Speaking of weight, Puff has lost a bunch in the last year, assuming our little old scale is accurate. (I hadn't mentioned it here yet, because I posted about it over on my "Puff H. Bailey" thread.) Something is apparently seriously wrong with him, so we hope to find out what the future might hold when he sees the vet tomorrow morning. If we just need to feed him more bugs more often, we can do that, but if he's going to require some kind of more advanced medical care that we can't provide, we may have to make some hard decisions. My main goal (same as with all the critters I've ever had or ever will have) is to prevent him from suffering if at all possible, and to make whatever time he has left as pleasant as possible for him, whether he lives many more years or only for a little while longer. It may not be as dire as it looks right now -- we'll see, but I've known for several years that we could be headed down the road to something like this due to the adenovirus, or who knows what else. :?
It sounds like Oreo is going to be a shy one, and make take a little extra time and patience to tame. At least she doesn't totally freeze and/or hide when you're in the room -- that may be a hopeful sign.
Have fun at the movies.
I saw Guardians of the Galaxy #1 on TV a year or two ago -- it was a fun one. Haven't seen the sequel yet. My husband has this coming Monday and Tuesday off so we're going to enjoy a 4 day weekend. No definite plans to do anything special yet, other than catch up on chores with maybe something cheap ($0) and simple afterwards (we have no budget for entertainment :roll: ). A lot will depend on what we find out from the vet about what Puff is going to need.
I haven't seen all of the old Dr Who episodes -- do you get them from Netflix or some such or is there some TV station in your area that's showing them? Our local PBS station has been running the old Tom Baker episodes, but at 9pm on Saturday nights (with no apparent option to watch it online later for free), and I rarely manage to stay up that late on Saturdays. Pretty pathetic, huh?
And then even if I do manage to stay awake, my husband is not into Dr Who (I wish we could watch it together, but that's not a deal breaker -- I still love him anyway :wink: ).
We've had some pretty crazy weather around here this last week -- rain mixed with snow and hail and wind. Power outages all around Anchorage, but ours managed to stay on, although our telelcommunications cable got knocked around in the wind so bad that now it's hanging so low that my husband can reach up and touch it, and he's only 5'7''. Fortunately, everything is still working so far. I called and told them about it a couple of days ago and they said they'd send someone "ASAP" even though I told them it probably wasn't as urgent as all the other outages they're trying to deal with after the storm. Nothing has been done about it so far, but that's understandable.
Anyway, I hope that storm isn't headed down south your way, and if so I hope it fizzles out before it gets to you, otherwise it won't be much fun. Things have settled down a bit for us in the last couple of days, but they're still predicting a rainy weekend, although hopefully nothing as quite as nasty as what we've already had. Oh well, we may be spending half the day at the vet's office tomorrow anyway, trying to figure out what's up with Puff.
I was really happy when he started eating his veggies again until I started wondering if the sudden increase in appetite wasn't too good to be true. I don't know how long this has coming on, but I feel bad that I didn't dig up the scale and check his weight sooner than I finally did.