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Ironically if everyone who can follows the LPT then the time in the office around the holidays would no longer be slow.

Sounds like someone really likes their brand of antiperspirant 😉

Let the vet do bloodwork. Hyperthyroid is a common ailment of old cats, is curable and a very common cause of nausea and yowling.

Or you’d be supplying the other people with the tip 🤷🏼‍♀️ I suppose it was different for me at the time because I was doing it with all my sorority sisters. In a vacuum it might feel awkward at that age to do something a bit weird - now I just embrace the practicality

Sometimes the right thing is to put an animal to sleep

If one of these fell out, your credibility would be unrecoverable.

Very true!

They have adhesive on the backside (where they would normally stick to panties). The adhesive side would go on the inside of your shirt so instead of making contact with your shirt, your pit makes contact with the liner.

Having gone through this in a VERY rough way about a year ago, the best route is to put them to sleep in a comfortable way. Our cat suffered longer than he should have, and I still feel horrible for not being more assertive with my parents about it. We mentioned that he should be put to sleep for months, and only after some REALLY bad setbacks did we all finally budge.

Our Peke started finding his inner wolf at 3 am every night. Vet said it was dementia setting in. He advised us to give him Prevagen. Stopped the howling immediately.

Fucking hell.

This is absolutely stupid.

Yes! The amount of people, especially over the last couple years who are wildly confused about this really upsets me. This is something that is glossed over at best, not talked about at worst. It’s confusing and weird and really straps a ton of people.

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The taxable value of my home went up 60k, over 33%, this year. I expect this to be painful

It’s your cat.. you will know when it’s time, she could also be lonely and missing her sister if she was always used to having a companion with her. I’m sorry your going through this. .. Just make the best of the time you can with her and know your doing the best you can and your cat loves you.

Its a tough pill for any owner to swallow , but you're absolutely right. Letting them go with grace and dignity is a final gift to our babies

Will your cat do at someone else's home that is always th4er? Like an old folks home? Constant petting & supervision

My cat did this because she had a UTI and bladder stones. The doctor told us "that's just what cats do. You must not have owned many cats." Which was the most annoying thing I'd ever heard. I would check for UTI or even stones (with an ultra sound specialist, not just some nurse/vet at your local vet clinic). Of course, this could be something entirely different since your cat is quite old.

My cat ended up being diagnosed with anxiety & FIC which means giving her generic Prozac (liquid fluoxetine) every night. Its been a year or more and we haven't had any issues.

I'm really sorry this is happening to you. I know first hand how stressful this is and I hope that things get better for you and your cat.

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They basically are stickers.

Before I had kids, I enjoyed taking off the first or second full week of January (depending on the how the holidays fall. It was easy going when everybody was gone over Christmas and not everyone is back until the first full week. Then it got crazy busy because everyone wanted to start projects in the new year. So I took that week off, and after a week or so everything was back to the a normal pace.

If you want a dog to like you just feed it some fatty treats and try to time it so that you are both locking eyes when it farts. There's nothing funnier than a dog farting and being confused by it. Act similarly confused. You share that moment together and you're friends forever.

My dog died several years ago, and he had dementia before he died. He didn't bark (in fact, he forgot how) but instead he paced. All night long. The pacing, his nails clicking on the wood floor, made me batshit.

It eventually subsided and we had another decent year with him. So, it might go away. Some things that helped him were a weighted blanket when we went to bed (he slept with me), a crate for when he was very confused, and an occasional melatonin (vet approved) to help with sleeping.

It's hard, though. Be gentle with yourself and kitty.

I do this too! It’s working out for me very well so far — in fact both of my bosses are out this week, so they told me to just “take it easy and watch your emails.” I’ve still got little things to finish up here and there but for the most part, I can take my time and relax. I worked about 2 total hours on the 23rd and called it a day.