rhiannon and shadow (GA)
Member Since 2012
morning all....
I had been thinking that Shadow has been mewing when she was in the litter box....
she'll also occasionally do caterwalling while we are sleeping..... if she's playing....
but I had also noticed some loose poo's..... and smellier too...
she won't let me look and has been upset if I even try to touch....
but this morning she happened to have her tail up in the right position and I could see her anus which was swollen and tender looking.....
I'm hoping it's anal glands and not that the lymphoma is full down her intestinal tract....
she has an ultrasound coming in two weeks ( that vet is on vacation until then so she's first when he returns)
need vetty vines.....
and speaking of cat butts......
I want to share one of my favorite little stories..... ( true or not) it cycles around on the internet.....
So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently
died. Jack was a great cat and the kids would carry him around and sit
on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all
day long on this mat in our bathroom.
Well we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years
old, 3 years old and 1 year old.
The middle one is Eli. Eli really loves chapstick. LOVES it. He kept
asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So finally one day I
showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he could
use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it right back in the
drawer when he was done.
Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around and
try to get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on. My
two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to
nurse my little one at the same time I am putting on my make-up.
Everything is a mess and everyone has long forgotten that this is a
wonderful day to honor me and the amazing job that is motherhood.
We finally have the older one and the baby loaded in the car and I am
looking for Eli. I have searched everywhere and I finally round the
corner to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my
chapstick very carefully to Jack's . . . rear end. Eli looked right
into my eyes and said 'chapped.' Now if you have a cat, you know that
he is right--their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly,
Jack didn't seem to mind.
And the only question to really ask at that point was whether it was
the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind or the hundredth.
And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us
that no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little
creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they've been
using your chapstick on the cat's butt.
I had been thinking that Shadow has been mewing when she was in the litter box....
she'll also occasionally do caterwalling while we are sleeping..... if she's playing....
but I had also noticed some loose poo's..... and smellier too...
she won't let me look and has been upset if I even try to touch....
but this morning she happened to have her tail up in the right position and I could see her anus which was swollen and tender looking.....
I'm hoping it's anal glands and not that the lymphoma is full down her intestinal tract....
she has an ultrasound coming in two weeks ( that vet is on vacation until then so she's first when he returns)
need vetty vines.....
and speaking of cat butts......
I want to share one of my favorite little stories..... ( true or not) it cycles around on the internet.....
So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently
died. Jack was a great cat and the kids would carry him around and sit
on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all
day long on this mat in our bathroom.
Well we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years
old, 3 years old and 1 year old.
The middle one is Eli. Eli really loves chapstick. LOVES it. He kept
asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So finally one day I
showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he could
use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it right back in the
drawer when he was done.
Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around and
try to get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on. My
two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to
nurse my little one at the same time I am putting on my make-up.
Everything is a mess and everyone has long forgotten that this is a
wonderful day to honor me and the amazing job that is motherhood.
We finally have the older one and the baby loaded in the car and I am
looking for Eli. I have searched everywhere and I finally round the
corner to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my
chapstick very carefully to Jack's . . . rear end. Eli looked right
into my eyes and said 'chapped.' Now if you have a cat, you know that
he is right--their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly,
Jack didn't seem to mind.
And the only question to really ask at that point was whether it was
the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind or the hundredth.
And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us
that no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little
creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they've been
using your chapstick on the cat's butt.
