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Gabbertoons

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Edritch love child of Hestia, Folgers, and a haunted Scrabble board that only works with the OED. Culinary experimentalist. 🔪 Bibliophile. 📚 Ailurophile. 🐈 Father to the Gabbercats. Recipes, cats, and cat-free recipes @ https://imgur.com/user/gabbertoons

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Gabbertoons

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TRENTA UPDATE FOR 11/12/2025:
gofund.me/e6ca70a57

Today was a hard day for us both. I know there will be some, but after a long positive trend, it can be confusing. Trenta kept to her own quiet spot behind the couch and didn't come out as much today except for water. However, she showed

Trenta, a two-year old black and white cat fighting Feline Infectious Peritonitis, a bladder infection, and now severely underweight. She's still going, wanting to play and patrol, just more slowly. Today was the first full day of trying to get prescription supportive food into her and it was kind of rough. She's very, very resistant to oral medications, and doubly so to syringe feedings. I can't blame her. Oddly enough, she is very cooperative when being administered subcutaneous fluids.

Here she is sulking under the couch instead of sitting in her little Hobbit hutch by the space heater. Hopefully tomorrow will go more smoothly for the feedings. At least she's had her full compliment of medications and a healthy dose of potassium.

If you could please share her Go Fund Me link, it will really help. Her hospitalizations tapped out regular funds. She has more evaluations and tests ahead. We are waiting on the results from yesterday's, but now that a more effective feeding regimen is in place, she will need it all over again. Thank you, here's the link: https://gofund.me/e6ca70a57

November 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM

Gabbertoons

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As long as Schumer is trying to surf the buffeting calls for a new Senate Minority Leader, he should probably update his official portrait. Here's a suggestion.

Also, calling the breaking Senators the Feckless Eight from now on. Selling us down the river for a pinkie promise from monsters.

A blue jellyfish, the perfect metaphor for Chuck Schumer and the eight Democrats who broke with him to sell us down the river for a pinkie promise with the treacherous GOP. I guess all this pain was for nothing.

November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Gabbertoons

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Trenta Update 11-10-2025: gofund.me/e6ca70a57
Trenta's not eating still, but she acts extremely interested in food up until she sniffs it. She licks at it, maybe takes up a little. So I've been forcing some food into her along with her potassium, antibiotics, FIP, and anti-nauseau meds. Not fun, b

Pictured is my black-and-white two year-old cat, Trenta. She is battling kidney distress and an intestinal granuloma from either lymphoma or Feline Infectious Peritonitis. I am giving her at-home care hoping that it is indeed FIP. That includes medications for FIP as well as antibiotics for a bladder infections, antibiotics for her conjunctivitis, anti-nausea medication, an appetite stimulant, potassium supplements, and subcutaneous fluid injections. She's not eating, so I've been adding watered Churru and Tiki Mousse to her oral medications via syringe.

To me, she seems to be rallying, re-engaging in some of her routine behaviors, exploring, chasing a laser pointer however briefly, scratching, and walking under my legs, albeit much more slowly. But a week ago she was just getting up out of her carrier to drink water from the fountain. Often she sat for hours in the shower stall. Now she has barely visited it, preferring interaction with me, her sister, and her brother.

Tomorrow, 11-11-2025, she has her first post-ER evaluation. It's been seven days. If this lack of eating shows no road to return for her, despite these gains, I may have to consider saying goodbye to her. This evaluation is crucial, and the contributors to her Go Fund Me have made that possible. Her hospitalizations have drained the resources, so it's very, very important. If you would like to please share her Go Fund Me, especially given that she may be still be fighting and receiving her FIP medications, I would appreciate it. She deserves the opportunity to live a fuller life. https://gofund.me/e6ca70a57

November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM

Gabbertoons

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Very late last night, this morning, and today, Trenta looks to me to have improved. I'm hoping the Tuesday evaluation agrees with me!

Last night and a couple of times this morning and afternoon, she came out of her hutch, walking gingerly but steadily, and checked things gofund.me/e6ca70a57

My cat Trenta, a very sick black and white two year-old female. She's been looking more alert last night and today. Trenta is suffering from FIP and I am giving her treatment and supportive care at home because the extraordinary high costs of care. Around here, only veterinary emergency hospitals now keep cats overnight or housed for supportive care. Her two trips to the hospital while they performed their endlessly delayed tests wiped out our resources. Our only option has been to turn to Go Fund Me, just to get more medications and basic evaluations (blood tests, urinalysis) at a regular vet. Here is the link if you'd like to help or share: https://gofund.me/e6ca70a57

November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM

Gabbertoons

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UPDATE 11/8/25: It's very hard to tell how she's doing. She seems weaker but she's been out several times this morning and afternoon to drink water. She put up a much more vocal fight with her oral medications this morning. She even ate a tiny bit of stinky Fancy Feast tuna!

gofund.me/e6ca70a57

Trenta, a black and white two year-old cat suffering from Feline Infectious Peritonitis, a bladder infection, swollen kidneys, and weight loss. She is seen here annoyed with her oral medications and forced feeding, hanging out in g=her favorite spot, the shower stall. https://gofund.me/e6ca70a57

November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Gabbertoons

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TRENTA UPDATE FOR 11/7, Evening:

Many heartfelt thanks to everyone for chipping in or boosting her GoFundMe! Thanks to you we scheduled her follow-up evaluation on Tuesday.

She drank on her own three times today, and got to the litter box twice. Fingers and whiskers crossed! gofund.me/e6ca70a57

Trenta, a black and white, two year-old cat fighting for her life. She's being treated for Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Hopefully it's this and not lymphoma; two hospital visits and tests were inconclusive. She's receiving at-home care: fluids, antibiotics, and GS-441524, plus oral nutrition. She showed slight improvement yesterday and today. Thanks to her Go Fund Me, I was able to make her an follow-up evaluation appointment. The initial hospital visits have drained the reserves. So now we are relying on her Go Fund Me to get the re-evaluation, tests, supplies, car trips, and, if necessary, euthenasia. Hopefully she will be home on Tuesday to cause more trouble instead. Please consider sharing her Go Fund Me. It's very effective. https://gofund.me/e6ca70a57

November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM

Gabbertoons

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A whole dynasty of flavor!

Still from Futurama where Prof. Farnsworth gifts Fry the mummy of Zevulon the Great, which is teriyaki flavored.

September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Gabbertoons

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It's really nobody's business but the Turks', though. #Gabbercats #TMBG

"Mario suddenly realized that Constantinople was, in fact, Istanbul."

Picture of Mario of the Gabbercats looking directly into the camera while a distant red lampshade behind him looks ever so slightly like a tiny red fez glowing above his head.

August 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM

Gabbertoons

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Is it Restaurant Week in DC? Because it seems you can find Jackboots a la Epstein everywhere.

Wanna bet if anything about Kiddie Diddler Island makes it to either floor, there will a "crime wave" that shuts down the Capitol?

Personalized Coca-Cola bottle with "Trump is on the List" as the name. Chef's kiss goes to the added "Now with cane sugar" on the label.

August 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Gabbertoons

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Now how am I going to get my Turkish Delight, mithril, chocolate frogs, Orcs, Longbottom Leaf, dragons, vibranium, hammers, monoliths, or potatoes?

Trump holding up a list of more places he's enacted tariffs upon. The list is:

Narnia, Mars, Middle Earth, Hogwarts, Mordor, Westeros, Asgard, Wakanda, and Jupiter.

April 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM

Gabbertoons

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The company that opened the NYSE today—the day the market lost closed with a historic loss thanks to Orange Shitler's tarrifs against allies and penguins alike—was newly listed NewsMax. 😹

Ruddy Ghouliani (aka Simon Bar Sinister) was on the podium as a NewsMax guest. 😹😹

NewsMax ringing the opening bell at NYSE on the day Trump's tarrifs caused the biggest loss on Wall Street since 2020. Those gathered on the opening stage with NewsMax is Rudfy Guiliani and Trump's first term Secretary of Labor Acosta.

April 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM

Gabbertoons

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It's a ridiculous 72F here and Mario has taken his front window spot again.

Big old orange kitty taking in the sun in a Brooklyn window.

March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Gabbertoons

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...continued presentation of the recorded phenomenon.

Screencap of @fesshole.bsky.social Fesshole's Bluesky homepage with the Bluesky-recommended "Similar accounts". All the accounts listed as similar accounts to Fesshole are furry enthusiasts' accounts. This is one of the six screencapped instances, all appearing together.

March 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Gabbertoons

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A new mystery has sprung forth for contemplation: Bluesky's "Similar Accounts" recommendations on @fesshole.bsky.social 's page are all furry accounts. I don't think I've ever even had such a close bunched set without an obvious connection before. This is something like a nascent B3ta post.

March 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Gabbertoons

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If you see this, post a witch.

Endora (Agnes Moorehead) summons a dry martini to here in a restaurant while dressed to the nines.

January 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM

Gabbertoons

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Intermittent Imgur Retread Post No. X+Y?

Back in more innocent times, I thought Xitler's rebranding of Twitter was the Dunning Kruger Effect in action, so I made this for Imgur. If only that had been the extent of it.

imgur.com/gallery/Z9dy...

#Xitter #Barbenheim #Imgur #Tesla #Twitter

January 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM

Gabbertoons

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Intermittent Imgur Retread Post No. 369

As one brilliant friend put it after I sent this to him, “I, no robot!”

Captured in the wild from the awesome John W. Knott, Jr. Bookseller site: (www.jwkbooks.com).

#ScreenShotHumor #ScienceFiction #SciFiCommunity #IsaacAsimov #Captcha