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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, March 13 to midnight on Thursday, March 14. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #30914 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 33

How are you doing?

I am OK.
25 (75.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
8 (24.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
12 (36.4%)

One other person.
15 (45.5%)

More than one other person.
6 (18.2%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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From:

starwatcher

Gotta finish chores -- all the water sources I keep for animals are low -- but I'm all comfy in my own space. On the agenda for tomorrow is... NOTHING! Yay!

From:

ride_4ever

Yays for your tomorrow's agenda! The "Nothing Agenda" is certainly one of my favorites!

From:

we_are_spc

Wooo hoo!

What water sources do you use for your animals (Fountains, bowls, etc) I'm thinking about switching to a fountain for the kitties, but haven't found one that does well with multiples yet.

Nor have I looked very hard because finances; those things (most of them anyway) don't come cheap. Even $30 is a bit of a squeeze at the moment.

-T~

From:

starwatcher

I have no indoor animals; all the water is outside for feral cats, birds, the neighbor's free-range chickens, ducks, and dogs, and occasionally a coyote or hawk. If I'm out at dusk, I see mice using one tub, and I assume skunks do as well, though I haven't seen it recently.

I have a 15-gallon tub on my porch, a 30-gallon tub next to the garage, and a 600-gallon pond behind the house, about 100 feet away. Each is supplied with a fountain pump to keep the water circulating. I suspend a tube above the tubs so that the water can fall back into the tub. The pond has a homemade birdbath in the middle -- a large clay plant-saucer on a cement block -- so the water runs in and spills over.

*searches cat fountains* Wow! Those are expensive; $30 is the low end of the range. Although I can't talk -- I put in a pond partly for the occasional years (about 1 in 4) we get enough rain for the frogs/toads to breed, and I have tadpoles that need enough water to not dry up in the desert heat.

According to the articles I read, many cats don't like their whiskers touching the sides of a bowl. Perhaps a wider bowl would encourage more water-drinking until you can afford a fountain.

From:

starwatcher

Yes indeed! And today I'm hunkering down against the wind and cold; no need to go out at all! (But I can't really complain; I'm not buried in snow.)

From:

we_are_spc

Is mah birthday!

big 44, woo hoo.

....

did a sort of battle with buraucratic bool and got the UI interface running again. If friend in NH isn't available tomorrow...yeah, we'll see.

My brain isn't working on all cylinders yet; been up since three, and am going to need a nap before the day's over due to dinner plans this evening.

-T~