'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
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.
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.
Robots have really mastered terms of endearment.
...Just call Jesse angel in the morning...
I've only taken Squeaky on short trips to the vet, plus a half-hour drive when we moved here. She generally tolerates it ok. I'm thinking she'll probably sleep on a longer drive.
...Just call Jesse angel in the morning...
That song popped into my head too.
Don't touch my cheek before you leave me.
The song in my head is, of course, now morphing into I Wanna Be Cowboy (because of the "you can be my cowgirl" line)
Timelies all!
Oh, no, not another earworm!(I've had some odd ones recently. The Steely Dan earworms I understand, but why has "Pilot of the Airwaves", a song I haven't heard since the early 80s, shown up?)