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Updates - Garvin, etc.
First, the A/C disaster. DH took a day off work today (like we need that
dock in pay), and climbed up into the attic to look at the A/C. He puttered around all morning and could see anything obviously wrong (the A/C was still working all this while, but the drain pan was overflowing). He had to leave the A/C on continuously and wait until the hottest part of the day (oh my poor baby up there in that heat!!!) to duplicate the problem. He finally took a "snake"(?) and "snaked" out the drain pipe that leads outside and found that it was clogged and the "snake" unclogged it. So, thank Bast, we don't have to call out an expensive A/C repairman (and boy do they gouge in hot weather in Houston). However we still have a caved in ceiling and a wet carpet - this we'll just live with a while until we can buy the materials to repair it (it's not like anything else in the house is in good repair, so at least we match!! ;). Now to Garvin. He lets us pick him up so we're going to wait until Saturday and try to put him in a carrier to bring him to the S.N.A.P. clinic for testing, shots and worming (they're open 7 days a week so we can try again on Sunday if we don't succeed on Saturday). I couldn't get a Saturday appointment at the surgical clinic for neutering - the were booked until May (they're open Tuesdays through Saturday). The soonest at all opening they had is for next Thursday, the 10th. I'll have to take some time off next Thursday to drop him off at 7:30, go to work, then take some time off to pick him up between 3 and 4. One hitch... They will not take him unless he is in a "Have-a-heart" trap. They said strays can turn vicious and they can't afford to have a tech stick his hand in the carrier with a sedative injection - with a trap they can jab him through the bars no matter where he goes inside. Now I have to find someone I can borrow a trap from because we sure can't afford to buy one for a one-off use! I once borrowed one from Sunmart Rescue (where I adopted Archer and Ozzy) so I'm hoping I can do so again - but they're only at PetsMart on weekends, so I'll have to wait and see. In the meantime I'm going to call the Spring animal shelter to see if they might have one I can borrow. As usual, nothing ever goes easy for us - I guess I should be philosophical and say that that only makes us stronger, but I think I'll just gripe about our bad luck instead! ; -- Hugs, CatNipped See all my masters he http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ |
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