Proud owner of Miez (born 2013)
and previous owner of Koda and Lilly (2013&2021)
M&K ended up fighting all the time. I then took in L as a new playmate for Koda. Luckily K&L found a new home with friends
Luckily my boss does encourage us to take care of our health including taking breaks from screen time (those 10 minutes every two hours as proposed by doctors), which are not added to our break time. He also knows I don’t take such breaks often enough which actually causes my stress level to be too high. Smokers do have some advantages regarding this I guess.
I guess it’s like a little soap opera haha. Reminds me of a reddit user that did continued stories on IIRC r/TalesFromTechSupport a few years back
I need to clear my head from time to time during work to be able to focus again. The cats are a welcomed and welcoming distraction :-)
The vet said 30 seconds to a minute. I just estimate the minute but nothing about still attached inhaler. Why do you need to keep the inhaler on? The spray is already in the chamber, isn’t it? It seems to be working really well this way, so I just don’t leave it on.
What’s the purpose of the steroids? I can basically give her everything as long as it can be grinded and mixed with that paste.
The only crime she commits from time to time is to hop on the counter (strictly forbidden of course) to fetch the sponge and tear it to shreds, which made me buy sponges with one scratchy side and one fat removal side as she only shreds the yellow side. Otherwise, she really is an angel. I can even let her into the garden mostly unsupervised (only with a tracker and from time to time looking out the window) and she won’t leave the premises.
Guess that’ one differentiation where to draw the line. Unfortunately however I’ve seen with my own eyes a cat eating another cat’s vomit, so…
Haha no I don’t feed her her own shit
Miez is almost always looking at the camera, not at me. As if she knows.
Here is Miez and her brother as kitten (#pimpcats) also 10y ago.
Not sure who is who as their colouring changed a lot while growing up. My guess is that Miez is the one looking at the camera.
Thank you! I’ll give her some belly rubs from you :)
On reddit my cats were well liked, too (r/KodaAndTheKitties, cleared out now). In my old apartment I dad a bunch more cat trees and such. E.g. a neighbour was floor layer and he gave me cardbox rolls up to 4m long. I made two of them black using duct tape, put some of the black Sisal around them (not fully though) and hung them as little walkways in my corridor plus had custom built some cat furniture (boxes with doors in front for food below and as cozy places above):
Oh that she is. Back in the day, when she wanted a door opened she would meow for her brother to come open it, which never failed.
That’s not a backpack, it’s basically a foldable bag with zippers on all edges, wheels and an expandable rod so it can easily be pulled like a suitecase. It is her second home when we’re sleeping somewhere else. In my apartment though she is rarely in it, but definitely doesn’t hate it.
Thanks. How come you’re so often the first to comment on her posts? What time is it where you live? It’s about 4 in the morning here. Couldn’t sleep, so might as well vent here. Hope the post was a bit entertaining nonetheless.
They ended up fighting all the time. Seems like this can happen a lot at the age of 7/8, as females become calmer but males stay active. She was annoyed by him. Didn’t help that she became asthmatic, so she couldn’t keep up in play fights at all (also because he’s larger then her). Miez was stressed out all the time. I took in Lilly as a playmate for him, but then the both of them still stressed out Miez. Luckily I found a new home for Koda and Lilly with a friend’s family. I know they are in good hands there and I visit them from time to time, as well as sit them during my mate’s vacation (Miez then stays with my parents as she gets along with my mother’s cat Franka). Check out my other posts for more pictures of all of them.
P.S. I see the downvote bot is still active around here.
Fun fact: I actually walked them a few times. Maine Coon is known for the dog-like behaviours. With Miez it’s easy: as long as there’s a narrow footpath she just walks and walks, rarely stopping to sniff at some plants. Her brother on the other hand wants to sniff everything. So I attached their leashes together and she’d pull him along. Unfortunately that was only possible if I drove them somewhere, which isn’t practical at all and they don’t enjoy the ride, so I stopped after a few tries.
She’s actually not one of those cats. She even tries to jump down with some toys in her mouth instead of just knocking them down.
Thanks, they’re actually not finished yet. I wanna round the edges and oil them. I love the red color of the beech that comes out then. (and I’ll cuddle her from you)
She knew those jumps already, she was just being lazy. Here’s a vid from a few weeks ago:
Actually I first had a longer board about half the depth installed and she used to jump up and down from there to the middle post:
I was actually considering this, but only at the very top of the first post as an easy access to a then attached round hammock. Your comment in brackets is exactly the reason why I didn’t do it. I now attached the hammock to the board on the other side
I think they mean nothing is ironic about this. The workers getting good pay is the result of a strong union which again results in anti union stance seen on this flyer.
Edit: I was wrong, they currently don’t have a union. However as explained by another user below, still nothing is ironic about this: https://lemm.ee/comment/8843221
Oh yeah it’s even her preference. When she lays besides me she lays down exactly the way that my hand is on her belly