CATNIP is on the toxic list. Come on now.

For real? Huh. Danger of overdose, I guess?

Maybe I should actually read the list. I mostly plant stuff that is edible for humans and figure the cats will be okay, to. Also, mine are not big plant eaters, although Pixie does like her catnip.

PetSmart sells catnip potted in little plastic planters. My cats ignore it, despite that they like the dried concentrated stuff. I dunno, it makes me think this is a list of everything that could possibly be poisonous if a plant-loving cat ate enough, as opposed to, likely under normal circumstances.

The dog versions that you see especially at holidays are like that. Little to no distinction between actually poisonous, 3AM emergency vet stuff v. Let them eat too much and you'll be cleaning up puke foods.

Kate, I'm so very sorry.

To be fair, my one cat would eat a whole catnip plant, pull it out by the roots and chew on those if she had the opportunity. And I could believe that would make her sick.

I saw Oz start nomming down on the leaves of the foxglove in my garden. I freaked. But nothing happened. I don't think he consumed anything by the time I yelled at him.

I had catnip as an indoor plant once and my cat completely ignored it. Then one day I put the plants on the deck for a good soak and some sun, and CRASH. I never did get the number of the cat who stole that whole plant from its pot.

Kate, I'm so sorry about your friend. My friend's DH is going through chemo and we were thinking of gift certificate options for them. Some great suggestions besides food were housecleaning services and Uber to get the DH back and forth to appts. (Their car is in the shop.)

Oh, Kate, I am so sorry.

~ma for Matilda, please? She's been racked with harsh consumptive coughing fits for the last month -- not pneumonia, not bronchitis, not asthma, nothing infectious, just a cough that won't stop; she got an inhaler last Tuesday and was supposed to be slowly improving but really hasn't been, and has been hitting the inhaler every 1-2 hours for the last few days. And she's recently almost totally stopped eating, because her sides hurt and the coughing makes her feel vomity. The frequent inhaler use alarmed the advice nurse a *lot*, so now Hec is taking her to urgent care for a possible back-to-back 3 rounds of neb treatments and then observation and then who knows what. And I'm here at work. She's just been so sick and draggly and waking every couple of hours to hack and gasp, but other than a few flare-ups such a steady little trooper.

What are some good things to send in a care package to someone who is going through chemo and radiation?

Distraction like DVDs of old sitcoms.

{{Matilda and family}} Lots of calm the heck down already lungs ~ma.