THIS 'N THAT

Phew, mum had trouble getting to this page!!!!!  No pics today -- hopefsully next time.

Anyhoo this past couple of weeks have been kinda hectic for mum -- between her doctor's appointments and getting Sapphire and Luna spayed.  They were both s'posed to have been spayed at the same time last week, but the carrier mum put Luna in disintegrated twice and after the second time she hid and mum couldn't find her so she just took in Sapphire.  It was a veerry loooong day for mum.  The van picked her up around 5:45 am  and did not get her home til almost 3 pm.  The place where she took her was about 15 miles from here, and there were several other people that the van picked up and dropped off.  Mum had not slept well cos she was afraid of oversleeping!!!  Anyway, when she go there, she had to wait out in the cold for a while -- that is a major problem when using the paratransit -- if she doesn't arrange for the van to get her there early, then she can get there late.  Also, they can make her wait (they give her a 30 minute pickup window) but if she is late, they will leave without her (although this past Monday morning, she overslept and was woken up by the telephone with her "courtesy call" -- which is 5 minutes before pickup -- she then had to rush around to get dressed and out in time -- but she got out there in time.  Of course I did not get my walk or get fed -- she had just enuf time to give me a marrow bone treat)  Anyway, the place where the kitties got spayed is a non-profit and gets grants for people who are on fixed incomes like mum.  They agreed that Luna would still come under the graft when she came in yesterday, thank goodness.  Mum had taken stuff to keep her occupied, but it was still a long day.  She was able to go to McDomald's for breakfast while waiting.  Sapphire was wearing a cone of shame when mum brought her home so she could not manage to eat from her regular bowl so mum put some in a small bowl and held it inside the cone for her!!!  Same thing for water.  This week, Luna managed to slip out of the cone in the carrier on the way home and again this morning!!!!!!  However, she has managed to eat from the regular cat food bowl.  They told mum that Luna had to have a couple of stitches, so she has to wear the cone longer and come in again in two weeks!!!!!!  Mum is not looking forward to ANOTHER trip there!!  At least sapphy is not yowling or meowing any more -- when she was in heat it was horrendous and also, mum said that she made a racked while on the van -- in BOTH directions!!  Fortunately the other passengers did not mind.  Turns out that Luna was in heat when mum took her in!!!!  But mum said she did not make a peep while on the van!!  Sapphy isn't making any noise now, which is a great relief.

Our "darling" (NOT) upstairs neighbors have really been banging on the floor (our ceiling) in the mornings when I bark from excitement when mum is getting ready to go out.  Out of courtesy to them she has been trying to take me out later; however, she has received TWO notices from Animal Control that they have received complaints about my barking.  Everyone around us has been woken up by their noise, and mum is afraid that the light fixtures will fall -- we already have had to have smoke detectors replaced because of the vibrations!!!!  Mum saw the leasing manager the other day and he told her that the upstairs monsters are being kicked out!!!!  Apparently everyone has been complaining that THEY are making so much noise that they are waking everyone up -- no one except them have complained about me.  I should mention that the only tmes I bark is in the morning when mum is getting ready to take me out and (as I am s'posed to) when anyone comes to the door!!!!  ****Sigh***** 

Mum does not have such a hectic week next week so hopefully we will be able to get some pics taken and posted.

Am gonna go now cos mum says this is long enuf!!!

ttfn and toodle pip

Cookie

ps -- we are glad that Punxy Phil forecast 6 more weeks of winter cos that means our hot summer will not be here so soon!!

Here we go again

This is a picture mum took at Sprouts for all the doxie owners/lovers here in Bloggville

This is me and Coco at Uncle Vic's last year around Christmas.

This is my kitty sistah Sapphire.  Isn't she pretty!!

YAAAAAAY, mum finally got some pics on here!!!!  Geek Squad guy was here today, so he showed her what to do!!!!  (I won't say how long it took her tonight!!)

Anyway --hope everyone had good holidays.  Our were pretty quiet -- didn't do much!!

Gonna end this now before it disappears --lol.

ttfn and toodle pip

Cookie and all

MUM'S GONNA SEE IF SHE CAN POST A PHOTO and GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE

Hrmph -- mum was unable to get any pics to download.  I am gonna HAVE to insist that she go to Geek Squad.

We had a little bit of excitement (not!!) here the other morning.  I think we mentioned how our upstairs neighbor bangs on her floor (our ceiling) when I bark as mum is getting ready to take me out in the morning.  Well, on Tuesday morning, they banged so hard we thought the ceiling was going to come down.  Next thing we knew, as mum was opening the front door, there was yelling and screaming in the hallway.  It was our upstairs neighbors yelling and screaming at mum about my barking.  Now, you have to realize that these women must each weigh double what mum does, and she's no lightweight (sorry mum -- not) and it turns out they are the people who have the new truck that mum very nicely asked a couple of weeks ago to please be sure to leave her room to get the wheelchair through.  When they finished yelling a screaing and using HBO words at mum they slammed the door from the hallway so hard it could not be opened!!!!  Some other neighbors a couple of apartments down had heard the ruckus and come out and I went to talk to them.  Mum's and my knees were still shaking about it all!!!!  This couple also told us that they had been told that I attacked a lot of other dogs here.  Mum immediately knew who was spreading that rumor!!!  There is a woman here with a little dog that had lived in the complex mum and I lived in for a couple of months last year.  I had gotten out once and chased a few small dogs but did not injure anyone.  Every time we see this woman, if she has her dog she picks it up and walks in the opposite direction; if mum sees her when she does NOT have her dog, she STILL walks in the opposite direction!!!!!   Anyway, when the leasing office here opened, mum called and spoke to the manager.  He was extremely nice and said that he would look into it.  Fortunately, he did not make any disparaging comments about me!!!  Mum also heard from our next door neighbor that a LOT of other people (and not just from our hallway) had also heard these women yelling at mum and had contacted the office!!!!  This morning there was just a small banging on the ceiling when mum was getting ready to take me out.  Mum has threatened to put a muzzle on me when she is getting ready so that I wont bark.  I am not very happy about that!!!

Anyway, mum has been watching some programs about the Battle of Britain, etc., and I have gotten on her case (again) that she needs to write some of her memories of that time in the UK.  She said that he will tomorrow.

Mum has said that she does not really wanna do any more typing tonight so ......

ttfn and toodle pip

Cookie

MUM CAN'T SLEEP SO SHE HAS DECIDED TO DICTATE TO ME:

I am not to sure if I will stay awake for long, so may have to pass this over!! to mum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mum here:  Okay Cookie, I will take pity on you, even though it I only 12"30 am -- and even though you hae been sleeping most of the day.  BTW, Cookie, thanks for letting me sleep later the last couple of mornings.  We only hae one problem in the mornings;  while I am getting my jacket and shoes on and getting the chair ready to go -- Cookie barks constantly.  (Cookie here:  that's just cos I am so glad you are getting up n=and taking me out!}  Unfortunately the people upstairs do not enjoy her "singing" and pound on the floor -- which, of course makes her bark more.!!!!!

I went to see the doctor on Friday and got a clean bill of health (thank goodness).  But because I like to run errands when I go to the doctor's office, it makes for a long day!!


I am going to have to go the Geek Squad to find out to post pictures, again


Well, this was a quickie update to let everyone up on what we are doing

ttfn and toodle oo

Cookie and mum

HIP HIP HOORAY

Mum decided to see if she could make 2 posts in a row -- Yeah -- she made it!!!!  Now, if she could just remember how to post pic here -- guess we will have to make a trip to best buy while we still have Geek Squad coverage!!

This is just gonna be a quickie cost mum just wanted to remember how to post!!!!!!

ttfn and toodle pip

Cookie

finally

Mum and I really want to thank Amber and Max da udder wienie's mum for helping my mum to FINALLY figure out how to get back to posting.  I am sure everyone thought that we had gone missing -- but for some reason mum could not get to this screen!!!!!

Things have not been toooo  great lately.  One nice thing is that I now have ANOTHER kitty sister -- Sapphire.  She looks like a Russian Blue.  She need to be spayed (as does Luna) and so the two of them walk around yowling!!!!

Also mum has been sick a couple of weeks ago.  She had to have another Botox injection in her bladder and then about a week later she started a really bad UTI.  Unfortunately she forgot that about 20 odd years ago she had a bad reaction to sulfa drugs, and they gave her an antibiotic with Sulfa!!!  Fortunately she final did remember and told the doc's office so the stopped her taking it and now she is feeling better.

I still have a bit of a limp because of my valley fever tumor in my leg, but it is not too bad.  It is still too hot for mum to take me too far during the day, but it is nice and cool when she takes me out in the mornings. 

Well, I do not want to go on whingeing so I will end now and hopefully will be able to get some pics up here next time, which should not be too long from now.

ttfn and toodle pip

Cookie

PS  A very belated Good Yomtov to all of our Jewish pupster, kitties and their humans

FINALLY!!!!!! GOT MUM TO OPEN PC

Mum has been feeling kinda stressed lately and although I have gotten her to read all the other posts, I have not been able to get her to sit and write in my blog instead of watching TV.  A lot of the stress has been because she overdrew her bank account AGAIN!!!!!  She went to the bank the other day and got them to remove some of the overdraft fees -- She  had been charged $34 for a charge of $10 and another for a charge of $15!!!!!   I was not with her (too hot for my poor little paws!!) but she dealt with the bank manager and she said that he was really nice an understanding.  She still does not have any money til the 3rd of next month, but it will help that she doesn't have such an overdraft.  She said she was s'posed to go over to Uncle Vic's yesterday -- again she said it would be too hot to take me!!!!  But she ended up not going because he called and said he had bedbugs again!!!!!  Mum did not want to chance picking up any again -- she said after all the problems she had getting rid of them (the most pressing of her stressors) she did not want to chance getting them again.  Needless to say, he was not very happy about it (she was going over cos the tech from the wheelchair place was coming over to see what was wrong twith her old wheelchair that Uncle Vic wanted to use). 

We are in the middle of our monsoon season here in  Tucson, so I have been spending a lot of time in the bathtub and closet!!!!When I am hiding in the bathtub and mum comes in to use the bathroom, I get lots of scritches!!!!  Yesterday I made a couple of poops and a pee in the living room cos we had a really bad storm!!!  Our patio got flooded the rain was so heavy!!!

Mum asked me to remind my buddies that our GoFundMe page is still active (she hopes) cos, as I have mentioned on other occasions) we are in need of money for my med and vet visits.  Also, my kitty sista Luna needs to get fixed!!!!  she seems to go into heat very often and makes the most awful noises when she does.

Well, nothing exciting has been going on here except for the storms!!!  As I said, the time that mum does go out, it has been too hot for me (except when I go out to do my bidness early in the morning).  so I guess we will end now.  I will try to get mum to post more often, and also go figure out how to post pics again

ttfn and toodle pip

Cookie