Our 2 cats, Calliope (calico) and Che (tuxedo) both take up residence in the bedroom anytime there's bed activity. Che parks himself on the bed and gets out of joint if he gets bounced around or asked to get down.
We used to have 2 pits and a wolf hybrid who would vie for a spot during activity. Imagine a large canine trying to move in on your activity on a double bed!
They often got shut out of the room until we were done. Howling sometimes lol.

I spent the afternoon at my sister-in-law's house, because she and her husband are leaving soon for a two week vacation, over in Northern Idaho.

As some might remember, Simon -- their aging Jack Russell terrier, passed away a few months ago. Toffee, the blind blue healer/ lab mix, is grieving the loss of Simon -- Still, as we all are. I miss Simon so much. :(

Just today, I was learning how to do water sets for the flower and vegetable garden, and Simon used to follow me around, playing in the water and barking with joy. Toffee just sat and stared at me, while I was learning how to use the new sprinkler system.

Petunia, my precious lovely caT, is aging at a troubling pace. She now gets cream medicine in her ears, twice at day, because her thyroid in on the fritz. She's super picky about the food she will eat, so I am looking forward to 'spoiling' her, *tee hee*.

But, all the pets and all of us, we are still not able to believe that Simon is gone. He was our joy and he had our hearts. I miss him so much.

Tiny Dog and I played The Laundry Game today. We used to play it a lot (not really my idea) when she was younger - basically, I sorted the laundry, and she unsorted it until I stopped sorting laundry and pet her all over.

She was kind of wistfully watching me sort laundry this evening, and I could tell she wanted to play but just wasn't feeling up to it. So I stopped sorting and pet her all over for awhile. She was happy.

Dog man fell off the bed and scared himself good.
Senior citizen cat screamed at me like she hasn't eaten in a year and then scarfed town her turkey and gravy.
The two young whippersnappers are chilling on the back porch watching birds.
And it's only 6:30am.

Monte kept meowing, quiet little wimper, he's usually not talkative like that unless something is wrong but I couldn't figure out what it was. Every time I turned to look, nothing. There he was just lounging, looking maybe a little tired but otherwise perfectly fine. Well turns out it wasn't Monte at all. The last check I was looking right at him, he was being quiet and then I heard it. So I did a search and discovered there was a strange cat in the back room. That would explain it, why for the past couple of days Monte had been working so hard to get my attention and nothing I tried worked to settle him, he just kept staring at me like he does when he wants something. Anyhow I don't know how long we've been harboring a fugitive but suddenly it made sense, why Monte was scarfing down his food, seemed to be eating so much. Also the other day I was checking the cat box and wow almost overnight full. I just attributed it to Monte eating so much more lately. Well the cat seemed healthy, in good shape so obviously someone's taking care of it, and I put it out. It kept dashing back in, didn't want to leave but I was persistent. It's still kind of freaking me out a little bit that there could be another animal living here with me not knowing about it.

Aw Gemme, poor Loki. I hope it's an easy fix and that the meds help quickly. Sorry about the carpet...

FSF, that's freaky! I have a feeling you're going to need to have your eye out for a return visit for a while...

Someone here caught a mouse last night and left it in front of my bedroom door. Not cool. None of the cats are confessing but I have my suspicions on who it was.

Old lady cat got very annoyed when I didn't get up and feed her at 5am.

Dog man got mad that I wouldn't let him outside in the thick of a pouring rainstorm with thunder and lightening overhead.

Tiny dog had her 2nd dose of Rimadyl this evening. It seems to be making her feel better. However, I've been doing some reading about it online and it may not be the best choice for her. She's had a bad reaction to aspirin/Bufferin in the past. Some online sites recommend CBD instead. Has anyone tried CBD oil for their dog?

I love storms. The cats don't mind as long as there's no thunder. Then it's half interest and half fear from them.

Loki's results came back and we're dealing with a strict case of crystals in his bladder, which was my first impulse. I should trust myself more. The anti-inflammatory they gave me to give him doesn't seem to be doing much. It doesn't seem to be hurting him either but at $5 a pop, I could have passed on that but they weren't 100% sure it was only the crystals so that's what they gave me and that's what the bugger got. Luckily, I can crush it up in his wet food. As long as it's there, I could feed him classified documents and he wouldn't be the wiser.

So, I had to pay an outrageous amount for food. I went to Chewy.com and got a good deal to start with but since it's prescription food, they had to check with the vet before they would fill my order. That should come in a few days. I got $70 worth of food for $37 so I was happy about that at least.

I stopped at the vet's while doing errands to make sure they didn't need anything, the approval for the Chewy order was processed, et cetera and so on and so forth. By the time I left, I'd acquired a slight headache, 4 cans of wet food and a 6.5lb bag of food to get Loki started right away. The dry food was $40 alone! I'm going to have to tighten the belt for the next 4-6 weeks and hope for the best. His weekly food budget is going to rival mine now.

If the food doesn't do the trick, then we'll move on to a pretty strong med. Someone suggested I paper the house with puppy pads and I laughed at first but now, I'm seriously considering it. Amazon, here I come!

FSF, I think it's sweet that you have a visitor but then again, it's not my visitor. Maybe it's just one of those cats that likes to know everyone in the neighborhood and is clever and can break and enter easily.

The government would like to speak with that cat, I imagine.

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I haven't but I imagine that it would be easily disguised in wet food or a gravy. When Oliver had a seizure at the vet's (not this one), they gave him phenobarbital, which I strongly opposed. I was so angry about that. He wound up staggering around for 3 days like a drunken sailor and even fell out of bed. He could have been seriously injured!

If you have a bad feeling about something, stand your ground. There are alternatives to just about everything nowadays.

Tiny Dog still seems to feel better from the Rimadyl, even though I did not give her the doses today. Unfortunately, she took a header from about halfway down the stairs to the bottom. I don't know if she didn't realize that feeling better does not equal being able to run down the stairs like she used to, or if she just got her feet tangled up. She practically landed right on her head, but she seems to be okay.

I'm going to call the vet tomorrow and talk to her about it. I'm really torn about giving Tiny the Rimadyl since it seems to be working. However, she vomited last night, and obv I can't give it to her if that's going to be the case. However, (on the third hand) I'm not sure that's why she vomited. I'm hoping there's a person I can talk to at the CBD shop who knows something about treating pets, hopefully geriatric dogs specifically.

I give my dog CBD oil for his joints. I get a pet specific tincture through Lazarus Naturals. It can be expensive but they do give deep discounts to folks who are current or previous military, low income, or living with a diagnosed disability.

The CBD drops are a piece of cake for my dog. I drop it on a piece of chicken and he inhales it. It helps him. He's still old and nothing is going to change that but his legs are less likely to go out from under him now.

Thanks for the feedback received. It helped me make some reasonable choices, but ultimately nothing is helping Tiny Dog.

Tiny Dog just can't tolerate the Rimadyl. It was definitely what was making her throw up. I tried CBD oil and that gave her diarrhea - all over the house. Fortunately, I got the CBD oil (expensive!) from a company that offered a refund if it didn't work out. (Easygoingfemme, I tried Lazarus Naturals but they were all sold out.) I spoke to them today and they're crediting my credit card and canceling my monthly subscription. They were very nice about it, said they understood, that happens sometimes with dogs. They told me to keep the oil and try it myself or give it to someone, there was no need for me to return it. Nice people.

At least I am still physically capable of picking up a 40 pound dog from the floor and putting her on her feet. We spent the weekend with her learning to go up the stairs ahead of me and not behind, so if she slips I can help her.

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I am looking for a compatible dog breed again. I want a large dog that is loyal, sweet, good with kids but not too possessive of me. My baby kitty owns me and insists that she can see my face all night. If I roll away from her at night it is hell to pay. She yells at me if she can't see my face while I sleep.

As most of you already know, Tiny Dog passed away last week. I am just now starting to be able to tell people IRL without bursting into tears.

Diva Kitty has been very clingy. When she's not following me around, she's wandering around meowing. I'm pretty sure she's looking for Tiny. I have been giving her lots of attention.

Miss Petunia? She is the sweetest darn thing you ever saw. Seriously. *lol*

She is getting SO bold. Both times I've been over to my sil's house, she runs right out to the side of the road, and she jumps up into my car, sits on my lap, meows up a storm, then investigates where I've been. Shucks, she even tried to jump into the trunk of my car, when I was trying to fish out some spare treats I keep in a laundry basket full of 'emergency' supplies. Yanno, stuff like car oil, jumper cables, big ole flashlight, crow bar -- straight from the Iron foundry, stuff like that and spare food and drinking supplies (coconut water, water, spring water, etc).

Then Miss Petunia, after she's through sniffing out where I've been, she gets out of the car, then proceeds to plop down on the rock-filled driveway, rolling around on the rocks. LOL. Then she'll sprawl out, waiting for me to pet her tummy. Once I do, she gets up, then she tries to climb up my body to get a hug.

She's a sweetie pie, for sure.

She is gonna run away with me, one day. Soon as I save up some money to pay for pet fees. Then she's coming home to stay. Forever.

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Our big black and white cat, Cheerio, lay on our IKEA couch with such a high level of relaxation after her dinner.

Ya know I had a blind date that did that very same thing on our first date, needless to say there wasn't a second......

Diva Kitty has been so affectionate. I got her some of her favorite treats today - she was all over me when I got home, I swear she could smell them through the bag!

Well, Monte decided he needed a snack so while I was away he gnoshed on cords – telephone and computer. My son had just worked on the computer, got it up and running again and then a day later Monte turns around and munches on stuff, puts it out of commission. He bit the computer cord into three pieces. Today Jillian took me to buy some replacements, they had the phone cord but not the one we needed for the computer and she didn't want to go any place else to chase one down. And she said we couldn't use electrical tape because it was dangerous. Well my father showed me how to use it when I was about ten, I've been using it for decades and decades and never killed myself once yet, nor did his father or his father's father before them. It's not like lead paint, I'm not going to eat the stuff. Anyhow she bought these little metal connector things and now we're back in business. We've got a plan to keep it from happening again but oh he's frustrating me. I guess that's what happens if he wolfs down half a large can of cat food and is left with only a heaping bowl of crunchies while I'm gone for an hour – take that Mommy Dearest!

We went to the beach at sunrise
I have one exhausted pitty
luckily,she has chewed nothing,but did try to bury her bone in the WRONG garden yesterday.

If it hasn't been one thing it's been the next. Turns out Monte gnawed on some other cords and computer parts that weren't obvious until we started moving things around. Though still working the cords were positional, potentially dangerous and had to go. Also there was a box which even though it was working my son said needed to be replaced. He had a new one at home I could have it. Long story short, don't ask questions. Well I know he's too honest for there to be crime involved so I'm not worried enough to care about particulars. I just let him do his thing and now I have a new whatever it is and it looks nice. Since one of the things Monte snacked on was the mouse I got a new one, cordless, one less thing for him to bite into and it's the best mouse ever! It fits in my hand like it was made for me it's that comfortable. Anyhow thanks to J and my son I'm back online again. Yeah! I went from this to this :beatcomputer: to this :angel: And now I'm watching Monte like a hawk :police:

Diva Kitty has decided her favorite new toy is a laundry hamper. It's one of those collapsible kind, that's made of stretchy net and you can unfold the wire frame and it stands up in kind of a cube/tube.

If Diva Kitty just rubbed her paws on it (made biscuits), I would understand, but no, she actually plays with the thing. She has discovered that it's light enough that she can hold it with two paws when it's collapsed. Just goes to show, you can't predict what cats will like as a toy.

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I think it is funny when the kitties watch me in a mirror. They both do it.

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Diva Kitty settled down to watch me get ready for work this morning. Uh-oh, here comes the hair dryer! <Zooming kitty races down the stairs>

Miss Petunia is going to run out of all her Kitten-Lives if she doesn't quit running out to the road to lay down on the rocky gravel that lures her to race across the road (as well). She nearly got hit by a car, last time I went over to see her. She scares me sometimes.

I go over to babysit her in February, possibly in January too.

Miss Petunia is very old, for a pearly gray Tuxedo Kitten. She gets prettier each year that goes by. I want to get her some pretty purple charms to hang from her purple kitten collar, since the purple bell charm no longer rings like a bell. It just goes .. *tink-tink-tink* .. once in a purple moon.


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