@RemodMonica could you please stop “explaining” a situation that happened waaaay before you were here to those that were here and have access to to information you can’t have because you aren’t a moderator.
@Stephie At least you and he aren't fighting for space. I saw a video a day or two ago of a person on the beach with their dogs, trying to find a place for their feet and ending up pushing one of them out of the way. So the dog hopped up and started digging to bury the person.
@RemodMonica My personal opinion and subjective advice: please consider changing your username back from this. It does not look genuine and gives the impression of being a cheap way of sympathy fishing; I think it is so grotesque that anyone could see right through it. The related slogan has been repeated over and over again to the point of ...
@RemodMonica ...being cliché, and it is not even relevant anymore at the current point because the dispute has been settled in court and resulted in both parties signing no-disclosure agreement; the slogan no longer even makes any sense in this context. Starting to discuss it all over again could be seen as trying to stir up unconstructive melodrama and the hospitality of this chat channel is being stretched thin by this. ...
@RemodMonica ...Litter Box is the peaceful and quiet garden intended to create the calming aura for its visitors; this needs ambiance of singing birds, while the air time of network-wide omnipresent soap operas should optimally be reduced to 0; thanks.
It's another attempt at clout-chasing with no regard for how it impacts any of the communities it's being thrown at. I really have no hope for improvement at this point.
There's nothing genuine behind it, it's "look at me! look how good a person I am!" Nothing but performative drama that really needs to stop, but shows no signs it will.'
I'm facing a resurgence of one of Bea's behaviors... for about a month when she was a kitten I had to give her a pill twice a day, so I kept the pills and some pill pockets in the bathroom, to make sure I could isolate her and prevent the others from getting the "treat."
It worked too well and she started associating the sound of pill bottles with treats
Which was starting to back off, until the past week when I've had to give one of the others some liquid medication, and some treats afterward to make him feel better about the experience.
@Stephie Squishy cup-shaped treats designed to stuff with a pill, with the hopes the critter will gulp the treat without finding the pill. In theory, they're great! In practice, it depends on the pet. :D
My previous cat started out eating them, then moved on to eating the treat while leaving the pill behind, then just decided he wasn't going to eat them at all. So far, they work very well on Bea so I hope that continues.
For the every-few-months deworming, Chester will be quite cooperative and munch on the pill with some very special treats afterwards. Not much experience with Xabi yet, but I would expect some liver wurst or so to disappear without further examination.
The benefit of a rather large dog: Pills are comparatively small considering what they perceive as “a bite”.
I have become quite adept at feeding liquid medicine to the cat. Yay, syringes!
Supposedly Havoc's liquid medication is "chicken flavor." He seems to disagree, with his protests every time I give it to him (which is why he gets the treats afterward). Twice a year they all get a two-dose liquid dewormer, too, which was an adventure on the last administration.
Artemis and Havoc both refused to take it, with more of Havoc's landing on my bed and myself than in his mouth (hence moving future liquid meds to the bathroom). Bea tried to slip away after watching them, but apparently liked the taste because she didn't fight at all and was surprised by how fast it was over. "All that drama and that was it?"
Ha! That’s like the day we vaccinated around sixty lambs. Deafening. Except for one. Inka. Curled up in the straw, loving that she got to spend a whole day with her “mommy and daddy”. I swear, if lambs could, she’d been grinning from ear to ear.
@AllisonC I was super surprised when I first had to give a dog some pills. They really seemed to taste amazing. My cats never even wanted to be close to pills.
@lila No problem. Just a convenient way to voice my agreement (and boy, do I agree with you, I wasn't even around during the Monica era, and still, seeing Joseph's new username makes me cringe)
@SerenaT I've very rarely had to give a dog any pills, and the one I did (an arthritic Dalmatian we had when I was a teen) was very cooperative about taking them.
@AllisonC Oh exactly, there is nobody you should be more suspicious of than someone who has to explicitly signal or tell that they are a good person. "By their fruits you will know them" is the Biblical verse saying not to listen to people's words, but watch their actions.
