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ProfessorTomoe
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No urpage! Loudmouth seems to have finished off the Science Diet overnight. He ate more of it than the meat from the wet food. I'm surprised. No barfs to be found anywhere in the house. He's still got a few more days of lubricant gel to take, but I think we may have crossed a very important threshold here. I don't know if we're going to continue feeding Baker the EVO or not. Knowing Mrs. Prof's penchant for simplification, probably not, unless he absolutely won't eat the Science Diet.
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Well, Loudmouth slurped up the gravy from his wet food and then ate about half of the dry anti-Hairball food—his first dry food in days. This was about three hours ago, and we haven't had a barf fest yet. All fingers crossed that we don't hear his "urp urp urp" sound overnight.
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I know, but I'm running out of time. I don't really have a "next few months" to spare. That's what scares the crap out of me.
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My anxiety level shot up again today. (I know, what's new, right?) I got an e-mail from the Recording Academy—the group that handles voting for the Grammys—about it being just about time to vote for this year's awards. I've been a voting member since 1997, based on the work I did for Stargunner and Shadow Warrior (I even managed to get Lo Wang's Rap onto the list of eligible songs for round one of voting, but I doubt anyone but me voted for it). Since then, I haven't put out anything that could be called an album. That's now a requirement for voting status—active membership. If you're not putting out songs on their terms, you don't get to vote. What that means to me is I've got to put out an album by the end of June 2018, or I drop down to Associate (non-voting) status. This would be fine if I weren't sick all the time. God, I need some help here.
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Mrs. Prof stopped and purchased a bag of the Science Diet Hairball Light food. She then called me with a warning: none of the cats at the pet adoption center like it. Something about it being too big or too hard or both—I can't remember. I hope Loudmouth is the exception to the rule.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
1:06 a.m. CDT 20170913. Most of the past 24 hours have been spent asleep. I've been waiting for activity here on this forum or on the Scribophile Ubergroup to keep me busy, but nothing has really happened. I generated some of my own talk on The Ubergroup. However, I'd have to say that 85-90% of the day has been spent asleep. I'm certain that the hydrocodone has got something to do with it, but I can't put the blame on it entirely. Sheer exhaustion has got to have had some part to play. -
It's been almost 24 hours since Loudmouth's last barf. The vet's got him on Vetoquinol care Laxatone, 1.5cc 2x daily for a week. Mrs. Prof says he doesn't give her a hard time when it comes to administering. Bonus. Loudmouth was very quiet today, since Mrs. Prof was working from home. I was passed out from hydrocodone for most of the day as well, so if he was up and around, I missed it. @CritterKeeper, I think I've talked Mrs. Prof into getting some Hill's Science Diet Adult Hairball Control Light Dry Cat Food from the local Pet Supplies Plus store. We'll see if she actually goes by and gets it. I assume it's safe to feed that to both cats, even if Baker has never had a single hairball problem?
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I'd say that since Tedd can see how magic works, anything he can see he can put in a wand and use. Ergo, not direct use of other magic, but diverse magic use via wand making.
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Mrs. Prof took a couple of pictures of Baker while I was out like a light last night. First is a picture of him relaxing as well: The other is of him taking advantage of the cubby hole stairs we bought for the cats. Loudmouth prefers the bottom two cubicles, but Baker likes the top one and to be on top of the stack: Those ears on him look like they could echo locate.
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Baker in a box© ©2017 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Baker relaxing© ©2017 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Mrs. Prof fed Loudmouth a double serving of wet food this morning. He practically drained it dry, in between poaching attempts from Baker. Loudmouth then went over to Baker's tray and tried to eat some of his dry food. I stopped that an gave Loudmouth the last of the wet food from the opened can. Another poaching attempt by Baker led to him being locked in the master bedroom again. I'll be glad when it doesn't matter who eats what.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
5:27 a.m. CDT 20170912. Whew. I'm still getting over a rather scary moment. We've all had a drink go down the wrong pipe, right? Well, I went one step further. I put my hydrocodone in my mouth, took a swig of tea, and the whole thing tried to go down my windpipe. I tried to correct, but that just made the liquid start coming out my nose. Somehow, I managed to get my pills down the right pipe, but I think I aspirated a bit of tea. I've spent the last 30 minutes trying to clear my lungs and nose of it. There's still some minor traces left, and I think all my coughing has woke up Mrs. Prof. Yep, here she is, in her pre-coffee grump state. -
Pretty much the latter. She palpated his gut for a blockage, since we'd been getting barfs of fully digested food. No blockage response, so she went with the hairball/call in a week diagnosis. I caught Loudmouth poaching Baker's dry food a few minutes ago, so he's got to be getting hungry enough to risk dry food. I checked out the Science Diet Hairball Light on Chewy.com earlier—I think I'm going to make the hard sell of that to Mrs. Prof when she gets up. Thanks for the reinforcement.
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I didn't have to hunt. Loudmouth made it very clear where he'd barfed up dinner. Sigh. I don't know if there was a hairball in it or not. All I do know is that it wasn't the pure liquid that we've had over the past few days. It was also disturbingly close to my old stash of VCR tapes. @CritterKeeper, I could really use suggestions for hairball control food, both dry and wet. Please!
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Loudmouth ate dinner. It seems to have stayed down. I'm not going to go hunting through the house at 1:45 in the morning for cat barf, anyway. I've told Mrs. Prof that we need to invest in a hairball-reducing food for Loudmouth, since he sheds everywhere. @CritterKeeper, can you provide some suggestions? I don't think EVO makes an anti-hairball formula.
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At first read, this came across as "cattle being impregnable...." Don't ask me why.
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WD40. Water Displacer formula #40. I got taught that when I tried to drive an old Volvo through a low water crossing and up a hill. Stalled halfway up. One of the neighbors in my rural county (Kyle, south of Austin) sprayed the inside of my distributor cap with WD40, got me going again, and told me the story about how the inventor went through 39 formulas before he hit the right one. On the short remaining drive back to my house (a double-wide mobile home in the late 80s/early 90s—I have no humility), I saw two kids carrying the biggest crawdad I'd ever seen. Each had a claw—it was that big. Now, catch about three dozen more like that and you've got dinner.
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More photos. The trip to the vet was not much fun for Loudmouth. He tried to hide under Mrs. Prof's arm at first: He had his nails clipped while he was there—possibly for the first time ever, in addition to the exam and the hairball lubricant administration. He was quite drawn out after he got home: And another angle : Even more remarkable about the two pictures above is that the bed is Baker's. Baker sat on top of his climbing boxes and let Loudmouth commandeer them. While I was typing this, Loudmouth got sick again. I cleaned up after him, but couldn't tell if there was any hair in the output. Right now, he's sitting to my right, leaning on Baker's pillow across the sectional. I wish I could make him feel better faster.
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Loudmouth hiding under Mrs. Prof's arm.,© ©2017 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Loudmouth still feeling under the weather© ©2017 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Loudmouth feeling drawn out© ©2017 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Ah, sadly, Mercury made the Cougar in the United States, and Mercury no longer exists. I'm not sure if there are any American manufacturers left who make a feline-based car. No, GT40 is good enough—it's got those low, stalking, panther-like lines that helped it win Le Mans again in 2016.
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And yes, I know Haas run Ferrari engines. Give them time.
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Augh! Ferrari! No. He's an American kitty. At least give him the honor of being a Haas or a Ford GT40.
