Single parenting
4 May 2024 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWax went out of town overnight for her younger goddaughter niece's confirmation in Seinäjoki yesterday. Yesterday I got home alone, having first bought like 20€ more worth of fresh herbs because Inspector Japp still won't eat his hay and pellets.
Immediately, all three cats started yelling that they wanted to go outside, because it was 16 (61° F) and sunny. Anubis and Tristana are still separated at all costs, so I took Anubis out on his leash for a while, then put him back and locked him up and took Tristana and Snookums at the same time. Snookums was once again tragically disappointed that he couldn't find very much living grass yet, and gave up and went back in quickly. It isn't warm enough for him to lie out basking yet. Tristana spent a bit longer playing and sniffing things, but she didn't really want to be out there without him either. I came back inside and gave medicine and a syringe full of grass soup to the sick bunny, who is getting increasingly annoyed about being syringe-fed and has started to show his displeasure when he's picked up out of the cage. (This morning he actually hid in his bunny cubby behind the curtain and had to be plucked out.)
I had to set six different alarms on my phone for the two medications and the doses of grass soup for Japp to cover the time between yesterday evening and twelve noon today, and I STILL messed one of them up and gave the dose too early. (It seems to be a very light dose and he seems to be fine though. But I'm staying in the room with him until it's worn off to be sure.) He seems okay, but still a little under the weather. He's continuing to eat the herbs and fresh greens we give him and continuing not to eat the hay like he's supposed to, and he divides his time between resting normally and lying in his litterbox in an unusual position - I think he's doing this so that he can sleep and still pee. He is peeing a lot more, probably because he's getting a much higher percentage of water in his diet than usual, since he's replaced dried hay with a combination of fresh juicy leaves and powdered hay mixed with water.
I also kept Anubis company while I ate my dinner and for an hour afterwards he sat on my lap snoozing, but he got up on his own and went upstairs to bed before I had a chance to get up to give Snookums his evening insulin. He only yelled and battered at the door for a short time last night after that, and again this morning after I gave him his breakfast. That was pretty much to be expected however - he usually does it even if Wax is here, and frequently when she's actively trying to distract him. He actively enjoys jangling on the door. He seems to like the noise it makes rattling in the frame.
Normally on a fine day like today the cats would all get to go outside on their leashes, but I have to monitor the bunny for six hours in the middle of the day now, so I'm being treated to a discordant chorus of three little wailing voices. Opening a window and a door seems to have made them worse instead of better. Wax is still at a party and they expect to start back in another hour or so and arrive late at night.
Immediately, all three cats started yelling that they wanted to go outside, because it was 16 (61° F) and sunny. Anubis and Tristana are still separated at all costs, so I took Anubis out on his leash for a while, then put him back and locked him up and took Tristana and Snookums at the same time. Snookums was once again tragically disappointed that he couldn't find very much living grass yet, and gave up and went back in quickly. It isn't warm enough for him to lie out basking yet. Tristana spent a bit longer playing and sniffing things, but she didn't really want to be out there without him either. I came back inside and gave medicine and a syringe full of grass soup to the sick bunny, who is getting increasingly annoyed about being syringe-fed and has started to show his displeasure when he's picked up out of the cage. (This morning he actually hid in his bunny cubby behind the curtain and had to be plucked out.)
I had to set six different alarms on my phone for the two medications and the doses of grass soup for Japp to cover the time between yesterday evening and twelve noon today, and I STILL messed one of them up and gave the dose too early. (It seems to be a very light dose and he seems to be fine though. But I'm staying in the room with him until it's worn off to be sure.) He seems okay, but still a little under the weather. He's continuing to eat the herbs and fresh greens we give him and continuing not to eat the hay like he's supposed to, and he divides his time between resting normally and lying in his litterbox in an unusual position - I think he's doing this so that he can sleep and still pee. He is peeing a lot more, probably because he's getting a much higher percentage of water in his diet than usual, since he's replaced dried hay with a combination of fresh juicy leaves and powdered hay mixed with water.
I also kept Anubis company while I ate my dinner and for an hour afterwards he sat on my lap snoozing, but he got up on his own and went upstairs to bed before I had a chance to get up to give Snookums his evening insulin. He only yelled and battered at the door for a short time last night after that, and again this morning after I gave him his breakfast. That was pretty much to be expected however - he usually does it even if Wax is here, and frequently when she's actively trying to distract him. He actively enjoys jangling on the door. He seems to like the noise it makes rattling in the frame.
Normally on a fine day like today the cats would all get to go outside on their leashes, but I have to monitor the bunny for six hours in the middle of the day now, so I'm being treated to a discordant chorus of three little wailing voices. Opening a window and a door seems to have made them worse instead of better. Wax is still at a party and they expect to start back in another hour or so and arrive late at night.
