35 posts tagged “animals”

I'll be gone for several days, maybe a week.  Traveling, but not for pleasure.  After next week, I'll feel a lot better, I hope.  I've been really under a lot of pressure and stress, because I can foresee great changes in our near future.  After next week, our life will be very different, in a fantastic way, but still, I don't take changes well.  But when I was watching a good movie - Romulus, My father - yesterday, I heard an important line that made me feel much better.

"Things change.  But our life is what our thoughts make it."

 

So, I'll be going with a little more self-assurance.  And with God's grace, I'll be returning with a better feeling.  Until then, I wish all of my neighbors and everyone a happy week and a productive blogging week.  God bless!

 

One early morning, a stealth catwoman went berserk in my house.  I wonder what got into her.  After running around chasing toys for several hours, Emma jumped straight onto the windows with mosquito netting and performed a horrifying acrobatic show nine feet above the ground.

 

I had a pleasant visit from a Mr./Ms. Snail the other morning.  It just suddenly appeared near the door on the wall.  I didn't see how it came in but I was very happy to have wrapped it up in a tissue and released it outside so that it can find a better life in a more suitable place.

 

Below is one of my favorite vegan cakes, Black Forest Cake.  I didn't make it, though.  I simply bought it at a vegan restaurant.  Don't ask me why I chose to put a snail's portrait together with a vegan cake.  I just thought they look nice together.

 

Emma's been getting better.  Her ears are much cleaner now.  Her feces are getting better too as she had some solid stool yesterday.  Well, I'm still training her not to go sick on food and training myself not to feel too bad when she cries loud for more food.  I have to keep her in the kitchen while we eat in the livingroom, otherwise she'll be eating every morsel out of our plates right after her breakfast.  In a few days we'll take her to the vet for a more thorough ear cleaning and a re-examination.  Enough of the serious report.  I wasn't able to blog earlier because Emma apparently thinks she's more qualified to blog when she's not sleeping on my lap or playing.  I happen to have a different opinion and my laptop is confiscated by Her Highness.

 

Our sincere thank-you to everyone who offered their suggestions, tips, and shared their own experience with us.  Emma will get better with so many people helping us.  We thus feel obligated to show some of her new photos.

 

I have a question for anyone who has cats or dogs or simply knows this sort of things since there are so many knowledgeable people around.  I'm losing sleep over this.  Is it possible for a cat to overeat because of emotional/background/physical problems or whatever reasons?  If so, and it seems like I have a cat like this, should I ration the food, feed three times a day at regular intervals, and try to correct this behavioral problem?  Or should I wait and see if the cat corrects itself once she knows the food shortage is no longer in her life?

 

My kitty has been eating five to six times the normal amount of food that an adult cat eats, like she ate six cans of kitten cat food (3 ounces of solid food each can).  She's only almost four months old and weighs 2.65 pounds (or 1.2 kilograms).  That's a lot of food in one day for a little kitty.  We noticed her tummy seemed a little chubby and she threw up yesterday.  I originally thought it might be the earmite medicine she accidentally licked off her body.  But now I feel it might be the overeating.  I mean, she burped a few times in the last two days and farted twice.  I've never heard of such a thing.  Cats generally don't do this, do they?  Or am I just ignorant?  She has been having diarrhea since the moment she walked into our door (before I fed her anything) but there's no worm detected in her stool, so I'm wondering if the overeating is only a symptom of losing nutrients and water or can also be contributing or even worsening the diarrhea.  I'm more inclined to cut down her food to the normal portion and see if that changes anything.  Or should I be cautious in doing so?  Will there be any negative effect if I "starve" her?

I got a new kitten and I named her Emma.  She's almost 4-month-old.  I'm pretty sure her previous owner didn't take good care of her.  Since we took her home, she's been having diarrhea and we don't know if she's got chronic diarrhea or this just happened because her food was horrible before.  Emma also has earmites and apparently she's suffering from it quite badly.  We took her to the vet yesterday and got her treated but after we came back, I find it very hard to apply the earmite medicine to her ear canals since she puts up such a fight and runs away as fast as she can and shakes her head constantly to get rid of the tiny bit of medicine I put in there.  I can never treat both ears and I don't know how I can continue with the treatment at home.  I can't afford to go to the vet every day just to apply the medicine.  Does anyone know any tricks to keep the kitten relatively calm while I squeeze the medicine into her ears?  I certainly don't want to cause her too much discomfort or trauma by holding her down with all my might.  And the poor thing has been eating and drinking a lot because she has watery stool a few times a day too.  I really hope the medicine she got will show some effect soon.  It's really a sad thing to see a kitten suffer like this.

 

 

I didn't have time to answer my own meme earlier.  Why does it sound funny when I say that?  Did I just say that?  Oh well, I guess one sentence can sum me up well: "nobody can be this busy doing nothing."  Now I can answer my own questions.

1. Are you an animal lover or are you afraid of anything furry?

I'm a huge animal lover.  I love all kinds of animals, furry or not.  I used to be really afraid of roaches because of one childhood trauma but I've been getting much better by identifying the real fear and putting things into perspective (the fact that the roach is so small and harmless while I'm so big and can possibly crush one if I'm not careful.)  I still feel a bit grossed out when looking at some slimy worms but it's no big deal.  One day I'll learn not to judge them by their looks too much.

 

2. If you are not afraid of animals, which animal do you think you would choose to be if you had to be an animal for the rest of your life?

Hmmm, I didn't think I designed such a hard question so early.  I would choose to be a dog.  Maybe it's because dogs can be so affectionate and faithful and they seem so cute and smart and they like to sniff things.  I love sniffing things too.  I'm already like a dog sometimes since I'm naturally curious about things and different smells just drive me nuts.

3. Which animal resembles your spouse/partner/loved one?

Which animal is the most regal, wise and soulful one?  I'd say an eagle.  Eagles always look so majestic and their eyes see so far and deep.  Definitely an eagle.
 
4. What would you feed the animal that most resembles your spouse/partner/loved one?

The eagle can find enough food for himself.  But in this world nowadays, even eagles starve.  So I'd have to feed him Italian pasta, since that's his favorite food.
 
5. If you had to choose what you would be in your next lifetime (please just assume this is possible for a second), among vegetables, plants, flowers, and animals, what would you rather be?

 

I would definitely choose to be a tree, a dark green tree.  I love trees!
 
6. Which vegetable (or plant, flower, animal) would you want your spouse/partner/loved one be?

If I were to be a tree, I'd surely want my husband to be a tree too, so that we can still be a tree family.
 
7. How long would you choose your life span is?

The same as my husband's.  I would choose somewhere between 3 to 4 centuries so that we could see what happens in this world and before getting really tired of watching people, we could go back to Mother Nature's arms together.
 
8. What would you want to do as a vegetable (or plant, flower, animal) for a living?

As a tree, I would take care of all the birds, insects, mushrooms, and whatnot that live around me.  Sing songs for them and watch them grow and play.  Hopefully there would be no human being destroying everything for us.
 
9. List three vegetable (or plant, flower, animal) that you absolutely don't want to be.  You can list all three of the same category, for example, three vegetables.

I don't want to be a shark, spider, or crocodile.  Not because I hate them.  Only because these three are so very often completely misunderstood and labeled as dangerous and cruel.  Few people stop to think that we, as human beings, have done things much worse, on a much larger scale, and with much graver consequences.  I hope that I can at least not worsen the situation, on my part.
 
10. If you have to write a book about a vegetable (or plant, flower, animal) kingdom, what would it be like living in this kingdom?  Would you be the king of this kingdom?

 

It would be such a blissful paradise with all vegetables, plants, flowers, and animals living peacefully together, following Nature's rule.  I wouldn't want to be the king at all since it's bad enough that we're still the king now.  I would want to be one of the cooks for this kingdom if cooks were needed.

Border collies are definitely my favorite.  Besides being cute and friendly and playful, they just look good to me.