This is the western border of my property, behind the garage.
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Thanks. I can only imagine it was a better death than being slowly eaten.
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I THINK this is a cat that lived with my dad’s mom, and his name is Useless. My mom said that when he wanted out, he’d go to whoever was sitting in the chair by the front door and mew politely; if the human didn’t respond, he would meow a bit louder. And if the human continued to ignore him, he’d start to mrowr.
But since there’s no writing on the back of the photos, I have to go by the background and the shoes of the lady in the top photo. Those I’m fairly sure are the feet of my father’s paternal grandmother. I believe this was taken in the 1950s.
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Hound is home from her armpit cancer surgery. She seems well.
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We said goodbye to our Lola today.
She would have been 14 in November.
She had two seizures on Wednesday, which led to a trip to the Emergency Vet. They found that she had a tumor on her Spleen and pulmonary hypertension. They prescribed some medicine to make her more comfortable, but didn’t expect that we’d have much time. She had three more good days, and then woke up very weak and had difficulty breathing Sunday morning. We met with our family vet, and he helped her drift off to sleep one last time.
She was a good dog, and she will be missed dearly by her entire family.
She would often lay next to me on the couch, and would sleep next to me in bed at night. Since the start of me working at home due to the Pandemic, I had set up a bed on an elevated platform next to my desk so she could nap next to me while I worked. Those are the situations that are going to be the hardest for me for a while.
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In an effort to inject some positivity back into this thread, I present to you my Wife’s Betta sorority that she recently added to her 50 gallon community aquarium:
Also, this is Dorito the crested Gargoyle Gecko:
ETA: corrected gecko species.
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I’m so sorry!
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That’s terrible and heartbreaking about Lola. But she was obviously very loved and cared for. While it will be awful without her, I hope knowing you gave her the best life gives you small comfort.
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I’m sorry to hear that. It’s hard to see a beloved pet’s favorite place empty.
The fish are lovely, though. I had to do some looking up to understand! Sounds tricky to maintain.
The gecko is cute. And what an inspired name!
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I’m so sorry… it’s never an easy choice, but you did the best you could for her.
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I wrote the post below last week, then Manny Pearl stepped on my keyboard and it disappeared. This morning, it’s back. Super weird.
I’m sorry for the loss of your sweet girl, @LockeCJ. Having the right coworker next to you is a wonderful thing, making it a loss surely felt.
Now, for the time traveling comment:
Iris went to the vet yesterday last week. She’s had trouble with her eye all her life, and the previous vet wasn’t especially helpful. The new vet explained it clearly, and even though the answer is “this is a chronic condition” I appreciated that.
She was really sick as a kitten, probably a herpes virus. She got antibiotics, and came to live with us because she wasn’t going to make it at the auto shop. She perked up, and is healthy except for that chronic eye problem. The previous vet gave us antibiotic plus steroid eye drops, which seemed to help at first. But they stopped helping.
The new vet explained that steroids could increase the reproduction of the virus, and that’s why it stopped working. I now have a different antibiotic, because now she has a secondary bacterial infection, and her eye is a lot less swollen and red.
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ohh, what a sweet face. i’m so sorry. isn’t 14 quite old for a small dog? that seems old to me!
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I’m so sorry. It’s never an easy choice, but when it’s time, it’s time.
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My kids talked me into two kittens. Males, neutered. They come home Thursday, what do I need to do? I’m cleaning out the old litter boxes, the kids are making sissal rope toys. I’ll be adding them to the pet insurance, and I’m making a cat bed from some old foam batting and bedsheets.
What else?
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The sissal toys are a good idea, but I suggest a larger cat scratching pad of some sort for them to work out on (rather than the furniture). There are cheap cardboard ones, fancy carpeted/sissal covered poles with platforms, and everything in between.
For the cat bed, I’d leave out the foam – they may shred it and then eat bits, which can’t be good for them. The bedsheet should be sufficient. We use old towels in boxes of various sorts (especially with the box on its side with the opening out to the front, so they can hide in it but still keep watch).
Please post pictures!
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We have some really sturdy cardboard packing boxes from when my daughter arrived. I was going to wrap one in sissal to put in my son’s room. I was also considering wrapping an old panel of my son’s crib and hanging it on a wall in our entryway where the wall is slightly low to use as a ladder to the nice perch. But I keep pothos up there. Maybe I’ll replace it with a tradascantia and move the pothos to my bookshelf?
Good idea on the foam - I didn’t even think of them eating it.
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It’s amazing what cats will eat. Our cat Talia used to eat the fibers from the backing on her cat tree carpet once she’d shredded it sufficiently. We assumed it just went through her as she never threw up (getting enough fiber apparently). She was on prednisolone for GI lymphoma, which gave her quite an appetite. But we had her on a strict diet to keep her from gaining lots of weight and then getting diabetes, so I guess she’d eat the fibers when she got hungry.
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do you have toys? get a laser pointer for sure. kittens have a TON of energy. and yes, post pix, please!
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