Archive for the tag "cats"

• @swatymyers All due respect, I can’t believe that CHARLATAN’s stealing Nora the Piano-Playing Cat’s thunder. She’s infinitely more talented. #

• Just so’s you know, there are a hell of a lot of videos on YouTube depicting cats eating broccoli. #

• We’re catsitting an ol’ geezer named Henry. He just sleeps a lot, and grudgingly accepts his 2 pills a day. Nothing is any big deal to him. #

• OK I guess Twitter’s back. Today’s been a little more eventful than I bargained for, but it all worked out. Just had Jodie’s patti-melts. #
• Last night we saw an ep. of Inspector Lynley feat. Jenny Agutter, star of Logan’s Run (a fave of mine). She’s come a long way since Lastday! #
• Today’s nap, I “got up” like five times before I really woke up! Thought I had sheets wrapped around my head and there was a cat in the room #
• I worry too much. Such a worrier. #

• On the iPhone, the terms “sleep”, “lock” and “standby” all mean exactly the same thing, correct? I gotta problem with that. #
• Once again experiencing crushing guilt over my walled F’book garden of RLFs and family. @leolaporte has opened his up to everyone… waaah!! #
• Doing a full erase and restore. If that doesn’t work I’m gonna set it up as a “new iphone” but I gotta grab my Notes first (lyric snippets). #
• Wow, fancy label colors in Gmail #
• Kitty Wigs! (via Laughing Squid)
• No charges in the Megan Meier suicide case. It figures. http://tinyurl.com/2ect8k #
• The Miniature Earth
• It blows my mind that Stringer on The Wire is a British guy. McNutty’s Baltimore accent is so shitty it’s obvious, but Stringer? Whoah. #

I took Juney to the vet today, and… we ended up putting her to sleep.  :-( Her chest was full of fluid and her lungs were almost collapsed because of that.  Hence the breathing problems.  The doctor wasn’t sure which of the 4 or 5 scenarios might have caused the fluid to build up, but no matter what the reason was, the prognosis wasn’t good at all.  X-rays showed a big lump near her stomach, which could have been a tumor, or maybe something else.  It wasn’t good whatever it was.  So, there were things we could have tried, but every option seemed kind of ridiculous to even consider, in light of her very very advanced age, current poor health etc.  Her life has been deteriorating steadily for the past year.  So I decided on the best thing to do, and that was to stop her suffering… she really was, too.  It was… the best thing I could do.  It was gentle and she died peacefully and without pain, so… there ya go.  Junebug is dead.  Long live Junebug!!!!  The best, most loving, smartest, most patient and sweetest cat on earth.  A real movie star.  I’m going to miss her very very much.  :-(

Boo Boo Kitty died today… she was getting sicker and sicker. I thought she was going to die on me here at home — she’d been deteriorating steadily since she first got sick, and was getting more dehydrated even though I was giving her the liquids. She’d seen the vet several times and we tried all these different things but nothing really helped. Anyway, she’d been very weak and vomiting a lot the past few days, and today she was shaking and having a lot of trouble breathing, and trying to drag herself behind the furniture… it was really bad. I took her to the vet and he looked at her, and we talked about it and decided to put her to sleep right there. It was very very quick. He just gave her a shot of anaesthetics — she put her head down and that was it.

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