Gryph

Hello! I'm Sarah (Gryph) and I work in an animal shelter. My partner and I own four cats, used to have a dog, and we TNR in our neighborhood. This account is mostly cat pics, as self care and because that is the candle I hold in the darkness. ❤️ Also occasional gaming and book talk. 🙂

Important announcement: At work today for I think (?) the first time, *I* was the one able to successfully leash a stray dog who had gotten loose. Go me! (Pup was super friendly, just very fast and having a heckuva time watching the humans try to catch him.)

I promise I have many MANY other cats to post about but I couldn’t resist making a quick clip to this meme.

Oh my god she got cuter

Look at this perfect baby angel who just woke up, sneezed snot all over my face, and went back to sleep.

Ohhey, other than having a birthday in there, earlier this month I also hit 5 years sober. Especially considering this last summer, I think I can take a second and be proud of that. My Reddit Cake Day is pretty close to the date, that's what reminded me lol.

I also met Binx while I was visiting my family. Binx might be the most expressive tortie I've ever seen, lmao. This pic is *after* she started warming up to me. She bites when you cross her boundaries, and I stan a woman with firm limits. 😁

Have a celebratory kitty. This is Simon, 18lbs of former community cat. It's hard to tell in this lighting, but he has light blue eyes. ❤️ Gentle giant of a cat.

Back from visiting my mom, my brother, and his fam. I actually really love flying itself - I just hate airports. Not exactly an uncommon feeling but ye gods the overstimulation and too many people, blargle.

I'm flying out to see my mom tomorrow, but I worked yesterday to help cover some people who were out. So today is ADHD packing day. I just spent ~3 hours looking for my Switch case. It was inside the one bag that was not with my other bags where it should have been. Bc of course it was.

Barney headbutted me so many times he turned his own ears inside out. Once I got done snickering and taking a photo, I did fix it. Don't worry!

I’m so sorry mama Rainy to have to squish you in the kennel with your very large & fat, greedy babies but it’s only for 24 hours ;-; I did sit with them to make sure she remembered & accepted them & that she didn’t seem too stressed to be stuck with them all. There’s still one left to trap.

With a judgy face it’s Lady Scarlett Witch The Flerken MonkeyWhiptail in a pink velvet bow tie collar. #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #Ginger #Tabby

I didn’t see any of them apply for a job while I was there. Not one. It’s like they’re not even trying.

My murder baby is two today!!! Happy birthday, Chessie. ❤️ I'll link the thread I made last year about her. bsky.app/profile/lfgr...

It's been a year since we lost my work bestie, Amos. ❤️ He was the best grumpy old man feral ever, and my special boy once I got him to trust me a little. ❤️

Sheltering geekery: I have one course left to complete the second track of the Maddie's Fund SCS classes and I started registration for CAWA today. Bc no, I don't actually know what a break is. xD (ADHD: If I'm not learning something useful, I'm going to be learning something random instead.)

Legitimately just playing the music from inside your house in Welcome to Elderfield as background at work today. It's just perfect lofi vibes, idk what else to tell you.

Didn't have a lot of time since I work tomorrow, but pleased with Welcome to Elderfield so far. I found a cat to talk to in record time, 10/10 GOTY. 👍

It’s time to show me pics of your sleeping cats and to pay your weekly BlueSky cat post pic tax at the same time. I’ll go first: this is Miss Pretty Petunia SnowFlower sleeping so peacefully. Did you know that cats sleep on the average 16 hours per day? #Cats #Sleeping #CatsOfBlueSky

Charlie having an ADHD bath. ❤️ (Video: Cow kitty taking a bath but he keeps switching which paw he's cleaning and is just generally scattered about it.)

Who ordered the basket of disappointed kittens? Postcard from my collection, mailed 1904.

So ANGY. Loki spat at me twice, so I cleaned the blankets and this is the face she pulled 😂😂😂 I then gave her some good crunchy treats and she deigned to sniff them while I still held them!

Ginny can have a LITTLE BIT of murder. As a TREAT.

Also look! Proof of life from Cadence! I patted her butt the other day at breakfast and she hasn't forgiven me yet.

Chessie is always such A Mood and I love her for it.

I am allowed to rub Loki's ears if I approach very gently and ask politely. She is so impossibly soft, like a kitten, and I feel very privileged to be allowed to touch her. Loki is probably a littermate or cousin to Ahsoka. Same colony, same backstory.

I don't usually repost, but it's been a while since I did many pics. And wrapping up August is kind of A Thing for me this year.