Stop asking me for money. I don't have any.

My rat Blue Jay is in need of surgery to remove a mammary tumor. I usually use CareCredit but since I’ve been using it for my rats for years I’ve uh… accumulated a lot of debt on my card. I have $470 available to spend on my card. I currently have around $200 to my name and don’t get paid for another 2 weeks. Blue Jay’s surgery is estimated between $638 and $1,247.

I don’t have enough to get her the surgery.

Blue Jay is such a sweet girl (she was covering the vet’s hand in kisses while he was doing the exam) and still full of life, but this tumor will rapidly drain her life. I’m trying to do everything I can to not let that happen.

So I’m posting this GoFundMe. I know there are much bigger problems in the world right now, and other people are facing much worse, but if you can donate even just $1 to save this sweet little girl’s life I would forever appreciate it. She doesn’t deserve to die early. If you can’t spare anything, please consider reblogging this post so more people could possibly help.

There’s a video of Blue Jay (and her friends) for tax below the break, tumor and all. If the tumor freaks you out, there’s some older picture of her above it, without the tumor.

We’re currently at $398 of my intended $1000 goal. Once that money transfers I’m going to go ahead and schedule the surgery and see if I can split the payment between CareCredit and what I have. Part of the quoted estimate included a spay and x-rays so, unless more donations come in soon, I’m going to decline those so that I can afford just the mass-removal surgery with what I have.

If you haven’t yet, and are able, please consider donating a small bit or just sharing to help me get her the spay as well (so the tumor doesn’t come back) or, at least pay off some of the CareCredit debt so that if something else comes up soon (I have… 7 rats 🫠) I will be ready this time.

Here’s pictures of Blue Jay eating a little cookie with me right now:

And Blue Jay’s surgery is in two days!

I didn’t get enough so I’m going to decline the spay and histopath (I think the x-rays might be necessary for the mass removal surgery). This means the tumor may come back, but I can’t afford the spay now. :/ I will update everyone on how the mass-removal goes after the surgery is over!

If you can though, I would still appreciate donations. I’d like to get some of the Care Credit debt paid off so that I can use the card next time something comes up.

Blue Jay’s surgery went well!

She was a little loopy last night (she came out from the vet and looked up at me with the wettest, most tired eyes imaginable), but is now resting and doing alright.

I want to thank the 9 generous people who truly saved her life. Between the credit I had left on my card and the donations it was just enough to cover the surgery!

However, I’m leaving the GoFundMe up as it would really help if I could pay off some of the CareCredit debt so I can use the card again soon.

Blue Jay’s sister, Magpie, has some quickly growing lumps on what seems like her urinary tract (it never ends 😔) and looks like she’s having trouble urinating. I don’t even know if it’s possible for me to take care of this medical issue so soon after Blue Jays. I’m not sure if I should make a second GoFundMe for this or not. I hate begging for money, but I’m not really sure what else to do at this point… I’ve had rats since 2008 and I’ve always found some way to cover their vet bills but now it’s all catching up to me at once + I don’t have a very well-paying job. For now I am just leaving the GoFundMe up and thankful that Blue Jay and Magpie can at least be there for each other at this time. (Blue Jay’s currently in a separate cage while she heals, but I let Magpie visit for a minute and Blooj immediately started licking her ;_;)

in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.

in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."

what is a side-slip, you ask?

it's drifting.

the guy goddamn drifted his 767.

in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.

and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:

Long-tongued, termite-munching numbats are no longer endangered due to decades of successful conservation efforts, the global authority on the status of the natural world says.

Also known as banded anteaters, the status of the pint-sized marsupial has improved to near-threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. ''Today's assessments show that long-term, strategic and collaborative conservation effort works,'' conservation biologistJohn Woinarski said on Friday. ''Without it, invasive cats and foxes will continue to drive Australia's small marsupials and native rodents to extinction.''

Read more: Numbats no longer endangered but threat far from over - The Australian Museum Blog

Updated IUCN Red List assessments improve amphibian conservation knowledge across key regions

Today's IUCN Red List of Threatened Species update includes a genuine deterioration in status for the Desert Rain Frog (Breviceps macrops), which moved from Near Threatened to Vulnerable due to proposed development, climate change, and demand for the pet trade...