Kitty Kitty!
Here's a picture of my cat enjoying the cat bed we got for him at RCFM. I knew he used it but of course it was hard enough to capture him on photo actually sleeping in it. Today I had that chance. Usually I see him sleeping in it through the window it's next to (morning sunbeam comes in and warms it! He loves it!) but he would always see us come up the walk and climb out of his bed.
So here's Kip!
And here he is making a yawning face that was just TOO CUTE!
I love my kitty. :)
In other news it seems Slinky's health is still on the decline. She is getting very frail and losing little bits of hair. I am afraid she won't be with us much longer. We want to take her downtown for a visit before we have her put down, so she can go out and enjoy being around people. She always loved walking downtown. She is my little baby. Last night when I went to give her her medication, I held her beforehand as she'd just woken up, and she kissed all over my face. I cried a lot last night just thinking that she won't have too much longer. It was back in October that we had her officially diagnosed with insulinoma... I wonder if we'd never gone to the doctor in Fleming Island (who knew nothing about the disease) and instead found the one here that knew all sorts of information... would Slinky's life have been longer? Instead of dicking around and trying to screw us out of money because they wanted to prey on the fact that our ferret has a disease... but I can't think about that, because I will never know for sure.
It's going to be tough when the time comes to let Slinky go. She'll have her vet appointment in two weeks (this pay period was shorted by Joe's work being stupid) at which point we'll have the vet evaluate and decide whether or not it's worth keeping her going. She still gets energetic, but she's so FRAIL. I worry that she's not getting enough nutrition and yet at the same time she seems to move just fine... it's just that I can feel her spine soooo so so much more than before. :(
The other ferrets are gentle with Slinky and even the cat won't play-swat at her any more because they all seem to know she just couldn't handle it. I think they know she isn't going to be with us much longer, too. My poor little baby. :( This is going to be the first pet I've been -really- attached to that I will have lost since we put our dog, Sparky, to sleep when I was in 10th grade. :\
Aaaaand as if we didn't have enough "defectiveness" in our pets (and I say that in jest; I love my babies and get the care they need!) we discovered that Reo has a plastic allergy. I don't know if I mentioned this here before or not. We had a deep plastic bowl for Reo's water bowl, and it hadn't bothered him, until a couple months ago when I noticed he started getting little scabs at the base of his whiskers on his face. The vet tech I usually talk to (she loves Reo) said her own dog had that happen, and it's plastics. So we took away the plastic bowl and got a metal one, and sure enough, it seems that it cleared up the problem. So last week I also got a new collar for Reo instead of the nylon one (as his neck was itchy all the time too) and it's made of hemp, it's really nice and really soft. :) Of course, then he went and got a nick on his leg (spider bite? cut? I don't know, our dog is clumsy) and was licking at it, so we had to put the (PLASTIC) cone on the dog again. Of course that made his face break out again but he keeps worrying that spot on his leg... at the vet tech's recommendation we put cortizone on Reo's hotspots on his face, and it helps with his itchies, but we need to leave the cone on until he gets over the spot on his leg. Oy, dog!
Okay well we're going to run to church tonight, we're going to go to the service tonight and the Bible study in the morning. We get to sleep in that way. :) Later, all!!
So here's Kip!
And here he is making a yawning face that was just TOO CUTE!
I love my kitty. :)
In other news it seems Slinky's health is still on the decline. She is getting very frail and losing little bits of hair. I am afraid she won't be with us much longer. We want to take her downtown for a visit before we have her put down, so she can go out and enjoy being around people. She always loved walking downtown. She is my little baby. Last night when I went to give her her medication, I held her beforehand as she'd just woken up, and she kissed all over my face. I cried a lot last night just thinking that she won't have too much longer. It was back in October that we had her officially diagnosed with insulinoma... I wonder if we'd never gone to the doctor in Fleming Island (who knew nothing about the disease) and instead found the one here that knew all sorts of information... would Slinky's life have been longer? Instead of dicking around and trying to screw us out of money because they wanted to prey on the fact that our ferret has a disease... but I can't think about that, because I will never know for sure.
It's going to be tough when the time comes to let Slinky go. She'll have her vet appointment in two weeks (this pay period was shorted by Joe's work being stupid) at which point we'll have the vet evaluate and decide whether or not it's worth keeping her going. She still gets energetic, but she's so FRAIL. I worry that she's not getting enough nutrition and yet at the same time she seems to move just fine... it's just that I can feel her spine soooo so so much more than before. :(
The other ferrets are gentle with Slinky and even the cat won't play-swat at her any more because they all seem to know she just couldn't handle it. I think they know she isn't going to be with us much longer, too. My poor little baby. :( This is going to be the first pet I've been -really- attached to that I will have lost since we put our dog, Sparky, to sleep when I was in 10th grade. :\
Aaaaand as if we didn't have enough "defectiveness" in our pets (and I say that in jest; I love my babies and get the care they need!) we discovered that Reo has a plastic allergy. I don't know if I mentioned this here before or not. We had a deep plastic bowl for Reo's water bowl, and it hadn't bothered him, until a couple months ago when I noticed he started getting little scabs at the base of his whiskers on his face. The vet tech I usually talk to (she loves Reo) said her own dog had that happen, and it's plastics. So we took away the plastic bowl and got a metal one, and sure enough, it seems that it cleared up the problem. So last week I also got a new collar for Reo instead of the nylon one (as his neck was itchy all the time too) and it's made of hemp, it's really nice and really soft. :) Of course, then he went and got a nick on his leg (spider bite? cut? I don't know, our dog is clumsy) and was licking at it, so we had to put the (PLASTIC) cone on the dog again. Of course that made his face break out again but he keeps worrying that spot on his leg... at the vet tech's recommendation we put cortizone on Reo's hotspots on his face, and it helps with his itchies, but we need to leave the cone on until he gets over the spot on his leg. Oy, dog!
Okay well we're going to run to church tonight, we're going to go to the service tonight and the Bible study in the morning. We get to sleep in that way. :) Later, all!!