The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

borderlinemeath · 13-04-2014 5:22pm

tk123 wrote: »

I gagged!

Somebody needs to design a collar attachment, think something a bit like a backwards cone of shame crossed with a racing cyclists helmet to prevent the neck roll from infiltrating the fur. Hosing crap off plastic is way easier and not as 'hands on' as when it gets into the fur.

tk123 · 13-04-2014 5:25pm

borderlinemeath wrote: »

Somebody needs to design a collar attachment, think something a bit like a backwards cone of shame crossed with a racing cyclists helmet to prevent the neck roll from infiltrating the fur. Hosing crap off plastic is way easier and not as 'hands on' as when it gets into the fur.

It was on her from head to toe! Luckily we washed most of it off in the dunes and I had a bottle of water+vinegar as well as wipes in the car. Then she had a bath when we got home - she's learnt that she's supposed to jump in the bath herself now :P

SillyMangoX · 13-04-2014 7:59pm

I'm so worried right now, dudes back end is in bits from his scald. I think it's gotten to the stage where he will have to be anaesthetised to have it debrided

mymo · 13-04-2014 10:00pm

SingItOut wrote: »

Vogue is on a mice murder spree the last few weeks, there's been 7 left on the door step this week alone!

I hear ya!
Ruby made her first kill recently and has been thoroughly enjoying herself this last week. Lots of little dead baby mice, she must have found a nest, she likes to show them off and demonstrate her juggling skills.
She presented my daughter with one on her laptop!
Only time she's voluntarily cleaned her laptop!

@sillymangox, poor Dude, does he like water enough to wash him?

aonb · 13-04-2014 10:14pm

My 16 year old dog was a litter of 6 puppies. His last remaining sibling was put to sleep this evening

He's in flying form, but brings it home, that he's on borrowed time now...

Pumpkinseeds · 13-04-2014 10:18pm

SingItOut wrote: »

Vogue is on a mice murder spree the last few weeks, there's been 7 left on the door step this week alone!

1 night last year we woke up to the unmistakable sound of 1 of our cats playing with prey in the hall. It was Jazzy, as usual, with a mouse. By the time my husband had gotten it off him and released it he'd already killed another.
He finds them in nearby fields and brings them home. I've never known a cat like him for hunting. I think it was his feral beginning in life. He used to occassionally kill birds and we'd only find the remains of a wing or a leg so he must've been eating them.

SillyMangoX · 13-04-2014 10:38pm

mymo wrote: »

@sillymangox, poor Dude, does he like water enough to wash him?

He loves water, gets a bath nearly every second day since all this started but it hasn't been enough to help, I'm just lucky he has an antibiotic in his system already or else I'd imagine he would be very sick from this considering the smell coming off it!

SingItOut · 14-04-2014 12:53am

aonb wrote: »

My 16 year old dog was a litter of 6 puppies. His last remaining sibling was put to sleep this evening He's in flying form, but brings it home, that he's on borrowed time now...

My partners dog (a pomXterrier) is going on 20 years old next month so you may have many years left

her only problem is all her food has to be mashed (she has four teeth left!) and needs to be lifted onto the furniture but has no health problems

SingItOut · 14-04-2014 12:59am

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

1 night last year we woke up to the unmistakable sound of 1 of our cats playing with prey in the hall. It was Jazzy, as usual, with a mouse. By the time my husband had gotten it off him and released it he'd already killed another.
He finds them in nearby fields and brings them home. I've never known a cat like him for hunting. I think it was his feral beginning in life. He used to occassionally kill birds and we'd only find the remains of a wing or a leg so he must've been eating them.

It's for that reason I don't let the cats have access to outdoors at night, I'm not scared of mice but I definitely don't want them or rats brought into the house! Vogue was living rough for a while before I found her so it's natural to her really. She had a dead baby bird on the lawn this morning which did annoy me but that's the joys of having a cat I suppose

our lazy fat ginger cat Beau never catches anything ha!

Pumpkinseeds · 14-04-2014 12:16pm

SingItOut wrote: »

It's for that reason I don't let the cats have access to outdoors at night, I'm not scared of mice but I definitely don't want them or rats brought into the house! Vogue was living rough for a while before I found her so it's natural to her really. She had a dead baby bird on the lawn this morning which did annoy me but that's the joys of having a cat I suppose our lazy fat ginger cat Beau never catches anything ha!

I wish I could keep them in at night but Jazzy absolutely panics himself sick if we lock the catflap. He had 2 teeth removed a month or so ago and we put him in the safe room with the door shut. He dug so much to be let out that he actually put a large hole in the carpet inside the door.

Thankfully there's only been 1 rat. I looked out the open back door once and Felix was standing in the garden looking at me with a large wriggling one in his mouth:eek: Felix is a bit of a Forest Gump chap and almost seemed oblivious to it, he wouldn't have killed it, if Jazzy was around I'd have gladly let him kill it. My husband got it off him and it escaped. I hate the things.

There was a lot of construction work going on nearby so I'd say that's where it came from.

Whispered · 15-04-2014 9:26am

Has anybody here dealt with the canine country club and found them hard to get in touch with. I've emailed, sent a web enquiry and left a message. Are they still open and operating?

tk123 · 15-04-2014 9:35am

Is it for hydro? They're def still operating because my friend was only there at the weekend. The hydro has it's own FB (Canine Rehab) so you might have better luck with them? https://www.facebook.com/canine.rehab.9?fref=ts

Whispered · 15-04-2014 9:44am

Oh yeah I messaged there too. Hopefully they will get back to me. Thanks

Pumpkinseeds · 15-04-2014 11:25am

I love watching our 4 basking in the sun, but I hate the fact that the flies are back already. At least that's 1 great thing about Winter, no flies landing on food bowls. Our kitchen and hall floors are lino covered concrete, so they're really chilly to walk on, but the cats love it. They'll bake themselves in the sun then come in and lay on the cool floor for a bit before going back out. I can't take much sun.

Whispered · 15-04-2014 3:26pm

Whispered wrote: »

Oh yeah I messaged there too. Hopefully they will get back to me. Thanks

At this stage I've sent two emails, Facebook message and a voicemail. I'm going to have to give up I think.

tk123 · 15-04-2014 8:35pm

Well Lucy's days of sitting in her sun lounger are over! She caught her leg in it earlier and got a bad fright and bit my poor bro when he went to free her and Bailey and my mum got a bad fright too. Going to get another hi-k9 - they're expensive but cheaper than vets fees!

Whispered · 15-04-2014 10:26pm

Poor Lucy. Was she hurt?

tk123 · 16-04-2014 8:14am

Whispered wrote: »

Poor Lucy. Was she hurt?

No she was fine thank god! I was only saying the other day that she was getting of big to sit on it and it might fold down on her. New outside bed ordered yesterday evening.

Pumpkinseeds · 16-04-2014 5:04pm

I finally found a furball remedy that Poppy will eat. We tried a few things but she just wouldn't eat them and she was getting freaked out and running from us when we were putting the Defurrum on her paw to get her to wash it off. She'd eat a bit of butter but that wasn't a healthy long term option.

We got some of the Gimpet soft malt paste and she loves it:) I mistakenly ordered the dog version of the RC Calm. I nearly had a breakdown yesterday when I opened the box to find the dog one. We've gotten so used to calm cats doing normal cat things(is there such a thing as a normal cat?)

I had to order a 2kg bag today as I've emailed Zooplus yesterday and today for a Return Order number to exchange it but they haven't got back to me. What with the bank holiday weekend on top of the wait of them receiving it and then shipping an exchange the cats would probably have gone back to the bad old ways.

Zapperzy · 16-04-2014 5:50pm

Sitting outside a shop watching a man with two small kids and 3 bouncy jack russells cross a very very busy roundabout. They have a dog each and both children are getting dragged along barely able to hold the lead while the man is walking ahead not even watching them while crossing over two lanes of busy dual carriageway traffic. Some people don't deserve kids nevermind dogs.

tk123 · 16-04-2014 7:43pm

Oooooops!!! I got distracted on the laptop while the dogs were playing - look up and they're playing tug with my mums sock!! It's 3 times the length it should be lol!!!

anniehoo · 17-04-2014 9:55pm

Am so upset

My foster dog who I was to get this evening (only surrendered to the pound today) and is in bits god love him, escaped from the guy who was to transport him to me this evening. Spent an hour looking for him and eventually found him in Huntstown Dublin 15. Couldn't catch him. He's 10kg underweight and so soooo scared.He's only 2 but looks so much older.

Have come home because we lost sight of him.

Can anyone who sees this guy pleeeeease contact me or see my post in the D15 forum and share on facebook if you like this rescue.I really hope it's not bad news for this guy tomorrow he's had an awful time.

tk123 · 18-04-2014 9:06am

I work in Ballycoolin so will keep an eye out - dogs often stroll past our window!

Pumpkinseeds · 18-04-2014 12:16pm

We had a tabby visitor in the back garden last night. I think Poppy made a new friend. The light sensor went off a minute after she came in, so I looked out the window to see what set it off. A stocky young looking tabby sneaked out from under the shed door and had a good snoop around. I think he's from the same house as the other tabby visitor we used to have. Thankfully Poppy is neutered:)

Cocolola · 18-04-2014 1:14pm

So after months of considering whether or not to buy a dog clippers I finally did yesterday. Ollie has these awful "bloomers" on his rear end and back legs that just look so untidy and I wanted to try tidy it up. The plan was for today to just get used to using it and to do his hairy little feet but I got a bit carried away. He now looks like that poor collie from the Specsavers ad that got sheared by the half blind farmer

SillyMangoX · 18-04-2014 1:40pm

A new lesson learned today that I should have already known... never leave out fish, unguarded, for good friday dinner with 3 cats in the house. Oh dear god the carnage!!

angeldaisy · 18-04-2014 5:30pm

Well, just back from the vets with Rusty. he's very anemic so she took bloods. she thinks it could be a kidney problem as collies are prone to them, otherwise it could be something more sinister

Layinghen · 18-04-2014 9:33pm

Angeldaisy, fingers and paws crossed here for Rusty. You must be very worried but hopefully the vet will have some definite answers next week.

angeldaisy · 19-04-2014 10:57am

Well we got some results back and it's not looking good. his kidneys are fine which suggest something else is causing the anaemia. we have to get more bloods done Tuesday to be sent to Cork so we'll know more wed or Thurs.

She told us to prepare for the worst though. very upset, he's been my baby for nearly 12 years:(

Pumpkinseeds · 19-04-2014 11:46am

So sorry to hear that Angeldaisy. I know there's nothing I can say that'll make it any easier:(

Graces7 · 19-04-2014 12:19pm

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

1 night last year we woke up to the unmistakable sound of 1 of our cats playing with prey in the hall. It was Jazzy, as usual, with a mouse. By the time my husband had gotten it off him and released it he'd already killed another.
He finds them in nearby fields and brings them home. I've never known a cat like him for hunting. I think it was his feral beginning in life. He used to occassionally kill birds and we'd only find the remains of a wing or a leg so. he must've been eating them.

one of my cats used to eat the middle part of birds, leaving head and spine and tail etc. useful for id..

also found where voles nested and would lie in wait for them to emerge. sometimes he would bring them in alive and they would hide under the settee..

my prsent two are more discreet but i sometimes find scattered wing feathers.

found a dead siskin last year but it was undamaged

Graces7 · 19-04-2014 12:27pm

SillyMangoX wrote: »

A new lesson learned today that I should have already known... never leave out fish, unguarded, for good friday dinner with 3 cats in the house. Oh dear god the carnage!!

here it is cake i cannot leave unattended...my bigger cat has a sweet tooth and is omnivorous..was making stuffed eggs, with mayonnaise , one day and through the window came this big silent paw...eats the strangest things, and yes he is big
scuse typing,,, dratted broken wrist is more painful three weeks on than when it was first done. dreading fracture clinic next week in case they say more surgery.

Pumpkinseeds · 19-04-2014 12:34pm

I cooked a turkey crown yesterday and our 4 where doing a little dance of anticipation to get at it while my husband carved it. Did they like it warm? Not a chance, it has to be cold from the fridge before they'll eat it:rolleyes: It's amazing how much meat is on a crown. I got the frozen one from Lidl for 10.99 and there's a big container of it in the fridge now.

I don't eat meat so my husband and cats are going to be eating turkey for some time:D

Graces7 · 19-04-2014 12:49pm

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I cooked a turkey crown yesterday and our 4 where doing a little dance of anticipation to get at it while my husband carved it. Did they like it warm? Not a chance, it has to be cold from the fridge before they'll eat it:rolleyes: It's amazing how much meat is on a crown. I got the frozen one from Lidl for 10.99 and there's a big container of it in the fridge now.

I don't eat meat so my husband and cats are going to be eating turkey for some time:D

i feed raw when i can and hate not being able to. early morning sees me trying to cut up a raw chicken with one hand..so i cover it with a cloth, lean on it and hack..

managed to get legs and wings and breast meat off, then gave up and decided to give the meaty carcase to the cats...they looked awesome, licking first like lions do...dogs got the legs..

wee dog just sounded her..there's someone coming ..bark...no one, then i hear a familiar shrill wail. the feral is back...feed me, feed me.. looks a little battered and has lost weight.but is chomping his way through a large bowl of food by his bed.

Graces7 · 19-04-2014 12:53pm

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I cooked a turkey crown yesterday and our 4 where doing a little dance of anticipation to get at it while my husband carved it. Did they like it warm? Not a chance, it has to be cold from the fridge before they'll eat it:rolleyes: It's amazing how much meat is on a crown. I got the frozen one from Lidl for 10.99 and there's a big container of it in the fridge now.

I don't eat meat so my husband and cats are going to be eating turkey for some time:D

got a frozen turkey from dunnes for e9 but it will stay in the freezer until the wrist is back in action...getting fed up now after three weeks. one of lifes joys is seeing collie working on a raw turkey back...bottom in the air, front paws holding the meat down...she was half starved her first five years. makes up for it now

boomerang · 19-04-2014 10:48pm

Graces7 wrote: »

the feral is back...feed me, feed me.. looks a little battered and has lost weight.but is chomping his way through a large bowl of food by his bed.

He's probably been off chasing the ladies and has had a few rows with competing toms... Plus they don't think about food much when there are females in season.

honerbright · 19-04-2014 11:04pm

I was skyping with my mum in New Zealand this morning and she was telling me her local vet is neutering male cats free of charge. Think it's so great :-D

Graces7 · 19-04-2014 11:09pm

boomerang wrote: »

He's probably been off chasing the ladies and has had a few rows with competing toms... Plus they don't think about food much when there are females in season.

yeah off on the razzle. it was just a pit stop. when i went to take him some chicken, just an empty bowl licked clean. there he was, gone again. at least he has some fuel now. that was a huge feed!

Graces7 · 19-04-2014 11:12pm

honerbright wrote: »

I was skyping with my mum in New Zealand this morning and she was telling me her local vet is neutering male cats free of charge. Think it's so great :-D

lived on an offshore island and when a vet was on holiday there they rounded up stray males and one lady let him him use her garden shed. it is wonderful to see this kind of giving.

SingItOut · 20-04-2014 12:50am

Have Moone booked in to be spayed on Thursday, my nerves will be shot with her! She's never spent any time away from home. She doesn't do well with injections so good luck to the poor vet! All my other pets, aside from the chinchilla, have been neutered and I know she'll be fine too but she's my baby

I swear every day I look at her she seems to be shrinking in size

Pumpkinseeds · 20-04-2014 11:35am

My glands don't work properly so the heat isn't my friend, but I love watching our cats basking in the sunlight. Felix is loving the heat from the bark chips and spends his mornings rolling on it. Poppy blocks the front door sprawled on the door mat and Jazzy loves the top of Tobys cat house. Toby meanwhile likes our bed:)

tk123 · 20-04-2014 11:36am

Good luck Rusty and Moone!! I'm starting to wonder if Lucy may have had a silent heat a few months ago - we're waiting for her to have a heat before we get her spayed. It's been 3 years since I had a holiday - first I knew I was going to made redundant so saved instead, then I was made redundant the next year and didn't take one and then last year we got Lucy..I'd LOVE to book something but know Murphy's law the day we drop her off she'll go into heat!

SingItOut · 20-04-2014 11:43am

That's what happened to moone, she wasn't due to go into heat until March this year so I booked her in for the first week of January then she of course didn't play along and went into heat just after Christmas! So there won't be any worry of that next week

tk123 · 20-04-2014 11:48am

SingItOut wrote: »

That's what happened to moone, she wasn't due to go into heat until March this year so I booked her in for the first week of January then she of course didn't play along and went into heat just after Christmas! So there won't be any worry of that next week

Are you going with a traditional spay? I'm tempted to go for keyhole for Lucy for the quick recovery time and not having to mind stitches etc.

SingItOut · 20-04-2014 12:02pm

I was thinking of doing the keyhole surgery if my vet allows it, I think it'll be less traumatic for moone

aonb · 20-04-2014 1:00pm

SingItOut wrote: »

I was thinking of doing the keyhole surgery if my vet allows it, I think it'll be less traumatic for moone

Poor Moone - Im sure she will be fine so try not to worry too much - she will be home in the evening, so have some nice cooked chicken or something yummy to bribe her with so she forgives you faster. Best of luck!

tk123 · 20-04-2014 1:14pm

SingItOut wrote: »

I was thinking of doing the keyhole surgery if my vet allows it, I think it'll be less traumatic for moone

Only certain vets do it. Ours doesn't - if they did I'd have no questions about which option to take. It's trusting another vet that has me wondering. Our own vets are 2 mins around the corner too so on our doorstep. Poor Bailey is terrified of cones so another plus of the keyhole option for us!

Graces7 · 20-04-2014 10:39pm

everybody fed after a difficult day. first job as soon as i get home is feed dogs and cats of course.

wrist has been getting more and more painful and has never even in plaster looked straight. still looked out of alignment. veering sideways..at an angle

this morning it was swelling so after the craft fair went to the local hospital in that town where they have a limited a and e.
sure enough is is still as it was three weeks ago and the k wires are not where i thought they would be. looks as if the bone was never set. usually i would have asked questions but was too shaken after the accident.

they put the x rays on cd so very early tomorrow will arrive at the big a and e where it was done. needs it seems either setting properly and then a cast or internal pinning.
whichever, means another six weeks..could weep

teaching hospital and drs young. will get it sorted; would not take this from a vet for a dog or cat..
will go prepared to stay in. again...

day started badly as could not find car keys...two hours later..

not a chocolate egg in sight but a kind man gave me 4 painted hen eggs.

and heard a cuckoo here this morning...

Graces7 · 20-04-2014 10:44pm

tk123 wrote: »

Good luck Rusty and Moone!! I'm starting to wonder if Lucy may have had a silent heat a few months ago - we're waiting for her to have a heat before we get her spayed. It's been 3 years since I had a holiday - first I knew I was going to made redundant so saved instead, then I was made redundant the next year and didn't take one and then last year we got Lucy..I'd LOVE to book something but know Murphy's law the day we drop her off she'll go into heat!

have not had a holiday for...... i think it was 1980 something. too much hassle and cost, but would not enjoy it frankly. did try about ten years ago but was home within 48 hours...lol!

Graces7 · 20-04-2014 10:47pm

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

My glands don't work properly so the heat isn't my friend, but I love watching our cats basking in the sunlight. Felix is loving the heat from the bark chips and spends his mornings rolling on it. Poppy blocks the front door sprawled on the door mat and Jazzy loves the top of Tobys cat house. Toby meanwhile likes our bed:)

it was a glorious day. my route to the craft fair was through spectacular mountain and coastal scenery. breathtaking.

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