Meet Petrie (AKA Mr. Wobbles). Somebody brutally beat him with a bat. That he recovered with only vision issues and occasional ‘tippiness’ is a miracle. That he’s still a happy-go-lucky boy who loves people is a gift we don’t deserve. Now he needs a home. Spread the word, or adopt! 👇 1/2

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It’s World Pet Memorial Day, so we just wanted to post a few pics of much-loved former Soft Side spokescat Bugs. We miss you, Bugsy. Please feel free to post your own much-missed pets. Because they are never with us long enough - but at least we got to spend that time with them.

Little ghost! 👻 Photo from my collection, 1964.

In case you missed it, I am running a fundraiser this month for our local animal shelter! Our region has been hit hard by housing insecurity and other socioeconomic issues in the past few years so their services are more needed than ever. Please help if you can! ❤️ givebutter.com/mollys-birth...

The mighty huntress

I am suspicious when a person doesn't like cats. But I totally trust a cat when it doesn't like a person.

Hey, have you heard? Today is National Best Friend Day, so let’s see your four-legged BFFs!

I mean, same….

Important PSA!

goooood morning it is cool and overcast but our neighborhood loop featured a raccoon who was great for barking at, plus dog-friend “Finn” in his yard, and we’re still wearing the kicky bandana so yes, you know it: Lucy Loved That Walk

Does anyone I know have the ability to foster two cats for a (possibly long) while? a young lady i know is losing her housing and has no one to take her cats. the cats are both sweethearts, tho one of them isn't fixed. DC area, tho I could drive a bit to drop the cats off if someone could take them.

Soft Side social media cat Parker says it’s his dad’s 50th birthday - and the one thing they’re asking for is donations to support our lifesaving mission. Want to help? Just click showyoursoftside.org/donate/ or spread the word!

Help! April showers, May flowers, June … injured cats? 😿 Yesterday alone brought our Street Kitty Fund one cat with an embedded collar/burst abscess (Jonas), one with a burst eye (Milo), & poor Bubs, emaciated with a badly broken leg & separated femur (likely hit by a car)… on top of… 1/4

I have followed this organization for many years. Truly incredible work for dogs and cats who might not otherwise have a chance. Visit their page @softside.bsky.social or web site to learn more: showyoursoftside.org #rescue #dogs #cats

Happy June! Meet Claire (fka Trixie) a lovely former street kitty momma who got care for a face wound through our Street Kitty Fund - and is now being fostered by one of our board members, just in time for National Foster a Pet Month! 1/3

It’s true! Science says so! (www.iflscience.com/your-cat-kno...).

Baltimore peeps, come git yore new ca'at!

Please share! Li’l lion guy Simba needs a foster home! This sweet Baltimore street kitty is just like hakuna makata-era movie-Simba - super chill & non-combative. Back in January, he got help for a bad respiratory infection though our Street Kitty Fund. After weeks of vet visits, he was finally… 1/2

CW: graphic photo! Street cat Bob needs urgent medical attention - folks are trying to scoop him up and get him to the vet tomorrow. Can you help? Donate to our Street Kitty Fund to cover care for him and other Baltimore-area cats in need: showyoursoftside.org/donate/ or please spread the word!

‘Cats are fine living outside’, they say… Fun fact: Our Street Kitty Medical Fund admins work 14 day shifts. Yesterday was Day 11 of this shift, and we’ve already approved 26 cats with issues ranging from abscesses and injured limbs to chemical burns and severe dental disease. 😿

Holly is a master of the sideways blep. She doesn’t have enough teeth to prevent her tongue from flopping out of her mouth.

Tonight, Friday 5/22! Help pets in need while enjoying an epic night of laughter! Justin Schlegel and Big Fred headline Comedy Night at Jimmy’s Famous Seafood - proceeds benefit Soft Side! Doors open 7pm, show 8pm. (jimmysfamousseafood.com/product/just...).

Holly and Rillian have figured out the key to being popular in high school: Be a dog. #therapydogs

🚨‼️🚨‼️Cecil County, MD. CCAS needs your help NOW as they are FULL to the brim with kittens and desperately need fosters NOW. All supplies are provided. You just provide the love! (410)441-2040 ‼️🚨‼️🚨 www.facebook.com/groups/CCASF...

Jinx has no idea that everyone I meet knows about her. She doesn't know she's the screensaver on my phone, that she has her own social media accounts, and that she healed something she didn't break. She doesn't know that I watch her sleep and hope that our story never ends.

Whoomst disturbes the Queen? Photo from my collection, 1953.

BBC Gardeners World. Lots of bugs and birds and things

Dad jokes? Nah buddy we got kitten rescue vet humor.

L is for the way you lick at me

Not long ago Ponzu was sitting on me as I played BG3 and I was in an area where bats frequently flew past; she was in absolute awe. I pointed it out to my husband and he said, “makes sense—her favourite movie is Batman Begins” 😆 I’d totally forgotten she’d *loved* that film when she was a kitten! ☺️

She's passed now, but my last dog loved everything Christmas. Music. Movies. Sweaters. If it was about Christmas she was drawn to it. Hated scary movies. Scary movies were anything with shooting, yelling, or really fast talking. Including commercials.

Does your cat or dog have a favorite show? If so, what is it? (Soft Side social media cat Parker is a big fan of Star Trek).

Happy #NationalRescueDogDay from sweet senior pup Maybell up for adoption at BARCS here in Baltimore! She’d love to see pics of your rescue dogs enjoying life in loving homes - show her some! (She wouldn’t mind a happy home too. Adopt her: www.barcs.org/adopt-dogs, or help spread the word!)

This is a cat check point: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

detective ellie's hardest case yet, a locked room mystery! (it is not locked, she trapped herself in there)

hard to believe it's only been (oh no i don't remember how many years because after covid time became a great flat undifferentiated wasteland)

Ok someone needs to adopt Gary right now. Look at him!!!!!!!!

“to be loved is to be changed” - @fishtopher.bsky.social Gary’s changed a whole lot since he was rescued from a West Baltimore alley - getting much-needed vet care via our Street Kitty Fund and an awesome foster home with our great board member Susan. But now he needs a forever home! 1/2

Adopt Blizzard!

Soft Side Pet Advisory Board member Smudge came outside to give this PSA: it’s hot! 🔥 Please be careful, and don’t forget to drink water yourself and provide lots of water for the creatures in your yard or elsewhere. Ok, he’s going back inside now. Because it’s hot!

Y’all I think Dave is adoptable. (And in more interesting news, Dave is actually a Wendy— despite having “boy vibes,” now that the cat has actually come out of the crate and is walking around with a happy raised tail, I finally got a look at the plumbing and surprise! Where’s the beef!?)

"Miette, her eyes enormous"

There is a certain space necromancer series that has a Miette shoutout, and reader, I shrieked in delight.

Unserious creature (ft. Franz)

Dave is SO cute, sweet and fluffy. She is chatty and a bit anxious but expresses that nervousness through extra body-rubbing and head bumps. Not a feral bone in this girl’s body!

FOSTER NEEDED! Sweet gray lap-loving kitty guy Parker was struggling to survive on the Baltimore streets, injured and starving. Thanks to a kind person and our Street Kitty Fund, he’s doing much better, but needs a foster home! Help him get a second chance for happiness - contact us!

🚨🚨🚨LA!! alert! My friend found this 😍 male husky leashed to a school fence. She has taken him in but she can’t keep him. He is SO SWEET and good with her little dog. He is 2-4 years old and getting his shots, microchipped, and neutered. He needs a home! Please call Deb if interested! 323-219-2991

Soft Side Pet Advisory Board Member Smudge says: don’t forget to log off and go lie in the sun sometimes!