JCC new best friends club thread

Good morning. It's a happy and busy Friday so far. I have meetings 11:30 - 12, 2-3 and 3:30-4 so I'm on task to try to get done what I can this morning before my afternoon is essentially shot.

Saturday, my sister in law invited us to their house in Maryland and wants to take us to a basketball game. I don't want to do either things - travel to Maryland or go to a basketball game, but if it makes the wife happy...you know what they say.

 

Besties -- I know this is not objectively true but there's nothing worse than being very ill when you're away from home in a hotel, such as was my life Wednesday in Buffalo. So I flew home yesterday an am now feeling the muscle soreness and sore throat that comes 36-48 hours later after being violently ill. It's awesome!

 

@dp4m - feel better! Are you sure it wasn't just the stench of post-industrial decay that made you sick?

A quick Friday morning note about dog cognition:

My dog has finally realized that TV dogs are not going to interact with him. They're not going to play with him, nor will they fight with him. If he hears a dog barking, he now checks to make sure it's not just a TV dog before deciding how best to respond.

He's also extended this learning to all tv quadrupeds. TV horses are no longer of any interest. Same goes for TV cats and TV elephants.

 

feel better dp! happy friday bestos!

 

Happy we get off at 4 today day! I have pretty much nothing else to do the rest of the day. I'm waiting on my substitute boss to get back to me on a script I wrote, but I don't know if she'll have time before the weekend.

So now I'm just trying to occupy myself for the next three hours.

 

I'd like to add that my puppy still has issues with window puppies. Window puppies interact with him, and usually not in a good way. They always seem angry about something, and usually it has something to do with my puppy walking past their window. I'm not sure how my puppy parses the difference between window puppies and tv puppies other than the obvious: window puppies want to interact, and it's only the window that's keeping them from completely fulfilling their ambitions for interaction.

 

My puppy has a UTI and I had to take her to the vet yesterday I'm anxious to get home and snuggle her.

She hasn't paid attention to TV puppies, but she is starting to become slightly less afraid of the barky dogs in the neighbor's yard. She learned to bark back at them from my parents' dog. Good dog.

 

best wishes for a speedy puppy recovery, @solojones . My dog's only health problems so far have been the results of counterproductive behavior like eating a soiled baby diaper wrapped in a plastic shopping bag.

 

Oh boy. Luckily I haven't had any problems like that. She just chews on my socks, which seems relatively mild. But yeah I think it being snowy outside the whole three weeks I've had her caused her to hold it too long and get the UTI.

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuys. What should I do until I go home.

 

trade puppy stories with me and @A Chorus of Disapproval obviously.

 

Except now I just miss my puppy

 

Now I'm home and playing with my puppy. She's clearly feeling better.

 

I'm a cat person. I've only been owned by cats all my life. Never owned a dog.

 

At one point, my family and I have had four at once: Sylvester (named for his Looney Toons namesake), Corki (a tabby-tortie mixture), Bart (orange tabby), and Baxter (black and white, non-Tuxedo which Sylvester was).

We got Sylvester from a friend of my aunt's, so he wasn't a kitten when he came to be with us. He had a reputation of being a fighter, but that wasn't true. In fact, he was probably the sweetest, most gentle cat we've had. When we got Corki has a kitten, she tried to nurse on him, even though he didn't have the equipment. Instead of protesting, he let her try, although he had this "why me?" look on his face. They grew very close.

Before Bart, we had a grey kitty named Sarge. He was such a purrball and very feisty, but he passed away due to complications from his "snipping." We got Bart shortly afterwards, who would take the lead in the mischief making department.

How we got Baxter was very cute (similar to how we got our current youngest kitty, Marbles). My dad came home from playing cards with my aunt and uncle. He heard a tiny meow from across the street and saw a black and white kitten. The kitten followed him across the street to our home, and "adopted" us. He and Bart bonded.

 

My puppy is now getting sick from the antibiotics and can't keep food down. Just made her chicken and rice and she loved it, but of she throws it up again I have to take her to the pet hospital.... Really worried for the poor tiny pup. She still only weighs 4 lbs

 

Prayers for your puppy @solojones

 

Sorry to hear that, @solojones . I hate to hear about any animal suffering.

 

poor puppy. More collateral damage from the new best friends club thread curse.

 

Well she kept down the chicken and rice last night. So I'm gonna have to cook more of that and feed her just that for the next week. Lucky dog But yeah hopefully she doesn't throw up her food anymore. Knock on wood so far it's ok...

Thanks for the concern everyone.

 

Besties, the Oscars are on tonight. Should I wear anything?