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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Saturday Night Maxwell Update

Saturday Night Maxwell Update

by John Cole|  March 25, 20239:35 pm| 48 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Pet Blogging

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It’s been a couple of weeks, and Maxwell has really made himself home. His favorite place to be is WHEREVER I AM, and he especially loves being on the desk to the right of my keyboard, where he knows he has a captive arm on a mouse:

Saturday Night Maxwell Update

All in all, I think he is adjusting well, and everyone has sort of settled into the new reality that there are now four of us here and there is room and food for everyone, so It’s pretty calm and casual these days.

Maxwell is far more social than Steve with strangers, too. Normally it takes a sitter 3-4 days before they see Steve, but when I drove to SC on Wednesday to load up my parent’s stuff, Max was out and about with the sitter on day one. Thurston of course is draped all over anyone who walks into the house.

So things are well.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    March 25, 2023 at 9:38 pm

    Dammit Cole. You had one chance to use the word “swell” unironically…and you miffed it.

    Also: I see the panther has settled in nicely. Pretty soon I bet he’s the boss of the house!

    EDIT: been a hot minute since I’ve had a first!

  2. 2.

    Sis

    March 25, 2023 at 9:45 pm

    That’s great! So glad things are going well.

  3. 3.

    different-church-lady

    March 25, 2023 at 9:45 pm

    Normalcy makes me happy.

  4. 4.

    BigHank53

    March 25, 2023 at 9:45 pm

    Aw, what a big ol’ fuzzy sweetheart.

    The cat looks good too.

  5. 5.

    different-church-lady

    March 25, 2023 at 9:48 pm

    Same energy

  6. 6.

    Alison Rose

    March 25, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    That photo is adorable.

  7. 7.

    CaseyL

    March 25, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    What a cuddlebug!

  8. 8.

    DEBG

    March 25, 2023 at 9:57 pm

    House panther arm cuddles are the best. Maxwell is adorable. Glad he’s so confident and sociable.

  9. 9.

    frosty

    March 25, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    @Alison Rose: It really is adorable, isn’t it. And I’m not a cat person.

  10. 10.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    March 25, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    Fun discovery – sick, large breed dogs with GI problems and robot vacuums are not a good combination.

    The unspeakable abomination occurred in my home today. I just want to burn the whole house down….

  11. 11.

    delphinium

    March 25, 2023 at 10:03 pm

    Maxwell is adorable-glad to hear all is well.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    March 25, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    Excuse me, but Steve is wondering where the photos of him ARE???

    edit: Maxwell looks so sweet, draped like that, totally relaxed.

  13. 13.

    Mike in Oly

    March 25, 2023 at 10:06 pm

    Classic Bombay personality. You really scored with this one.

  14. 14.

    Eunicecycle

    March 25, 2023 at 10:21 pm

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: I read a review of a robot vacuum once where the reviewer had a very similar situation. It was just about the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Of course it didn’t happen to me and I can sort of imagine the mess. I hope you can find a solution short of fire.

  15. 15.

    Seefleur

    March 25, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    Awwww! THIS is why I lurk here…

  16. 16.

    Sister Golden Bear

    March 25, 2023 at 10:25 pm

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: Nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

  17. 17.

    Faithful Lurker

    March 25, 2023 at 10:47 pm

    I’m wondering about Steve too. How is he taking the new cat? We could use some proof of life from Steve.

  18. 18.

    zhena gogolia

    March 25, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    Very sweet. He is an adorable cat.

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    March 25, 2023 at 11:26 pm

    He’s adorable.
    I just realized….. now your house is all dudes. It’s a frat house, I guess. Thurston strikes me as the Bro Most Likely To Kegstand.

  20. 20.

    kalakal

    March 25, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    You did well there. I’m so glad he’s settled in so well

  21. 21.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 25, 2023 at 11:39 pm

    Your House Panther is one handsome guy! It’s good to hear that Maxwell has adapted to his new home and roommates with relatively little fuss. There’s something about cats and keyboards. One time I came out to the shop to find Stewie sitting on my laptop keyboard. I shooed him off of it and found that he had opened 48 YouTube tabs to a game review titled “Destiny 2 sucks”. I didn’t have a YouTube tab open either!

    Better news on our Chuckie the cat illness saga. I got a callback from the vet’s office just before 5PM yesterday with the results of Chuckie’s poo test: positive for giardia. That explains all of the issues we have been dealing with! I picked up his medicine today and quickly dosed him with four more days to go. He has greatly improved since starting the antibiotics and the new medication should put him over the top.

    He isn’t drinking water yet but we found that “Cat Sip” (my wife calls it cat milk) works well to hydrate him for now. He has one more day of anti-inflammatory, four more days of tummy pesticide and six days of antibiotics. He’s a good boy with pilling so it’s been relatively easy to care for him.

    He purrs while wrapped up so he really is a purrito!

  22. 22.

    CaseyL

    March 25, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Thank Bastet!  I’ve been thinking about Chuckie all day, wondering how he was doing.

    …I didn’t know cats could get giardia.  Thought just humans did. No more drinking out of puddles, young man!

  23. 23.

    BruceJ

    March 26, 2023 at 12:11 am

    @CaseyL: Giardia is pretty indiscriminate. When we got  new puppy from the shelter last year (she came from a litter picked up as strays) she had Giardia, too. Had to give her a powder mixed with her food to treat it.

  24. 24.

    Dangerman

    March 26, 2023 at 12:15 am

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: Funniest “parody” review I ever saw on Amazon was for a book called “How To Avoid Huge Ships”. Which might be a useful book for a kayaker, I suppose. I gotta go see now if that page came down.

    ETA: Damn, it apparently has been sanitized. That’s a shame. Funniest thread ever.

  25. 25.

    CaseyL

    March 26, 2023 at 12:53 am

    @BruceJ: Good to know; thanks!

  26. 26.

    RaflW

    March 26, 2023 at 1:11 am

    Awwww. A photo like that really makes me want a four-footed house companion. My partner is pretty allergic to cats, and I grew up with dogs. If friends visit with a dog (or we go to a dog house) I am usually totally into it.

    But we travel a lot. And it asks much of pet friends to have to be left in care. I have talked to some friends who bounce between places like we do who have pups, and I guess it would be in part finding a breed that is happy with road trips and changing environments.

    Seems like a ‘later, when we slow down a bit’ sort of a thing.

  27. 27.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 26, 2023 at 1:21 am

    @CaseyL:

    I think he got it from the MAGA fisherman who moved out from the rental next door. The slob fishes for a living (guide/sales) and never cleans up or cares for his gear. He left his bait well filthy and I caught Chuckie in it more than once (the drift boat was right next to our yard). I noticed Chuckie’s crap got worse afterward but I thought it was from his eating the rotten fish guts that the MAGA fisherman uses.

    I call the fisherman a slob because he just let his pit bull out to run around and shit wherever it wanted to. I spent a lot of time slinging shit back into his yard, often nailing his truck in the process…lol. He never cleaned his yard and it was a MAGA mess. The slob moved out and left most of the crap (literally, too) for the property manager to clean up. I hope they nail his ass for the costs as they needed a dumpster to clear the rest of the crap off of the property.

    The garbage is gone but there is still shit all over the yard. Not rented yet and I’m sure that’s not helping…lol!

  28. 28.

    StringOnAStick

    March 26, 2023 at 1:40 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Ah, rural Oregon.  A garage burned down on the edge of town last month, the fire department pulled way, way back when all the ammo started exploding.

  29. 29.

    Mike in Pasadena

    March 26, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Maxwell is plotting. How can I get that mouse away from the guy who feeds me?

  30. 30.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 26, 2023 at 2:24 am

    @StringOnAStick:

    Yup, Brookings is about 6,800 people and the largest city in the county. I like to call our ‘hood “the ghetto with an ocean view” whenever some low class renters move into the area. Luckily the only problem we have is MAGA Dad and his daughter, Banzai Barbie, who live across the street. He is an always working private contractor and she is a loudmouthed, cussing, drinking, partying, balls-less full throttle all out residential neighborhood dirt bike wheelie-riding teenager. The cops have been called on her more than a few times. The ex/mom lives in California and is pretty ditzy (she visits on occasion).

    When she grows up she’s going to make some stupid MAGA the perfect wife. Until the divorce anyway…

  31. 31.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    March 26, 2023 at 3:13 am

    My own update – I stopped counting the number of times the dog shit in the living room. Surely to god he is empty by now, but nooooooo.

    Every time he gets groomed, we go through some upset, but this one is off the charts.

  32. 32.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    March 26, 2023 at 3:23 am

    …and he’s clingy. So, so, so clingy. I don’t speak dog, so I don’t really know what he wants me to do for him. He’s just wandering, clicking his nails and shitting. How much if this is his recent sundowning and how much of this is from his obvious gastric thing, I have no clue.

  33. 33.

    Rose Weiss

    March 26, 2023 at 3:27 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Hi, OHM! I’m a Brookingsite too! How about our esteemed City Council rehiring a professed thief to be City Manager? I volunteer for KCIW, the community radio station. Get in touch sometime. kciw.org

  34. 34.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 26, 2023 at 3:52 am

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:

    You have my sympathy, pets and shitting problems can be a nightmare to deal with. Is the doggo a new addition? If so, they may be feeling insecure. I’ve ran into that with abandoned/rehomed cats that develop behavioral problems. It can take a lot of patience, creativity and time to solve critter problems. Good luck with it!!

     

    @Rose Weiss:

    I’m sorry to hear this, you have my condolences… ;)

    My wife is the manager of the Apparel department at Freddy’s and has worked there since it opened in ’94, so she’s probably helped you if you have bought clothes there. The city politics are screwed up by the usual small town conservative stupid fvcks so a bringing back a crook is just par for the course. The crap that has gone on down at the harbor over the years has been pretty bad too.

    We live at the south end of town near Memory Lane and Cypress. The ghetto with a view… :)

  35. 35.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    March 26, 2023 at 3:59 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    No, not new – he’s been here since a pup, is a 10 year old Tervuren and now has some sporadic sundowning issues (we now use belly band diapers at night). In the past, I could leave him for hours, no problem, but he gets kind of spaced out during and immediately after sleep anymore.

    He always gets a little sick after the groomers, but this is worse, by far.

  36. 36.

    Rose Weiss

    March 26, 2023 at 4:02 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:  I actually don’t live in city limits, I’m in the hills north of town up Carpenterville Rd.  The County Commission is just as disgusting as the City Council.

  37. 37.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 26, 2023 at 4:15 am

    @Rose Weiss:

    We have several friends up that way and I am also working on a bid for the RFD (computer system). I bet the snow up there was fun for you, eh? As far as the county politics, yup.

    But that’s the case everywhere conservatives run things.

    Also have to add that Carpenterville Road is a great run on a motorcycle. I’ve made the run from the lumber mill at the south end up to Pistol River (and back) many, many times. Beautiful ride with beautiful scenery.

  38. 38.

    satby

    March 26, 2023 at 5:32 am

    It’s 5:30 am, I leave in two hours to drive to Chicago for the train, and I have to finish packing. BUT, I have to finish my coffee first. Priorities.

  39. 39.

    prostratedragon

    March 26, 2023 at 6:01 am

    “White on White,” Henry Mancini

  40. 40.

    sab

    March 26, 2023 at 6:16 am

    Wind took out the internet yesterday at about 5 pm. Then at 4:30 am our wholehouse generator kicked on and woke up the entire neighborhood, but did not actually provide any power to the house. It used to work. We will need to find out what went wrong. So irate husband of course got on his cellphone and left a very nasty message with the generator installer. Which will of course bump us to the back of the line on repair/problem solving.

    But power came back on half hour later, and then we just got the internet back. Yay!

  41. 41.

    Geminid

    March 26, 2023 at 6:38 am

    @satby: Hope it’s a nice trip!

  42. 42.

    satby

    March 26, 2023 at 6:43 am

    @Geminid: thanks! I’m sure I’m not the only person who starts getting worried about leaving and all the stuff that could go wrong, plus the inertia of leaving my comfort zone. Once I hit the road I’ll be fine, it’s the “getting out of the house” part that’s stressful 😂

  43. 43.

    Edith

    March 26, 2023 at 8:42 am

    @satby: Amtrak has been having massive issues all weekend. I think it’s a vendor server issue taking down their PTC. Trains were still being cancelled en masse last night, and apparently Union Station in Chicago is a zoo. You might want to check whether your train will actually leave before leaving.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    March 26, 2023 at 8:45 am

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: My sister’s dog was doing that, and it took weeks of that and the regular vet being out of town before the substitute vet said “let’s test for pancreatitis” and that’s what it was.  Easy fix.

    And he’s surely getting dehydrated.

    Time to call the vet, I think.

  45. 45.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    March 26, 2023 at 12:01 pm

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: sorry to hear it.

    But you’re a good person.  A former college classmate (& therefore 30-year acquaintance of mine) who has owned a series of dogs lamented to me once that she’s never had any of her dogs die a natural death; she’s always had to put them to sleep.  I thought to myself “that’s because you can’t tolerate the fact they make a mess when they get serious sick; the minute one of them poos in the house after puppyhood, you schedule the final vet visit”). But I didn’t say that to her — she’s only an acquaintance, not a friend.

    I just want to tell you that you are a very good person for putting up with this.

  46. 46.

    Frankie T.

    March 26, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    I’ll second Mike in Oly’s comment above about the Bombay personality.  My black cat was THE BEST. Congrats on being adopted by your new house panther, JC.

  47. 47.

    Paul in KY

    March 27, 2023 at 1:55 pm

    Good to hear, John. Maxwell looks happy & comfortable,

  48. 48.

    Paul in KY

    March 27, 2023 at 1:57 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: ‘Purrito’ is great! Ha!

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