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cimoreneTwo more emails sent to catteries and two more pairs of skinny jeans ordered.
I tried to find a new spring jacket, but all the light jackets are pale pink or some shade of brown, black, navy, khaki, etc. Like not even a greenish khaki, but the really browny baby poop colored one. Listen, I like all colors, even brown, but I also prefer bright colors and patterns for coats. (I've been planning to remake my yukata into a fully lined light jacket for ages, maybe I'll just end up doing that if I still can't find anything in the next couple of weeks.)
I forgot to call the vet last Monday to make an appointment for Snookums! He needs to get his teeth cleaned, but I also want to chat with the vet about his general state of being and see if there's anything I could be doing better. The old vet had teeth cleaning in their online reservation system but these guys don't. I can't do it until next week - maybe in the afternoon after work I'll have time.
I completely forgot to refill my own prescription when I refilled Snookums's insulin a week ago and now I've got like four days left. I had good intentions earlier this week of going to the pharmacy this weekend but we just went to the absolutely closest grocery store instead... there's gravel everywhere so we can't take the sled out but the car can't get out of the driveway either, so no car, and walking half again as far carrying a week of groceries doesn't exactly appeal. I guess I'll just make myself go after work.
On the plus side, I was ranting to my family chat about how the BB was killed by the conpsiracy? of silence in the pet industry about the fact that cats don't have a thirst drive and are built to get all their water from their food and are obligate carnivores and can't get complete protein from plant-based foods. She died of kidney failure, which is epidemic among pet cats and "nobody really knows exactly why", ie science hasn't established a specific causal link, but it's incredibly common along with every other possible problem with the kidneys and urinary tract and it's because of their food and is exacerbated by the fact that most domestic cats are chronically dehydrated because of said lack of thirst drive; and the same issue is causing the epidemic of diabetes in cats that Snookums suffers from because cats aren't built for carbs and their systems are stressed constantly by eating all the carbs that are put into dry food to bulk it out because meat costs more than vegetables. Acquired diabetes isn't quite as dangerous as kidney disease as long as the cat does get insulin of course, but plenty of cats do die from it still!
Wax and I had been talking about it on and off, the fact that even cats diagnosed with these things are often prescribed special diets from the brands that are sold via vets and hence help make money for them, but dry ones. There's dry "prescription" foods for urinary tract crystals and kidney stones! When kidney stones are likely directly caused by, and certainly exacerbated by, dry food and it's the last thing a cat should be eating with those problems! The special foods for diabetic cats, even the wet ones, still contain a bunch of carbs. Yet the scientific literature has been around since the 90s! I've talked to a bunch of vets since Snookums's diagnosis and it's clear they all know about the dehydration/thirst drive issue, but it's like they can't tell people the food is a problem directly! Maybe there aren't any vets that could afford to keep their clinics open without selling Hill's and Royal Canin? Anyway, as you can see and perhaps already knew, I ramble long-windedly and somewhat uncontrollably when I get emotional, and I guess I made a much bigger impression than the last time I talked about it... because my sister was moved to switch her cats to an all-wet-food diet. She researched where she could get food with a good nutritional profile (percent of calories from protein should be high, the percent from fat close to it and not a lot higher than it or a lot lower, and the percent from carbs should be very low, like under 10%) based on the introductory essay from my Diabetic Cat bookmark folder and ordered a month's supply right away. Her cats are all pretty young, so maybe they'll all be urinary-tract-illness free, who knows?
I tried to find a new spring jacket, but all the light jackets are pale pink or some shade of brown, black, navy, khaki, etc. Like not even a greenish khaki, but the really browny baby poop colored one. Listen, I like all colors, even brown, but I also prefer bright colors and patterns for coats. (I've been planning to remake my yukata into a fully lined light jacket for ages, maybe I'll just end up doing that if I still can't find anything in the next couple of weeks.)
I forgot to call the vet last Monday to make an appointment for Snookums! He needs to get his teeth cleaned, but I also want to chat with the vet about his general state of being and see if there's anything I could be doing better. The old vet had teeth cleaning in their online reservation system but these guys don't. I can't do it until next week - maybe in the afternoon after work I'll have time.
I completely forgot to refill my own prescription when I refilled Snookums's insulin a week ago and now I've got like four days left. I had good intentions earlier this week of going to the pharmacy this weekend but we just went to the absolutely closest grocery store instead... there's gravel everywhere so we can't take the sled out but the car can't get out of the driveway either, so no car, and walking half again as far carrying a week of groceries doesn't exactly appeal. I guess I'll just make myself go after work.
On the plus side, I was ranting to my family chat about how the BB was killed by the conpsiracy? of silence in the pet industry about the fact that cats don't have a thirst drive and are built to get all their water from their food and are obligate carnivores and can't get complete protein from plant-based foods. She died of kidney failure, which is epidemic among pet cats and "nobody really knows exactly why", ie science hasn't established a specific causal link, but it's incredibly common along with every other possible problem with the kidneys and urinary tract and it's because of their food and is exacerbated by the fact that most domestic cats are chronically dehydrated because of said lack of thirst drive; and the same issue is causing the epidemic of diabetes in cats that Snookums suffers from because cats aren't built for carbs and their systems are stressed constantly by eating all the carbs that are put into dry food to bulk it out because meat costs more than vegetables. Acquired diabetes isn't quite as dangerous as kidney disease as long as the cat does get insulin of course, but plenty of cats do die from it still!
Wax and I had been talking about it on and off, the fact that even cats diagnosed with these things are often prescribed special diets from the brands that are sold via vets and hence help make money for them, but dry ones. There's dry "prescription" foods for urinary tract crystals and kidney stones! When kidney stones are likely directly caused by, and certainly exacerbated by, dry food and it's the last thing a cat should be eating with those problems! The special foods for diabetic cats, even the wet ones, still contain a bunch of carbs. Yet the scientific literature has been around since the 90s! I've talked to a bunch of vets since Snookums's diagnosis and it's clear they all know about the dehydration/thirst drive issue, but it's like they can't tell people the food is a problem directly! Maybe there aren't any vets that could afford to keep their clinics open without selling Hill's and Royal Canin? Anyway, as you can see and perhaps already knew, I ramble long-windedly and somewhat uncontrollably when I get emotional, and I guess I made a much bigger impression than the last time I talked about it... because my sister was moved to switch her cats to an all-wet-food diet. She researched where she could get food with a good nutritional profile (percent of calories from protein should be high, the percent from fat close to it and not a lot higher than it or a lot lower, and the percent from carbs should be very low, like under 10%) based on the introductory essay from my Diabetic Cat bookmark folder and ordered a month's supply right away. Her cats are all pretty young, so maybe they'll all be urinary-tract-illness free, who knows?
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