StrangeRanger

Our new Favorite Word is.....

...Idiopathic!  w00t!

Maddie's new diet of low-fat, high-fiber food has lowered her calcium down to high-but-within-normal-limits level.  Now, there's a cause for her elevated calciuim, but, hey, idiopathic...no one knows what it is.  Dr G. wants Maddie in again in about 6 months for another test.  For now, though, it looks like there's not an immediate crisis.

 
Told ya!  now, leave me be so's I can enjoy this sock-drawer and the view of the garden that it affords me.  And tell Dr G. that she'll need to hire a few more burly guys if she wants any more of *my* blood.

Thank all of you for all of your good wishes!  We'll do our best to keep Maddie healthy.

Place-Holder Post

Maddie went back to see Dr G. this past Thursday.  Again, it took three people and a towel and a lot of feline histrionics to extract a modest amount of blood.  If the blood clcium levels are holding steady, the doctor's going to declare it ideopathic (again, that's doc-speak for "we don't know why") and have us bring her back in several months to monitor.  In the absence of any real news, then, we present a vintage picture of Ivy, the wee tuxedo cat, engaged in one of her favorite activities, napping cutely:

 
This week while we wait for word, we get to enjoy the fruits of Lady Ranger's efforts in the kitchen:

 
Behold!  Bioche!  Hand-made by my dear wife.  Yummy and pleasing to look upon!  and Yummy!

Up Close and Personal

Not much new news here,so I've just played around w/the basic photo program on my machine, turning a less-than-successful composition on my part in to a totally inadequate homage to my cat's eyes.  And nose.

 
I'm no Mr. DeMille, but Maddie is always ready for her close-up.  You can see one of our near-by trees reflected in her eye.  I guess there were birds in the branches.  Maddie always always goes for target-lock on birds.

Another Lazy Day Post

It's a low energy day here at Chez-Ranger.  Thus I recycle a couple of my favorite old pictures while I report that Maddie is in good health, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

And I'm sure you know which pictures are to be posted.

 
Bright eyes.

 
Bushy tail.

9 days until her next trip to the vet.  Outside of her finding a new comfy spot (on a laptop bag in the corner behind the couch in the breeze of the A/C) there've been no behaviors that have screamed she's feeling poorly.

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed seems to say it all at this point.