Outside the Box

My blogging and facebook friend, All over the Spectrum, did the above ecard for me the other day since I've been feeling sickly and puny. I don't really know what's going on with me, but I think I've developed some sort of weird motion sickness triggered by the Murph's erratic (very careful, deliberate and always on time) driving. All I know for sure is that we've been spending way too much time in the car this summer and not enough time with our feet in the sand.

The cats are even rebelling. Phantom ran and hid under the bed this morning even though I was very careful not to give away the fact we were about to leave and his tail was going to be trapped in the cat carrier for hours.

Ed and Cadence, who we left behind for a couple of days, decided to start peeing outside their litter box. We still don't know if this was a deliberate, rebellious act or if one of them just has bad aim. I prefer to think that they are just super creative, out of the box thinkers. We got kitty geniuses on our hands. Maybe one of them will get a job!

That's all for today. My fingers are fatigued from all this typing. I do post updates on my facebook page and photos on Instagram from today's vet visit where the Murph and I had some time to kill so we went to Chewacla state park in Auburn, Alabama.

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Gotta run!

"Eat Papa! Eat!"

Saturday we came back to Birmingham with Phantom and the drive that is usually a 4 hour trip turned into 4 1/2 hours due to stop and go traffic on Hwy 65. Phantom slept most of the way and handled the trip much better than I did. I wasn't feeling well that morning and being in the car that long stopping and going, stopping and going, made me very car sick.

Luckily, I had a plastic bag from a recent stop at a convenience store handy. One wasn't enough, but I had a back up plastic trash bag that I had put the empty litter box in as well. Good thing I cloroxed the litter box before I put it in the plastic trash bag to transport, but it wouldn't have mattered. I was very sick! The litter box would have come out of the plastic bag, germs and all.

I wonder if I'm getting sympathy sickness for Phantom?

Even though he did great on the car ride, once we got to the house he went directly downstairs to his and the Boy's bedroom and went right under the bed where he stayed the rest of the night and most of Sunday. I finally bribed him out from under the bed with an offer to take him outside. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to stay on the front porch and I don't want him to get fleas, so he had to settle with a window seat next to the open window. 

Not as much fun, but better than being under the bed.

I also had a hard time getting him to eat and after almost two days I resorted to not just the two types of cat food and three kinds of cat treats, but pushed canned tuna, chicken, watered down milk, scrambled egg whites, pepperoni pizza.... ANYTHING! Just EAT!! Our favorite quote these days is the one on the Christmas Rudolf the red nose reindeer movie, "EAT PAPA! EAT"(here).  Nobody likes a skinny Santa!.   

A little Christmas in July, but that gets jokingly said a lot around here year round.

I sprinkle this feline vitamin and antioxidant supplement along with a few drops of milk thistle on his food. Ed and Cadence have been getting the vitamin supplement as well and their coats are getting all shiny and super fluffy. Wonder if it works at well on people?

image from iherb.com

And I started giving Phantom a small amount of these Life Gold cat cancer drops to help him detox.

And no, he doesn't like them at all! I don't think they are bacon flavor enough to hide the other not so nice flavors.

Phantom is doing a little better today, although not eating enough.

And me?

Still not doing good. Maybe it's time for me to look into getting some herbal drops for humans. Hopefully, it will taste better than the feline kind.