
Out of town…
My husband is planning guys weekend coming soon and will be out of cell reception. Historically this means something here at home will go horribly wrong, I will then be unable to reach my husband leaving me to fend for myself. He joked this morning while we were eating breakfast which pet is going to get sick while he is gone? I laughed and immediately said Olive. We both looked out the window to see Olive eating twigs. This brings me to the first time this phenomenon happened. We lived in the rental house in Irondequoit, Jeff had bought me flowers for my birthday, and as any good wife should do I forgot to water them but they lived on anyway. He left Friday morning and when I got home form work that Friday night I found flower bits all over the floor. Well as any good Veterinarian will tell you lilies are toxic to cats, we have three cats. Since I was unable to ascertain the culprit of this crime. In my panic and hysteria I packaged all the cats up and headed back to work (I was a tech and the veterinary emergency center at the time). I called on the way there to let them know I was coming, the first question everyone asked was why did you have lilies in the house? Well, I have a good husband who trusted the florist when she said there are no lilies. I am not a plant expert so I didn’t think anything of it until flower bits were all over the floor. Any of you who have met our cats knows them they have very distinct personalities, George is literally named George Cat like a bobcat she will eat you. Snugglepants may sound amazing but he becomes like an enraged opctupus when doing anything with him that isn’t couch snuggling. Then there is Jack who is loud and stresses out easily. I am sure that Jack thought I had abducted him and taken him to a place of torture never to be seen again. They all got IV catheters, bloodwork and meds to make them vomit in case there were any lilly bits left in there stomachs. Our cats spent the entire weekend at the emergency hospital on fluids to make sure they would be ok if any of them had in fact ingested the lilies. Everyone came out of this fine and now I usually get daisies which is fine I love daisies. Lets all hope for an uneventful weekend here.