Be Excellent To Each Other

Never apologise for adding more puppy pics! Sherbet is gorgeous.

Grrr-inder?

So cute! Is he sleeping

I remember when Willow was a pup, I slept when she slept. Like having a baby.

He is incredibly cute!

Topher has started to lick the gravy off his meat. I'm tempted to just make him some Bisto up.

Haybox a week late now on a fortnightly subscription.

Again.

We get the “soups” for Ginger now as she does exactly this. Much more gravy and fewer meat chunks.

Digby also used to do it but eventually would eat the meat too.

Ziggy had us up at 4am on Friday and Saturday night, he was much more settled last night and slept through till 7!

Only a couple of accidents in the house and his temperament with us and, very importantly, our Guinea Pigs has been great (i'd never leave them unattended though).

So far 11/10.

We tried him with those last year, and it liked them for a while, but then started to turn his nose up at them. He seems to do this with most things though, apart from Turkey and Chicken. And Tuna.

Yeah, cats tend to not like the same thing over and over. We have had some luck tricking them by switching back to an old food for a short period. Not usually for long though.

I wish we'd just kept him on the dry food to be honest. He was only have a bit of wet food for the odd treat. He still has it available now, but working from home has made it treat central, and now he expects to have it available all of the time. We've done the switching thing too, at least it works occasionally.

Yeah, ours are the same. I'm like that with breakfast cereal. I'll have weetabix for maybe a week and then one morning for no reason it just doesn't appeal at all.

Yet I've eaten Frosties every morning for around 25 years now. Odd that isn't it? Some days I have a bowl of the evening too.

That must be a huge metaphysical bowl you have.

How do you still have teeth?

Nah, cats are wise to owners who will happily swap and change cat food when they turn their nose up.

Trust me, it usually ends up being a week of them not eating any wet food at all before I give in. I just get fed up with scraping it into the bin as it makes it stink terribly.

I say them still out of habit

We went to see a very good sweet boy at the local rescue on Saturday. He was very friendly but had dislocated his back knees and had surgery on them (healed now), so he walked like John Wayne. He was still a good climber though! The main problem was that he had had a viral infection as a kitten and was permanently snotty. Sal is not good with snot and he was making her gag, so along with the fact he might run up some huge vet bills while we have no money, we had to sadly decide against adopting him.

Hopefully, he'll get rehomed somewhere nice and you'll find the right cat for yourselves too.

New kitten making himself at home. He hops in there every time I go for a shit!

Haha, what a cheeky chappy. (He looks so like our Monty!)

My mum’s little dog has developed a really bad skin condition. She’s been to the vets about it four times now. It’s her regular vet, and the first time they fobbed her off and it got worse. The next two times they decided they didn’t need to see the dog as they’d seen it the initial time. They gave Ma medication that they said was steroids. Again, the problem has gotten worse, so the last time she went on a call and she said that the steroids hadn’t made a difference, and the vet said they weren’t steroids, they were antibiotics. She asked my Ma if she had the medication to hand, she did, and the vet said they were antibiotics. Now, both me and my Ma had googled, and they were steroids. Ma asked her to please check again, and she went off somewhere and left Ma on hold ages before coming back and saying yes, they were steroids. Ma was right.

So, things are now worse still and so ma made an appointment with the vet, and she said something about the flea treatment leaving a red patch also, at which point the vet said ‘can I just check… Trixie is a cat, right? It’s just you’ve written ‘dog’ on the consult form and that could lead to the wrong medication being issued.



Er…

Nope, she’s a dog. On their computer system they logged her as a cat and even when they have seen the dog right there in the surgery they’ve been medicating her as if she was a cat.

I’ve told her to find another vets but it’s the PDSA and the only one she can afford. I’m looking to see if she can go to another branch at least.

Fucking hell

Bloody hell! Hope the poor dog gets sorted out properly now they have the right species.

Surely they'll get it sorted out quickly now they know they were at fault.

That's possibly expecting a lot, given their track record so far.

Yeah, she’s there now, so I’m hoping that they’ll have some more positive news when they get back. She’s a small dog, but unmistakably a dog

She's a beauty!

Alright Attenborough, give them a break. Not everyone's an expert you know. Sheesh!

They’re back and have antibiotics* and a special shampoo they have to use every three days. Hopefully that will do something, but their partial diagnosis sounded like some pretty vague guesswork.



Fingers crossed it works.

*pending. She’s going to Google to check.

She’s incredibly cute and gentle. I think she’s about 8 or 9 years old now and usually a very happy little thing.

Has she been spayed? We have a bald pom and one theory was hormone imbalance, which spaying might help.

Yes, she’s definitely spayed.

I did wonder if, relatedly, it might have been caused by doggy menopause before ma pointed out that she was spayed many years ago, and Googling revealed dogs don’t actually go through menopause.

Do female dogs just go into season continuously until they die then? (I've always had male dogs, with the exception of a spayed lab, so it's not something I've ever thought about before)

Apparently they go into heat less regularly and be some less fertile, but basically, yes, they’ll continue to remain in heat until the end.

Just like Liverpool girls

You're right, it's called the menopaws.

Fucking hell. Back from the school run to find Chomp the cat asleep on my work laptop. He managed to:

Send a gibberish message on Mattermost.
Get into the accessibility settings and magnify everything as high as it can go.
Turn off the wifi.

IT are going to believe you

Sober up mate.

Thanks Mimi - today I learned!

Hahaha! That’s amazing.

I gave HairyPig a quick haircut on Friday before we left to go away. I did it outside. I completely didn't think what the person looking after the guinea pigs would think when she came into the garden and saw tufts of fur everywhere, and an empty run. Oops.

Topher says "It's 'ot".

He's not wrong

Should have it all down to 3mm in no time.