I decided to stop having a heart, much as it was amusing. In the last three weeks, I have killed at least 20 mice. That is a lot! I have the kind of traps where they are easy and safe to set and easy to shake the mouse out without having to touch it. For most of this time, the mouse didn't get very much of the bait before tripping the trap, and so ( Read more... )

My cat loves to lie in the sun.

I speak to my cat periodically.

This just happened:

She walks over to the sunny patch, and meows. I don't realize she is in the sunny patch, and I say the usual inane things like "Hi Kitty". She walks over towards me, and I realize she was coming from the sunny patch, so I say "you don't need to come over here and be ( Read more... )

As I posted earlier, the house has mice.

We seem to have discouraged the downstairs mice, as we haven't seen any evidence of them for a while. However, they seem to have just gone upstairs. In my room there is an eaves closet which gives onto a storage space (it is now filled with insulation so not very useful for storage). From this door has been ( Read more... )

So I earlier wrote about my useless cat in regards to mice. Since then, we got a have a heart trapped that actually worked and trapped the mouse, and meanwhile, the cat actually caught a mouse also, which surprised us to no end.

However, there are more mice, or they were busy beforehand, because I recently opened a drawer that we don't open very ( Read more... )

Today, while cleaning the kitty potty, I noticed some ants. In an effort to understand where they were coming and going, I moved the kitty potty away from the wall. Where I discovered mouse droppings. There are mouse droppings next to the kitty potty. Are you serious? That means there are mice next to the kitty potty. What are they thinking? I ( Read more... )

So I had been pretty happy with how Jetty was responding to the new food - her bowel movements were improved, and she was happily eating it. There was one day where she didn't eat (Tuesday or Wednesday), but she had done that one time before, and chow down the next day. So, on Saturday when she again didn't eat anything, I wasn't completely alarmed ( Read more... )

We've been thinking of a million different names. I just thought of "Downy", because this cat is EXTRAORDINARILY SOFT. She's also the downstairs cat. Ken is threatening to call the upstairs cat (who has a perfectly nice name) "Uppy" if we do this, though. Not sure that threat is sufficient to dissuade me.

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We seem to have another cat.

A friend of mine's mother passed away a few weeks ago, and left behind an elderly cat, and none of the heirs was really able to take it. Since I had just gotten my own elderly cat, I didn't think I could take it either. So, my friend Peg volunteered to at least foster it so they could have one problem off their hands.

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So I took my bad kitty to the vet, where we learned she is developing diabetes. This is apparently a known side effect of long-term steroid use. So, we are going to be switching to a new thing, Atopica, which is an immunosuppressant, and has less severe side effects, but will have similar inflammation reducing effects to work on the inflammatory ( Read more... )

What do you do when you have left over political lawn signs?

Use them to insulate your floor!

My kitty has been bad, as I previously reported, so I took away all the rugs in my bathroom. But, it is a tile floor, and her feet were getting cold. And I felt bad for her. I mean, she did have a nice bed to sleep in, so it's not that I was leaving her in a ( Read more... )