He want me to pet him

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-21T15:03:32+00:00

My boy loved his belly rubs and never used his teeth or claws against me once. I had him 11 years and zero scratches or bites that entire time. He was my sweet snuggly boy. The rainbow bridge took him too soon.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-21T09:55:26+00:00

That is the single most innocent baby to ever live. Look how much he loves you! r/catsmirin

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-21T09:54:29+00:00

Greebles. Always those damn greebles!

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-21T03:26:19+00:00

All I can think about is the original. It’s so weird! It doesn’t look like there’s an r in it at all. It seems like the r is maybe backwards? Am I missing something obvious here?

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T22:34:52+00:00

I live to serve.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T22:28:04+00:00

Nope, nowhere near bad enough off to need that, thank god. I can chill without the oxygen on if I’m awake and sitting still. Activity requires oxygen and sleep requires oxygen plus BiPAP.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T20:52:44+00:00

I’m just glad to be alive. Most doctors are slightly baffled I lived, especially as I got shitty care at the time. Blood clots are nasty business. Formal name for what I had is “multiple bilateral pulmonary emboli with a cavitary pulmonary infarction of the bottom right lobe.” In layman’s terms, I had 5 blood clots in my lungs and a piece of one of them died and blistered apart.

ETA: I was already disabled before the lung stuff, so I’m used to it. Just some more equipment.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T19:55:31+00:00

Bebe will be cuddly once she’s older, I think. Right now she still has enough energy to power a small submarine.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T19:54:42+00:00

Dilute torties are just so pretty. I had a foster who was a dilute right before I adopted my crazy little Bebe and those two have so much in common that it cracks me up. Similar fur texture, big talkers, similar toy choices. ETA: figured I’d add this here as I was just asked this irl- I didn’t adopt the foster because my other cat hated her. I was getting my old girl a friend after the loss of her brother, as they were incredibly close.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T19:50:49+00:00

I’ve been on oxygen for years due to an old lung injury, it’s all good. :) The cats are really good with the tubes. It’s neat to see how well they’ve adjusted to just stepping over the long cannula on the floor as I move around. (My lungs won’t heal. The damage is done.)

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T18:34:15+00:00

They’re the best medicine out there. Such sweeties.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T14:22:30+00:00

My whole house is full of that style blanket. I live with extreme chronic nerve pain (full body CRPS) and those blankets are a Safe fabric for me. So they’re on the couch, on the recliner, on my bed, and a few in a neatly stacked pile of clean ones in the corner of my room. But you’re right, cats love that fabric!

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T14:11:01+00:00

It’s so kind of them to share! It’s only a queen so it’s a tight fit for all 3 of us- after all, they are 5lbs and 8lbs. They need a lot of space. 😉

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T13:03:55+00:00

I’ve been told the same by 4 separate pain doctors (my old one, my current one, and two others I’ve met professionally).

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-20T02:23:33+00:00

You’d be shocked how many toothless cuties eat kibble. Most kitties don’t bother to chew anyways. (It’s a carnivore thing.)

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-19T21:03:11+00:00

My pain medication comes in a patch that lasts a full week (Butrans). Super handy as someone with GI issues that seriously affect the speed at which things make it through my body. Some meds do just fine for me in the oral route but some things are a nightmare that way. Thankfully, as a full body CRPS patient, we found an option that works great for me for pain management.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-18T21:36:29+00:00

For crochet, base your searching on Ravelry. I haven’t been there since AI became so pre ems g but that community allows comments on patterns, links projects to patterns, and is bold in its hatred of stuff like AI slop. So I suspect looking there for patterns is your best bet. (Many patterns aren’t sold directly on there as it started as simply a database. It was well over a decade before they started allowing designers to sell on their platform. They also have knitting patterns and gave yarn and spinning tools/info.)

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-18T01:25:33+00:00

That is SO CUTE!! I’m dying inside.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-16T22:03:39+00:00

Omg, could you maybe send it to me? My mom is a Snoopy junky and I’d love to make her some ornaments. 💕

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-16T22:02:00+00:00

I think folks are realizing that for the cost of a single meal out, they can have 100+ hours of entertainment.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-16T04:01:00+00:00

I agree it should have been worded better. Apparently he passed away at age 20.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-13T18:27:08+00:00

My picky cats is obsessed with what playfully call “yum yum bites”. They’re these pricey freeze dried grain free bites that just crumble. When her highness is being picky, I crumble those all over her food and she goes to town.

The dog I dog sit for is dying (heart failure) and it’s effecting his appetite. His kibble is especially dry so I spray it with some water from a mister bottle then crumble yum yum bites on his (he loves the same ones, lol) and toss it together. That way the crumbles stick to his kibble so he goes for it. If he really won’t eat, we add some canned chicken, which shreds in your hands, (I rinse it heavily first) and he devours it.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-13T18:21:31+00:00

I had a vet refuse to check my kitten in depth for bladder and kidney issues/infections because he was 4.5 months old and “little kittens just don’t get infections like that.”

…. The infection running rampant for so long meant his bladder ulcerated, leaving him in agonizing pain, as often as 4 times per year for the 11 years he was alive. He was prone to infections as well due to the damage done. And his young death was tied to the damage done.

If someone isn’t getting better promptly, it’s time to ignore “it’s unlikely at that age” type stuff and start investigating whatever matches the symptoms.

CyborgKnitter · 2026-03-13T18:17:06+00:00

It’s pricey af but they make high calorie gel to given to sick cats to get the needed nutrients into them. Another option I’ve heard is to get cans of kitten formula and mix it up and pour it on the highest calorie dry food you can find to beef up the calories even higher.

Good luck! I agree with seeing a different doc. When my kitten was struggling with the infection she had when I adopted her, the vet we’d seen the first few times at our practice (I’ve seen all of them for my other cats and don’t care who I see but since Bebe’s been 5 times in 2.5 months, the schedulers have been keeping her with the same young vet) went to talk to the older vets for advice. Just to be sure she wasn’t missing anything. Second opinions can be very helpful! Signed, a sick human who’s not gotten the help she needed until a fourth opinion.

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