Mine seem to helpfully present theirs to my face whenever I'm trying to nuzzle them, so I guess they're vigilant about the potential problem. Yay?
Wesley: Hey. Hey, Gunn. Is something weird going on? … Charles, you just peed on my shoes. Gunn: I'll be damned. That's weird.
'Life of the Party'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 06, 2018 12:29:53 pm PST #20783 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
Jesse - Jan 06, 2018 12:46:04 pm PST #20784 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, is the moral of this story "Look at your cat's butt more"?
I mean, possibly, but I'm going to stick with "Bring a new cat to the vet."
bennett - Jan 06, 2018 1:11:28 pm PST #20785 of 30002
Sadly, I took Fleabie to the vet when I got her but the tapeworms manifested afterwards. Apparently it takes a while between ingesting the infected fleas and the development of the worms. But it depends on the type of worms.
Jesse - Jan 06, 2018 1:17:02 pm PST #20786 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So maybe I did the right thing after all????
WindSparrow - Jan 06, 2018 1:20:35 pm PST #20787 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Round worms are another flea-bourne possibility.
bennett - Jan 06, 2018 1:32:27 pm PST #20788 of 30002
It's probably good to take a new cat to the vet first thing, but it's not going to catch everything. I'd had cats all by life but hadn't run across tapeworms before so I wasn't aware of what to look for afterwards.
Laura - Jan 06, 2018 1:54:26 pm PST #20789 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
And you are NOT the first buffista pet owner to have a wormy pet, I assure you.
Yeah.
Sheryl - Jan 06, 2018 3:30:37 pm PST #20790 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Took Mr. S to a birthday party for the daughter of friends of ours. Of course he was a wild man, getting into everything. (Gary's away on a business trip until Tuesday night. sigh.)
Connie Neil - Jan 06, 2018 5:02:21 pm PST #20791 of 30002
brillig
I'm watching a documentary about air travel, and they just showed the coolest thing--one-man jet-powered wingsuits. The pilots drop from helicopters and point towards the ground at full-thrust to pick up enough speed to get enough lift so that when they arch their backs the wings strapped to their backs angle correctly to catch the air. Jet-powered hang-gliders! Oh so cool!
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2018 5:55:15 pm PST #20792 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tonight at a family party, I got to hear the story of Tim's aunt and uncle's wedding. They've been married for 51 years; they got married in 1966. They got engaged in 1965, and then Tim's uncle enlisted in the Navy ahead of the draft for Vietnam, and served as a Seabee. He was stationed in Morocco, and was supposed to be stationed there for 2 years.
Tim's aunt didn't want to wait 2 years until he was stateside to marry him, so off she went to Morocco. Because it was 1966, her mother went with her as a chaperone. So they were married at the Rock of Gibraltar, BUT because it wasn't a church wedding (that would happen 2 days later), Aunt's mother said no way, you are not officially married until it's Church Official, so you are staying with me in the hotel room tonight.
Aunt, being newly married and hot for Uncle, sneaked out of the hotel room in the middle of the night in sexy lingerie (that's literally the phrase she used when telling the story -- "sexy lingerie") and went to Uncle's hotel room...and he wasn't there! He was at the bar, drowning his sorrows about not being able to spend the night with his wife.
It all turned out fine in the end, because they had their church wedding and then went to Casablanca for a honeymoon, and then Aunt stayed in Morocco with Uncle for 10 months, which she said was like one long honeymoon.
Best wedding story EVER.