#vet appreciation

[thegreenhorseman]

Update on Stanley

I know its been some time since I posted about Mr. Stanman, see Stanley Doesn’t Feel Well. Since then we have gone to Maryland, said goodbye to Arnie, and more. So how’s the handsome man doing? Stanley was very obstinate about taking oral doxycycline. Even using a syringe I tried to use maple syrup to entice him and he refused to swallow. He stood for minutes on end clenching his teeth, and when…

[finchwingart]

It's ginger cat appreciation day today, wanted an excuse to show love to my newly tripod-ed boy Chester

[foldingfittedsheets]

No pressure, but if you’ve asked a bed question, or enjoyed my expertise on the subject of sex toys, or laughed at any of my silly stories, you could always drop me a tip on Ko-fi or Venmo if you felt so moved!

[wholecakes]

zoro who is so caught off guard by sanji’s kinder actions towards him is one of my favorite tropes. sanji crafting him specialized post workout snacks personally adjusted for him but still down to fight and call him names. he’s still the biggest asshole zoro has ever had the displeasure of knowing, and he’s horribly considerate. he’s a little confused but doesn’t reject any of sanji’s specialized treats. it’s not like sanji is fawning and doting over him like he does nami, so zoro feels like he can cross off sanji actually liking him from his list of reasons as to why sanji is acting like this. but it’s still fucking strange..

meanwhile sanji is in his kitchen wondering how zoro hasn’t taken a damn hint yet

[korumiis]

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[mamawasatesttube]

im sleepy so i can't put my finger on the punch line exactly but there is a joke to be made about how fanon batman is actually just canon lex luthor. like think about it:

racist against metas and aliens

really controlling over who can associate with his daughter

not just rich but also famous and very recognizable in pop culture

obsessed with coming up with ways to take superman down, to the point of always carrying kryptonite

... and (probably) more!

[grantihare]

our cat broke his hip on christmas

hi, your local guy-with-a-blog is here to dox himself so his cat can walk again!

i made posts earlier as this was happening, but now that i've heard back from enough vets to get an idea of how steep this is going to be, i can't not ask for help.

its cheesy to say, but my cats are my everything. mordred, especially, spends his days basically glued to my side. he's my little shadow, and i don't know where i'd be without him.

when he woke me up to feed him at 6am on christmas morning, he was completely fine. i went back to sleep after, and when i woke up for real at 8, he was limp on the ground. when we went to move him, he howled and thrashed like we were torturing him. he ran, and we saw he wasn't using his right back leg.

many tears and an anxiety riddled 4 hour wait for our emergency vet appointment later, we were told he had a right capital physeal fracture, which basically means he snapped the ball bit of the ball joint in his hip. the vet said the best option for him is a femoral head and neck ostectomy (FHO), which'll take the broke bit of his bone out and the scar tissue will sort of just grow in the right way to replace his missing joint (cats are so weird)

its the cheapest option, and its the one with the best success rate, which is super lucky. unfortunately, its still expensive as fuck.

weve been quoted anywhere between 3.5k and 8k by vets i've contacted so far, and most need at least half as a downpayment before they'll operate. it'd take us years to cover the full cost by ourselves. so we've got to break out the big guns - a full gofundme, which will be shared with basically everyone we know, and hopefully far past that as well. carecredit can only cover so much for us, and our immediate family can't afford to lend us much. the internet is our only hope for meeting the full cost and getting mordred better

mordred's the light of my life and i can't stand to see him in pain like this. anything helps. if youre not in a financial state where you can donate, spreading the word is just as important and just as deeply appreciated.

thank you so much for getting this far.

our gofundme is here

[tahthetrickster]

PAUSE

this is a marty appreciation checkpoint. he is 18 years old and needs daily appreciation.

please acknowledge him with his preferred traditional cat greeting of A

thank you.

[yampidimp]

my rabbit has a big sore on her neck that looks infected but I have no money to take her to the vet right now, if you would like to donate to help us out my ko-fi is here, I would really appreciate sharing as well, thank you 🙏

[theotheristhedoctor]

The thing that nobody says but that we all know about Sam Vimes is that you could turn him into an extremely butch lesbian and apart from the plot point about Angua being the first woman of the watch in M@A, nothing else would change.

[muninnhuginn]

no but like. spy x family shows time and again that you need not just the larger picture but also to take into account what's closer to home

[redacted]'s dad pointing out that ostanians aren't monsters, but still slapping his own son and making [redacted] terrified to even consider lying to him.

donovan desmond. regardless of whether his role in government is "in the right", he still prioritises his aims over his family. both damian and demetrius have estranged relationships with him and I don't even know where to start with whatever is going on with melinda.

handler. lost her own family and this forms part of her current motivation towards heading off war. but it's shown that her personal life is in tatters. that she's only living for her job with nothing at home for her anymore. it's unhealthy for her, but the connection with her new dog is a start.

twilight. increasingly at odds between "his mission" and his family. and yet, the whole reason for his mission is to protect the smiles of children. to make it so that they don't have to experience what he did. if he completes his mission and then leaves, he's still inflicting that same heartache onto his family.

at the same time. twilight's mantra that "ignorance is sin" comes from the right place. if tensions are ignored. if people aren't actively leveraging the information they can obtain. that's how war happens.

all the adult characters have experienced war in some capacity and they recognise the pain and suffering it can cause. that's why they work so hard to avert it. but they have to be careful that they don't echo that conflict down onto their own personal lives and younger generations. that they aren't so held back by the spectre of war that they forget to live for themselves.

[pwouted]

update on the grocery situation : we now have food [ yay ] thanks to those who donated and a lovely friend of mine we were able to get a few essentials :') so thank you guys !

unfortunately sometimes before things get better, they get worse and my oldest rabbit smokey [ he's almost 8 now !! some of u might remember him, esp since i had to ask for assistance a few yrs ago ;; ] has had reoccurring gstasis, usually we are able to treat this by giving him lots of water, hay, baby gas drops, and massaging his tum. now it's gotten so bad that nothing will work at all and it's so concerning because gstasis can become so very deadly. unfortunately the only animal clinic that is still open and treats rabbits is over an hour away.

this means a 32 dollar ride [ to and from ] unless we find someone who can take us, a regular exam starts at 80 dollars, and looking at posts online [ the vet said as of now she can't give us an estimate until she sees him ] treatment could be around $400+ so in total it would most likely be around 544 dollars [ at the LEAST ]

so i will be leaving my ko-fi below TT

i also want to say that i might be less active for awhile / leave my blog on a q mostly so i can just spend as much time focusing on him as much possible. thank you to those who read this, and those who can help, and those who can keep my sweet boy in your heart !

my ko-fi

[dadrielle]

This is my beautiful baby boy Reilly who I have just now had to rush to the emergency vet because he isn't peeing. If you know male cats, you know how bad that is - potentially life threatening. It is what killed my ex-wife's last cat. I need to help him, but my goddamn credit cards are maxed out; I am mad broke, my car has been busted two weeks and I haven't taken it in because I don't have the money for that, so I have been walking 2 miles and taking transit through my fibro flares every day to work and barely being able to walk, and I haven't asked for any help with that but I will ask for help for him.

If he doesn't end up needing hospitalization, we're look at about $700. If he does? $5000. I have pet insurance but it the pay-me-back-for-some-of-it kind and I need to have at least some of this on hand to get him ok.

If you have anything you wouldn't mind sparing, my paypal is dadrielleart@gmail.com

[buckevantommy]

“straight” buck texting tommy on grindr: 

tommy texting buck on grindr: 

[foldingfittedsheets]

Today is a bit better. I slept a reasonable amount for the first time in days, and after only two doses of meds Leeloo is breathing a little easier but more importantly hasn’t had more than a single cough since the first dose.

Gonna make some art today!

[redux-iterum]

Thank you both for the kind words, I very much appreciate them. I'm sorry you also lost a pet recently, Electric - it's worse than I remember every time. I just have to be content knowing he's in a better place and he won't have to suffer lymphoma and arthritis anymore. I do feel a distant, flaring fury at his previous owner for never taking him to the vet (I suspect we could have prevented that intestinal cancer if he'd caught the gut problems in time and gave enough of a shit to take care of it), but it's not productive. What's done is done. Even if I'd pay good money to get away with throttling the motherfucker.

I actually debated on if I should put him down today, because over the weekend he perked up on some medicine and seemed to be going uphill a little - though if I was even a little late to give him that medicine, he would shut down and huddle in pain. When I brought that up to the vet, he sadly told me that the dosage Rocky was on should have cured him completely, not just made him more or less stable, if this was fixable. I'm eternally grateful for his honesty when he said that putting it off would just make things harder for me, and potentially worse for Rocky if the medicine stopped working. I ended up making the decision to do it today, as miserable as it made me.

It's funny. Geno's death was difficult and extremely painful, but somehow Rocky was the harder one to put down. At least with Geno, I had fourteen years with him, and I knew those years were good. Rocky was such a brief blip in my life, and yet I spent the entire weekend and drive to the vet trying to find a way out of putting him down today and wondering if I was doing the right thing. Odd thing to happen.