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Many thanks to everyone who took a moment to write condolences and well-wishes concerning Mina's untimely death. Reading your words of comfort helped ease my heartache ( Read more... )

Mina is dead. We took her to the vet and had to have her put down immediately.

Feline leukemia. The vet figures she was infected when she was a kitten living with her feral mother.

We are both in shock. And the apartment has a horrible emptiness to it now.

Some highlights.

1) Well, thanks to eastpath I now know what happened on the bridge yesterday. A garbage truck caught fire. There's a video included in the link ( Read more... )

A lot of blog-worthy things seem to be happening today ( Read more... )

Mina appears to be pretty much recovered. Her eyes are dry, she doesn't sound sniffly any more, and her activity levels are at 95% of normal. And Emmie, Gods be praised, is in good health as well ( Read more... )

Terri picked me up at 6:30 pm and we went for dinner at the Pancake House (awful coffee and awful service, bad enough to make us reconsider EVER going back). On the way out to her car, I checked the mail -- and found a cheque from DC Comics for $177. For Albion British royalties on reprints. I've seldom been so happy to see a piece of paper ( Read more... )

I just got off the phone with Dr. M, and he's scratching his head in complete puzzlement. He has no idea why Mina's eyes are watering in the absence of any other symptom except the occasional sneeze. He ran down a list of possible causes with me -- an infection in kittenhood, excessive stress, new potourri or incense, the use of Carpet Fresh or ( Read more... )

Mina's left eye is now offending her as much as her right. Water water, dribble dribble, *atchoo atchoo!*.

Oh, fuck. Back to the vet we go tomorrow... perhaps. I left a message today asking Dr. M to call me tomorrow (since he wasn't in today) and perhaps we can get away with one of us going down to the clinic and picking up some antibiotics ( Read more... )

We took Mina to the vet this afternoon because (as you will remember, O Faithful Readers) her right eye has been leaking clear fluid since Saturday morning. The vet did a thorough exam and was left scratching his head. Quote: "There is NOTHING wrong with this cat ( Read more... )