After what looked like a good recovery she suddenly started going downhill again late last night. I took her into TED's today and once again acting bright & perky and like nothing was wrong. But this time he found a lump on her shoulder. He took a needle of it and it turned out to be pus filled...

She was looking out the window, and slipped and fell off the widow sill. This normally would have been a non-event as she would have landed on her feet and jumped back up or gone on about her business. But this time she got tangled in the venetian blind cord and hung by her neck for a few seconds...

Fluffy has a lump about 2cm (a bit less than an inch) diameter just under one of her nipples. I'm fearing that its breast cancer. I'm scared that this is the beginning of the end for the Fluffster. Vet booked for Saturday morning. Not looking forward to what they'll most likely find, because...

I've never seen or heard of anything like this: Fluffy has been dark gray and white for the last seventeen years, and now her gray is turning brown. I checked with several kinds of light and it's still the same, but easiest to see in natural overcast sky light. Could this be something like human...

The operation went well, there is now good stability in the joint and apparantly the students were suitably impressed. She stayed two nights and came home this morning. The incision is about 5 inches or 12 cm and is clean and neat. The sutures come out in 10 days. She'll be on antibiotics for...

You may recall that I wrote about Fluffy some time ago saying she was terminally old and I though she might not last the winter, or something like that. She has gotten much worse lately, to the point where I was putting off making 'the decision', and I think she stopped eating last weekend. Now I...

Buffy has a very thick undercoat. She was sitting in my lap, getting scritches and purring to beat the band. :) In the process her fur was wafting up and sticking to my face. Time for the Furminator! An excellent de-shedding tool. It's amazing to me how much fur she sheds. I have to throw...

Fluffy's back to her old (young?) self. Eating everything she given, plus whatever she can find, scrounge, beg for and steal. She's woofing and carrying on about the neighbour's dogs ( who have been there almost her whole life, but they never saw eye-to-eye, unlike the other three neighbours...

As long as we're doing recipes: Fluffy Pudding Two stalks celery. One medium green pepper. Eight ounces drained canned mackerel flakes. One tablespoon dehydrated onion flakes. Two teaspoons prepared mustard. One teaspoon salt

Fluff spends her nights in the cat house. Bonnie and Clyde spend their nights inside the main house with us. The reason being that Fluff refuses to use a litter box, enough said. We have a large walnut tree near the cat house and I pick up the walnuts and store them in the back of the cat...

Poor Fluffy, she picked the weekend to get some nasty bladder infection. I had to take her to the vet on Sunday as she was spending most of her time in the litter box. He gave her an injection and I have to give her pills for a week, something I am not looking forward to as getting pills into her...

a while ago I posted about a fluffy gray kitty that was around my apartment complex. She loves to roll around on the concrete and show how pretty she is. Well recenty i saw her again and left out some kibble. Today i saw her resting on the concrete in front of one of the patios and when i got...

The saga started around 4.00 yesterday when DH told me he had let Fluff out for a run. I always get all cats inside before dark and the more slippery ones, like Clyde even earlier. Fluffy never goes too far and always comes home within an hour at the most. She will always come when called. Not...

Ever since she chose us to move in with, we had never seen her do anything but sleep, eat, demand to be petted, and sit, smiling, on the catnip scratching board, but yesterday she showed her true feline instincts and caught two mice. One of them met his end after a short session of torture. The...

Fluffy has heart problems, a heart murmur, possible kidney issues, major weight loss (25%), etc. In short, she's very old (17-1/2). She's now on heart medicine, and vitamin B to increase her appetite. The vet doesn't think she's in pain, so it's too early to euthanise her, not that I'm...

The vet I negotiated some more - if I could pay 50% of the costs up front he was willing to take a 'payment plan' for the remainder. We've now got past the magic 50% mark and the operation can now go ahead - she'll go into surgery on the 21st of this month. I'd like to thank everyone for their...

Tish invited Joel and I to meet her managerie. I had to let her know, first up, that I am *deeply* jealous of her, because her new house is just *stunning*, as is the property it resides on. It has views of the Blue Moutains, it is surrounded by bushland (including a dam and a creek) and the...

Got the X-rays back. She has some spondylitis (?) in the spine, but doesn't seem to bother her and wasn't causing the lameness. The 'neck' of her thighbone show some slight arthritic thickening, but for a dog her age, her hip joints are fine: this is also not the cause of her lameness. Its...

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Since coming home I have had a bad problem with FSP. She must have started urinating on the floor while I was away and my continual attempts to clean it up has resulted in a huge big stain right in the doorway. Yesterday I got in the carpet shampoo people (at great cost) and they did the house...