Introducing Betty White

[artiemom]

I have found car repair to be so expensive. It is ridiculous! And Cat Converters are a 'hot' item, since then are being cut out of cars. The supply cannot keep up with the demand. I had to wait a week, for a part.. And when I needed some body work, I waited 3 months for a part!! Turned out, it was stuck in a warehouse in Connecticut. I am in Boston. If I had known, I would have driven down to the warehouse and picked it up, myself!!

Interesting to hear about Betty..
Did you speak with her Vet? just curious.

 

[artiemom]

I just found out: a resident, who parked in our parking lot, had his Cat Converter cut out from his car. It was an older model, and took minutes, with a crew. They have it on tape, but could not get the license number of their vehicle... dam..

 

[tarasgirl06]

I just found out: a resident, who parked in our parking lot, had his Cat Converter cut out from his car. It was an older model, and took minutes, with a crew. They have it on tape, but could not get the license number of their vehicle... dam..

YEAH. It's not just the "popular" and newer models of car that get targeted. Desperation reigns.

 

[Margot Lane]

With EVs, it appears you don’t need a catalytic converters, but, watch them yank out something vital, like batteries! Where I live, I give aggressive drivers alllll the room they need…I pull over and let them zoom past. But then I live in the country, so easier to do.

Anyway, GO BETTY!!!!

 

[daftcat75]

Last night she was really late on finishing first dinner. She’s been halving her remainders requiring a third pass. My lights are on timers and schedules. Lights go out at 9 and this is usually our bed time. Or at least get second dinner plated, brush and floss my teeth, and get into bed for some Bettybeard time. Lights went out at 9 and I was in a standoff with her. She spent the last hour in a box. I put up one light and get ready to collect her plate, book the remainder, and start on bedtime routine. That’s when she decides to come out of the box and finish her first dinner. Good thing she has all night to work on second dinner. I often say to her, “I hope you got your eating pants on.” She had her eating pants on last night. Despite her late finish on first dinner, she turned in a clean second dinner plate and ate half the feeder for 177 calories yesterday.

She did not wake with her eating pants on. She must have taken them off at some point overnight. She did a sniff and walk away on breakfast. I got to her to eat half off the carpet. She reduced her remainder by half during third sleep. Her final remainder is well within reach before lunch.

I really hope this carpet nonsense is a dental thing that will get addressed. Doc did not call yesterday. I was told she would be in surgery all day. I don’t know how busy and stressful that may be. I didn’t communicate any kind of urgency. This doc gets a pass this time. I’ll call back later this morning (squatting on a work team call right now) and renew my request for a callback.

It’s unfortunate that I will have nothing to show for these two weeks that I was supposed to engage regular vet and get her back on her dental treatment plan. Specialist wanted a two week check in and I’ll have nothing to report. I guess no news is still good news. But this is all taking way too long.

 

[daftcat75]

No sooner did I hit post, I got a call from VCA. Doc is indeed busy. She asked for an appointment to be set up where we could repeat her checkup since she hasn't been seen at VCA for many months and then also have that consultation about next steps. The tech on the phone with me said November 7 was the soonest she could be seen. And my brain just fixated on November thinking we had to wait a whole other month. I didn't realize October is almost gone and that's only another two weeks. I told him let's make the appointment and I'll get back to them if I decide to have her seen sooner by someone else. Then after I got off the call, I looked at the calendar and realized it was only two weeks. Yes, I think she can wait another two weeks and I should be establishing more of a rapport with her regular vet. The specialist won't be checking her ears or doing the dental. Not this specialist anyway. I'll be paying close attention to what the doc says about her teeth. If it seems like she may be having future tooth issues, I'll get her on a dentist calendar before she needs it so we can jump the consultation line when she actually does need a future procedure.

 

[tarasgirl06]

No sooner did I hit post, I got a call from VCA. Doc is indeed busy. She asked for an appointment to be set up where we could repeat her checkup since she hasn't been seen at VCA for many months and then also have that consultation about next steps. The tech on the phone with me said November 7 was the soonest she could be seen. And my brain just fixated on November thinking we had to wait a whole other month. I didn't realize October is almost gone and that's only another two weeks. I told him let's make the appointment and I'll get back to them if I decide to have her seen sooner by someone else. Then after I got off the call, I looked at the calendar and realized it was only two weeks. Yes, I think she can wait another two weeks and I should be establishing more of a rapport with her regular vet. The specialist won't be checking her ears or doing the dental. Not this specialist anyway. I'll be paying close attention to what the doc says about her teeth. If it seems like she may be having future tooth issues, I'll get her on a dentist calendar before she needs it so we can jump the consultation line when she actually does need a future procedure.

My brain does that ALL the time on way too much stuff (like when I'm supposed to be sleeping...)
At some point, this world is going to have to get over its tech obsession and stop putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. Went grocery shopping just now (ONION BAGELS!!!) and had to ask the checker to give me my receipt, to which she responded, "I already did that!" while reaching for the tape. The entire experience was lost, lost people on steroids or in limbo. It was so bad! and the prices were SO ASTRONOMICAL! $5 for a lettuce! (Nope. Spinach and cabbage will have to do.) $2 a bunch for green onions! (Pass. For the second time in a row.)
Our cats -- yours, mine and hopefully a lot of others -- are the lucky ones because in both our cases, and hopefully many more, THEIR needs are met before ours. No matter what.
Margot Lane I live in Glendale, which, for those who don't know, is otherwise known as Little Armenia. I'm far from alone in knowing that among them, especially in the case of young, uber-privileged males, "aggressive" is the middle name of most. And it's not limited to males, or the younger. Driving is a competive sport, and it's not for the weak-hearted.

 

[daftcat75]

With EVs, it appears you don’t need a catalytic converters, but, watch them yank out something vital, like batteries! Where I live, I give aggressive drivers alllll the room they need…I pull over and let them zoom past. But then I live in the country, so easier to do.

Anyway, GO BETTY!!!!

In the Bay Area, and I suspect it's the same with any city, there are dumb-acks and jack-acks and while I will try to get out of the jack-acks way as much as I can, there's almost no avoiding the dumb-acks. In fact, that's what makes them so annoying and dangerous. It's the rest of us who have to adapt our driving around them--or the jack-acks who get impatient with them and do something excessively aggressive--that make for a chaotic mess. When you have one lane that's driving ten under and another lane that's driving twenty over, it's not hard to see that staying put is miserable and passing is taking your life in your own hands. On an interchange, there was one car going too slow and a Tesla who was having none of it. He cut me off to pass this other car, on the right () and then brake checked the other car. On an interchange! Luckily, I saw this precipitating ahead of time, and backed off to give this little twit the room he wasn't asking for. I also gave him an earful of horn as I passed all that little drama. This kind of thing happens almost daily and why I love remote work so much! My ideal would be to live somewhere where both work and leisure are a reasonable public transport ride away. The new work office still has too much walk between stations and destinations.

 

[tarasgirl06]

In the Bay Area, and I suspect it's the same with any city, there are dumb-acks and jack-acks and while I will try to get out of the jack-acks way as much as I can, there's almost no avoiding the dumb-acks. In fact, that's what makes them so annoying and dangerous. It's the rest of us who have to adapt our driving around them--or the jack-acks who get impatient with them and do something excessively aggressive--that make for a chaotic mess. When you have one lane that's driving ten under and another lane that's driving twenty over, it's not hard to see that staying put is miserable and passing is taking your life in your own hands. On an interchange, there was one car going too slow and a Tesla who was having none of it. He cut me off to pass this other car, on the right () and then brake checked the other car. On an interchange! Luckily, I saw this precipitating ahead of time, and backed off to give this little twit the room he wasn't asking for. I also gave him an earful of horn as I passed all that little drama. This kind of thing happens almost daily and why I love remote work so much! My ideal would be to live somewhere where both work and leisure are a reasonable public transport ride away. The new work office still has too much walk between stations and destinations.

Yeah on all of the above and I'm not a paranoiac or a person who believes in living in fear, but that facts are that there are far too many unpredictable, mentally ill, violent, and weapons-toting people in society, no matter where we live; I try to be humble in any situation and to give everyone a wide berth so they are not offended or angered, and can go about whatever they're doing without dealing with me. Because you never, ever know.

 

[daftcat75]

Shoot! She does not having her eating pants on this afternoon. Her first pass on lunch was a sniff and walk away. I don't serve lunch from the carpet. She will eat what she will eat. Or maybe she won't. But I only insist on carpet portions with medicine so that she always takes her meds with at least a little food. But yeah. She didn't wake when I was serving lunch. She missed her first pass when it was fresh. She hasn't done that in awhile. She's usually up for a first pass. I had to pop out for a quick grocery run and figured she would wake for first pass when I started my lunch. She woke. She wanted fuss. I fussed her. We played red dot for a minute. Then I collected my lunch and went back to the office. I thought she would head for the plate. And after a slow moment or three, she finally did. But that's when she merely sniffed and walked away. I think she took a half-hearted paw swipe. But that's all. She came back into the office to check on me. I finished my lunch and put the plate in the sink and decided to give her more fuss. But instead of giving her first pass a second chance, she eventually went back into her poof. So that's that. Maybe she'll eat half at 3. The only way I see her finishing lunch is going to put first dinner at risk of not getting finished. I guess she booked some excess calories yesterday so that she could skip some today.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Shoot! She does not having her eating pants on this afternoon. Her first pass on lunch was a sniff and walk away. I don't serve lunch from the carpet. She will eat what she will eat. Or maybe she won't. But I only insist on carpet portions with medicine so that she always takes her meds with at least a little food. But yeah. She didn't wake when I was serving lunch. She missed her first pass when it was fresh. She hasn't done that in awhile. She's usually up for a first pass. I had to pop out for a quick grocery run and figured she would wake for first pass when I started my lunch. She woke. She wanted fuss. I fussed her. We played red dot for a minute. Then I collected my lunch and went back to the office. I thought she would head for the plate. And after a slow moment or three, she finally did. But that's when she merely sniffed and walked away. I think she took a half-hearted paw swipe. But that's all. She came back into the office to check on me. I finished my lunch and put the plate in the sink and decided to give her more fuss. But instead of giving her first pass a second chance, she eventually went back into her poof. So that's that. Maybe she'll eat half at 3. The only way I see her finishing lunch is going to put first dinner at risk of not getting finished. I guess she booked some excess calories yesterday so that she could skip some today.

There are days like that in every cat-loving household, I guess. That's why we're all familiar with the term, "finicky."
Hope the grocery run was good, anyway. And hoping Ms. Betty wakes up from her poof-time HUNGRY.

 

[daftcat75]

There are days like that in every cat-loving household, I guess. That's why we're all familiar with the term, "finicky."
Hope the grocery run was good, anyway. And hoping Ms. Betty wakes up from her poof-time HUNGRY.

She’s been restless and kinda inconsolable all day. She didn’t remain in the poof very long before she came to see me again. But she still didn’t touch lunch. I fussed her up and then disappeared to the bathroom. I may have the only cat that doesn’t follow me into the bathroom. I will sometimes hide in the bathroom or the kitchen after a fuss session to encourage her to get bored and walk off to her plate for a pass. She passed her plate and starting crying in front of the deck door.

I don’t know what you’re about today. But I want you eating something this afternoon. So despite saying I wouldn’t feed her lunch off the carpet, that’s what I ended up doing. She took up a fat first pass (almost three hours later than usual!) whether she was wearing her eating pants or not. If she doesn’t come back, I’m far more okay with this remainder than the one she was heading for. Of course, cats being cats and Betty being Betty, she may wait until fifteen minutes before dinner to finish that remainder. I think I’ll set a “plates up” alarm for 45 minutes before dinner. I’d rather book a remainder on lunch than mess up our dinners once more. Besides. She has the extra calories from yesterday if she wants to leave remainders today. But not whole meal remainders. That’s too much remainder.

 

[tarasgirl06]

She’s been restless and kinda inconsolable all day. She didn’t remain in the poof very long before she came to see me again. But she still didn’t touch lunch. I fussed her up and then disappeared to the bathroom. I may have the only cat that doesn’t follow me into the bathroom. I will sometimes hide in the bathroom or the kitchen after a fuss session to encourage her to get bored and walk off to her plate for a pass. She passed her plate and starting crying in front of the deck door.

I don’t know what you’re about today. But I want you eating something this afternoon. So despite saying I wouldn’t feed her lunch off the carpet, that’s what I ended up doing. She took up a fat first pass (almost three hours later than usual!) whether she was wearing her eating pants or not. If she doesn’t come back, I’m far more okay with this remainder than the one she was heading for. Of course, cats being cats and Betty being Betty, she may wait until fifteen minutes before dinner to finish that remainder. I think I’ll set a “plates up” alarm for 45 minutes before dinner. I’d rather book a remainder on lunch than mess up our dinners once more. Besides. She has the extra calories from yesterday if she wants to leave remainders today. But not whole meal remainders. That’s too much remainder.

C'mon BETTY! YOU CAN DO IT!!! *Please!*

 

[daftcat75]

She must have misplaced her eating pants last night. That half portion off the carpet was all she wanted of lunch. Or at least the lunch I plated. A couple of times during the day she followed me into the kitchen and came up to the counter. I already gave you food.

I don’t want to jinx it. But so far, she’s already doing better on dinner. She committed to a first pass instead of simply sniffing and walking away.

I found I had a few of the old s boulardii caps still left. So I doubled up her dose tonight with one old and one new. If AB is right, that’s actually just 1.5X her old dose. But if my theory about last week vs this week holds, I should see stronger eating over the next couple of days (I have two more of those old capsules left after tonight.) If that turns out to be the case, I will have to council with AB and find out if I can double up the new GMP or if they have any old stock left.

Strong first pass on dinner tonight:

 

[tarasgirl06]

She must have misplaced her eating pants last night. That half portion off the carpet was all she wanted of lunch. Or at least the lunch I plated. A couple of times during the day she followed me into the kitchen and came up to the counter. I already gave you food.

I don’t want to jinx it. But so far, she’s already doing better on dinner. She committed to a first pass instead of simply sniffing and walking away.

I found I had a few of the old s boulardii caps still left. So I doubled up her dose tonight with one old and one new. If AB is right, that’s actually just 1.5X her old dose. But if my theory about last week vs this week holds, I should see stronger eating over the next couple of days (I have two more of those old capsules left after tonight.) If that turns out to be the case, I will have to council with AB and find out if I can double up the new GMP or if they have any old stock left.

Strong first pass on dinner tonight:
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Take all the good you can. Hopefully she's starting to perk up, eating-wise.

 

[daftcat75]

 

[artiemom]

That is like Geoffrey... I sometimes think he is much older than 8 years old. Other times, he acts so much younger; as in when the blinds are closed and I am settled in my recliner. This is when Geoffrey will jump on to the top of his cat tree, chasing his tail!!!
CATS!!

 

[daftcat75]

Either the extra yeast helped or she was making up for lost lunch remainder. She finished both dinners and 2/3 of the feeder. Final score: 166 calories.

She did her feeder eating earlier in the night. I woke up at 5:15 finishing the last seven to ten grams of second dinner on the plate. She heard the alarm and knows the routine. We had a tense moment where she seemed to refuse to take her meds. She got over it and even gave me a few healthy bites on first pass of breakfast. I know I just saw you eating before breakfast, but could you give me one more morsel? Her first pass came out to about 10 grams. Add that to the ten she finished before breakfast and her meds and I will say this morning is already going better than last. The 25 gram remainder is well within reach to be finished before lunch.

 

[tarasgirl06]

*Gonna get that thing. And when I do...it's history!*--Ms. Betty, of the ever-popular red dot
Ah, yes, Cindy: "CATS!" artiemom I guess that review could apply to almost anyone, of almost any species. We all have our moments, yes?
May Friday be a great day for Betty!

 

[daftcat75]

I thought that she signed up for a first pass even after finishing overnight plate minutes earlier was a good sign. I thought coming back and reducing her remainder by half during third sleep was also a strong sign that she found her eating pants. But now we're at standoff and I think I should simply book her remainder and move on to lunch or risk a lunch remainder. I'm guessing ten grams. Better get to it. Last I saw she was grooming. And that usually precedes eating.

Edit: Shoot! She beat me to her breakfast remainder and now she's not interested in a fresh can first pass on lunch. I guess we'll wait for her to wake from her next nap to get started on lunch.