Monthly Archives: September 2014

What a strange allergy !

Claire is allergic to ironing. For a long time. As soon as she sees an iron, she has palpitations, the volume of her voice increases, and her stock of swearwords overflows. It’s terrifying.

To avoid the crises, she’s grateful to limit her contacts with the iron at least : she irons a beautiful tablecloth for Christmas or for Easter, or another exceptional opportunity, but that’s it.

She has all the tricks to take place : she buys only clothes that don’t need to be ironed, she suspends carefully the washing on the threads, then fold it accurately, and she places the clean clothes below so that the weight of the pile acts like light ironing.

That’s the reason why I am grateful to oversee regularly the clothes cupboard and the laundry cupboard : I verify that there’s no crease, and if I find one, I lie down above to remove it.
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Did you know that cat hair avoid crease ? Absolutely !

A pretty package

ZORRO : Ooohh ! Look, Pixie : a pretty package ! What that can be ? That smells good in any case !
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PIXIE : Da … De… Deutsche Post ? That comes from Germany ?
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PIXIE : There is a letter : it’s on behalf of our friend of the Fellindianer, Yakima and her family ; two weeks ago, we won one Samba Mamba on their blog. Look, Zorro, the snake is pink for me, and yellow for you ! And there are also cheese treats, salmon treats, and … What’s this thing, a chocolate bar ?
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ZORRO : Wait, I look closer…
PIXIE : Well, me, I attack the catnip snake !
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ZORRO : It’s not chocolate, it’s portions of liver cream ! Yummy !
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ZORRO : It’s my turn !
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Thanks to you all and to Michaela, you spoiled us !

How to stitch without thread nor staple

Some of you wondered to see that the veterinarian had closed my section with some glue during my spay. Here are some precision :

  • The suture with glue began to be used in the 1960s shortly after the discovery of the glue cyanoacrylate.
  • This glue has a very high adhesive power, and its residues are totally biocompatible.
  • It’s liquid and polymerizes in the contact of water (in my case, the water contained in my skin) to form a flexible film.
  • Various formulae of cyanoacrylate glue were developed for a purely medical use : better support, ease of use, flexibility raised once polymerized.
  • We use this glue to close small little deep wounds.

Our veterinarian uses it since a few years for the cutaneous sutures of sterilization of cats and for the cutaneous sutures of small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils, …). For the sterilizations, he makes an abdominal suture with thread, then closes the skin over with the glue.

Advantages:

  • The suture with glue avoids that I pull or chew away my sutures.
  • The film of glue forms a coat of protection against bacteria and other dirts.

Inconveniences:

  • The scar is a little less attractive at the beginning, although the final result is identical to that of a suture with thread : that, it’s true, we would have said that I had a relief human navel ! But now, I have again a beautiful small belly (hair are only still missing).
  • If the wound must be reopened, it is not practical of the whole.

Here we are, you know everything ! Admire the result after two weeks : Pixie127