Have discovered why Murphy stopped racing from one end of the apartment to the other for a whole two minutes. However, probably cannot make a habit of trapping him under the sink.

ETA: OMG HE HAS BUFFY DOING IT NOW TOO IT IS LIKE A HERD OF SMALL WOOLLY MAMMOTHS IN HERE SEND HALP

Cats now full of beans. As with small children, this is both a good and a bad thing. The mystery of the nocturnal pee-er remains unsolved. Feliway is on the way; will drug cats, encourage them in new, non-peeing directions.

Reminder to self: Do not serve cats beans again.

It is July. This is rather sudden. Just yesterday it was March ( Read more... )

Buffy's probably the culprit. He was dehydrated at the vet's office, and perked up a bit after getting subcutaneous fluids; but he doesn't seem any more eager to drink than he was, and his skin is starting to feel dehydrated again. Does anyone have tips on making a cat drink (or giving a cat water by mouth without a syringe), and when it's ( Read more... )

3 a.m.: Stay up late doing work. Make bed (jersey sheets, shrunk from enthusiastic washings; ancient white blanket with a new hole; purple bedspread, starting to fade from enthusiastic washings; stylish green shower curtain), set all alarms, finally get to sleep. Must be up at 7 for work ( Read more... )

One of the cats pissed the bed this morning while I was in it.

So. Not. Amused.

About to run out to track down laundry quarters and a shower curtain. The shower curtain is my new coverlet. Ask me how pleased I am about this exciting new design development! I'm also going to be cleaning the catbox more often on the chance that my formerly robust ( Read more... )

This is a thumbnail sketch of feline heartworm. For more extensive information, go to the American Heartworm Society.

• Heartworm is passed by mosquitoes. It lives out part of its larval stage in a mosquito, then passes to a dog or cat via a bite. Once in the animal, it grows to its adult form in the animal's lungs or the right side of its heart, ( Read more... )

5:00 a.m.: Settle into bed.

5:03 a.m.: Lack of a sense of smell means that one often misses subtle environmental cues, such as the detail that the cats have saturated the down comforter with piss and the blanket, both sheets, and now one's undercrackers and T-shirt are wet.

5:07 a.m.: Ponder the wonders of the universe, the splash patterns of the ( Read more... )

Am pondering shaving the cat.
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First Der Katze lived in a shelter and ate any wet food that was plopped in their bowl.

Then they came to live with me, and over the course of several months, they learned to eat any wet food that was squishy and fresh--no multi-serving cans for them ( Read more... )