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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Sense of adventure CK!My elderly cat had to go to the vet today for dental work. I get the effects of acute anxiety taking her, so my lovely husband took her in, and DD picked her up.
I think I have said before that 2 years ago when I was bringing her home after a check up the basket fell apart in the car park. She ran off, it is 5 miles from home, and it was almost 3 months and a reward before we got her back and I spent many nights up at 2 to 3 am calling for her in country lanes.
Since then I am terrified and she is fastened in to her basket with cable ties and I shake with fear.
She has had 5 teeth out including a canine is happily home with us and has eaten. When the pain relief wears off she will be ferocious. The antibugs are long acting so we do not have to pfaff around with tablets.
I am so fond of this little cat:o.
I have two mutts due to go in for dental work in a couple of weeks - just bracing myself for the bill.
Hope she is feeling better today Spirit, or is she in ferocious mood now:rotfl:I've got a dog and Lir has more than one; any other NPs have one?
Ooo, didn't know you had a dog, zag, what is it?
I have two mini schnauzers, two German Klein Spitz and a bitzer. Did have a papillon until May when he shuffled off to the big kennel in the sky. So as lir says, a pack.....0 -
It's a beautiful morning.
. Proper summer one....
It sounds near the coast: someone near by has ploughed and the air is full of seagulls. How do they know?
The bantams are full of vigour this morning, flitting all over the lawn, little flights of joy around the place. I can quite see why people become enchanted with them.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »It's a beautiful morning.. Proper summer one....
It sounds near the coast: someone near by has ploughed and the air is full of seagulls. How do they know?
The bantams are full of vigour this morning, flitting all over the lawn, little flights of joy around the place. I can quite see why people become enchanted with them.
How do you stop Mr Fox from eating the Bantams? Or are they safe as long as they are free from the cage and can fly/run away as fast as their little legs will carry them?
Presumably, geese are safe from foxes on the basis that nobody messes with a flock of geese? Well, not twice, anyway.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
AWWWWW..... but then .......basket fell apart in the car park. She ran off, it is 5 miles from home, and it was almost 3 months and a reward before we got her back and I spent many nights up at 2 to 3 am calling for her in country lanes.
LOL - very MSE....she is fastened in to her basket with cable ties .... 0 -
Twitter? The clue's in the logo.lostinrates wrote: »... the air is full of seagulls. How do they know? 0 -
I've got a dog and Lir has more than one; any other NPs have one?
None of our own, but active shares in my parents' border collies, Dylan and Doglet.
We have a cat, too, called Yossie, who lives with my parents ATM. Dad calls him Chairman Miouw, or Pol Puss, because of his impact on local rodents.
Best of luck to your elderly puss, Spirit, and swift recovery....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
How do you stop Mr Fox from eating the Bantams? Or are they safe as long as they are free from the cage and can fly/run away as fast as their little legs will carry them?
Presumably, geese are safe from foxes on the basis that nobody messes with a flock of geese? Well, not twice, anyway.
The bantams are right next to the house. You can see the edge of the window in the snap below...
Its not fool proof, but it minimises risk. They are only let out at about six and put in again at about eight thirty. So e of them flyi surprisingly well.
If a fox came in though, then, we'd lose some. The fox would gain some. Its a tough life!
Foxes can and will take geese. Geese are tough, but a hungry and desperate fox is tougher, and contrary to expectation, will setle for one of anything if it abates the hunger. In fact, we find that more common, tbh.0 -
Presumably, geese are safe from foxes on the basis that nobody messes with a flock of geese? Well, not twice, anyway.
I certainly wouldn't want to be goosed.neverdespairgirl wrote: »Best of luck to your elderly puss, Spirit, and swift recovery.
That was just uncalled for on the NP thread.I think....0 -
I've got a dog and Lir has more than one; any other NPs have one?
I haven't but would have loved one. We made the decision pre children that to get a dog would not have been very fair on the animal because of the long hours we both worked, so we got a cat. When she died, we already had children and decided it would be safer not to get a dog (for the dog and the children!) as the boys were small and rather boisterous, so we got another cat.
When that cat died, we had already got a younger cat and I still didn't trust a dog with the boys/our lifestyle was still not compatible with a dog.
I fully intend to get a dog though when Jasper goes...the kids will hopefully be all grown up by then!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
CKhalvashi wrote: »
In Tuapse for diesel (we're on the way to Yalta,and want to get there before afternoon 'rush hour')
That is a car I wouldn't want to drive this far!
CK
My parents are always going on about driving their old mini down from the middle of the UK to the southern Greece, Yugoslavia stuff like that in the 60s. Sounds like hell to me, it was bad enough driving a new mini to Scotland - although the roads in 1960s Albania were probably better maintained than the roads in Scotland.0
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