it's terrible how entertaining it is seeing our cats KILL other creatures. but they're just so cute when they hit things with their fuzzy little paws! poor mothie. 
good luck at the vet!
good luck at the vet!
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thanks! it's mostly for bloodwork for her thyroid level. she's on methimazole (which is a very affordable alternative to that isotope implant--$34 a month vs. $1300, plus your cat is radioactive for a couple of weeks after it comes home so they tell you "not to get near it" LOLOLOL. wtf? yeah that wouldn't work in this house.) but she hasn't lost anymore weight, she plays, eats, poops, kicks butt when she absolutely has to .
yeah, i haven't seen much killing. just moths haha. and a ladybug that got in once. may is miller moth season for us.
.yeah, i haven't seen much killing. just moths haha. and a ladybug that got in once. may is miller moth season for us.
If she's radio active, then possibly this is what Houdini detects. (Unless she glows and you can't see this but he can. )
About the insects. A few days ago, Missy started hacking as though she was going to be sick. She did cough up a little froth, but even then she stopped and started licking her lips and seemingly trying to swallow. Then she was OK. My guess is that she'd got herself a spider, swallowed it and had it come to in her gullet and tried to climb out.
I one time read a piece by a naturalist teacher who was with a bunch of kids. He claimed he swallowed this bug to show them it wasn't harmful and it got stuck and he felt it moving around. He had to swallow some bread to get it to go down.
)About the insects. A few days ago, Missy started hacking as though she was going to be sick. She did cough up a little froth, but even then she stopped and started licking her lips and seemingly trying to swallow. Then she was OK. My guess is that she'd got herself a spider, swallowed it and had it come to in her gullet and tried to climb out.
I one time read a piece by a naturalist teacher who was with a bunch of kids. He claimed he swallowed this bug to show them it wasn't harmful and it got stuck and he felt it moving around. He had to swallow some bread to get it to go down.
no, she isn't radioactive. that's if i take her to monument to get a radioactive implant--it's called technetium Hyperthyroidism in catsIf she's radio active, then possibly this is what Houdini detects. (Unless she glows and you can't see this but he can.
About the insects. A few days ago, Missy started hacking as though she was going to be sick. She did cough up a little froth, but even then she stopped and started licking her lips and seemingly trying to swallow. Then she was OK. My guess is that she'd got herself a spider, swallowed it and had it come to in her gullet and tried to climb out.
I one time read a piece by a naturalist teacher who was with a bunch of kids. He claimed he swallowed this bug to show them it wasn't harmful and it got stuck and he felt it moving around. He had to swallow some bread to get it to go down.
you have three options: the implant ($1300), surgical removal of the thyroid gland (since this is an older cat disease mostly, surgery is risky for older animals) or what i use: transdermal methimazole gel. you have to use rubber gloves because it goes through the skin, and you just put a tiny amt. inside their ears (not way down, this is the only place there isn't hair) twice a day. it comes in measured syringes, you just squirt it on your finger. she wasn't wild about it at first but she really doesn't care now because it means a "bite" (treat).
no, housplitpersonalitypsychoini just acts hostile when she comes home from the vet. baci doesn't care, coda never cared, it's just knucklehead. (oh, and houdini is truly strange. it has a strong odor, like a marker or weak nail pollish remover--when i put it on her, he comes up to sniff the glove and he tries to lick it. he dug one out of the trash so i have to throw them in a special box he can't get into. it's a dumb little lick too, he closes his eyes and sticks his tongue out and wiggles it really fast LOL. i have a feeling it doesn't taste all that good and i don't know why he wants it. he also tries to lick it out of her ears so i have to hold on to her or at least watch her for awhile after i do it so it has time to dry and sink in. i still don't want him licking it though.)
your kitty ate a spider. ick!
AND: another oh em gee moment: i was doing poo patrol and picking up relatively large objects off the carpet, and that wasn't a miller moth. it was a yellowjacket (hornet)!!!! no wonder he was whacking it to death! he saved me hahahaha.
if i had to repeat all the stupid things i did to illustrate a point to kids over a course of 16 years, everyone would just think i'm a complete imbecile. i am kind of a jack ash, i just don't care. i'll make a fool out of myself, but not really on purpose. it was just things that went wrong and you have to improvise and act like, "i meant to throw a cup of water in my own face," or make a really fancy globe with papier mache and glitter and then put the poles on the wrong ends lol. i never ate a bug, but another teacher went to australia and brought back a bunch of vegemite. they were out in the yard making digeridoos and she put it on saltines and handed it out. there was a huge glob on mine and i just stuck it in my mouth without thinking and then i spit it on the ground like, "PTOO!! UGH! WTH??" so of course all the kids are laughing and no one else would eat it and the teacher was like, "oh THANK YOU for doing that."
jacq and jim: yeah, i've considered buying marmite because it has a lot of b vitamins. i have a feeling it's palatable spread thinly. annie just, i don't know. she was a really nice person, just a little out of touch sometimes? i mean seriously, it was globbed on those crackers like it was guacamole lol. just imagine trying to pay attention to about 70 kids (2 classes), outside, and absent-mindedly cramming it in your mouth while someone's asking you a question (like, "did you see crocodile dundee?" LOL fortunately 12-year-olds ask very easy questions most of the time) and answering someone else. just not exactly the surprise to be sprung on someone. you know those people they say wouldn't say **** if they had a mouthful of it? well, i'm the opposite of that kind of person.
maggie, i either am a character or i have a cast-iron one lmao. i found out that doing something ridiculous in front of a whole lot of people is wicked easy after the first time you do it because no one ever remembers. plus i'm a ham and you get big laughs well, unless you set the building on fire or someone inadvertantly becomes naked. my motto is, "nobody bled and nobody died, it's not all that big of a tragedy."
and, "there's no need to take life so seriously. you'll never get out of it alive."
maggie, i either am a character or i have a cast-iron one lmao. i found out that doing something ridiculous in front of a whole lot of people is wicked easy after the first time you do it because no one ever remembers. plus i'm a ham and you get big laughs
well, unless you set the building on fire or someone inadvertantly becomes naked. my motto is, "nobody bled and nobody died, it's not all that big of a tragedy."and, "there's no need to take life so seriously. you'll never get out of it alive."
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