Random thoughts

[reno cool]

transfusions? how they harvest kitty blood?

 

[Badnina]

I don't know Reno. And am fairly certain I don't want to.

 

[MrX]

transfusions? how they harvest kitty blood?

I know this one. They have donor cats.

http://www.vrcc.com/content/meet-our-donor-cats

 

[Archie]

I know that's a hard to have to deal with......

hope it goes well

 

[rito]

Mr X !

 

[Archie]

I know this one. They have donor cats.

http://www.vrcc.com/content/meet-our-donor-cats

oh wow

 

[MrX]

Durito! Hi.

 

[Tron]

I know this one. They have donor cats.

http://www.vrcc.com/content/meet-our-donor-cats

Guy is becoming a spot poster to be reckoned with. Reminds me of a young Vagabond.

 

[Mudcat]

It's simple. The moral of your story is that I needed it. I noticed two days ago that my cat of 14 years, Sadie, was limping and not putting weight on her front left paw. Yesterday when I got home from work she was perched between the windon sill and the table thingy that the tv sits on. She was there for hours before I made her come out. So today I took her to the vet to have her paw looked. Turns out her leg is broken and there is nerve damage to the extent that most viable option would be amputation. Her kidneys are also not functioning properly and she is dehydrated and anemic. She is took weak to undergo any surgery on her leg so that is off the table. Could need a blood transfusion. More than likely I will have to make the decision tomorrow about what to put her through. I already know I would not subject her to an amputation and/or blood transfusion which means more than likely my beloved Sadiebelle isn't coming home ever again. And my heart is so broken. But I did need this Muddy. Thank you.

That's similar to what happened with my Muddy. Health stuff just kept getting more complicated and piling on. I kept doing more and more treatments and procedures even though I basically knew it was in vain. In retrospect, I think I would have let things end sooner and more peacefully. But it's hard when you are going through it.

It really is heartbreaking.

 

[senco78]

sad storys in here...:(

my old bosses dog got the mange.
he shot it in the head to put it out its misery.
painless death

 

[Bread]

Guy is becoming a spot poster to be reckoned with. Reminds me of a young Vagabond.

On fire, this guy.


Muddy why you never get another kitty again? Muddy guys like us need to just stick to robot cats for when the tough times inevitably arrive.

Nina...wishing you well on this very tough day for you, kiddo

 

[Mudcat]

Probably the reason I don't get another cat is because whenever I think of having a cat my mind goes straight to multiple trips to the vet every week and big bills and fighting to stuff pills down her throat and watching her struggle to poop and then barfing on the floor and then cleaning up barf - and on and on.

That was my original point. I don't think of all the good stuff. I mean, I can force myself to but it is not what my brain is clinging on to whether I like it or not.

 

[CaliGirlNY]

any of you heard of or participate in planking?

 

[Jello]

You thinking of getting into it Cali?

 

[CaliGirlNY]

my brother in laws are obsessed. how did this start?

 

[Jello]

I have no idea. Dwight Howard is recently into it.

 

[Mudcat]

I'm not clear what this means. Planking is a well known exercise which I and many others have done for decades.

Is there some special characteristic of this new fad that differentiates it from planking which people have been doing for ages?

 

[Matty]

Modern-day version involves lying horizontally in weird ways/locations, most of the time in public places. For no reason at all.