i love roy. if anything ever happened to that cat i don't know what i'd do!!!

Poor baby. My two are getting on in years and I am terrified that anything bad will happen to them. Get well Roy. Wear your UGG booties to keep the chill out!

Hurray for Roy! What a darling he is in all of his pictures. So glad he is improving!!!

Did you get an email from me today or did I, once again, get swallowed up by your spam filter?

I love Roy and I'm glad he's doing better, but I must say, Soba is my favoritest. And not because I'm a-feared of her. Sounds like you're doing much better as well. :) *VERY* glad to see (read?) that!!!

Oh, I forgot to tell you, if you are giving him liquid antibiotics, mix it in with some canned food. After I had my cats' teeth cleaned last year we had to give them anitbiotics (they had teeth pulled) and after one shot with the dropped, they ran and hid. However, we managed to still get them their medicine by disguising it as food. Worked like a charm. Anything to make your baby better.

P.S. It is ok to take a day off from work to deal with this. If somehting happened to one of mine, I would do the exact same thing.

If you lay him on a towel, with his head over the edge, then gently wrap it around him (fairly tightly), you can give medicine without getting clawed so much. I think it's less stressful on the cat too.

I had to do that when we gave Mr. Tickles antibiotics, and she never did catch on that being laid on the towel was followed soon by that nasty pink liquid getting shot in her mouth.

Laurie, I understand completely how you feel. I am SUCH a cat person - - my two are my babies! I have had cats in the past become ill, and I know how bad it can be. You just feel so helpless - - don't you wish you could just snap your fingers and make them better?

Roy looks like such a doll-baby. Take care of him (and yourself, too!)

Dizzy Ms. Lizy

Totally ok to take a day off work for a sick child. Your co-workers do it all the time. Details, details, that their children are not furry. Their loss.

I am glad to hear that Roy sounds better!! Or... maybe it's part of their plot... beware...

Go Roy go!!

Oh boy, not EVER one to actually POST a comment. Usually just talk at the computer then gradually move on... Parallel universes, you & I, in many ways.
BUT, the ONE cat friend who you just know you can't bear the thought of losing, even though they're all your "favorites" (and you've already lost EVERYTHING else you ever thought REALLY mattered)...
Well, you mentioning that Roy has asthma made an alarm bell go off. My "soul cat" died suddenly last year. Seemed like he had asthma for a while, too. I had an autopsy done and they discovered he had severe heart disease and his lungs were filling up with fluid, probably for quite some time, which is why he had breathing problems at times. Can't tell from those x-rays (I'm an artist, blah, blah, blah), but how did his lungs look? Did they consider heart disease? It's something that CAN be treated in cats...

Warm fuzzies to Roy and hope he enjoys the free range turkey. You know he'll never eat cat food again, right? What the heck, he deserves it.

Roy, hope you're feeling well soon. How long do you think it'll take the others to figure out that if they pretend to be sick like Roy they can get better food? Well, okay, other than Bob, how long do you think until the clever ones figure it out?

Glad to hear Roy is feeling better. There is a part of me that thinks he may be trying to milk it though. I mean salt-free, free range turkey from Whole Foods? Don't let Natasha and Boris find out about that. They'll want to move in with you.

Purl, love your writing. I'm glad that Roy is better. Reminded me of the story about how to pill a cat. You can find several versions through Google, all end up with the pill unswallowed and the person going to the emergency room. For dogs, wrap the pill in bacon, it's gone.

Oh Lordy how I hate pilling the cat! We all love Roy so much and will gladly send pounds of bacon if necessary. You two hang in there!

When my babies are sick (or sometimes even just because), they get deli turkey breast, too, along with grilled chicken breast, and baby food (the baby food is their favorite). They are so completely worth it!

Get well Haiku for Roy:

Best wishes to Roy
May his solitary fang
Ward off all evil

Being crazy is okay. As long as you don't verge into the mental institution realm, it's what makes you interesting.

Anyway, yay for the cat feeling better. And you don't know spoiled animals until you see our dog, who would rather starve than eat dog food. And she is very picky about the human food she gets, and again, would rather starve than eat something that doesn't please her picky palate. But that's why you love your animals, for all their weird idiosyncrasies.

I hope Roy is on the road to recovery (and give that mean little Sobo a squeeze from a SOBO lover.....)
:)

Well its Thanksgiving so OF COURSE he gets turkey. And YOU miss OCD, give thanks for soooo many people caring for you.

PS: Is that a SHARK FIN in the X-ray??

Awww sweet Roy! I'm glad you updated!

Get well soon, Roy! And hello Soba! Please don't kill me!

haji I do give thanks. (also giving thanks for the hot pics you sent me!!) but mostly thankful for the good people on the internets who don't mind a little crazy in their cereal each day....

I love that I can see you in the corner of that last picture of Roy. So cute!

I'm glad Roy is on the mend! Tell Soba if I lived closer I would totally bring her her own can of tuna.

I am glad Roy is doing better...by the way, someone might actually send you bacon!

Poor little Roy. Healthy wishes from Roxy and I.

Best loves and bacon to Roy. Old man cats are especially endearing and will always hold a soft spot in my heart! My oldest man, Jimmy, is a one-fang wonder as well. He says bacon and butter are the best thing you can give to a cat on the mend.

Awwww! Poor Roy! And poor (literally and figuratively) Laurie! You'd think that an industry that came up with "Neuticals" for the dog that misses his cojones would be able to come up with a way to administer an antibiotic that doesn't cause trauma to the cat, and trauma (and bleeding!) to the owner!

Hope he feels better soon, because the picture may be worth $1000, but the cat is priceless.

The look of contentment on Roy's sweet face in the last picture, back at home with his person and his posse, says it all. Life is great when you are so well loved AND when you get to eat like royalty. Oh, and life is great when you can love so well. You and Roy are both lucky, I'd say. I will send healthy wishes Roy's way. Hang in there, both of you.

I'm glad to see Roy home safe and well. Give him a big kiss for me!

Soba's fan club is a secret society - esp. from her - if she knew how many of us there really are, she'd try to marshall us into a military coup! So as a matter of national security we must remain underground...
By the way even though I've been known to occasionally speak into a pepsi can, I've only directed traffic in my nightgown once...that whole bra on the head thing? Never happened! They totally made that part up to make me look bad. :D
(Roy - do you prefer thin or thick cut bacon?)
I'm thankful Roy's eating again (the pill dissolved & hidden in some canned food or butter does usually work pretty well)

2 words: FAMILY EMERGENCY.

I'm sorry, it's too upsetting to talk about. I don't want to bore you with the details. It's a private matter. I just can't come to work today.

Hope Roy feels better... Do you think they wind up being favorites because they need more care? Orville was my favorite until Wilbur got sick, and since then he's the darling.

Poor little kitty

I'm a little late but someone commented on your last post that you needed a voodoo doll for the tall guy and possibly Mr. X as well (by the way, both asses). This is a little dark for me http://www.theanticraft.com/badjuju.htm but I still think funny....so knit yourself a voodoo doll if you think it will help. I too, like you went through the great unanticipated breakup/divorce. Mine was four years ago and at the time it broke my heart. What I discovered though was amazing, and quite possibly worth the pain. Love you and wish you were local because I would be so pysched to raise a glass of red wine with you. Best to Roy....and to you. I think you're the greatest.

Yesterday's post inspired my first real blog entry (read as entry #2).
http://tactlesswonder.blogspot.com/

Rube is the owner of this house, we kinda just live around her.

Awwww, sweet lil Roy!! Aren't cat x-rays weirrrrrd-looking?

Tell Soba I love her the best. Chairman Meow!!

Cappersnapper the Floridian tuxedo wishes nothing but the best for poor little Roy, as does his mama.

Remembering the 3 F's of life- those things that make life good and can't be lived without--- good Friends (like cats and dogs and a select few people!!), good Food (like $10 a pound Free-range, all natural turkey), and good Fiber (like knitting your at-the-moment most favorite yarn on your most favorite needles-you have beautiful ones!-...You and your cats have it all!!!! But- it might be time to consider buying a whole free-range turkey, cooking it yourself--You have time, ya know ya doooooo.. Then freeze dinner for you and your friends for a long time.....maybe $2 a pound???? And cats like the grizzley bits at the end of the bones!!! i just had to check on you and Roy today, glad you are both sounding better!!

Hugs for Roy. The wrapping up in a towel thing works on our extremely wriggly Josephine.
~x~

Glad Roy is feeling better. My vet gave me a tip on giving my sick cat medicine and it has been working. Wrap your cat up in an old blanket/towel and wrap them like a burrito. If it's tight enough, they can't escape and/or claw you to death and it makes giving the meds so much easier.

I've got Roy in my thoughts... I hope the turkey helps pull him through.

Oh, sweetie - I MUST be feeling better because I'm reading your blog (or is that vice versa??)

I'm jealous of your and Drew. Pout. Okay, I'll get over it. We need to do a Galveston knit weekend...

I'm sorry to hear about the car & cat and other expenses, what a bummer! But, my dear, you are beautiful. Even with a bra on your head...

Good morning, Purl dear and squishes to the Insane Kitty Posse (even Soba!) Do try baby food if the turkey is breaking the budget. Just get the all meat/broth kind (NO onions/powder/etc..very bad for kitties - even Soba!)

And I'm not a vet (though I do play one on the Internets), but have worked for 10+ years for a vet clinic - I can't really see what's going on in the xrays --what did the doctor tell you?

And we promise (right, commentors??) that we won't share our horror stories once we hear the diagnosis. We don't want to scare the Roy.

Ditto from me on the towel thing, although what you really need is a meds-giving assistant. My daughter is skilled at it and wants to become a vet, want me to send her out there?

I love the strategically placed mirror in the last shot! ;)

Give Royboy a ton of rubs from his Uncle Drew!!

Amen Dusa!!!

Dear Roy,

We hope you are feeling better soon. It sounds like your Human is taking care of you, even though she is a little bit mean to be shoving pills down your throat. Oh well, you know how those crazy humans can be - you can't live with 'em, and you can't live without 'em. We know she means the best for you!

Love and stinky cat kisses,
Sunny, Stinky, Picky, and Ziggy

AWWW - glad to hear he is getting better. BTW My friend is a vet and she has a client who will only eat sushi grade tuna... So the turkey thing could be worse!

all of my kitty lovin goes to Roy. and all my kitty reverance to Chairman Meow! dont hurt me Soba!

and i hope you have a relaxing and magically-jeep-fixing holiday.

I furgot - RB & Rhapsody are sending purrs! Does he give you nasty looks after the pilling? Rhapsody did..... & Mine know how to spit, event he liquid - push it with the tongue then shake the head.

OK, just one look into that precious face and I fell in love with that little guy. I'm glad he's feeling better and my sympathies to you for having to give him medicine. We have four cats. Three of them are no problem when it comes to medicine. The fourth, however, turns into demon spawn and her person ends up looking like she's been in a bar fight. I'm at the point of telling the vet that any medicine he wants this cat to have must come in the form of an injection.

Sending healing thoughts your way for you and Roy!

Hooray for Roy!

Hope Jeep gets some turkey too. :-P

Thanks to Maria F. who found the KAL that I was too lame to look up myself!

If you aren't up to knitting one yourself, I'm sure you have tons of speedy knitting readers (uh, myself not being one of the speedy ones -- you'd get a juju man in about 3 years, at which point you'd ask "What/Who the heck was this supposed to be for? I, Laurie, am an incredibly happy person.") that would be happy to make and send one to you.

Awww I'm glad Roy is better too, nothing beats being spoiled rotten. My furballs send their love to Roy :)

I've been a lurker for a while, but just wanted to come out and send best wishes to you and the adorable Roy. Hope he is feeling better soon!

Looks like Roy's plan to have his very own Thanksgiving turkey feast is a few days ahead of schedule, atta boy!!

I've been following your knitting/catting/living tales for quite a while now, and I think you're an amazing lady! All the best from snowy Wisconsin.

Roy has what I think of as a Pink Panther face, with that sort of elongated snout. He is so handsome! And spoiled, of course, but kitties should be. :)

And what is so wrong with "colorful"? As a fellow Southerner (and possibly colorful myself), I say: Nothing. Who decides what's normal anyway?

You're doing awesome, girl! Sounds like Roy couldn't be better taken care of! Glad he's feeling better.

If'n you're giving Roy pills .... two words for you from someone who has to give her cat one to two pills each morning ..... Pill Gun. You can get them at the vets. Cheap and ohmygod amazing!

Also, errrr, "hot pics" from haji? Did I miss when you shared those??????? :)

one of my kitties has asthma, and must take cortisone every other day. what I did was, I bought a pill crusher; I crush the tablet and sprinkle the powder on her food (it would work fine with expensive turkey of course) and she takes her medicine without an argument. I just have to watch her to make sure that none of the other five cats eats up her medication, but it's much easier than trying to shove a pill down her throat every other day.

One more pilling trick: take some vaseline (or bacon grease) and smear it on a pencil eraser. Stick the pill to it, then use the pencil to poke the pill down his throat instead of your fingers. I find that I'm faster and more accurate with this ohsofun task when I'm not fearing imminent puncture!

I got to meet Roy at Saturday party (poor little guy was sniffing a lot!), and what I was not prepared for was what magnificent eyes he has! The pictures don't do justice to their gorgeousness. I'm so glad he's feeling better.

The kittykins at Chez Blue Moon wish Roy a swift recovery: Zelda Bean, Domino and Annabelle.

Glad to hear Roy is feeling better!

Thanks for keeping us all posted.

Good to know Roy is feeling better soon.

On a completely separate and unrelated topic... I have those IKEA plates! :) Love IKEA, wish one was closer than a 2.5 hour drive.

Poor Roy!
I once had to help my housemate give her cat a pill; we wrapped the cat in a towel, and I held her (the cat, not the housemate) while my housemate gave her the pill.
Maybe that would work for you too?

I hope that things are soon better at Chez Vouz.

Dorothee... I am trying the towel thing with limited success. Roy is a VERY LARGE animal. Or, at least, feels like one when he struggles. Poor guy!

Oh My!

Get better ROY!!! I will send "get well gnomes" your way.

Laurie, is Roy pro or anti cat nip?

I always wrap my boys in towels before drugging them up--especially for anything having to do with the ears!!! They'd kill me otherwise...

Pills suck--liquid is easier, sort of.

Hope Roy is feeling better soon!

Yay for Roy. Glad he's feeling a bit better. I hope he recovers completely.

Amy ... Roy is pro catnip LOL.

He gets a new medication today. More fun! *sigh* this is hard. I want him to be well again. He sleeps by my head so I can hear him breathe at night. Just in case.

get better roy. you're too cute to be sick. xxoo