Have you seen the muffin pan??

So Bellini eats similar to the way a steam shovel operates. Packet will eat and eat and eat. They get stuffed and eat too much because they are eating too quickly. I discussed the eating issues with my wonder vet. He recommended we start putting the cat food in a muffin pan to slow down the gobbling four leggids. The kitties hate the muffin pan. The muffin pan works. No more bulimic cat barf around the house.

The Worst Two Weeks Ever

I know you think I am a lazy slack ass and do not care about you any more. My world has been turned upside down. What I knew as my happy normal came crashing down. I will get you guys an update and try and fill you in. On Monday, March 12 we took Bellini in for her breathing issue. I thought it was a pollen allergy. Surprise! It was a polyp growing from her ear canal to her pharynx. Horror! It had to come out and it had to be tested for the "c word". We left her for the surgery where the vet went in with a scope and no incision was made when he pulled the polyp off the stalk for removal. I went to pick her up and she was still VERY groggy from the anesthesia. So groggy and crank she would not go into the carrier. I kept her in my arms at the vet's office for over an hour. Finally I called the fab hub and he picked us up as she slept in my arms the entire ride home. She would wake up every 45 minutes or so and fight me for a minute and the go back to sleep. This went on until at least midnight. She slept in my arm all night. She made no effort to walk or anything for the next day. We took her back to the vet. The vet believes she had a anesthesia stroke event. You could sweep the pieces of my heart off the floor. We were hand feeding her baby food 3 times a day and having to give her fluids to her back with a drip bag and needle. It made a water hump like a camel. She would walk a little bit. She could not see. She could not hear.
It has been almost two weeks now. She is walking and trotting around. She is eating on her own. She started drinking for the first time yesterday. She made her first crawl up on to the couch. She still is not seeing well. When the vet pulled out the polyp one of her facial nerves was pulled a bit and her 3rd eyelid is still showing and the pupil in that eye is slower to react to light. She looks a little off. Like a naked Helen Keller or a lost Roomba bumping into things.
She is purring and making a little meow sound. I just hope for a full recovery. Two weeks is a long time to wait. Watching her slowly get better is great, but it really is taking too long. All my efforts and time have gone into Bellini---I am sure you understand.

Llama Llama Duck

Mom came up and brought her cat Sophie with her. Bellini really does not know what to think of the large oddly marked cat. She has looked at her and sniffed her. Then she tried to growl at her. She sounds like a cooing dove. Bellini does not know how to growl. How sweet is my cat? Yeah, that sweet. And let me tell you it is funny hearing a cat growl like a dove trying to be fierce. A naked growling dove cat.....

Tina, Eat Your Ham!

So there are somethings that need some splainin' Lucy:

1. No, we do not feed our cat chocolate or peanut butter or allow her to drink underage. I had the camera in my lap the split second she started and snapped a pic and shooed her away.
2. Why pick the vegetarian to cook two hams for office party Thanksgiving? My house smells like a HoneyBaked Ham store.
3. I want a part time holiday job for the discount. The money would be good too. I think it will actually have a negative money flow effect.
4. It is NOT too early to decorate for Christmas.
5. It is too early for me to be scraping my windshield in the morning.
6. Wearing calf boots and a mid length (just above the knee) skirt is not slutty.