cellio: (kitties)
Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2004-01-27 11:54 am
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yurts, cat

I got mail from another school class looking to build a yurt. Did some education journal just run an article on yurts or something? These are ninth-graders in Albuqueque, so it's probably just a coincidence. (I'm out of the loop on tent supplies. Where do people buy canvas these days? I mean raw materials, not prepared tent parts.)

I dropped Baldur off at the vet around 7:30 this morning. Around 9:30 I got a call saying everything had gone fine. That was much faster than I expected. And the good vet of years past called; I'm glad he was the one to take care of him. (This was the vet I saw regularly until his hours completely shifted to weekdays and the more-distant location.) I can pick him up between 4 and 7; given weather forecasts and traffic, I think I will aim for earlier rather than later.

Ironically, Erik is finishing a round of antibiotics and Baldur is about to start a round (for the gingivitis that led to the dental treatment). So the pill-in-canned-food exercise is just going to shift one cat over, it seems. Baldur has been jealous of Erik getting special treatment, so now it's his turn. I wonder if I can head off any sickness in Embla that might be looming by just giving her the good stuff too?

The form I had to fill out when I dropped him off asked me to rate (good/fair/poor) several factors, including "appetite". I decided against writing in "enthusiastic". I do have hopes that simply hiding a pill in his food will work, though; with Erik I've had to crush them and mix them in. Baldur resembles a vacuum cleaner when eating, so I might get lucky.

[identity profile] tashabear.livejournal.com 2004-01-27 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
We got ours from Itex, in Colorado. We got enough 10oz Sunforger to make two 14-16' gers.

[identity profile] dagonell.livejournal.com 2004-01-27 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Custom Canvas in Buffalo. They're also *very* familar with the SCA. If you tell them you want to do a Viking tent that's 7 foot tall with an 8'x12' footprint and you want it blue with a yellow center section, they can calculate how much of each color you need. Lady Alis is blind. They made her tent for her, to her exact specs. I can't say for sure that they can do yurts or calculate the yardage needec, but I'd be willing to bet that way. :D
--- Dagonell

[identity profile] mrpeck.livejournal.com 2004-01-27 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
They're lucky cats. Sinbad gets his antibiotics straight. I switched to the liquid one a while ago to make things a bit easier. Poor thing, it tastes so bad that he gags afterwords. I give him his Alternagel afterwords because he seems to be okay with that flavor (although, how how much can you actually like something that someone drops into your mouth twice a day?).

[identity profile] indigodove.livejournal.com 2004-01-27 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad Baldur is okay :-)

So far, we've had to give Louie and Duke antibiotics, and we used the liquid and they were both pretty good about it, especially since they got cat treats for it.