Claire Gilder
@clarbar.bsky.social
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Montana grad student. I like rivers, baseball, cats, and legal podcasts.
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That was what I liked about the church when I was younger. Easter vigil was my fave, with the dark church and candle lighting! It made me feel like I was part of something bigger than myself, lots of weight behind it. I’m atheist now, but love seeing the good parts of catholicism getting their due!
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Turns that salmon “gravy” is apparently great for disguising pills too. While she still rebels against the syringe, she then licks up all the spilled liquid (with the dissolved pills.)
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The butt track! It’s so perfect.
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I may have created a monster. Ms. Xan says her wet food must now have this gravy to be acceptable. I drizzle about a teaspoon on each of her many small meals.
A packet of Friskies “lil gravies” salmon flavor. It’s just a flavored thick liquid for treats or food topping.
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“Do not let your penis touch the cat. Go put underwear on.” Is one of my most memorable from the toddler years.
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Our league does Home Run Derby instead of extra innings and it’s pretty great. Pitchers don’t get wrecked, everyone gets to go home on time, and watching dingers is pretty fun.
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with the Cerenia on board, Xan has licked up some wet food slurry, enticed with Friskies salmon gravy as topper. Mmmmm. She also got her thyroid meds and fingers crossed everything stays down.
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All hail Cerenia, anti-emetic magic pill for old, ill cats. If nothing else, she’s sleeping comfortably after having been very miserable all day. She walked around constantly, meowing her “I think I’m gonna barf” meow.
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I tried to get kitten pictures.
Very blurry close up of two kittens looking under the camera. They’re a seal point and an orange & white tabby, sitting on my fleece pajama pants. Same kittens, now only the seal point is slightly blurry, same position on my lap Seal point is tapping his brother’s back while the tabby looks quizzically next to the camera Back to both blurry, escaping from my lap by going under the camera.
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LOOKIT THAT BELLY!

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“Chicks” giving very FEEEEMAAAALE vibes.
Meme of Ferengi from Star Trek with a lecherous look and the caption “FEMALES”
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Gridfinity is amazing. My desk drawers are actually useful now!
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Yeah, my kids’ desktops are refurbed ancient CAD workstations that I got for a couple hundred bucks. They can‘t upgrade. im not stoked about the idea of leaving giant security risks on our home network, but….
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my Mom had a collection of funny essays (?) by Erma Bombeck called The Southern Belle Primer”
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Xan asked for and ate a few bites of her wet food!
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Update! The clothes have been returned!
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Today is possibly cursed. A bunch of transportation snafus meant I got an hour towards Great Falls and had to turn around and come home. And the. I get a call from the laundromat that someone walked away with 30lbs of our clothes.
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She just drank some water and went over to investigate her plate of food! Didn’t eat any, but that’s the first independent movement towards eating I’ve seen! Mirataz tomorrow and hopefully a hungry lady.
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She’s on Cerenia, but still waiting for her app. stimulant to be filled. I think it’ll be ready tomorrow.
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Xan does every 3 weeks
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All her levels are “normal for her” meaning a 19y/o cat with well-managed hyperthyroid, Stage II kidney disease, and arthritis. Even did an ultrasound and pancreas, kidneys, liver all look ”normal”, and no obstructions in intestines.
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It was so sudden! i noticed her appetite dropping on Thursday, which isn’t uncommon when shes due for her next Solensia injection, which she got Friday. Then Saturday she wasn’t interested beyond a few bites, and Sunday and Monday she wouldn’t eat anything.
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Old lady cat has deigned to eat kitten kibble from my hand, the first non-force-fed food since Monday. No obvious cause on the diagnostics yesterday. And we can’t do more without sedation again, which isn’t ideal for a 19y/o cat.
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Can it be frozen? It’d be good to have around for later in the winter for casseroles