7 posts tagged “cat”

An apple a day may keep the doctor away for humans, but the cyanide in apple seeds can kill your dog.

Mothballs are another common cause of poisoning in pets. Those that contain 100 percent naphthalene can be deadly.

If you use fabric softener sheets, keep them away from your pet pals. These sheets contain detergents known as cationics that are potentially harmful, especially to cats.

Pennies minted after 1982 are made of copper plating around zinc core. APCC experts say that the zinc in just one penny can cause kidney failure and damage red blood cells in pets.

If your Cinco de Mayo celebration calls for guacamole, keep your pet pals away from the table. Avocados contain a toxic component called persin, which can damage heart, lung and other tissue in many animals.

Nuts are also common party fare that can be hazardous to pets. Walnuts and macadamia nuts are especially toxic.

Chocolate is supposedly good for human hearts. But chocolate contains theobromine, which if eaten in enough quantity, can kill your pet pal. Dark and unsweetened baking chocolates are especially dangerous.

Another problem is candy or anything containing Xylitol, a common sweetener found in some diet products, which can cause a sudden drop in an animal's blood sugar, loss of coordination and seizures. If not treated, the animal could die.

Keep cherry pits, peach pits, pear pips, plums pits and apricot pits far away from your pets. Like apple seeds, they all contain cyanide. There's also the danger that an animal may choke on large pits.

Coffee, tea or any product that contains caffeine stimulates an animal's central nervous and cardiac systems. This can lead to restlessness, heart palpitations and death, depending on how much the animal consumes.

Grapes and raisins can lead to kidney failure in dogs. As little as a single serving of raisins can kill them. And their effect is cumulative, meaning that even if a dog eats just one or two grapes or raisins regularly, the toxicity that builds in his system will eventually kill him.

Onions are another common food that can be highly toxic pets. They can destroy an animal's red blood cells and lead to anemia, weakness and breathing difficulties. Their effects are also cumulative over time.

This is MeowMeow kitty looking in through the back door. He (now that I'm looking - that's a female cat face) She is so named because of his her non stop, very loud, very sad, talking... pretty much impossible to resist. Moshi doesn't know what to make of MeowMeow. Espressa and Boo want to hurt him her.

MeowMeow kitty wants to come in

moar funny pictures

This is exactly how I feel about going to workout tonight. Though if my boss doesn't leave pretty soon I'm not gonna make it anyway.

Too cute not to post!!

Another Justin Rudd / Community Action Team event. I missed volunteering at this because I was still sick.

Did you ever have a night were everything seemed fine - till you got home at 10:30p and found your recycling can is in the middle of the street - cause none of your neighbors could bother to pull it to the curb, let alone the wbopping 10' to your back gate (even though you had done so earlier, with the neighbor's trash can)? And then your cat starts crying... crying nonstop... as she's done for the past 2 months or so, even though you KNOW there's nothing wrong with her - she just wants to go out front (where she's not allowed unsupervised and never at night)? And you drag your recycle bin into the backyard, calling for your semi-outdoor cat who doesn't appears cause it's cold and he's already bundled up and sleeping somewhere warm, and the cat in the house is STILL crying despite your having yelled, "SHUT UP!" so many times that your neighbors are thinking, "SHUT UP YOURSELF YOU STUPID BITCH!"? And you walk inside and the cat is still crying and you just SNAP and start throwing shit till both indoor cats are terrified and hiding? And you open the backdoor to let them out and, walking by later and finding even the sound of outdoors is now bothering you (cause you live in the city and can hear the freeway and cars and all manner of stuff you're not in the mood to deal with), you slam the door shut so you can just get a few minutes to yourself to think? And you go out to look for the outdoor cat again but he still doesn't come home - which bums you out because although you're pissed at the always-crying cat, this one always makes you feel good? So you go back inside and get the mail and find some stupid letter from Verizon saying that you're past due on $46 but you KNOW you're current because you just checked the account a week ago? And, seeing it's from your doctor, you open the other piece of non-junk mail and read that ALL your blood/urine test came back "normal" so there's nothing to treat and nothing's going to be done and the doctor probably thinks you're a hypochonriac and so you're just screwed and maybe NEVER GOING TO FEEL RIGHT again? So you decide maybe you need a little hot food in you cause it's been 10+ hrs since you ate and maybe that's why you're so bitchy and maybe food will calm you down? So you nuke some veggie pot stickers while you sit on your bed in silence and try to just r-e-l-a-x but even that pisses you off? And hearing little cries from outside, you realize your lap cat wants to come in, and she's cool, so you let her back in the house - but she's so terrified of you that she runs by at 100mph and hides in the dining room? And now feeling REALLY bad, cause you're clearly the meanest person in the world (who else would terrorize cats, especially their own cats?!?), you decide to bring in your clean laundry and give the whiney cat a break - and chance to come indoors - cause you haven't heard her cry for about 20 min and think maybe she got the message? And you realize your left ribs REALLY hurt but it's probably because you did so much ab work today? But that makes you remember how you couldn't do the new pole trick and even the teacher doesn't get that its not cause you're weak, it's cause you're trying to lift about 100lbs more than the other students? And how the new student is pretty much your size so watching her is almost like looking in a mirror and it's MAJORLY depressing cause she doesn't look hot at all? In fact, she looks pretty stupid? So you don't just know, but experience, that your classmates have been lying to you all along - and you HATE being lied to (cause it implies you're too DUMB to handle the truth), so now you're mad again? And the cat doesn't come in so you search your small backyard and realize she never actually went outside - she's actually cowering under your bed? So you try to make things better but that starts her loud crying again and you think you just might lose it? So you go outside and look for the outdoor cat AGAIN but he still doesn't show up? Then, back inside, you eat your pot stickers and feel a little more "balanced" so you check Vox and enjoy reading a few posts till the cat starts crying AGAIN and you yell so she runs out of the room? And you realize ALL sound is bothering you so you turn off the radio cause you don't want to break it into teenytiny bits and you know you're seconds away from that happening? And ditto for the TV? And you post a blog entry to get it out of your system before you lose your mind?

Me neither.

(note: I used to know a guy who fell for that line everytime his grilfriend threw it)

Does anyone know where I can buy this armband coin purse (originally posted by annielin)? Cause, seriously, I neeeeeeeed it!! I might die if I don't get it. I luuuurve that the zipper gives it a nice scowling mouth!