Cats and Dogs

The cats are coming out of their room more than ever now. Sometimes when the girls are in bed in our room, Minnie and Paulie will come out into the living room. Tabby doesn't come out as much. She got scared by the dogs once. They got excited when they saw her and she fell on her side to protect herself and they got real closed to her, all excited, and were sniffing her. That did not go over real well with Tabby. She stays in the cat room or goes under the bed in our room. Minnie, however, comes out closer and closer to them every day.


Mostly they just look at each other and then part ways.

I need to give Tabby her thyroid medicine before I go to bed tonight. She's doing okay. I think we'll have to have another round of blood work done though to see how she's really doing.

Bert and Ginger came over today and we let the girls in to visit with them. They are both dog lovers. The dogs were wonderful with them. I'm glad they aren't all crazy around people. I still think about that time we had people over from Rev Church and we had to put Moped and Skooter out in the garage in their kennels. David let them out when we were all in the garage and they went nuts. It was embarrassing (and dangerous). I'm glad the girls have manners.

I got an email from Kathy today about some new litters she has. It made me think about Moped and Skooter. None of her puppies are as cute as Mopes or Skoots but they are kissable. LOL

The girls and David are already in bed and I'm going to join them shortly. I love my girls. They are wonderful companions. David is taking the day off of work tomorrow (hockey) so the girls will have him for company, which means I don't have to run right home after work. Maybe I can meet Lisa somewhere for lunch close by. I'll have to see what her plans are. I'll try to be home before David leaves for the rink so I can see him and be home for the dogs.

Have to go to bed now. I'm getting sleepy. And if I don't go in there soon, I won't be able to get either of them to move over and give me some room on the bed to sleep. They are such bed hogs! LOLI can't remember if I posted this earlier, but even if I did it'll be great to see it again: the girls in their new collars.


Okay, I'm really going now...

Harnesses or Collars?

I went out earlier and got new harnesses for the girls. Their collars were pretty beat up and I just got their license tags in the mail today so it was a good day to buy them new hardware. We put the harnesses on them (leaving the tags on in case they didn't like them) and watched to see what they would do. Well, they moped around and looked all depressed. Blitz was afraid to jump up on the bed and stayed on her bed on the floor. Here they are:


Doesn't poor Blitzie look unhappy. I couldn't let her stay like that. So David took me back to PetCo and I exchanged the harnesses for the collars. They are very stylish with a flower design on them. Huxley's is orange and green sunflower design and Blitz's is pink and white flower design. Hopefully you can see them well enough in these pictures:


Aren't they nice collars? They adjusted to them right away (unlike the harnesses - ~sigh~). I can't believe that I care so much about my dogs' fashion statement. Oh well, there's worse things to care about. :-) And I saved about $16.50 going with the collars. Woot!

Not again!

Blitz just fell out of bed again. I was in the living room and she was in the bedroom taking a nap with David. I heard something and I looked down the hall and she was half on and half off the bed. She looked confused. LOL I think what happens is that they lay with their back to the edge of the bed and then push on David with their feet until they fall off. Huxley is playing it safe and laying on their bed on the floor.

They Make Good Avatars

I've been using pictures of Huxley and Blitz for my avatars on the MyTMMO forum. I've had compliments on them too. I love that Huxley is smiling in her picture and that Blitz has her head tilted. Blitz was out on the deck while it was snowing. Huxley was all smiles because she was going for a ride in the jeep.

"I Meant To Do That!"

Blitz was on the bed with David. He was loving on her and she flipped over to get a belly scratch. She fell right off the bed! She's fine, just a bit embarrassed.

Moped and Tabby

Tabby has been losing a lot of weight lately so we had the vet come to the house and do some blood work. While he was here he told us that he had received a call about Moped's shot record about a month ago. Mopes is supposed to be up in Aspen, but I'm worried that he was given back to the shelter again. I sent Kris an email but she has not responded to it. I hope he has a wonderful home. I sure do miss him and Skooter.

Back to Tabby though. The vet sent out the bloodwork and within days we found out that she has hyperthyroidism. Her system is crankin' and she can't keep up with it so she's losing weight. She's also not peeing in the litter box so I had to fix something up so she won't go on the rug (a big trash bag on the floor with newspapers on it). It's not what I want to be doing but we've had her for almost 16 years now and I want to give her a reasonable chance to make it through this thyroid issue.

The picture of Moped is one of my favorites because he's holding his toy bone in his mouth. And unfortunately, Tabby doesn't look like that anymore. She's skin and bones, with yucky fur. She hasn't been grooming herself and she doesn't like to be brushed or touched for that matter. I would like to get her groomed but not while she is so sick. She's been on the thyroid medicine for a while now but I haven't noticed any significant changes. As heartless as it might sound, I'm not going to invest too much money into a 15 year old cat. She's had a good life and prolonging it because I don't want to say goodbye would be selfish. Anyway, I'm still hoping for the best with her.

Where have I been??

I haven't posted about the dogs or cats for about 5 months! Yikes! It's time to get back onto that horse and ride.

I started a part-time job on November 19th, 2007. I'm a medical receptionist for a Lab and Radiology department. I work from 7:30 m until 11:30 am, Monday through Friday. I get to wear scrubs and sneakers. I really like that benefit of the job. I make pretty good money considering I hadn't worked in about 7 1/2 years before getting this job. I like the people I work with, the patients I check-in, my boss because he's on top of things and making some additional income to help get our FFEF funded.

Anyway, I ramble about going back to work because it effects Huxley and Blitz. They've been displaying some rather troubling behavior since I've gone back to work (getting out of the yard, before we reinforced it and getting into the trash and chewing on things). I do have photographic proof of the trash incidents.

This is from only 2 of the many incidents. Notice that they dragged some of trash into the dining room onto the rug. They've taken egg shells out of the trash as well as coffee grounds. That was fun to clean up. NOT! They always knew they had done something questionable too. They would get all nervous and excited when I got home from work and they'd give me that "I'm innocent" look. It was kind of cute, but picking up the garbage wasn't "cute" at all.

I've been researching trash cans that they'd have difficulty getting into. We found a plastic one with a locking lid but they figured out how to open it anyway. I don't want to have to put the trash can on the counter or in the bathroom while I'm out. There's one trash bin at Wally World that's about $80. It's stainless steel, had the foot peddle to open it (meaning it's hands free - but is it paw free!!?? lol) and doesn't have a lid that they would be able to push up so they can stick their curious little noses in it.

So, we reinforced the fence with more wire fencing around the bottom so they won't be able to get out. There are still some parts of the fence that are not reinforced though so I kind of have to keep an eye on them when they are out. For a while I was taking them out on leash. They did okay with that. I didn't do as well as they did. I was getting frustrated having to go out in the cold just to let them go out to do their business. I'm grateful for David working on reinforcing the fence.

Now when I (we) go out the dogs get put in the laundry room with their blanket. I don't like having to leave them there but I'm afraid that they will get into stuff and not be safe having the run of the house.

I've been selling things on craigslist and eBay as usual. The dogs ate some of my inventory. LOL They chewed up some hockey equipment so I had to cancel the auctions. They literally ate into my profits. They also chewed off a small portion of some hockey skates I was selling. I had to relist them with the doggie imperfection. They did sell though but not for as much as they would have sold without the chewed off corner of the boot.

Okay, I'm falling asleep and trying to type "d's" across the page, so I need to finish this post up. LOL

I'll get into more of the recent adventures of Huxley and Blitz in later posts.


By the way, it's about one thirty in the morning and I'm up but the dogs and David are in bed sleeping. Go figure...