One cat did this with BACON. She is clearly brain-dead.
Hey, evil dead, you're in my seat.
Xander ,'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Strix - Jun 01, 2010 5:42:25 pm PDT #21003 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
beekaytee - Jun 01, 2010 5:48:40 pm PDT #21004 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Tucker did sniff-taste-chew-ptui on grapes 3 or 4 times in a row until she actually broke the skin.
My eyes flew open at this, amych. Please, no grapes!
sniff-taste-chew-ptui!, repeated 3 times, was comedy gold.
I can see that.
Aims - Jun 01, 2010 6:04:22 pm PDT #21005 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Dammit to fuck and back.
Joe's car STILL isn't fixed. And the labor is pretty much free, so it's hard to be pissed off at awesome friend Bob who is doing the work, but it was supposed to have been done a flipping week ago. And I have to be in tomorrow at 7:00 am, which is damned near impossible considering that Em has to be at school by 8:00 am, Joe to class by 9:00 am and then Em picked up at 3:20 pm. And of course, I just now (within the past 15 minutes) found this out and it's 11:00 pm and it's too damn fucking late to call anyone to help.
I'm pissed and angry and frustrated.
Aims - Jun 01, 2010 6:10:51 pm PDT #21006 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I think I'm heading into work now, to do what I was going to do at 7:00 am and then I'll go back after I get Em and Joe to school.
amych - Jun 01, 2010 6:18:14 pm PDT #21007 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Bonny, Tucker's been dead since before the grape issue became well-known, weighed nigh on 100 pounds, and never had more than one grape at a sitting -- I'm aware of the issue and thank you for the reminder, but there's no need for alarm in this case.
beekaytee - Jun 01, 2010 6:33:08 pm PDT #21008 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Oh goodness. I'm sorry for over-reacting and not knowing the history. I had a client have to rush her pup to the vet after folks, unaware of the issue, fed her grapes at a party. I'm a bit knee-jerky. Or, at least, jerky.
I'm still amazed that they haven't isolated what made grapes suddenly become toxic. Though, the Snopes article helped clear up something for me. I thought it had only been about 5 years since the onset of the problem, but Snopes suggests it's been since 1989. How can that be?
Anyway, my knee is safely tucked back where it belongs.
SailAweigh - Jun 01, 2010 6:34:52 pm PDT #21009 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I wonder if it's always been a problem, it's just better recordkeeping/databases that have made veterinarians more aware of the problem. The info age has brought many things into higher profile than they were before.
Kathy A - Jun 01, 2010 6:38:27 pm PDT #21010 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Zenkitty - Jun 01, 2010 6:40:22 pm PDT #21011 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I've been watching that Hanson video over and over! It makes me happy.
amych - Jun 01, 2010 6:41:51 pm PDT #21012 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No offense taken -- much better to get the word out, and anyway you weren't around when my girl still was, so. (FWIW, I interpret the Snopes article as saying that the problem was first identified in 1989, which doesn't mean that grapes suddenly became toxic then, at all. And which makes much more sense that way.)