Buddies

Sean loves being taken care of. He seeks out Riley and asks to be groomed. He's still just a big baby at heart.

Does this desk make my butt look big?

Sharing

I don't know what the fascination is but Riley insists on sleeping in Casey's bed. Sometimes he shoves her out even when she is sound asleep. Today she stood her ground so he decided to share it with her.

Riley has found a new water obsession

Riley is ever in search of more sources of water.
His latest is the shower. Not licking the shower floor after someone has been in the shower. No, that is too mundane. Any cat can do that.
No, Riley likes to watch the water as its coming out of the shower head.
While someone is in the shower.
It's rather disconcerting to be in the shower when you know you are home alone and suddenly the shower door starts to slowly open.
He likes to stand on the toilet tank and use his paws and head to wedge the door open. Even if I close it, he is quick to open it again. The first time he did it I thought I was reliving the shower scene from Psycho.
Now I'm used to it.
Actually, I think it's funny and of course I'm proud of him for being so smart.

Renactment

Another update on Toby

Where to begin? I took Toby to the vet on Friday to have her stitches removed. All went well. They had trouble removing one from her leg because it had scabbed over so it was weeping just a little but the vet looked at it and said it was ok. Just to "watch it". I brought her home and then left to run a couple of errands and then I went to pick up a friend who was being discharged from the hospital. That went well but considering errands, and travel time and going to the pharmacy etc it was about almost 4 hours from the time I dropped Toby off at my house until I walked back in the door. I walked into a mess. She had apparently been bleeding the whole time I was gone. There was blood all over her and blood all over the living room floor and foyer. I panicked. I called a friend and he came over to stay with her while I tried to find someone to go with me to the emergency vet hospital since I couldn't apply pressure to the bleeding and drive. Another friend who knew John and who I know slightly was kind enough to come and drive us. We were 4 hours at the hospital because there were two more serious emergencies ahead of us. Toby bled the whole time that we waited. She saturated a dish cloth I had brought with me and the floor of the room we were in looked awful. For some reason she just was not clotting. To make a long story short, they examined her, applied a pressure dressing to stop the bleeding and did some lab work to find out the cause. One of her clotting factors is deficient and we don't know why. It was almost 1 AM by the time we got home. Toby has a dressing from her toes to her arm pit on that leg. I checked her several times during the night and she seemed OK. Saturday morning I noticed that she bled into the bandage. She went back to her surgeon and had the dressing changed. It has been difficult to keep a dressing on that part of her leg because it is on a joint, the equivalent of her elbow and any dressing I put on it eventually slips down.  She's better today. No more bleeding although the wound is oozy. It has opened up a bit since they removed the stitches so now it has to heal from the inside out which will take longer. I am going to call her regular vet tomorrow and ask him to see her. I trust him more than any of the others. We really don't have an answer why this is happening. What a night!

Happy Birthday, Toby!

Our Tobester is 13 years old today.
Happy Birthday, sweet girl. We love you.

More on Toby

Toby is continuing to limp and since she should be better by now the vet thinks it might be something more. We had her tested for Valley Fever and while her titer didn't come back positive for it she did have some other markers which indicated she might have it anyway. That would explain her hip problems. So today I started her on Desert Defense and next week she will be on a regimen of fluconazole as well.
Hopefully this will make her better. People have seen remarkable results within 3 weeks on this protocol.