Show Your Soft Side

Have A Ball with BARCS & Show Your Soft Side Get ready to roll through one of Baltimore’s most beloved neighborhoods for a deliciously fun cause! BARCS' Inaugural Ball Crawl…is an edible “ball crawl” through Little Italy, held in celebration of

… Find out more and get your Ball Crawl tickets now: funraise.org/give/Baltimo...!

$10 includes a ball tasting at each participating Little Italy restaurant -
or for only $25 more, you can add a mildly inappropriate spay and neuter t-shirt And every bite benefits pets in need! 2/2

Image promoting the Ball Crawl, showing a simple, cartoony dog and cat sharing spaghetti and meatballs (lady and the tramp style, with both slurping down either ends of the same strand), saying it is benefitting BARCS (Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Center) and Soft Side, on Sunday, 2/22/26, 1:00-5:00pm

Baltimore…are you ready to have a ball? In honor of World Spay Day, join us for an edible “ball crawl” at participating restaurants in Little Italy on Feb 22. Come hungry… and come support the importance of spaying and neutering! 🍝
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Little black terrier lying on tile floor next to a bag of treats!

Soft Side board pet Smudge doesn’t believe in labels. Treats are treats!

Oh wow

If cuteness were an Olympic sport, all cats would be tied for the gold.

There’s very loud construction taking place next door, involving a drill among other things, and frankly at this point I probably need to be leashed or crated (ong when will it stop when will it stop I can’t take it anymore) three cheers for Lotus!!

Two very lazy fluffy tan and white dogs lounge on my couch under a large arched stained glass window. They are not supposed to be on the top of it and yet

(Sir David Attenborough narration)

“Mount Chesterfield teems with predators, conserving their strength before setting off on midday walkies…”

I moved my office chair next to the window and I think she’s enjoying it.

Photo showing firefighters helping three cats they saved a house fire; they’re on a gurney with oxygen.

Bless their big Softie hearts!

Darby the golden husky floofy comes hurtling out the front door at me as I return from 3 week trip

“DAD!”

A short movie for your Friday night:

Best in Show (2000) ★★★★★ “god loves a basenji mix” doesn’t have the same ring to it. but this movie is a masterpiece! good dogs literally everywhere you look - review by A'Zellah the 7 month old shelter dog

Groundhog Day (1993) ★★½ i do not like the large magical rodent. why did he put a curse on Bill Murray? it was bad enough that he had to be in Ghostbusters II. leave the man alone - review by Francesca the guinea pig

The Long Walk (2025) ★★★★ you know how sometimes you have to spell out a word around a dog because they’ll get too excited if they hear it? anyway i loved The Long W-A-L-K. C-O-O-P-E-R H-O-F-F-M-A-N and D-A-V-I-D J-O-N-S-S-O-N are really good - review by Dandy the 3 yr. old shelter dog

One Battle After Another (2025) ★★★★★ what a picture! hey Benicio del Toro. you should adopt me. i don’t take up much space! and while you’re at it, adopt some of my friends too. surely you have enough room for a few small dogs - review by Apollo the 1 yr. old shelter dog

Best in Show (2000), Groundhog Day (1993), The Long Walk (2025), One Battle After Another (2025)

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Cookie update. Almost 3 weeks & we're at that staying 5 ft from me at all times phase. Here he is judging the way I clean his litter box. He has opinions. Cats are amazing. This morning all of his cat toys were lined up at his water bowl. Sharing? Drowning? Love this guy so much. Hugs to you all ❄️💙❄️

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A very small forever kitten with her paw over her face while she lays in a fluffy blanket.

She's so cute.

Back from my walk and ready for supper
#Spike #Thursday #Dogsofbluesky

3 dogs waiting on treat. McKellan sitting on a rolled up rug

McKellan has been taught “sit” on the rug to wait to go out. He’s meeting the exact letter of the law sitting on the rolled up rug

McKellan almost fitting on a square of a folded rug

Now we just have malicious compliance

Would absolutely watch this streaming series.

The snuggle is real.

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes and a pink nose, sitting in a windowsill. The sun appears to be setting, casting a warm light over him. He looks upwards and outwards with an alert expression.

the best window decor is a cat

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. --Franklin D Roosevelt

Jinx the green eyed bobtail tabby standing tall in her tower by the window.

“Be somebody who makes everyone feel like a somebody.”

Have a gggrrrrrrrrreat Thursday. 🐅🧡

Thank you so much!

Because everyone deserves to be safe, and warm, and with their broken places made whole. Even, as some people refer to them, “just another street cat”.

And if not us, who?

Thank you. 7/7

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If you want to help Tuxie and other Baltimore-area street cats like him, please consider donating: showyoursoftside.org/donate/ (just select Street Kitty Medical Fund in the ‘Please direct my support’ dropdown menu), or sharing this thread. 6/7

… with a broken leg, treated, stabilized, and is currently resting up with his big-hearted finder.

We don’t know exactly what’s next. Surgery? Maybe. Amputation? Maybe.

But we know we can’t do it without you. 5/7

… It’s an important rule. A sensible rule. It is.

But it’s so cold outside. And they were in such pain. And if not us, who?

Sometimes you have to make a choice. Sometimes you have to make a promise. You just do. 🤷

Right now Tuxie is safe and warm. He’s been diagnosed… 4/7

… ‘Not supposed to help street cats in need?’ No, that’s what our Street Kitty Fund’s for!

But we’re NOT supposed to promise we’ll cover the whole cost of care no matter what. If it ends up exceeding the SKF limit, the caretaker/finder *has* to cover the difference. 3/6

… Soon the cat, the finder, their mom and a wonderful kitty angel we found to help were headed straight to Homeward Bound Vet Services, with our solemn promise that the whole cost of care would be covered by our Street Kitty Medical Fund.

We’re… not supposed to do that. 2/6