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You are here: Home / Diary / Diary – December 2006

Diary – December 2006

January 3, 2007 By: Sparkle Catcomment

Worst Christmas Ever!

A cat's life is not always fluffy moths and twist ties

Well, I was hanging out by the heater mainly because it was COLDThis has been a lousy month. I started feeling bad again and couldn’t jump. In fact, I didn’t even want to move around much because I was in so much pain. I just wanted to either sit in the hallway or hang out by the upstairs heater.

I didn’t even want to eat very much.

Seriously, would you want to eat cat food if YOU were sick?

So my human packed me up and took me to yet another vet clinic. You know, I really do want to take care of whatever it is that is making it painful for me to move my back end, but I really hate these vet trips.

First the dreaded carrier Do NOT want my temperature taken!

For about the umpteenth time in the past few weeks, I got weighed.

Always a humiliating experience

This vet watched me walk around and recommended some painkillers that didn’t work very well. So she wound up suggesting my human take me to an acupuncturist. Which, of course, meant another annoying car ride to yet another vet clinic.

Binga is responsible for that hole in the mesh, not me Not to mention getting stuck with a bunch of tiny needles

I'd rather get stuck with a bunch of little needles than swallow this crapBetween the latest painkillers my human picked up and the acupuncture, it actually seemed to work. The only annoying thing is that this new clinic gave my human these horrible homeopathic remedies that I’m supposed to take three times a day! When I see my human with that eyedropper in her hand, I run the other way. Yuck.

My human could tell I was feeling better because I started eating like normal, and I even caught a cricket for dessert one night.

It was yummy

After all this bother, you’d think my human would try extra hard to give me a good Christmas but no luck. First off, she never put up a tree. She said she was “too stressed out.” HER stressed out? Her back and lower legs were working just fine the whole month. I don’t see what she had to be stressed out about. The second sign that things were going to be less than exciting this year was that box of stuff the humans get as a gift every year. Again, no meat for us cats. Boodie didn’t care. She had other uses for the box.

Ick - how can she sleep in something that smells like fruit?

The humans opened their Christmas gifts on the bed. Our gifts never even got wrapped — my human just left them in the shopping bags. Boodie, not being very bright, thought the bags were the gift.

No room for a nap Even my human is not so cheap that she'd give us plastic bags

The first gift was something called a “Cat Charmer.” I didn’t like it — we already have one that’s like it, only better because it’s all worn and knotted up, the way we like it.

Note the drawing also serves as instructions for how to use it Instructions I do not care to follow

The next gift was some fishing pole with a toy on a string. Boodie liked it. I didn’t.

At least the plastic smells good Boodie likes everything

What human came up with this hideous idea?The worst gift of all was some bubble gun. The bubbles were supposed to smell like catnip. They didn’t. We were supposed to chase the bubbles. We ran away from them.

Then to end our totally lame Christmas, my human pulled out a small bag of catnip. It was supposed to be some “really potent stuff from up north,” sent by a kitten rescue, but as you know, I don’t care for catnip all that much.

Yep, this innocuous looking bag has some potent nip inside Unfortunately, I'm don't dip much into the nip

It only took a few moments, however, for you-know-who to commandeer it.

Binga's the real nip head around here Can't get enough of it

Than, as if things weren’t bad enough, a few days later, the humans left town! Because the other cats kept eating my food before I could finish it, my human decided to put me in the upstairs apartment area all by myself so I could “eat in peace.” I basically spent the last couple days of the year in solitary confinement.

Although that was not necessarily a bad thing

»January 2007

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