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Mrs Pingu

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« Reply #925 on: 20 May, 2018, 04:37:36 pm »
Aw, poor Bella :(
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« Reply #926 on: 20 May, 2018, 04:45:02 pm »
Indeed. The vet to,d my wife that in certain countries it’s not permitted to euthanise cats, no matter how ill. That must be worse.  I wonder if my wife will want another. The house will seem empty, especially as Bella always sat on my wife’s lap every evening whilst we watch TV or read.

ETA Bella is now at peace under the path between the veg beds she so enjoyed using as a loo despite our best endeavours  :)

And the vet gave my wife a small packet of forget-me-not seeds, said not to worry about immediate payment, and also gave us a card of Bella’s paw prints. All credit to Wendover Heights vets and Milly in particular.
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« Reply #927 on: 20 May, 2018, 10:21:58 pm »
RIP Bella!

Our cats  are following David everywhere: in the garden, in the garage, in the summer house, in the house. Sometimes David finds this irritating but I tell him it's because they love him.

David has a little cat
Its coat is white and black
And everywhere that David goes
The cat is on his back.

David has a great big cat
Its fur is coffee brown
We have to give him lots of food
It's amazing what he'll down!

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« Reply #928 on: 20 May, 2018, 10:39:49 pm »
RIP Bella!

Our cats  are following David everywhere: in the garden, in the garage, in the summer house, in the house. Sometimes David finds this irritating but I tell him it's because they love him.

David has a little cat
Its coat is white and black
And everywhere that David goes
The cat is on his back.

David has a great big cat
Its fur is coffee brown
We have to give him lots of food
It's amazing what he'll down!

  ;D:thumbsup:
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

ian

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« Reply #929 on: 21 May, 2018, 10:21:04 am »
My wife found a box of kittens on Saturday (or co-found, they were left outside the church she was playing at). I sort of wish she's bought them home, but then I'm not sure what we'd do with another five cats. But kittens! Black kittens!

Anyway, sense prevailed, I'm not sure how our pair would handle youthful interlopers. I'm not sure how we would, god knows I clean up enough vomit as it is, not to mention the vet bills and cattery fees. Hopefully the Celia Hammond people will find them a good home.

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« Reply #930 on: 21 May, 2018, 11:28:15 am »
She (Bella, cat) is on her way to the emergency vet  :-[. Not sure what’s wrong with her, but she spent half the morning walking round in circles, ignoring her crunchies. Then I put some more wet food down which she ate, and then went upstairs. Two hours later, she was trying to come downstairs but was too uncoordinated, and I found she’d vomited all today’s food up, and, most worryingly, defecated on my wife’s desk - she’s never defecated indoors before and rarely goes on the desk unless my wife is working there and the cats hungry. She is fairly elderly, at least 17... she was a rescue cat so no one really knows.

Edit: Diagnosis is a brain tumour or stroke - in the space of 5 hours she’s gone blind and deaf. She also has a heart condition. She’ll be home a little  later, so we can put her to rest in the garden she loved.  :'(

Sending hugs. It's heartbreaking to let them go. Xx

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« Reply #931 on: 21 May, 2018, 11:41:54 am »
Lounging around after yesterdays adventures. We did the Cropton Loop which as a lovely six mile walk thorough woodland with a pub at each end of the loop (the Cropton one is also a brewery). So we did six miles but Tilly must have done several times that as she was off lead most of the time. She particularly liked finding the rabbit skeleton which she ran off with and ate quite a lot of.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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« Reply #932 on: 21 May, 2018, 12:02:38 pm »
Pretending to be dead on the lawn.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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« Reply #933 on: 02 June, 2018, 07:46:37 pm »
Blackie would appear to have been locked up inadvertently in David's Observatory for 15 hours.
Blackie follows David everywhere. David was observing till 2am. He thought he had checked the observatory was empty before he locked up and went to bed.
We didn't see Blackie for breakfast or all day.
David went out to observe Venus around 19.00 and Blackie popped out.
She seems fine. I think the observatory is clean!

Blackie was very wet and muddy late last night, while Big Tom was dry so she might have used the garden just before she got trapped.

ian

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« Reply #934 on: 05 June, 2018, 09:48:50 am »
After two sequential incarcerations in the cattery, epic amounts of miaowing.

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« Reply #935 on: 05 June, 2018, 12:41:49 pm »
Sleeping: Blackie's on the shower mat in my room.
Big Tom is sprawled on the sofa.
They will wake and eat when David wakes and eats.
That may be some time...

ian

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« Reply #936 on: 05 June, 2018, 02:59:01 pm »
And the first vomit. At least on the hardwood and mostly fur and solid food.

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« Reply #937 on: 09 June, 2018, 06:48:36 pm »
When David did not pay Blackie sufficient attention, she climbed onto the windowsill and mewed straight into his ear...

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« Reply #938 on: 09 June, 2018, 06:53:10 pm »
Wondering why I've brought her to the pub if I'm not going to buy her any crisps.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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« Reply #939 on: 14 June, 2018, 11:33:22 pm »
Google is terribly sad- he doesn't understand why he cannot walk on 4 legs anymore. He ruptured his cruciate ligament last saturday and is now waiting for major surgery on it  :'(

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« Reply #940 on: 15 June, 2018, 12:59:20 am »
Oh no :(

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« Reply #941 on: 15 June, 2018, 07:42:27 am »
Poor chap.

Just hope he doesn't rupture t'other side compensating.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

hellymedic

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« Reply #942 on: 15 June, 2018, 12:55:22 pm »
Get well soon, Google!

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« Reply #943 on: 15 June, 2018, 03:45:32 pm »
Poor Google.
My Westie did his cruciate chasing a squirrel. One operation and a lengthy convalescence later, he was back chasing squirrels.
The removal of the bandages post-op was a harrowing experience for all concerned (dog, vet, me).

My cruciate, OTOH, remains snapped because the surgeon wouldn't operate.
Perhaps I should have spoken to the vet.



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« Reply #944 on: 15 June, 2018, 08:21:18 pm »
[OT] You've got me thinking about my own right PCL now! The knee hyperextends horribly and is painful until clicked by rotation sometimes but I'm not really walking so interference may well not be justified.

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« Reply #945 on: 16 June, 2018, 02:14:53 pm »
There is a disassembled dead mouse on our hall carpet.
David is hysterical.

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« Reply #946 on: 16 June, 2018, 02:17:53 pm »

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« Reply #947 on: 18 June, 2018, 11:47:02 am »
Blackie is asleep on the brown armchair; that's where she likes to sleep.
Big Tom is asleep on the sofa; that's where he likes to sleep.

David is asleep on the big bed upstairs; that's where he usually sleeps.

There is a large, dead, brown rat on the carpet in the hall.

It appears intact.

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« Reply #948 on: 18 June, 2018, 04:17:34 pm »
Google is now scheduled for surgery on Thursday with the top bod (he literally wrote the text book on canine orthopaedics).
I now need to molish him a ramp so he can get in and out of his dog flap- he keeps getting stuck out in the garden  :'(

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« Reply #949 on: 18 June, 2018, 04:40:56 pm »
Paws crossed