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Fred Pete - Feb 29, 2008 6:41:47 am PST #2316 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I know the conversation moved on long ago, but I was offline for several days (errands plus 2 sick days for respiratory ick) and just saw while zipping through so fast that it can barely be called skimming --

Many sympathies on your cat, Gloomcookie. It's hard to get a cat in late stage kidney failure to eat. What we did with Teddy was to get a large number of types of food -- moists, drys, baby food, even special ordered a calf's kidney from a grocery store. And whatever he ate, we'd give him more of. For a while, we were giving him what Hubs called "smorgasbord" because it was little dabs of half a dozen things at once.

Admittedly, this approach works a little better if you have another cat(s) that will eat whatever the sick cat won't eat.


Tom Scola - Feb 29, 2008 6:43:44 am PST #2317 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

'Cause California drivers are, like, the worst ever?

Wait. You've lived in Massachusetts, right?


megan walker - Feb 29, 2008 6:51:40 am PST #2318 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Wait. You've lived in Massachusetts, right?

Among other things, I have driven regularly in Boston and NYC.

I'd rather spend an eternity driving around the Arc de Triomphe than keep dealing with drivers here in CA.


§ ita § - Feb 29, 2008 6:54:02 am PST #2319 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That blog is so freaking hysterical.


Jessica - Feb 29, 2008 6:55:27 am PST #2320 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Boston drivers are insane, but they pay attention to the road. This wins them many many many points over the polite-but-clueless driving one encounters in CA. (Or the rude and clueless driving one encounters on the DC Beltway.)


Glamcookie - Feb 29, 2008 7:07:37 am PST #2321 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Thanks, Fred. I've been trying all kinds of things and she seems excited at first but quickly loses interest. She liked ground turkey and baby food the first couple of times, but now won't eat it. I'm going to keep trying different stuff. She is such a little bag of bones, it's sad-making. But she still purrs and likes cuddles and jumps, so we're not done yet. Poor Jo!


Jesse - Feb 29, 2008 7:07:42 am PST #2322 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Meh. I went to Au Bon Pain to get lunch, because I wanted soup. They didn't have any kind I wanted! So I ended up with a chef salad, which is fine, but exactly cozy on this freezing day.


meara - Feb 29, 2008 7:08:09 am PST #2323 of 10001

Any math-istas in the house? I'm puzzled by high-school algebra. Are there extraneous solutions to sqrt(x+3) = sqrt(6)?

Er...not that I can tell. Though I am not a mathista. If it were (x+3)squared=6squared, then maybe, but....it's not....


tommyrot - Feb 29, 2008 7:09:34 am PST #2324 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

If it were (x+3)squared=6squared, then maybe, but....it's not....

I'm squaring x+3 right now AIFG!

Sorry. My brain isn't working today....


Lee - Feb 29, 2008 7:14:08 am PST #2325 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Gloomcookie, I don't know if this will help your cat, but Ozzie stopped eating for a couple of days because of the anitbiotics he was on, so the vet gave me some food for anorexic cats--Hills Prescription Diet AD canned, and it really did the trick.