TinyCat is off to the vet. He chucked again this morning, that makes it 4 times in a week. He’s also alternates between velcro-kitty and antagonist way more than usual. Suspect something is going on with him.
Listening to Magic Pill and the author describes animal testing of effects of different foods on appetite. I can’t help thinking of Ted Cat.
When Ted Cat came here I noticed he was quite short for a Nieb breed cat and he was ravenous. He would not stop eating. He would attack anyone who came near him. He only wanted packet food with gravy and would leave good food uneaten. He wanted to eat 3 times a day.
Over the months I slowly changed his diet. One packet food and some fresh food. He rejected good food and would get angry. I put out a huge bowl of crunchies to last for days, he ate it all in a day, his poor tummy was distended. He now eats fresh Fussy Cat meat and Fussy Cat kangaroo crunchies only. I now measure it all out carefully, I gave him a slow eating bowl so he wouldn’t wolf it down then start on Bill’s food. I fed him outdoors.
Then I got sick and husband fed the boys, they got unlimited food. Ted just went crazy and ate and ate, he’s now on a diet and it’s working.
The positive thing is that Ted Cat now eats healthier food , not packet food with gravy. I don’t know if he would choose gravy if offered. That’s the thing, Ted Cat doesn’t need will power, he doesn’t have the ability to make choices between foods, for him it’s eat or have nothing
so he wouldn’t wolf it down then start on Bill’s food
I need that and a microchip activated feeder. Our tortoiseshell does just that - inhale the wet food, then barges through the tuxedo’s, before finally stealing the fluffy one’s.
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/pet-slow-eat-mat-42487401/
I got Ted’s from the Op Shop but new is still very cheap
First 40 minutes of work today really soured my tone for the week. Had a chat with my boss and he felt the same.
Reason - we have some team members who are getting a bit too big for their britches, and causing a bit of friction. One particular person cannot stop themselves from interrupting others when talking. Happens daily, they have been reprimanded and it still happens. I think we’re getting close to an HR chat or a director telling them to pull their heads in.
Talk to them like a four year old and say its rude to interrupt you need to wait your turn?
Make an office talking stick thing. When they interrupt the person holding the stick gets to shake it at them, something tambourine-esque.
Start interruption tipping, where everyone goes into a draw for how far into the meeting until this person will interrupt, when the condition goes off, everyone slaps $5 on the table and says who won. Danny had three minutes, everyone hands Danny a fiver.
Move to zoom meetings and mute them.
Sponsor everyone in the office to learn sign language except them.
They have been reminded not to do it numerous times. Falls on deaf (or just stupid) ears. I have muted them on virtual meetings and will continue to do so
Still feeling wrecked. Am kind of wondering whether it’s related to (an unpleasant road related incident)
spoiler
an accident yesterday. I was riding home and had to u-turn as there had been accident involving a motorcyclist just several minutes before. I didn’t see anything, but I saw the bobbing of a head and I knew they were desperately doing CPR. A witness said they’d been trying for 5 mins and didn’t know when the ambulance would arrive. They were on the way when I was riding back in the opposite direction. The news reported that he died at the scene. I’m trying not to think about it, but it’s hard since I ride there almost weekly. I mean, I know that it can happen anywhere, but most people on the weekends are sort of chill. It is a winding 60km that increases to 80km, but most people on the weekends take it pretty easy. Hell, I rode Black Spur yesterday and one of the drivers was literally driving half the speed limit. sigh Just that constant reminder of life…
Sorry, just needed to offload it.
Mate, being so close to the scene like that would absolutely have residual effects on your nervous system. Definitely take it easy, it can be a lot to process
Thanks, JK. It looks like that in formatting and works on desktop, but I only noticed it wasn’t working on Memmy. I tried to fix it, but to no avail.
Appreciate your words, thanks.
Odd, it looked fine to me on mobile browser but not on desktop. Ah well. I think everyone here empathises with your situation. Hope your sleep improves over the week.
It’s hard to witness, your feelings are valid. Make sure you take care of yourself, self-care. Sending you good vibes
Thanks, StudSpud. I guess I didn’t really realise how it might have affected me. I had a pretty bad sleep last night and didn’t put two and two together.
Love getting into work and there’s a mystery bottle of vodka waiting on my desk. Sign of the week to come?
You either have an admirer or an enemy. 🤔
My head is so sore from last night. Those damn smoke alarms. I am pretty sure the ones we have are loud enough to cause hearing damage. I guess it have the neighbour with the car alarm a taste of his own medicine though, so there’s that
There’s set standards about how loud fire alarms must be to be compliant. It’s meant to be really loud and piercing because it’s supposed to wake people up and be something that’s hard to ignore. Often people have been saved because neighbours heard the alarm. Not fun if you have to listen to it for extended period of time though. Hope you feel a bit better today and that your arm settled down too.
I believe ours are actually louder than standard residential alarms, which is what I was getting at. At least in all the houses I’ve been at with just regular standalone battery operated alarms, they aren’t anything as loud as ours. Although all of them going off at once probably doesn’t help
Thank you, my arm is feeling a lot better today. I thought I’d have a gnarly bruise, but it’s just a little red and that’s it.
TinyCat was a model patient. Bloods, worming, vaccines and we will see what we see. Still weighs the same, still eating and going to the litter box ok so they are not sure but not super worried.
Hopefully everything will be ok. It’s so hard to tell if something is really going on with cats.
I’m pretty convinced he’s just being an A hole to be honest, but hey always best to be sure before i shoo him off the bench for the 7th time in 48 hours.
I took mine in for blood test, x-rays etc and in the end it was nothing. So glad I had pet insurance.
Ah see, there’s your problem - trying to keep a cat off an elevated platform
not NORMALLY an issue to be honest. We have an agreement that he gets 95% of the house and to do whatever the f he wants, and he respects a few sacred spaces. Thats part what triggered the vet visit, just a big personality shift. if he isnt your shaddow he’s trying to get a rise out of you.
Mine know full well the bench is out of bounds. The Void will get on it specifically so I stand up to scold him, then dash to steal the warm chair I vacated. This is apparently a fantastic game.
What a frickin dumpster fire. The EBU f’ed up hard. Also so much for not politicising Eurovision, Israel got over 300 points with one of the worst songs of the night! in the same 24 hours it warns of inceasing its bombing campaign in Rafa. I just…… I don’t even have words here. What the f is going on in the world.
There’s also the CNN article on the Israeli whistleblowers. Massive trigger warnings for detainment and torture if you look that up. Cripes.
And yet still in the Un. Still invited to Eurovision. Netanyahu Could behead a baby on national tv and so long as he says it was a “terrorist” Biden would still suck his dick.
UN won’t kick you out for being a genocidal dick, you want dicks to retain UN membership so everyone can yell at them - it’s a place where everyone uses their words instead of nukes
UN won’t kick you out for being a genocidal dick, you want dicks to retain UN membership so everyone can yell at them - it’s a place where everyone uses their words instead of nukes
With respect, if thats the plan its a shit one. Sure, no one has dropped the hammer yet, but aint done shit all for the suffering.
The purpose of the UN is to get people talking in a room, as opposed to standing on opposite sides of the battlefield. To try and talk it out.
It’s not perfect. nothing involving humans is. People seem to think it’s like World Police but it’s not.
The purpose of the UN is to get people talking in a room,
till one of the permanent members of the security council use their veto anyway.
People seem to think it’s like World Police but it’s not.
But hear me out, what if it was? Syria. Ukraine. Palestine/Israel. Georgia. Somalia. Civilians dead under the current system. I get nothings perfect, but fuck man we gotta do better than this.
The veto only applies to security council, not geberal assembly and is a bit of a two edged sword.
But in regards to world police? You’re trying to use a drill as a hammer. It’s not designed for that.
Ok, UN as a world police. How does that work? What actions do they take now?
Ah but Eurovision isn’t political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? We’Re NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
Ah but Eurovision isn’t political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? We’Re NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
Palestine isn’t a participant. So I guess in a sense “not their problem”? but booting out the Dutch…? Maaaaan.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dutch didn’t participate next year. Joost was my pick too 😭
Interesting! I wanted Croatia or Austria.
Nah, I reckon they’ll just send him again. Given the EBU the real middle finger. Tipping theres gonna be some pretty damning interviews given over the next couple of weeks against the EBU anyway.
Woke at 05:57 & whacked on the clock-radio to catch the start of PK on RN. Then remembered it’s Monday, so it’ll be SS. But, say what, instead it’s FK! Whoa. I am so pleased. I’ve been trying for years, & there’s just been continuous failures, but finally i’ve succeeded. My Time-Machine works, yay! 🎉
i have no idea what any of that means
@Seagoon_ @msdropbear42 I think she’s saying she woke up this morning and listened to Radio National. PK is Patricia Karvelas, FK is Fran Kelly, and…
I don’t listen to Radio National so I have no clue who SS is?
You don’t need to @ people unless explicitly trying to get their attention in a daily thread. And hashtags don’t work that way on lemmy.
@Taleya Thanks for your sage advice. Should it ever happen that one day i decide to create a Lemmy account & begin using it, i hope that i remember this tip.
In the meantime, from my #Friendica & #Mastodon accounts, my OP & this reply now both coming from the former, @'s & #'s do work that way. The #Fediverse is far wider than only Lemmy.
It went ok I think. They didn’t react negatively to “Simon”. But we’ll see how it plays out.
Was good practice anyway!
Onya Simmo!
Good work! did you bring up last nights massive revelation on “farmer wants a root” to sell it? I assume there was a massive revelation anyway.
I may have stretched my Aussie accent out a bit further than normal. Only slightly though.
“yeah nahh yeah”?
Maaaaaate 👍
Fantastic! Seriously should be proud of yourself! 💜 Make sure to treat yourself as well, you deserve it!
I’m about to enjoy my afternoon Nanna nap and playing with Gibson. Perfect combo lol
Initial Assessment for Psych sessions done. Now on the wait-list for a bulk billed session.
Holy crap, I want to cry and laugh.
Looking forward to TAFE starting in July, too.
I can do this, I can do this. If not for me, then for him:
Well done! I know how hard it can be to get things sorted out. You should be really proud of yourself 🙂
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate this a lot 😭💜
It’s too late, the snot has me now
The Boogeyman got ya
Boogerman got me good.
Best part of wfh i’m huddled on couch with doona, cats and comfort tv and a loose eye on work emails with volume turned up so i can nap.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Leftovers with some extra cheese thanks
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I wish to order a cure for Mondays
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I missed the aurora the first time, going out briefly and too late, then forgot last night. Oh well. It’s not really safe to hang around outside at night and I wouldn’t have been able to see much.
Best $7 ever spent. Doggo can no longer disappear into the night…
This reminds me of a friend from long ago who had a coal black kelpie - not a white hair on him. Named Spot, as in spot the dog … preferably before you tripped over him.
