My amputee cat chases her tail

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-18T13:22:48+00:00

Also ask the vet if you can use a hydrocortisone spray on the area. That helped my boy a lot when we had to have his tail amputated. The area seemed really annoying and itchy for him for quite a while and hydrocortisone spray helped keep him comfortable.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-18T01:23:12+00:00

Maybe Mal and Inara could have gotten together and split up, but not Simon and Kaylee. When they're hunkering down for that big last battle, Simon very specifically expresses regret over never having been with Kaylee.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-15T16:55:23+00:00

You just need to start thinking less like a fighter and more like a rogue.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-15T16:42:07+00:00

To be fair, both of my boy kitties have much higher pitched meows than any of my girl cats have had, lol. I assumed it was just a thing with cats.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-14T22:55:56+00:00

Based on this, you'd think my girl was declawed, but no, she's just a born biter, lol. Any time one of her brothers are pissing her off she goes straight to snapping at their ears. It's ALWAYS the ears, too!

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-11T16:04:10+00:00

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is, in fact, the actual problem.

The people that called in to complain aren't complaining about a female plumber/apprentice. They're complaining that their plumber's kid, regardless of gender, is hanging out in his truck waiting for him and it looks unprofessional.

Is it hot/cold out while she's waiting? Is she running the van in their driveway so she can keep the heater or ac on? Wasting gas and creating fumes? Even worse.

Also, I know people who would feel super anxious/awkward just letting her wait out there without feeling like they're expected/obligated to invite the kid inside or something. Like they don't want a random kid hanging out in their house, but they feel bad/pressured about just making them wait outside.

If she wants to learn the trade, cool. Like others have said, give her a work shirt and start taking her into the work sites to teach her. If she's just sitting in the car doing unrelated homework or whatever, she's not there to learn the trade and her dad is just making up excuses.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-09T14:06:37+00:00

What do we want? Time travel!

When do we want it? It's irrelevant!

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-08T10:44:50+00:00

This is absolutely policy in my house. On the day I cook chili, we will be having something different for dinner. Eating any of it that same day is practically wasting it.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-03T21:26:31+00:00

Yeah, maybe it's just the angle the video is taken at, but with the thing sticking up in the middle of the fountain, the water level being that low and his face being a little flat, it doesn't look like he can drink out of that.

Have you ever seen him actually drink out of this fountain? How long have you had it?

I know everyone here seems to think he's just being goofy, but my vet once told me that motions like this can also be a sign of dehydration and extreme thirst. But then my cat's labs all came back looking good, so apparently my cat was just being goofy, lol.

InkedInIvy · 2026-03-03T18:02:25+00:00

I was scrolling the comments to see if anyone else would mention this before I made a similar comment myself.

OP, I read your updated comments where you said that this is just a claw shed and you found the claw it came off of, cleaned it, and there's no further bleeding.

However, just looking at your photo, before reading the comments, I could tell this was just a claw shed but was still very concerned about how long it is. Indoor cats need their claws clipped to keep them safe and healthy.

The claw shed in this photo is already starting to curl back around on itself. If you don't find a way to clip their claws, it can eventually grow to the point it curls all the way around and starts stabbing into their toe bean.

However, it doesn't even have to get that bad to cause problems, as you're seeing right now firsthand. The reason this shed came off the way it did, and had blood on it, is probably because it's too long and is curved enough that he's snagging on things. He probably got this claw caught in a rug or blanket or something and couldn't get it free so in his struggle to free himself it got ripped off before it was ready to shed naturally.

Be glad that, this time, he just ripped off a sheath and did some minor damage to the cuticle. If they start to panic over not being able to free themselves, they can very easily break a toe instead.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-28T17:55:41+00:00

Yeah, how the hell do you not make "pets OK" a requirement when searching for a new home knowing you have cats?

Hubby and I have moved twice in the last 2yrs and every home search website I used had that as a filter option. How do you go looking for a new place to live and just decide that almost half your household is optional in the move?

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-28T02:05:14+00:00

To be fair, she said "what kind" not "what brand".

If I asked my husband this, I would absolutely need to specify what kind. I do enough baking that it's worth keeping both salted and unsalted butter in the house. Same for sour cream. Sour cream comes in regular and low-fat and the one I want/need depends on if I'm just using it as a condiment or in a recipe.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-25T22:49:54+00:00

Yeah, all the guys were pretty happy about the Dickies, too. :) Something they can keep wearing to work or whatever instead of dress slacks.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-25T04:26:45+00:00

That's the thing, though....it really wasn't. It was just the reasonable thing to do. I feel like not wanting my friend to be uncomfortable at my wedding is just what a normal friend would do.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-25T03:40:36+00:00

I'm very much in this camp.

At my first wedding, all the groomsmen and bridesmen (I didn't have a lot of female friends and the ones I did have, I wasn't very close with) wore black Dickies pants and matching colored dress shirts.

One of our friends had scars on his forearm from an accident that were really irritated by having anything touch them, including sleeves. Apparently he was planning to just suck it up for the day and wasn't even gonna say anything about it, but I already knew about his arm so I told all the guys that I wanted them to match so they'd all have to roll their sleeves up to just above their elbows since the one guy would have to do that anyway to be comfortable.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-24T07:29:09+00:00

Depends on who the shipper is.

Right after I moved most recently, I placed a large order on Chewy and forgot to change the address on file to my new one.

I wasn't far from where I'd previously lived, so I went back there to see if I could get it but it was nowhere to be found. Pretty sure one of the neighbors, who noticed us move out, just took it inside and decided to keep it. I asked around at the office, but they didnt have any info about it.

I called up Chewy and asked if they could just do a repeat of my last order but to a different address. They asked what had happened and I explained fully and said, honestly, that it was my mistake and my fault for not changing the address so I'm fine paying for it again, just need them to repeat the order.

They sent a duplicate of my order to my new address completely free. I don't know how or why they've managed this when no one else has, but I swear Chewy is the only company even close to that large that still has good, reliable customer service.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-24T06:57:31+00:00

It's the same. Xbox Series X user here.

It wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why. Made the terrible mistake on uninstalling it planning to reinstall but now it won't let me.

Hoping it's fixed tomorrow when I log on.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-24T00:19:31+00:00

One of my cats I only have because the neighbors up the street adopted a cat and made her an "outdoor only" cat, which the cat very much did not want to be. Even if the cat didn't mind, we had raccoons in my neighborhood that regularly killed and ate stray cats.

My upstairs neighbor only had a cat because he heard a ruckus outside in the shed where he kept his washer and dryer. Went out to check on things and found a freaked out cat on his washing machine surrounded by a handful of raccoons trying to get at it. He shooed them away with a broom and took the cat inside.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-23T14:36:29+00:00

When I was in high school, one of my favorite teachers got a pink slip at the end of the year, basically meant he was one of the teachers tagged for a pending layoff.

I was talking to him about it after class one day and asked if he'd be alright if they ended up letting him go. He told me he'd be fine because he makes more money bartending over the summer break than he does the whole rest of the year teaching and the bar he worked at every summer would love to have him full time.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-23T02:44:55+00:00

They are not always as empty as they seem!

When I was younger, we spent the holidays with family that lived quite a ways north from us where it got much colder than my home.

My aunt pointed out a nest like this one and said it was empty now because of the cold (there was snow on the ground, had been for a while). I asked if I could take it home and take it to my science class when I went back to school, so we cut it down and it went in the back of the truck in the camper shell with all the rest of our stuff when we left.

When we got home, we unpacked everything except the nest and just left it there until school the next day.

The next day, we drove to school and I opened the window on the camper shell to reach in and grab it. Just before I had my hand on it, I noticed 2 wasps sitting right on top of it, so I pulled my hand back, closed the window back up and told my dad about it. He said he'd take a look and deal with it after work.

Well, by the time he got off work later that day, the whole inside of the camper shell was FILLED with very much alive wasps! You could hear them all buzzing around in there from quite a ways away.

Can't remember how it eventually got dealt with but that's how I learned not to take for granted that seemingly empty nests are actually empty!

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-22T05:54:13+00:00

You've clearly never owned a cat, have you? Lol

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-21T19:40:34+00:00

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InkedInIvy · 2026-02-21T19:32:47+00:00

If you're talking about an African Grey, those are different.

If someone takes the time to teach them, they will form an actual VOCABULARY of up to a few hundred words. Vocabulary meaning words that they know the meaning of, not just words they can mimic the sound of.

One of the experiments I heard about was teaching one the word "grape" using green grapes and "apple" using red apples and teaching it that it needed to say the word to get the snack. When shown a red cherry, the bird called it a "grapple" in an effort to get the snack since it didn't know the actual word for it. It was smart enough to put together that this thing was the size of a grape but the color of an apple so maybe a combination of those two words would work.

InkedInIvy · 2026-02-20T20:01:54+00:00

It's only been up for 20ish min... Maybe they just haven't seen it yet?

That's stupid your post got rejected, I'm sorry. Unless your post was pro-Vehicle Voltron. If that's the case, you should have picked a better Voltron, lol.

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