Posts Tagged ‘cats’

As you know or you might not know I have three cats, two females who are three years old called Arthur and Kather­ine and a lit­tle boy called Onion who is just over two years old. The last cou­ple of weeks with the youngest Onion has been hor­ri­ble as he has started going to the bath­room every­where but his lit­ter tray and before this started hap­pen­ing he was the best for using the lit­ter tray and always hide his business.

So after a week of me for­ever clean­ing up cat wee, I noticed a drop of blood (water down look­ing) so I thought hang on maybe he has an infec­tion like he did in March which he got a injec­tion for so off the vets we go, turns out he did, then we had the joys of try­ing to get him to eat his pills (which he would hide and then cough back up later, lit­tle bug­ger) and I thought well he must be bet­ter by now as it has been five days (not to men­tion the vets charged me £90 and for us with me with­out a job — money is already tight).

But no he was still ill, I caught him doing his busi­ness in my bed­room and saw it still had blood in it so called the vets straight away and got an appoint­ment for this morn­ing turns out they have no idea what is wrong with him and to find out we will need fur­ther tests at the price of £200! So until I can find pet insur­ance for him I won’t be able to afford to get these fur­ther tests and see how he does with the remain­der of his medication.

So that’s that, I am still job hunt­ing I have had two inter­views, one which I didn’t get (It was the odd­est inter­view I have had in a long time) and the sec­ond I have no idea yet as I am still wait­ing for feed­back on top of that I have been apply­ing for retail work (any work will do as long as it is not in my local area, as I hate where I live) so fin­gers crossed I hear some­thing, it’s been over two months now and I am dri­ving myself insane hurt­ing.  I feel bad if I am not look­ing for a job or if I am spend­ing money.  The idea with the retail is to work there until I have been accepted onto a post grad pro­gram.  Hope it works out for me.

I have big announce­ment! I am DEBT FREE!! I can­not believe that I am finally here and it over and done with, I am so excited! It saves us loads of money, hur­rah.  Not much else is going on, I have my first fer­til­ity appoint­ment in 5 days! It has come around so quickly!

It is my turn today to do the Day­dreamz WeBlogIt project and this weeks theme is pets.

I am a bit funny when it comes to pets, I really dis­like dogs, no mat­ter how many peo­ple tell me they are amaz­ing, they are just not for me. Now cats, cats and me go together so well, I totally and utterly adore cats and every­thing about them.

When I was lit­tle I use to have two cats — Kitty and Ming, quickly fol­lowed by Lucy (my very first pet) and her four kit­tens only one we kept Mar­malade.  We had these cats until their old age, then I met my hus­band who funny enough has the same view on dogs as me, he also had about a total of four or five cats grow­ing up, we could not get cats straight away as we lived in a rented flat and they wouldn’t allow ani­mals but we did have four ham­sters which are no replace­ment for a cat even if they are cute minus the fact that one of them ate the other but that is a whole other story.

We brought our house two years ago, moved in on the Fri­day and Kather­ine and Arthur came to join us on the Sat­ur­day, they were given to us by a cus­tomer at the local store where we use to work, I wanted another gin­ger boy like Mar­malade but we were given two female grey tabby’s.

Now after Arthur got a boys name because as I said before I wanted a boy kit­ten so when we were given these girls, I thought what the hell, she is a cat she won’t care, my brother has a girls name and he doesn’t care.  Kit is the big­ger cat and she is very vocal is the only way to put it as she meows all the time, about any­thing and to argue with you when she is doing some­thing naughty, nor­mally at the hus­band. Kit is my hus­bands cat and Arthur is my cat, she is so pretty and very friendly but only when she wants to.  Arthur didn’t meow until she was over a year old and now she is copy­ing her sis­ter and won’t be quiet which is fine, I love hav­ing vocal kitties.

They are now two years old and about a year ago, I passed my first year at uni­ver­sity and I found these kit­tens for sale, told my hus­band who always wants more cats and I really wanted my boy gin­ger cat.  So when to look at them they only a black kit­ten who was a boy and my hus­band really wanted him so we brought him, the peo­ple that had him did not look after him and he had fleas and worms

But he is back to nor­mal health now and the house after many many attempts is now flea free, thank god for that.

His name is Onion and he is such a typ­i­cal boy, he is naughty, he is lov­ing, he eats things he shouldn’t, he play fights with his sis­ters and he is just lovely!   It took ages to get the girls to play nice with Onion, he had to be locked in the office on his own for ages while the girls warmed up to him and there was a stage when I thought this was never going to work,  but after a month and a lot of hiss­ing they were all put together.  Onion has to be told off quite a bit by Kit who is such a mother cat and is huge, Onion gets hissed at by Kit all the time but jump­ing on her and attack­ing her, but Arthur and Onion have hit it off and tear up and down our house play fight­ing and chas­ing.  We think this is because Kit went through heat and the other two didn’t so they are very much kit­ten like and she is our grown up cat.

I think the thing I fig­ured out about cats is they are the most lov­ing ani­mals and they don’t try and lick your faces… well unless you are my mother’s stu­pid cat… I would like one more in this size house and when I move maybe we will get a few more I adore my cats more than most peo­ple or so called friends out there at least they are loyal.

Post for Mar­malade the most stu­pid­est and lov­ing cat and all the other many cats I have had

Long await post about being green in the kitchen, this one is more than likely going to be a long one as I can think of so many way of being green in the kitchen.

Dishwasher

Now I know a lot of peo­ple worry that using a dish­washer is worse than hand wash­ing but I have researched this in depth, and it turns out that no using a dish­washer on a ECO wash is cheaper and uses less elec­tric­ity than hand wash­ing.  But I would like to men­tion please remem­ber to turn the plug off while not using it as this is use wast­ing energy that doesn’t need to be wasted.

I found this arti­cle which works out how much energy and water you will use in a dish­washer vs hand washing

Clean­ing Products

Now I have men­tioned this before down in the being green in the bath­room but clean­ing prod­uct are an large impact on the world, using more organic, more nat­ural prod­ucts is always best, the only issue that gets me if the price, I under­stand why that have to be more expen­sive because it is not just chem­i­cals like the cheaper brands but I wish they would bring it down a lit­tle bit as not all of us have money to burn.

Pet related

This one is a tough due to the fact it has taken me for­ever to find cat lit­ter than is not going to kill the envi­ron­ment, I have tried loads of cat lit­ter for one I hate the clump­ing ones as they take for­ever to clean (which wastes water, clean­ing prod­uct and not to men­tion it smells), I have gone for a one at the  moment which is lit­tle tubs of old wood shav­ings, the think I like about it the most is the fact when the cat goes to the bath­room the lit­tle tubs dis­ap­pear a leave what I can only describe as saw­dust (kind of like a ham­ster cage lin­ing) but it does have a nice pine smell and lasts longer so you don’t use as much sav­ing money and sav­ing time.  If you can go for an eco cat lit­ter it is nicer for the cat and for your noses.

Cat food tins wash out, I know it is a huge pain but if you have one cat or three like myself you will end up going through at least one tin a day, with mine it is two tins a day (I swear Onion steals every­one else’s food but I can’t prove it!), I did try putting these through the dish­washer but every­thing smelled of cat food so now I have to hand wash them with bleach as well as wash­ing up liq­uid, please use a dif­fer­ent wash cloth as it is not nice otherwise.

Also check out Eco-Me Cat Kit Nat­ural Tool Kit, you can make your own cat lit­ter and flea spray, also cat treats, I might have to give this one ago.

Recy­cling

I am huge on recy­cling, lucky for me my coun­cil pro­vide me lit­tle pink bags which I put out every week, what I have found is a lot of items can be recy­cled, in my house­hold we have one bin for rub­bish and one for recy­cling, my mother is even bet­ter and has a bin for veg­etable ends, egg shells and other organic food mat­ter which she puts in her com­post down at the end of the gar­den.  I haven’t got a huge gar­den more like the size of postage stamp but I could fit a small one in my mother informs me.

Hav­ing two bins really saves me the headache of hav­ing to keep the bag some­where, since recy­cling (I even have my hus­band doing it who told me it was a waste of time) we hardly but out much black bin bag rubbish.

Grow­ing your own Vegetables

See I tried this last year but only man­aged to grow a cucum­ber and some herbs, my mother on the other hand split half her gar­den into her veg­etable and fruit patch and grew so much, loads of leeks (I love leeks), but this year I am going to grown my own car­rots, pota­toes and leeks plus the nor­mal amount of herbs, I’ll have to update you about this later in the year.  I think grow­ing your own veg­eta­bles doesn’t take a lot of work but it is so pleas­ing to see them grow even for me grow­ing any­thing makes me happy and I suck at gar­den­ing in gen­eral, I get the hus­band to do it for me.  Even if you don’t’ have a gar­den just a small bal­cony you could grow new pota­toes in big pots.

Gen­eral Tips

Next week I am cov­er­ing female prod­ucts and make-up   Sorry I haven’t been around so much uni has me all tied up.