Oh it looks like a train engine! How fun! Can we see the whole of the new scratchy thing?

With that amount of openness, going down half a size will be doable. Where you may run into trouble is if the little strap across your toes will be too tight. What’s the return policy?

That’s just it. “Old(er) People: give me your worst fuckups”

This looks heavenly.

Until I feel a sneeze coming on.

Ooh good idea! My cats have had something similar to OPs toy. They loved it at first, then grew tired.

Then I got the mat accessory, which is like a big pocket made out of the spring wire sun shades for cars, and the toy contained inside mimicked a panicked mousie. They loved playing with that. Then grew tired.

A new venue for the coked up ‘mouse’ toy would probably rekindle their interest for a couple of weeks.

Did your wife talk him into laying in the hallway just to test your awareness? Or did he figure he was going to prank Dad all on his own?

I think I laughed too, but it was the Sunday school teacher that shared that with me. I think that may have been the moment where little me learned that not all adults can be relied on for facts.

“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”

“People used to live to be 900 years old.”

Makes me want to ask what other kooky wrongness they hold in their head, either in childrearing beliefs or general day to day knowledge.

Yeah, my initial take was self-degradation. Interesting to see the variety of interpretations.

And in case self-degradation is what OP meant, I tend to remind myself “would I say that in that way to my bestie?” Pretending I’m mentoring a vulnerable kid/teen is also working.

You act like I don’t already sing it daily to my cats.

Catfishing!

No, really. It’s a Purina/Friskies app. One of my girls couldn’t care less, but the other LOVES to watch it and swat my phone. I had to keep adjusting the settings until it fully captured her attention. You can change size, quantity, color, and speed of the fish. I thought a full-on fish fracas would be to her liking, but turns out that just one really large fish is more fun for her.

Edit: I also had to demonstrate swatting the fish to her so she could see that they wiggle and disappear when whacked.

If you have a friend to rely on to keep pinging the doc and cc-ing you, that was what finally got me there in the end. The specialist in my town was (you guessed it) incredibly ADHD themselves and in dire need of a personal assistant.

Mr. Grey is a recurring character in the series Penny Dreadful.

A rational person might talk it through. A mean person will turn up the mean. 0/10, cannot recommend

Do people ever just say no and not pull forward?

I want to add that if kitty refuses to go in the weird litter, my vet advised this: Sit in a room with him (this method works better for boys) and have his regular litter and litter box in there, preferably do the bleach decontamination treatment on it first and use fresh litter. Wait for him to start going…and, scoot the collection cup right into the stream to catch the pee. This worked for me. Kitty was the sort to stand tall, so he kind of made it easy to have enough room to maneuver, and the vet said usually when they start going, they don’t stop, even if they are a little weirded out by you putting unfamiliar containers around their backsides.

If you don’t think he’ll let you get back there with the sample cup, you can try to catch it in something sanitary and plastic with a handle, like a measuring cup that will never ever ever see the kitchen again.

You could also try this with multiple puppy pads instead of a litter box.

I’ve had cats hold their pee all dang day at the vet even being given fluids and the vet techs periodically applying light pressure to the bladder area. But get them in a quiet room with me and let them figure out they’re not going anywhere anytime soon, and eventually they will go!

“Here’s all the time you’ll never get back. Now shoo so we can pay someone younger less money to do your job.”

I come with some sort of small emotional support critter tucked safe & warm into my hoodie pocket. It’d be under my hat if I wore one. I have the Radagast mutation.