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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, love the cat stuff...
is cold, and winter, thus: my cat warmers are well at work...
:)
AND, dear bobby bob, has been gone a long long time, and i miss
him... here he is... he warmed, everything, :))
including a doll bed, :)
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Feb 11, 2017 - 11:30pm PT
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 16, 2017 - 01:15pm PT
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DMT! That's great natural cat camouflage & the cat knows it.
Just like Harley (the cat) loves his field of ricegrass when it dries out.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 16, 2017 - 01:41pm PT
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yep.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Feb 16, 2017 - 05:14pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 18, 2017 - 12:01am PT
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 30, 2017 - 05:49pm PT
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Newport Oregon Police Department
April 25 at 11:00am ·
Reports of an armed cat this morning were unfounded. The feline was contacted by our canine and was determined to be in possession of a non-lethal branch. The cat was given a verbal warning for posing with what could be mistaken as an assault rifle while wearing poor camouflage attire.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Apr 30, 2017 - 06:22pm PT
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Well my old guy Rolo is not doing very well.
His kidneys are failing, he is all bones, and he pees outside the litter box on a pile of pads every time he goes to the bathroom (2/3 times a day if not more).
He is also diabetic and the special kidney diet my vet gave him makes his blood sugar go wild. He also doesn't eat the special kidney food, so I've switched to whatever he will eat and now his blood sugar is more or less controllable. The vet tech was trying to make me feel bad for feeding him something else so I told her "look, he's going to starve himself to death before his kidneys kill him".
Yesterday I discovered a weird abscess under his tail. It looks like a giant pimple and when I squeezed it a bit, pus came out. He was not happy. So I am putting hot compresses on it every now and then.
He will be or is 16 years old. He's had a ton of issues throughout his life, but he's still here. Don't want to bring him to the vet but I think the abscess needs to be looked at plus now he's making a wheezy sound when he purrs.
Oliver the Siamese and Rolo Podmarsh aka Tiggy Cat
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 30, 2017 - 06:34pm PT
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ShawnInPaso
climber
Paso Robles, CA
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Apr 30, 2017 - 11:17pm PT
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Thanks Tami, DMT and Mike.
Have an appointment tomorrow, we shall see what happens...
This is the first time I've ever had to do this, so I'm really having a hard time. I think I'm too sensitive to deal with this sort of thing and I feel guilty like I haven't done enough and it's my fault, etc. It really sucks.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Being there for Rolo at the end, and, yes, even bringing about that end, is the price you pay for having him there with you through all those years.
The price we all pay for the joy our cats and dogs bring us. The lady below died in my arms. Easy for her, and terribly hard for me. I cried then, and I am crying now thinking about it. But we had done everything we could for her, and an end to her suffering was the only responsible choice.
But... So hard. So hard.
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Roxy had a skin condition under the chin. The vet gave her a shot and gave me some cream to apply to the site a few times a day. She didn't request to have a collar put on Roxy, and I didn't want to because none of them looked comfortable. But I didn't want her to lick the site all the time. So, coffee filter cones came to rescue. They are very effective when they lasted, and when they fell off, I just put a new one on.
I think Roxy looks really cute in it.
It's so comfortable that she sleeps in it.
Apparently, it does not affect her self-esteem either.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Good ol Rolo. He is a compliant patient. Never complains when we prick his ear to test his blood sugar, or when we inject him with insulin. In spite of all this he seems happy and not in much discomfort.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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hey Ghost - thanks for sharing that. I got all teary eyed reading it. What a pretty girl. Someone on a different forum said something that really resonated with me. They wrote how they made the decision to let their cat die with dignity. And to end suffering is doing just that. So I will let Rolo pass on with dignity and not keep him around for my own selfish needs :(
I lost it earlier this week. Was kind of a mess, crying and stuff. I really thought that was it for Rolo. Went to the vet's Tuesday and I was sobbing in a corner while waiting to be seen. Having another lady crying in one of the examination rooms did not help.
So in the end, he isn't doing too bad. The abscess is a bite (she is 99% sure of it) so that means Rolo's dickhead brother has been bullying him. She could not hear anything abnormal in his chest, so the weird wheezy-purr is still unexplained. I've taken videos and emailed to my vet for analysis.
He weighs 8-8.1 lbs (far cry from the 21 lbs when I adopted him 12 years ago!!!!!) which is a little higher than when we last saw her in April, so that is good.
He is doing OK all things considered. Rolo lives to see another day.
Mei: Pretty torty. They're such little bitches! I have one at my office - Olive - and she's as nasty now as she was 13 years ago when we found her in out parking lot.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 12, 2017 - 09:40am PT
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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May 12, 2017 - 12:57pm PT
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Watch out Marlow, he looks like he is likely to kill you while you sleep for doing that to him.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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May 12, 2017 - 07:03pm PT
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Getting crushed
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