Damn you! Watch this first one, PLEASE! The rest you can watch if you like - they are carefully selected greats from the show.

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 Ruby is ADOPTED!!!!!! Our new foster dog is Molly-coddle-doddle-doo... an older black and white springer spaniel with urinary incontinence who's deaf and heartworm positive! When you put it that way, she sounds kind of sad, but she's actually a very happy little dog. She likes to chase tennis balls and her medication is starting to work so that ( Read more... )

Okay, this is nuts. Now every time I want to write something, I want to write it as a poem - and a bad poem at that. But I indulge myself. So here's the tale of my scare last night:

Climbing into bed, I plan to sleep - and nothing more

But while I think about my day, I also think about the way

The shadows from the dresser cloak the corner by the door

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Finally got a picture of Ruby up here! Isn't she adorable? So far she is fine with her heartworm treatment regimen.

Unfortunately, we lost two more kittens from Jenna's litter yesterday while they were at Cheryl's. They were the ones I had suspected wouldn't make it because of their gnarly eye infections and because they were the smallest. So now ( Read more... )

I should be studying, so I wrote another poem for fun. I have to admit, I didn't work on it for very long. I might go back to it later to finish it and put in some better lines.

What to Wear

I have learned what to wear

Before I tried many outfits to succeed, but I have learned

To put away my platform shoes, and my words;

Layers of modesty, well- ( Read more... )

I spent most of the morning giving fluids, trying to get babies to eat and mom to eat and roll over so her kittens could nurse. When I came back from lunch, one of the babies had died - probably unable to breathe from all the fluid in his lungs. We sent everybody else to Jonesville Animal Hospital. A couple already looked like they were past the ( Read more... )

When I came to work yesterday the babies were all still alive. And mom is eating better, but she still has to be offered food by hand. Cheryl's out today so it will be my job to do not only baby checks but also baby fluid injections once today ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention another problem I found; one of the kittens had an eye swollen shut with pus. Not to sound gross, but it was so cool to get all the pus out. He has an eye infection in conjunction with his upper respiratory infection. Poor little guy.

I'm posting here one of the most important principles of Pet Rescue work: BABY CHECKING!

Here's how it goes: when you have animals you would classify as "babies" (for instance, if they are not weaned) they need to be checked morning, noon, and night. You can check them by picking them up and looking at them. Do they look well-fed? Are they squirming ( Read more... )

Thanks for posting about aspartame - cripes, I've had like six diet cokes over the past two days at work (my first diet cokes ever) because there were no regular ones. I told myself that I had to go home and look up aspartame to scare myself away from it, and there you go. No effort required.

Just in case anyone wasn't aware, I wanted to point out ( Read more... )