Good!

[I am now on a list.]

Feline infectious peritonitis. Usually treated with remdesevir, which is a backup drug treatment for covid.

If you threw away the cheese, it’s clearly not yours anymore, why are you depriving them?!?!

The drawer grippy things are often still slide-able when momentum is applied, which is why I went with a cut-down bath mat.

Ours is an old carrier. The interior dimensions are 16 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 24 inches long. Our cat was maybe 14 inches tall, but of course she wouldn’t want to stand fully upright and either bang her head on the roof, or constantly brushing her ears against it. Plus the bath mat and towel ‘raised’ the floor a bit. And sometimes when you scream, you just want to throw your head back and let go!

I like the bath mat because I can suction it to the bottom of the carrier, so neither she nor the towel slide around like they would on plain plastic or metal.

One cat would yell for a while, then settle down. When she was older, it took longer for her to settle down, until she was just yelling constantly for hours. I finally gave up and let her out of the carrier - the only time I’ve ever done that, and we were an hour from home with no traffic and no stops needed - and she stopped yelling immediately, just stood on my lap, panting.

At which point I realized that, as large as our car carrier was (it’s one of the largest ‘carryable’ ones I’ve seen), it wasn’t quite tall enough for the cat to stand completely upright and she was in pain because of her arthritis. We’d been torturing her, for hours! We made some changes after that!

For people who have carriers with a smooth or only slightly rough bottom: your cat may be yelling because they can’t keep traction and are unexpectedly sliding a bit on curves and turns. We got one of those non-slip shower mats and cut it down to size, to reduce slipping, then added a beach towel for comfort. Everything is still washable (use white vinegar to get rid of the smell of cat urine), but the cat is much happier!

It’s not “sampling”, it’s quality control!

Disagree. Kitten!

This image makes me smile :)

What a handsome kitten!

It depends on what the medication is. Mostly I just crush it up and mush it into a Churu or their food or something. If they need to be on an empty stomach, like if I need them to have some gabapentin before a vet visit but they need to be on an empty stomach, I’ll dose their water.

Depending on the cat, you may need to look into a different medication, especially if it’s one of the ones with weird flavors, like cherry Clavamox; I’ll see if I can get an abx injection instead.

Worse comes to worse, you can try getting the medication compounded into a different form or a different flavor. The one thing I absolutely insist on getting compounded are appetite stimulants: the cat doesn’t want to eat anyway, and me forcing something down his throat is going to make him more likely to try to avoid both me and the food. I get transdermal ciproheptadine (mirtazapine can make some of them agitated, and I’d rather be certain that any weirdness is their illness and not the treatment). You just gently rub some on their inner ear and an hour later they want to eat :)

Aww, Kitty has their own tent to protect them from the harsh empty barren plains! :)

So, sometimes (like now) I get these posts and there’s just no link for me to see the picture that’s supposedly there. Anyone know what’s going on or how to fix it? [I wanna see the camping kitty!]

Well, the Democrats don’t have an entire media echo-system in place - multiple tv ‘news’ channels, a coast-to-coast network of local conservative radio propagandists, an entire chain of ever-so-slightly-increasingly-radicalized YouTube “hosts” leading from self-improvement and self-appreciation through to denigration and hatred of others - turns out, the easiest way for the alt-right to make someone feel better about themselves is for them to tell their acolytes that they’re great and that someone else is beneath them - doesn’t matter if the ‘other’ are blacks or women or Jews or Muslims or LGBTQ or Hispanics or immigrants or whatever. Just know that “those people” are beneath you, it’s okay to physically, legally, emotionally, and socially attack them whenever you feel like it to ‘remind them of their place’ (especially if you think they might be inclined to overstep it), and everything will be fine …

I should go dig up some of those “Overly Honest Methods” memes …

But you don’t eat her food, why should she want to?

Just because you changed the clocks back doesn’t mean that time actually changed.

But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to close the door! You know that, right?

Oh, cool. Do X next!

Not being very immersed in pop culture, I just assume they’re dressed as someone from a show I don’t watch.