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Old January 25th 18, 06:55 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
jmcquown[_2_]
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Default Happy New Year RPCA!

On 1/18/2018 11:05 PM, dgk wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 10:58:34 -0500, jmcquown
wrote:

I want to thank everyone for the holiday cards and hope you made it
through the season unscathed. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

Jill & Buffy


Checking in a bit late but we all came through the new year in fine
shape. Well, Nipsy may be dying of cancer but so far he seems to be
ok.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

What's odd is that for the last few days Nipsy and Scooter have had
some major screaming fights, and I'm concerned about that. Nipsy did
have something that showed up a few months back in an xray of his
lungs, but we don't know what that was and I'm not having a follow up
done because he was treated for an infection and maybe that was in the
lungs.

If it's cancer, then there's nothing to be done anyway since he's 16
and I'm not going to subject him to chemo or any other drastic
treatment.

I'm wondering if maybe Scooter is picking up some smell from Nipsy
that's causing the fights. We cat slaves don't have much to go on with
their health so we sort of have to see whatever clues we get. I'm
hopeful that maybe the cool weather has them a bit on edge.

We certainly don't know what clues cats pick up from other cats. I
think it's entirely possible Scooter knows something is wrong with Nipsy.

It was 42F this morning in southern Florida, which is certainly cold
for us but nothing like the rest of the south got this week. We had a
league tennis match at 11 this morning and by then it was in the upper
50s so not so bad. We won.

Congratulations on the win!

It snowed here on January 3rd. Got a good 3-4 inches here on
Dataw/Saint Helena Island. Practically unheard of! The power went out
for a few hours. I went out for a walk. Got all bundled up in a
long wool coat with a hood, put on some boots with heavy tread, gloves
and a scarf and went out walking around. I haven't seen a "winter
wonderland" in over a decade. The flakes were big and fluffy.
Thankfully it wasn't a wet, heavy snow. Of course this is not the norm
for this area. There is no equipment for dealing with this sort of
thing so driving is out of the question.

Good night everyone. Oh, Baby just threw up. Doesn't look like a wet
one.

Awww, poor Baby. A hairball? Or just... upset/nervous tummy?

I can't explain it but Buffy has never horked up a hairball. She has
very thick fur (for a shorthair) but hairballs have never been an issue.
I do groom her using the Furminator tool, but not as often as I should.

Persia (RB 2014) had much shorter fur. And a sensitive tummy. When she
started making that sound... I never knew what might come up. The worst
was a wet bunch of grey fur. gak Thank you, Buffy, for not throwing up.

Jill