Just so. The hassle in itself is hardly conducive to good health...
This is just it. I have a dark suspicion that the recent, uh, in-efficacy of my medication is directly due to the stress of being suspected of Nameless Crimes™. That is, I hurt more because I know i'm not trusted.
I stopped seeing my GP about my mental health after he kept accusing me of not taking my medication because my blood levels were too low. His accusations about me not taking my medication were, consequently, the direct cause of me stopping taking my medication for good.
I'm a bit freaked out. They've cancelled my appt with the PA and have moved me instead to a direct appt with the doctor a week later--which could be anything from very very good (reassurance and a plan going forward) to very very bad (being dismissed the practice, with attendant problems finding another place that will take me.) Hoping for the first.
All very confusing for some, as Castlecary is just a few miles west of the Piglet residence (and the site of a couple of well-known railway accidents).
TICT Heck* the black cat, name unknown, which has been coming into our garden and distressing our lovely Elizabeth.
Ten days ago, Elizabeth had her ear bitten by said cat, resulting in four check ups at the vets, three anti-biotic injections, two cones and one large vet's bill.
Elizabeth is not a happy girl. Her toileting can become ... erratic ... when she's upset but she seemed ok today. The previous check up had involved me having to shower and bung all my clothes in the washing machine as soon as I got home.
Today I got home from the vet, with my clothes still clean and dry, after the final check up. Went to make myself a hot drink and realised our power was out. Flipped the RCD back up, but it tripped a second time. When it tripped for a third time, I called out an emergency electrician.
He arrived within an hour (!) Yay! He then spent over an hour going carefully round the house, garage and shed, testing appliances, without finding the problem. He then reached my study and observed that the multi-socket my computer, monitor and printer are plugged into was wet....
The burning question now is - which of today's bills will be the higher? Vet or electrician?
She's mostly an indoor cat, and is only out in our garden when one of us is out, too, hanging out washing etc. In an average day she's only outside for 20 to 30 minutes, with a person close enough to intervene if there's a problem.
She does like going out, though.
The black cat has been sitting on our window sills, looking in, so most of the distress caused by the black cat coming into our garden happens when Elizabeth is safely inside, but can see it outside. The bite was the first time they had met outside.
We've been through this before, with a cat we called Big Ginger, who also upset her by looking in through our windows. His owners moved house, to our great relief. But we seem to be back to Square One with the new black cat.
What are you doing to make clear to the black cat that it is unwanted in your garden? I assume you are shooing it off? A lawn sprinkler? Could you put anything on the outer sills to deter it? It is clearly a bold and intimidating cat.
One deterrent for cats and foxes is lion poo around the borders (available from garden centres) but I've no idea if it works! I'd be worried about scaring your cat if near the house, though.
ICTH the builder who was due to meet me next door at 6.30am to look at the work required prior to making a quote. There was I - showered, dressed and ready - waiting at the church in the drizzle and the *%$# didn't appear.
What are you doing to make clear to the black cat that it is unwanted in your garden? I assume you are shooing it off? A lawn sprinkler? Could you put anything on the outer sills to deter it? It is clearly a bold and intimidating cat.
One deterrent for cats and foxes is lion poo around the borders (available from garden centres) but I've no idea if it works! I'd be worried about scaring your cat if near the house, though.
We have plastic spiky strips for the windowsills (bought when the previous Big Ginger was a problem.) When I see it in the garden I either open a window and shout at it, or throw ping pong balls at it. I'm going to upgrade to keeping a water pistol by the door.
Elizabeth is very reactive, scratching at the window, yowling etc, so I suspect other cats are drawn to this curious sight.
She's indifferent to dogs. We can have a friend's dog in the house and she is unbothered, but if she spots another cat, even across the road, she reacts.
Our garden isn't big enough to have anything round the edges. No part of our garden is more than 17 ft from the house.
Ah, the excuse of the chronically under-occupied 🙄
Are personal attacks part of All Saints now? You could, you know, shut up about your estimation of my sense of humour and whether I'm adequately filling my time, what with my never having asked your opinion and it being none of your damned business.
Hostly hat on @Sojourner and @KarlLB, if you want to argue this one out take it to Hell please.
Gentle reminder to everyone this is All Saints and us hosts like a quiet life and gentle chat. Hostly hat off
Back to Cats, then, and TICT a gentle Purgatory the two Cats who sit near the Ark, yowling and ululating at each other at about 3am...
It's quite eerie, and sounds very much like speech in a language (Feline?) not understood by Humming Beans.
Cat People will probably be able to tell me what this eldritch behaviour means, I guess.
Yep. It means that both cats are trying to reconcile their observation of the existence of another cat while simultaneously maintaining the belief that they, The Cat, are the only creature of significance in the cosmos.
Back to Cats, then, and TICT a gentle Purgatory the two Cats who sit near the Ark, yowling and ululating at each other at about 3am...
It's quite eerie, and sounds very much like speech in a language (Feline?) not understood by Humming Beans.
Cat People will probably be able to tell me what this eldritch behaviour means, I guess.
Yep. It means that both cats are trying to reconcile their observation of the existence of another cat while simultaneously maintaining the belief that they, The Cat, are the only creature of significance in the cosmos.
Surely it's no different from putting all the people who believe they're the second coming of Jesus in a room together? They all believe the others are fake.
Back to Cats, then, and TICT a gentle Purgatory the two Cats who sit near the Ark, yowling and ululating at each other at about 3am...
It's quite eerie, and sounds very much like speech in a language (Feline?) not understood by Humming Beans.
Cat People will probably be able to tell me what this eldritch behaviour means, I guess.
Yep. It means that both cats are trying to reconcile their observation of the existence of another cat while simultaneously maintaining the belief that they, The Cat, are the only creature of significance in the cosmos.
Surely it's no different from putting all the people who believe they're the second coming of Jesus in a room together? They all believe the others are fake.
It's similar. But to cats there's the additional question of whether the other cats are real at all.
Back to Cats, then, and TICT a gentle Purgatory the two Cats who sit near the Ark, yowling and ululating at each other at about 3am...
It's quite eerie, and sounds very much like speech in a language (Feline?) not understood by Humming Beans.
Cat People will probably be able to tell me what this eldritch behaviour means, I guess.
Yep. It means that both cats are trying to reconcile their observation of the existence of another cat while simultaneously maintaining the belief that they, The Cat, are the only creature of significance in the cosmos.
Thanks! I understand, but I wish they would conduct their conversation near the windows of their respective Staffs, and not mine.
Back to Cats, then, and TICT a gentle Purgatory the two Cats who sit near the Ark, yowling and ululating at each other at about 3am...
It's quite eerie, and sounds very much like speech in a language (Feline?) not understood by Humming Beans.
Cat People will probably be able to tell me what this eldritch behaviour means, I guess.
Yep. It means that both cats are trying to reconcile their observation of the existence of another cat while simultaneously maintaining the belief that they, The Cat, are the only creature of significance in the cosmos.
Thanks! I understand, but I wish they would conduct their conversation near the windows of their respective Staffs, and not mine.
The conversation isn't with Staff, who generally don't concern themselves with cat politics as we can't understand them being mere humans. You must be on the disputed territorial boundary. The solution is to get a cat of your own as you will then be in the uncontested centre of a territory and then only have the occasional headless shrew or set of sparrow innards to deal with.
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Well put. Lamb Chopped - best wishes from us and prayers that all these nasty complications get sorted out quickly.
That would be Glastonbury that is a handful of miles from the M5.
This is just it. I have a dark suspicion that the recent, uh, in-efficacy of my medication is directly due to the stress of being suspected of Nameless Crimes™. That is, I hurt more because I know i'm not trusted.
The second was in 1968, see https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=425. (I would have remembered it, but I was in Norway at the time, exploring the country on local trains, buses and ferries).
Are your local trains still affected by Strikes?
Ten days ago, Elizabeth had her ear bitten by said cat, resulting in four check ups at the vets, three anti-biotic injections, two cones and one large vet's bill.
Elizabeth is not a happy girl. Her toileting can become ... erratic ... when she's upset but she seemed ok today. The previous check up had involved me having to shower and bung all my clothes in the washing machine as soon as I got home.
Today I got home from the vet, with my clothes still clean and dry, after the final check up. Went to make myself a hot drink and realised our power was out. Flipped the RCD back up, but it tripped a second time. When it tripped for a third time, I called out an emergency electrician.
He arrived within an hour (!) Yay! He then spent over an hour going carefully round the house, garage and shed, testing appliances, without finding the problem. He then reached my study and observed that the multi-socket my computer, monitor and printer are plugged into was wet....
The burning question now is - which of today's bills will be the higher? Vet or electrician?
*I can't really condemn a cat to Hell.
Cats being Satans Own Creatures, it is no condemnation to wish them in Hell. It's where they'd rather be.
She does like going out, though.
The black cat has been sitting on our window sills, looking in, so most of the distress caused by the black cat coming into our garden happens when Elizabeth is safely inside, but can see it outside. The bite was the first time they had met outside.
We've been through this before, with a cat we called Big Ginger, who also upset her by looking in through our windows. His owners moved house, to our great relief. But we seem to be back to Square One with the new black cat.
One deterrent for cats and foxes is lion poo around the borders (available from garden centres) but I've no idea if it works! I'd be worried about scaring your cat if near the house, though.
Cats owe allegiance to none - mortal, angel, demon, God or Devil - except themselves.
I stick with what I said - it's the only reasonable explanation for feline behaviour.
We have plastic spiky strips for the windowsills (bought when the previous Big Ginger was a problem.) When I see it in the garden I either open a window and shout at it, or throw ping pong balls at it. I'm going to upgrade to keeping a water pistol by the door.
Elizabeth is very reactive, scratching at the window, yowling etc, so I suspect other cats are drawn to this curious sight.
She's indifferent to dogs. We can have a friend's dog in the house and she is unbothered, but if she spots another cat, even across the road, she reacts.
Our garden isn't big enough to have anything round the edges. No part of our garden is more than 17 ft from the house.
Shoot at my cat and you'll need a proctologist to recover the gun.
It's a shit job but someone has to do it.
There are indeed piles of possible reasons why that might be so.
More to proctology than piles, old son
But not that easily fit into a pun.
It passes the time
Are personal attacks part of All Saints now? You could, you know, shut up about your estimation of my sense of humour and whether I'm adequately filling my time, what with my never having asked your opinion and it being none of your damned business.
@Sojourner and @KarlLB, if you want to argue this one out take it to Hell please.
Gentle reminder to everyone this is All Saints and us hosts like a quiet life and gentle chat.
Hostly hat off
It's quite eerie, and sounds very much like speech in a language (Feline?) not understood by Humming Beans.
Cat People will probably be able to tell me what this eldritch behaviour means, I guess.
Yep. It means that both cats are trying to reconcile their observation of the existence of another cat while simultaneously maintaining the belief that they, The Cat, are the only creature of significance in the cosmos.
Surely it's no different from putting all the people who believe they're the second coming of Jesus in a room together? They all believe the others are fake.
It's similar. But to cats there's the additional question of whether the other cats are real at all.
Thanks! I understand, but I wish they would conduct their conversation near the windows of their respective Staffs, and not mine.
The conversation isn't with Staff, who generally don't concern themselves with cat politics as we can't understand them being mere humans. You must be on the disputed territorial boundary. The solution is to get a cat of your own as you will then be in the uncontested centre of a territory and then only have the occasional headless shrew or set of sparrow innards to deal with.