I was reading an interesting article about what happens to the championship gear for the losing team (since the stuff is pre-printed), and I came across this truly excellent blurb:
By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.
They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa.
I haven’t lived here long enough to know all the jokes about Sewickley, but if it is a stopping point on the trip to the poor of Africa, it can’t be that great. Somewhere out there, perhaps someone is wearing a 1994 or 1999 Knicks NBA Champions cap =(.
The Bills, losers of four consecutive Super Bowls in the 1990s, at least have a following in Romania.
ROFL!!!
The Good News: There’s nothing wrong with Sydney’s peepee mechanism.
The Bad News: There’s nothing wrong with Sydney’s peepee mechanism.
I went to the vet yesterday, and it was very conveniently located; I think it’s less than 2 miles away from the condo. Sydney got checked out and was told not to gain anymore weight. The analysis of his urine detected no elevated white cell counts, no rod or circullar buggies, and few crystals (the small ones detected may have formed just from letting the urine sit). This led the vet to conclude that there is very little chance that Sydney’s recent floor-peeing is being caused by a medical reason. Therefore, the problem can’t be fixed with a shot of some antibiotics.
Unfortunately, I can’t just have Sydney fill out a survey telling me exactly what he wants in a litter box, so it’s experimentation time. The vet recommended an open litter box as an alternative, but when I tried that, Sydney kicked 80% of the litter out of the box before he went in. He did decide to eventually go in the open box, but only after scratching out a bare area. This leads me to believe that he has suddenly developed a taste for peeing on hard flat surfaces instead of sandy surfaces.
I went back with the covered litter box and emptied all the old litter out. I put in some bland, fine-grain clumping litter, but only put in just enough. This should allow him to move all the litter to one side and allow him to pee directly on the bottom of the litter box. We’ll see if my initial theory… pans out.
Read on for the results of NPR’s search for the best Valentine’s Day Chocolates. This goes out to my homies who died in the struggle.
You know, Georgie, Abe, Alex, Dru… er, I mean Ulysses and Ben.
Believe it or not, there is a whole lot of planning and resources that go into collecting cat urine. The main problem is that for an accurate analysis to be done, the urine must be freshly squeezed and pure. This means (apparently) getting an extra new litter box and also a syringe.
I was able to pick up the litter box easily and cheaply, but was baffled about where to get a syringe. I went into a CVS today and looked everywhere but couldn’t find one. Finally I went and asked a girl behind the pharmacy desk and tried to explain what I was looking for. At first she told me I needed a prescription for the syringe, but when I explained that it was for shooting up heroin and not prescription drugs, she came around. Ok it didn’t exactly happen like that, but I was able to make her understand that I meant the kind for drawing liquid and not the kind for giving shots.
The best part was that when I asked how much the syringe was, she told me it was free. Yeah +CHR! Now all that’s left is to actually collect the pee. I cut off Sydney’s solid food last night (so that he will be more likely to pee and not mix pee and poo in his temporary litter box), and am hoping to get the sample tonight. 2 teaspoons looks to be more than I pictured in my mind, so I hope that I can get it all in one go. I’m also hoping he will pee in the new box, considering it is not covered (so he may miss…) and is without litter inside. Exciting stuff, yes I know.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR BUNKY: Don’t drink anything in a small container in the fridge tonight.
[70+] Pees of Mind
Ho ho ho, feline been wetting himself all over the floor? There’s only one way to get to the cause of this disaster! Unfortunately, I’m very busy and can’t be bothered to give you suggestions or even coordinates. But if you bring me the reagents I need, I might consider giving you the next part of the chain quest series! Tally ho!
Teaspoon of cat urine 0/2
Return to Cat Clinic 0/1
So lately, I’ve been giving some thought to what to do with my poor priest Sariana.
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