A few days ago I noticed Harri doing some coughing. She stopped after a minute or so and it didn't repeat. Yesterday she had another coughing fit, and that concerned me. She has also been a little bit listless and lethargic. When I got back from my doctor appointment this afternoon I saw that Harri...

Harriet Mahoney is currently at: VCA All Care Animal Referral Centre 18440 Amistad St Fountain Valley California 92708 Their phone number is 714 963 0909 Yowie

On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 6:22:48 PM UTC-5, Dan Mahoney wrote: Kitties, I am sad to announce that the sweetest little kitty I have ever known, Harri Roadcat, passed away this afternoon. She had been battling kidney failure for a couple of months, and today she finally reached the point that...

Sorry to keep everybody waiting, but we just got home. We spent several hours at the specialist, and just now got home (8 PM). The specialist determined that Harri had a lot of fluid in her chest. He drained it, finding 103 ml of liquid (quite a lot to be inside a little kitten's chest). The...

The vet got the lab results back on the fluid he drained from Harri's chest. It does NOT indicate rat poison as he first thought, rather it indicates a massive infection. Harri is back on massive antobiotics and the vet will be operating this afternoon to implant chest tubes. Her chest will have to...

Harri Roadcat update... Please forgive me if I post information I've posted before, as I don't remember exactly how much I've mentioned before. On our latest vet visit (Sunday evening) we learned that Harri's anemia is a little worse than it had been before. Since I had felt a lump in her abdomen...

Harri's chest tubes are still draining a lot of liquid, so she's not ready to come yet yet. She'll be at the vet at least through the weekend. They haven't yet identified the microorganism causing the infection, but the culture is growing so they should be able to make that identification...

I have been fascinated by Harri's vocalizations since she has been with me. Just like Tabitha and Samuel, most of her sounds are squeaks and "mrrrp"s. She does occasionally let out with a standard meow, but they are fairly unpredictable as to when they'll show up. She does have one very definite...

Harri and I are on a slow run. We picked up a load Monday afternoon that delivers 2 days later, but is only a 700 mile run. That means a lot of down time for us. I don't actually mind this time, since it's been allowing me to catch up on my sleep. Monday morning we had to run from south of Fresno...

Harri has a new way of catching my attention (as if she needed another). She will walk up in front of me and sit facing me. She then starts to tilt her head to one side. The head a little further, then a little further, then the whole is leaning to the side, then PLOP! She falls over on her...

Yesterday I was doing a little work in the back yard (not too much, as it was hot and humid), and the kitties were all having a wonderful time. It seems that freshly pulled weeds are absolutely infested with greeblings and require a great deal of pouncing before they are safe. Harri, Ranger, Sammy,...

Busy couple of days! We've been running really hard since Weds afternoon (as in only 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night). We have been able to get kitty walks in, though. Weds night (Thurs morning actually, 4 AM-ish) we walked at the rest area just south of St. George, UT. Harri loves this place for...

The weather on the west coast has been kind of sunny recently (aside from the last week) so I decided it was time to pick up a hat to keep from crisping my mostly-bald head. I went into the truck stop convenience store last night and bought a couple of baseball caps. Harri has never seen me wear...

If Harri was a human I'm sure she would be a heavy equipment mechanic. When we walk in a company yard or a truck stop, she always has to check out the trailers. She loves to climb in the big wheel rims (just the outside ones) and inspect the rims and the valve stems and peek through the holes to...

The vet just called - the surgery is done, the chest tubes are in place and draining lots of fluid, and Harri is doing fine. Will get another update in the morning. Dan

This afternoon Nancy and I decided we needed to run up to the storage locker to get some stuff we needed. Nancy suggested bringing a kitty along with us. Since Ranger didn't seem overly excited when he joined us on our trip up to WI last weekend, we decided to bring Harri with us. I hooked...

I've posted briefly on this before, but my little baby kitten has been practicing and refining her skills so I think it merits mention again. Our washer and dryer are down in the basement. It's not a dark, scary basement like some I've seen - it's clean, the lights light it really well, and it...

After running non-stop for three weeks on a bunch of long runs, I was pretty tired out by the time Harri's humans managed to meet up with me. However, my schedule allowed me to do a 34-hour reset - I took a day and a half off. So Harri got to spend her first day and a half sitting in one place,...

Harriet lived in the zoo in Brisbane, and died of a heart attack. She was a Galapagos tortoise, and was the oldest known living animal. When she was hatched on Galapagos, William IV was still King of England, and Andrew Jackson was President of the United States. Theresa Stinky Pictures:...

I finally got to talk to the vet about 45 minutes ago. Harri did survive te night, and she is breathing more easily thanks to massive doses of antibiotics and steroids. However, the x-rays show that both of her lungs are partially collapsed. The vet has no idea what would have caused this, and he...