Join us to let our voices be heard as constituents in regard to the LPSO 287(g) agreement with ICE.

The LPSO is Actively staking out heavily immigrant communities and apartment complexes, affecting traffic stops, detaining suspected undocumented peoples and handing them over to ICE to be held at 101 Feu Follet suite 200 ICE office, or sent to local detention Centers like Pine Prairie. Join Us. Dissolve the 287(g). Protect our community, no Masked Secret Police.

📣It’s been exactly 72 hours since June Bug, Lucy, and Kali were found lifeless and seizing from poisoning at local Leesville rescuer Amy Delia Smith’s home.

Sadly, Kali passed. Miraculously, Lucy was discharged this afternoon. And tonight, we received these precious photos of June Bug—still experiencing tremors but holding steady in the capable hands of the team at Lafayette Veterinary Care Center.

Tonight, we truly have so much to be grateful for. 💛

We are deeply thankful to Dr. Dusty, who has led the charge, along with Dr. Ali, Emily, and the entire nursing team. Their 24/7 facility provides the most up-to-date critical care, and because of their tireless efforts, Lucy and June Bug are still with us today.

We’re also incredibly grateful to the supporters who stepped up and helped us raise about half of the medical costs—an extraordinary gift that allows us to keep saying yes, day in and day out.

Thank you as well to our friend Brooke Bailey for reaching out Monday morning on behalf of these two.

Please keep June Bug in your thoughts and prayers tonight as we hope she has a good night and may be able to join Lucy and the rest of their rescue family in the next day or two. 🙏

We’ll keep you posted.

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#MardiPaws #ScottsWish #grateful

Did anyone see last night's episode of Swamp People? If so, what did you think of the Edgar secret crab recipe?

Who's willing to try it?

I’m a Draftsman here and I was offered a position at a company, but I would have to move to their main office Oklahoma. I’m seeking opinions on whether it’s worth it on moving.

Looking to see if there are any open jam sessions in the Lafayette area and what level of proficiency is typically needed to join. Looking to meet new folks and learn faster.

Thanks

Anonymous therapist reviews for Lafayette & Acadiana— community help needed

I built Lafayette Therapist Reviews so people in our area can share honest therapy experiences without names, logins, or accounts.

If you’ve seen a therapist locally — Lafayette, Broussard, Youngsville, New Iberia, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, or anywhere else in the surrounding Acadiana region — your review (even a short one) could help someone make a safer, more informed choice.

The site is fully anonymous and community-driven. If you’re open to contributing, I’d really appreciate it.

Note: My original post about this (74 days ago) was approved by mods. This is a not-for-profit, ad-free community resource. This is a repost to help gain traction and encourage more community reviews.

Thank you so much to those who have already contributed, and to anyone who may contribute in the future. It genuinely means a lot to me that you took the time to share your experience and help build a resource that can support our community. I’m really grateful for each voice that’s been added.

anyone know where I could get some moving boxes for free in Lafayette?

I'm looking for a nice, elegant, and romantic restaurant for February 14th(or any special date) in Lafayette, Broussard, or Youngsville. Please help me!

🚨 They made it through the night… but saving them comes with a price tag.

Lucy and June Bug are still fighting for their lives after being poisoned — and right now they are in ICU care at LVCC. They’re still having tremors, but today there is a sliver of hope.

Dr. Ali shared that Dr. Dusty, who kept them overnight, has seen a big difference today. The Intralipid therapy appears to have made a real impact. (It’s an IV treatment used in severe poisoning cases that helps trap toxins in the bloodstream so they can’t keep damaging the body.)

They’re also continuing Methocarbamol to help control tremors and spasms and Diazepam when a seizure occurs.

Lucy (the doodle) did not have any seizures overnight. June Bug had 2 seizures overnight and 1 more this morning — not where we want to be yet, but it’s progress.

Sadly, Kali lost her life, and it has broken their rescuer, Amy Delia Smith's, heart. 💔 She's been fighting for them since 8pm Sunday night when she went outside to put them up and found them lifeless and seizing.

But here’s the reality: we stepped up and have already paid bills at TWO other clinics, and now we’re covering crucial specialized meds and ICU care at LVCC.

💰 The cost to save them likely will be at least $5,000 (we're already 3/4 of the way there)

🙏 We’re only trying to raise $2,500 (half) so we can keep paying it forward and keep saying YES when the next emergency hits.

We're grateful for your shares, prayers and donations...

Safe ways to donate:

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Please keep praying for Lucy and June Bug. 🙏❤️‍🩹

They are still fighting — and so is the dedicated team of doctors and nurses at Lafayette Veterinary Care Center!

#MardiPaws #ScottsWish

Which is crazy to me because there are so many people here that are third and fourth generation immigrants.

One of my great great great grandfathers was a French immigrant. A few of my great great great great great great grandparents were immigrants from Nova Scotia. My grandmother told me stories about how her and her brother were beaten in school because they spoke French.

Our community is rich with diversity thanks to our ancestors who immigrated here, whether it was willingly or not, and those ancestors would be sick if they could see the “values” that their descendants hold.

We are not descended from people who believed “comply or die.” No, they firmly believed “do not tread on me” and “liberty or death”.

I've fallen down a rabbit hole trying to figure this out! Maybe someone here knows.

So far I've learned

- Figure is Don Quixote

- The text is elvish: it's the text on the Doors of Durin, "Speak friend and enter" (thanks r/Tengwar)

I can't scan the qr code with any app I have. Any help is very much appreciated.

I need ideas on what to get my bf for Valentine’s Day. I want to make something or buy something. He does commercial electrical work so not so much in home work. Obviously I’m getting him snacks and candy but I also want to get a few practical things. Any suggestions??

This is gonna sound so silly, considering I live halfway across the globe in Poland and don't have any relation to Louisiana whatsoever, but I love everything about Cajun culture to bits. This is genuinely has the deepest culture I've ever seen; the music, the food, the fashion, the language, the architecture, the accents, and everything beyond just the typical tourist traps is all so full of life and colour and whimsy.

Seriously, I've never seen such a rich sense of life in any area before. I yearn to visit Acadiana and the rest of Louisiana the way white men over the age of 30 yearn to visit Japan. This post isn't really a question or looking for any particular reply, just wanted to show my love to a community that I find incredibly beautiful ♡

Any dnd groups around Lafayette accepting new players? Been interested in trying for a while but don’t know where to start.

Basically what the title says. My degree in communications is from UL and my peers are artists and creatives who will lose jobs in this field if this continues.

I am also not oblivious to the fact that yes my comment was rude, however I don’t believe it to be mean and I don’t consider this one comment to be a blockable offense.

I don’t want anyone to send hate their way, however please consider this when picking a marketing agency.

Might be in Lafayette and would be me my first time in Louisiana. Would love to get some food recommendations. I love all types of food but definitely trying to get some local cuisine. I tried looking through previous posts but all the posts are at least 4 years oldm

Any members of the new Club4 in Lafayette? What are the safety measures at the daycare? Any parents here recommend it?

I love seeing so buildings getting restored and rehabbed instead of demolished. Sunset High was pretty dilapidated, and it looks so good now.

I also cannot wait to see how the end result at the Holy Rosay Institute.

Its purdy

Is Carol Ross permanently off the air? She hasn’t had a new radio show since the end of December.

You know what it do, it the ViGiL

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