Thankless Thursday

 

Benny: Woe, Woe, WOE is me (and us in general)! Dear Friends, our tale of woe continues with #1 abandoning us again today, until Sunday evening. And she has already warned us that the same awful scenario will be repeated next week. By the time she is done with this round of madness, #1 will have been away five of the past six weekends! Can you believe the awfulness? She swears that will be the last one for a while, though.

And just to make matters worse, I got taken off to see Dr. C on Tuesday! My eye had been a little unwell for a while and then it was looking really sore. Dr. C had returned from vacation on Monday and off we went. She took a good look and said that I had had an ulcer which had healed itself but I now had raging conjunctivitis. I got a shot, have to have ointment in my eye twice a day for a week, and have to wear the cone of shame when unsupervised. If all goes well, I'll lose the cone today, or tomorrow at the latest, so at least I'm thankful for that, and my eye feels a lot better already.

Here are a couple of cone pics:

On the plus side, Queen Tama hasn't been hissing at me, and my pal Ollie is always there to provide moral support.

And when I sit on #1 lap in the evenings, she removes the cone!

So, it's the usual drill. We won't be posting over the weekend, and hope to be back next Monday. #1 will be off with the big horses this time.

Well-met on Wednesday

 

#1 here. Hello, everyone. You may remember that, when I went to England in early July I met Perdie and Sherlock, two lovely kitties who were adopted by my friends Ms. N and Mr. M a few months previously. This trip was a lovely opportunity to see them again and get to know them a little better .

Like all good kitties, they love boxes. The first shot is Perdie and then comes Sherlock.

Perdie has a beautiful heart on her back/side:

She checked out my suitcase:

Sherlock really loved the treats I took them!

And Perdie loved the fact that I knew to put my plate on the floor so she could pre-clean it.

Ms. N sent me these photos after I left. First, Perdie enjoying "my" unmade bed:

And Sherlock followed suit!

It was a delight to spend some time with these two!

Tama-Chan Tuesday

 

Tama-Chan: #1 returned very late last night, having had the most wonderful time, and my heart is full. I did well whilst she was away and am eating very well. She will have to go to Dr. C's this afternoon with Benny as he appears to have an eye infection. We will keep you posted. And she says she spent time with some lovely kitties in England and will share that on tomorrow's post.

In the meantime...

Thankful Thursday

 

Tama-Chan: Dear Friends, I wanted to thank you for the outpouring of kindness and support following yesterday's post. I am going to do my best to do as well as felinely possible, and stick around for as long as possible, with the support and love of my #1. I am pleased to say that I ate well yesterday and have been taking my liver supplements (milk thistle) easily with a little bit (a lot!) of Laughing Cow cheese. #1 has also cooked me a lovely combo of rice, yogurt and egg yolk (after consulting with the vet) which I am enjoying, and has ordered some other yummy foods for me. I am thankful for all of this

So here I am, sitting on my favourite kitchen chair yesterday afternoon, doing an all-paw dangle!

As you know, #1 is leaving early tomorrow morning and won't be back until Monday night, so we won't be posting over that period. I thought it would be nice to share pics of all my Poupounette Central siblings today.

Sunny Benny

Meditating Ryū

Upside down Momo:

Ollie Woofie:

We'll see you next week!

Wordy Wednesday

 

Tama-Chan: Hello, Everyone. It's me, Tama-Chan again! You remember how I mentioned yesterday that I hadn't been feeling great? Well, I then stopped eating and #1 packed me off to the vet without so much as a "by your leave"! Our vet, Dr. C is on vacation this week and so we saw the vet who is replacing her, and who turned out to be very thorough. She palpated me and thoughts my stomach felt a bit hard, so she did an ultrasound which immediately showed up a tumour in my liver. Eeek! That's no good. No good at all! I had had a wellness check with blood panel in May so she asked #1 if it would be OK to do another liver specific blood panel to see how I was reacting to this intrusion. Well, the results were once again... perfect! So, whatever this is, I am fighting it off quite well for now, except for the ...ahem... output issues I had been having. So, the vet put me on a much higher dose of prednisone for a while and she was able to give me an injection that will last two weeks! I also have to take a food supplement and #1 has to adjust my food to stuff that is highly digestible. I'll go back and see Dr. C in a couple of weeks to see how all that is working for me. In the meantime, I would appreciate any purrs you could send my way, as well as any advice from anyone who has had to deal with liver tumours (at this stage, we don't if it's benign or malignant). I have to tell you that I was good as a gold the whole time there and the vet and assistants thought I was just lovely. #1 remembered to take a few pics. whilst blood was being drawn

I have no idea where we will be going with this, but I know how much my #1 loves me and that she will take care of me in any way she can. Sadly, she is going to be away the next three weekends on various commitments, starting with a quick trip to England Friday to Monday for a 50th reunion at her Oxford college. Mr. G will of course take excellent care of me in the interim. She feels really bad about leaving me but I told her she must go as this is important and she has had a pretty hard time of late and needs a break. Thank you all for your support.

Tama-Chan Tuesday

 

Tama-Chan: Hello everyone, and welcome to my weekly post. I have been feeling a little under the weather the past couple of days. I think it's because #1 continues to be as well, and I am so in synch with her. We are looking after each other.

I have just a few pics to share with you as there hasn't been a lot of photo-taking on an ongoing basis recently.

And that Benny sometimes gets a little too close for comfort!

What can a girl do?

Momo's Manly Monday

 

Momo-Chan: We came to a compromise with #1 and she said I could be the regular host for the Manly Monday post with my name in the credits. I think that's fair.

So, she went to see The Big V on Monday and I thought it would be nice to start with a couple of pics of him. First is his best smile, complete with drool from eating all the apples that #1 took him:

And here he is looking a tad more serious before going to work:

Next on the list is me! As you can see I know how to relax properly!

Little Ryū-Chan likes to go undercover:

And here is a close-up of Benny giving his paws a really good cleaning!

Ollie went to Honfleur to see The Big V, with Mr. G and Ms. N, and he enjoyed a carriage ride!

And then he went to the restaurant for lunch!

We wish you all a good week.

Snuggles on Sunday

 

Tama-Chan: Welcome to our first SoS post in a while! I am sorry to say that #1 is still not back to 100% and the infection has gone on to her ears. But she is now taking antibiotics and she says they are already starting to kick in.

Thanks to the kindness of Mr. G, who drove all the way there and back, (five hours in all) #1 was able to go and visit The Big V on Friday. Do you think they were happy to see each other?

As you can imagine, he got LOTS of treats. Here is one pic. We'll share some more over the coming weeks.

And Ollie got to go along for the ride and could say hi to his big bro!

We kitties, especially Benny and me, have been looking after #1 as much as possible. Here I am giving her some healing snuggles:

And here is Benny hard at work. He may be a bit of a thug, but he really looks after #1!

And here are all three boys snuggling with her in bed in the morning:

Can you spot Momo? Not sure Ryū was actually snuggling, but he was there!

And just in case you were wondering, the Ollie-Benny "joined at the hip" show is ongoing!

We wish you a peaceful and restful Sunday. May snuggles find you, wherever you are.

Thankful Thursday

 

Ryū-Chan: I have been watching over #1 and am very thankful to tell you that she is finally beginning to feel better. She went to see the human vet who insisted she get tested for covid, the flu and other stuff. Everything came back negative. It's "just" a bad bout of bronchitis, and she thinks she has now turned the corner. Still coughing but a lot less.

Here I am on duty:

And here are my kitten bros, Benny and Momo, helping:

And Ollie is always there to lend a paw:

Queen Tama is in charge of ground floor support and supervision: 

Tomorrow, #1, Ollie, Mr. G and Ms. N are finally going up to see The Big V. They need to leave early so we won't be posting. But we hope to have lots of great photos and videos of The Big V to post afterwards! Please forgive us again for our absence. We will soon be back to regular programming!

Monday Malady

 

Benny here! I wanted to let you know that #1 is home from the Paralympic Games but she returned completely exhausted and with a bad cough. She did do a test, she does not have covid, so that's good. She's going to the people vet this afternoon to see if she needs any medication. We'll return to regular blogging when we can. In the meantime, I, Benny, am taking good care of her!