Until last night my cats have all been good. Shylo had come to love the boys and I had to make sure to not leave them alone together because waiting to get them fixed. Today was the day they had to go to the vet (thought to be fixed, but was a miscommunication that today was to be vacinated which they require before they will fix them… so got to wait 4 more weeks to actually get them fixed).
So last night we needed the boys to give poop samples and because we needed to know who’s is who’s poop the boys were each put in a room with a litter box alone. I get one shut in and fed without any issue. Then I put the second in my computer room, alls good. I leave to toss the empty food can away downstairs and head back up. My cat shylo is acting normally and is walking alongside me upstairs. Soon as she reached the top of the landing and saw the closed door it was like a switch flipped and she went psycho tearing at my leg. She scared the shit outta mat who was cowered up in a corner by my computer desk shaking and wouldn’t stop. Eventually I decided to take him in with me for the night instead of leaving him in my computer room and it took hours for him to calm down even there.
Wake in the morning to get around for taking the boys in to the vet and I open my door and my cat Shylo is looking sad and guilty like she knew she did bad. She came up to me and let me pet her and didn’t hiss or anything. I go downstairs with the cats, all is fine. I get a ziplock and start heading back up the stairs and she is walking ahead of me like nothing is wrong. Then, halfway up the stairs she again snaps and this time she was far enough ahead on the steps to where she was able to get my hand instead of my ankle and leg. She got me bad, even getting a bite in.
I am fucking pissed and am about ready to say fuck it and have her put to sleep. I can’t trust her if she will snap without any sort of provocation and have to worry about her attacking my nephews or anyone else that visits. She has both boys scared to death and they have been nothing but angels and its gotten to the point where if it is a question of who goes it will be her. I hope she stops and things can go back to normal but I’ve now been violently attacked 3 times by this cat one of which was bad enough to where I considered going to the emergency room. This time I was at least lucky that the hand she got wasn’t my drawing hand but still I fear the next time might be attacking my face in my sleep. She is like a rabid dog…
In other pet related news I have started to get stuff for my aquarium. I got a Pleco last week who took care of the algae but created a new problem, it shits CONSTANTLY. So while was out at the vets today waiting I went to a pet store and got 4 ghost shrimp, which I hear will eat pleco poop.
My camera on my phone is garbage so couldn’t get a shot that wasn’t blurry, but that is my little bristlenosed pleco. I named him peppy because he is darting around my aquarium (though I just got him some algae wafers and here is there enjoying a snack).
Got 4 ghost shrimp that are currently acclimating to the tank (the water was extra cold compared to the 80degrees I keep my tank at so gunna give it a bit longer to acclimate). Hard to see them but they are transparent ghost shrimp, weird looking buggers 😀
Got a bunch of plants growing in there, some doing better than others. One betta Bulb came in really well, 2 are struggling and about 4 I tossed out because they seemed dead and after weeks nothing was sprouting. I got a Lutea from the pet store that seems to be doing well and planted some seeds in there which I got growing on the rocks. Also when I got the pleco I got a bunch of free floater plants in with the bag of water it came in, so that was nice. Probably will redesign the tank in a month or so once the plants are doing better, and want to get an angel fish to complete the fish part of it in a week or 2 once I know the pleco and shrimp are going to be okay.
In other news, I am working on a video game. Hope to release it both on computers and phones as a free game. Currently working on the art for the first level and hope to have a testable level done in about a week. Probably 2 months till the whole thing is finished.
This is what it looks like currently (though I just did a new compass last night before the cat issues arose) It is a simple grid based RPG game heavily inspired by an old shareware game from the 90s called Pirates Plunder. Our game differs mostly in the fact that it will have an actual story and levels instead of being a procedural map that just moves locations randomly. The area that is blank still will have a battle window where little animations will play when attacking the enemy and a window with available attacks and all.
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As Scooby would say “G-G-G-GHOST!!!”
The 4 shrimp are in the tank and seem to be doing fine. thought one died but I guess the shed like a snake and what was laying on the ground was an empty shell. They are going around cleaning my tank one grain of sand at a time. funny to watch.
