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[chickwhorips]

mimi i think you need a new tooth fairy.

[mimitabby]

the original one gave me dimes; hairballs aren't worth much less.
(but the dimes WERE made out of silver!)
(now I am dating myself) I was just pretending to brag like they do in other forums so i chose my cats as the most innocuous and idiotic way to do it.
I should refrain from humor because i am usually so far out that most people just think i am too far out.

lol

[chickwhorips]

WHOA! far out man....

[Nanci]

My Tooth Fairy gave me dimes, too.

Maizey last ate right after she last shed- but, if memory serves me right, she only ate one of her normal two. Five weeks? Nothing has changed. Loser snake! She's crawling all over right now...

[Nanci]

A hummingbird (plain green) just flew up, hovered two feet away from my face, said "cheep cheep cheep" and flew away over the roof!!!

I'm like, "Dillbird, did you see that?" but he was all snuggled down in his sleeping bag, having been in trouble for escaping earlier...

[mimitabby]

is Dillbird a snake too?

my cats are a bit alarmed because i just pulled a buddliea with a 5" diameter trunk out of my front yard.
I will put a fig tree there instead. I can eat figs.

[Kitsune06]

My cats didn't really have hairballs per se, but Jack would insist on bathing Tsuki to great excess... i.e. until there were little clumps of black and yellow fur here, there, and everywhere on the white carpet.
What sweeties.
oh, and they had worms once.

The rats are "interesting" though I'm not sure I understand the whole "my litterbox works great as a litterbox, but also doubles as a bed and TRIPLES as a safe place to hide my food!" mentality. At least I can turn 'em loose in my garden to hunt down the beetles/grubs/etc etc... They haven't bothered the little garden snakes that live on either end of the garden in my tomato bushes yet, and I suspect there's little risk of them doing so, since the thumb-sized neon green tree frog from this morning terrified Gebo to the point of hiding under my nasturtiums.

[winddance]

One of my cats gets hairballs. The other only gets hairballs when she's been grooming the other cat. :P

When orange kitty has trouble, my vet suggested that I give him some olive oil to get things moving. Apparently, they are supposed to like it, but this particular cat doesn't like anything that doesn't come in kibble form (which he then picks up with his paw, knocks it out of the dish, and tries to bring it up to his mouth with his paw, gets frustrated, and then finally eats it like a normal cat. Repeat. And they wonder why he's skinny...)

[Veronica]

My cat gets a daily dose of whipped cream. Actually she probably gets three or four. She's 17. It doesn't make her puke and she eats more real food after the whipped cream. It's almost like it's an appetizer for her.

V.

[betagirl]

Not to change the subject because I'm really enjoying this hairball discussion

But my marvelous health insurance, Aetna, just denied me coverage of a medication I've been on for oh, 2 years. They covered it last month. I guess they want to take August off? The stuff is uber expensive so I can't just go buy it.

WTF? I cannot know WTF unfortunately until they get their arses into the office tomorrow at 6am Pacific time.

I can't wait to hear the reason.....and their timing is impeccable as always.

[SadieKate]

Betagirl, have you looked on their website to see if they publish a formulary or some kind of approved list?

[maillotpois]

Do they perhaps want you to get it from a different source? When I had to have the lovenox shots, my HMO covered one series and then put its foot down and said I had to go to some mail order place to get it instead of my Safeway pharmacy. The shots ran over $1000 per week (which actually isn't much compared to some of my friends' cancer drugs, but more than I feel okay about paying per week - though if you're looking at "Hmmm $1000 or my health?" you start doing a lot of growling.). Anyway, maybe there's a different way of getting the stuff?

[betagirl]

It's in their formulary, though I'm using it for off label use. It's still in trials for crohn's.

I'm guessing they may want me to go mail order. I'm hoping that's it. But Walgreens said something about a letter/forms that my doc needs to fill out. I went through all this crap 2 years ago to get coverage. It was such a fight then. I'm under a new policy now, so some bean counter must have figured this out and can't cross reference my old company policy. God forbid the computer system is that sophisticated I have their PPO. I'm just frustrated because I've had so many fights with insurance over the past 4 years. I thought it was all hashed out. Apparently not.

[mimitabby]

My cat gets a daily dose of whipped cream. Actually she probably gets three or four. She's 17. It doesn't make her puke and she eats more real food after the whipped cream. It's almost like it's an appetizer for her.

V.

oh seriously!! I never thought of whipped cream for my geriatric cat.

Kitsune, do rats eat slugs and snails too? Because if they do, i'll get one!
I like useful pets. I had chickens until just recently (that bird flu thing scared me)

Prescription drugs.... getting dangerously close to one of my biggest rants;
how the government the drug companies and the f#$@#$ AARP ganged up on us and made it impossible for americans to get good prices on their medications.
I hate that!! it infuriates me; just one more symptom of how seriously disturbed our society is...

[winddance]

I just can't believe how much perscription drugs cost. Did they at least give you notice, betagirl, or did you find out when you went to the pharmacy?