Another installment in the world's most expensive cat

[susandennis]

Biggie is doing fine. Last night he spent most of the evening in the half bath on the floor. No idea why. I'm not sure he's ever even been there before. But dark confined spaces seem to be his latest jam.

When I got ready to get into bed to read, I picked him up and carried him to the bed. I placed him next to me where he usually sits while I listen to my book and play on my tablet. After a few minutes it crawled right into my lap where he stayed until lights out.

He slept next to me for a couple of hours and then left. This morning I found him in the closet on the floor. I picked him up and carried him to food. He sniffed and walked back to his closet where he is still now 3 hours later.

I just took his food into the closet and put it down next to him and he immediately started eating. He who shall be served.

I am worried about the terrace. I have to be able to keep the door open when I want to. I may need to let him out. I've been looking at various options for that but right now, I've decided that I need a screen door. I would love to have a retractable screen door. But, I think they are about 5 times more expensive than a regular one. However they do come with installers!

Getting a door at home depot and bringing it here is a bit of a challenge in a smart car. Plus maybe I could install it but do I want to? Negative.

And, yet, a retractable screen door is going to wreck havoc with my air conditioner insert, I think. Maybe not. And/or maybe there's a work around.

I've spent the last couple of hours web researching/shopping for screen door installation. I've now request quotes from three places... let the games begin!!

Yesterday mhaithaca asked me if I air fried my breakfast burritos. I'd never even thought of that. I always have nuked them and enjoyed their soft goodness. BUT, I do love crispy. So this morning, I took a burrito right from the cold fridge and popped it into the air fryer (in my case my toaster oven on air fryer setting) 400 degrees for 6 minutes. Perfect!! I think if I were going to do this a lot, I'd butter up the tortilla before I added the egg and cheese and stuff but it was pretty darned good and crispy. A nice Plan B!

I just checked on King Tut and he had eaten all but a tiny bit of his room service breakfast. I had given him a whole serving so this was the most he had eaten since surgery. I made up some more (pate watered down) and set it out for him in the living room. So far, while he's walked to his water fountain, he has not eaten anything that I have not put under his mouth. So next step is his finding/eating food. Before surgery, he ate on the kitchen counter so now finding is a thing. And finding the right height of the bowl. I have it now, perched on a box - same height as the water - in the path of the water. We shall see.

I might go to Goodwill to see if I can find a better food dish situation. Otherwize it will just be hanging here with the King.

Comments

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad Biggie is doing so well, and glad the air fryer worked well for the burrito.

The reason I nuke and then toaster-oven is that I want the middle hot. If air fryer for six minutes is accomplishing that on its own, woohoo! Even better.

[susandennis]

oh yeah the center was plenty hot. cheese all melted

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you would have thought about it, but can you get the nets there? All depends on the layout of the terrace of course.

[susandennis]

"the nets" you talking mosquito netting? i have considered that but, yep, can't quite get around how to install it so that he cannot escape it. but, i do have some ideas :)

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

I saw it in Brazil where it was almost like string netting, so relatively big holes like half an inch, but enough to stop anything going off a balcony. There were screw in hooks all around the balcony which you then attached the netting to, so the balcony layout does need to lend itself to places it can be attached to. "cat balcony nets" seems to turn up some things on both UK and US Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cat+balcony+nets&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

[susandennis]

OMG! That is perfect!! IF I can figure out how to get it up. i'm not allowed to install hooks* or anything like that so that's my main issue but now i have something to work towards! thanks!!

*home owner association rules

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Can you not put netting on the balcony up to the roof? That is what I did where I lived when my free flyer took the jump from the 5th floor.

[susandennis]

yes as long as it cannot be seen from the street BUT rules say I cannot attach it (or hooks) in any way to the outside of the building so no way to get it to stay there. but i'm working on ideas. home owner association rules are really strict in this building

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Yeah it was like that too in the building where I lived. I had a frame with transparent netting constructed which could be folded and opened at need and hung up easily on a few nearly invisible hooks. It was expensive but worth it!

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

I can just imagine Biggie rolling his eyes when you carried him somewhere wrong and he has to hobble back. :D

[susandennis]

yes but at least he was kind enough not to whine about it

Screen Door Issues

[(Anonymous)]

Would something like this solve your screen door problem? https://www.amazon.ca/Apalus-Magnetic-Curtain-Bottom-Automatically/dp/B07D7CX489/ref=asc_df_B07D7CX489/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292965257473&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9771409863154852200&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1001801&hvtargid=pla-473715653468&psc=1

We installed one on the sliding doors of our previous house and it was great. The magnets were strong enough to prevent our young (at the time) children from pushing through it, but it was very easy for an adult to go through. The installation is reasonably simple and you can take it down whenever you choose. (We would uninstall during the winter, and reinstall once the weather was warm enough.)

Screen Door Issues

[tanya macdonald (from livejournal.com)]

(I posted this once, but apparently not while logged in so it was marked as spam — apologies if you see this twice!)

Would something like this work — https://www.amazon.ca/Apalus-Magnetic-Curtain-Bottom-Automatically/dp/B07D7CX489/ref=asc_df_B07D7CX489/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292965257473&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9771409863154852200&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1001801&hvtargid=pla-473715653468&psc=1

I would think you could install it inside, so you wouldn't be contravening any condo rules. The magnet seam is strong enough that wind or even our young (at the time) kids couldn't open it easily, so I would think that Biggie wouldn't be able to push through without effort. We used to uninstall it in the winter and then reinstall it once the weather warmed up.

RE: Screen Door Issues

[susandennis]

I have looked at this but the description clearly states that "Suitable for pets too! You don't need to create a doggie door nor a cat door in your curtain, your pets can pass through the curtain as they please!"

But, you think no... well at $15 it's sure worth a shot. Thanks!

[galebird.livejournal.com]

I was about to suggest maybe considering a catio for Superman there but then I came up with so many cons for it — It'd impede your view from your balcony, the HOA might have several strokes, it might be a tough fit anyway and take up much of what space there is on the balcony unless they built like, a cute assed corner unit with a neat tunnel from cat door to catio.

Honestly at this point just rigging him up like a window washer every time he goes out the cat door once he's healed and the weather is pleasant seems as feasible an option. If someone calls about a dangling cat, welp, you know he attempted flight again and was thwarted.

His new thundersticks are very adorable and I hope his paws heal very well, poor little muffin. He must be high as a kite still. It's nice that he's eating and drinking though. Always a very good sign.

[susandennis]

That window washer rigging is something I had not considered. It's cracking me up but, hey...

[galebird.livejournal.com]

the only other option is teaching him parachuting or hang gliding and that seems even more expensive and silly somehow ;)

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Loling at the image of you carrying him everywhere and serving him breakfast in bed. It took a few thousand years, but finally the cats have fully domesticated us.

[kit10notk9.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that the reincarnation of Wile E. Coyote seems to be healing. The magnetic screen that we have doesn't have the ability to keep the mosquitoes outside, so beware of the ones with the "as seen on TV" logo.
My vizualation of Biggie in the window washer rigging has him yodeling like George of the Jungle as he swings in his harness.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I think the first time you called Biggie the world's most expensive cat I chuckled inwardly and thought he would never beat how much Quincy has cost me with his expensive operations and medications but now I think he must be steaming past him