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Posted: **Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:55 am**

lorin wrote:
Avatar wrote:Damn cats.

My semi-feral female turned up the other day with a wound on her tail, but would not let me get her in the carrier to take her to the vet. The she disappeared for a couple days, turned up yesterday, but escaped before I could get home to take her. Just gotta wait for her to turn up again, and try again.

--A
call your vet and get a sedative pill. Mush it in some food and try and trap her in an area like the garage. Actually trap her in the garage first.

I have been struggling with Mya/aka helldog recently. Don't know if I related this but she injured her knee trying to climb the fence to play with a small dog. tore her knee. So I had the cheap surgery done and have her back. The vet said unless she stays calm for 90 days meaning no running she will reinsure her knee. If that happens I will have to put her down since I can't do anything else for her. I mean there is the super surgery with titanium rods but that is upwards of 7000.00 which I can't do. So I have been trying to walk her and keep her calm but man she is not cooperating. She is a high energy dog. You would never know she is ten or eleven. It's not so much the leg, she does fine on three but vet says she will probably do this to her other leg. So I am keeping her on a low level sedative for a while and hoping for the best. But not very optimistic. I will not be one of these people that spends their last penny keeping a dog alive. I've given her a good life. Not many people would have been able to tolerate her. And she saved my life so I owed her one surgery, but now it's in the hands of fate.

Sympathy, Lorin and Av. We've just had Sammy to the vet again with his right front paw which was swollen and he was limping and holding it up again. Antibiotics seem to have done the trick. He was getting fed up with cream cheese so we've wrapped these tablets in thin ham slices.

My daughter always has to make two vet appointments for her two cats as one of them always runs off when she needs to take them!

Posted: **Mon Oct 19, 2015 6:05 am**

Sorus wrote:
lorin wrote: call your vet and get a sedative pill. Mush it in some food and try and trap her in an area like the garage. Actually trap her in the garage first.
I used Acepromazine (veterinary tranquilizer) a couple of times after Benadryl didn't work, but in general the easiest way (I've found) to trap a feral is to put tuna in the carrier and close the door after them. It takes a bit of patience - they know it's a trap, but they can't resist it. I have my carrier where they can see it at all times and occasionally put trick-free treats inside.

She's not feral enough to fall for that one I'm afraid.

But I've seen her a few times over the weekend, she'd gotten all the dried blood out of her tail so I could inspect the wound, and it doesn't look too bad.

Just going to monitor to make sure an abscess doesn't develop, otherwise looks like she will be fine.

--A

Posted: **Mon Oct 19, 2015 6:02 pm**

rotator cuff surgery today. fun stuff. i went in thinking joint replacement but at the last minute decided to try reattaching the tendons. hopefully it will be good enough.

another lovely outcome of flying down the stairs in the shelter.

life is still good (at least till the block wears off)

Posted: **Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:37 pm**

lorin wrote:rotator cuff surgery today. fun stuff. i went in thinking joint replacement but at the last minute decided to try reattaching the tendons. hopefully it will be good enough.

another lovely outcome of flying down the stairs in the shelter.

all these things... yucky.. :-/

at least stuff is good in the mean-time.
Good to have it done, I bet, instead of the waiting beforehand.

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2015 4:40 am**

Rough one Lorin. Rotator cuff injuries aren't fun. Heal fast.

--A

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2015 1:32 pm**

Lorin get better dang it! Hey! Hi everyone--just popped in 'cause Deer said she's been having problems getting in lately. As sound as I get the new book I promise to be back semi-regularly, I'll try--I'm beginning to have E-fest withdrawals that are almost outstripping my GOT withdrawals (both w/the series AND that damned Winds of Winter)ali please feel free to kick my butt if I don't make it to the Watch more often...

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:19 pm**

danlo wrote:Lorin get better dang it! Hey! Hi everyone--just popped in 'cause Deer said she's been having problems getting in lately. As sound as I get the new book I promise to be back semi-regularly, I'll try--I'm beginning to have E-fest withdrawals that are almost outstripping my GOT withdrawals (both w/the series AND that damned Winds of Winter)ali please feel free to kick my butt if I don't make it to the Watch more often...

danlo! Avatar misses you.

ali needs to kick her own butt into making it to the Watch more often, haha.

-jay

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:22 pm**

Avatar wrote:Rough one Lorin. Rotator cuff injuries aren't fun. Heal fast.

--A

What Av said.

And

to danlo.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:35 am**

Danlo!

Kick his butt Ali. And he can kick yours.

--A

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:59 am**

Testing.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:00 am**

Yay, I'm baaaaack!! For the past month I couldn't post here, only got 504 errors. Finally I e-mailed Avatar and I don't know what mojo he worked but I am grateful!!!

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:58 am**

Hey guys... right now I am feeling EXCITED.
I decided to write an article about a female villain for a webzine aimed at teens & young women. (partly because I determined said webzine to be a sufficiently nerdy context)

I asked to write about my FAVORITE story everrrrrr, which is a book I understand deep in my bones.
I'm almost done with the article, though my figurative muse seems to be -quite- the slavedriver when I choose a project with a deadline!

Also... y'all all helped me to, you know, be able to write something like this, not to mention getting me to write ANYTHING AT ALL! (special shout-outs must go to: sorus, peter, lorin, deer, vraith, and aliantha)

kevinswatch wrote:ali needs to kick her own..

pretty much like my thought: "he shouldn't be telling her that here, because she can't hear."
ahh, the accountability structures we pretend to build, never intending them to work...

Deer's back! ...me being goofy with her on the Watch can re-commence.

sorus wrote:There's that old adage that goes something like, "Make new friends but keep the old..."

I'm terrible at keeping in contact with people. Rarely proactive about get-togethers and stuff like that. Had friends in town last week that I hadn't seen in over a year, and I did actually make an effort to get together with them and it didn't work out and part of me thinks it's probably for the best since I'm so depressed right now. Not good company. Any long-term friends of mine have accepted that's what I'm like, which is why my close circle of friends is pretty tiny.

Guess what I'm saying is, take what you can get where you can get it. If you've fallen out of touch with people, maybe it's because you don't have much in common. If that's not true, then call them up.

Thank you. For your thoughts on my situation, and for sharing your own story.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:00 pm**

deer of the dawn wrote:Yay, I'm baaaaack!! For the past month I couldn't post here, only got 504 errors. Finally I e-mailed Avatar and I don't know what mojo he worked but I am grateful!!!

Welcome back! Sorry you had errors accessing the Watch. I blame Avatar. (The fact that he fixed it makes him more suspect...)

-jay

Posted: **Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:58 am**

While she was gone, deer got a spiffy new avatar. Very nice!

Much as I appreciate the art of her former avatar, I applaud her for joining the racks of those with critter avatars.

Posted: **Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:30 am**

I think you mean "ranks."

And I didn't fix it. I didn't do anything.

I think it's just the lousy Nigerian internet Deer has to use.

--A

Posted: **Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:59 pm**

I thought it was an antler joke.

Posted: **Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:19 pm**

Horns, antlers, yes. What we who cleave the hoof and chew the cud have in place of the fine vibrissae Sorus' avatar animal possesses.

Y'all never heard me engage in wordplay before?

Posted: **Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:43 am**

Went totally over my head.

Feel like it has been quiet...too quiet.

--A

Posted: **Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:48 pm**

Avatar wrote:Went totally over my head.

Yes, that is their proper place.

Posted: **Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:13 pm**

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Hey guys... right now I am feeling EXCITED.
I decided to write an article about a female villain for a webzine aimed at teens & young women. (partly because I determined said webzine to be a sufficiently nerdy context)

That's awesome - congratulations!

Linna Heartlistener wrote:I asked to write about my FAVORITE story everrrrrr, which is a book I understand deep in my bones.
I'm almost done with the article, though my figurative muse seems to be -quite- the slavedriver when I choose a project with a deadline!

What book? (If it's not a secret.)

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