Archive for May 29th, 2008
- Fifteen month gestation period, and still no kittens.
- No longer cleans itself unless coated in Cheese Whiz.
- Cat door so large it needs a garage door opener.
- Waits for the third bowl of food to get finicky.
- Only catches mice that get trapped in its gravitational pull.
- Enormous belly keeps your hardwood floors freshly buffed.
- Has more chins than lives.
- Always lands on her spleen.
- Fewer calls to the fire department, but a sudden upsurge in broken branches.
- Confused guests constantly mistaking her for beanbag chair.
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- You get email flames from some guy named Fluffy.
- Traces of kitty litter in your keyboard.
- You find you’ve been subscribed to strange newsgroups like alt.recreational.catnip.
- Your web browser has a new home page at www.catsblog.org
- Your mouse has teeth marks in it … and a strange aroma of tuna.
- Hate-mail messages to Apple Computer Corp. about their release of “CyberDog.”
- Your new ergonomic keyboard has a strange territorial scent to it.
- You keep finding new software around your house like CatinTax and WarCat II.
- On ICQ, you’re known as the IronMouser.
- Little kitty carpal-tunnel braces near the scratching post.
Humans are used to nursing a sick child or loved one, but most pets don’t become ill very frequently. When it does happen, you’ll know it. Your pet will likely experience vomiting or diarrhea and may be less outgoing than usual. If the symptoms persist for more than half a day or so, you should take your cat to your vet.
Nursing a pet at home is often an all-day and all-night event. You want your pet to overcome the illness quickly, and you are concerned for your pet, so you want to do everything in your power to heal it. You should pay close attention to what your vet tells you to do. Many pet owners don’t listen to their vets and their pets’ conditions grow increasingly worse.
You want to make sure your cat has a clean, soft, warm bed to lie in. It needs to be draft-free and quiet. You want to make sure your cat spends a lot of time there resting peacefully so its body can heal itself. You don’t want to subject your cat to any excessively warm or cold conditions when it’s sick, either. So don’t take it outside if it’s hot or cold. You also don’t want to overexert itself during exercising. You want to make sure it does move around and gets some exercise. But don’t let it grow too tired from walking or playing.
Giving your pet lots of love is perhaps the most important thing you can do for your sick pet. Make sure it understands that you know it’s not feeling well and are sympathetic toward it. Make sure you love it more than ever, so it will have a positive attitude toward healing.
