Pets

I was going to restart this thread today if it wasn't back yet. Koshi, I thought all those pics were of you at first and did a double take on the second one.

I've mentioned I had a pack of dogs. The 2 oldest are Charlie and Stubby. My wife found them wandering the street before she even found me (wandering a different street). Stubby was always friendly, charlie was always shy. She's so shy, I don't even think it's accurate to call her a beta dog. She's more like an omega dog. She didn't even like coming inside. When shew as inside the slightest sudden movement or noise from anyone or anything would send her noping for the doggy door. For years when I got home and went to pet her, she'd roll over on her back, tuck her tail between her legs, wag her tail and piss. Yes, piss would sling everywhere (good thing she was outside). Eventually she stopped pissing, but still rolled over for a long time. My first thought was that she didn't like me petting her. But I never chased her down, I only pet her when she comes to me.

Anyway, all that to say this: for the past week or so, she's been coming into my room in the morning to get some lovin and sitting up straight. I take her head in my hands, talk nice to her and scratch both ears at the same time. When I do this she starts smiling and grunting and this morning I realized she's basically purring. So i have a dog that purrs and a cat that doesn't, but the cat used to play fetch, so I guess it evens out.

Tarisk said:

Glad to hear she's gone this long. I put my 3rd pet down in an 12 month period about 2 weeks ago. My cat lived to 18. No recent picture's which I'm kicking myself in the ass for. But she looked great up until the end day. She had renal failure, and about 20% of her normal kidney function at the end and up until about 2 weeks prior, you would never have guessed anything was wrong.

Down to just a 14 year old Jack Russel now which will be hard to see go also, but still going strong. Due to the condo rules, will probably start over with 2 kittens and a puppy instead of the other way around like I used to. Will be sad, but since I have little interest in real children, I am really looking forward to the initial months and first year or so. They are a handful, but fuck if it isn't fun as hell watching them grow/learn.

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I've been traveling for work a lot the last few years and at times it has been hard to have a pet. So I planned not to get one for a while when she passes. My girlfriend that is moving in shortly has another younger cat so guess we will have cats for a while. It won't be so bad though because she can be home with them when I travel. I need to start regulating her food again which was impossible while I was traveling, shes put on some weight. Once I move I should be home more and can slim her back down.

No extractions for my cat yay. They are keeping her over night though.

Looks like they are taking a trip!

I have the cat that wasn't eating and had to have a feeding tube inserted. Yesterday she had the tube removed because she's been eating fine on her own the past week or two, and she seems entirely back to normal and I wanted to speed that process along by getting the tube out. No pics currently but I wanted to share because there was a time a couple months ago that I really thought she was going to die, and I'm beyond ecstatic to have her back to normal again. She has two staples in her neck right now that will come out in two weeks, so after that other than a scar and some fur that still needs to grow back on her neck and belly, she'll be good as new.

I can't get her to eat dry food anymore for the life of me though. Which is a concern because I live alone and used to just go away for a few days, content in the knowledge that she'd eat the dry food I left out and be fine. Now she needs to be fed wet food several times a day. Not sure what I can do to get her eating dry food again, as I've tried almost everything (yes, including sprinkling some in the wet food), but maybe I just need to buy a ton of small bags until I find one that appeals to her, since she doesn't like every wet food either.