fshusband ([info]fshusband) wrote,
@ 2008-05-15 15:44:00
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Strike update
So the strikes are all well and good and a little humorous, until they affect my family. Dyma, our borderline diabetic cat, is down to where the vets say he should be, around 16 pounds. It has taken us 7 years to get him down from 25. He eats a high-protein, low-sugar food, that gives him nice, firm scat and keeps his weight down. As a result of the strikes, though, it's getting harder to find pet shops that have the food he needs. Poor guy may be eating junk food for several days, which means diarrhea, irritability, constant hunger and weight gain (even if we only give him the same amount of food as his regular stuff). I'm a little pissed about that. And not just because I'll have to clean the messes, but because the poor guy gets all out of sorts. Oh well. The joy of vibrant democracy.

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[info]cerealjoe
2008-05-15 01:35 pm UTC (link)
Ah... strikes. Just reading the word brings back so many memories.

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[info]expandonthat
2008-05-18 09:03 pm UTC (link)
With regards to your cat, I can offer you some sincere advice. My mom has several cats from the same mother, all with feline obesity. This was during the height of the Atkins fad. She decided to feed them nothing but human grade tuna out of the can, and they actually stopped gaining, and one lost quite a bit of weight. I teased her of course naturally and was quick to point out she was the inventor of the Catkins diet. I hope you'll give it a try till the fancy schmatzy food becomes available again.

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[info]fshusband
2008-05-19 05:20 am UTC (link)
We call Dyma's diet the Catkins. We managed to find a better-stocked pet store (it was out of our reach until we got our car), and now that the strikes appear to be over (for a while) it won't be a problem. The funny thing is that tuna costs more than manufactured food, and that applies to people food as well as pet food. I just don't understand it.

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[info]expandonthat
2008-05-19 05:29 am UTC (link)
That's why mom mom bought the 4 pound food service grade can at the price club. One cat, called Little Bit as a kitten, now know as Bitzel, weighs 27 pounds. She's so fat she can't even lick her own butt-hole, that cat yoga won't work with her body mass index. My mom has to wipe her rear for her. Usually during the nightly news the cat will saunter in like a shrub on four stems, lay on her back, and my mom will put on the latex gloves and get the baby wipes out. It's hilarious but my mom says with utter stoicism, "if I don't wipe her ass for her, she just gonna stick that stinky butt in my face later when I'm trying to fall asleep."

I suggested she take to sleeping on her stomach, to which she could only reply...once you've carried around two 9 pound fetuses in your stomach, you kinda loose the habit of stomach sleeping.

But then this is the woman that told us the sewage treatment plant was the chocolate factory...

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[info]expandonthat
2008-05-19 05:33 am UTC (link)
By the buy, they've started marketing smart cars in earnest now stateside. I say one driving down main street in Blacksburg VA of all things. It had a thirty day tag on it with a Tyson's Corner dealership plate frame. Remember those days of getting out of you car at Tyson's II and realizing you just hit a white Bentley with your car door. That sucked cause you generally had to immediately start the car up again and find another parking space when you were already late for work...

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[info]fshusband
2008-05-19 06:18 am UTC (link)
since I was usually in before the Bentley people were awake, I had free run of the parking lot. Of course, it meant that I had to park in the employee zone, because who the hell else would be dumb enough to be there that early.

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[info]expandonthat
2008-05-19 07:16 am UTC (link)
Yeah I remember that, during the holidays we had that huge assed employee parking tag...although, one day I came out and found a thank you note from security for parking where I should and displaying the pass. I got a mall gift certificate which bout me 5 delicious truffles from Godiva.

I'm still a little miffed about the white speckles of paint all aver the ass end of my car, from that day when they were repainting the garages ceiling...it's still on my car...Kyle was about to cut a bitch, but I kept getting referred to all kinds of different offices and no one would take responsibility... go to the people doing the work and have their insurance fix it the mall office said...yeah...those dudes don't even have social security numbers if you know what I mean...

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