So, yeah.

[apocalypsos]

I took Emmett up to my parents' house so that my dad could bury her ('cause if you'll remember, Emmett was the boy chinchilla my parents got me when I moved in who turned out to be a girl) and now I'm watching Elliot, who seems mostly okay, and I'm thinking, "Well, crap, poor thing just lost his best friend." When I figured out Emmett was a girl I was going to separate them, except they freaked out when they were separated and wanted to share the same cage. And when I found her he was hiding in the bathhouse like he didn't want to come out. *sigh*

Oh, and for added fun when I went up to my parents' house with the chinchilla my brother was there, and to make me feel better he made me lunch, and as we were sitting in the living room watching Scrubs and eating, Simon -- one of my mom's cats -- walked through the room stumbling around like he was drunk, foaming at the mouth, and randomly shitting all over the place on his way upstairs. And if there was any worse time to run out of paper towels, I don't know what was. (I don't know if my mom's going to make me take him to the vet when I take the kitten tomorrow or if she's going to take him herself tonight or if she's going to make my brother take him, but since he pretty obviously ate something he shouldn't have he may get over it by tomorrow. Who the hell knows?)

Thank God I still have one hard green tea left, is all I can say.

*grumbles*

On a funnier note, another thing my brother did to make me feel better (you know, before the whole cat incident) was declare, "Hey, you want to hear the greatest song ever made?" and proceeded to play something on his computer that had me dying laughing.

Me: *in between giggles* You know this is going on my Livejournal, right?
Bryan: Yup. *beams*

[Poll #1018794]

Comments

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Is Simon an outdoor cat, or does he go into the garage? I know the stumbling drunk thing is a sign of antifreeze poisoning, which is pretty bad.

Poor Elliot. It's always so sad when they lose their friend. Give him some extra love for all of us.

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

God, that sucks so hard. Poor Elliot. Poor Emmett. Poor you. :(

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your brother was able to make you laugh. Poor Simon, I hope he'll be okay and I hope Elliot is going to be all right in the cage. I've never had caged animals (I've had cats and dogs), so would it be better to move him into the other cage for a bit?

I have no freakin' clue what song he could have played. I'm just hoping it's not by REO Speedwagon.

[newredshoes]

I'm so sorry about Emmett, honey.

Er, as regards my answer to your poll, sometimes tasteless is just unavoidable when it's perfect.

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

I've had the song put in stuck in my head since I saw the Doctor Who finale. Totally the best scene if you haven't gotten around to it yet.

[malhablada.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your chinnie. I'm in Michigan, and we've been worried sick about our guinea pigs since the heat started climbing. We've resorted to wrapping frozen water bottles in dishtowels and laying them in the cages for them to cuddle with, which really helps.

I hope things turn out well with your mom's kitty. Could he be epileptic?

[onefishjyuufish.livejournal.com]

Oh man, sorry to hear about Emmett. :\ I know I worry like hell about the heat, considering we have a 'chilla and three ferrets, all of which are prone to heatstroke or worse.

We found our chinnie likes ice cubes, by the way. He'll try and pick them up, then end up holding them against the floor and biting pieces off. They seem to help him a bit, at least.