Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
The first time I did that, half the people on the screen disappeared and I was confused. They all came back with stuffed animals and one guy had a plastic Godzilla toy.
Somebody just sent my stuffed bear a Christmas card. LOL
Ohhh, how cute that your MIL knitted your cats Christmas sweaters but, not so cute that you had to cut them out of the sweaters! Our doxie never liked us putting anything on her. I had bought her a dark green plaid coat to keep her warm on walks - no go!
I'm glad you found your cat - how can you be mad at him when he was "innocently" sleeping under the Christmas tree???
On a sad note - for the first time ever I opened up our mailbox the other night when we were walking our dog and in it was a glossy 5x5 postal card of someone who did a "special mailing" for a fairly large area regarding her cat still missing with two pictures, description and a reward. She wrote some other things and I felt her desperation. I felt bad all the way home. She even said "PLEASE KEEP THIS CARD."
I would love to have found her cat, give it to her and say "Merry Christmas" (I would never take a reward - how sad that people have to be bribed). I've been tempted to text her and ask if her cat was ever found. :(
It is sad and I always get upset when I see signs posted on light poles, on the cluster mailboxes and even sometimes when we would go to coffeehouses (pre-COVID days) and see them on their bulletin board.
Our dog being newly deaf is now having separation anxiety whenever I leave the house or room and my husband has to work from home and put up with her barking for me - so he's being driven "crazy" at times too. In fact, he's complaining about her as I type!
Your statement is true about the joy of having animals outweighing the pain of losing them and I think that can be applied to loved ones as well. As the saying goes "better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."
I've never had to put down a pet as my childhood dog drowned in our backyard pool. I just hope our dog, whose bed is beside ours, will go peacefully in her sleep while I'm there.
Were your cats always clingy or is it because they are elderly? Like Chloe will be 14 in January - I definitely think it's her being deaf but what I'm wondering is if with the pandemic and a lot of us being at home more than ever if that's what part of the problem is. Prior to COVID, I was always running around doing stuff, going places etc. and she was home by herself and usually was in her bed whenever I got home (I do feel kind of bad for being gone a lot now that I look back). It'd be interesting to know if the pandemic has caused some of this plus I know they pick up on our stress and anxiety too!
Yes, I can see always having worked at home and your "catering to their every need" creating little high maintenance prince and princesses - lol!
An "enabler" - now there's a thought :0
Like you said and I know I've read many times how much animals are in tune to how their owners are feeling. Mine is so sensitive that when I rush around like a "pinball" as my husband likes to call me when I'm multi-tasking, she feels it. I've been trying not to do that as much so as not to cause her stress.
WOW, they have it made with you and it's no wonder they are clingy! Going to far? No; crazy? meh - lol!
I like the idea of a heated bed. I made a mock one - I got her two deep beds one for the daytime by our computer and one for the nighttime when we go to bed. Each one has those two really soft plush blankets; one I put on the bottom and the other one on top of her. Then I bought a mini heater to keep the room itself nice and cozy warm since this side of the house gets colder.
However, before I ever knew of such a thing, years ago I sketched out a drawing of creating one. Since our Dachshund is often called a wiener dog, I call her a "Chili Dog" in the cold months and a "Hot Dog" in the summer months and therefore I wanted to create a "Chilly Bed" and was still trying to figure out how to make a "Hotbed" - one day I was at a store and saw that there were already similar types of items on the market. I guess we won't be retiring until we're 90!
The owner then walks over to the cat and gives her daily food. The cat thinks to herself” Wow, you do all this for me, every day. I must be god.”
My cousin's cat, Phoebe, is beautiful and extremely photogenic and she looks like she owns the place!
Sometimes Chloe acts like she's part dog and part cat :)
Norman is our 85lb Bernedoodle.
He is the sweetest fur baby ever!!
Monday, I let him outside. We live on seven acres . He's awesome about sticking close to the house.
After about 20 minutes, I went to the door to call him in. He was nowhere to be found. After an hour of searching I was panicked and sobbing!! I drove down to the road and searched there too.
When I got back up to the house, there he was!
He had brought back part of a deer carcass. YUCK!!!
I spent the next 20 minutes chasing him down, because he wanted to bring it in the house. He wouldn't let go!
Lucky thing no one was filming me. Between the chasing and me gagging , it probably was pretty comical . Lol
That is so funny and so true!!
Xray,
I had a cat that would bring his mice in the house if we didn't look at this mouth. He have the mouse in his mouth with the tail hang out!
Yuck is right. He probably thought he could bring it in and you wouldn't mind. Glad that you found him!
Hold tight to the memories you just made!!
I'm so glad that you had that time with your Dad!!
My Dad passed 3 years ago. I am still so grateful that I was able to spend quality time with him before he passed away!
(((Hugs)))
So happy that you were able to be with your dad.
Crazy situation with the horse.
I didn't realize your new avatar was of the Christmas tree you told me your SO bought for you and that you set up next to your TV. Lately, when I can't tell what someone's avatar is, I have to just click on it so I can see it better. I'm too lazy to get my reading glasses because then I have to put them toward the end of my nose so I can look through them and above them - too much work - lol!
See that's cute and all you need since you're really not in the holiday spirit.
Did making the Duck w/orange sauce that your dad used to make this time of year help you at all?
He did it to bring awareness to the public because he has a 17 year old son with an autoimmune health condition.
He became frustrated when he saw people not wearing a mask.
I didn't know about this story (we stopped watching the news due to the high anxiety it was causing and will read headlines just to keep awareness of what's going on).
So I did look it up on YouTube. He said back in March he thought it would be around 800. Someone asked him if he ever thinks it will hit the 5-digit number; he didn't. He updates his board daily which he says is a task in and of itself.
Also, he had said that people think of numbers in an abstract way so he wanted to give those numbers more meaning with the flags. I noticed there were a couple of different looking flags so I wondered if they corresponded to citizens vs. healthcare workers etc.
Very good story!
How is your cousin doing this morning?