Its summertime and what do allot of us do during the summer, travel! Which means if you have a pet you have to decide whether to leave them at home during that time, board them, or take them along. Well I don’t know about you but my cats would be scared to death if I boarded them. If its for a long trip I usually ask friends and family to take care of them. Some time though, like if you have a dog, you want to take them with you. I have found a site that will make that easier for you. Lets say you are traveling more than a day and you need to find a motel that will let you keep you pets there this site will do it. All you do is put in where you are starting and where your ending destination is and it will tell you the pet friendly establishments along the way. I think this is a great idea it would make my life one step simpler if I was traveling with animals.
I wrote earlier about how I thought it would be great to start a non-profit organization to be able to help people who have pets but cannot necessarily afford the veterinary care they might need. So I went looking online to see if such a place existed and what do you know it does. It is almost exactly what I was thinking about starting only in Illinois. Its called Help-A-Pet and every dollar that you donate to them goes straight to help the animals. They are doing exactly what I was thinking where they have voluntary vets and they have people apply for the vet help. There are a couple of things that I would do differently but its great to see that something like that is out there. I wonder if such a place exists in Minnesota?
Last week I took one of my cats for his yearly update of shots and checkup and I came up with an idea. I wish somewhere there was a non-profit for people who can’t necessarily afford to take their animals to the vet when they should, whether its for an animal needs their yearly shots or a surgery. Its not that I can’t afford to take my animals in but I do know allot of people who love their animals dearly and have no problem feeding and housing them but they might not be able to take them to the vets like they should. Lets be honest its expensive to go the vet even for the routine things. I took my cat in for an annual check up and 3 shots and it was a $100. Thats not cheap. I would think that in the beginning you could find vets to donate their time to the cause but as this non-profit grew you should be able to employ vets for this cause. I don’t know if a place like this exists already or how you would even start a place like this but I think its a great idea to help out people who love their animals dearly but may not be able to help them in all the ways that they want to. What do you think does a place like this exist? If not how would one go about starting it?
Filed under: General, Health Related — Christi at 8:12 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2007
So its been about a 1 year (and a month) since I completely broke my ankle (broke every bone and dislocated it) and I’m proud to say my ankle is basically healed. I have scars on both sides of my ankle and it still swells bigger than my non-broken ankle but overall I can do everything again that I could do before I broke it. In fact I have started running at the Gym and it holds up well. Every so often my ankle will tell me if I’ve done too much by causing some pain or if the weather is changing. I still have all of the metal in my ankle as I figure that I’m going to at least enjoy the summer before deciding if I want to get the metal removed or not. Any of you out there who have broken an ankle before do you still have the metal or not? Is it as simple a procedure as the doctor says to remove it? Do I have to go back on crutches at all?
Filed under: General — Christi at 6:12 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2007
I don’t know how many of you people out there are fond of the Harry Potter books but I know that I am. I started with the movies (later than most people) and got addicted from there. I now have finished the 6th book Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince. Now I can’t wait until the 7th book comes out and the 5th movie:)! Today though I read online that they are creating a Harry Potter Theme Park. I think that would be cool to see where they go with the story line. I’m not sure if its going to be amazing or if it will wreck the authenticity of the books. These books remind me of Lord of Rings which I’m a huge fan of also and its great the way they are getting kids back into reading but now a theme park, I’m just not sure. We have to capitalize where ever we can I suppose. What do you think?
Filed under: All about Cats — Christi at 3:56 pm on Saturday, May 19, 2007
So I’ve been thinking it would be nice to have a dog, especially during the summer when you are always out and about. My only concern with getting a puppy is that I already have two very spoiled cats. I don’t want to cause them to get royally pissed off and I’m wondering if they will adjust to it or it that would push them over the edge. When we got our second cat our first cat took several months for her to adjust to having another cat in the household. We even took the time and introduced them slowly and even did it right after we moved so that she wouldn’t feel quite so much like the queen of the domain. I don’t know how well she or the other one who is a chicken thru and thru would adapt. My brother has a young dog that I was thinking of bringing over one of these days to see how the cats would do especially since this one just loves to play especially with cats. Any tips or advice on how you think my cats would handle this?
Filed under: All about Cats — Christi at 5:57 pm on Sunday, April 22, 2007
Well its spring again and most of you cat owners know what that means…. shedding. We have a short haired cat and a long haired cat. Our short haired cat won’t let us brush her and sheds quite a bit but she’s skittish so there is not much to do there. Our long haired cat lets us brush him for a while but it seems that we never get all of it out before he gets fed up. So yesterday we decided to go to a little more drastic measures. We decided to trim his hair with a razor. He actually laid there pretty calm and let us trim his hair up. I was impressed. I do have to say that he looks pretty good also! Does anyone have any suggestions on hair brushes that cat don’t seem to mind and get most of the hair out? Or has anyone else done this?
Filed under: General — Christi at 4:59 pm on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
My husband and I went for a walk around the lake in town this weekend in our wonderfully warm temperatures and I noticed something really sad. All over in the water and along the edge of the water was litter, pop cans, bottles, paper, etc. Then when I was driving home today I noticed the same in ditches there was litter everywhere. It looks horrible and sad that this is happening. Why would someone throw this out their car window (I’m assuming that is where it had to come from since we live out a ways in the country suburbs)? Why would people throw things in the lake? Save it until you get home and throw it in your own garbage, its really not that hard. I’m not a person who spouts off about things like this often but think of it besides it looking terrible now what is it doing to nature and what is it going to do in the long run?
So I’m sure you’ve heard the stories about people going in for surgery and the surgeon operated on the wrong body part. I know I had but I always thought it was one of those tall tails that didn’t happen very often until today. My co-worker’s mom went into surgery yesterday for a repair to her ACL. The doctor signed the leg that he was supposed to do surgery on and then left the nurses to prep her mom. During that time some of the nurses went on lunch break and others took over. During the middle of this somehow the nurses ended up prepping the wrong leg. The surgeon started performing surgery on the wrong leg and got in and couldn’t find anything wrong with the ACL but stated sometime the ACL starts to repair and therefore kept scraping the tendon away trying to find the problem. He finally realized that they were on the wrong leg too late and then had to replace that tendon because of all the damage caused while in there. He then called my co-workers father and told him what happened and asked if he wanted the surgeon to still fix the bad leg (the leg he was supposed to fix in the first place). They decided they might as well go ahead and fix it. She now has had both tendons replaced even though only one was supposed to be fixed.
I can’t even begin to imagine especially if the surgeon had signed the leg that he was supposed to do surgery on how you mess up like that. Sad to say, as I’m not a suing kind of person, but this is a lawsuit waiting to happen and this is why our health insurance premiums are so high. We all make mistakes believe me I make mistakes in my job time and again its just doctors have a higher risk when they make mistakes.
Filed under: General — Christi at 6:51 pm on Tuesday, February 20, 2007
When my car got rear ended the other day I didn’t really know which car rental place to go with. My husband asked at the collision place and they highly recommended Choice Car Rental. I guess it didn’t thoroughly matter I just wanted to be done talking to people about my car and the accident. I called them up and they made me feel completely comfortable. I have to say that if everything goes as smooth as the phone call I will be completely glad that I went with them. First they are dealing directly with the insurance company so that I don’t have to worry about anything. Second they are coming to my work place or home if I prefer so that I can fill out all the paperwork. Third they have guaranteed that they will have a car at the Collision place on Monday before I arrive. Talk about service I was very impressed. Hopefully it will all go as discussed. My car goes into the shop Monday Morning! Here’s hoping for as good as new car!
