Do you use some form of pet insurance? I imagine it’d be worth it with that many animals.

lol my guy reacts the same way when I try to spritz that little capsule of revolutionPLUS between his shoulder blades, but then does hold a grudge

That surgery sounds almost exactly what they did to our cat a couple of months ago. However, since he's basically an outside cat and has never done well inside except to sleep if and when he decides to come in, we told the vet to board him. Turned out to be for a week since we happened to have company for much of that time. I still don't know how much the bill was. When we got him "for free" years ago, I never pictured paying for such since I didn't want a cat anyway. Now there's no question that routine vet expenses like that are understood.

My wife and I had a brief discussion about extraordinary vet care expenses before we got our two dogs. Since we've had extensive discussion about such decisions for each other (as well as each other's Healthcare Power of Attorney), I'm not sure where the line would be for our dogs, but I'm pretty sure that the two of us would easily be on the same page for any particular decision.

It would be a lot more than my own damn health insurance with 5 cats

My boy has had an interesting effect on my window cleaners, they used to be rather abrupt in asking for their money , but after being confronted by a huge dog who hates them and could eat them in one bite they have become exceptionally polite.

I give one of our cats and insulin injection twice a day. He doesn't even try to run anymore. It's just a ritual under the table and then stop by the patio door. I think he somehow knows that it makes him feel better.

Not really pets, but nightly visitors. One is inside and the other on top of the catio I built. There’s a 3rd one that comes around every night that I call Stubby due to him losing his tail to something, somewhere along the line. All 3 have been coming since they were tiny so I assume they are siblings and probably orphans.

Our 2 cats, Lilly and Krazy:


Lilly when we got her. Lip detached from lower jaw, broken pelvis, and a smashed tail. We ended up having to have her tail removed, so she is an Honorary Bobcat now:


Last, but not least, Lucy the dog. I really wanted a bigger dog, but that’s not in the cards for me until I no longer have to worry about it knocking over the 101yo woman in the house. Lucy is great for gma, quite the lap dog:

Granny and Lucy look happy together!

love possums!

Those Chewy boxes are very popular in our household, too. More popular than any toy that came in them, that's for sure.

i watched a YouTube video Friday on how to give a cat a pill. I mustered up all my courage and gave it a shot. I'm lucky I still have all of my fingers. So I now just crush it and put it in tuna water and Monty obviously devours it.

I'm looking at a month of tuna sandwiches for lunch.

LOL

I'd rather try to give a cat a suppository every day than eat tuna sandwiches for a month.

the first part read like a great joke.

there's a difference?

Cook up a pound of bacon and save the fat. All animals love bacon fat. And you get the bacon.

Love that guy

lol Dom, Howie looks pretty quick!!!! (for a tortoise)

They're cold-blooded so get all razzed up and speedy when they're warmed up.

Mine doing some gardening

nice

brilliant, marknfw

my main man when he was littler

looks like you're feeding him to the dog

The girls love it when I grow a pot of cat grass for them.

Way too many cats in this thread. How do I keep this old, grumpy, stump-tailed, neighborhood ahole from sleeping on my porch? Every day he's out there, soaking in the sun like he owns the place.

Buy^WAdopt a dog?

These two keep my yard virtually cat-free...