Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

 Have good news that Junie has healthy looking guts. The blood work is still pending but the doc thinks it’s what I’ve been dealing with all along of irritable bowel issues. So have to play around with the diet again. Will start with mixing in more of the freeze dried rabbit and he said that grain free doesn’t make as much difference as the protein so I may explore foods with rice

Bad news is that it’s still guesswork. If she continues to have constant diarrhea, I may have to start her on low dose steroids to try to calm things down. Though that seems better than the anti diarrhea pill that can cause nausea that was given as an option in the past that I refused. 

She was such a good girl that they didn’t need to dope her up and the little heifer gained weight again! So time to do research and I’m now about $650 poorer. Yikes

 EPIC KITTEN BATTLE!



Kitty-related. Someone on a local forum asked about local vets and someone posted that there is a MOBILE vet that comes to our area. I am seriously considering this for JonJon the Cowardly Mini Lion

Going to be a long day. It's gloomy and wet, work is overwhelming and still combating JuneBug's on and off sour tummy. I tried a new limited ingredient diet food last night which was an epic FAIL. Poor baby girl was going from litterbox to litterbox this morning. I hope that she's got it all out of her system. I'm pondering again trying to find a raw food to transition her to or trying to be brave enough to make a batch. 

Anyhoo, since I was following her around trying to keep up with the scooping between 3-5 am, I'm going to be so very tired today. If I didn't have a very important conference call this afternoon, I'd take off work. So instead, I'll just try to play peppy music and get up and take laps around the building. 

I've started with this song

Junie's vet visit done (they didn't do shots which I thought was odd but probably because she's got the poo issues so another time *shrug*) They'll be testing the poo I brought (always fun, eh?) and the little porker gained a POUND AND A HALF over the year and now tips the scales at a little over 10 pounds. I also paid through the nose for the vet price of the FortiFlora to try. If it works, I told them I'd like a script so I can order it with my food order from chewy.com. They were fine with that. They also gave me a couple of free cans of Royal Canin Gastrointestinal food. I don't intend to bother with the food unless the FortiFlora doesn't do the trick on her normal food. She's picky as hell and I doubt she'll like the prescription stuff. That and to be honest, I buy better quality food than that stuff. But my vet isn't cheap and it was about $140. Ouch.

Had dentist cleaning at noon where the chick was pretty much the Nurse Ratched of hygienists. No bedside manner at all and I know it had to be the one that the gal that recommended the dentist HATES. Meh, whatever. I'm not cowed when they try to give you shit about OMG! You're gonna DIE if you don't floss ALL THE TIME. My troublesome sinus-aggravated tooth was achy when I left but it seems to be mostly better now so I'll try to stop worrying about it unless it starts to act up more. If it does, well, guess it'll be a stupid root canal.

I have to wrangle JonJon in about an hour for his yearly vet visit. Because I know they'll want to check both kitties, yeah, have more poo to gift them. If JonJon also put on weight, I'm going to be a much tougher mom and they'll get MUCH less snacktime. 

So though it's a full day of those annoying kind of appointments and wrangling, I'm glad I had it all set up for today since it sounds like tomorrow is going to SUCK with up to 6-10 inches of snow forecast. Since I don't want to get even further behind at work since I took today off, I emailed Bossman and he's cool with me working from home tomorrow. I can read and edit the online reports (have a little over fifty of them left) from home fine in between snow shoveling sessions.

Oh and our local PD are dorks. They posted this on FB:

With this video:

I don't recall if I mentioned that my friendly downstairs neighbor Natalie asked if I'd come in and hang out with her kitty while she is gone a few days for the Thanksgiving holiday. He has an automatic feeder and is generally fine for a day or two but she worries if she's gone longer than that. Of course I agreed. Kittyboy Miles gives me little demure meows and sniffs the screen when I go downstairs so I hold my fingers near the screen and tell him hello and that he's a good boy.

Natalie was super curious how he'd receive me fully in the flesh and we got the answer right away when I visited her for a meet and greet this evening. The minute I stepped inside, meows abound as Miles came lumbering up (he's a bit of a chunky love) quickly to greet me and demanded patpats and attention. She told me that he will get SUCH a sad look on his face if he hears me coming down the stairs and doesn't get to the window in time. Also, he even recognizes the sound of me coming down over the other upstairs neighbors.

I guess I have a kitty boyfriend? lol. Oh and I refused her offer of money for the visits. I told her next time she makes some yummy preserves to keep me in mind is all.

Kitty doesn't get this on the regular per the comments at youtube. It's usually just a birthday treat but she got spoiled so he could do the video (I'll copy/paste them under the video here so you don't have to go to the source). I don't know if mine would appreciate all the effort like this kitty does.
( Video comments from Jun from the youtube page )

I was giving JuneBug a snuggle when she hopped up next to me near the bedroom window and was curious when she seemed hyperfocused since anymore the kitties seem to take the constant viewing of birds and squirrels in stride lately since they get so much of it at the new place.

I looked to see what had her attention and laughed. There was a blue jay on a branch of one of the several spindly trees and there was a squirrel right below it. When the blue jay would hop to another branch or tree next to it, the squirrel was following! On and on it went, hop, scamper, hop scamper. It was clear they were actually playing with each other. The squirrel seemed to almost lose interest so the blue jay chirped and after a moment a second blue jay came along and the game was on! The birds teased the squirrel and the squirrel hopped and leapt around them. They were having a grand old time.

By that point, JonJon hopped up to find out what was going on and I watched with them for a good five minutes before I gave up my spot at the window so they could have the best Cat TV viewing since they're not interested in Mommy's TV.

Somehow over the last week I've lost a couple of LJ friends with no notice. I'm suspecting it might have part to do with the post regarding slash of which I had hoped not to cause offense since I was genuinely curious about learning about people's interests but you never know how people are going to take things.

I have to take JonJon to the vet in a few minutes. He's been constipated on and off for the last month or so. When I got home from work yesterday, I was actually pleased to see that he had a decent poo in the box. But for some reason he had no spirit to him. I got him to eat a little but it was a struggle and after that he tried to poo but only a little came out and it's like he was done. He went and laid down and didn't respond much to petting. When I've brought him food later last night and this morning, he turns away and he's licking his lips and hasn't moved much since last night.

I'm one of those types that in the back of my head think that I've done something to upset the universe and am paying for it now. :/

For those new folks, my dorky boycat, JonJon (see icon of him trying on Mommy's shoes for size) aside from being a goofball that makes more mooing noises rather than actual meowing noises is also a neat freak.

...ah, speaking of kittyboy, had to stop typing and set aside the tablet to rub his belleh. He'll walk up to me and flop down on his side and streeeeetch and wants his tumtum scritched. Everytime he flops, I can't help but say "Oh no! Your legs gave out!" and he looks at me with a "What?" look...

aaaanyway, when he uses the box, he always goes for a jog. When he poos, he tears off in a "poo gallop" around the place like the hounds of hell are on his heels. He also sucks much of the time at covering it up. He'll not want to touch it so he'll go to the complete opposite corner of the box and scoop litter into a pile, knocking litter out of that corner onto the floor but will leave the pee bit uncovered *facepalm*

Today he must've had some of the wet litter stuck to his bum because when I walked into the hall, he was standing next to a small piece of wet litter and kept trying to "cover" it with the flattened down apartment carpet. He looked at me with big sad eyes almost as if he were apologetic and I assured him that Mommy would fix it, which I did.

Silly ol' JonJon