Jose Santiago @slider7420@qoto.org

Me as a Panda

It's official: SAG-AFTRA is on strike against the film and TV companies, marking only the second time in Hollywood history that actors have joined writers on the picket lines.
https://trib.al/GieNQlx

It cracks me up that #Rufus has a "What is he up to?" timer when he hears me in another room and I have a "What is he up to?" timer when I CAN'T hear him in the other room!

The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved in return.
~Christian, Moulin Rouge

I owe you nothing,
and you are nothing to me.
Thank you for curing me
of my ridiculous obsession with love.
~Also Christian, one hour and fifty minutes later

I took #Rufus outside and I got swarmed by bugs. I used the junk mail I had just gotten to swat around my head and face. Rufus looked at me confused as if to say " What are you doing? Were you a bad boy or something?"

#SeniorDogs
#DogsOfMastodon
#Dogs

#StarWars

I'm 50 years old and this scene is still crushing. #BuffyTheVampireSlayer
#BuffyFan

https://youtu.be/1O22YHDDAys

I do love me a Jedi who goes right to the edge of the fall and pulls themselves back. #EmbraceTheDarkness
#jedisurvivor
#StarWars

Now this is sleeping!
#Rufus
#SeniorDog
#DogsOfMastodon
#Dogs

🤬🤬🤬

Paramount+ has canceled #StarTrek: Prodigy and will soon remove it from the streaming service https://trib.al/6r7hN9U

#StarTrek Strange New Worlds was so damn good tonight!

#Rufus
#DogsOfMastodon
#SeniorDog
#Dogs

Disney dates & shifts a ton of films:
DEADPOOL 3 - 5/3/24
CAPT. AMERICA BRAVE NEW WORLD- 8/26/24
THUNDERBOLTS - 12/20/24
BLADE 2/14/25
FANTASTIC 4 - 5/2/25
MOANA - 6/27/25
AVATAR 3 - 12/19/25
AVENGERS KANG DYNASTY - 5/1/26
STAR WARS TBD - 12/18/26
AVENGERS SECRET WARS - 5/7/27

#Movies
#Film
#Disney
#MarvelStudios

#RUFUS UPDATE:
Last night Rufus was clearly uncomfortable and I decided I would get him to the vet in the morning. Overnight he chewed a nasty wound onto his leg where he has a non-cancerous tumor. It is affecting his ability to walk because of discomfort. At the ER vet they cleaned his wound and gave him meds. They advised against surgery to remove the tumor because of his advanced age and comorbidities.

We got home and my wonderful neighbor TJ Nave and her sons helped me get him out of the car and he was able to get up and walk. He went inside and went to sleep. He woke up and walked on his own from my room to the office where I was working and went back to sleep. This is when I noticed he was breathing heavily in his sleep. Then he woke up and and was breathing very heavily [80 breaths per min]. Out of an abundance of caution we headed back to the ER vet.

The second exam showed all his vitals were good and he was not in distress. We suspect a possible reaction to the medication and we are altering and monitoring the meds to see how he does.

We're back home, and he is home and resting. We are hoping for mild improvement, but the conversation has shifted to quality of life. The vet believes the end is not imminent, but that this is the time to spoil him, keep him comfortable and happy.

Difficult days lie ahead.

#Dogs
#DogsOfMastodon
#SeniorDog

I turned #Rufus into a #TikTok star!
#Dogs
#SeniorDog
#DogsOfMastodon

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRoX9xdt/

I reached the point I either need to make something out of this beard or get rid of it. Thoughts?

#beard