Back from vacation and nobody needed me.....

Ceejaytown, I'm not swuft of this stuff but the vet used an airgun to inject with no needle. Similar to what the military uses for mass injections. I may have misunderstood but thought he meant that when it is consistently in the same location there is more risk and this disperses it better. Please don't quote me. I am on your side and would have avoided this had we not had to board the hurricane cat for vacation.

I got back from my Alaskan vacation a week ago and my drip system did the trick!! I came home and was told that Utah was as hot as 105 in Stansbury Park. I ran to my back yard to see how everything fared and my gardens were just beautiful!! I will try and put a pic in for you to see. My tomatoes must have like the heat. Now I hope that the heat wasn't too bad to make them not set fruit. (crossing fingers)

The back breaking work payed off!!

Blooms, Stansbury Park is West of Salt Lake right next to Tooele. It is right off of I-80.
I bet you had a heat wave there! WOW, Moab? How hot did it get there?

Lissy

I noticed that everyone was putting pic's of their kittys! I have a beautiful Bermese cat named Isis. She is my baby! Just to let you know just how much I love her, about a year ago, I had to make a decision about whether or not to fix her eyes. Bermese cats can get what is called cherry eye. It is when the tear duct flips outside and can cause dry eye. I took her to the vet and was informed that she would need to have eye surgery and it would cost $1000.00!!! Her eye was already showing signs that it was getting damaged. Poor kitty! She is just like one of my kids so I didn't hesitate. Now look at her. Her eyes are fine now!

She loves to sleep in the sun next to our sliding glass door.

Lissy

Here is another pic that let you see just how big and beautiful Isis's eyes are! I had to save them!

LissyJ ~ I am so glad to see your drip system paid off. It is nice to be welcomed home in that manner. I am jealous of Alaska, it had to be beautiful and cooler!
Isis is a gorgeous cat. I suspect she doesn't think she is one. How old is she? Did you board her when you went on vacation?
Odd how I was just thinking with our heat/humidity, I need to go on vacation again. All my plants looked better when we got back than they do today.
Welcome back home... pod

Pod~It was so nice up there in Alaska! the temps. were in the 60's!! When I got home to Utah they were in the 100's and I wanted to get back on the plane to Alaska.LOL

Isis is 6 years old. I have an automatic litterbox cleaner and feeder. I kept my air conditioning on for her. We were gone for a week and it worked just fine. Isis did get mad at me when I got home, however. She meowed at me for a good long time after I got home. She just wanted to sit on my lap the whole night to make sure I didn't leave again. Poor kitty. She missed me!

Knolan, I just ran across this thread, and noticed you're in Sugar Land. Me, too!

I'm just getting into gardening - haven't even really started yet, so no beautiful garden pictures to share.

But, I do have some adorable kittens to add. We just adopted these twins in May, they're about 4 months old now. Their names are Harley and Lotus, and they're just the sweetest things ever!

I'm a major cat person too, and couldn't live without them! My boyfriend, when I moved in with him two years ago, said he didn't really like cats, but would tolerate them for me. Now that he's experienced kittenhood - he's a total convert. They OWN him! lol.

And here's my old man - 19 years old. I've had him for over 17 years. Had to have part of his foot removed due to cancer, but otherwise still going strong!

Beautiful, beautiful!!! How did your old man get along with the kittens? And if he does, how long did it take?

Ohh The kittens are beautiful. Are they a Russian Blue? Their fur is looks so silky and petable (if that's a word). It is a major effort to get our senior cats to accept a young one...

Gorgeous animals - absolutely gorgeous!!! The eyes of that Burmese are incredible, the kittens stole my heart big time, and the "old man" is wonderful.

I was gone one night and all three of my cats are mad at me. They are SO spoiled!

Stutz (the old man) was kind of annoyed at first. lol. He's always been super mellow, and has always gotten along with other animals (we have 4 ferrets, too). When these kittens came, he hissed at them a few times, but now he just mostly ignores them. It's a good thing we got the two together, though. Just one would probably have harrassed him to death! It only took him a couple of weeks to go from hissing to ignoring. They still try to make nice - rubbing up against him and such - every now and then, but he still just ignores them. He's sitting on my lap right now, as a matter of fact

The kittens are actually mutts - they were free giveaways from a person who rescued a pregnant street cat. The mother is a tiny little gray stripey tabby, but we're guessing daddy must have been a Russian Blue, 'cause that's sure what they look like. They are very soft and smooth, and I love the silvery sheen on their fur. Of course, I am just a wee bit biased..... ;)

The 7 week old kitten we rescued three weeks ago is getting the cold shoulder and occasional hiss from our two 9 year old Ragdoll cats. DH calls them "grumpy old men" (one is female - the hisser). The kitten so wants to play with them, and the two times she actually jumped on the male cat's moving tail, you would have thought he was shot from a rocket! He watches, but he wants -0- to do with her. I feel so sorry for her.

Ceejay, easy answer here - get another kitten for little Sunday!!!!

Murmur - I don't think my ankles can take it. I have so many little holes in them, and my feet, that if I could fill them with water, little fountains would spray all over the place.

Ceejay - you'd be surprised! When you have two kittens, they really do mostly play with each other. They will play with us when we want them to - the old string ploy works every time. But, if we're busy, they just start pouncing on each other or chasing each madly from room to room.

Not to say that they haven't each climbed our legs a few times and such, but nothing excessive. Just that I think we'd have many MORE holes in our ankles if we only had one, than we do now.

I think so, too, Digi - so Ceejay, get out there looking for another rescue kitty!

Kittens we've had seem to think trees wear blue jeans! Woe unto you if you're wearing shorts....

Yup. I have the scars to prove that fact.

Uh huh.

DH was lying on the floor watching TV the other night. Little Sunday ran up his shorts leg - inside seam. I hear this whooping and hollering and I run into the room to see my husband desperately trying to remove a kitten. Gawd, I wish I'd had a video of that. I just keep seeing it over and over in my mind! ROTFLMAO!!!

I have given her my silky, floor length floral robe, because she liked to climb it. It's in her bed now....It was no longer of any use to me!

Another kitten would be great. It just gets so durn expensive with the vet bills and the food and boarding... (We have three altogether.)

:-)~ found where you are Lissy, and yes it was scorching here for a week, I hid in the house except to run out and change where the water was jpointed.

My waterer person did a marvelous job. Better than I mangaged since I got back actually. and the heat wave has broken. This week has been just wonderful. today we had clouds. we've had a tenth of an inch of rain this month already. LOL and the high today was only 93. Sound like the desert you know? and love? yuppers. me too. ~Blooms

Yes Ceejay ~ ROTFL2