General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and....For, Monday January 23, 2006, 0 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Hello. I tried to get on earlier, and then when I did the kitten jumped at the moving letters on the computer screen and somehow canceled my post. The good news today is that she is eating, hasn't thrown up since sometime during the night (unless I just haven't found it yet) and played a lot this morning so she is now asleep! What a relief. I have 2 theories for this incident, 1 is that she had a blockage of some type that has now moved through her system, or 2, that it was related to her being in heat. Tiny tho she is, the hormones do work. The reason I think the upset stomach and heat cycle may be related is that sometimes horses do that. I rushed my mare to the vet last spring and she was fine by the time I got there but she was in heat and just about to ovulate according to the vet's rectal exam. The vet told me that this can be the cause of mysterious colicy episodes, so it could possibly also effect cats in the same way.

This morning we still have that inversion so the fog and freezing temperatures are still with us. I took some close up pictures of the fog whiskers on plants and fences, might post some of those later.

Here is a picture that my hubby took of me with the cats. The cats are much more photogenic than I ever have been. I was trying to read and the kitten had been sleeping above my shoulder, but when my hubby came with the camera she woke up and wanted to get down. I was trying to get her to stay up there while he took the picture.

I need to take the Border Collie and go chop the ice out of the water hole for the horses. No point in taking that walk alone when the dog needs to go too.