So I am cat sitting sibling kitty and she and my old mog are doing their usual posturing and duelling. The worst thing is getting used to the old mog’s habits and finding they don’t work with the bundle of (aging but vibrant) energy from the sibling kitty.

For example, Old Mog likes to be petted - she shows this by laying next to you and staring ( Read more... )

Yesterday brought the cat’s annual check up with the vet.

On the plus side, she was easy to load up (being a somewhat elderly kitty she spends 19 hours in every 24 asleep - the rest of her time being devoted to eating, randomly vomiting and sitting somewhere and yowling for no apparent reason), even if she did make her disapproval of the ( Read more... )

On the good: SP #3 has not shceduled me to be on call this week (barring the kafluffle on Monday) except this coming Saturday and possibly Sunday - and he gave me advance notice for them

On the bad: If I’m not on call Sp#3 you should really NOT be calling me between the hours of 9:00pm and 3:00am. No, you should not. Because I’m not on call. And if ( Read more... )

Many years ago now I bought our dear Socks a cat baed. A nice sheltered fluffy cat bed ( Read more... )

It seems that the bump on said kittie's tail was caused by an infected bight. (Which IS covered by the pet insurance! HAH!) and that we have to give her hippopotamus sized tab;ets twice a day ( Read more... )

It came to pass that in gently instructing the Mia kitten that scampering up and down the ornament laden windowledge was a bad idea, the Sparky noticed that she had a lump on her tail ( Read more... )

A drama that is retreating these past few weeks, but it seems I have been inexcusably giving my ever-so-delicate neighbour the vapours and fainting fits ( Read more... )

After a hard day of driving me up the bloody wall the two kitties are now at rest.

but not for long. For Kittie 2 is slowly getting closer to kittie 1 until kittie 1 loses her temper, stalks off and finds some way to punish humans for the indignity of bringing kittie 2 into her home

This is known.

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As I have said, my brother is still staying with us until the burnt out shell of his former home is returned to a vaguely habitable state. And yes, it is taking waaaay too much time (update on that later ( Read more... )

And am I the only one who has noticed that this "week" has stretched rather a lot ( Read more... )