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9/25/2006 11:47:10 AM
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emily2cat
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Yea, which cat do you propose to kick out? They might have something to say (with claws and teeth) about that.
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9/26/2006 1:56:07 PM
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Knitter`s Fall Preview is up
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Uck. When bad things happen to good yarn.
The batwing poncho wins the "you knit what?!" prize.
Even Lavold, whose stuff I normally like, gets a bow-wow prize.
I let my subscription lapse recently. Doesn`t look like I`ll be missing much. Eek.
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9/27/2006 8:14:45 AM
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Knitter`s Fall Preview is up
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The Lavold is a big surprise. Nothing to do with the interesting Scandinavian heritage. No interesting cables or shapes. If her name weren`t on that design, I would have never suspected that this would be hers.
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9/27/2006 8:15:48 AM
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Lets don`t look at the price
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DROOL.
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9/27/2006 7:35:13 PM
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where is everybody
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This group is a morning crowd. I`m not much of a morning person, but I try to check around here in the morning. If you look at the times of the posts, you`ll start to notice the trend--and not just today!
Bunch of larks around here.
Owl.
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9/29/2006 5:50:48 PM
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Dear Sleeping Elannites
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Oh, the perils of the soft of heart.
I returned home today to find a timid siamese mix girl kitty in my backyard. She was sleeping on my lawn chair from which I watch birdies and look at the flowers in the evening. Kitty has blue eyes and is very talkative--all part of her siamese heritage. She was very scared and hungry, and she eagerly had some kitty chow and water and then hid under the forsythia bush.
I went to the local animal shelter to see if someone had reported this girlie missing. Sure enough, someone had--in July--but the phone number was now disconnected. The person had not left a full name or another number and had not called back.
So, back home. I finally realized that I had this thing called a GARAGE with doors and that the weather was good. So, I went to kitty under the bush and scruffed her to pick her up. No problem; in fact, better at being picked up than my own feline crowd. Put her in the garage and she was visibly relieved to be within four walls and a roof with food, water, litter box, and bed. Purred up a storm. Followed me around. Obviously someone`s housecat, but that someone has not followed up and called again.
She seems like a lovely housecat, not difficult at all, and seems good for a beginner at having cats. Giving her four walls and a roof was enough to make her purr and talk and prance and rub on me immediately. She seems very adoptable. But I don`t know anyone who needs/wants a cat, and I`ve got my quota before becoming a crazy cat lady.
What would you do?
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9/29/2006 6:24:04 PM
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Dear Sleeping Elannites
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Oh, yes, that`s one solution, I suppose.
The problem is that I`m not really ready for 4 cats (single crazy cat lady syndrome), and she really is quite adoptable IMHO. Although I like being a homeowner who can have as many cats as she pleases, I have a sucky job, and I would like to find another one--and that might be in a city where I can`t afford to purchase a home of my own.
If it doesn`t sound too pretentious, I know I`m a good cat whisperer. From my first impressions, I think that the cat in my garage would be appropriate for someone without expert feline communication skills, which would save the emergency (read: crazy cat lady) spot in my home for another, more difficult critter.
The animal shelter in town does a good job at trying to find homes for critters, but they do practice euthanasia for lack of good homes. It`s not as bad a situation as in the big cities, however.
I asked up and down the street about missing cats at the neighbors` once I found her in my chair this pm. The cop a few doors down reported that he had seen such a cat for about a month now, but had not fed, nor reported the cat. Oy vey!
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9/29/2006 6:35:38 PM
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Dear Sleeping Elannites
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CatBookMom:
Would that be Bast for Bastet Cat? If so, good name!
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9/30/2006 5:53:25 AM
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Dear Sleeping Elannites
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Bets:
Well, it was definitely a cellphone number, I heard the disconnect memo because the person at the shelter tried to call him on speakerphone.
There are a number of things that point to this being a former student:
--cellphone (many kids don`t have a landline anymore)
--that the person only left a first name (young kid wouldn`t think about leaving a full name, BTW, the shelter uses voicemail as primary phone answering--then returns calls)
--cat was reported lost in July, summertime after graduation
--cat "got out while at a friend`s house" (moving?)
--caller never called again (lame! I would be crazy and calling every day if I lost an animal)
The local shelter had received more calls from citizens saying that they had seen this cat in the neighborhood than the owner`s one call (but nobody tried to catch her, obviously). So, I guess I have my doubts that this is a quality owner. Cellphones are also harder to trace. Given that, would you try to find him?
And as for the job situation. Well, it`s an institutional problem not solved by a single person or a couple people retiring. I know that if I go on the market again this year and get a job, I`ll have lost money on the house. It`s a quandry. And I`m really busy just trying to keep financially afloat.
Went out to feed kitty some crunchies. She likes the crunchies. She had used her box overnight. (Good kitty!) She makes all kinds of sounds that my critters don`t make...guess it`s the siamese in her. She really is a very sweet creature.
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9/30/2006 7:51:46 AM
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Dear Sleeping Elannites
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Yes, I`m an asset.
No, time isn`t going to help, unless I would live through two or three generations to see if sex discrimination improves. It`s not going to improve in my lifetime. Job search in my field starts now with start time in Fall of 2007. Long process.
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9/30/2006 10:56:50 AM
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Oh Emily...She is a beauty!
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I`m having a tough day all around cat-wise, after a very crappy and stressful work week.
You see, one of my own is borderline hyperthyroid and has been vomiting a lot and has lost a lot of weight. Liver and stuff seems fine. She`s a very timid soul. So, got the medication for the vomiting. But, she`s a timid and smart cat, so the instant that I go looking for her to give her the meds, she hides bigtime. After trying to catch her to give her meds, most of the furniture was moved, the mattress was off the bed, and the cat was terrified (therefore not gonna go out to eat something, which she really needs to do). And she still didn`t have a drop of the medication in her. I broke down and called to ask if it would be better to board her at the vet so at least she would get the meds to see if the vomiting gets better.
At the vet, she`s so terrified that she capitulates to tests and such.
She`s looks and feels terrible; I look and feel terrible.
I don`t know whether I`ve done the right thing. I just don`t know what else to do. I don`t want her to be constantly running away from me/not eating or drinking because she`s scared I`m going to give her medication. I don`t want her being scared at the vet`s, but there she will receive her medication (which nobody knows will help, although it is supposed to).
I just got home from dropping her at the vets and I`ve gotten myself all dehydrated from crying.
The only other thing I can think of doing that would solve this is to buy a big dog cage to cage her at home, but even so, I`m afraid that she would slip out (she`s shy but won`t accept manhandling from "mom") and then I would be right back at square one again.
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9/30/2006 12:44:49 PM
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Oh Emily...She is a beauty!
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Thank you for writing benne.
I know the vet looked at my kinda funny. But I don`t want to have a stressed out kitty who now thinks home is an ugly war zone. And she is a smart little bugger who had a tough start on the streets and is skittish as anything.
I bawled at the vet`s office from the stress of it all. I bawled all the way home and then some more.
I know she will hate being there. There aren`t any "cats only" vets around here, so there are dogs in the room next door. And she`s never been boarded anywhere. I just didn`t know what to do. I do understand this cat, but I also don`t want her expending all her calories running from me. And, let me tell you, my place is a wreck after attempting a single dose. This cat has always been impossible to medicate at home, but I hope that she`ll be okay at the vet`s. With pills, she`s an expert at holding it in the mouth until you aren`t looking. But it`s the catching her to mess with her that is the WORST part of the whole affair and can go on for a long time--even with intervals of pretending that nothing is going on.
I know that she feels crappy. That`s obvious. I feel crappy too.
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9/30/2006 6:58:52 PM
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Oh Emily...She is a beauty!
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Mrs. P:
I sure do wish that there were someone else to help, but, alas, that`s the other thing about my new location. I`m very much alone; just a couple friends (all female). They are also all out of town on week-long field trips right now. And we`re all overworked and overlooked.
But actually, that wouldn`t help alone with the timid cat. It`s the catching her. She had a rough kittenhood and is terrified of being picked up. At the vet`s, since she`s already been cornered and isn`t on home turf, she gives up.
But at home, it`s just an endless and very tiring thing to try to catch her. If I have to do it two times a day, well, she`ll starve herself under the bed rather than come out to be messed with. I had to remove the mattress to get at her today.
As a kitten, with the worming pills, I had to take her to the vet each time. Of course, she was a bit easier to catch and manhandle, as she was so tiny at the time.
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10/1/2006 7:24:50 AM
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Kitty Update
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Thank you very much about writing to me about my own borderline hyperthryroid kitty. Evelyn, Thank You especially for letting me know that there`s a topical for this. Getting to her ears is a lot better than having to catch and hold her for getting to her mouth. Plus, all of mine LOVE an ear massage. Of course, right now, she`s only borderline, so the vet doesn`t want to treat for the thyroid, but hopefully the stay at the vet`s will get the vomiting under control.
I feel a bit better about my decision, so thank you for writing to a stressed out catmom.
Siamese-mix girlie is doing fine in the garage. She took to sleeping in a box with packing peanuts, so I put a fleece blanket in there today. She`s a charmer--wants to talk and then sleep in a lap. I can`t imagine why someone would walk away from her, but, as I wrote before, I think her previous owner was a college student.
Her only "flaw" so far, if you can call it one, is that she gets irritated when my leg falls asleep when she`s napping on me. I slowly move my leg and kick her off, and she has been known to hiss--just once--to let me know that she wasn`t finished with her nap. She has clearly been a very lonely and stressed-out girl during the past couple of months on the street. She loves people and affection.
Keep thinking about possible adopters for this kitty. When I was at the shelter, I saw (as I looked at the phone when we were trying to call the "owner") that there was a note posted saying "Full for Cats." So, I can be fostering her for awhile, but if I take her to the shelter, I`ll be shortening her life--or another cat`s life (the shelter euthanizes), so I would like to place her myself, if possible.
I will also try the breed rescue to see if she qualifies. She`s definitely got the blue-eyed, people-hugging, big-talking Siamese thing going for her.
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10/1/2006 5:46:27 PM
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Kitty Update
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Yes, she is very sweet, and very focused on humans. She`s a lovey to be sure. I printed up flyers to hand to my neighbors and friends. I want her to find a very good, and very forever, home. No more students who give her up in four years.
She loves to be held. What a sweetie.
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10/2/2006 8:23:44 AM
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Beautiful Kitty
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I`m in Iowa. I am flying to Newark for a conference in about a month. I have to change planes, so it would only work if I could take her in the cabin on both legs. I don`t trust the airlines with animals in the hold.
She is a very good cat. Still can`t believe that the former owner only called once for her.
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10/3/2006 9:33:03 AM
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The problem with Knitters -- the mag not the people!
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But, geez, wouldn`t you think that the yarn companies realize that fall-type colors would sell their yarn better for those seasons?
I still think that a lot of the patterns are not flattering. They make the models stand out--and not in a good way, for the most part.
There are so many talented knitters out there (and here at Elann); I just can`t imagine how the editors shift things so that you get a magazine full of "Ugh." I`m not renewing anytime soon.
Maybe Elann should start a magazine, with all of us as editors!
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10/3/2006 10:43:02 AM
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Musings about being online
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Okay, just musing here....when I should be preparing for class/dealing with the seeming thousands of tests in front of me.
Do you all talk about your online friends without feeling strange about it?
I mean, once in awhile it comes up in conversation with real-life people in front of me, and I sometimes feel odd--sort of like the adult version of a child`s imaginary friends. I mean, it`s a strange thing to have these people we talk to--almost every day--but most of you I wouldn`t recognize if I happened to run into you at the airport.
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10/3/2006 6:50:36 PM
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Musings about being online
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Wow. Didn`t know I would stir things up this much! Just something that I was thinking about, and it seems to have entered a bunch of your lives.
Admittedly, I probably wouldn`t be as open with a different group of people. But fiber junkies....well, I fit right in.
"Hi, my name is emily3cat, and I have a problem."
I love Amy`s friends` synopsis: "Which is stranger (because neither is Normal): knitting friends or online friends?"
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10/3/2006 8:49:24 PM
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Musings about being online
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Aww, bets, this is very funny, but that is the heart of the matter indeed. We have these connections with people whom we have never "met" (in the conventional sense).
It is a strange situation.
But, also, I should add that it is a happy one for me. What if I were here--a single, knitting, crafting gal--out in the cornfield twenty years ago. Only twenty. I would have died of loneliness! Or lack of good yarn!
Kitty in garage continues to do well; am attempting to rid her of the notion that she will be abandoned (poor baby thinks that I`m exiting the garage for the Very Last Time--every time).
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