Hopefully pet owners understand (Dedicated to pets) ??

Sleeping cats

Once again Rocky does his contortion thing when I try to snap a photo

^^^Thanks for doing that Steve!

I had a similar experience a few years ago heading to my local Lee Valley store. There was a very large turtle on the road and people were driving around it but no one was stopping. I stopped, picked it up, and took it to the side - it was a big snapper and he tried to get me, but I knew where to not get my hands (or anything else for that matter) close to!

You guys reminded me of the mommy turtle I found digging a very deep hole for her eggs.

Not my pic but if you have a cat this big I would think it’s similar to having a wild cat

It's been a while since last posting a photo of the fur babies 😀

Thanks I got a new avatar. Not many cops give me cool things. By the way, I had a friend who was wanted by the RCMP, federal in Mexico and federal in the U.S. all at the same time. It was a long time ago before I knew him but still an impressive accomplishment.

? He's invisible? When first posted the picture didn't show up. But it looks like he needs some dental work, don't like the dark spots on his fangs.

Oona found a nice spot

Maeve has been unsteady on her feet for a while, and we took her to see a neurologist recently, and they confirmed she had something going on in the C5 C6 area. We've been through this before, and in the past one of the area hospitals allowed use of their research MRI on weekends for veterinary purposes. Since covid that has been shut down for some reason, so that's why we were on the road to a clinic 2 hours away. Maeve needed X-rays, MRI, and sampling of spinal fluid. Top panel is without contrast and bottom panel is with contrast injected:



Narrowing in a couple of spots - arrow points to the spinal cord and in this one it's not compressed:



But a little further down it is compressed:



So we went there fully expecting that she would need surgery for a slipped disk, but it's more of a stenosis with only mild impingement. They are treating it with steroids so we were able to bring her home - she was pretty tired after, as were we. Started out on the road at 5:30 am and didn't get home until after 3 pm, so a lot of sitting in the car and at the vets - good thing is they had really nice free coffee.



Here's where they took the CSF from - back of her head:



Raven, one of our other dogs went through this - including the whole surgery, which was done through the front of her neck. It was a brutal process and although she did fully recover, she died of cancer about 8 months later. So I'm very glad that Maeve doesn't have to go through this surgery, at least not now.

We are a little over a week out from this and she has improved on the steroids, so hopefully that is all she will need.

She finally noticed the camera after several years. I actually have three so I can keep tabs on her during the day.

Finally summer!

Looks like tartar build up in the natural groove. A light tooth brush (no human toothpaste) can usually get that right off.