Orlando had a couple of teeth pulled today. When I picked him up this afternoon, the vet tech warned me that because of the anesthesia he wouldn't be hungry. I said "Orlando not interested in food??". Orlando said "challenge accepted ( Read more... )

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I took care of friends' cats while they were at Gencon. One of the cats is diabetic, so he requires twice-daily insulin. They warned me that I might need to fetch him from under furniture but they hoped he wouldn't be too uncooperative ( Read more... )

I haven't really prepared a "year in review" post, but here are some random notes and thoughts.
On the job front there have been ups and downs but the year ended on an ( Read more... )

Life with cats: the loud protestations of outrage over my betrayal -- picking them up only to put them in those boxes,1 to go to that place, hmpf! -- ended as soon as we reached dinner-time. As I suspected ( Read more... )

The Stack Exchange site for questions and answers about pets is now in public beta. Most of the people there now seem to be pet owners, though the goal is to also attract some professionals (like veterinarians). I know a bunch of my readers have pets, so you might want to check it out. (This was my first Stack Exchange private beta. Interesting ( Read more... )

Apparently, what I do while in the bathroom is of intense interest to the cats: no matter where they were before (and whether they were sleeping), lately when I open the door they are both sitting just outside it attentively ( Read more... )

In the last two weeks we lost both merle_ and pedropadrao. I will miss them both. :-(
And there's no good transition from that to, well, miscellany, so this paragraph will have to serve.
I suppose, technically, if you're not sure if a TV show has jumped the ( Read more... )

Giovanni has what appears to be some sort of allergy. He's currently on a hypo-allergenic diet, but my vet thinks there may be something else going on. So she referred me to a veterinary allergist. They make those ( Read more... )

When one cat in a household spends time at the vet it's not unusual for the other cat(s) to react badly when that cat comes home. I assume the cat picks up foreign smells ("you've been with other animals, aiieeee!") or something. Erik, Baldur, and Embla grew out of this (presumably as the frequency of such visits increased), but I vaguely recall ( Read more... )