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h'Owl

@empowlr.bsky.social

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MSW. Public policy. Climate, disaster, water, gun policy & such. #txlege staffer. Sometimes I read the wind. ATX rn. She/Her. Buy me coffee: https://ko-fi.com/empowlr Black Lives Matter. Trans & Nonbinary Lives Matter. Text 741741 if you're in crisis.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · Nov 18

Texans: like and pin the #txlege feed & tag your posts about it to have them show up there bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1h

We've been given the gift of the Morning Milton in his new home. ❤️

Our favorite white Corgi mix on a blanket that matches him, on a new to him sofa. By all reports, he's doing great

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 9h

Not only do I not get tomorrow off, Patsy Spaw entirely failed to include it in her list of FY 26 holidays list.

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Shanna Banana @sratchley.bsky.social · 11h

Give yourself a pat on the back.
You did good today.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 12h

So cronchy!

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Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes @juniperbear.bsky.social · 12h

"Please?"

A large dog on a bed politely asking for more seaweed with her eyes. She also has one paw outstretched and resting onto her human's leg.

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Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes @juniperbear.bsky.social · 12h

Juniper enjoys seaweed

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! That trail work sounds fun and necessary, and a good way to be outdoors.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 21h

I remember!

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Hope is a splooter.

A small brown and tan dog stretched out with her legs splooted on a green and blue rug

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

The morning Milton is getting adopted today
(trial adoption starts today)

Extremely excited white Corgi mix with a big, open mouthed smile

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Para-normal Dizztribution 👻 Dizzly @dizzly.bsky.social · 1d

View from the tent at first light

The moon peeks through the oak and pine trees above the tent

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Sadness in the crate on lights out is now play bows and cavorting at late night o'clock.

h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I can sneak that one through the lege

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

APA prefers animals are separated for a week. For me it just ends up being a rotation of cats into one room so I can move the dog. I know that Hope is potty trained because she's been refusing to leave her kennel more than once a day, this week.

h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, no. I never introduce dogs earlier than a week to ten days. Give them all time to smell each other in shared spaces before anyone gets a visual. And then it's a visual through a barrier.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

lol I ordered from Galaxy Cafe with extra veggies in a bowl and the favor runner totally misunderstood and removed the veggies from the dish. So I'm eating an expensive bowl of lentils for dinner. (Favor refunded the order. No harm, smaller amounts of fowl.)

h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Her fur is so soft. She's just super afraid in the shelter. She told me she wanted to come out, and then she froze, so I carried her to the yard. She's already decompressing some by checking out yak cheese and eating PB off a lickmat.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

It only took visiting Hope in her kennel 6-10 times over the last week to get her to tell me she wanted to leave her kennel and be carried to a yard. Once I knew I could carry her consensually, bringing her home for a break was a less daunting challenge. She's 28lbs & newly spayed.

Hope the unbroken, a small spayed female dog available for adoption at Austin Pets Alive in TX. She is very shy.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Ordering dinner and then washing a dozen dogs off me while Hope the Unbroken settles in a crate in my bedroom. She is currently crinkling the yellow duck and burying a bone in her bedding. I had to carry her into the house, she's a very nervous girl.

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bjørnebær @lilbjornebaer.bsky.social · 1d

someone wants pie

A black cat upright like a person, leaning on a table edge because he smells something he wants on top of the table.

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Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · 1d

HEY! I'm a paying subscriber!

Screenshot of the Austin American Statesman website.

Austin American-Statesman

e-Edition

MUSIC

Are millennial men the worst- dressed people at ACL Fest? We investigate

Millennial men at Zilker for Austin City Limits Music Festival are giving "Cedar Park."

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know. They certainly bandied it about a lot during the hearings.

h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Mistakes were made.

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 1d

Do you volunteer in any capacity? If so, what do you do/with whom?

I walk dogs at Austin Pets Alive, which can also mean playing, petting and socializing dogs with people and other dogs, kennel clean up, making sure dogs get their preventative meds every month and talking to people about dogs.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 1d

One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide (CO) as hundreds of cars. If you own a generator and are getting it ready for the nor’easter this weekend, check and make sure your CO alarms are working too. CO is a deadly gas you can’t see or smell and it can kill in minutes.

One portable generator with an equal sign next to a lot of cars. The text reads: one portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of mid-size cars. Only use your generator outdoors and 20 feet away from your home.

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