Month: January 2023
The cats are on a downward trend
I don’t think that 2023 will be a good year for the cats. Tolstoy is 16, deaf as a post, isn’t as agile on his feet and keeps missing jumps on things, sometimes shits randomly on soft furnishings, and showing signs of dementia (Crap, there’s a dog here! Runs away. 2 minutes later, saunters back, crap, there’s a dog here! Repeat indefinitely). Reenpig is 15, and… signs are not positive from her last vet visit. Because she’s part of our defective pet collection, her test results make no sense whatsoever and the vet is honestly baffled. He’s having to do litterature searches because he doesn’t understand what the tests are saying vs the actual state of the cat. She’s had a constant nosebleed for over two weeks. She’s sneezing and sniffling blood, but at the same time is eating, drinking, demanding fuss. But her bloods shows she’s severely anemic, has almost no platelets, zero coagulation. On paper, she should be bleeding out of every orifice. Except she’s not. And so, probably more tests… We’ll always do what’s best for her, but that might involve hard decisions, sooner than later. This is always the shit part of responsible pet ownership.
Not-my-dog meets my-dog
Their 2nd meeting went already much better than the 1st one.
Dealing with the cold
New experiences
Byron has been meeting other dogs, met the Tartine (bakery) croissant lady, has gone to Qualipet, has been getting crate-trained by Reenpig, is totally obsessed by Tolstoy, is discovering the joys of eating grass and flower buds, and has had his first stick. Making excellent puppy progress. He’s charmed the socks off everyone he’s met. We’re getting there house training him. He’s pretty consistent for wees, but still has the occasional 💩 incidents if we’re not really paying close attention.
His personality is starting to show. If things carry on, he’s going to be a giant cuddle bug goofball.
Meet Byron
So far, we have achieved weeage, poopage, drinkage and cat-butt sniffage. All very promising signs.
Also, this proves that he’s one of our pets.