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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Ernie once ate part of a rubber band. Part, because I caught him and took the other half but he’d already bitten through it. It took days for him to pass it. They chew so much!
I suggest little stuffed cat toys, which need not be fancy nor catnip filled. A long time favorite in my house is a small thin-fabric sock with another sock inside, and tied in a knot. Free cat toy though not especially photogenic.
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i think MY kitties would love that, too!
one long-time favorite toy around here (over several cats) is the little plastic collar you pull off of gallon milk jugs. rolls and bounces erratically, has a nice little tab they can use to pick it up by, and is totally free. win!
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I can confirm those rings are a great toy! Sona used to love playing with them before she got older and developed arthritis. Sometimes she would fetch, though not often. She would try to catch them if we tossed them to her.
BTW, Sona had a good exam yesterday. The vet put her on a med for her arthritis. I think it’s already working–my wife saw her grooming for the first time in years. The technicians also shaved off a lot of her mats. Her belly is now bare, and it’s SO cute. It looks just like her sister Ally’s belly, who used to do the trimming all by herself.
Speaking of fetching, a Siamese cat we had in my teen years would do a lot of fetching, pretty regularly. The toy was a crushed up empty cigarette pack my father would throw. The cellophane crinkled nicely. I don’t know if Claude got addicted to the tobacco smell, but he sure consistently played with those things.
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Oh, hey. Don’t bother getting up. I found the treats.
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So cute!
Someday we will adopt more kitties, now that we’re down to two, but I don’t know when we’ll be able to. So crazy now—but there are pets wanting homes.
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My five-year old has been having some behavioral issues with the kindergarten transition, but is throwing herself into cat care. Hoping this is a positive for her.
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