lunch rambles

[susie_flo]

I'm impatient for vet news telling me that my two lil fluffbags have recovered from their spaying without too much trauma.  I felt like a total "Suella" and a half this morning as I fought poor, hungry Truffle into the cat-box.  It was made worse by the fact that she was purring ever so trustingly when I picked her up - thinking that she'd escaped big-baddie G with his evil cat box and that I was about to give her some breakfast...  and then I betrayed her with cat-box prison.  I will have to think up some special treat for them this evening. 

Meanwhile Harriet, total brainless ditz that she is, went cheefully into the box with all of the wide-eyed naivety of one who has forgotten what happened the last 3 times she was put in there.   I do hope her flat chest did not cause any complications with the anaesthetic.

In other news, the local tecchie repair spods in Twickers have estimated that they can replace Willow's screen for c £200.  And G has delved into her specs and discovered that she is in no way due for an upgrade - in fact she's on a par with the latest Macbooks.  So if I get her fixed she might do me for another 1 - 2 years.  Fair enough...  no new shiny for me this year.

Well, that's my lunch eaten so I'd better get on...

Hope all is jolly in your world.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Maybe bung in some extra memory while the screen is being done to get over the problems you had with many large files open?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes, I shall ask about that

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Oh, the laptop. Not the cats.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

They have arrived home looking like they have had neat little USB sockets installed in their sides

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

KIT-E-CAM

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh go on then...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanflockhart/5425705539/)

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanflockhart/5426308002/)

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

It was made worse by the fact that she was purring ever so trustingly when I picked her up
You monster.

Jesus, Harriet must be even more dopey than Bonnie. Even she is afeared of The Box.

It's so sweet - it's taken Bonnie four years to finally work out how to get under the net curtains when she jumps onto the windowsill, and now she's doing it all the time. Her new found power!

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good luck to the fuzzbuckets! I doubt they'll feel like much except sleeping tonight and tomorrow. I think the speying process is the worst thing about girl cats. It's not such a big deal when boys get "decaffeinated".

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I think it's more of a big deal for the male servants of the tom cat. It was a big deal for Mr Hoor. He got very upset about Clyde's little op!

[chiller.livejournal.com]

My boys seemed to take the deflation of their pompoms in their stride. Though my reaction to it may have been influenced by the fact that I was rather overjoyed at the prospect of a night's sleep, without two Orientals buggering one another vigorously up and down the hall.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I actually LOL'd there.

Clyde's lack of pompoms hasn't affected his loquaciousness nor his alpha-male aggression. I'm not sure if he's buggering other cats or not. When he sees another cat he makes a noise like he's being buggered.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Oh, they still bang on about everything. It's just the screaming, gay, incestuous sex at 3am has stopped.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I fuckin' hate screaming gay incestuous sex at 3am...

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I just lol'd again

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I lol'd too :-)

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Lets just hope no one uses the last 10 words of that as a serach term...

[chiller.livejournal.com]

If they do, it's probably someone who already knows me and is looking for pictures of Anton and Henrijk. ;)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to report they're back home and well. Apparently Truffle is not looking in a v,. forgiving mood, but Harriet is the same as ever... not sure how to stop them licking their wounds though.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a relief.

I wouldn't worry to much about the wounds. Pretty much every female cat we've had has managed to pick the stitches out within days of getting the op (one on the same day). Fortunately their skin knits very fast.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I don't supose there's a lot you can do to stop them. We'll just have to keep an eye on them.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I did hear of people using tabasco around the wound (obviously keeping it away from the crucial bits) to stop animals pulling their stitches, but that sounds a bit harsh unless it's absolutely necessary!

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I really, really wouldn't do this. A cat will lick the tabasco (which will make it miserable) and spread it into the would (which will certainly be agony, and possibly highly dangerous.

Probably goes without saying. But still.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hee hee - am chuckling at G's reaction...
"Tabasco???? For fucks sake I wouldn't do that to Jermemy Clarkson!"

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

I would. Bring we a freshly shaved and de-pompommed Clarkson and I'll get out my catering pack Tabasco.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

You really can't, short of sticking an Elizabethan collar on them. For the first 24 hours with my girls, I would gently put a cupped hand over the wound when they tried to lick it, and tickle them under their chin to distract them. It helped. After the first 24 hours the skin has started to knit pretty well (cats' skin heals with amazing speed), and you can worry less about it.