Spent the day at home, yesterday, hugging Ichabod and R and pottering around on my comp as I am wont to do when I can't think of anything better. Icky took the extra attention we lavished upon him as his natural due, and he spent the day napping in sunbeams, snacking on the wet food we'd bought last night, and following me and R around when we ( Read more... )

And the word is not good: the vet finally got back to us about Ichabod's biopsy, and it is cancerous. He also has noticeable lumps on his neck, and his purring is a raggedly musical thing now. And yet he purrs easily (tho he often chokes), and aside from looking somewhat distracted, he seems much as he always has. We put him back on normal cat ( Read more... )

So were you one of the ones who wanted to see that private Flickr set I put up of the old BearHug venue, but you didn't have or declined to share your Flickr account with yours truly?

Turns out, there is a way for you to see them without having an account... Just let me know which e mail to send them too- replies are screened with this post - ( Read more... )

For a few weeks now, our cat Ichabod has had a noticable lump on side, just foward to his right rear leg. It was worrisome but showed no sign of increasing or changing since we first noticed it (not long before Dave came to visit), and it was small enough that it'd might have been there for a while; money's tight, but we set to schedule a vet appt ( Read more... )