Stop and Eat the Flowers

When I was working, I used to be able to sleep through the night without waking up more than once.

Yesterday I cleaned the pig pen, did their laundry, washed the cat bean bag covers, the crate mat that we just have out as a lounge pad and the bolster bed. While the bolster bed was disassembled I took a look at the batting. It has dense handfuls of a poly fil in it that seem to have become compressed over the past year. I pulled it all apart and viola.

Before I brought it all upstairs and put the bean bags and the bed in their respective places, Tommy had already said it’s fine to keep the crate mat downstairs. Ok Tom.

Yes, My Cat communicates to me.

I wake up multiple times last night to find different cats between my feet, Dismal’s cat keeps staring at things I can’t see from the top of my night stand. Tommy stayed on the floor next to me. Sometimes he was on the bolster bed, other times on the floor next to it regulating his temperature and then back on the bolster bed. He stayed there until 10:30 this morning waiting for me to get up too.

I go to brush my teeth and he’s on the toilet seat watching vacantly. I asked him what was wrong and he mewed out something different than when he just simply wants something. He had a rough time sleeping too. We talked with my words and his body language while I hovered over him at the scratching pole. He was a little slow with it today and I asked if he needed a new one since a sisal rope broke and now the top of the pole has pigtails. He responded by playing with it more aggressively. He’s fine with the post the way it is lol.

Me and my cat have a thing going on. This is why he’s my companion.

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I believe that the only things your could spend serious money on for your cats are their health, their food and their cat tree. I often shop on clearance to try anything new and if your cat is anything like my bub, you will often find dog toys reclaimed from your mutt that make them totally happy.

They are also perfectly ok with used wares from Craigslist. Be sure to check items for fleas and things and clean them first.

Tommy has a toy box now. I found my largest, sturdiest shoe box lid off a fancy pair of Marc Jacobs that I haven’t even worn and loaded it up with his toys while picking up around the house. It’s tucked under the guinea pig pen. He took a nap in it last night and today half his crap was back out around the house.

I love my dog cat.

We’d like to announce that to ensure that the cats and kittens in our care are given the second chance they deserve, while also enriching the lives of those who adopt them, starting tomorrow, May 4 and running through the end of September will be our Leave No Feline Behind, One By One Until There Are None adoption campaign. We’re waiving all of our cat and kitten adoption fees, and instead are asking for a monetary donation in place of the fee. Every seven minutes a cat or kitten enters AHS’ doors and the summer months are the most challenging on space and resources here at our shelters. Please help us spread the word by sharing the flyer, and by encouraging others to open their homes, and their hearts, to a homeless shelter pet.

I went to the monthly meeting at my local Humane Society yesterday. It was for pet grief support. I was the only one there besides the facilitator. We had over an hour as a 1:1 and discussing our experiences with our pet families and different perspectives to take on our time with them. It’s difficult not to focus on the endings that are inevitable with your pet babies. Blaming, control and remorse are fairly common. People don’t seem to discuss it often because they aren’t ever taught how to process an animal passing where we are the “parents”, we have the money, we make the decisions, we care more than letting it die naturally on it’s own in most case and we are the ones whose friends joke about our veterinary bills while suffering of a smaller being who doesn’t communicate with words lays heavily on our minds and our hearts.

When a family member or a friend dies it’s tragic or you know they have done all that they felt they could or needed to when it came to the care they wanted to receive to survive. It’s not our responsibility. You don’t tell yourself as someone leaves this world in a car accident that you are gonna beat yourself up about it for years because you didn’t invite them over for brunch and keep them off the freeway. That’s not how things work. You accept it was out of your hands and that maybe God (depending on your beliefs) had simply decided it was time to take them. Fate has a way of balancing out the world.

It’s hard enough when it comes to people. It’s even more difficult for me when it comes to my babies. I feel like I never did enough even though the level of care they often receive is much more than the national standard for a guinea pig, a hamster, a rat etc…

I ache for my rat because I know the pain of pneumonia. His was ravaging in a short period of time and no one needs to go through that. I have a pit left where my male guinea pig died of cancer. It sucks in people as it sucks in animals. No one needs to go through that.

But people do go through that. Animals go through that. Some lived and some died. Some make it through treatments and extraordinary medical interventions and some won’t. You can use your best judgement and still never feel comfortable that you made the right call. When it happens/ed to a person it was never up to you.

I was told at the meeting to take the next month and focus on the level of care that my departed babies had received in the entire time we knew each other and to take comfort in that. Several babies may have lasted years past their original cut off because I care that much to catch illnesses and afflictions in time in many cases. She told me that I’m here to learn and teach. I can learn from my experiences and pass it along.

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I’ve been having a difficult time still at the grocery store. I tend to shop with my pets in mind without even giving it much thought. I tried to get through a trip at Sprouts; I kept stalling during my walk through the store. Every time I see a bone-in meat, I think of my rattie. The first night I had chicken wings after his death, I started getting queasy after a few and stopped eating.

I shared nearly everything with Little Bastard.
I had to get rid of the rest of his yogurt within the week. I tried to give away his extra snacks around the house within the week. Now, when I cook and I’m looking for an omnivore to share with, I look at the dog and think, “you fail, dog”. My dog has a sensitive system.

I can share some things with the birds but I wouldn’t think of giving them skin off a piece of meat. I would just give them the meat. Jak likes taking a piece of chicken and sucking on the flavor.

Grocery store trips really suck these days. I like sharing.