Is HRH Kate still eating like crazy? I need a hint to make more guesses. 🙂
She is indeed eating very well still. She gets a can of cat food in the morning and another in the evening, and has dry food available to her at all times. As of yesterday, she’s still eating both cans of food, and snacking on the dry food in between. Her appetite hasn’t dropped off at all – yet!
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Robyn, I’m wondering how you’re giving the Liqui-Tinic to Spanky. I ordered some for my 20 year old cat and put a dropper full on his wet food and he snubbed it. In fact, he moved to the bowl next to his that didn’t have the stuff added to it. It’s got animal digest in it, so it should taste good to him. Do you have any suggestions?
Fred squirts the Liqui-Tinic directly in Spanky’s mouth using an oral syringe. Spanky doesn’t love it, but he tolerates it well enough. If your cat is too freaked out by that (or fights too much), you might want to try “hiding” the Liqui-Tinic in the canned food – put half the serving on the plate/bowl, put the Liqui-Tinic on that, and then cover it with the rest of the food. (Might not work, but could be worth the try!)
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Google Reader is going away July 1st. Is there another reader that is just as good? What do you use??
I WAS using Google Reader until I read on Twitter that it was going away. Whereupon I got frantic (even though, y’know, July 1st is a long time away), tried to register for NewsBlur, finally gave up, and gave Feedly a try. Feedly is okay (and they promise that when Google Reader shuts down, there’ll be a pain-free transition), so I’ll probably stick with it, at least for the time being.
I found this post at LifeHacker to be helpful.
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Any idea yet of what breed Arnold is?
I’m pretty certain s/he’s a Black Cochin.
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I’ll try to keep my backstory short and to the point, but I’m on drugs again*, so who knows.
SO. I was strolling along Memory Lane, laughing myself into a coughing fit over Emmy’s potty math about a year ago, then cruised your “all former fosters” page. I squee’d again at several of the littles, patted myself on the back for having suggested the Firefly naming theme for Kara’s babies, then wandered away to some other part of the web (probably the part that nobody else ever admits to going to). Because my brain is in top form these days, about two minutes later I realized I couldn’t remember what you’d named Kara’s babies. Well, not ALL the names – I remembered three, but not the fourth. Then I realized that the only other Firefly name I could remember at ALL was Mal, and I knew that hadn’t been one of the names.
I knew if I went back to their page I’d get sucked into the Inescapable Vortex of Cute (again) so I decided instead to see if Google would give me the rest of the names, without me having to click through anywhere, if I typed in the ones I knew. So I googled “river kaylee zoe” – and would you believe that, out of all the Firefly fandom out there, out of all the jabillions of sites** dedicated to Firefly, when you type “river kaylee zoe” into Google, the THIRD response you get is this very website here?
That’s pretty impressive, if you ask me.***
*For bronchitis! What were YOU thinking?!
**Okay, well, fourteen at least.
***Which you didn’t, but when has that ever stopped me from sharing my thoughts in their horrifying entirety?
One day, no matter WHAT you Google, Love & Hisses will be the first 10 results. It’s part of my plan to take over the internet.
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Saw this and thought of you (or at least Kate)
SO cute!
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I haven’t been reading here long, but the pictures and videos sometimes remind me of Maru, the Japanese cat. Have you seen the YouTube videos? One of my favorites is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwntRpLobU .
Of course, I love Maru! I’m pretty sure that if you fail to love Maru, they kick you off the internet.
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Murkin get groomed by kittens.
I love Murkin!
Another long-suffering dog who puts up with kittens and their antics? Charlie. I lubs him. (This is probably my favorite Charlie post. He sure is a patient guy!)
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Cat lovers, you MUST read this.
Warning: you’ll need your tissues for this one!
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Geez. Are my cats the only ones that have no use for Da Bird? Big cat runs and hides when he sees it and the kitten will watch it, but won’t move a muscle to get it. You know who uses it daily? The dog. In fact, we’ve had to hide it from the dog because he goes INSANE when he sees it. He’s half Shiba Inu, which are bird dogs, and I’ve seen him snatch a bird out of the air from our yard, so it sort of makes sense, but I swear I bought that thing for the cats!
After I read this comment, I got out Da Bird to see if Molly would go after it. If I flew the feathers so close that they touched her, she’d snap at it, but for the most part she was not impressed. I wonder what George and Gracie would do!
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My parents (and Molly!) left yesterday morning, headed back to SC. It was a lot of fun having them here. Well, for the humans it was – the cats never really did warm up to Molly.
Remember those stuffed long-legged Cheetahs I bought at Petsmart around Christmas? I gave one to Molly. She grabbed it and shook it all over the place. I’m thinking maybe she has some terrier in her.
My father tied it around Molly’s neck. Molly was not impressed.
It cracked me up every time Molly lay like this. Shih-Tzu rug, anyone?
Come back soon, Molly (and Mom and Dad!)
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“That’s right, rub the belly.”
Pretty girl.
“Stop staring at my belly. It makes me self-conscious.”
Kate enjoys a good chin rub.
Another attempt to show how big and round her belly has gotten.
So, her appetite is still going strong. Fred thinks she’s gotten friendlier, but she’s always been friendlier toward me than she is toward him (she sees me more often, so I think it makes sense). Fred claimed that he can tell that her milk sacs around the nipples closest to her back legs are starting to fill up. I’ve felt around them, but I don’t feel anything so it could be wishful thinking on his part.
I can assure you that I’ve definitely felt the babies moving. In fact, they were so active on Tuesday that I could see them moving, and I was just about positive that Wednesday morning would bring us babies. But no luck. SIGH.
(I tried to make a video of the moving belly, but the camera was being difficult.)
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“Okay, so, like… I DID stay behind the freezer in the laundry room the entire time Molly was here.”
“But, you know, those freezers are big and wily. They can go rogue at any moment.”
“SOMEONE had to keep an eye on it!”
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Previously
2012: “Am sleepin’. You go ‘way.”
2011: Corbie’s afraid you might have forgotten how beautiful he is.
2010: “GIVE TO ME THE PREGNANT CAT!”
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.