The grumpy thread

[jakebullet]

~Previously~ Sister's dog is most likely to expire soon. Waiting for test results to confirm.

So Friday night I went to the Mrs's flat as usual. This was obviously wrong, I should have stayed home moping about the dog. I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment.

Anyone want to take bets the little bastard is going to take a turn for the worse on Christmas eve for maximum impact?

Idiot sister had the genius idea of reducing it's insurance to 3K of cover, 'cos it's cheaper innit? She also has a vet whose first course of action is to contact insurance and find out what he can blow money on. He's already planning when blood tests come back to do an MRI for a mere £1500. 3 grand is going to be smoked in no time. No doubt Ma is planning on selling the house to chase a wild one in a billion chance of fixing it.

[Yank Tank]

9 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

~Previously~ Sister's dog is most likely to expire soon. Waiting for test results to confirm.

So Friday night I went to the Mrs's flat as usual. This was obviously wrong, I should have stayed home moping about the dog. I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment.

Anyone want to take bets the little bastard is going to take a turn for the worse on Christmas eve for maximum impact?

Idiot sister had the genius idea of reducing it's insurance to 3K of cover, 'cos it's cheaper innit? She also has a vet whose first course of action is to contact insurance and find out what he can blow money on. He's already planning when blood tests come back to do an MRI for a mere £1500. 3 grand is going to be smoked in no time. No doubt Ma is planning on selling the house to chase a wild one in a billion chance of fixing it.

just do the right thing and put it out of its misery. i remember my uncles dog going to live on a farm, it wasn’t that long ago that people would put their own pets to sleep rather than paying someone a fortune to do it for them. 
 

steal it overnight and put an end to the madness and suffering 

[adw1977]

Getting an animal put down at the vet doesn't cost very much (well under £100) and guarantees minimal suffering for the animal and no risk of prosecution for you.

[Sheefag]

7 hours ago, Rab said:

Weather Grump.

Here on west coast we've been enveloped in a haar..thick fog that seems to roll in from everywhere..its quite normal for the east coast..but three days on the west is highly unusual..

Disappointed you haven't blamed English Imperialism / Evil Torys yet.

[somewhatfoolish]

We don't really have evil ones anymore, this lot are just shite.

[New POD]

On 18/12/2021 at 09:54, MikeR said:

Its had other issues , one of which is not to drain properly ,it only cost me 80 quid years ago , the outside washer can be used for now , new washer and scrap the old ones ....

You have 2 washing machines???? How very sensible. And also slight karma here too. I'll explain at Christmas. 

[New POD]

10 hours ago, jakebullet said:

~Previously~ Sister's dog is most likely to expire soon. Waiting for test results to confirm.

So Friday night I went to the Mrs's flat as usual. This was obviously wrong, I should have stayed home moping about the dog. I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment.

Anyone want to take bets the little bastard is going to take a turn for the worse on Christmas eve for maximum impact?

Idiot sister had the genius idea of reducing it's insurance to 3K of cover, 'cos it's cheaper innit? She also has a vet whose first course of action is to contact insurance and find out what he can blow money on. He's already planning when blood tests come back to do an MRI for a mere £1500. 3 grand is going to be smoked in no time. No doubt Ma is planning on selling the house to chase a wild one in a billion chance of fixing it.

The way to solve this is take it to the vet yourself. Now. And make the decision for them.  Then come home empty handed. 

[dozeydustman]

Fucking tabby cat has been in and out the litter box every 5 mins since 3:30 this morning, scratching and trying to bury whatever. The box is empty with the same clean litter we put in it yesterday. The 2 cats have a box each + a spare - black cat’s uses her one normally, spare box unused so is tabby’s. 

Fucking thing is costing us £90 a month in vet prescriptions and £140 for blood tests every 6 months.

Now the bloody thing is going senile I really wish the wife would ask the vet to put it out of its (and my wallet’s and the way things are going my mental health’s)  misery.

Next pet we get in this household is a dog. Or a parrot. Or a snake. Or an iguana. Anything but a fucking cat.

[somewhatfoolish]

Get it stuffed and mounted; if nothing else it will send a message to the next cat.

[dozeydustman]

41 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Get it stuffed and mounted; if nothing else it will send a message to the next cat.

I don’t want a reminder of the bloody thing!

[Pieman]

13 hours ago, jakebullet said:

I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment.

My mother does that a lot of the time too.  Nothing to do with dogs, she just fucking hates talking to me.

[MikeR]

The only animals that did not have vet bills were the chickens ....they  had a block of wood and a axe ....!

[chadders]

4 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Fucking tabby cat has been in and out the litter box every 5 mins since 3:30 this morning, scratching and trying to bury whatever. The box is empty with the same clean litter we put in it yesterday. The 2 cats have a box each + a spare - black cat’s uses her one normally, spare box unused so is tabby’s. 

Fucking thing is costing us £90 a month in vet prescriptions and £140 for blood tests every 6 months.

Now the bloody thing is going senile I really wish the wife would ask the vet to put it out of its (and my wallet’s and the way things are going my mental health’s)  misery.

Next pet we get in this household is a dog. Or a parrot. Or a snake. Or an iguana. Anything but a fucking cat.

That sort of behaviour reminds me of our youngest dog when she had meningitis.

[Talbot]

4 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Fucking tabby cat has been in and out the litter box every 5 mins since 3:30 this morning, scratching and trying to bury whatever. The box is empty with the same clean litter we put in it yesterday. The 2 cats have a box each + a spare - black cat’s uses her one normally, spare box unused so is tabby’s. 

Fucking thing is costing us £90 a month in vet prescriptions and £140 for blood tests every 6 months.

Now the bloody thing is going senile I really wish the wife would ask the vet to put it out of its (and my wallet’s and the way things are going my mental health’s)  misery.

Next pet we get in this household is a dog. Or a parrot. Or a snake. Or an iguana. Anything but a fucking cat.

You're doing it rong. (not really, just there is an alternative:)  Treat a cat like a WBOD.  Get an 18year old cat from cats protection for free.  Love said cat in his/her twilight years, but as soon as they are very ill, it's off to the vets for a one-way journey, then get another one.  No-one will ever expect anything other than euthenasia for a sick 18yo cat, and you're doing a lovely thing by giving a senior cat some love at the end of their life.

Worked for me.  I had 9 months of a very elderly and very lovely small black female cat (basically a witches cat)  Once she developed kidney failure, it was off to the vets for a one-way, and trade-in for a younger model from Cats protection league.  When I said to the lady at CP that I wanted another old black female cat, she told me I could have my pick of quite a few, and actually did I want to take all of them?  Also, they didn't even want a donation as they were just really pleased that someone wasn't after the stereotypical cutesy kitten. (for which they do ask for a decent contribution).

[beko1987]

Wcad 😂😂

[Datsuncog]

Merry Easter, everyone.

Can't we just, y'know, take it one holiday at a time?

[dozeydustman]

23 minutes ago, chadders said:

That sort of behaviour reminds me of our youngest dog when she had meningitis.

This cat was only last checked up 3 weeks ago. We’ve told the vet its unusual behaviour and he has diagnosed senility/dementia. She is an old cat (16) so about the sort of age for that. All it does is sleep, make a horrid noise licking its arse, makes a horrid noise for food and shit. And in the last week we’ve noticed the last of those habits has been done in inappropriate places, so that’ll mean we have to replace the carpets or lose our deposit when we move out. 
 

10 minutes ago, Talbot said:

You're doing it rong. (not really, just there is an alternative:)  Treat a cat like a WBOD.  Get an 18year old cat from cats protection for free.  Love said cat in his/her twilight years, but as soon as they are very ill, it's off to the vets for a one-way journey, then get another one.  No-one will ever expect anything other than euthenasia for a sick 18yo cat, and you're doing a lovely thing by giving a senior cat some love at the end of their life.

Worked for me.  I had 9 months of a very elderly and very lovely small black female cat (basically a witches cat)  Once she developed kidney failure, it was off to the vets for a one-way, and trade-in for a younger model from Cats protection league.  When I said to the lady at CP that I wanted another old black female cat, she told me I could have my pick of quite a few, and actually did I want to take all of them?  Also, they didn't even want a donation as they were just really pleased that someone wasn't after the stereotypical cutesy kitten. (for which they do ask for a decent contribution).

I agree with the sentiment of giving an animal a loving home in its twilight years but as I get no pleasure from cats, and never have done throughout my 43 years on this planet, I’d apply that principal to a dog, parrot, any other pet - 6 of the 11 fish in the aquarium I rehomed, my cockatiel was a rescue, my last 2 dogs were rescues/rehomes.

[Pieman]

59 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Merry Easter, everyone.

Can't we just, y'know, take it one holiday at a time?

We've got the shops doing that on one side, and the BBC and the papers telling us we'll all be dead by March on the other side....

[Fumbler]

Who'd have thought it, my replacement alternator is wrong.

The French giveth, and they taketh away.

[mitsisigma01]

Nice workbench ...is that a heat lamp !!! 

[captain_70s]

9 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Nice workbench ...is that a heat lamp !!! 

Depends on the wattage of the bulb...

[cort1977]

6 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

 All it does is sleep, make a horrid noise licking its arse, makes a horrid noise for food and shit. 

Isn't that all cats ever?

That's all our furry oxygen theif does. 

[dozeydustman]

Just now, cort1977 said:

Isn't that all cats ever?

That's all our furry oxygen theif does. 

Our black cat doesn't. It goes out, it wants fuss off the wife or, if she's round here, stepdaughter, plays with string/toy mice/chases red laser dot. Only 6 months between the 2. It does like getting on the bed though, which I really do not like.

[Fumbler]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Nice workbench ...is that a heat lamp !!! 

 

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

Depends on the wattage of the bulb...

Heh, it's a glamorous bench isn't it? It's an Anglepoise lamp with a really bright ancient CFL I found in a drawer somewhere- not exactly a burning hot sun but it's all I could find. Fortunately it's still relatively mild outside.

We're making headway at least. It took an hour to get the front bearing cover off the old alternator. Been cleaned and secured onto the new alternator. It's a good job the bearing inside is still alright or else I'd have thrown in the towel. I did manage to muller the old fan and pulley though so I'm now making a good one out of the two I have.

[anonymous user]

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Nice workbench ...is that a heat lamp !!! 

I thought it was an art installation.

Demonstrating the futility of hope against intransigent uncertainty 

 

 

 

 

Or somesuch bollocks 

[robinmasters]

10 hours ago, Talbot said:

Treat a cat like a WBOD...but as soon as they are very ill, it's off to the vets for a one-way journey, then get another one.  

We Buy Any Cat or Cat Take Back weren't interested then?

[chaseracer]

9 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

I thought it was an art installation.

Demonstrating the futility of hope against intransigent uncertainty 

 

 

 

 

Or somesuch bollocks 

Brahn Sule approves this appraisal.

[dozeydustman]

3 minutes ago, robinmasters said:

We Buy Any Cat or Cat Take Back weren't interested then?

No, but the kebab shop down the road may be

[robinmasters]

When doing his customary end-swoosh DW says 'I'm always going to finish on the rear wipers from now on'. 

I didn't realise he liked windscreen wipers that much, and that's an image I really would like to forget. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

6 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Brahn Sule approves this appraisal.

Boh.