Couch 219: The Goose Drank Wine

Probably going to write former T an email. It's been a few months since I've written her. I did text her something short the other day but I feel like writing her a nice long note.

Dog stood on hind legs, cat stood on hind legs on dogs shoulders. I would look for a smallish trench coat and fedora stashed in a closet. Oh and a teeny tiny mask.

Is she yanking your chain? That was my dream last night. These cute boys came in last night in the guise of helping and totally trashed things, then just left, yet they get away with stuff like that cuz they are cute.

If you dont find your voice in this safe environment - at least learn to confront a safe person as safely as possible - then when? Like when i cancelled the nytimes in my t - hes like, you dont even talk to me about it? I didnt get it at the time. I thought i was in it ALONE. Its true, i didnt OWE him an explanation, but that isnt the point - he was a safe person to GIVE an explanation to, and i acted like he wasnt. Youre acting like she isnt? This KINDA answers SDs question of what are they for.

I hadn't had my red lentil chili in awhile, found a container of it in the freezer and just heated some up for lunch. Yum! This version has corn and black beans in it too.

I'm doing another online course from Jeff Brown, this one about healing the abandonment wound, kind of as an adjunct to therapy and will be talking through some of the stuff with L tomorrow. I am pretty sure it's bringing up some of this "I don't want to need you" stuff.

Pepé Le Pew? He's mistaken you for a skunk instead of a kitty?

I shudder to think what he might try to do to me if I tried to dress him like a baby.

Actually, it's not a bad idea. I wonder if I can find a lion costume in tiny baby size. If I can convince him it's about expressing his inner big cat and not dress-up he gets to keep his dignity and stay warm.

Currently coping with stress by listening to Stevie Nicks (solo stuff)--thanks, iTunes, for the $6.99 alternative and rock albums, as I'd damaged both my Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks CDs ages ago (and one of the $6.99 offerings was a double-album Fleetwood Mac best-of).


Oh, that reminds me that Dr. T referenced a Pink Floyd song yesterday. I think it was the second of two times he's ever independently cited a song. I do recall him saying at one point that his college roommate played Pink Floyd constantly, so doesn't mean he's a fan or anything.

One of my cousin’s foster cats had fur so tangled it all had to be shaved off. She put the cat in a pink cat cardigan complete with pompoms on it. The cat didn’t seem to mind.

It’s weird, you know—I’m more inclined to consider people safe when they remember major things about my life. I’m funny that way.

(If that’s what you meant. I admit I am befuddled by your post. )

Well, if you do that, you'll need to provide pics! If I can get better ones with my guinea pigs in their Halloween hats (or maybe even full costumes), I can post those, too! One is a tiny sombrero.

I'm friends with one of my grad school professors on Facebook, and she has one of the hairless cats. She's posted pics of him in all forms of sweaters and turtlenecks.

If dogs get to wear costumes and sweaters, why not cats and guinea pigs?! At my Target, they showed a picture of a cat in a rainbow costume. My Mom and I laughed because I can't imagine Amelia letting me close enough to put her in a costume and Esther would just look at me disdainfully. The dog might actually wear it though, as she wears shirts and sweaters and even tiny little coats.

My dog once pulled a cast iron skillet with chicken in it off the back of the stove. I thought that it would be too far for her to reach and also too heavy to pull off. I was wrong on both counts. I wish I had surveillance video to see what contortions she went through to reach it. I'm surprised she didn't injure herself in the process.

I did not find therapy safer than anywhere else and it was decidedly less safe than most places. But to me, this really does not explain the point/what they are there for. What would be the point of talking about canceling a subscription to anything? What good does it do?


And on another note - I am anti dressing up animals simply to satisfy human need to mess with pets. If the animal needs something for cold weather -then I understand. But I really don't get torturing a pet with a costume just to take pictures of it

Whoa, that's impressive--those things are heavy!

For Emma, my Mom's dog, we have to put her in shirts for the summer because she is light haired and a poodle so she doesn't have a ton of hair and we live in the desert so it's to protect her skin from the sun. She already has a ton of moles, one of which we are going to get biopsied probably because it has grown and is all bumpy. We don't want her to get skin cancer.

In the winter if we don't put a shirt and sweater on her she gets cold. She will lay under the blankets on the couch but she will still shiver, so we put clothes on her. She has coats for when she has to go get groomed during the winter but not if she is just going outside for necessary business.


On a fun note, we buy baby onesies and cut the bottom off and sew a hem and use those for shirts for Emma. It is way cheaper than buying dog shirts and it is just as cute. Rather practical. I buy her some quality dog sweaters though, usually for Christmas (yes my pets get Christmas presents) because she gets so cold. I do think the prices of the sweaters are ridiculous. $25 for a sweater for a 10 pound dog. I can get cheaper sweaters for me! But it's worth it if she isn't cold.


Then she has a couple of blankets that are her's and when she is sleeping on the couch, especially in the winter we will wrap them around her. But we often have a lightweight blanket on her in the summer too because she lays directly in the path of the AC and she starts shivering.

My niece has greyhounds . . . in Minnesota. They have pajamas. They have snoods. They have coats. They have shoes. Negative 25 degree weather is not a greyhound's natural climate.

Artley, what is a snood?

It's sort of a sweater that goes around their necks and pulls up over their ears.