Missing my cat (back now and OK)

Posted on August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged asleep? Hot, Black and white cat, boy and girl cats, Cat, Missing, Playing, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

He needs his meds

He has a heart problem and is on medication twice a day. He’s probably just asleep somewhere in the shade but it is 29°C here and I’m worried. I will go out in the garden and call him, but I need to be careful as I’m unsteady on my feet. Why does this have to happen now. He’s due back at the vets tomorrow for a checkup. My other boy cat has probably moved out. He only comes home every few days and turns his nose up at his food. My female cat is also out… Maybe they are off playing together!

Texture

Posted on August 9, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Experiment, Photodirector, Textures, Tools, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

There is an app I really enjoyed using, but I’ve found out the version I use is being updated and the textures part of it is closing. That means I won’t be able to do this anymore.

I’m really sad because it’s given me a few ideas for creating more abstract paintings. I’m hoping that it will be changed to a similar type of tool but I don’t know. It’s like changing oil paints to acrylic without any explanation. So I’m just waiting to see in some trepidation.

Wanders in cat…

Posted on August 6, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Catfood, going, Life, not staying, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He comes in for 5 minutes

Sniffs his food

Ignores it

Comes and lies down in a loaf

Shaped like a bread

Then gets up

Stares at me

Walks off

Out the catflap.

I’m clearly below his status

I think he’s going to a new home

Someone must be feeding him

But I’ll still love him

Big beautiful boy.

Bedtime

Posted on August 6, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cat lady, Life, Lonely, me and the cats, Memory, solitary, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

She came up on the bed, but as soon as I lay down she was gone! Came back later to poddle (air biscuit?). I do love my cats, good company until they try and trip me up! Another quiet, quite lonely day. But I’m used to solitude now. I don’t know how I’d cope with anyone moving in.

My cats are not photogenic!

Posted on August 5, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Black cat, Cat, cats perspective, ignored, Phone, Photo, photogenicLeave a comment

Mum why are you waving that slab of plastic in my face? I can’t see you because it’s in the way? Your eyes are always on it. Hunched over it. At least when you used a keyboard I could walk over that and sit on it and make lo[[[tttttttttttttttttttssssss of letters with it!

Mum do stop with your hands on the front of it! I want you to look at me, stroke my nose, rub my head, tickle my ears.

Oh you are not interested? Then I’ll look the other way…

Enjoying the sun

Posted on August 3, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Bright, Cat, Light, Photo, sunny patch, Sunshine, Tuxedo cat, Warm3 Comments

Can’t do much, so a bit of cat watching. They always find the sunny spot! It seems much brighter to me now. Sweet cat x

Cat and cataract update

Posted on August 1, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataracts, colour vision, Eyes, operation, White, Yellow7 Comments

Today I had my operation. I was very nervous. To calm myself down I sang during surgery! The surgeon encouraged me. He wants to do my other eye too! I’ve got an eye guard on now. I can see the side on the right is a lot brighter and whiter. My left eyesight is much yellower. So TV looks odd. I realise how much my sight had been affected..must be careful not to bend over….. My cat is OK BTW. Need to give him another tablet soon. He’s going to be on them for life.
Two weeks till I can have a checkup for both him and me. Hard to type, my eye keeps tearing up. Better stop..

Cataract eve

Posted on July 31, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataracts, heart failure, Illness, operation, Tuxedo cat, vets, WorryLeave a comment

No WordPress free images, not that sort!

I am due in surgery tomorrow so I was going to tidy up and remove trip hazards. But that was before one of my cats decided to be ill. I spent a lot of this morning trying to entice him into his pet carrier. In the end I had to scoop him into it. I didn’t know what was wrong with him but he was breathing fast. It wasn’t right so I took him to the vets.

It turns out he might have heart failure, so he’s now on tablets for the rest of his life. I don’t know what I’ll do if passes away, but at least I found out in time.

So anyway the operation is tomorrow.

I’ve done nothing to get organised, just been napping this afternoon. I will have to get up early tomorrow. But I feel relieved that my cat will be OK. How I will get the tablets in him while I am recuperating? I don’t know.

Happier cat

Posted on July 30, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Belly rub, Black and white cat, Cat, happier, Iife, Poem, Poetry, rolling, Sunlight, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Excuse my slippers

He found a patch of sun earlier

Lay down and showed his belly

He rolled and twirled

Whirled and purred

Happier than last night

Breathing now just right.

I can’t believe

What 12 hours rest

Can change

Happier cat.

Cat not well.

Posted on July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataract, Driving, Emergency, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Stress, Tuxedo cat, vets, Worry3 Comments

My Cat started breathing fast this evening. I’d taken him to the vets yesterday and he was fine. They gave him some meds but I don’t think this is anything to do with this. I think he might have a fur ball. He sounded a bit wheezy before his breathing changed. After about an hour things have settled down and he is sleeping.

I rang the vets office anyway and they said they would call me back. I dare not drive to the emergency vets because of my Parkinsons and cataracts. They are on the other side of the city and I don’t want to put him or me at risk. So I’ll stay up with him and take him down my local vets in the morning.

It’s frightening when you live on your own and things go wrong. If I can’t rely on myself I’m in trouble. Age and the aging process is a pain.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Black and white cat