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verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

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fig disintegrating biscotti with her mind

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fuck it... bird sneaks

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TotK release artwork vs. TotK 1st anniversary artwork! (Yes, these are official! They were posted by Nintendo's JP Twitter page!)

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This weeks ratty paw paintings - everyone did such an amazing job! From start to finish we have Toast (1), Tofu (2), Blueberry (3, 9), Butter (4, 10), Popcorn (5), Tater Tot (6), Raisin (7), and Tofu (8 )!

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If you would like to commission your own rat paw painting, you can do so on our Etsy store "RatPaintings" here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RatPaintings

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Raisin has graduated to full on fetching through the weaves! Before I had to place the ball at the weave entrance, but now I can throw it and Raisin will find the weave entrance herself! This was surprisingly hard for her, not because she had issues finding the weave entrance but because she values weaves so much over fetch lol.

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So I would throw the ball, she would follow it to the weave entrance, then she would completely ignore the ball in favor of speed weaving back! It took a lot of working with just the first cone and ball to convince her to actually grab the ball first - but now that she is I'm happy to say she is doing so well that I think our next step will be to add fetch to a multiple obstacle course. Go Raisin! (Also yes, Tofu was being her shameless treat stealing self!)

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Alrighty so as some have requested, here's some smol funny frames from the Restored project that's suitable for weird stickers. (Trust me there's so many more, but it would floor my store) ENJOY!! https://redbubble.com/people/emichen88/shop

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They are just like me forreal

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accidentally made a noise fig Did Not Approve while taking pics and she ascended back to the mothership

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Does he think I can't see him?! 😭

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more of my critters

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A clip from our training sessions last night where Butter was learning to weave with the larger ball - Butter learned this particular trick comb way back when she was still a baby, but she never learned the full trick because I never expanded it to the actual mini wiffle ball (she used the much smaller wicker balls that she initially learned fetch with), plus I never had her finding the entrance herself and would just hand the ball to her at the start of the weave. . Usually when I train this combo I will start by having the rat practicing weaving and fetch separately, then back-chain in fetch to the weaves themselves. But since Butter has some experience with this combo and is confident with fetch and weaving, I wanted to see if we could just do the entire combo from the start. And after a few false starts Butter really got it down - great job Butter!

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a woman who knows what she wants (worms)

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Mooncake zoomies!

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Charity Stream Alert!

Let's raise more money than they planned again! 🙌🏻

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Cozy cat