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Saturday, March 8
wow.. it has been a while, hasn't it? Got a new collar for Em. She would constantly break out of the safty collar that I had gotten her when she scratched her neck, so I got her one that buckles. Muffin decided that she needed some attention way too early this morning. Man that cat has some determination. I threw her off the bed like 10 times.. ok.. more like 20. She'd just jump back up and start licking what ever part of my skin that was exposed. Its just so hard to get mad at her.. even if she is waking you up, cause she just rolls over on to her back and looks ever so cute and adorable. Eli's ears are still dirty. When we were at the vet, he was treated for ear mites. Kodi was tested and they found a mite in his ear, so with the way the dirt in his ears looked and that bit of history, I was pretty sure we were on the money. But Im guessing that we were wrong now. The treatement stuff is quite effective with one dose. and thursday morning I cleaned his ears till they sparkled. Thursday night he had huge gobs of goo in them again. Same with friday. At first I was thinking it was just stuff coming loose from further down in his ear (cause I only clean the outer ear) but now Im thinking that he's still producing it. The vet said it might be a yeast infection. (didn't know kitties could get those). Eli hates it when Im physically cleaning his ears.. mostly cause Im having to hold him down when I do it, but I get the distinct impression that he is ever so glad to have his ears cleaned. btw.. new picts were just uploaded they show the cute bunny like way that muffin likes to lay on the floor.. the kittens getting into the valentines I got the other day from a group I belong to on line, and Em's new collar. (I particularly like the jack of hearts *grin*) Haven't gotten to the first teeth cleaning yet.. Hopefully next week, as I really need to get to that.. Tuesday, March 4
 Got muffin a new collar. See the bell? well that bell has gone bye bye! Last night she once again decided to sleep on top of my head and jingle the bell right in my ear. VERY annoying. I was very slow to wake up this morning, and in so had both muffin and jack looking for some attention. It was really sweet... but do you know how hard it is to change the channel when there is a kitty sleeping on your remote, and another sleeping on you? So instead I watched what ever silly program was on.Eli is quite active and on paper quite healthy. Im concerned though. Im probably being paranoid. His eye is still watering. The build up gets so bad that when cleaning it off I take quite a bit of fur with me, and he's starting to become "bald" around the corner of that eye. He also ends up with dirty patches in his nose. He still sneezes from time to time, so I can't help but wonder if he's still fighting off the URI. Ive said it before but it bears repeating, the vet just thinks his tear duct is scarred from being so sick previously, and she's not worried, but when we go back in a few weeks, I think I'll have another talk with her about it. Monday, March 3
I watched "emergency vets" today on the animal planet channel. I don't know why I watch this show. It quite often turns my stomach and more often than not I end up all teary eyed at it. But then there are those stories like they showed today.. They showed a show from 1998 about a kitty who had been hit by car. The poor thing was hit hard, both his back legs were broken, and poking through the skin, then the kitty was dragged on something that wore down the bone. The woman who brought the kitty in was told there wasn't much they could do, so they were going to put the kitty to sleep. The vet decided that since the kitty was still alive after such a traumatic event and he was acting so sweetly that he couldn't just give up. They took x-rays and determined they could actually help the kitty out. They operated on him and fixed him, then called the woman who found him. She agreed to take him home even though she had just adopted a cat - because her two year old son really wanted one. The hospital didn't charge the woman for the surgery. The hubby agreed to keep him as long as they named him highway. I loved this episode. I just wanted to give everyone a huge hug. btw.. Highway looks very much like jack. It was kitty combing day here. I really need to make sure I do Emerald on a regular basis. She's a big log like kitty so I don't think she can properly remove the dead fur from her back side. If I don't do it regularly she acts like it hurts and even nips at me.. (stopping the nip the second her teeth come in contact with my skin) I took off enough fur from her to make a small kitten. She also has some dandruff... and jack came to investigate when I was combing her, and he ended up with dandruff all over his face.. it was quite funny. Everyone did really well. I got very little excess fur off of anyone else. Ollie wasn't happy about the whole thing... but at least it went pretty smoothly. Maybe if I do this once a week he'll stop getting quite so upset about it. We had "treat time" afterwards.. that's always a big hit. Everyone kept stealing treats from Em though. She often uses her paw to "put" the treat in her mouth.. its unbelievably adorable. We had to put some plastic bowls down for water the other week... so now muffin has some acne again. poor thing. She doesn't seem to notice it at all which is good. Did have to clip her claws again though.. man her claws grow quickly. I think jack's fully forgiven me. We had some really nice cuddle time last night, then again this morning. I love it when he comes up and cuddles with me. Muffin does it all the time. she's taken to sleeping on the pillow above my head at night. Last night she ended up with a piece of my hair in her mouth.. I woke up to her making noises like she was trying to get it out.. nothing dramatic, but since she basically sits on my head at night, it was easy to hear. We are going to have our first real teeth cleaning day here soon. Maybe tomorrow, more possibly wednesday.. I'll let you know how it goes. |
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