Jun

13

From fleas to Mr. Fancy Pants

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all of the animals that come through my house leave a lasting impression on my heart. but in a lot of ways, you were extra special.
thank you for pulling out all the dead spiders from behind the couch. and thank you for making sure my poorly used thick socks got some love. […]

Jun

10

It sucks when a member of your pack is sick

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[my sister Janice with her dog, Creepella Gruesome]
UPDATE: photo and more info here.
Maddy’s mom is really really sick.
i don’t want to post the graphic photos here, but suffice it to say Creepy’s entire underside is covered in what looks like painful red blisters. naturally, the vet has no clue what is going […]

Jun

8

Caution: too much of either can make you vomit

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just in case you haven’t hit your kitten cuteness or electronic music quota for the day. my fave part is right around the 1:07/1:12 mark.
[too busy actually doing med school to write about it, sorry. back soon.]

Jun

5

Sleeping in past 4am is SO last semester

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still alive. tip of my nose is a little sore from being buried so far in the books. doing awesomely cool things like testing antibiotic and disinfectant effectiveness against bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. learning about pericentric inversions and adjacent chromosomal translocations. oh! and we’ve made it all the […]

May

30

Happy Friday!

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“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
ask?
more like tackle first and ask later.
although, there’s something to be said for not worrying about the fact that your intended tacklee is 150x bigger than you. guess i’ll keep that […]

May

27

Itty bitty kitty

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“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Joyce hasn’t come up with anything other than “baby cat” yet. that’s what block weekends do to our brains, i guess.
in the meantime, he is getting MUCH bigger and has:
- met his shadow
- learned how to climb up on the couch
- much later, learned how to get […]

May

22

Latest temporary household addition

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Joyce showed up on my porch last night with a tiny little flea-infested thing that showed up on her porch earlier in the evening. she is allergic and has absolutely no idea what to do with small helpless living things that meow, other than teach them how to be a dog when they grow […]

May

18

Mz. Maddy is 5!

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[walking with my mom on the west coast of Vancouver Island at 7 weeks old]
happy birthday, my girl! i’m so proud of the smart and fabulously well-mannered young lady you have become.
love,
mama

Apr

24

Mz. Madison

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[looking SO much like when she was a puppy]
for all of you Maddy fans out there, she is good. she is great! she was born in Saskatchewan and you’d think she never left.
she still looks for the biggest stick around. and mumbles under her breath at you on the couch when she […]

Apr

12

It’s springtime in Saskatchewan

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“I used to look at my dog and think, ‘If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,’ and he’d look at me like he was saying, ‘If you were a little smarter, I wouldn’t have to.’”
~ Fred Jungclaus
see you ladies in a week!

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