Pixel-cat

Pixel had to be put down last Monday due to enterring shutdown (heart, pancreas, and kidneys) due to FeLV that we didn't know he had until a short bit before it was done. That is what the previous post's pictures are from: my & Chael's last visit with him before the doc came in to do it.

He'd only been obviously I'll since the day before, it was very sudden.

During those last minutes his head cleared enough to know us; he purred as best he could to our petting and words (he was on oxygen with pulmonary edema). When they started the 2 injections he gave one meow as the anesthesia took hold and we continued to pet and talk to him until the doc let us know the second injection had stopped his heart. Then we stayed a while longer with him before releasing him for cremation.

It was, and is still, very hard.

Wednesday we picked up his ashes and got Jonesy screened for FeLV. Jonesy is neg, thank god. We then got a little shelf for Pixel's remains and his toy piggy to sit on until we figure out what to do with him.

Bad week.

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Griping

Note to that person on my mind:

The exchange tonight through a third party was just about the last straw. We'd only just started a friendship, but I thought we were both older and more mature than how this has turned lately. I just don't have the time in my life for this sort of nonsense.

Election Day

Today is truly an historic day. Our first non-white president.

And, for me, personally and more importantly, the first time an election has occurred and I found myself, much surprised, feeling *hope* for the US. None have caused that before, regardless of their political leanings.

I hope all the goodness that is possible with Obama as present comes to pass, as there's a great deal of goodness possible.

Saturday night silliness

This is my ugliest rope-work ever, but it's so cute what this shows: Chael's first mummification/sensory-deprivation bottoming... I leaned over his face to check on him and was greeted with snores.

I think he likes it LOL!

Am sitting watching Frasier and watching him twitch and breathe against his bindings while he sleeps...




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