Rudy is back home and much improved. He has pancreatitis, which sounds awful but is a lot better than the alternatives, as he will most likely recover just fine. More details when I'm not so tired. Thank you so much for your caring and good wishes! They helped a lot.

My twelve-year-old cat Rudy is very ill in the hospital with some kind of liver problem. He’ll be having an ultrasound tomorrow (well, today), which should tell us more. The blood test results indicate infection, inflammation (I’m not sure what the cause of that would be, so may be misremembering), or cancer. I’m simultaneously relieved to have a ( Read more... )

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The Adorable Trio has landed ( Read more... )

The day is fast approaching for us to collect the Adorable Trio. We'll be going up to Santa Clarita probably Saturday so we can stay the night, pick up the cats from the way station around 1 PM Sunday, and zoom back home. My dear cousin in Albuquerque has been, and continues to be, awesome. She's set most of this up and reassured me that the cats ( Read more... )

Guess what?

B and I are adopting the cats of a cousin of mine who sadly passed away several weeks ago. His sister (who lives in New Mexico) cleverly e-mailed me several photos of the trio while I was trying to decide if it was a good idea to do so. It worked.


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I alluded in a previous post to Missy’s “old tricks.” Here’s an instance from a few months ago ( Read more... )

I'm taking Missy to the vet for the last time this afternoon. Time to let her go.

Well, what do you know? I found a food Missy wants to eat! I got a few cans of Sheba to try, and she not only ate, but shoveled it in. I haven't seen her eat like that in weeks! She's a lot brighter and happier. So am I :)

I'll update in more detail later on.

Stop this ride, I want to get off. And take my kitty girl to solid ground.

( progress, such as it is )