Ha! Love it!The raw matierials
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Bed with pad in place
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Bed with snuggly scrap from left-over pad material
Plastic shelf "framework"
Cover, partially installed
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Completed Shelter with bed installed
Shelter in place on back porch
Rear view of shelter showing entrance "alleyway"
I agree with everyone else on this, but have one thing to add. Before you get the big name credit card, do some research online. Look for a card that actually gives you cash back. I don't have personal experience with this (yet), but my friend Sara uses a credit card for everything, paying it off every month, because with cash back it's actually cheaper for her to do it that way than to pay cash.
Sounds to me like complications of diabetes. If that's it, then really good control of his sugar levels could turn it around.
A much older friend of mine told me that her husband will lose his legs one day because of ongoing issues with themI'm not exactly sure what he has but it sounds like a circulation problem in his legs which causes frequent infections and pain. I guess the husband was told by the doctor this week about eventually losing his legs. I can't imagine what my friend and her husband may be going through. She said they're both upset but are ok with the news if it means no more infections and pain.to the two of them. My friend is a RN so I'm sure she will be able to care for her husband when that time comes. They have two adult sons whom I'm sure will help out.
AWM has macular degeneration, but I'm not going to get tested for it. Let me explain why: it actually starts in Wiesbaden, Germany. DD was stationed in Germany in the time, and AWM and I were with him. (I was old enough not to be breast feeding, but not old enough to start eating solid food yet.) I can't remember the exact time, but AWM and DD were in the town while Chernobyl blew, just to give you a rough idea of the time period. Fast forward years. I went to donate blood. The first three times I went my iron count was way too low and the fourth and fifth time I actually donated. My sixth time trying to donate blood there was a new question on the sheet. Was in Germany around such and such date? Yes, yes I was. So they said that, due to a mad cow outbreak, I couldn't donate blood. (Which is putting it mildly--they went searching for the donation numbers so that they could find and destroy the blood I'd already donated.) Anyway--getting off the rant and back on topic, a couple years afterwards I went to renew my license and discovered that, somehow, they put out an alert on my information preventing me from being an organ donor!
Maybe you're trying to help from the wrong perspective. Please don't take this as prying, but how far along is she? There's a chance that the unborn child can be used to child services to intervene, and they have a way longer leash than law enforcement, if the way things work down here is any indication. You could try contacting them.
All right, this may seem like a logical step for me, but I live in an area where there's literally one every third of a mile at least. Have you tried going to a church? Several of them have programs designed to help women out of the situation your DD is in. (And don't feel guilty--if you hadn't left you wouldn't be who you are today.) You can try claiming sanctuary (http://modernnotion.com/church-sanctuary/ ), and even if they don't, they might be able to direct you to a church that does.
Oh, GOD, I wish I could really make him "my cat." Between the regulations for the complex, and the additional cost of vet bills, I just couldn't handle it. And he won't let me near him. OK...so...last night, but he didn't come out of his house, and I'm sure he thought I couldn't see him in there.
Yay!!!!! It's a success!!!!
The SFS looks great - no one would ever guess what it was concealing. I'm actually kind of surprised that Little Bit figured it out. How wonderful that he now has a shelter. And, uh, it appears that you now have two cats.
She's only 16, though. Still a minor. So would she even be able to do that? And where they moved is 2 hours away from me. Which makes it even worse because I can't get there to help her if she needs it. I used money I didn't have for gas last night. And now I'm trying to figure out how to get cat litter. It would be so much easier if my tax refund was here already.
Can she declare Emancipation from your parents?
I don't know what you are talking about "noise". The LitterRobot is so quiet that some people have it in their bedroom, it makes less noise than a can opener. Maybe you are talking about a different electric litter box?
Great!Can't wait to see the pics!
Yeah, but it makes a loud noise when it works, and a lot of cats hate loud noises.
Point--this only works if the cats haven't dug into the support, destroying its integrity.
I assume that the two pieces are put together with a screw of some sort. You can get a lock washer at the hardware store that fits on it and then put the two pieces together again, that should stop Jasmine from unscrewing it. Be sure to really cram it together. Hope this works for you.
I don't see where it would make a difference, actually. She's in trouble, she can't help herself, and there's a child at risk (at this point, legally speaking, I think the unborn counts as a child). I do know (although I'm probably not supposed to) that local churches have programs that help children being abused (and when I say children, I mean four to twelve years old) by kidnapping them and moving them right out of the state with a new identity if necessary. (While our local child services have a longer leash than the police, it's not much longer.) Again, you need to consult with the leaders of the church about it.
Which brings back all my intrinsic fears of credit cards.
Oh, yes. As far as I can tell (and this might be regional, I don't know) most scratching posts have a hollow cardboard core--which makes it both bio-degradable (which is big thing down here, although I, personally, think that a wood core would be just as biodegradable--and reusable to boot!) and much, weaker. It is exceptionally easy for a cat to scratch too deeply and damage the integrity of the cardboard core.
OK, weighing in on this also. Keep paying the hospital the way you have been as they do not charge you any interest. With your income being erratic to start a credit card is a bad idea as you won't know if you have enough money to pay the card when it is due. The banks make money from credit cards when people do not pay it off every month as they will then charge interest which is added to your balance, every missed payment jacks up the interest rate some more.
