Happy birthday, Sean!
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - May 28, 2009 3:34:57 pm PDT #11321 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
JenP - May 28, 2009 3:45:04 pm PDT #11322 of 30000
Happy Birthday, Sean!!
Calli - May 28, 2009 3:53:17 pm PDT #11323 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy Birthday, Sean!
askye - May 28, 2009 4:36:42 pm PDT #11324 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Happy Birthday Sean!
askye - May 28, 2009 4:38:51 pm PDT #11325 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I think I need to call the vet about Maddie. She doesn't jump well. She can jump down well and jump from the window to the bed. But jumping from the floor to the arm of the sofa...not so good. She kinda scrambles up. Or tries to, I think she was better at it when she was a kitten but now she's heavier and can't really pull herself up.
There's not a ton of places for her to jump and I noticed it but thought maybe she'd grow out of it.
Also her whiskers are crumpled and some are broken off. I have no idea if that's related.
Any thoughts on what could be wrong?
javachik - May 28, 2009 5:17:33 pm PDT #11326 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Happy Birthday to you, Sean!
Torque - May 28, 2009 5:37:15 pm PDT #11327 of 30000
Bad Wolf
Happy Birthday Sean
DavidS - May 28, 2009 6:35:36 pm PDT #11328 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Can turtles high five? Or would they just bop each other onto their backs in the trying?
Ooh, surely the latter as it's more amusing to contemplate.
Happy birthday, Sean! Drink something that is both potent and potable for me.
beth b - May 28, 2009 6:56:32 pm PDT #11329 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I had a cat that never jumped well. He couldn't really climb either. He never learned.
Happy birthday , Sean.
feel better, connie.
Yay , vw.
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WindSparrow - May 28, 2009 6:58:13 pm PDT #11330 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
But jumping from the floor to the arm of the sofa...not so good. She kinda scrambles up. Or tries to, I think she was better at it when she was a kitten but now she's heavier and can't really pull herself up.
Ok, I have seen Sammie climb things in a rather laborious fashion when she could easily have made the jump in a half second. But she really likes climbing. Climbing is the thing she is good at. In fact, she has the talent for climbing down trees, which not all cats master. She can jump, and will when there is no other choice. When I started reading your description, at first I thought you just had another happy climber on your hands. But you mentioning she is having trouble pulling herself up, and that makes me think she may have some muscular, skeletal or neuro issue. Because Sammie's strength increased as her weight did, and is as climb-y now as she was as a tiny little kitten.
Also her whiskers are crumpled and some are broken off. I have no idea if that's related.
Any thoughts on what could be wrong?
The whiskers are a mystery. I have known them to get wrinkled up from exposure to high heat - like a curious kitty nose investigating an unattended candle, or a hot stove when I wasn't watching. I have known my cats to chew each other's eyebrow whiskers off in the process of social grooming (the bumps of the follicles feel like external parasites and get bitten). I have known one cat, an indoor-outdoor cat, who came home one day with her whiskers all cut off. She was afraid of strangers after that, so it's easy to chalk that up to human agency. A quick Google yields the results that medical issues such as nutrition and fungal infection can cause breakages. So yeah, it is worth bringing up to the vet.