666th Entry! Cats For Satan!

For Tweed 3 Years and So Many Tears How I wish you were here...

Not a day goes by where I don't think about you

You and I, we went through so much together

You held me

while I held you

You visited my soul

when I was in darkness

and needed me

as I needed 

you.

Through the veil and the time and the ages, 

here you are again, 

with some stranger's face, 

with some stranger's grace. 

In every cat's lovely face, I see you.

(But I'll never get over you, my cranky old man)

Tweed ( 1997 - 2011)

Dream Made Real

Meow Chillin'

Feline Photomontage

Mark, What Hath You Wraught?

What a weekend this has been. Friday night Sheldon started throwing up. First came all he had eaten then bile-by Saturday he hadn't eaten or drank anything for a whole day and what was coming up was like no cat yak I had ever seen and smelled terrible. by the evening he was listless, wobbly and cried if I picked him up. Sunday morning he got worse and I took him into AIMMS on 9th avenue for emergency vet service. 2.5 hours of waiting was hell-and while I was there another woman's cat literally died in the carrier in the waiting room. they ran every test, blood work, x-rays, ultrasounds, put him on an IV, gave him fluids, medication and held him overnight. He improved slightly from the fluid but after calls back and forth and another trip back to Arguello Pet Hospital, it was confirmed that indeed there was a blockage, fluid painfully built up in his system behind it and needed surgery to be removed.

Surgery was Monday but they couldn't fit him in at Arguello so he went back to AIMMS. After a year of steady improvement in the behavior dept now he is handed a life threatening blockage? If I could afford my own place this would have never happened-everyone knows what a neat freak I am. A big fuck you to the slob roommate for leaving bags of trash/recycling in his office overflowing with loose candy wrappers for MONTHS instead of simply taking them down to our recycling bins-which the cat of course eventually explored and, due most likely to Pica, he ate. $5,000+7 car trips across town and three sleepless days later my cat has a 4" suture on his shaved belly, a cone around his neck and a drug habit that would make Lohan blush-and can't jump, clean himself or eat without assistance because of the cone. I can't I remove the cone lest he rip his stitches out.

Disturbance At The Kitty House? And I thought I was going to finish that Dead Can Dance article this weekend? I'm wrecked and its only Tuesday! Oh honey the FUN we have together! its a laugh riot! really....I need a drink!

Mr. Mooshy Face

Tweed, Sending out good energy to you....

Well, Tweed is at the vet tonight. I think this is the first time He has been away all night without me so he probably scared. Fuck...I'M scared. Vet said he is indeed under weight. When he was in there in August 31st he weighed 10.4 lbs. Today he weighed only 9 lbs. That is a huge difference in just under three months. One kidney is swollen and he had some poop on his rump and paws. Signs that he is too tired/weak/sick to clean himself or go the bathroom without effort. I had sensed he was wobbly a day ago and thought it might have been because he had just woken from a nap. Combined with the lethargy and bathroom issues, lack of eating and general change in demeanor I just knew something was wrong. He had to go in but it just shot the whole day, and though Bart was cool, I feel shitty for delaying the project on a day we could have worked a whole day. Blood and Urine Tests tomorrow probably, maybe x-rays....sigh.

In a boat without a mast again, trapped in a time without time, between time. Suddenly everything is slowed down. time stops but, in a matrix-like fashion, some things are running on their own systems. Going through Josquin's old medications last night just set me off and today didn't help, being torn in so many directions and so by so many degrees. I just couldn't deal at the vet. I could barely keep it together and thought when I was finally able to go, that I could get outside, dawn my dark glasses and cry a little(ok, a lot) but when I finally got outside, it was overcast, dark and the air was moist with low fog. Glasses would make me virtually blind. fuck it, I'll just walk through the park and cry...so that is what I did. the nice thing about GG Park is there are a number of places to step off the well trodden path and smoke something. I realized it was either that or bump into another tree because I was crying so hard I couldn't see straight. I finally got it together when I hit the pan handle and came across a huge group of quasi homeless folks, street freaks and Occupy This Sidewalk Park people and I remembered where I was.

I went to Amoeba records to just look around. I thought some low grade retail therapy would help. There is a new re-issue of a single by morrissey with unreleased demo as a b-side I picked that up used and bought "the Crazies" a horror film from a few years back I wanted to see but was unwillingto fork out $20/popcorn for it. $3.99 however is a lot better and seeing as I really needed something to take my mind off things, nothing works like an off the wall post apocalyptic disease/zombie movie set in a small town. Well, that and some rum and coke, some herb and lots and lots of cleaning, washing, totally cleaning my curtains and redesigning my window treatment. Matt Johnson...sell me some wisdom, baby...

"No more blood
and no more pain
in our
kingdom of rain"

Today I finally bought myself some razors, paper towels and sponges. Bought a pretty cool antique looking Marconi style light bulb at Cliff's for my super tall triangle stand lamp. Now I just need to get a shade for it. I should just buy a cheap used harp and find some wire and make my own shade. Something modern with clean lines. I was thinking tall and cylindrical with some cool cut outs so it throws a pattern on the wall. (stop me if it sounds like I am going to clutch my hands, gasp and make a scrunched up face...where is my fucking NYTimes article?).

Oh Tweed...I love you with all my heart and hope that you are feeling better tomorrow. I am sorry I wanted to leave you at the vet but Daddy was paranoid you were so sick that you might die if he took you home without vet people around to save you. I PROMISE I will pick you up...er, later today and bring you home. I know you will feel better. I'll have your blanket warm and ready for you when you get home.

Deep breath...

another Deep breath...not of air....

Sigh....hang in there...everyone!

New Kitty Pix

one of Nate sleeping and one of Tweed and Nate negotiating for a timeshare on their brand new kitty condo.

New Kitty Alert!!!

This dear boy is Nathanial. He is an owner surrender, and was very frightened at first to find himself at the shelter, but with a lot of TLC from the shelter staff and volunteers, Nathanial has come around. He is a mellow, gentle fellow who would love to be your new companion and snuggle bear, as you can see from the video on this page. Come meet Nathanial today and give this sweet boy a good home!

Yummy "Big Nate" Davis

Welcome Home Nathanial!!! I promise to show you oodles of love and do my best to help you get to know Tweed. So nice to have you here! Yay!

Wow, This Sounds Like Tweed

"Hello, I am Milton, a 12 year old neutered male with black short hair. I have a very curious nature and love exploring and meeting new people. Im very outgoing and affectionate. Given half a chance I will take over any lap until Im kicked out and reward you with purrs and head butts. Im gentle and calm and would make a great companion. Please ask for Milton, ID# A499540"

Tweed & The Fleecey Hammock

We have reason to believe that Tweed is affiliated with the Meow Meow Mob. They need to charge him with murder because their cuteness is killing me!

Cat Entry Deux

I get pissed off reading on the internet. Here is why(and I should point out this is well respected veterinarian, not some quack):

"In the wild, your cat would be eating a high protein, high-moisture, meat-based diet, with a moderate level of fat and with only approximately 3-5 percent of her diet consisting of carbohydrates. The average dry food contains 35-50 percent carbohydrate calories. Some of the cheaper dry foods contain even higher levels.

This is NOT the diet that Mother Nature intended for your cat to eat.

Many canned foods, on the other hand, contain approximately 3-5 percent carbohydrates.

Please note that not all canned foods are suitably low in carbohydrates. For instance, most of the Hill's Science Diet (over-the-counter) and the Hill's Prescription diets are very high in carbohydrates and are not foods that I would choose to feed."

The fuck?! this is the brand and type of food that pets unlimited carries-that they recommended, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I have been trying to feed these to both my cats for months now-at Bob's great expense-only to learn they are the LEAST protein heavy diets available. Plus I have to go half way across town to find anywhere that carries them. I have been trying to feed them pre-prepared cooked chicken-to offset the dry food-which is way high in salt-to balance out the dry food. now I learn the dry food is full of carbs and I've been cramming salt into both of them-which dries them out more. I don't know how I haven't killed them both. I feel like a complete fucking idiot-and like I want to KILL the vet at pets unlimited. Seriously, its a good thing I don't own guns. this blog would end with posts from San Quentin and me doing a 10 stretch for murder.

Rawwwwwrr!

Cats & Dogs In Love

Oh, this is just so adorable. Its snuggletastic.

Du Chat le Video!!

This is the first time I have uploaded something from my phone to my blog that is video. Interestingly, blogger already has a codec that makes it work with the coding template I just started using. The res still sucks but its better than it was years ago. Its David Sylvian playing in the background from Gone To Earth.

Techno Cats!! YEsss!!!

Robert's Roast Beef

Well, I followed the instructions for reheating the roast beef that I got from Bob, from 2223 the other night and, gasp-I didn't ruin it! it was just as tender and delicious. I had it with a side of the rice from Red Jade the other night, piled over with soy sauce and the vegetables from the roast beef and it was also Goooood. That can also be spelled as gud. or goude, ummmm...I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the cows everywhere for their kind contribution to this evening's meal.

both cats also benefited from your culinary generosity. I cut some of the most tender strips out from the center of the cut that was left over and tore it into little slices for the kitties, over a light bed of catnip. Tweed, in between licking his chops was heard to say "Meow, meow and MeoW!!" Josquin, not surprisingly, also said "Meow."

My Cats Are More Social Than Me

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and Tweeds account

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Beautiful Creatures - Tweed

He looks very regal in his posture and I love the heroic pose I captured.

Yeah, its too hot to sleep. We're all up...roaming around the house looking worn out and overheated so I thought I'd do what I normally do when I need to do SOMETHING on autopilot and took pictures.

The Cuteness!!

After nearly 14 years these two still spend time with one another, grooming, playing and romping(though less romping for Tweed lately)and as always they are so photogenic its just WRONG!! And this pictures says a lot about the two of them. Tweed looks rueful and suspicious while Josquin is like "Hey! Look!! A CAMERA!!"

Love them to pieces...they help keep me together.