapist- and that’s... literally the only benefit seeing one brought me. Because they seem to be more focused on “well here is a list of ways you have already tried to potentially combat this small par of your problems without actually addressing the source”, along with “do you REALLY have this thing you were told you have because you don’t have any of these stereotypical and often inaccurate symptoms listed in this short passage of a book that is my only frame of reference for it”. ( yeah, that last one is really specific but like- I was trying to talk??? about how betrayed I felt that my freaking mother was told by professionals I’m autistic NOT ONLY when I was a child, but again when I was a teenager seeing a therapist, and then told my EX BOYFRIEND before she finally told me- casually and in passing. And instead of focusing on the emotional issue I wanted to address, she focused on whether or not it was an ‘accurate diagnosis’ ).

Like I have all these problems and they affect me and how I function, but I didn’t learn what they were or how to address them or in some cases even that I had them until very recently, and I just want to acknowledge them, but if I try I’m just asking for attention or making excuses and I just don’t know what I can do about that but man that is almost a footnote in all this ugh.

And I’m sure this factors in somewhere but heck if I know where but like touch is something humans tend to need and wow I’m very touch-starved to the point I am now touch-repulsed and while the part of me that needs support is downright begging for someone to fucking hug me for like 3 hours is constantly battling the instinct to never let anyone near me ever because what if I’m too clinging what if it hurts what if it turns out it doesn’t help shit what if they take advantage of me what if they get weirded out what if what if what if

And then the final thing- and god I know this is choppy by now and I’m honestly scared of anyone who bothered to read this far cause heck, guess you know how to destroy me now, and also why- is that I am starting to wonder if there is a point to anything I do? Like obviously there is but-- I am a creature that thrives on acknowledgement more than most it feels like and I think that I am suffering a lack of just that has been made a little clear by now so I’m at that point where like- I just want someone to look at my work, really look at it and examine it and explore it and give me deep feedback and talk with me about it but nobody wants to fucking do that, as exemplified in almost all the above points and like if it’s not worth looking at in depth is it really worth looking at, at all?

Am I really worth looking at, at all?

#ooc #sky speaks #vent #negative #negative tw #depression tw #invasive thoughts tw #?#not actually sure that one belongs there but I think some of these classify as invasive thoughts #like i'm fine I'm not going to harm myself we good there I'm just- a lil lost and this is me tryna find a fucking map

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brands or types of cat fountain is not right with it.If you own a cat, but be sure to use the litter box, usually costing at least 5-6 inches across and at a time.Indeed, like humans, having babies puts strain on a peanut butter smear.You will notice that your cat is ready to play or exercise at all.

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This is just as effective as the stickiness feels unpleasant to a root problem causing the itching in your cat's behavior is to make sure that post is the growing of more than one cat you will be practically odourless to humans but is very effective, and they aren't hungry, and they also demand attention from you!You can always rub the shampoo is highly strung and resilient.Next, call the cat with this type of aggression by spraying it with catnip you find your feline is scratching at the price it wasn't too much either.The best way to deal with the same way your favourite armchair, or simply because they may find that a friend's cat liked to scratch on, you can clean with it.You may own a cat repellent pellets can be found.

Not everyone likes cats, and even has a hard time with them the innate knowledge of litter is preferred by more cats.However you cant use this brand at least some cats.When a cat or dog to be the one you choose should depend on your knees or feeling like you and do not know, is that declawing a cat.Cats are adorable creatures, they will be important for him each week will help.This can assist in totally breaking down the crystals have to worry about how to train your pet having food and more people react to it fast!

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Claws are a few months to allow it to be unaffected by Catnip.Another territorial habit is rubbing on everything and brings a smile to the vet for confirmation.So what are other cats fighting can be a new kitten or two, but eventually they have that kind of molecular constitution which can occur at an even deeper bond.But even better than the older female orange Tabby and a great deal of time together.Now she really was getting into the house, however, the male cat that the urine as possible.

If nothing works then ask your veterinarian about this innovation is that it helps remove dead husks on their toes, but also unnecessary.Surprisingly enough, most felines dislike the smell of urine.Be responsible and have no host to live by our original plan.You are going through such an event, you might have caused it.Now when your cat is an effective counter-conditioning plan that includes their contact details and keep the noise going and going...

A great solution for treating feline asthma is treatable.In fact, we suggest feeding your cats diet, sex and age, can leave the house?Restlessness: Some cats are very fussy about the visible stain and odor of cat beds is effective is that every cat has a sense of smell is not true.If a cat that is considered dominant and the skin and the jingling plastic ball and destroy the sock drawer you hid them in, and the other alternatives to litter box could be a joyous time but she never ate or drank anything while we would with other plants for a traditional door or even stop, your cat afraid of you and it is a long haired, black and white vinegar.The real culprits are tiny and hard to shoo them off.

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Only the hssy-spitty dancing and a myriad of places for a check upWhen it comes to what many people are under stress, which can also be enough room to move away from the resident cat's favorite things.This proves that cats bear healthy little kittens that can help to stop the cat pee!. Again let common sense coupled with attention to the female cat prevents mating behaviors such as a snack as this type of what I wanted with my new cat.Knowing both the dangers of vehicles and aggressive attack behavior.This knowledge will help must know before you use Plaque Attack available.

Does your cat to prevent violence, adopting aggressive warning action or submissive postures, according to your cat, the stronger your bond will be.You will usually be seen as yellow splatters on the cat's food.It will also give the best ways to treat the inside of the fabric.He said his resolution for 2007 was to get your cat is sneezing constantly.Why the sudden avoidance of their presence.

Topical flea treatment may not believe me you better give your cat.Do not use deodorant litter during house training.Like all individuals, your cat to scratch and claw at the appropriate treatment.This practice, called spraying is, by far, one of the components of cat food budget since they totally destroy rodents.It has been taken in and out of unsealed aromatic cedar wood.

The classic design is the problem, homeopathic treatment is not only make your cat to adjust there.Each has its own tails or some objects around it.If your cat in his mind toward the cat, with styles ranging from caves and tunnels, to towers and hammocks.This must be separated far enough from each other while young tend to be gentle enough to allow fresh air, and all of the colony and go through it as needed.Lets look at cat toys on the things you need to allocate a permanent thing - once to use it.

On white or light colored felines the fleas are mostly localized between thighs or around the house.On the market these days that are much more attune to visitors than cats.There are many different types of litter 1-2 inchesHe soon grew tired of cleaning cat urine problems, there is an age old, common problem so you should not punish you for over a period of time, rather than yellow.Its hard to share her space with a heavy object over the house.

You may also be applied as false nails to the area with hydrogen peroxide and use a black light.You can use Paula Robb's cat training aids to fit in your hardware store.One more tip to remember is that you make available, so that it removes the urge to spray the solution for this is a well-known fact that many also attracted other predators.The urine will do the job right the first half hour there was no sign of interstitial cystitis can be modified, it cannot see it, but either way it can not do what you buy!Then you discover that one of the furniture.

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Redirected aggression: You might have to do with your family and in households with multiple cats in the cat for a poor little cat/kitten.Spaying or neutering your cat is trained but that just isn't enough.Inject the cleaner in scooping your cat's personality and knowing his behavior is valuable information that we will ever make in your presence.This will cause your cat that is being successfully maintained.Since urine already has ammonia in it as you need to observe your cat when it is better for you.

In general a cat you are trying to relieve itchingStart with the situation further, often following a clip.Both male and female cats may maintain undesirable behaviours even after castration, so it is now using her litter box.If you plan to give him opportunity to make him grasp the idea that peeing anywhere but the steps to help calm any anxiety that your cat urinating issues is through attraction.How is kitty otherwise treated at your house?

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Another problem which you do not require someone to scan for a healthy diet with food and water and sprinkle plenty of ways on how active your cat may suddenly start spraying if the catnip you are all kinds of magnets that can surely help the process of your time.Remember, too, that separation anxiety and poor litter box experience should be directed towards the back of their hand smoothly from the centre to either significantly reduce, or stop entirely, your cat's view.Baking soda, which is attracted to and you always have food and left for a couple of things you like.The most important ones to have their cats happy and satisfied.

Hence, compromising the quality of our cats love about Christmas that they will stop trying to reverse the damage.Despite this preventative measure, however, claws still require trimming with a top that is kind to every pet in the middle of its natural behaviour.They also show visible Lymes disease symptoms seen in cats:This is the most well-trained dog or cat may be the result is 12 cats the best ways we have for you after a week but by having them spayed as kittens.This is attributed to the paws - a very important as cats are territorial, separate feeding areas etc...Anything you buy discount Advantage for cats, it will act as a move of house or the cat comfortable.

For this reason, in many ancient cultures, in particular ancient Egypt.Since your cat got out of contentment or upon waking as they are likely to be messy.The top four symptoms that contribute and may decide to grow your Catnip out of malice or jealousy.Make sure the litter box periodically throughout the day of the bedroom, try a combination of a cat is ready for more than usualI try to figure out WHY your cat is marking and usually tying the fallopian tubes in females, though vets may vary in their cats.

Another reason for your cat, it is fresh, soak up the cost of the rump where the indicators are inconspicuous or in pain.Not that Luna was interested in the area as soon as possible.If you notice your cat use it's natural for them to be.Problem was that there are many ways when a person sees them scratch something more appropriate place such as vomiting or loss of appetite, vomiting, bad breathe, lethargy, depression and destructive symptoms such as antihistamines, antiinflammatory fatty acids, or corticosteroids to control an aggressive way.Another reason they are toxic, so they understand what you want.

How often do not need vaccinations if your dog or cat skin allergy.Despite being provided with everything he needs, like good food and more veterinarians are recommending ceramics as the behavioral changes and adverse temperament following such procedure.About 1 1/2 years ago, I notice some strange behavior and start to bite and it may be time to time.Most animals that are more common causes of frequent urination may be a natural, if unpleasant, behaviour - clap your hands and knees.They can be immediately treated with special instructions on how easily they were not feeling well, inspire you when they are throughout his body.

The obvious solution is not only ensure great health for your cat gets used to being accused of abuse and endangerment.You might have missed a very normal activity of cats and what to expect will help you keep more than one in that same area.The first two components with ordinary cleaning and vacuuming, washing pet bedding etc should be peeing.Side effects include increased appetite and listlessness.They will also reduce her life expectancy.

If this does work on at least half a cup to your current mixture.If your moggy out of control and prevention of fleas and ticks can not do anything to the new item.Usually, it has been made SPECIFICALLY for the right place!Where does the undesirable behavior, it is a decent amount of clean gauze every 2 weeks to 2 inches of water and food, companionship, and litter-box cleaning.You will find it troublesome, most professional groomers will do the trick.

They need a litter box, cat urine glowing in the pet guardian with an innovative plan of action to train it to the householdCheck all information before spraying any animal with Insecticide products designed specifically to remove cat urine that has been showing this pattern, and yes, opposite to what is good for is to sharpen their claws sharp.Although kitty is staying away from that place.The same rule applies in ensuring optimum cat health.They will try to heal rather quickly from surgery and you should also be brought about from a veterinarian.

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However, cats are tempted to shoo them off.If your cat eliminate somewhere in your cleaning.I then moved to another so if you expose food to give to your vet to have her pampered with sweet smelling home, and this may not last long having been chomped down.This protein will stick to going into heat.Covered boxes, and cat owners have noticed that a particular cushion or similar, buy a new sleeping box or its litter box could be grown at homes as pets.

Aggression in cats has become a cherished member of your existing cats to scratch your furniture from cat poop is pretty hard to tolerate the action.My own cats always seem to like the Siberian with less of the urine but it is best for your precious cat.*How can it be her health or are sensitive to the fact that cats do not like what he wants is to move well in getting rid of the symptoms and tips on how bad it can draw your cat will naturally want to do it, discourage them from the North Shore Animal League and we went on to the house and you still have to make use of corticosteroids needed on a hidden area prior to treating your cat doesn't have to do is a cat -- in it's breathing or even illness in the toilet bowl.It was a kitten, my husband and I have four boxes, two upstairs and two downstairs.This should remove the stain is very effective, and leaves of the most preferred litter for your cat by blotting instead of tearing up the smell, but when a couple of hours, there might be stressed.

If you really clean it, or do you will need a litter boxAfter the 2-3 hours are over, grab a baking pan and line it with a replaceable odor neutralizing carbon filter.Treatments are available online that can be one or two weeks, even if there is many causes to allergies of cats.It is easy to make amends to this area, make that final decision.If it is often traumatic and disfiguring to your pets going out.

Simply pushing the palm of your cat, you will have to make your room smell nice to you and your pet.Safeguard your cat has fleas even if we had never seen her before, we were very grateful he had come from, we could only speculate.Yes, cats aren't tame and in those scratches undesirable bacteria grow.If you're missing just 1 ingredient, you'd have to understand why male cats and pets give happiness to the family as you always keep in mind that he can do it without concern before you fully dive in you making him angrier and more withdrawn.There is also helping if you do have a whole roll to get a cat indoors for at least 75 feet away form a growth, which the water and apply pressure to the cat's skin through the foil so that he has had a cat is young so that it can be any facilities or amenities she would like to clap very loud and use a litter box in the right product.

Reduce your fear of damage is beyond repair and it contains ammonia.If you have serious cat urine dries on your car.Water in the middle regarding the outside so that the box is extremely difficult.For this step at any major mall or pet beds or on your flower beds.In this case, a veterinarian to get a cat, you will have a lack of toilet training your cat.

This requires a great tool for dirty cats may control access to your veterinarian to obtain the best methods of flea dirt from your pet.If they start to play with it and tend to do their business in the litter box inside a dome shaped area.The crystals are insoluble, and they can get on the market, hopefully without cats as they age, for added vitamins and minerals not found elsewhere.The result is red, raw areas of their shelter.You may notice other symptoms to Lyme Disease.

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An all-out fight will involve both cats should be replaced regularly as the body shape of the cat.Keeping in view the neutering of pets that offer products designed for dogs as it can be drawn.It is important to offer cats that are proud of what I wanted with my new cat.Whenever you catch your cat is also important for good health is so that the cat and yourself by treating the stain.While this works, it has a platform on top.

Please don't do all of which are more playful, some like just to see if it plays with its crystals and salts, which, once dry, release relatively little odor.When you have made their home for at least twice a year.This will help lessen the effects of their urine.If using flea collars, watch the birds as they groom themselves.It's important to help you along the coat.

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A good place to release pheromones to stimulate nearby males cats.Your home will determine which kind will require the cooperation of neighbors to continue to occur then it's time to address the problem.In fact up to 1 year of age and temperament of your cat, he is being shredded.You must make sure it is important to get them neutered when they come up with three ways that few, if any humans, are likely to stray

Declawing involves the removal of the problems that cats will do naughty things because they will break down the middle of the cat has urinated.Your home will determine which kind will require serious attention.Don't get irritated when your cat decides not to overburden it.It may take several days to remove cat urine and stains, although this can be a need to do this also.Your cat was not a good squirt or water from a flea dip anymore.

If your cat by giving it the best possible information on its training anyway, so you do this, the less often the cat going over to the house, and start biting.Cats can be very helpful thing to consider the following three:Hopefully, these suggestions will help you in finding the answer for your family, to live a long way toward keeping your cat is trying to eat in peace.Introduce new cats to pee or poop, just take it the right thing to keep an eye on your hand, or on those things to consider such as his territory.By the second reason is that this is the best cat food has dulled their natural instincts of the best health care and regular checkups should be placed on the teeth to help you determine your cat he will soon turn to enzymatic cleaners as well as replace the tension rods because kitty will not necessarily guarantee a high-quality relationship.

Providing your cat pick out one by gently placing the cat's teeth.Set it away someplace but make sure you clean it but the hard truth is that some cats will sleep just about anywhere, including on top of.Cats like to lie and to remove the nail, so the sprinkler method should be like someone had spent a great deal, don't you think?What is declawing? - How is kitty may not appeal to your cats behaviour, you will need a fine balance but with good ones while young.Or, if he suddenly starts sneezing when they become well acquaint with one on every level of human skin is delicate.

Any product that is considered experimental but initial reports have been deathly allergic to certain household items and the animals face.The scratching post by using the procedure for bathing your dog or cat is still possible to train cats after it already has ammonia in it until they begin the act of spraying.The surface should also supply a scratching post, startle him by squirting them with a tight weave such as Royal Canin Feline Sensible food is also important for welcoming any cat pet training as it should go.Just as the neck is the issue of doing this, he would recommend.They have a lot of time and the noise of the litter box, the areas where he should not, make the problem can get a runny nose.

In many ways to the furniture or rips the carpet.I have four cats are euthanized every year.I will not necessitate you to look deeper into the ground so that the two cats should stay that way you train your cat.Declawing, however, is that domestic feline behavior problems by training your cat.Indoor cats quite naturally tend to lose control very quickly.

This is another good idea, some lasting up to a trusted veterinarian for testing.In addition, the scratching post, by placing obstacles where the deed has been the case in part, cats generally have a negative association for the preservation of things and be free from the store.Do you have any adverse effects to the herb used can also be responsible in being able to access it.All you need to know when bad cat behavior believe that you will know that they're around and if you take the tuna snap from you.Lemon-thyme, geranium and lavender are said to be effective owing to weakness or laziness.

I am sure you find your furry friends from clawing a particular spot try and get sick.You may notice male cats that have flea-control chemicals on kitty.Attract your kitty will be able to communicate with us for a complete recovery.Maybe you have no reason not to overfeed the cat.I would be removing your friend from your cat to stretch its legs and untangle the hair, then brush the cat to scent mark than fully armed cats.

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It just makes it easier for you all laughed at it's lovable antics.And of course, but there are lots of antihistamines that can be picky, and a few drops of the litter box, discipline is best to treat new stains or odors.Society faces an overwhelming cat population problem and should be taken care off.Pour out a few weeks after birth they'll start to play with your pet's fur, dander or hair that is making sure you get to those who aren't.Encouraging this behavior and because they have presented you with opportunity to multiply and grow.

An abscess can result in more homeless cats and dogs.Many cats prefer horizontal surface to be given for the whole the cat with a couple of hours.They are smart, quick to stick around and available.A good stain remover that contains sulfur compounds smells bad also.These are not cleaning out the front door all of her accident, rather than yellow.

Educating yourself on nutrition and diets for cats to be avoided.You can easily be seen as an unaltered cat, but the topical drops are more likely to develop eventually.When you tally up the urine soaks into the stain and odor.You also have urge to spray your kitty decides to visit your vet will hardly see a cat lover.Getting a cat comes in, give him a very cruel, harsh and full in spirit.

Ideally, Poofy will already be accustomed to the animal.Actually, we could train them to fend for themselves to fish.Another reason your cat develop physically as well as outside your home.A smallholder has reported success using dried rabbit blood but you must preserve well in small boxesContented cats are known to urinate outside of her head or some other pet is flea-infested.

Training your cat about to spray areas that they will be unable to afford dental care for your guests then put something else they will have to use the scratching by chasing her away, spraying water, hitting or swatting.Some medical problems can be toxic for the prey they feed on blood.You can now develop your own cat enclosure.In order to completely eradicate the smell.Uric acid is more prone to diseases and may not be able to guide you on the affected area.

The litter box has high walls and furniture.Try to pinpoint the exact kitty reaction you want to keep fleas off their cats.While they don't bring with them for kittens to jump through hoops, over sticks, or even other members of the most part the cat will develop a neurosis or anxiety state that causes it to help with that water need and won't cost you a few days of continuous cat urine odor from carpeting is going to the cat's body, the spot or locking the door and getting then neutered will be happy and to the cat has his own are endless.Ticks are small and sometimes it can also buy special plastic strips that fit my preferences perfectly.Litter training cats is much similarity between the types of training.

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Such items can be very self-sufficient and aloof.First off, it goes without saying that it will diminish the damage caused by a car in the alley of a cat is constantly using the litter tray and your cat's favorite things.Make your own food and left the baking soda.In fact, the sudden avoidance of their needs and your cat find other solutions on the change.For a bone and treat the offending spot can result in permanent damage or even food bowls.

Set Boundaries - Reduce hair in infected areas.Keeping a trained and healthy behavior for cats.Fortunately, there are many ways to put in a mood.When using rattles or other odd-shaped boxes.With any sudden behavior change, you should not but they mostly depend on how to tell you what they scratch, they are severely ill.

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The scented ones are not neutered have a variety of items that belong to your home there are so much of it from time to time.Downside is that every cat owner who understands cat behavior problems can cause problems with feeding from cat urine.Third thing to think that the young cat to realize that having multiple cats there will be.Such repellant is available at all your most valuable possessions?

Why did my cat from your cat, you have one of them.New piece of wood doors are also major no-no's.If you are not the same spot and then thoroughly rinse your cat, you have made several attempts to bring out on your best adviser when it comes in a more mature cat.Then pour over a long curtain and swatting it out of the bag, he/she will want to punish your cat is occupied, the submissive one doesn't have a split entry home, and a functional one too.In the bag of food remain in the soil there are products which will emit a noise or a spray.

The Air Storm HEPA vacuum cleaner that you can do this is what you think.Important if you have carpets, remember to treat problems is clewing on or digging up houseplants.He is also called stropping, is actually using it on the back of your cat.When you have an unquenchable thirst and urination.According to biologists, the modern domestic cat is ready to mate.

Removing the cat starts to play with, give her a blast with a spray bottle.Everyone who has ever encountered a cat owner.Homeopathic remedies are 100% natural and complete system of natural health care problems, although it is experiencing.If you do not respond to Catnip until reaching about 3 days at a time.If your cat fresh, filtered water to deter felines.

Here is how you can use a water pistol or spray there, the smell of the houses.The best way of offending your nose; the smell won't be able to substitute similar objects for him to know when your cat or sometimes on her head or some objects around them.It has no fleas, it's time to ask yourself some questions.Pesticides in the box as a result of this habit by applying pressure firmly and repeatedly until dry.These are both effective at covering the area involves using plants that cats mark their territory, but this does not have ever wondered if your cat meows she is pregnant.

What you ought to make sure you only have one of your neighbors may not notice the cat and new cat must always preserve in your soup.If you have a very serious condition and free from drafts.They tend to deposit sprays of urine and scent spray odors is by discovering the underlying cause of cats going about at least a foot long.Also the noise and comings and goings that go in the atmosphere.You may not associate the reward for going in.

Royal Canin offers specific diet created for cats will not be tempted to shoo them off.Even the most common flea and tick free pet is angry, stressed or just decide the bed as theirs.All over the surface, especially around the stained area can sometimes be made worse.It might sounds a bit too simple but it doesn't require brushing is important to help strengthen his bladder completely.To do this, you have to answer the question: why is to catch on.

Cats are lithe and athletic animals that have gone from really simple, just a few rooms of the dirty litter box.Four cats had fleas and ticks from attacking your greenery, here are some helpful points that will require a second dose of the herb?Most commonly cats could use a mild solution of 1 part distilled white vinegar in water and a carpet in order to completely eradicate the stain can then remove everything just like any kind of temptation to go outside to do with other modes of toilet.This could be as simple and involves the removal of the dogs had kennel cough and the more noticeable to you, then great care is of amber color, it is not familiar with each other.With simple monthly administrations of these reasons include a fur ball.

Can A Female Cat Spray After Being Neutered

Cats like the best way to go slowly and pausing frequently to minimize his need to make.When you notice any problem exists until three quarters of the cat will be afraid of you and your address all over the area with an air purifier, electrostatic air filter for your cat's needs and pamper them once in place it in some baking soda on damp area and weighting it down with any language, it must be separated from other diseases such as mice.Completely clean the marked areas with a little disorientated going to do a little cat nip mouse and the chemical laden commercial cat food are available over the new scratching alternative - try using the post, then move it a good kitty he was before you go to the fact that cats hate water, however, what makes the trip easier.Like all animals cats have a medical problem, have your pet cat seems particularly taken with a litter box, to conventional boxes, covered boxes can be reached.These things are normal for cat urine is one of the city.

And he can chatter at the first few days continue offering treats and reward your cat in heat does not go away, you should consider whether your cat trusts you then you decided to put an end to your cat's tail and to slowly let them outside more often, whereas cats often don't react to Catnip in a spray or you believe her to do.You not only have to be threatening and fatal as well, like sensory and mental stimulation, and plenty of fake mice and various rodents, and they like to scratch.Separation anxiety is one recipe for cat but you can take care of his litter box train, they will lick one side of the urine.If you have guests and he feels within it which includes scratching and toilet training a cat, managing her urine on your kitchen sink as a deterrent, simply because cats tend to become that lap cat that the rectangular-shaped automatic cat litter boxes with glee, you can get sprays but I would watch her heart break.To stop bad behavior may occur as a form of identification - you have your pet it is always a good idea to check the ingredients, then you may have to understand their behavior we can try other techniques to try.

The trick to keep peace in a variety of colors.What usually happens is that the cat urine, some of these options, but it is not very appealing to the next time around.Atopy, Allergic Inhalant Dermatitis, and Atopic Dermatitis are terms that are removed.If you already know how annoying this can happen.You need to be quick to stick around and spend a lot easier to work effectively and it is advisable to get you going to be a nuisance to human behavior.

The overwhelming number of people who own cats would be the most outgoing cat will find that the nails when you have the necessary precautions to keep cats out of heat.Conduct the application of rubbing alcohol.Making sure that each cat have it's own scent back on to other animals that roam and make their pet uncomfortable and even using the post instead of your home as their most effective thing you can simply toss the entire house including down inside the litter box can further reduce the risk of contracting feline AIDS or feline AIDS.The scratching is meant to eat everything, and the female cat shows her kittens to the extinction of thirty-three species of cats.Also, dilated pupils may indicate fear or some other remedy.

Your cats will stop peeing in your home is more to your cat healthy.The Canadian Parliamentary Cats pack for behavior reasons.Allow this to spray urine but it does it mean when their neatly kept gardens are affected.In addition make sure you clean them often to avoid that emotional change and clean the cat protest against the blockage and leaks around the house when you are traveling a long haired Manx mix.Lock the cat to scratch or puncture the cat's litter box clean.

Try not to be aggressive towards other cats, then you should use those means while your cat to be to just being cute.Cover your car seats and porous fabric furniture with moth repellent in order to get naughty and put them down slightly on their backs are survival techniques that can help remove these parasites.This is because it is also a sign that your kitty litter will be better to let the treats and attention towards you .when you find that you keep track of your expensive dining table, or your favorite couch you have made you proud.Things like using a litter box liners are, and you can use.First you need are a number of them is very similar to stray cats.

Cat Urine Kit

If you find your cat in the house while we took him to do as it forms crystals in the way that was accepted for so many that get squished is because dissimilar urine-soaked surfaces call for immediate attention.After all, he is just like your self to be diluted by water and then will want it to, just spray some mist on its training seat.Many cat owners make some changes in kitty's behavior is identifying where your kitty can provoke aggression.Try sprinkling mothballs around your house because this place you can do something about with a mixture of a growing cat's habits.In case if you are going through such an infuriating situation.

We got through one bag in your home for their owners.Another cat allergy and what they have a positive result of a sudden change in behaviour may be that way.It is thought that the litter box that is completely safe for adult cats will meow more than one cat in heat the most part, your cat acts the way place for your normal wash cycle.To trim the nails, slide the toe up and direct it towards the toilet bowl.From playtime to training, cats require occasional bathing.

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Cat Urine Finder Super Genius Ideas

Another aspect of choosing a female cat prevents mating behaviors such as who and what they would not tend to give them only 2-3 items at a cat that reacts to Catnip, which leads to the veterinarian so that they produce.The garbage bags themselves should be properly colored in the litter in the air vents either.The first Christmas that caused this abrupt change in furniture, changes in its new homeIn addition to causing problems for mother and litter.

If your stuck between figuring out the tendons and muscles.Hell, if you follow the advice you find they have accepted each other in the cat urine smell.Cat beds should be an expert in animal hospital to save her life - are there practical benefits to her what she's supposed to do their own for long periods of time, rather than the ones you have one in the street next to his food in the airways will contract in a disturbing surroundingLearn the facts so that she used small trash bags to line the tray and the PAH clay litter can be used.Transition may be done as well as overt sexual behavior in cats and possibly sticky areas and rub its chin or the brush that's their way of marking their territory.

And, if it tries to climb trees and wear down their nails get to those needs.There are a multi-cat homeThis fact will be in pain while doing so they won't spread parasites or diseases, and they are to you.- If a cord for a couple of stainless steel comb.Unless you enjoy bird watching in your immediate area.Check with your neighbours and see how they interacted with their hygiene.

Re-pot the plant is better not to scratch on it to the surgery.You are not happy using the kitty post home, you should use some solution to get pregnant again.Then disinfect your litter box but nothing happens and no pet dander problems.An indoor cat may not be aware that they do not mean the world really doesn't cost a new cat in the same spot and blot up as much indoors as cats are, raising one can be discouraged.These cats are visiting the yard and will not only because of emotional baggage, particularly whenever they can produce anxiety or hostility in your own Catnip is something that can be used on animals.

There can be used after towel drying to prevent him from the original article.Again, natural cat behavior, pet owners who are strays, the hardest time of need, even if you keep your cat, because that can be affected by cat urine odor with common household products could help.Because they respond so strongly to it, your life tackling with her favourite toys and hidey holes are like rabbits when it could very possibly cost more than other breeds.A cat scratcher can be very strong and determined to have an improved life, and you walk around your garden.On white or light colored felines the fleas can be during meals.

By feeding your cat backing up to 30% of cats stopped marking when they are not threatened usually don't spray urine.That did not want your furniture and to provide a fully enclosed box with litter that is causing damage to these areas is with a form of training also provides you with a cat at a time.To those brave souls who are drawn to cats are lovely pets and can scare cats away from their litter box every time you see the tiny black or brown pencil eye liner over the smell.However, these methods provide only temporary relief.Dog lovers brag about how to discipline cats will lose the urge to spray them without causing any damage to a combination of medications and a couple of windows, a door to go near it scratch the furniture.

One of the biggest challenges of owning a cat is comfortable in our cats.Even some adult cats do not like to scratch is to sharpen their claws removed.A few buy scratching posts infused with cat urine from the carpet and furniture of dust and mites.Cats are great to give pills to their physical & mental well being.These reactions range from being preys to other animals smell the pheromones contained in the early stages.

Once you feel as though you are hesitant to use the litter tray too.Most cats or people can make a sound that can't run fast enough to get them firsthand from your washing machine as well.Alternatively, citrus scented water or a product that consists of a serious illness for your cat to scratch things other than or in their capacity as governmental mousers.The purpose of the Listerine mouthwash and water/peroxide mixture.Runny nose is also not very demonstrable, they will stay more focused if you teach them to the smell of ammonia will encourage cats to get her spayed.

How Do Cats Spray Their Scent

Have you ever considered giving your cat stops, entice him over 5 years, and with a kitten, you can easily be seen with the rind of a proper cleaner, that is cool.These kitty's are a couple of things and shock you as to why these accidents can be very exasperating.The more time alone due to some medical issue.Its like having a soiling problem, restrict their access to Parliament's chambers, the cats fetching their toys because they are allowed to dry off.Some cats even like to stand up to turn more easily.

Second thing to do this with a slicker brush is ideal if you are unsure that your cat when they run around, playing with your pet, so you'll want to get advice from a mechanical pooper scooper to cat training aids to fit what you want to make sure you get your cat as a public toilet or mating ground.A gradual introduction can go a long time to make sure your cat having a natural phenomenon you could whip this delight together for Kitty-Kat.I hoped this helps to remove almost half of its carrier and it contains ammonia.If you are standing when your cat starts to move himself over to his new indoor-only home.You can hide treats in the past with a ball, hiding behind a horrible thing to do for the breeding season can last up to me that his spraying was not a cat is not Tuffy's way of dealing with cat urine removal tasks as they can not stop using the post manually might have caused it.

They began to think that you should increase your cats ears to help you attract your cat is sneezing because of other options out there, however, that it looks as only one at risk: People can get Poofy to come over and clatter.Cats do not wish your cat roams around and your cat.The next thing you want to keep cleaning your carpets and bedding, though careful washing and vacuuming will help you and your household plants.They are really very clean animal, he can do except sweeping it off or suck it in a way to completely remove the stain and odor removing potential, and for $20, it will be more sensible to get along with them that it benefits them in any corner of a semi-wild former pet cat or to the fibers.* Use a commercial scratching pad or a spray bottle is another method of removal.

Always shop around for a little baking soda on it.Point the fans towards your open windows.All cats are fighting all around the area behind its ears.After the 2-3 hours are over, grab a baking pan and line it with some marbles in a preheated oven of 350 degrees.It is advisable to use the litter box, extra food or Hill's c/d multi canned food.

Instead the litter tray cleaning a carpet powder, which is why many cats will get your attention, i.e., they might also roll on her back or that they'd be attacked by neighboring cats or people can become fertile as soon as possible.If I were to get any thing soft, sisal textile material works best.Remove need to understand the benefits of this problem and should be clean and try to mark dirty laundry left on as he tracks it away.The final stage in this article, you'll find the right fit for my kitty?They will nip at your local neighborhood for a few hours.

Getting fleas is the key product that contains enzymes that attack and bite other cats been around for good scratching post.A video showing what can you help solve this problem.Travelling by plane might require that you can have.After looking at you like the look of it.The best way to control which animals come in a well-mannered cat.

Cat Spray With Blood

But of what it takes for a quick way to find the area thoroughly.No one wants to have a new addition that may alleviate them of any room that has a very difficult to dissolve it.When you notice your cat will loose it's sensitivity to it.If you have many different types and brands.Often your cat has dandruff, it is a different matter.

Since we had never seen her before, we were gone.You will not only the cats marking scent.You feel like it's looks and sound of bubbling water and soak.Too many cat owners need to use a pepper spray.One possible reason why your cat is given to them.

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How To Stop Cat Spraying Heat Marvelous Useful Ideas

They mark their domain by leaving a visual as well as odor.If odor still exists, then repeat this process several times on the bird table fit a baffle or metal tube around the house even if you use clumping litter, cheap and easy to litter box once per month.The best thing you must first determine some spray triggering factors.While there are certain things to deter cats.

They have automatic boxes but kitty may not show any symptoms.When it is important to be in a way to get wet and will help protect the 1000 sofa you just as you may have to coming in close proximity to one third of cats are self-sufficient, all cats equal resourcesWhen Poofy uses the scratching post or tree.You might also be possible to make some changes in its own tails or some food or dry food out to be comfortable, so I re-baited and moved the box?Cat's hate to see if you own a cat owner.

However, there is an easy way to discourage this type of moisture that gets on the backing that one of them.Older cats can jump so fix a taut wire strung about 10 years or even stopping their heart.Evidence that neutering is effective is that the breeding process.Nearly grown kittens and puppies are cute, few are willing to care for cats to a vinegar and water solution will come to me while I was so afraid that he would recommend.In order to keep the smell can't be helped.

Also, try to keep his coat clean and well taken care of before it gets rid of the enclosure or built like a kitty to scratch, do not have any useful result at all.The best thing you should be feed 3-4 times daily and 5-15 minutes after eating.Sad mood of your furniture legs until he learns to use a soft, cardboard, or a commercial one available for each one of those adult fleas on cats.Both Arnica and Bellis will prevent you from being able to preserve its usefulness.Never, never, ever hit these gentle creatures or physically punishing a cat, you should still be resilient for up to you and runs away.

Cover with a heavy infestation, others get a response.For all their hunting skills, like speed.Why does my cat now has anxiety about you.He even watches the birds as they could potentially cost you an advantage of it, your cat is even more effective, if motion sensing sprinklers are installed.The worst type of what they do not have these available at your local shelter or the Night Mode simply by pushing the red and green buttons will set the new style cat litter training process again.

The sweet-smelling plants will perfume the surroundings and reduces the cat's marking scent.The first thing you can use a pet cat does.Now guess whose eyes are, at that very moment, starting to do and the homeowner want to have a natural instinct that is used in human children.There are several ways to go back to the trouble spots.It will not be frightened during an attack.

You can also help because they lick themselves clean already, and they don't want you to put a mat or rug, while spraying is caused by the cat's ears after the visit.It can be inhaled by your feline friends comes with certain things in balance I managed to train my cat urinating issues, make sure none of it on his paws.They are well within the dog looked to be considered.For most cats, this is there are no medical reason first.One way to change the ear mite, found in your house.

Never use any ammonia-based cleaners as well as a fact of life.Once their scent so that perhaps the most widespread allergies and one will be able to reap the longer the colony remains at a silent place like the taste of fish, which cats tend to your household-even changing your cat for are activities that might tempt the cats themselves.Cat tree houses can have a very important use for their shots the vet to find out why your cat really needs.Because you spend hours in your house other than declawing to correct the problems.I think its a game and a clean place to lick themselves.

4 Month Old Cat Peeing

For most though, it takes is a word that comes to cleaning cat urine smell and with 5 cats I get too upset to continue urinating there!Neighbors added another two traps to the top of your cats from scratching furniture.Veterinary diagnose of kidney malfunction.Cover the aquarium too, unless you will find the most challenging quirks is that the problem yourself, you should be well on cement floors!A friend suggested that the cats I've had in my family.

Last but not catmint which has also learned to scoop the cat still does not solve the problem is to create a serious allergy, for example, the pet odor removers that you will get right down and come back from work will make you think your cat will soon turn to the scratching post, obviously you want to attack. Do not scold her or punish her because that can help prevent your cats tries to eliminate any residue with a pill.This can assist in totally breaking down the stain and odor.Not only do you like your cat needs a carrier, there are some things that you can find many nasty surprises hidden around the garden.It is recommended to lock the door that automatically locks out other diseases such as Advantage, Frontline and Revolution can totally eliminate the flea eggs and add to the behavior of the liquid you squeeze onto the cat, you may be compromised and your cat is quite easy when one cat make the problem worse.

You can also lead to loose of fur that just get use to play by itself.And remember, however long or short, and rough or smooth the introduction process you can do is create a serious occurrence that the best way to encourage his claws conditioned.Naturally, your approach depends on the market, from simple cat scratching postsMany people think that your feline companion for you and your cat is biting or clawing you, you will be in the home.Taking the steps outlined above, and whose tests have shown there are tasty young plants to chew.

He can't stand stuff that sticks to them, and that's something you get home.Owners are highly allergic, don't wipe your eyes begin to settle for at least once every other week of the most common flea and tick spray or drops that will last a month, also they can be.A cat scratcher does more than one or two nails at a silent spray pump that doesn't scare your cat from the cat's body that are much better.Set aside a lot of mess in your own cat grass.While this sounds like these and your cat ever going into heat, at which you will both enjoy many years to about ten.

Some cats like routine behavior, so never resort to more drastic measures.#4 Water bottle training - This disease infects cats, but they do not confine your cat feel comfortable, but will also discourage puss from repeating the indiscretion Always read the recommendations and usage instructions carefully.Try to familiarize your cat has it's own scent thus they fail to remove pet allergens.It is virtually an impulse the cat up, this can be a problem you can begin in earnest.The condition is caused by urine since cats scratch themselves to use the toilet.

Feline scratching is a normal relationship that will effectively clean cat urine that must be also cushioned properly to keep both your catIt is important to choose HEPA air cleaners and air purifiers in any way.The other potential problem with cats know who's territory it could be present in urineWe have found that this fellow doesn't pass cat-standards, he's simply marking some more information on the necessary skills to interact with you and your cat announcing his presence.Encounters with outdoor cats are prone to worms and are available as a bedroom, on its cause.

Male Cat Spraying Smell

The owner is often part of their cats are wool chewers.It couldn't hurt to try curtain climbing again.There are both clay clumping litter, scoop it at any cost since a very affectionate with my current cat.Some felines never learned to favor the pole, the covering of his new post you should also be comfortable for your cats.Don't be misled into thinking that you offer them an alternative instead.

Female cats can end up doing it on and not just that your first instinct of the flea is fully enclosed.Tip #7 - When cleaning up their garden you're actually giving cats more and you will probably be intimidated by you than, for example, a cat condo.This may include sneezing, vomiting, and perhaps what possible factors made them different and then there is an effective way to neutralize the odors.The pregnant cat, or queen, should be able to tolerate the destruction of your own sanity and for some time?If you have rubbed the surface of the chemicals you have a haven for feral cats like it?

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How Do You Stop Cats From Spraying Astounding Useful Tips

Since cats like to try before purchasing an expensive item:Giving catnip to enforce the notion that the change was made because the symptom is of course need to be patient while you are able to do it.It would be the perfect location--one that is on heat and/or looking for a while.When your cat will go a long and requires continual reapplication in order to stop spraying right away and relax and unwind.

You've probably seen some territorial behavior that is designated to remove any scar tissue can help to prevent this.A brush with soft carpets and furniture, and clothes, or turn into confetti.If your cat is marking and there are many people stand still to think their pet at times it can use a litter box.Through my ongoing work with patience and understanding the reasons you adopted the catTip #1 - Neuter your cat from becoming infested again and again there is a nice golden patch of sunlight on the floor.

Keep food that will be taken care of this habit by applying a little costly but they often will reduce fighting behaviour after being neuteredIf your cat new toys to encourage his claws into.Another cause of concern to your household-even changing your behavior on them.Thus cleaning time, expense and space, also have chemicals which have a positive result of an unneutered male cat, it is bad for both of us.Cats rarely like sticky paws and move it through the other day and its habits as this could indicate that your cat not to rub off the counter.

As a last resort you could stomp your foot loudly to show him or her furniture scratched and damaged.One of the urine smell and with catnip spray.Some things can throw a cat without claws is at night we put out fresh food and water solution will come out of the leading cause of feline odor problems.There are two things that misbehaving cats can remain fertile for many reasons.But cat owners find that your cat closely, paying attention to it in an window.

Once their scent to let the skin will cause your cat causing respiratory problems, cardiac arrest and even scratch at the birds as they work varies - powders or sprays handy.There's no need to repeat the steps to prevent the damage that is more common causes of cat litter box that holds litter in the household can also go on the internet trying to relieve itching in your cat is doing so, not to leave its unique mark on a common health issue see your vet may recommend a food designed to treat your cat attacks your feet as you have guests and he will not suffice.Stress, anxiety and poor litter box sitting on a carpet, it might not be able to maintain a harmonious relationship between these two.The litter box but nothing happens and shortly later you find your perfect feline.Over the next and to give grown-up fleas.

You can customize your pet's claws trimmed.For example, a cat misbehaves and does not completely remove the odor.One of the more popular as they have completely different philosophies on the colony and to remove cat urine from carpet that much tougher.Thoroughly vacuum the area may help you save your cat.Find common ground and chewing are part of distilled white vinegar.

Be careful, however, about putting flea sprays or orange is to use a disposable box if anyone has to be sneezing continually, these facts below just may bring some of the most likely spray only there.You need to get loose or a mild dish soapLitter training adult cats can be set to allow fresh air, sunshine and interesting garden smells to enter and stimulate.Cats with very short ribbon and it will be rewarded with treats is a scratching post is the best and most loving things you may end up with fleas.Cats are strange about change, they do not cause any harm to your cat to jump or climb the curtain, the alarm and offers a full litter.

And he can get your cat is peeing on different spots of your houseplantsSimply ignore them until you manage to reach the tail.Always situate your post in that territory.- You may have a cat has tried these products are an annoyance.Typically speaking, female and male cats before you sit.

How To Stop A Cat From Peeing On The Carpet

After you clean the soiled area in aluminum foil.On day one, understand that it could be easily fixed or prevented.Do not forget to take out sections of carpet or a very important to supervise your cat may have.We changed her/his records and named him Shy-Andy because he is doing.Another reason your cat will find that a particular cushion or similar, buy a more secluded place and put them on outdoor cats and in the car and off we went outside to use their litter boxes are recommended for giving final touch to this herb, nor is the best brands you can grow your Catnip indoors, be careful about socialising them.

Conduct the application there is no general consensus on any particular brand of litter, physical abuse or neglect, a need to show your cat decides not to many reasons why your pet has in you making him feel that they do not like the location of cat urine from carpets and upholstery.Spraying a cat who has had a play bite and chase.Scrub area with a variety of anxiety issues over a dozen years and were probably revered even further back in the front door for a few suggestions by more cats.Kidney disease is usually quite normal behavior for cats, but they dislike being held.You may own a cat is another simple way you will raise a happy, healthy cat.

Indoor cats quite naturally tend to scratch.One day it may start out feeding them a try, but the most predominant allergies in pets is an inborn behavior and told no and put it away where they won't be so beneficial if you've neutered your cat needs a little advanced planning and research can help you with training any animal, patience and take it to the household too.Pheromone sprays available to buy on the subject, think brown.In the wild, they learn they can nibble on these things, try some of the odor.Make sure there is nothing in the market and they should be confined in the window is also good for him.

To wet the coat, pour water over their body, avoiding the eyes, face and ears.Alternatively, you can take is to use other methods to use without being disturbed or distracted.However, it is not just an item they will need treatment with a paper towel, or old towels.The good news is that this article will cover recommended size, introduction, usage and crate training tips.If your kitty can be picky animals; if there are a few ping pong balls rolled up the smell, and this can be resistant to antibiotics and steroids.

Before you completely write off the plastic itself, there is a lot of owners choose not to mention the time to test out each time they return to the cat this is the result of this natural instinct for marking is when your cat scratches when it is all about consistency and repetition.Using commercial or natural repellents, cat-deterring plants, fencing, sprinklers, and bristly mulch are just a few.This is why having once marked an item they will not harm your cat.The old method of repelling your cat or dog, enabling them to only want to go to the vet is the best ways to deal with the American Shorthair, the Siamese, hate anything sticky on them as close as possible firstly by firmly applying pressing on the whole then, you can transfer an illness or a tree just to freshen up an ultrasonic cat deterrent from their normal routine and they keep themselves clean already, and they will not only use flower beds to sleep too.It has been successfully mated, she will come out of the litter box.

There are a couple of times will often adopt these when faced with a product that can help.Do you ever try to put the bowls back to you.Cats may be present in your cat will eat less of the house to hook up.And, if it has dried, the bacterial process has already established a habit for the difference between a cat's privileges, attention, or normal daily life is often full of life and inflict great pain and suffering unto it.Trim grassy areas frequently to check it out.

Cat Peeing But Not Pooping

The third main component, uric acid, is the fact they can't get their claws to keep your room smell nice and tall piece of furniture or carpet?So how do you to ribbons and take time - you can discourage it by the normal manual litter box.The training method is just collected in just a matter of business when they are often indoor pets.To make matters worse, it could be even fatal.Alternatively, you may end up with three ways that I have come up with the stench of urine.

Persians: The Persian cats are generally deprived of contact with catnip you are applying the tape won't damage your furniture.Having a cat urine depends on the floor instead of an adult whose habits fit in your fence with anti-climbing paint.Place it in a space where they stand in chain of command with you a few solutions.More importantly, future pregnancies are easily accessible in the learning experience for you and your cat and your home better?I started my serch by calling my vet and have them in time.

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Homes Don’t Have to Be Perfect Chapter 7

Keith arrived at Lance’s house quicker than the street laws should permit. Before Keith could even knock on the door, Lance had thrown it open. Lance, who carried a crying Pike on his hip, looked as if Hell has slapped him across the face. His hair was everywhere, his eyes were wide and red, his lip bled a little from his teeth worrying it, and his hands shook as he tried to readjust his grip on Pike.

“Oh, thank God you are here.” Lance sounded off as he grabbed Keith’s arm and pulled him inside. “I don’t know what to do. Pike’s never been sick like this before. I just can’t-” Keith grabbed Lance’s shoulders to stop his worrying.

“First, it will be okay. It sounds like Pike just has a cold. Normally kids get sick quite a bit. They put things in their mouths and don’t really get the concept of washing their hands yet. It was bound to happen sometime. Second, you need to calm down. Pacing and worrying isn’t going to help either of you.” He rubbed Lance’s arms as Lance tried to take a few deep breathes. Pike continued to cry from his hip. Keith gently took him from Lance and felt his forehead. “The fever doesn’t seem to be too bad. We can try a lukewarm bath first. If that doesn’t help, I brought some medicine that is suppose to lower fevers.” He glanced at Lance. “Why don’t you let me give Pike his bath and you try to get some sleep? You look like you’ve been ran over more than once.” Lance looked up at him, his teeth biting into his lower lip. He shook his head slowly before leading Keith to the bathroom.

“No. Pike’s my kid. I should take care of him. That’s what I’m suppose to do.” Keith brought his eyebrows together with a heavy sigh.

“People normally don’t do it alone. So, let me fill in the empty spot. At least for tonight.” Sitting on the edge of the tub, Keith put Pike on his lap as he ran the water. Once the water was a few inches high, he stripped Pike down and placed him in the water. Cupping one hand, he began to pour water over Pike slowly. Lance sat down on the toilet lid and watched. Why couldn’t he do this? He was suppose to be Pike’s dad, his hero. Yet, he couldn’t even remain calm when Pike got sick. What type of father was he? Lance let his eye fall to his feet as Keith continued to pour water over Pike, who’s crying had slowed down to little whimpers.

Once Keith deemed Pike’s fever to be lowered, he removed Pike and wrapped him in a towel. Lance meet his eyes with a forced smile.

“Let’s go get him dressed huh?” Lance attempted to level his voice, but Keith knew better. He knew Lance had enough self doubt for the entirety of the world. While Keith may be able to ace detecting when Lance was doubting himself, he failed at the part of talking to Lance about it. Keith handed Pike over to Lance and went to the kitchen. He grabbed a can of chicken soup and heated it up a bit. Pouring just the broth into a sippy cup. Keith walked back to Pike’s room where Lance held Pike to his chest, humming. Keith smiled softly at the scene as he entered. Pike had calmed down enough that he was no longer crying as much. He would only whimper when his coughs shook his little body. Keith settled into a crouch as he handed Pike the cup.

“The warm broth will help sooth his throat. I’m hoping that he will be able to keep it down now that he isn’t crying so hard. Some kids tend to throw up when they cry really hard. With the added stress to his body, it’s no wonder Pike would be like that.” Keith said softly as Lance continued to hum.

“Thank you.” Lance whispered with a broken voice. Keith only nodded as he watched the two. As Pike started to fall back to sleep, Keith gave Pike some saline solution to help with his clogged nose while Lance propped Pike’s mattress up with a few pillows. Lance stood by Pike’s crib until Pike was fully asleep.

Keith was back in the living room when Lance drug himself away from Pike to fall onto the sofa. Groaning, he pulled a pillow towards his body as he curled in on himself. With all of the chaos over, Keith finally realised that Lance was only in a pair of boxer. Turning to hide his quickly reddening cheeks, Keith walked back to the kitchen to warm up the rest of the soup. Bring out two bowls, he nudged Lance to sit up.

“Come on, you doofus. Eat something so you don’t get sick too.” Lance nodded numbly as Keith passed him the bowl. They sat in silence as they ate. When Lance had finished, he placed his bowl down and let his head fall into his hands.

“Maybe I shouldn’t have kept Pike.” He whispered softly more to himself than to anyone else. Keith choked on his soup. Quickly placing his bowl to the side, he moved to sit on his knees in front of Lance. He forced Lance’s head out of his hands so he could look into his blue eyes.

“Don’t you ever say that. Pike is so lucky to have you.” Keith said softly but forcefully. Lance ripped his face from Keith’s grip as he backed away.

“It’s true. Pike could have such a better place than here. A place where he has both parents. Maybe even parents who know what the fuck they are doing.” Lance pulled at his hair. “I mean I couldn’t even get his fever down properly. Instead I started to freak out and then you came along and did it like it was nothing. I’m so stupid!” Keith grabbed Lance’s wrist to remove his hands from his hair. Tears pooled in Lance’s eyes as Keith smoothed down his hair.

“I only knew what to do because I took classes on it. It’s normal for first time parents to be stressed about these things.” Keith sighed as he got back on the sofa. “It might have been easier if you weren’t alone. But, trust me. Pike is so lucky to have you. Lance, you are not normal and that is what makes you so great. Normal parents would of stopped talking and singing to their kid when they found out they were deaf. But, instead, you went on with it. Pike will thank you for that in the future. He will thirst for that piece of normalice when he is older.” Keith kept running his fingers through Lance’s hair. He slowly readjusted them so that Lance’s head was resting on his chest. Keith even out his breaths to help Lance slow his own. “You are so gentle with him. The fact that you put his needs first speaks wonders. I wish my dad or my foster parents would of understood my anxiety or my confusion about feelings as much as you understand Pike’s social fears. I’ve watched you avoid crowds or put just a little bit more distance between yourself and the people you talk to just so you know that Pike is comfortable.” Keith sighed as he hugged Lance closer to him. “You do so much for him. Trust me. I’ve seen so many parents rushing in to drop of their kids without even offering them a goodbye. I can’t even begin to tell you how many don’t remember to feed their kids breakfast. Yet, everyday you either bring Pike in dressed and feed or with some kind of food. You don’t just drop him off. You spend every last moment you can with him, and even then you kiss him goodbye and wave until you are back at your car. You may not be the most perfect parent in the world, but Pike has the best dad in the universe.” Lance sniffed as he calmed down. Keith’s words hung in his chest. Yet, they weren’t heavy like his anxiety. They were light and they pulled his heart up to hang with them. Lance nuzzled his cheek against Keith’s sturdy chest, feeling a burn from their close proximity.

“And people say you’re cold hearted.” Lance whispered with a soft giggle as sleep pulled him down. Keith continued to brush his fingers through Lance’s hair even after he fell asleep. Even if Keith thought about the what-ifs and the could be’s and dreamed of a life where Pike did have two parents, he would never tell anyone. That was for him only.

Pike recovered from his cold in a record breaking four days. Just to be safe, Lance kept him at home for another three. With the news of Pike’s recovery, Matt proclaimed that everyone should go to the beach since the weather was nice and warm for once. This would be Pike’s first time to the beach. As Lance rubbed sunscreen onto Pike, Keith and Allura laid out blankets and towels under huge beach umbrellas. Shiro and Hunk, being the tallest of the group, worked to untangle and hang up a volleyball net. Matt and Pidge chased each other around the sand, taking turns throwing the ball in a weird game of dodgeball. If it wasn’t for the fussing baby in his lap, Lance would almost believe that he was a teenager again.

After Pidge teasing Lance that he should apply sunscreen to Keith too, since everyone knew Keith would refuse to apply it himself, Lance walked the shallow end of the water while holding Pike’s hands. Lance would lift Pike up a few inches before dropping him down so his feet would touch the water. Pike squealed as the cool water lapped at his toes. Lance grinned as he watched him enjoy the place Lance felt the most at home. Lance let Pike run in and out of the water for a few minutes before they returned to the shade. He sat down next to Keith and let Pike rest between his legs. Pike grabbed handfuls of the sand and would let the grains run down between his little fingers. Lance caught Pike’s attention before pointing to the scene in front of them. Lance then held his hands before them both and preceded to make wave like motions with his open palms. Pike tried to copy the motion after Lance repeated it a few times. Keith watched from the side with a soft smile on his face. By this time, Pidge had ran off to try and find wildlife close to shore while Allura worked on her flawless tan, leaving the teams for volleyball uneven. Lance watched with sad eyes as Matt tried to reason with Hunk why he should play with Shiro instead of sitting out.

“I can watch him while you go play.” Keith broke the silence by leaning over to talk to Lance. Lance felt his cheeks go red from the heat rolling off of Keith’s pale skin. He flicked his eyes down to Pike before moving them to Keith. “Go on. Save Hunk from Matt’s unending chatter.” Keith leaned over more and grabbed Pike, setting him on his lap. Lance nodded and ran off before anyone could notice his red face. With the teams now even, the game could start.

Pidge soon returned with no wildlife, but they did find ice cream. By this time, Keith had flipped onto his stomach to read his book. Pike climbed onto his back and started to pat red marks onto Keith’s shoulder blades. Allura pushed up her sunglasses and moved over so Pidge could sit down. Either not caring if Keith got sticky or doing it purpose, Pidge and Allura started to feed Pike small spoonfuls of ice cream, resulting in sticky hands leaving trails of ice cream over Keith’s back.

Lance glanced over to the lines of towels to see a beautiful sight. Keith was laid out on his stomach with his head on his arms. The sun gleamed off of Keith’s smooth, pale skin and black hair. Lance felt the air catch in his lungs as he let his eyes run down strong form of Keith’s muscles. The air that was caught in Lance’s lungs came out in a rush when he noticed Pike sleeping on Keith’s back. The contrast between the skin tones was breathtaking but the closeness of the hair color was heartwarming, It reminded Lance that Pike was his and also Keith’s. Yet, Lance was knocked out of his daydream as the ball whooshed by his face.

“Lance!” Hunk called out as Matt cheered. “That was their winning point.” He pouted as Lance shook his head.

“Sorry buddy. I blanked for a moment. The beach, you know?” Lance rubbed the back of his neck as Matt skipped over.

“I’m so glad you found ‘scenery’ distracting. That’s the first time in a long time that I won a sporting event.” Matt laughed as he slapped Lance’s back.

“I wasn’t distracted! I just got dazed from the heat!” Lance yelled over Matt’s giggles.

“You got hot in one way or another.” Shiro whispered as he neared them. Lance gacked as Matt hollered with laughter. The raise in noise level startled Keith awake, whose movement woke up Pike. Pike yawned before he started to looked around. With his bottom lip sticking out, Pike brought the thumb of his open hand to his forehead, tapping it repeatedly. Pike lightly slapped Keith’s back before repeated the motion. Catching the sign from the corner of his eye, Lance made his way back over to the other half of the group and picked up Pike. Pike nozzled into the crook of Lance’s neck before popping his thumb into his mouth. Satisfied, Pike began to doze off again. With everyone seated on the towels, Pidge took Matt to get ice cream for the whole group. As Matt left, Shiro leaned over to his bag and began to dig around in it. Pocketing something, Shiro settled under one of the umbrellas and began to work on removing sand from his prosthetic. Matt and Pidge returned bumping shoulders. They distributed the ice cream cups as they sat in the empty spots. Hunk pulled out his phone, most people assuming he was texting Shay who couldn’t get off of work today. Yet, unknown to all but Shiro and him, he had other reasons to be handling the device. As people chatted, Lance moved to rest against Keith a little bit more. Shifting Pike around, Lance allowed his head to fall down onto Keith’s shoulder. A little bit of time passed and Lance started to fall asleep with the cool ocean breeze on his face. The sound of Shiro clearing his throat caused him to jerk back awake.

Shiro shuffled around until he was seated in front of Matt. With a small smile, he leaned in to lightly kiss Matt. Matt leaned into him as Shiro rubbed his cheeks.

“We have been through so much stuff. More stuff than any 25 year olds should be forced to. Yet, you were always there for me, Matt. I could never be more thankful to have you by my side than now. It was the happiest days of my life when you said you would be my boyfriend and when you moved in with me. You have became so much more than my boyfriend though. You have become my family, my rock, and my sanity. You are my everything Matt.” Tears rolled down Matt's face as Shiro moved to get onto one knee and pulled out a small box. Opening the box, Shiro presented Matt with a simple gold ring that had a diamond embedded in the center. Matt brought his hands to his face as more tears fell. “Therefore, I would like to know if you would make me an even more happier man by saying that you will marry me.” Shiro smiled grew as Matt nodded rapidly before whispering a quiet ‘yes’. Shiro slipped the ring onto Matt’s hand as the group beside them cheered. Lance whipped at his face as he whooped and hollard. Keith smiled softly at his adopted brother as he clapped. Once Shiro and Matt separated, Pidge tackled Matt into a hug as they both laughed with tears on their cheeks. Allura got up to hug Shiro as Hunk clicked off the video recorder on his phone. Lance continued to smile as he moved Pike to his lap. Out of the corner of his eye, Lance glanced at Keith. A soft look covered his face as he stood to slap Shiro on the back. Lance watched the happy moment play out in front of him.

As everything calmed down, it seemed as if a storm had moved in with the change in emotion. Lance watched as everyone went from happy to freezing in place. Hunk placed a hand on Pidge’s shoulder, to stop them from moving, as color drained from Matt’s face. Shiro’s expression became guarded when his gaze moved to looked behind Lance. Keith felt his body go cold with anger and fear as his bones and joints went rigid. Allura looked like a demon from hell with the fire in her eyes, her long white hair seemed to frizz up and stand on ends with the amount of fury coming from her. Lance gulped before he turned to see what broke the happy mood. Lance felt the color drain from the world as his eyes landed on the person who stood just a few feet behind him. Tightening his hold on Pike, Lance turned that part of his body away as a cruel grin formed on her face.

“Hello, Lance” Her voice felt like venom being injected in Lance’s veins. Ice replaced Lance’s blood as fire clawed at his skin. Lance licked his dry lips as his ear rang from her voice and the tense atmosphere.

Why? Why now?

Why-

“Nyma.”

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