It's expensive having pets. I'm always reminded of this when it's time to go buy their new food.
We have various grocery stores and they have various prices. The cat food seems like it took a spike in prices a year ago or so, whenever it was that everything went up. But it's cheapest at one particular place with the initials W--M----. One of the other stores, it's around 25 cents more for a 4 can pack. And one of the other stores, I don't know what it is there, but I know it's more.
The dog food price went up whenever that was a year or so ago. It was around $5.00 a box. Now it's in the $7.50 range and hasn't gone up or come down. It stays right at the same level, knock on wood.
Then there's the cat litter, which I needed to get tonight. That adds to the cost of keeping pets. It's all a fortune. But we love them (sort of) and wish them many more years of sucking us dry as far as our money goes. Yes, we love them.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Growing Old Together
I was watching one of my cats going down the stairs the other day, not quite as spry as she used to be. It looked like she was taking very deliberate, almost painful steps. There wasn't anything to indicate pain, but going so slowly it made it look like that to me.
The other cat, a couple years ago or 1½ years ago, was having a hard time climbing. I saw him trying to jump up on something (on their cat box) and he wasn't making it, or making it with difficulty.
But in a gradual recovery, he doesn't seem to have any trouble doing it now. So I don't know. Maybe he had a temporary problem back then.
Both the cats will be 15 in the middle of 2010.
The dog is officially 10 years old and a few months. But she doesn't appear to be slowing down any. But it's all just a matter of time.
Then there's me, us people. We're way older than them, but it's OK to be as old as we are and be human beings. We age Fahrenheit and they're Celsius, so we have lots of extra leeway.
It's interesting to age together. Any other pet, something happens to them. Hit by a car. Strangled somehow. Dies of worms. These three animals look like they're not going to pass on till old age tells them to.
The other cat, a couple years ago or 1½ years ago, was having a hard time climbing. I saw him trying to jump up on something (on their cat box) and he wasn't making it, or making it with difficulty.
But in a gradual recovery, he doesn't seem to have any trouble doing it now. So I don't know. Maybe he had a temporary problem back then.
Both the cats will be 15 in the middle of 2010.
The dog is officially 10 years old and a few months. But she doesn't appear to be slowing down any. But it's all just a matter of time.
Then there's me, us people. We're way older than them, but it's OK to be as old as we are and be human beings. We age Fahrenheit and they're Celsius, so we have lots of extra leeway.
It's interesting to age together. Any other pet, something happens to them. Hit by a car. Strangled somehow. Dies of worms. These three animals look like they're not going to pass on till old age tells them to.
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