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Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2025 1:16 pm**

Pat, sorry to hear about Gilmore. We do grow attached to our pets. And yes, Schottky does look exactly like Harley.

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2025 2:26 pm**

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 2:05 am
Sadly I had to send Gilmore across the bridge in early June - he'd started losing weight back last fall, and after a bunch of trips to the vet was eventually diagnosed with a likely case of lymphoma - definitely hurt to send him on his way, but he was jaundiced and down to under six pounds and in the last few day was barely eating. He'd only just turned ten weeks before.
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That was an awful drive to make, and I miss him bigtime!

Sorry to learn about your loss, Pat. They'll leaving us way to soon but watching all those pictures of Gilmore I'm convinced he was a really happy cat.

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2025 3:14 pm**

Thanks, guys. And yes, Gilmore was a very happy cat, curious and always into everything. Knew he was a handsome boy and a great poser for pictures as well. And absolutely, they always leave us too soon.

-Pat

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2025 6:45 pm**

Human, this box is unacceptable. It has holes in it.

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:03 pm**

But it will do for the next few seconds until you provide a proper box. One that's:

Freshly arrived
Still got toys in it
Cardboard, with a lid
Fractionally too small

Posted: **Mon Dec 01, 2025 3:27 pm**

mnem
where's muh damned coffee...?

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:01 pm**

"I love the smell of puked up hairball in the morning".

Of course it's on the carpet and not the kitchen floor. And Blondie wouldn't touch it. Said it was my cat, my job.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:28 am**

Widlar got snipped yesterday. After about the sixth time I put the cone back on him, I gave up and let him be. He’s pretty much bounced back entirely, though I’m still giving him the pain meds.

-Pat

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:45 am**

I'm amazed you were able to snap a picture of Widlar near a cat box; ours collide in the cat flap as they desperately run away the moment the box comes out. In fact, we've given up on taking Binx to the vet as the trauma required to get her in a cat box is too much for her, and I get seriously clawed. Many years ago, my torty Homebrew was knocked over by a car, breaking her hind leg. The vet put a pin down the bone and instructed me to keep her in a tea chest to restrict her movement and help healing. Do vets have any idea of what a cat thinks of being in a 2ft square box unable to see anything but the ceiling? After a night where she needed constant reassurance, (and repeated scrambling trying to get out) I gave up and put her in her usual place where she settled down to sleep. And I got some sleep, too. She was a bit wonky after that, but it didn't stop her bringing in live mice to show me. She'd let them run around a bit, and once I'd praised her, catch them and eat them. And wasn't sick afterwards.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 5:56 pm**

Under normal conditions, I am mostly a dog person, by character. When I'm ill, however, I instantly become a cat person

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:02 pm**

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:28 am Widlar got snipped yesterday. After about the sixth time I put the cone back on him, I gave up and let him be. He’s pretty much bounced back entirely, though I’m still giving him the pain meds.

-Pat

Gee, when I got Harley snipped there was no cone and no pain meds. The vet said just to keep an eye on him and it's OK if he wants to lick himself in that area. When I got him home he was a bit wobbly in the legs and believe it or not he wanted to eat. So I fed him and later he zonked out. Next day he was fine and running around.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:04 pm**

EC8010 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:45 am I'm amazed you were able to snap a picture of Widlar near a cat box; ours collide in the cat flap as they desperately run away the moment the box comes out.

Daughter's dog's record at the vets has an annotation; "MUST be sedated". When properly sedated his long tongue flops out the side of his mouth.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:08 pm**

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 5:56 pm Under normal conditions, I am mostly a dog person, by character. When I'm ill, however, I instantly become a cat person

Daughter left her "high energy" dog for me to look after while she was abroad on holiday.

She also left covid

Against all reasonable expectations, the dog recognised my plight and was content for me to lie in bed, and to be satisfied with short slow walks down the road.

Sharp as a tack, that one.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:57 pm**

EC8010 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:45 am I'm amazed you were able to snap a picture of Widlar near a cat box; ours collide in the cat flap as they desperately run away the moment the box comes out. In fact, we've given up on taking Binx to the vet as the trauma required to get her in a cat box is too much for her, and I get seriously clawed. Many years ago, my torty Homebrew was knocked over by a car, breaking her hind leg. The vet put a pin down the bone and instructed me to keep her in a tea chest to restrict her movement and help healing. Do vets have any idea of what a cat thinks of being in a 2ft square box unable to see anything but the ceiling? After a night where she needed constant reassurance, (and repeated scrambling trying to get out) I gave up and put her in her usual place where she settled down to sleep. And I got some sleep, too. She was a bit wonky after that, but it didn't stop her bringing in live mice to show me. She'd let them run around a bit, and once I'd praised her, catch them and eat them. And wasn't sick afterwards.

Strangely enough, none of them have any real fear of the carriers. I typically put it out the night before for them to explore, and have occasionally had to extract the wrong cat from the carrier in order to put the correct one inside.

I can well imagine that being cooped up against her will (of course if THEY want to get inside, they'll happily try to squeeze into a box half their size), so letting her settle was obviously the best course.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:00 pm**

MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:02 pm Gee, when I got Harley snipped there was no cone and no pain meds. The vet said just to keep an eye on him and it's OK if he wants to lick himself in that area. When I got him home he was a bit wobbly in the legs and believe it or not he wanted to eat. So I fed him and later he zonked out. Next day he was fine and running around.

I think they're just being overly cautious - he certainly doesn't seem to be bothered and is running around like his normal self. Schottky will be going in a few weeks.

Posted: **Fri Dec 05, 2025 12:10 pm**

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:00 pm
MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:02 pm Gee, when I got Harley snipped there was no cone and no pain meds. The vet said just to keep an eye on him and it's OK if he wants to lick himself in that area. When I got him home he was a bit wobbly in the legs and believe it or not he wanted to eat. So I fed him and later he zonked out. Next day he was fine and running around.
I think they're just being overly cautious - he certainly doesn't seem to be bothered and is running around like his normal self. Schottky will be going in a few weeks.

at least you didn't name any of them schrodinger. every dumb ass college kid with a cat names it schrodinger. our torty was named Oliver Heaviside. but swmbo objected, snuck up to the vet, and changed her records to read Olivia. she is our smartest cat and solves problems that leaves the other cat (Duffy) just staring and crying. sometimes I think she understands calculus.

Posted: **Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:38 pm**

Our cat Heidi (aka Mrs Gutbucket) should have been named Olivia Heaviside because her stomach wobbles as she waddles. I am fairly certain she hasn't a clue about "j" notation, although she can open a door from either side. Many years ago, I had a cat named "Geronimo", a mackerel tabby who was very bright; he understood the difference between "I'm just going out, won't be long," and, "See you later". For the former, he would sit on the doorstep mat awaiting my return, for the latter he would go off and do catty things.

Posted: **Fri Dec 05, 2025 5:36 pm**

nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 12:10 pm at least you didn't name any of them schrodinger. every dumb ass college kid with a cat names it schrodinger. our torty was named Oliver Heaviside. but swmbo objected, snuck up to the vet, and changed her records to read Olivia. she is our smartest cat and solves problems that leaves the other cat (Duffy) just staring and crying. sometimes I think she understands calculus.

I'd originally intended to name Widlar Fessenden, but a friend said she'd never in a million years be able to remember that, so I went with Widlar, which was the alternate I'd thought of. Now she gripes because her phone keeps changing it to 'wilder' when she's texting about him.

-Pat

Posted: **Fri Dec 05, 2025 6:24 pm**

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 5:36 pm Now she gripes because her phone keeps changing it to 'wilder' when she's texting about him.

Is that actually inappropriate? This is a cat, after all.

Could she add widlar to the computer's dictionary.

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