Human status: enjoying some chocolate.
Cat status: repeatedly biting me because I won't let her poison herself.
Posts made by CarrieVS
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@Zerosquare I mean technically it worked twice, because the dose is two pills.
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Update: turns out prawns worked once.
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Ruby's on medication for the next three weeks, and for the first time since I've had her, I have to give her tablets, rather than a liquid that I can either squirt on her unlickable spot or mix into food.
Judging by today's first attempt, I am completely incapable of throwing a pill down her throat. Fortunately, they're tiny tablets, and able to be inserted in prawns AKA cat crack. Ruby is so absolutely obsessed with prawns, that she scarfs them down, concealed pill and all.
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Cat Status Thread:
@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
three fingers width which is not enough for her skull.
Note that the head is the one part which retains its distinct form even when the cat takes on the shape of its container. There's a reason I use her skull as a measure and not, say, her shoulders.
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@Zerosquare It's possible. But I'm thinking about making a more permanent version out of ball chain anyway..
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@TwelveBaud She can try if she wants. I'm pretty sure she won't break the string. It limits it to three fingers width which is not enough for her skull.
@HardwareGeek The string is new.
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Yesterday:
(She's been unwell and although now on the mend, going out roaming for hours in the hottest part of a scorching day doesn't seem to aid her recovery. So I thought I'd try and avoid it. She disagreed.)
Today:
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Ruby seems to have grasped the fact that I'm unimpressed with her gifts of small songbirds.
Unfortunately, she hasn't quite understood the root of the problem.
In the past week, she's escalated first to a magpie and then a woodpigeon. With this trend, I'm dreading the day she brings me a seagull.
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Cats can't digest grass. This was not surprising to me and will likely not be surprising to you, but do you want to guess how I now know this empirically?
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Cat status: will not sit in a box for love nor catnip. Panics if placed in one.
Was told on adopting her that she loves cardboard boxes.How my cat loves carboard boxes:
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So I heard Ruby, who normally almost never meows even when she wants something, crying with great urgency, and rushed downstairs to see what was causing her such distress. She'd brought me a dead bird.
I shut her out of the room and when I let her back in her prize had vanished, much to her consternation. Hopefully this will discourage her at least from bringing them home. But now I'm worried I've inadvertently encouraged it.
I bought her a new toy this week, a rather good fishing pole with real feather attachments on the end. She can't get enough of it, and I've been able to get her to run and jump for it, she's being really active, we're both enjoying ourselves; it's fantastic. But all of a sudden she's bringing in birds and desperate for me to see it, so I wonder is the new toy is too realistic and I've accidentally trained her to hunt birds.
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RE: 😠Emergency Sad Things Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in 😠Emergency Sad Things Thread:
This time with a goose
I believe it's a swan - the sadly true story on which it is based was swans.
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RE: D&D thread
I survived DMing a relatively free-form session with minimal panicking or stalling for time and next week they should get back into a dungeon which will make for at least a couple of sessions of straightforward gaming with detailed instructions.
I could almost get used to this.
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
No more catnip at bedtime.
Little fucker is scampering around, keeping me awake.I find it rather nice that Ruby just gets chilled out by catnip.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cat Status Thread:
Head canon cats are all (or at least some cats are) shape shifted dragons. Because no other explanation fits their utter attitude of superiority.
A friend of mine briefly attempted to run a Fate game on that premise. We all were different dragons - wildly different dragons from completely separate areas of mythology - that were living in and around Chicago as cats.
It didn't last long for various reasons but it was fun.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
I should make syllabub more often.
It's really nice, and sounds fancy, and I always assumed it'd be something quite complicated to make like a lot of other creamy desserts. But it turns out it's literally just whipped cream with flavours in.
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Ruby followed me to the shop today.
I happened to meet her in the street and she kept following me. It's only about three minutes walk across the park and I think she might have come all the way if we hadn't come face to face with a dog, which made her decide to jump up on a fence. She waited for me to come back and before I was even close enough to see her (it was getting dusky so she was one shadow amongst many) I heard her meowing for me. And she rarely meows at all.She's also completely ignored the Christmas tree in the eight hours it's been up and decorated so far!