Pete's Pond Cam chat - Tuesday 22 January 2008

And The Weed said....."There will be dark...but then will cometh the light.  TRUST ME!!!!"

Lol LM..I hope the weed will alloweth the light to cometh back soon. lol

SA.....if the lights had to be zapped, I truly wish it had been on a clear night.  The moon will be full tomorrow & I would LOVE to see all this with just the light of the moon...as the critters see it.  What a perspective we could gain!

I've seen it once or twice with just moonlight...it really does have a different look but you can still see almost everything!

Ohhhh....lucky you!  I am envious! 

I remember Afke cut the lights out one night so we could see the light from just the moon.  I wish I could find pics of it cause I know some were posted on the NG forum..

LOL Pam, trusteth the weed that we will have light?  Ok, I believe.

Gosh, I go away for a while and come back to darkness, I take it the the storm zapped the power. I saw lightening just before I got off here.

How is your pupper Pam?

Seriously?????  I actually made that request on the Q & A thread for NK & was laughed at.  Said it was an impossibility at NK.  Drat, drat, drat that I didn't find PP sooner. LOL  Maybe Afke will do it, again, one day...with some advance notice so I can try to be there!

I was watching the night Afke turned the power off SA, it was beautiful wasn't it? I actually liked it better with the lights off than when she turned them back on.

OK...I found this vid and I THINK it just moonlight..not just black and white with lights on..anyway, it gives you an idea of what it looks like with a full moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeql3-EYLc

More infection, I'm afraid.  He opened it & drained it.  She is back on antibiotics & I have to "inject" meds into the hole 2 or 3 times a day.  What I won't do for my spotted loves!  LOL

And I also found this..

http://www.archive.org/details/NiclaTheMoonlightPond

SA....those are great videos!  Thanks so much.  I've bookmarked them to watch, again, later.

The Weed would not lie....the light cometh....

I swear I can see some color in the grass & bushes on the right...this is cool.

Oh, the poor baby. It is hard when you see your furries sick. Eeks on having to inject the meds into the hole but you are right, you do whatever you have to.

  Maybe clouds are moving on.

Thanks for the vids SA, I like the shore cam and catching the ellies they way it did. Jumped me when the first one walked in there. LOL

Pam, I noticed a bit of color too....if the sky would clear so the moon would come out fully we could see better.

Calista, you would not believe if I told you HALF of what I have done for my puppers over the years. My dream in high school was to be a vet....then came chemistry....and the ugly realization that I could NOT grasp it. LOL Without chemistry....goodbye vet dreams. Plan B....accounting. Couldn't be further apart, I know! LOL I've done things for my pets that I would have had to hire a nurse to do for my 2-legged kids. Can't explain it. This round may well require a muzzle to avoid any ugliness....but I will do what I have to do.

My daughter is studying to become a vet while she's in the Navy (luckily they pay for school).  I also will do whatever it takes when it comes to my pets.  Took one a few weeks ago to the vet because I thought he was sick but wasnt, cost me 200 bucks for the vet to tell me that he was the healthiest 14 year old cat he's ever seen..lol...but they are worth every penny.

I think being a vet would be awesome but chemistry? Hehe...I understand you there. Heck, if it takes a muzzle to get the meds into her so be it, but the thing is with furries they get over it and still love us.  You can spill to me what you have done. LOL

I hear ya on doing for furries....probably not what  you  have done but we had a cat diagnosed with cancer from her rabies shot...drove her 3 1/2 hrs each way to Alabama for radiation treatments because I couldn't bear to leave her there. LOL Hubby thought I was nuts but I loved her.

Oh neat SA that your daughter is studying to be a vet while in the Navy.

I think we do worry about our furries because they can't talk and tell us what is wrong. So glad to hear that your cat was fine, even though the vet probably enjoyed the payment.

WOW!!!!!   You guys have been there, done that, too!  We're such good parents! LOL

I had a cat who died of cancer a few years ago..she had 2 operations but the 3rd time it came back, it came back with a vengence. By then there was nothing the vets could do. Still breaks my heart when I think about it.

By the way..did you take your cat to Auburn University Calista?  I live about 50 miles from there. One of the best vet schools in the country.

We had a cat develop VAS....she died less than a month after my beloved Lady did.  Cancer is so ugly.  {{{{HUGS}}}}

Yep SA, it was Auburn, was a great place. She had her second surgery there and then the radiation treatments...11 total in all. I drove her up for all of them, had to wait around and then drive home. Sadly the grrr cancer came back and we let her be the third time as it was multiple tumors coming from the main tumor. Cried my eyes out when we had to put her down. Was your cat's cancer VAS related SA? I belong to a group on yahoo and it is amazing the amount of cats who have/had it.

Oh Pam.  I am sorry for you and SA .It is horrid. It angers me to this day and Sierra has been gone since 2004. Getting teary thinking about it!

Thats what my cat had too..all on her stomach area..

After Gremlin (kitty) died, I researched more on VAS.  Found out that vets had learned to give all shots in separte locations.  I foolishly assumed it was to prevent the cancer.  NOW I know it is to allow for more possibility of amputation IF cancer occurs.  Silly me.

Gremlins cancer was on her back.  The main tumor was between her shoulder blades...right where the shots were administered.  It grew from the size of a pea to the size of a softball in a little over a month.  Vet said there was nothing to do as the tumor had "fingers" wrapped around her spine.  It broke my heart watching her waste away.  I no longer immunize my cats.  They are all indoor kitties and while I KNOW they could still get stuff, I think my odds are better this way.  They got all the kitty shots & I call it quits there.....right or wrong.