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The Brick Testament is getting some competition from the LOLspeak bible:

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Cat back again

Marlowe didn’t show up last night but she was here this morning, sleeping on the couch.

Unfortunately, she’s been under a car and she had a bad spot of car oil on her head and more in her fur. When she started to clean herself I intervened and mixed flour into the short hair on top of her head. I rubbed in the flour until the hair stopped sticking together in spikes. That took quite a few pinches of flour. The flour absorbed the oil. Then she shook her head and grey flour flew in all directions. I brushed the top of her head and rubbed it with a bit of nubbly terrycloth to get the rest of the flour out. She put up with it pretty well.

Finally she hissed at me and wanted to leave. I wouldn’t let her out: I don’t want her to sleep under a car again. Instead, I gave her some soft catfood. After inspecting several spots and finding them wanting, she went upstairs and went to sleep.

The cat came back

Marlowe re-appeared after about 36 hours. She showed up in the back yard with a young rat to toss around. In a few minutes she settled down and ate it.

I brought her in when the phone rang in the house and gave her some food with medicine in it. She wasn’t very interested. I let her out again.

In the evening she came back and I gave her a pill, then fed her a big bowl of food with medicine in it. I kept her in for a while, but when she got restless I let her out.

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Spring is here

Spring is here:

Spring is sprung,
The grass is riz–
I wonder where
The birdies is.

It has been progressively thawing here. Last week, one of my two grey cats (”teenage” siblings) brought in a freeze-dried earthworm, presumably from their shenanigans last year. This week, someone brought in a fresh earthworm. And last night, one of them brought in a young rat and proceeded to bat it around the floor, Spring is here and hunting season is on.

Marlowe progress?

I stopped at the vet’s today to buy a relaxing medication for Marlowe, our young female cat. She has a urinary tract inflammation that the vet says may be caused by stress. And I think she’s still worried about her dominance over the boisterous kitten boys, Cloud & Fog. Also, our most skittish cat, Emily, is getting bolder, which means that Marlowe is not feeling well enough to asser herself.

I also bought a few groceries for lunch-making supplies.

Goldie back home

Yesterday, I picked up Goldie from the veterinarian and returned her to her people.

Successful surgery for Goldie

Sometimes it seems almost immoral to spend so much care and attention on pets when people are dying for lack of food, water, and medical care. Nevertheless, Goldie came through her spaying just fine and can go home to my son tomorrow.

Day for night

Somehow my day and night have gotten turned around over the course of a couple of days. I stayed up late Saturday night blogging, and later still Sunday night - til about 4:00 a.m. Then I got up about 9:30 for swimming and errands. I came home and fell asleep after lunch - and slept til 20:30! Then I went out and picked up my son’s younger cat from his place so I can take her to the vet tomorrow to be spayed. (Below is a picture of her in January.) Then I had supper.

So I’m going to bed now. I have to get up early. I guess tomorrow I’ll be back on the day shift.

Neuter your pets

All my pets are neutered, but there’s one more to take care of. My son adopted a stray calico kitten last winter. Her name is Goldie. Tonight I picked her up so I can take her to the vet at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow to be spayed. Here’s a link about the benefits of neutering. So we accept that it’s good for animals not to suffer from overpopulation.

Snow pile!

The snow we had last week has been ploughed aside. On busy city streets, it has been nibbled into trucks and removed. But in ordinary parking lots it’s just piled up and left to melt. When we went shopping, only about 2/3 of the usual spaces were open. The rest were under huge heaps of snow. The piles in this lot are about six metres high. Liz, in green and standing at the bottom of the pile, is about 1.7 m tall. Andie and Taiga the dog are shorter.

Taiga starts down the hill.

Andie follows Taiga.

They’re about to jump down to ground level.