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Emeline was tired of having her picture taken I think.

Bah, I have cat related anxiety. We're gonna be gone for 8 days and have hired a house/cat sitter, in the form of my younger cousin, to feed Taz and scoop his litterbox and hang out with him.

Well, we find out that Taz has a UTI and needs to take antibiotics. The vet gave Tom a week's worth (out of THREE WEEKS OMG) of pills and it's the kind that you can put in his food. Except that Taz is a cat and not stupid and eats right around that sucker. Now Tom is talking like, OK, let's try to tempt him with catnip and cat treats and work at it like ALL FREAKING DAY (like, we tried at breakfast, Tom went home at lunch and had partial success using his tricks, and we'll try again tonight) but I really, really, really am uncomfortable saddling my cousin with this responsibility.

First of all, she so did not sign up for this when she accepted the offer of housesitting. Second, she may not have the time, patience, and committment to make sure that he gets the meds.

Also, since we are leaving on Friday for Maine, we have a quickly closing window of time that we can experiment with different medicating systems and tricks.

I even am thinking that we should cancel the trip!

Poor sick adorable toddlers.

Aimee, all those people are so beautiful, and beautifully dressed.

Back from ultrasound. The results are being sent to my PCP, but the tech told me everything looked great and she saw no signs of fibroids. Which is good in terms of planning to try for a pregnancy in 2009, not so good in that apparently I have painful and heavy periods just 'cuz. Not a complete surprise, since that's always been the case with me to some degree. But it's gotten worse in the last 2-3 years, and my mom had fibroids back in the day, so I'd glommed onto that as a probable explanation.

Nora - don't cancel the trip. Do your best by the kitty and everything will be ok.

And thanks, Wind!! I have no F2F pictures to post, so I've been messing about with my sister's wedding pictures.

Kerfuffle Bunny vows to cherish you

Nora, I highly recommend Pill Pockets - they are mushy, moist treats that you can mush around the pill to completely cover it, and are tasty/smelly enough to fool the discriminating feline palate. Or at least they worked brilliantly for Sammie. That was a godsend, because while I have 25+ years experience in pilling or otherwise medicating cats, I knew there was no damn way I could manage to pill Sammie. The vet we go to carries them only in the canine varieties, but I suspect that they are all the same ingredients, just with different labels. You might also be able to find them at a pet supply store. [link]

Windsparrow, thank you!!!!!!!!! I'll get Tom to pick some up tonight and see if it will work.

The results are being sent to my PCP, but the tech told me everything looked great and she saw no signs of fibroids.

My ultra sound said I had three fibroids. When they opened me up, they found five.