Poor Squeaky, animals don't care for the whole moving thing much.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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Laura - Sep 14, 2017 8:26:06 am PDT #16625 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
amych - Sep 14, 2017 9:17:01 am PDT #16626 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Many calming pets to Squeaky. Her house disappeared while she was on the litterbox!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2017 10:02:10 am PDT #16627 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The last time I moved I tipped $100, but they had to move furniture and about a half ton of collected comics and books down from one 3rd floor walkup and up to another one, with a side trip to store the couch that wouldn't fit in the door of the new place.
Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2017 10:46:25 am PDT #16628 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I think I have PTSD from moving.
I believe it. I never want to move again.
So, leave early and drive eight hours straight with the kitty? Or find a motel that takes cats and do it over two days?
Depends on your tolerance, and the cat's. Leo and I drove 8 hours straight moving from NJ to VA, and he did fine, slept in the crate most of the way.
Dana - Sep 14, 2017 11:03:47 am PDT #16629 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Got my flu shot today, since I wanted to have it in plenty of time before I leave for the UK in three weeks.
Now my arm hurts. And I learned something new, which is that my heartbeat is soft (?), and that explains why machines sometimes have difficulty taking my blood pressure.
Fred Pete - Sep 14, 2017 11:32:38 am PDT #16630 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Depends on your tolerance, and the cat's. Leo and I drove 8 hours straight moving from NJ to VA, and he did fine, slept in the crate most of the way.
If kitty isn't fond of riding in a car, you may want to talk to the vet about a sedative. The first time we took Arthur to GA, we drove straight through (about 10 hours). Arthur didn't stop meowing pitifully until we passed Charlotte. The vet gave us some buprenex (which is actually a painkiller) for the drive back. He and we took that trip much better.
Connie Neil - Sep 14, 2017 11:54:58 am PDT #16631 of 30002
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I've been talking to so many southern people the past couple of weeks that my accent has slipped way back into Appalachian Pennsylvania. I've been dropping syllables all over the place.
Theodosia - Sep 14, 2017 12:22:46 pm PDT #16632 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Chumley didn't like car travel, but it proved that on longer trips he only had about a 15 minute span of attention, so he'd meow a little, calm down, fall asleep for about a half hour -- then wake up and start the whole cycle again.
It's important to try the cat out on the tranquilizer before you take them on a long trip -- one of the adverse (but thankfully rare) reactions is that it can make the cat manic instead of calm.
bennett - Sep 14, 2017 12:47:13 pm PDT #16633 of 30002
Seconding testing the tranquilizer first. The first time Tribble and I moved, I tranqed her, and it took her days to come out from under the bed. It really scared me, and I'd only used half a dose. I think the tranq made her woozy and scared her more than the moving. The second time we moved, I did not tranq her. She meowed all the way from Austin to Amarillo, but I just turned the Springsteen up louder. She also came out from under the bed and explored the new apartment within in a day.
Jesse - Sep 14, 2017 1:14:25 pm PDT #16634 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When I moved Homer from NYC to Boston, he was pretty quiet in the car, but slightly traumatized, I think. So it was fine for me, but maybe not him!
I forgot to give the robot dating update: Last night, after he was like, "I think I have all the qualities you are looking for" (which, no, not that I can tell), I didn't reply until this morning, when I said, "OK, thanks!" So he wrote back, "Good morning angel, hope your night was good." ANGEL????? I'm just going to not write back now.