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[rickvs]

My landlady's pet german shepherd -- the one whose portrait is tattooed on her bicep -- has been wearing a big plastic cone on her head these last couple of weeks. The dog, named Girlfriend, had a cyst removed from her leg, and they don't want her to tear out the stitches. In the meanwhile, Girlfriend is putting on quite a show. The cone gives her tunnel vision, so when she's not bumping into furniture, she's bobbing it from side to side as she scans her surroundings. When the neighborhood kids ask what that thing's for, I get to tell them she's hard of hearing, and when she tries to sniff the grass, Girlfriend looks like an industrial vacuum cleaner doing a vaudeville face plant.

Show's over on Saturday when the stitches come out. I'm almost disappointed.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Ever see a cat with one of these contraptions? Years ago, one of my had an abcessed ear and was forced to wear the collar to keep from scratching it. In her cat-like way, she figured the best way to get her head out of a hole was to back up. So she spent the next weekend-and-a-half backing all over the house.

I know I shouldn't have laughed, but ...

What's the use in having a cat if you can't torment it?

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

I've not had a plastic funnel on any other pets, but I have put little lace-up booties on critters that really didn't appreciate the foot protection. The dogs were visibly thinking "Gah! Gaaah! Gah!" everytime their feet touched the floor, walking as on a hot stove, while the cats just stoically endured it, thinking black thoughts about the future of humans after the big kitty mothership arrives.

Re: What's the use in having a cat if you can't torment it?

[98.livejournal.com]

thinking black thoughts about the future of humans after the big kitty mothership arrives

Have you read "A Dream of A Thousand Cats" in Neil Gaiman's Sandman? I recommend it to you.

Re: What's the use in having a cat if you can't torment it?

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

I've not read it, but like where it seems to be going :>

Sandman is a comic^H^H^H^H^H graphic novel, yes? The last cats that featured heavily in any of my comics were in the "Omaha the Cat-Dancer" books. But my wife's got those in Nashville.