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dehydrated critters
My friend sent me a news article about hedgehogs and squirrels getting dehydrated over our last warm (low-med/high 70s F; 18ish to 26 C) couple of weeks.
And possibly relatedly, the BB, who is now 11 years old, which is older than us in cat years - although she is still a ballerina/ninja/acrobat (but this makes sense if you think of her as like the Natasha Romanov of cats: she can obviously still do backflips and run sideways and shit at age 60), developed a potential urinary tract infection last weekend. She was miserable for a night, and then I took her to the vet - which was an adventure in itself: I don't recommend first going to the wrong place and then getting lost on the way to a single appointment - and she got a painkiller, and she was fine with the prescribed doses of painkiller each day until we decided maybe she was fine and didn't give it to her yesterday morning. The symptoms returned and she raised a colossal racket for about four hours until the delayed dose of painkiller kicked in, so now it's back to the vet for a hopefully more successful urine test (last time she was too dehydrated due to not eating and drinking from the pain).
UTIs are increasingly common in cats as they age, so we're not looking forward to that.
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Ok, and unrelatedly, I understand why Mavala's nail polish remover is oily. It doesn't hurt at all, which traditional ones can do on sensitive or torn cuticles, and it's not drying, and drying isn't great for nails in general. But even though I, with my super sensitive cuticles, could be considered its target market, I cannot cope with the actual texture and behavior of this nail polish remover. First of all, it seems to ooze, trickle, and just generally get everywhere every time I try to use it, no matter how carefully. And as a result of that it will leave a nasty, sticky residue on bits of me that I wasn't even aware had touched it in the first place, and that residue... eats plastic. My wireless mouse has gotten fingerprints and unintended drips of the stuff on it and before I could wipe it off, it sort of ... started turning the plastic to mush or something??? And I wasn't able to wipe it off, buff it off with a damp microfiber cloth, or scrape it off with hard plastic or metal. The only thing I found that would remove the stickiness was rubbing alcohol, which also negatively affects the surface of the plastic, to say the least. It left it weirdly textured, once no longer tacky, and I ended up buffing it down with my least-favorite crystal nail file. Well. At least it still works, but... yeah.
(POST SCRIPT: Possibly Mavala's actual market is slightly more patient people who move completely away from the internet and their computer while they do their entire nail care routine. But come on, it takes way too long to not be entertaining yourself.)
And possibly relatedly, the BB, who is now 11 years old, which is older than us in cat years - although she is still a ballerina/ninja/acrobat (but this makes sense if you think of her as like the Natasha Romanov of cats: she can obviously still do backflips and run sideways and shit at age 60), developed a potential urinary tract infection last weekend. She was miserable for a night, and then I took her to the vet - which was an adventure in itself: I don't recommend first going to the wrong place and then getting lost on the way to a single appointment - and she got a painkiller, and she was fine with the prescribed doses of painkiller each day until we decided maybe she was fine and didn't give it to her yesterday morning. The symptoms returned and she raised a colossal racket for about four hours until the delayed dose of painkiller kicked in, so now it's back to the vet for a hopefully more successful urine test (last time she was too dehydrated due to not eating and drinking from the pain).
UTIs are increasingly common in cats as they age, so we're not looking forward to that.
Ok, and unrelatedly, I understand why Mavala's nail polish remover is oily. It doesn't hurt at all, which traditional ones can do on sensitive or torn cuticles, and it's not drying, and drying isn't great for nails in general. But even though I, with my super sensitive cuticles, could be considered its target market, I cannot cope with the actual texture and behavior of this nail polish remover. First of all, it seems to ooze, trickle, and just generally get everywhere every time I try to use it, no matter how carefully. And as a result of that it will leave a nasty, sticky residue on bits of me that I wasn't even aware had touched it in the first place, and that residue... eats plastic. My wireless mouse has gotten fingerprints and unintended drips of the stuff on it and before I could wipe it off, it sort of ... started turning the plastic to mush or something??? And I wasn't able to wipe it off, buff it off with a damp microfiber cloth, or scrape it off with hard plastic or metal. The only thing I found that would remove the stickiness was rubbing alcohol, which also negatively affects the surface of the plastic, to say the least. It left it weirdly textured, once no longer tacky, and I ended up buffing it down with my least-favorite crystal nail file. Well. At least it still works, but... yeah.
(POST SCRIPT: Possibly Mavala's actual market is slightly more patient people who move completely away from the internet and their computer while they do their entire nail care routine. But come on, it takes way too long to not be entertaining yourself.)