Cats
Kitty Prayers – Amen!
When Your Pet Scares You to Death
If your pet has experienced a seizure, you know how helpless it can make you feel since there really isn’t anything that you can do at the time. Seizures, when they are happening, simply have to run their course. Once the seizure is over, you should contact your veterinarian for an appointment to find out why your pet is experiencing seizures. Based on personal experience, one of my dogs had “chewing gum” seizures. With chewing gum seizures the dog’s teeth will click or chatter rapidly as though they were very cold. They will sometimes experience vomiting or lose consciousness for a short period of time.
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White Lie for a White Cat by Bud Stuart DVM
White Lie for a White Cat
As a veterinarian in a busy pet practice in northern Virginia, I would, of course, spend a great deal of time on the phone. Most of the calls were pretty routine; yes, the operation was successful; or maybe how many puppies Pansy had finally had. Being a veterinarian is one of the most satisfying careers anyone can have. The fascinating bond between people and their pets is a remarkable thing to observe and play a part in. It is one profession where you can feel every day the positive impact you are having on peoples lives.
But this particular call was one of the most painful phone calls of my entire professional life and the one veterinarians fear the most. I had to call and tell my dear, sweet, elderly neighbors, the Pennybakers, that their beloved Beauregard, a beautiful, orange, 2 year old Persian male cat, was going to die.
Happy Easter from Pet Peeves!
No matter how you choose to celebrate Easter with your pets – it’s a great holiday. Enjoy!
Or not.
Make your pet peeve famous on Dr. Oz Show
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Cat-Astrophe by Raymond L. Atkins
I am going to get this out of the way right up front and tell you that I am not a cat person. But that does not make me a bad guy, and I encourage those of you who are cat people to continue being so with my full blessing. I couldn’t be happier for you, or for your feline friends. My own mother loved cats, and that may be where I got off to my bad start with them. I spent my formative years shooing cats from my bed, removing freshly-born kittens from my closet, and brushing cat hair from my clothing. And I swore that when I grew to manhood, I would never, ever own a cat.
What was I thinking?
Is this really something we need to worry about?
Service Cares for Pets Orphaned Due to the Rapture
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He’s coming for you, not Alfonse. Plan ahead. |
When the Rapture comes and the Tennessee faithful go to Jesus, what will become of Princess, your teacup chihuahua, or Alfonse the iguana?
They’ll starve to death, that’s what — left to wander the sad-sack halls of an empty home recently vacated by owners whose souls have been Raptured from their mortal coils. While you inherit the Kingdom, Princess is chewing on your leather belt.
Fortunately for residents of the Bible-Belt Buckle, Eternal Earth-Bound Pets has you covered. These entrepreneurial unbelievers will care for the pets of the Raptured in 22 states, from Massachusetts to Washington — Sorry New Yorkers and Californians. Business in these states, as we all know, simply doesn’t justify the expense. Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, however, are fecund with Faithful. Bart Centre, creator, co-owner and author, tells Pith he has two clients in Nashville and more than 100 clients across the country.
Here’s how it works:
For $110, Eternal Earth-Bound Pets will guarantee that your pet will be cared for should the Rapture occur within 10 years of receipt of payment. A network of sworn atheists — or at the very least those who have “blasphemed in accordance with Mark 3:29″ — will rescue your pet within 18 to 24 hours of the rapture, and care for it as though it were their own. The service does not extend to larger animals, though in New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho and Montana, they’re equipped to care for llamas, donkeys, horses and camels.
Read the fine print. The service is, of course, non-refundable. If you find yourself among the Left Behind, well, that sucks. If you lose your faith before the Rapture comes, too bad. You’re not getting your money back.
Kitty – The 5:00 a.m. Bane of our Existence
This is Kitty. He’s now 16 years old and our twins think he has Kitty Alzheimer s because he’ll ask to be let outside. Then five minutes later, he wants in. He does this ALL DAY LONG. As if we have nothing better to do.
But his most irritating, annoying, irritating, upsetting trait is to scratch at our bedroom door EVERY freaking morning at 5:00 a.m. – to have us stumble blindly into the kitchen to “WOOSH” his dry food so that he can settle down and eat it? AND, if it’s not done “properly,” he’ll scratch at the door again, and again.
ALL we want is some sleep CAT!
Friday Cuties – this one will make you want to nap!
Kitty’s New Torture for Us
Kitty’s new torturous behaviors. I’m sure that Kitty has been suffering from early onset kitty
Alzheimer’s- my husband works at home & all day long Kitty wants to go out to lay in the sunshine
on the deck. And changes his mind 15 minutes later and then again 15 minutes later. It’s inside,
sunshine, inside, sunshine all day long. Then, between those visits – it’s wooshy, wooshy time with
the dry food. Cannot eat stale food. It’s got to be wooshed on a regular basis (this means you have
to take your hand to freshen up the dry food in his bowl, leaving you with fish flavored fingers).
Now the unitiated would say, just leave the food alone and the cat will eventually eat. I know this
isn’t so from personal experience. We foisted this high maintenance cat off on my oldest son for a
year. Kitty lived with he & his girlfriend. They must have high tolerance for the wooshy whine
from Kitty, because I saw him several months into this experiment & it was like looking at a
concentration camp cat. All skin and bones. I immediately took him to the vet for worms ($12 vet
bill) and got spleen surgery ($800 vet bill). I’m not a big fan of Kitty.