So have you been exposed to lolcats yet? If not, check out here and here. I can’t help it; they make me laugh. I mean really, really laugh. Especially the random ones.
Tag: Cats
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A new kitten
Friday, after much hand-wringing and debating and questioning sanity (almost entirely by my wife), we adopted a new kitten from the Humane Society.
He’s about seven weeks old and has that full-on kitten rambunctious flexibility that all the good kittens possess. Kittens like that are like crack for some people.
Thankfully the first night was the only night (for me) that messed up my sleep… seems like the last cat we got kept me up a lot more at first. I’m not complaining!
So far, the other two cats are still unsure of what to make of the interloper. I’m sure that will pass and they’ll start kicking his ass any day now.
And now, of course, the obligatory kitten pictures.
I haven’t decided yet if that black on the nose qualifies this cat to look like Hitler…
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Kitlers
Random link for the day: Cats that look like Hitler.
Really.
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Mortality
One year and two weeks after we lost our first cat, we lost our second cat today. We had to have him put to sleep, the same as before; he was essentially end-stage advanced urinary tract disease. We’d spent the last two weeks doing everything we could for him.
This was our cat Lucifer. He was 13. We’d also raised him from a kitten. He was a big Maine coon, with six toes on each of his front paws; he looked like he was wearing mittens. He was also the sweetest cat you would ever meet.
Yes, it sucks. It’s like that, sometimes. But at 13, he lived a full, happy, loving life with no complaints; there’s not much more you can ask for.
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Pets are expensive
Our Labor Day weekend itself was decent enough overall, but Sunday night we had to take our oldest cat to the emergency pet hospital because he’d been acting weird all day, and by the evening was seemingly in serious pain. Turned out he had stones in his bladder and was all blocked up.
Since our regular vet wouldn’t be open until Tuesday morning, the cat stayed at the emergency hospital from Sunday night through Tuesday morning (about 36 hours), receiving treatment. Tuesday my wife transferred him to our regular vet, and they performed surgery to remove the stones that day.
Recovery Tuesday night, and again tonight. Probably home tomorrow. But all this adds up to another hefty bill. Pets are expensive. I’m beginning to wonder if we should have insurance policies taken out on them.
And before anyone thinks I’m totally cynical, the cat is doing just fine. He’s 13 years old, but remarkably healthy otherwise.
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Is this cat stoned?
(Thanks, Jake!)
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Items for your consideration
So, we got a new cat this week.
More specifically, my wife got a new cat.
She’s been bugging me to get another dog, which I will not do; one is enough. So, more or less in exchange for that, I capitulated on a cat.
So far, our other two cats pretty much hate it.
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Over on Tim Bray’s website, there’s an article on enterprise software— and a delicious quote I couldn’t resist reprinting here: “Software pricing continues to be a black art, and one which most people practice poorly.” How true. How so very true.