I have a strange pussy

[elfs]

Our cat, Dinah, does not like her arthritis medicine. This has long been a truism in my household, and when we started her on it a year ago it was mostly true. She wouldn't eat the wet food with the medicine mixed into it. As an experiment, I changed brands of wet food, and last night when I did it I forgot to mix the medicine in, but instead just put it in to the bottom of the bowl. Dinah started by nosing aside the wet food, licking up the medicine, then proceeding into the wet stuff.

She's just weird.

Omaha is sick. Sicker than I like. It's just a cold, and I wish she'd take it easy, but no, she's immediately into the thick of things. I respect that she has knowledge I don't and can't, like about her radio show projects, but it's the weekend and she's diseased. Still, I'm glad she's home. She's wandering about the house in her pyjamas, blowing her nose every few minutes, looking a bit ragged and undead.

Oh, good news: I found a brand of DVD-R that works in the JVC player. It's the Sony brand (which is the same brand as the burner), and it seems to be quite reliable. So I'm happy; I have a way to make video DVDs that don't require the Lasonic player, although I'm keeping it because I have no desire to re-burn the TDK-branded DVDs.

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[kellan_the_tabby]

It's not just Dinah - I had to give my cat Prednisone for a while (and, having taken it myself, I can assure you that the pills taste _awful_) and at first he fought it like anything. After about a month, though, he started taking them willingly - to the point that he's stick his nose in the pill bottle, when I opened it, and open his mouth for me to put the thing in. I can only guess that he figured out it was helping him, but that seems like a lot of processing power for a cat...

He hasn't needed them for a couple of years, and about a year ago I started taking a pill right before bed every night. He sat there looking very interested as I opened the bottle, and when I took the thing myself - well, he was pretty upset. That was _his_ pill, you know.

Odd, odd creature.