Success!
Heehee. I just successfully tricked our cat into drinking mint flavored Maalox by mixing it with tuna juice. Next we’ll try chicken broth…
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Cuz you know, all cats like bubble gum…
These were the very sarcastic words of the technician who instructed us on our cat’s home care regimen. We have to shoot 1ml of the bubble gum medicine down his throat twice a day, which he is pretty much done with after just two doses. The bubble gum medicine, for those of you who never had the joy of taking it growing up, is children’s amoxicillin. It is gross pink goo that tastes like bubble gum.
Cats do not like bubble gum.
Turns out they don’t like Maalox either. We tried that this morning. Yep Maalox. Also, Peptid AC. The vet told us we could mix the Maalox in with some wet food and the cat would eat it. That is most definitely not happening. Nick is a food snob. He has refined kitty tastes and will have nothing to do with the mint gravy I put in front of him.
Izzy on the other hand thinks it’s delicious.
We figure, if this is the worst of our worries we can totally work with with it. Nick is 100% back to normal except for the shaved bits all over his body and the pink goatee he’s sporting. We’re loving it!
Nick “Blue Eyes” Rubin Voted Best Cat in New Haven
In the past several days our cat Nick has been described as handsome, great, adorable, ‘quite the guy’, to name just a few of the praises lavished on him by the staff at the New Haven Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine.
Turns out old blue eyes is quite the charmer and is quite possibly New Haven’s favorite cat . (Shh. Nobody tell Izzy…)
Sadly, Nick’s celebrity status came about because he got sick. After exhibiting signs of illness (i.e. not annoying the heck out of us to change his water first thing in the morning and, worse, not eating) we took Nick to the vet. She didn’t seem too concerned but said we should do some diagnostic tests just in case. After a few twists and turns in the process we were told that Nick had severe renal failure and that based on ‘his numbers’ he really should be dead. But he wasn’t. They still aren’t sure why.
Amazingly, he just keeps getting better and even gets to come home today! Izzy will be very, very happy to see him. turns out people love just isn’t the same when you are used to a constant kitty companion.
We are really grateful that Nick is feeling better and would like to thank everyone at the animal hospital who gave him so much love and attention. You guys are great!
So What, Chuck?
My husband and a classmate of his are in the living room preparing for a class presentation they will give tomorrow on Charles Taylor’s book, A Secular Age. Sarah just classified Ryan’s part of the discussion as the “So What, Chuck?” segment, in which after she recaps what the book says, he will ask Chuck, “so what?”
I am so amused by the banter that seems to work its way seamlessly into the otherwise serious conversations that happen here. Yale Divinity students rock the world of puns and word play–they give our UChicago friends a run for the money in both quantity and quality of puns used each day.
Sometimes the un-funniness of the law leaves me feeling like I will never be a worthwhile contributor to this banter, but this past week we read a case that will make anyone laugh. We refer to it as the ‘Batman case’.
Basically, a woman was sued after she ran her car into an oncoming truck. Her explanation of the event? I quote, “The psychiatrist testified Mrs. Veith told him she was driving on a road when she believed that God was taking ahold of the steering wheel and was directing her car. She saw the truck coming and stepped on the gas in order to become airborne because she knew she could fly because Batman does it. To her surprise she was not airborne before striking the truck but after the impact she was flying.”
My teacher found this particulary funny because, in fact, Batman cannot fly.