Will delete if another is made while I’m making this one.
Poor Melbcat cringed sideways into an avoidant curl and stayed frozen like that when she saw the meds coming. Even for a good minute when I got back up to get the food chaser I’d forgotten.
It’s both funny and sad. I wish I could explain why I was doing this. And that the meds cocktail is getting so large because I can’t be sure she’ll eat medicated food. If she doesn’t reliably eat the wet food even the tasteless stuff has to be added to the oral syringe
So many hugs, all you can do is your best.
chat to your vet, we found the best way for Punky was to soak his thyroid meds in sour cream or tuna juice. Mix it up and they’re yomping it off the spoon, no stress and a delicious treat.
I did become a ninja at the vit B shots though
soak his thyroid meds in sour cream or tuna juice.
I’m going to remember this for meds for the boys
check with the vet first, don’t’ want to use anything that could negate the meds. They get a little leery of any dairy because butt explosions, but since ours are always allowed a little treat (we pre-train the bribery!) he was good. Learned that one when we had pet rats. You can either pill a rat, or get them lining up to gobble the delicious nutigelbaytril
It’s hard because she’s a bit queasy from antibiotics and the blood pressure meds.
I use a lot of yummy toppings to try and get her to eat the wet (nutritional yeast, baby food, cracker crumbs, plain natural Greek yogurt etc) but it all comes down to whether she’s feeling up to wet food.
She’s still steadily eating the dry food though so at least she’s eating.
Yeah the B12… I’ve awkwardly given one shot under vet supervision but it’s hard with my hands
one thing to remember with cats is they’re all about the texture. So they may turn their nose up at one food, but when you mash it it’s suddenly the best thing ever. Lil’ weirdoes
Yeah, she loved her pate but unfortunately it’s got chicken in it. I used to mash her food very smooth with hot water and still kind of mash it but she’s decided she doesn’t like the extra liquid
She keeps me on my toes!
Has she tried the renal pates? Not the chicken one obvs, but Hills do a tuna one
It’s still got chicken in it 😭
dear lord the internet is full of americans discovering “great new ways of growing food” that are just standard good practises.
They don’t even understand what a democracy is, I wouldn’t give them the credit of understanding gardening 😂
They haven’t needed to think about it until suddenly realising they were in a crisis. Having realised, they now need to believe they’ve invented it
Yes, just like when gen z invented Spiders (ice cream floats). I bet those boomers don’t know what they’re missing out on.
boba tea jellies are just old fashioned tapioca pearls
“mind blown”
I recall seeing a video some time ago, where a UK journalist/presenter (with a bit of a posh accent) was fawning over the fact that instead of going out for lunch during work, one could pre-purchase ingredients such as bread, meats and cheese, and combine them at home and bring this into work.
Discovering sandwiches in your 30’s is truly something.
good lord
I know right
their mindset and every day language usage is infected by advertising and now internet videos
it’s not that bad here, yet
A lot of people in at work early, someone’s playing music from their room and the sound is travelling to me. Usually not so noisy so early I don’t know what’s up today.
To counter it I’m playing Dua Lipa’s Houdini before I go outside.
I 💖 Dua Lipa
Her stuff is so catchy, nice for a pick me up sometimes as well if depending in my mood.
Hmm should I consider buying some chicken dim sims this week?
Never eaten before, I usually go for beef.
Also considering trying out some of the Aldi shape biscuits.
I think you should buy one cooked from a shop because some people don’t like them.
Also beef? That’s what’s in there? Hmm TIL.
I was just going to buy frozen ones to restock my supplies and also because they’re much cheaper than getting them cooked from a shop.
there is a chicken shop at the qvm that sells delicious chicken dimmies.
If Aldi ‘brands’ look like the well-known brands, then there’s a massive chance they are actually made by the same company. So Aldi ‘shorps’ should be ‘shapes’ regardless. :)
Any dim sim is worth consuming! From the frozen supermarket ones, to the fish & chip ones that make ya fart!
I’m going to be buying frozen ones but i’ll need to restock after I go through what I have my freezer for the next few days, I guess I was more curious than anything.
Guess I’ll find out about the shapes, if they’re the same then I think the seasoning will be slim pickings.
I’m stuffed. Had my psych appt earlier, and my brain is MUSHY
I always used to book my appointments on days when I had nothing happening , it was just too hard
Oh I have nothing to do today lol! Decided to play Skyrim to help process my neurons
hugs
Sigh. The zucchinis never did go wild like I hoped. So far I got 4 fruits from 4 plants which I gave to a friend. I wish there had been more to donate to the community pantry. Maybe if I’d kept the original 12 that sprouted!
The issue of course is limited money and space which meant planting them in salvaged pots that were too small, and limited energy/ability leading to not enough fertiliser applications.
I’m still going on that string bag but can’t seem to concentrate enough to get into an automatic groove.
Mine’ve done really well. Kinda glad I only ended up with one plant tbh. was getting 4 or 5 per week at its peak, started to slow now though.
Maybe next time I should get big pots and dig in manure, and try a hybrid variety. (For a higher yield and less vulnerable to disease.) Sounds like a lot of lifting though
I have Seether by Veruca Salt stuck in my head this morning. No idea why.
Not complaining, takes me back to my uni days, maybe my brain is feeling nostalgic.
Yasss!
A good companion song is
Oh wow I’d forgotten all about that one!
I tend to feel they go hand-in-hand. Pretty sure I have a J recording somewhere of them being played close together.
Thankyou for replacing my earworm, which was not as musically worthy!
My work here is done.
My mum sent me a video where they described a study that found that ADHD symptoms improved when parents stopped giving their kids food with red food dye in it. I consulted the literature and couldn’t find the aforementioned study, but some studies say there is a link, but still lots of unknowns.
I wish she didn’t take health advice from random people on the internet. The psychiatrist they mentioned in the study is known to be a bit of a snake oil physician.
Oh man, what a blast from the past. My cousins got banned from red food dye back in the 80s and early 90s. One of them makes a point to down a bottle of red cordial when his mum visits just to rub it in her face lol.
The sugar, otoh…
First thing that comes to my mind anyway is: what kind of red-food-colouring food is NOT high in sugar?
what kind of red-food-colouring food is NOT high in sugar
Imitation crab sticks.
*has a quick squizz at the interwebble…
Hrmm no… lotsa sugar there too.
You have unlocked a memory. I went to hotpot with a friend and we got imitation crab sticks because the other option was Spam. I ate enough imitation crab to last a lifetime.
Maybe that’s why I’m so inattentive /s
Imitation crab is weirdly more-ish for me
Also, ‘red food colouring’ differs between countries/jurisdictions. What counts as ‘red food colouring’ in the USA and South America for example, is banned in Europe and Australia as being mildly carcinogenic. This happened back in the 1980s. Here we use a different compound for the purpose - eg annatto. So where and when was the original study done? Essential to know exactly WHICH red food colouring is the potential culprit. Also yellow food dye is similar situation. Was that in the original study???
Actually I think I know that study - it’s fairly famous for being deeply flawed in it’s methodology and interpretation of results. It also pre-dates the numerical code for additives that we see on labels nowadays. So it’s hard to actually compare to modern products however processed in this country.also worth noting that red food dye in the US is usually hand in hand with massively oversugared foods.
It’s not the ADHD that’s being managed, it’s the sugar crack
Not been feeling too well lately, resting and watching old stuff.
Shows like Extreme Cheapskates are just fake rage bait. Yeah, a woman with a full face of makeup, false lashes and an entire set of false nails is so frugal she uses dryer lint for makeup removal. She drives an SUV to the supermarket to beg for meat scraps. Pull the other one!
I hope that episode of Adults Adopting Adults was faker than it looked though. I’m aware that these shows are very scripted and heavily edited but Danny was seriously concerning. I actually feel like that situation was one of the rare ones the camera didn’t overplay.
Extreme Cheapskates isn’t a show I watch but for some reason I have seen that one, maybe on YouTube? Her man has some people round to watch the game and she makes a hideous lasagna from boiled fat water or something, is that the one?
Yeah that’s the one
Extreme Cheapskates makes me feel yucky inside. I watched one where this dude teaches people how to cook gourmet on a budget but he didn’t tell them until after that he’d foraged herbs from the side of the road, dumpster dived the local seafood joint for scraps of lobster tails and picked out half drunk bottles of wine from the bins at the beach and filtered them through his homemade goon bag.
I… I… I’m sorry, what. Why. Just why!
Ah ha. The foraging, well fine ok but the dreg collecting and then pouring them into what looked like a colostomy bag was an eye opener.
Rage bait is why. Show runners coach them to do or say bizarre controversial things.
Very much on brand for exploitative reality tv especially in the 2000s
Yeah, it’s geared for outrage.
What aggrevates me is that if you agree to do something, actually fucking follow through.
If you don’t want to, then just say so, instead of fucking me around for days.
Fucks sake.
Some people don’t understand that they’re fucking with someone’s life.
Opinions wanted.
I’m looking to live right by the seaside but it’s hard to get a place.
Is it better to get a bit of a shitty place in a wonderful location ( the place I’m in now is a disgrace so it’s not like I would be going from a good place to a dump, I’m already in a dump )
or a better place in a worse location?
I reckon I can fix up a place to be more comfortable but I can’t actually move a house to a better location.
I’d buy the one that I could pay off the quickest but that’s just me.
If I were buying I’d pay the biggest amount possible and pay off asap
I hate borrowing money
Location, location, location.
Location > House quality. A castle in Clyde is still in Clyde. Your kids are old and out on their own yeah.
that’s what I think
I also reckon go for a preferred location, as long as the house repairs would be manageable. It would be a nicer environment to live in and also better resale value in case you decide to move.
It’s just renting
Ah… I’d say the same thing, provided the rent was reasonable and house ok to live in. I think the problem with seaside towns is competition from holidaymakers would bump the prices up
this is a city suburb, no holiday makers , the only possible prob is people who park their cars on the weekend
but I talked to neighbours and it’s not a prob right there
Sounds promising!
The classic advice is to buy the worst house in the best street/location. I reckon this applies here too. Location location location.
Assuming it’s not going to be a big or expensive problem I’d prefer a slightly crummy place than a bad area. You can fix up a bad place but there’s not a lot you can do about the area and a bad one will wear on you.
Also if you resold someone would likely want that area regardless of the house’s condition.
So I won’t be so easy with the treats anymore. It makes fluffy tums sore.
Good Golly Miss Molly
spoiler
Pate knives on a small cake stand? Don’t know where it came from but I do know it’s not going back in my cupboard because I don’t have room for ugly.
What’s more embarrassing is I’ve got an unopened bottle of Hennessey I haven’t touched yet.
I hate it. I don’t mind figural, I used to have some figural Villeroy and Boch but nothing as hideous and poorly done as that
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Villeroy+%26+Boch'+animal+park&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
Must have been a gift … I think it’s a cheese ball platter thingie. Verra verra kitsch. Almost worth keeping to put on the table for your kid’s 21st. Could raise a bit of $$ on ebay though - kitsch of this order is a thing.
Most certainly a gift. Possibly a house warming gift. Definitely will not be keeping.
Get some nice $$$ for it.
If I put that out on the sidewalk for locals to take it would still be there in a week
CEO is not in Carlton. Although I think you might be surprised at how fast it goes even in Carlton.
Omg I love it
It’s yours!!!
👀🙈I uhh… No thanks
😂
work has been so busy that i’m in bed right now going I DUN WANNA before i inevitably get up to go to work
edit: i am outside
For the fungus gnat fighters, I got these sticky sheets in the post today and cut them up into traps approximately the same dimension as these Bunnings ones.
Works out to like 8¢/trap (or less) instead of $1.29/trap. Being able to make dozens means you can get way more coverage. Also customised the size to be wider for my larger plants, and want to experiment with different shapes just for fun.
They seem to be working, too, in just a few hours many have already caught gnats.
Oh nice. I didn’t realise they came ready made
