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Hello all! I tried to post in the 'About Me' section, on my profile, but there's a character limit of 250 (about three sentences). Meh. I have too much character, I get it.
I'm home all day. I write music. Spend gobs of time on the computer (being careful not to let it interfere with my TV time of course). I have a black mongrel cat no one wanted, but I think he's the best cat ever. I call him Captain Meow. He keeps me company. He & I have been together for 8 years, so I'm pretty used to him being around. The other day he got terribly sick & wouldn't come out, and I thought he might be dead. That wasn't fun. But he's better now.
I've lived long enough to know you should always be nice to your companion, & never get angry or forbid him his instincts, because if he died you'd be crushed, and saying "I wouldn't care if he knocked my TV over, if I could just have him back!" So.. before I even got him, I accepted that he IS going to ruin a few things, throw up on my comforter, etc. ..but all I ever say to him when he does something is: "I wouldn't have it any other way." And then I give him some love. Because cats don't understand "punishment", and frankly neither do I. So this is a cat who has never even HEARD the word "no", and he goes where he wants. He even comes up on the dinner table to steal an occasional carrot or a green bean. I don't mind. He just wants to be in on things, we're buddies. Actually he once stole a banana from me, which was comical because he had to drag it backwards by the stem, as it was so much bigger than him! He has definitely provided me with some comic relief at times. Anyway, he got sick recently, and I came here looking for health tips.
What I do:
I write music and have been studying modern equipment for two years. I have a whole rock band worth of instruments. I write songs, play all the parts, and record them, all by myself here. I've also built websites and published six different magazines online (humor, & odd bits of interest, for leisure consumption). I have a massive collection of LOL CAT pictures from those days. I really used to enjoy that. I'd collect material, write, collate and publish it all myself. A couple of those mags were dailies even. But it's hard to keep that pace up forever, so I downgraded to a weekly, and eventually decided I'd done enough. Currently though, I have some ideas about building another site, related to music.
And if Captain Meow does ever crawl into the couch and expire for real? well, I decided that after some deeply felt depression I will travel a bit finally. I can't do so now, what would I do with him? Kennel him? NO WAY. He doesn't understand abandonment isn't personal. So I don't ask him to. I never go out overnight. And when I do go anywhere, I bring him back some kind of toy, because my understanding is among cats, he kind of sees me as going out hunting, so i bring him back 'the kill' so to speak. (He has SO many toys, it looks like someone dumped out a bag of trash all over my otherwise neat apartment!) (Aw, who am I kidding, it's HIS apartment. But he lets me stay here! )
When I named him, it was after an imaginary IM mascot a friend and I conjured up (a flying cat) (with a cape). And I got a pen tablet and PhotoShop so I could draw comics of him saving the universe, as only a cat can do. I noticed online there has been a couple other cats with a similar name. I saw a General Meow, and a Corporal Meow (That's just silly! A cat who's a corporal? HA! That guy must be nuts!)
Anyway. I got a program that will animate the sketches even, but I just never got around to writing that series of adventures for him. I took pictures of him for it even, But...well.. he was to have a little spaceship, and a pot habit (of course I don't approve, but he's only feline!) And as a Spaceship Captain, well he doesn't drive very well, because of his natural attention deficit. ("What's that, a shiny thing?!! *bat bat* *lick* *meow*) mm So then the space cops pull him over, for flying in circles with his eyes all red. Poor Captain Meow. All he's trying to do is save the universe! Anyway, silly as that all is, such have been my creative endeavors since I stopped working, and have to fill my time with stupid stuff. *shrug*
Good thing Captain Meow is here. Or I might truly go crazy!
You see, I had to move away from every friend I had, to an awful city, and give up my car, to make retirement work financially. I hate the city. And I hate keeping a cat indoors (it's just wrong, I won't do it again). But he needs exercise and all kinds of things to explore, so I spoil him, and thank him for going through a life of putting up with me. With him around, I'm never alone.
Recently, he got quite sick. He's okay now, but I want to keep him okay. I'll read a while, and post about that elsewhere. I am looking for health tips. He gets constipated, and I never realized that could be life-threatening.
I'm home all day. I write music. Spend gobs of time on the computer (being careful not to let it interfere with my TV time of course). I have a black mongrel cat no one wanted, but I think he's the best cat ever. I call him Captain Meow. He keeps me company. He & I have been together for 8 years, so I'm pretty used to him being around. The other day he got terribly sick & wouldn't come out, and I thought he might be dead. That wasn't fun. But he's better now.
I've lived long enough to know you should always be nice to your companion, & never get angry or forbid him his instincts, because if he died you'd be crushed, and saying "I wouldn't care if he knocked my TV over, if I could just have him back!" So.. before I even got him, I accepted that he IS going to ruin a few things, throw up on my comforter, etc. ..but all I ever say to him when he does something is: "I wouldn't have it any other way." And then I give him some love. Because cats don't understand "punishment", and frankly neither do I. So this is a cat who has never even HEARD the word "no", and he goes where he wants. He even comes up on the dinner table to steal an occasional carrot or a green bean. I don't mind. He just wants to be in on things, we're buddies. Actually he once stole a banana from me, which was comical because he had to drag it backwards by the stem, as it was so much bigger than him! He has definitely provided me with some comic relief at times. Anyway, he got sick recently, and I came here looking for health tips.
What I do:
I write music and have been studying modern equipment for two years. I have a whole rock band worth of instruments. I write songs, play all the parts, and record them, all by myself here. I've also built websites and published six different magazines online (humor, & odd bits of interest, for leisure consumption). I have a massive collection of LOL CAT pictures from those days. I really used to enjoy that. I'd collect material, write, collate and publish it all myself. A couple of those mags were dailies even. But it's hard to keep that pace up forever, so I downgraded to a weekly, and eventually decided I'd done enough. Currently though, I have some ideas about building another site, related to music.
And if Captain Meow does ever crawl into the couch and expire for real? well, I decided that after some deeply felt depression I will travel a bit finally. I can't do so now, what would I do with him? Kennel him? NO WAY. He doesn't understand abandonment isn't personal. So I don't ask him to. I never go out overnight. And when I do go anywhere, I bring him back some kind of toy, because my understanding is among cats, he kind of sees me as going out hunting, so i bring him back 'the kill' so to speak. (He has SO many toys, it looks like someone dumped out a bag of trash all over my otherwise neat apartment!) (Aw, who am I kidding, it's HIS apartment. But he lets me stay here! )
When I named him, it was after an imaginary IM mascot a friend and I conjured up (a flying cat) (with a cape). And I got a pen tablet and PhotoShop so I could draw comics of him saving the universe, as only a cat can do. I noticed online there has been a couple other cats with a similar name. I saw a General Meow, and a Corporal Meow (That's just silly! A cat who's a corporal? HA! That guy must be nuts!)
Anyway. I got a program that will animate the sketches even, but I just never got around to writing that series of adventures for him. I took pictures of him for it even, But...well.. he was to have a little spaceship, and a pot habit (of course I don't approve, but he's only feline!) And as a Spaceship Captain, well he doesn't drive very well, because of his natural attention deficit. ("What's that, a shiny thing?!! *bat bat* *lick* *meow*) mm So then the space cops pull him over, for flying in circles with his eyes all red. Poor Captain Meow. All he's trying to do is save the universe! Anyway, silly as that all is, such have been my creative endeavors since I stopped working, and have to fill my time with stupid stuff. *shrug* Good thing Captain Meow is here. Or I might truly go crazy!
You see, I had to move away from every friend I had, to an awful city, and give up my car, to make retirement work financially. I hate the city. And I hate keeping a cat indoors (it's just wrong, I won't do it again). But he needs exercise and all kinds of things to explore, so I spoil him, and thank him for going through a life of putting up with me. With him around, I'm never alone.
Recently, he got quite sick. He's okay now, but I want to keep him okay. I'll read a while, and post about that elsewhere. I am looking for health tips. He gets constipated, and I never realized that could be life-threatening.
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Oh crap, Captain Meow took up smoking.
I'm gonna have to have a talk with him!
Oh crap, Captain Meow took up smoking.
I'm gonna have to have a talk with him!
