It’s Caturday and weez chillin’ and getting’ sum much needed rest. When sissy got sick last week nopawdy slept. She kuldn’t stay outta da pawdee box and me didn’t know what to fink and well all mommy kuld do was cwy and purray. Not haviin’ gween papers to help sissy was tearin’ at mommys heart. And then came da night when it got weally bad. Sissy was runnin’ to da pawdee box so offen she shulda just stayed there. And then she wuld lay down to “clean” hers ouchy, cuz youz know it hurt, and wuld hold hers leg up a little and nuffin’ but blood wuld seep out. Mommy put piddle pads on da bed and unnew neaff her and she didn’t even move. Mommy was cwyin’ and me was wipin hers tears wiff meez paws and in tween pawdee box visits sis Lexi was still twyin’ to give mommy head massages. And dat wuld make mommy cwy even hawrder. Cuz there sissy was bein ‘bout as sick as a kitty can get, but still twyin’ to work and take care of mommy. Ifin dat ain’t da epitome of a Service animal me dusn’t know what is.
So da next meownin’ fwu a face full of tears and a heart dat was bweakin’ into itty bitty pieces, mommy cweated a YouCaring fundraiser fur Lexi’s care. We owe da VET fur our wecent visits and till they be paid off weez can’t go back. And it had become evident dat hims wasn’t even takin’ our calls cuz nopawdy had ever called us back when mommy called in ‘bout me bein’ so sick after dat rabies vaccine. Yes, da VET is all bout da gween papers and yes, we need a new one, but da sad fing is dat all da VETs in our awea be da same way. And wiffout gween papers to pay them, weez can’t go see anypawdy new eever. So anyways, after mommy made da funraiser she posted it and shared it. Not too long after a few donations came in. Mommy had alweady checked da purrices of antibiotics online so when there was enuff gween papers to cover da cost of them mommy took da chance and called our VETs office. They had all gone home fur da day even tho’ it wasn’t even 5 o’clock. Turns out dat was da bestest fing dat kulda happened fur us. Cuz when mommy called da VETs emergency cell fone, he actually called hers back.
He was quite purrterbed and sed hims was dealin’ wiff a furmily emergency and what did mommy want. She told hims she had hers own emergency and splained what was goin’ on wiff sissy. So he abwutly sed, “I guess you want me to call in some antibiotics, huh?” Mommy weplied in da affurmative and hims chose da most spensive fawmacy wound and then called in da most spensiv antibiotic hims kuld and told them we kuldn’t have da generwic. Mommy be fwugal and wulda purrfured da generic so as to make da gween papers go furver cuz sissy will still have ongoin’ medical due to da CKD, but in this instance there was nuffin’ mommy kuld do ‘bout it and she just wanted Lexi to get sum weal medicine. It had been stowrmin’ like cwasy here fur da last kupple days and it was pourwin’ wain when mommy and me left fur da fawmacy. Weez got to twy out da stwoller raincoat cover and it worked. Mommy was so fwazzled hers didn’t get any fotos, but weez sure weez’ll have to use it again. sumday and hopefully da next time will be unnew better circumstances and mommy will get fotos. Anyways, we got da medicine and headed home. Once home mommy gave sis Lexi hers furst dose.
Not even 30 minutes later she fwu it up. Mommy gave hers anudder dose and fixed us our dinner. Fankfully sissy kept down da next dose and each dose since then. And fankfully she’s on da road to wecoverwy. Ain’t dat wight sissy?
Youz rite Dezi, I’z feelin’ much better now. I’z kant faynk youz awl enuff fur helpin’ mommy to git me sum medzin. I’z kant say dat I’z likez da medzin or how it tayztz, but I’z taykin’ it like a good gerl and feelin’ better ebberday. Mommy had planz too mayk a grayt video faynk you fur awl ov ya’, but az iz paw fur da korz, I’z not beez koe-aw-purraytin’. Mommy sez datz awlwayz a good sign dat I’z feelin’ good. Afur I’z gawdid sick wiv diz UTI minez CKD wuz purrettee staybull soz mommy hoepz too git me back der. Mommy sed shez will leeb da fundrayzer up cuz minez CKD medzinz still habz too beez bawt on a reguler baysiz and minez speshul nomz too. And I’z gunna needz mower VET vizitz and blood steelin’. Weez’ll beez poeztin’ a Faynk You too-marrow on owr Blezt Sunday poezt.
Meez so happy you’s feelin’ better sissy, and me knows mommy is too. And today in honor of yous getting’ better weez postin’ our Caturday awrt and joinin’ Athena and Marie fur da Caturday Awrt BlogHop. Weez also joinin’ Rascal and Rocco fur there 100ff Pet PawadeBlog Hop. Weez been joinin’ these blog hops since da beginnin’ of our blog, and they be da only ones mommy can ever member to enter us in. MOL Anyways, check ‘em boff out cuz there’s lots of pawsum anipals in boff.
WooHoo It’s July!!! Weez got big plans fur all of ya’ this mumff. Weez gunna be talkin’ ‘bout da diffewences tween Service Animals, Therapy Animals and Companion Animals in our Service Animal Series. And weez eeven gunna tell ya’ sum more of our twainin’ stories. And then we have sum gweat plans wiff sum of our furiends dat weez gunna keep unnew rap fur a little bit longer. Weez enterin’ purrawlly da loudest week of da year here in da U.S. cuz peeps all over be celebwatin’ da 4ff of July wiff fire boomers. Most everywhere it’s illegal to set these fings off in town, but peeps do it anyways, and most of us cats don’t like it one bit. Weez even have sum doggy furiends dat not like ‘em, so there’s gunna be purrlenty of hidin’ goin’ on this week. And since sum peeps not know how to tell time, there’s purrrawlly gunna be a lot of HBO words spoken by a lot of our hoomans when they can’t get any sleep. MOL
Weez been duin’ a lot of playin’. Specially when da innewrnet was out Monday.
Now Dezi youz noe mommy duzunt uze HBO werdz. She kin tell a purrsun off wivowt ebber uzin’ one ov doez werdz.
Yep, sissy me knows, but a lot of peeps do use ‘em. Anyways, lots of good fings comin’ up this mumff. Weez even lookin’ to move our bloggy so we can make a few dollaws. Ifin yous have a good web host you can wecommend, let us know. You know mommy’s not very techy so we fink she’s in over hers head just a bit here, but we learned so much at Blogpaws weez wanna put sum of those lessons in action.
I’z had a liddull chat wiv mommy.
And weez got sum VET billz weez need too pay off. And mower too kumm in da footcher. Eeben doe I’z feelin’ reel good rite now I’z will habz too see da VET on an ongoezin’ bayziz. And ibin weez gunna chaynj VETs din weez gunna habz too habz green payperz up frunt. Soz Dezi’z rite, weez gawt lawtz ov feengz kummin’ up.
And mommy and me has to get better at those twitter chats. MOL Yous shulda seen us last night. OMC Tweets was flyin’ everywhere and me and mommy was twyin’ wiff all our might to keep up, but OMC da Trout Town Tabbies might just be wight…Birds be too fast fur mommys old mind. MOL Sissy and me have been extwa chatty lately, and mommy even made a little video of her and sissy havin’ a conversation. Hope yous enjoy it. And member to keep yous pets safe durin’ this Celebration time.
ifin yous can’t see da video, click here to watch.
Well Sunday was a mawaffon copy day and mommy got everyfin’ put all togevver late. It was pawrtly Lexi and meez fawlt it took so long cuz we made hers stop and have a luv fest a kupple times. We was boff runnin’ a bit of a temp. And no call fwum da VET. So furst fing Monday meownin’ mommy called da VET at da office and was told Dr. C was on vacation and Dr. M was in surgery but they wuld have hers call us as soon as she got out. So mommy gwabbed da fone and put it in da basket on hers wheelchair and took da paperwork up to da office. Whew (wipes brow with paw) Now da weal fun work begins. A mumff of “they” won’t accept this, or “they” need this or that. Cuz nuffin’s ever easy wiff this manager. As most of you know weez lived here a very long time, and mommy used to manage pawrtments just like these a long time ago. So she knows what she needs to turn in and has always done it wiff no purrawllem till this manager. And cuz she wants mommy gone she has to pick on us every year. So faw she’s not been too bad this year, and dat’s fanks to da purrayers of all of you and dat she got in twubble last year fwum da Purresident and VP of da management company. So keep those purrayers comin’.
It was early afternoon when all this got finished, and still no call fwum da VET so mommy called over to da office again, and got da run wound ‘bout how busy they were and dat Dr. M hadn’t had a chance to make any calls but she wuld be callin’ us afur she went home. So mommy cleaned a bit and put all her “lease wenewal” copies on da shelf fur easy access ifin she needs ‘em, and sat down to help us stawrt visitin’ all our furiends. And…OMC we didn’t have any innewrnet. Awe yous kiddin’ me? It’s been goin’ down everyday here wecently, but here it was da middle of da day. So mommy gwabbed da iPaw and headed fur mr. W’s to use hims fone to call ATT and saw our neighbor out on da porch. Since she has a puter mommy asked ifin she had innewrnet and she sed, “Nope and I don’t have a phone either. I got cut off in the middle of a conversation. It just does this all the time and there’s nothing we can do but wait it out.” Well mommy’s not all dat good wiff waitin’ it out. But since nopawdy had a fone, mommy got hers cell fone (which usually dusn’t have service in da house) and went on a walk-about twyin’ to get a signal.
Signal acquired, mommy called ATT and an hour later was told da innewrnet wuld be back up in an hour or two. Dat was @ 5:30 yesfurday afternoon and we hadn’t had service since 3:30 p.m.. But there was nuffin’ else mommy kuld do but wait. We didn’t get service back till 7:30 this meownin’. OMC Was mommy ever fit to be tied. MOL But at least we got a lot of hugs and luv and mommy and us time while we had no innewrnet. Hopefully weez back now and can stawrt visitin’. So weez’ll be by to see ya’ in a bit. Mommy checked da voicemail when we finally had service again, and there was a message fwum da VET office fwum da office manager. She sed she pawlogized dat Dr. M hadn’t called us and dat it was hers fawlt cuz she never gave hers da message to call us. Dat was at 6:30 last night. Course we had no fone by then cuz of da innewrnets bein’ down. Well needless to say, mommy’s purretty angwy ‘bout dat situation too. We do hope yous Monday was more purrductive than ours. Weez boff be feelin’ better today so mommy hasn’t called da VET office yet. Hers not sure how she wants to handle this yet. So ifin yous kuld send a few purrayers dat Lexi and me continue to get better.
Meowllo everypawdy and happy Caturday. As you know since me isn’t “sick” mommy let da VET give me da rabies vaccination. Me always has a small weaction to da vaccinations, but this year meez weally not duin’ so good. Him’s usin’ a diffewent kind dat’s posed to be better fur us kitties, but it seems to have me all tore up. Me is runnin’ a bit of a fever and me has da runs weally bad. It’s been over a week now and me hasn’t had a weal poopy since da shot. Me goes to da pawdee bos 20 to 30 times a day to depawsit a little puddle of poo. Mommy sez it’s liquid and heavy and sinks all da way to da bottom of da box fwu 4 inches of litter. And meez bloomers get all dirty and stinky so mommy has to clean me up. This has been goin’ on so long meez hiney-bo is sore. And me be tellin’ mommy, Hissss Don’t Touch Me There anymore mommy. So meez wanted to ask you ifin yous wuldn’t mind sendin’ sum purrs and purrayers meez way. Me wants to say fank you in advance. Oh and it’s stowrmin’ again. MOL Weez gunna fall off into da ocean afur long.
Weez gunna join Athena and Marie fur Caturday Art. So paw hers name to see more gawjus kitties.
Service Cats U.S. 