ok, I think. He has gone out for a bit each day to play fetch. He does not like her jumping on him and of course she jumps on him more than she does with me. He is really used to my parents' little lap dog even though he thinks he wants a bigger dog. Now if the dog could come in and lay down beside him while he was playing games or watching tv, then he would LOVE it. The cats do not cuddle with him like they do me.

Sounds weird, but what does Syl think of vaseline? When Dev started turning her nose up at the hairball goo, I sorta kinda accidentally learned she liked vaseline. And Pumpkin tried to eat aquaphor.

Sylvester will eat as much vaseline as I can feed him (not that I do). Oz will take a dab only.

It was because of his jonesing for vaseline that the vet had me get the real hairball stuff since it has no chance of bad effects if he say, eats the whole tube.

What are people doing this weekend?

Ideally, doing taxes, cleaning the house, cleaning the car, and exercising. In probable reality, sitting on my heiny watching television.

msbelle, great news on the financial front, and the doggie is lovely!

Tom, I echo what the others have said. I fully support you in your decision to go to the class you're looking forward to so much, instead of visiting the father you have such a rough history with.

cats eating wet food

I started putting out the wet food at set times, and slowly putting out less dry food. They were both used to getting wet food already, but they both liked their regular dry food as the main course. Leo made the switch to mostly-wet-food easily, but Percy is still fussing and wanting his favorite dry food instead. Leo likes tuna more than is good for him, and he seems to be allergic to salmon. They both like chicken and turkey, and don't care much for beef. I don't want them to entirely stop eating dry food, though, because when I go away for a few days, I want to be able to leave out enough dry food that I don't fret about them starving. (I never fully trust catsitters to actually show up every day.)

Lee, I don't even know how to parse that.

I do! My head reflexively banged on my desk in sympathy when I read it.

Damn, I miss that cat. He filled so much space.

I'm so sorry, sara.

My mom is completely undone by falling last week.

I'm sorry, Sue. Something similar happened to my mom, too. It's really hard. Anxiety was a big part of it. She just became afraid of everything, for a while.

msbelle, if he can manage it, it's best to just turn away from the dog when she jumps, rather than shoving her down or giving her any kind of attention.

What are people doing this weekend?

Working tomorrow, unfortunately. At least I didn't get saddled with the surprise urgent side project that threatened to materialize today.

Yay?

that's what I do, mac, nsm. In fact, she barely jumps with me at all, only today when I was squatting down to pull weeds, and then jumping at me, not up. clearly she thought it was some play thing where I should wrestle with her.

msbelle, that's fantastic financial news. Whoo!

With the cat, I'm just trying to get through the giving-antibiotics phase, and then worry if he's not better. Cortez could skip the wet food completely for all I care -- he drinks plenty of water, and is plump and healthy and perfectly happy.

The Biscuit does that too, he thinks anytime you're near the ground must be playtime. He loooves yoga, too. He stretches too.

Percy the Emo Cat is having an inappropriate relationship with a green plushy blanket on the couch. He's holding it in his mouth and rolling kneading with all four paws and like dry-humping it. He is fixed, but... this is weird. He's never done that with any of the other plushy blankets, all of which are brown, so maybe he just really likes green?

I don't know if washing it will be sufficient. I may throw it out. Or maybe I'll put it on his bed and let his forbidden love go on.