Fort Greene cat needs a home

I've been fostering a cat left behind by her previous owner. My roommates and I cannot care for her anymore - we travel too much to give her proper care and what she really wants is someone who is home a lot or another animal to keep her company. We'd REALLY like to avoid putting her in a shelter. She'd be so upset in a cage!

Speckles is a senior calico short hair currently living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She loves to cuddle under the covers, sit on laps, and be around people. Though she's on the older side, she has the face, body, and playful nature of a kitten. With an endearing meow and sometimes a nudge she'll wake you up in the morning to ask you to join her for breakfast. When it comes to feeding, she has some special needs, but nothing too complicated. "Spec" for short, gets along with small dogs and some cats and doesn't shed. She cant wait to provide her new owner with uncompromising love and companionship.

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fly high fat featherer.
fly over land dwellers..
poop on this city
...we are poop machine
poop splat on his head.
peck down you are fed..
peck poop poop fly
...fly high fat featherer

Turkey "Zelda" in NYC!

This may be old news to some but not to me. Earlier this evening, I visited a friend of mine who works down on Wall Street. We took a stroll along the river and over to battery park. As we're walking through the park approaching the Staten Island Ferry dock we come across a very large bird. As we get closer we realize its a turkey! A TURKEY in Manhatten! What?! We sat and watched it for a while as it dug small holes searching for food. We waited for it to do something exciting like fly, talk, or poop... but unfortunately it did not. When I got home I googled, "turkey battery park" and found this NPR article:



New York City's Battery Park has a new resident celebrity -- a wild turkey named Zelda. Whether by luck or instinct, the female turkey is living in probably the last place a hunter would think to look. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

The article is from 2003! This turkey has been chillin in NYC for 4 years?? And the article is written by Robert Smith. From the Cure? I hope so.


Zelda in the Gothamist