Emily

The morning after I got Emily I called the vet to see if I could get her in for a vet checkup after the disaster of the night that I got her. They said they could get her in at 2:30. The Fleas weren't the only thing she had, she also had leukemia, herpes, upper respiratory infections ear mites and worms. The vet recommended that I put her down. With the leukemia plus all the other issues she had going on with her she wasn't going to make it much longer. So I did.

I can't believe that I had to make that decision. I can't believe that she is gone. I was all set to have her live with us for the next 20 years and now it's all over. I feel horrible and empty inside like there should be some way to fix it all but I can't.

Luckily My cats would have nothing to do with her and I isolated her in my office with me, leukemia is a communicable disease and my cats could have caught it as well. I could have lost Boris and Nietchie too.

I know I only had her for less than a day, but I was already so attached to her. I miss her terribly. :(

Emily

Last week I got a call from my mother saying that her friends boyfriend bought a Maine coon kitten and was having it brought up from Iowa at the end of the week. The problem was that Her Friends daughter is SUPER allergic to cats so they couldn't keep it. So mom wanted to know if either Chris or I could take it. I wasn't so sure because I already have two cats and they wouldn't be all that happy if I brought in another one, but I agreed to see it. So they said they would bring it over on Saturday... Then it wasn't coming up till Sunday then Sunday night, then they picked it up on Monday, but wanted to spend some time with it, so I didn't get to meet it until Wednesday, and by then I had talked myself into taking it at least for a while.

So they brought it over and it was a little 6 week old Female Maine Coon named Emily.


My Cats were really angry and they have been sulking and hissing all night. So I confined it to my office. She was sleeping on my lap when I looked down at her and a bug ran across her nose. Horrified I started looking through her fur and all the signs of fleas were there.. Including of course-- fleas. So I gave her a quick bath which did nothing but make her cry. So I put her back in her carrying box and ran off to the store for some flea treatment. I came back and sprayed it on her and worked it in. According to the bottle in 5 to 10 minutes all the fleas would be dead. I put her back in the box and waited. I took her out and started combing her with the flea comb. I got some fleas out of her, but they weren't dead. In fact they seemed to have enjoyed their little bath. So I combed her pretty good and got a bunch of fleas out which I drowned in Windex. The I set about vacuuming the house, taking showers myself and washing all of my clothes I was wearing Emily's cat bed, I woke JQ up and made her shower and I washed all of our pillow cases and covers. In the meantime I was also combing Emily and I got more and more fleas off of her and drowned them in Windex. I also cleaned out her ears which were very dirty, it took about 20 Q-tips. I think I've gotten all the fleas now. I'm hoping that the damage was minimal, I only had her for a couple hours before I saw the fleas and set to work getting rid of them. As soon as sane people are up I'll call the Vet and see if I can't get her in today.

What a crappy night :( Needless to say I didn't get much work done tonight.

AR update + Welcome Canada!

Chris has been making some pretty good progress on the Alpha Rant CD animations, I guess it was a little mean on me to make him do so much of it considering that he really doesn't have any experience with animation or flash beyond what I taught him to draw the storyboards, but his rant doodles are just too damn funny ;D





In other news I took the night off from the page last night to redesign the Alpha-Store. The design was fine when we only had two or three products but when we got over a dozen of them it was gangly and awkward. I'm not the biggest fan of how it looks now, but at least it's functional! ;)



I also made the decision to add Canada to domestic shipping, so to all my Canadian brothers and sisters to the north welcome to cheaper shipping!

What the?

The power in my house keeps browning out and crashing my computer while I'm working. I noticed that the power went out yesterday while I was sleeping too.. my clocks were all binking.

Ugg. oh well I've had enough experience with Crashing computers that I automatically hit crtl-s every couple minutes. Still sometimes I get caught not saving for 10-15 minutes if I really get into the details of a drawing. I've only lost a couple minutes of work tonight, but still you have to restart everything and get resituated.