Less than a week before CL died, I had another challenge come up. It's been a really shitty year ( Read more... )

Serena Pie went to the vet this morning to have her teeth cleaned. It turns out she has "resorptive lesions", meaning that her infected gums have absorbed the roots of the infected teeth. Three were resorbed, so they cut the tops off of those teeth and sewed her gums shut over them. She is also missing some teeth and they think those may have ( Read more... )

I should have written this weeks ago, but I've had a ton to do ( Read more... )

R, B, and I have a long-running joke that Serena is perhaps not a cat, but another sort of animal that we have mistaken for a cat (or alternately, disguised as a cat.) This began with her first nickname, "Weasel", due to her long, slinky, pointy appearance. Then one day I proposed that she might actually be an Orca, based on the following criteria ( Read more... )

The kitties are wrassling tonight. They grapple for a few seconds, then separate ( Read more... )

We got a new (to us) couch tonight!

B and I gave away his old leather sofa before we moved- it was in bad shape, it was uncomfortable, and we didn't want to pay to move it. We have been couch-less since then: we've had only the settee that platyusid gave me, and pillows piled on the floor. We finally came to a moment when we found one we liked on CL and ( Read more... )

Serena ( Read more... )

Something that makes me sad: ever since Al was put into his big new pond here, he is scared of me. He freaks out when he sees me, he hides. It makes me terribly sad. I don't know why he is scared ( Read more... )

I have never understood why people say that cats are aloof, or cats don't care if people are there or not, or other similar things. I have had or lived with cats since I was born. I have never known a cat who truly did not care about people, or who was aloof ( Read more... )

lita2003 adopted some kittens and asked about what cat people use for their kitties, so here is my cat stuff roundup.

Litter boxes: I have two Scoop-free litter boxes. These are a self-scooping box using crystal litter. They are made to go with a disposable tray, but instead of using disposables, I bought two Forever Trays a plastic tray made to fit the ( Read more... )