I hate to butt in but my husband and I are both allergic to cat dander (him more than me) and we use Allerpet C to help. I rub it on my cat and within half an hour any allergic reactions we may be having (stuffy/runny nose, itchy eyes, mild rash) goes down immediately and the next day we can rub our face directly on him with no problem at all. We’ve gotten a bit more used to him so we only need to rub him down maybe every two-three weeks instead of every week.
I just hate to see you lose a pet you want to love, so maybe try out the D solution that used for dog dander allergies…
Honestly, my husband would not have been able to live with a cat in the house otherwise. I don’t want to sound like I’m shilling the product but it really did work wonders…
I think my husband is smoking again. I know how hard it is to quit, I quit for him and it sucked. I’m still so furious that I could just bite nails or something. DAMMIT!!! If I smell smoke on his breath again, he’d better hope that he manages to die of a heart attack before I kill him.
Kitty ran out in the rain when I opened the door a sec. Kitty came back into my house wet and with a mouse. I know where kitty is now but I don’t know where the poor mousie is!
Don’t count on it. Our kitty thought the mousie was a fun play toy, until it ran into the wall. It was quite some time before my husband managed to catch it and kill it, with two cats looking on with interest but not much comprehension.
This isn’t even a miniwhine, just a microwhine, but why can’t ATMs be standardized. Some make you type in cents and some don’t,like any of them are going to give yes 6 cents or something. BUt I am used to the kind that do type them in.
I just had a huge panic attack when the ATM told me I had insufficient fund to get $120 bucks. I had images of identity fraud, and some asshole buying diamond studded butt-plugs with my money while my rent and insurance autopays bounce.
Then I figured out I had ask the ATM to give me $12000 :smack:
Goddammit, people, keep your cats inside! Three cats on my end of town died of antifreeze poisoning recently. These were outside cats that wandered their (not my) neighborhood.
In my neighborhood, we have wandering cats as well. There are two black ones on the dark curve that I have to drive around in the morning to get off the mountain to the main road. These cats like to dart in front of my car every. single. morning. Solid black cats.
No wonder there aren’t any birds around here anymore.
We are pet sitting the same dog from earlier in the month. That little sonofabitch pooped on the carpet not 2 minutes after we came inside from a walk!! They aren’t back until the 24th this time. We will not be offering to watch him again.
“But it’s a so much more natural environment!” Yes, that’s true. Death is indeed, very natural.
Unless you live on a farm and have barn cats who have a job of rodent control, keep you cats inside. Keep your dogs in your yard, too, unless they are on a leash.
I did bathe him. Washed his blanket, etc. It helped a little bit but bottom line I am having trouble breathing, had to double up on meds and there is a noticeable difference in how well I breathe after a day away at work and in the morning and especially after Thanksgiving. So the wonderful lady who runs the adoptions who will find him a good home is picking him up tonight and I am chalking it up to I fostered a dog with the intent to adopt but my body is saying not happening and will give up my dream of having a dog.
I want to try but breathing is high on my list of things I like to do. Thank you guys who commented on ideas for things to do to help but given my allergies /asthma are worse than I thought they were when I add in a dog maybe I need to push my family Doc on truly getting me assessed instead of just tossing drugs at me or home remedy controls which brings it under control for a bit until the next time something messes me up.
It’s never bad enough to hospitalize me, but if things keep shifting the way they do, you never know.
I’ve started to plan my wardrobe for a professional meeting in Dallas in November (I signed up for the meeting and courses over a month ago, before the current Ebola fuss).
Hmm, what should be my t-shirt of choice: “I Survived Captain Trips” or “Randall Flagg Is My Homeboy”?
Copy-pasting from my own FaceBook post from Tues. night, because it’s too hard to re-type, and because it was a good summary of how I felt about him. He was a bastard sometimes, but he was MY bastard, dammit.
I included a picture I took not long after The Other Shoe came home from the hospital. Al had hopped up onto his wheelchair (as far as he was concerned, TOS came home simply to bring the cat a new piece of furniture) and is reclining majestically, head thrown back in his best King Of The Jungle impression … and one front leg sticking straight out with his tufty paw on the pillow of the couch next to him. The message is clear:
“I have claimed this wheelchair. But I also call dibs on the couch, just in case.”
Some allergies – dander allergies among them – do shift in severity over time. My allergist says “about every seven years” is typical. So your dream of having a dog may not need to be over forever, only postponed.
I used to be horribly allergic to cats: I could be around people who had cats for just a few minutes and tell they had cats (even with the ones who weren’t covered in shed fur). Nowadays I can even be in the presence of a cat for a while without having difficulty breathing and my eyes swelling shut. Your allergic reaction sounds less severe, so maybe try again in 4-6 years and see if things are better then.
Super-mini rant: Cheap reading glasses ($5 a pair and kind of cute) are giving me headaches. But I’m very hard on reading glasses, I break or lose or scratch them regularly, and at $20 a pair or more for the “good” ones it adds up fast. I can’t win either way.
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