What a week...

[rosetta]

Hey all,

Can't believe I'm starting a thread in here. ;)

Just wanted all you guys to know what a week and a half I've had. Just a few days after I came back from Vancouver, my big baby cat Templeton passed away. I know a few of you guys from Xanga probably seen a picture of him, not sure what was wrong with him, Vet said it's probably something he ate while we were away. And we don't have any of the tainted animal food that was pulled from the shelves this winter. I do miss the fat little monster, he was terrible to all our other cats, but he was our sweetie as he reigned supreme here. And just a few days after this happened, we got a new edition to our inside family. We found a 2 week old kitten out by the barn crying away, we waited to see if it's mom would get him and she was a no show. So, for just a little over a week, we've been feeding this little hungry monster with an eye dropper every few hours and now he's graduated to a bottle the other day. So, my posting has been extremely sporatic lately. We're not sure if we'll keep her, though we named her Mystique, but it's getting harder to keep the idea of letting her go to a new family... Anyways, this has been my week or so.

How are things with you guys? Haven't been able to keep up with the many threads that move in this forum. :)

[rappites]

Sorry to hear about your cat. Wonder what he ate?



Well, our week as been a little rough too. Our two year old the other night was breathing really hard. Having troubles getting his breath. I took him to the doctor the next day. He gave him a breathing treatment in the office and sent me home with steriods and a nebulizer for more home breathing treatments. The doctor is not calling it Asthma just yet. Since this is his first attack. He had no fever and he was breathing like 50 times per minute. Which really fast.

The treatments are going good. I have to keep him as non-active as I can for a few days to give his lungs a chance to heal.

I hope he does not have asthma. But, it does run in his fathers family.

[chemikillgod]

Eight years ago, when I was still living with my parents, about to go to college, my little sister found a little kitten who had been abandoned by her mother. It was seriously a pathetic furry thing. My sister brought the month old kitten from the rain. My parents HATED cats mostly because they never had a good experience with them growing up but my sister convinced them somehow, through perseverance and being cute, that it would be okay. Now, I think our parents love the cat more than us. They dote on her and the cat sleeps in my parents' bed every night. :)

[neglet]

I always say to people who say they don't like cats, "You haven't met the right cat yet." Sorry to hear about your cat, Rose--it's always hard to lose a friend. I've also fostered kittens, and it is hard to send them away ... with the three I fostered, I ended up keeping one. She was too cranky to get adopted by anyone else.

Rapps, hope the little guy feels better soon and that it was just a temporary infection or something. Asthma sucks, and I have a mild case.

Now I have to leave to volunteer at the animal shelter. There are kitties that need petting!

[kah]

I hope it's not asthma, rapps.

Rose- I'm so sorry about your cat. :( Seems like amazing timing to be finding an orphan, though. :Dunno: Who knows why things work out the way they do.

[spammityspam]

Aww. I'm sorry about your cat. At least you still have the others, though, and maybe a new one. My mom's still so shaken up about our last cat's death that she hasn't gotten a new one... our last cat died when I was 12.

Everyone I talk to has had a bad week. The worst that's really happened to me have been some persistent nightmares and yesterday I had to walk seven blocks in the really scary driving Austin rain and then take an ecology test still soaked to the skin. But, of course, there's always next week!

[hawklord]

We found a 2 week old kitten out by the barn crying away...
There does seem to be an element of yin and yang about that feline week...

I live in a house with 3 rescues/homeless/give-aways and 2 others and one has recently developed a habit of hurtling into my room like a black thunderbolt and throwing himself onto my lap as I'm sitting at the computer. There are times when I'm surfing when this is not what I'm looking for :eek:

* hawklord firmly shuts his room door *