Angus Maximus, sometime called "Goose"

30/8/2009 (approx.) - 8/5/2024

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It's 2020.

I still have a dog, as she did not get kidney failure and die from eating mincemeat. (Which contains raisins. Which are basically concentrated grape pellets. Which are, I cannot emphasize this enough, bad for dogs.)

New Year's Eve at the emergency vet's: nobody is there because they want to be ( Read more... )

So I got Fallout 76. It mostly seems like a crafting-heavy version of Fallout, with the exception that sometimes there are other people running around. I waved to one of them, but that's about it ( Read more... )

See if you can guess which is which.

% DoneCat!Reaction0%Awh, cuddles. What a good monkey.15%Nooooo! Wait, what are you... Nooo!25%Nooooo! My claws! Whymyclaws? Whyyyy?35%HAH! I am bitey! I bite your knuck-- whoops. Uhm.
Perhaps I will just sit here with my teeth sort of gently resting on your knuckles and stare at you. Yes. That seems ( Read more... )

Customs issue was sorted; when I got to the vet's a little past 4, actually, pretty sure I saw the FedEx van leaving.

We picked her up and took her home. She is stoned. She's been given some kind of time-release painkiller that'll have a slowly decreasing effect over the next three days, and she's having trouble with her back legs because she is ( Read more... )

Piper went in for surgery on Tuesday. Wednesday was that whole not-abnormal-but-very-worrying thing with her body temperature dropping, and the expected ton of pain. (Her body temperature was back to normal by evening, at least ( Read more... )

Went to bed two hours ago. Cannot sleep; partly I have a cracking headache, partly I'm hungry, partly I'm apparently just not tired. Going to grab a pita and maybe try warm milk and honey ( Read more... )

Piper is doing much better; she still whimpers when she moves (and screamed a couple of times, dear god), but she's crashing out and sleeping a lot. We've gotten her up the stairs, let her fall asleep in front of the fire, and the day seems to be turning into a Mad Max marathon interrupted by pauses to find out if she's complaining because she ( Read more... )

Piper went in for her her arthroscopy yesterday. They kept her overnight for grogginess and to ensure she recovered from general anaesthesia properly. Today she seemed in "unusual pain" this morning, and we were told we could take her home. It's not dangerous--my understanding is it's not even atypical. Joint surgery, arthritis, working on tiny ( Read more... )

The thing about our cat, Lucifer Tailypo--well, kitten, really--she's sweet and she's affable and she's very patient. But she may have been taken away from her mother a bit too early, or possibly she just has a nervous habit ( Read more... )