Minor has recovered enough from her bout of FLUTD that I feel like I can leave her with my brother over the weekend (although let me just say that the water fountain is the most useless cat gadget I've ever bought - Emi is the only one who'll drink from it, while the Ks are both pretending it doesn't exist*), which means I get to spend midsummer at ( Read more... )

1. Vegan bacon (at least the kind available here), when fried, acquires the consistency of cardboard. It tastes like vaguely smoky cardboard. I'm glad I'm not vegan, because real bacon is the best thing on earth ( Read more... )

OH NO SUDDEN URGE TO REUPLOAD ALL MY ROBIN HOOD ICONS AND FIND THE ONES I LEFT UNFINISHED IN THE SPRING (ALTHOUGH I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY ON THE COMPUTER THAT DIED A HORRIBLE DEATH THIS WINTER) AND WATCH EVERY EPISODE AND AND AND WHAT THE HELL HELP ( Read more... )

I think Major's antibiotics are disagreeing with him, because he's been throwing up quite a lot. His ear looks like it's healing just fine, though. I called the vet practice this morning and was told the vet who treated him would call me when she got in "this afternoon." It's now six-thirty. On the other hand, it's also about eight hours since he ( Read more... )

There is nothing quite like starting New Year's Eve by holding your shaking-with-terror-but-abnormally-compliant cat while a vet presses out about a gallon (I kid, I kid, it was probably more like half a teaspoon) of bloody pus from his ear. Except maybe being told that if the swelling comes back, you'll have to do this yourself, twice a day, until ( Read more... )

( picspam of SIGH. )

OK, in the onslaught of AWFUL this afternoon I completely forgot to say that I did hear from the vet today, and that although the sample was small enough that they can't completely rule out MCT, it's most likely not, and basically I just need to wait and see if it returns ( Read more... )

1. I spent most of the weekend and Monday watching Major K like a hawk so he could be without his collar. Yesterday I had to be out for most of the day, but left the collar off anyway, which turned out to be a mistake as he'd licked it until it looked worse than it did right after the operation. Bad me. So on the collar went again and I got the ( Read more... )

...wagtail with its beak cut out of the shot, goddammit.


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