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I'm allergic to both cats and dogs. We have an outside dog, poor girl is getting up to 12+ years old. But she greets me like a puppy every night I come home. I just got my youngest a kitten, all black (his name is 'Angel' after the vampire on Buffy).

In other news, I'm done ironing my clothes for tomorrow and i'm parked on my ass.
 
Mosh said:
Damn, that's lame :( Fuck allergies.

Three cats at my house. Mongo, Slayer, and Halford. They're great
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Thanks for the sympathies. :) And those are awesome names by the way! :D

Wästed The Great said:
I'm allergic to both cats and dogs. We have an outside dog, poor girl is getting up to 12+ years old. But she greets me like a puppy every night I come home. I just got my youngest a kitten, all black (his name is 'Angel' after the vampire on Buffy).
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How do you deal with your allergies if you don't mind me asking?
 
Moon Child said:
Does she take anything for the allergies or does she just let it go? I wouldn't want my cat to go outside.
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It's not a serious thing. She can tolerate them for brief encounters and she's usually fine if the kids keep them in their rooms.
But if they have been lying on the couch during the day before she settles in for a night of TV you can bet she will be all stuffed up that night and/or the next day and will have to take something.
Our cats are fine outside. When the weather's nice they'd rather be out there. They've spent a lot of time there and don't get into too much trouble.
 
Mosh's cats have way better names than Rory and Misty, but I'm betting his weren't named by pre-teen girls.
Moonchild, I'm not sure what my wife takes, but I can ask her if you're interested.
It would suck not being able to have cats.
 
The kitten and dog have to live outside.... I have a garage that they can sleep in, but they are outside critters! Otherwise, I can't sleep at night, and my eyes are a wreck.

That's not to say I haven't tried the occasional claritin .. that seems to work ok-ish.
 
mckindog said:
Moonchild, I'm not sure what my wife takes, but I can ask her if you're interested.
It would suck not being able to have cats.
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That would be great if you could find out. :)

I appreciate all the information you guys are giving me. I'm just really trying to get all the information I can get from people who have experience with owning cats but having allergies so maybe I can battle it somehow. Like I've said, I use to be able to have cats with no problems but now, it's a different story. I'd love to be able to have cats again or just a cat. Whenever I'm around them, I start to get stuffed up, chest becomes a bit wheezy and I sneeze and if I get scratched, I'll usually get a bit of hives in that one spot. I'm sometimes ok if I take maybe a clariton before hand but I really don't want to have to take allergy meds all the time either. Damn, this sucks!
 
Just catching up.

Cornfed Hick said:
mtmccox, you'll be happy to know that at least one of us got the joke.
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I got the joke, I just didn't find it very funny.

I'm allergic to dogs. That's kind of cool, because I don't particularly like dogs. I have six allergies in total, which is not cool at all. :(

Perun, sorry about what you're going through. It'll pass, you know. Is there anything we can do to help?
 
Ariana said:
Perun, sorry about what you're going through. It'll pass, you know. Is there anything we can do to help?
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Not unless you can speed up time to a point where I'm leading a settled and stable life with a loving family and steady income.
 
Oh, Foro. I'm very sorry to hear that. You really don't deserve all this. I can really only wish you and your family the strength to get through all of this. Rest assured that my thoughts and feelings are with you.
 
This is indeed getting too much (if it wasn't already). It's getting under my skin. I am very short tempered lately, and not very pleasant for my surroundings.

What can I say, this forum serves a multitude of purposes. Both distraction and support is what I digest from it this Autumn, more then ever before. You guys are a great comfort, thanks once again.
 
Dammit guys, I'm ordering holidays in the sun for all, followed by a Maidenfans Euro meetup at a special Maiden club show where you get to shoot pool with the band as they rehearse new material.
 
Foro, I'm sorry to hear that.

Now for some Wasted humor:

I've found my users don't like to use the tools they have for the jobs that they do. The actual conversations would be confusing without reference to what everyone does, so I've boiled it down to a fictional analogy that represents what we deal with.

User: This screw driver I have is junk.
Me: What's it doing?
User: It just doesn't work right. I can't do my job correctly with it.
Me: Ok, let me get you a new one and you should be good to go.
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*time goes by after new screw driver has been delivered to user*
User: This new screw driver doesn't work any better than the last one!! >:[
Me: It still isn't working? What is it doing? That new one is supposed to be top of the line...
User: It just won't do the job right!! Just come over and take a look at it! (stated grumpily)
*walks to users area*
Me: Ok, lets take a look at what's going on here. Can you show me what you are doing and where it starts to fail?
User: Ok, I hold it by the steel shaft and use the handle to beat this 10" nail into the wall. I keep hitting it and the nail doesn't go in. And the handle is all bunged up now!!
Me: *internal sigh* You are supposed to use your hammer to put the nail in the wall. The screw driver is built for twisting screws in.
User: I want to use the screw driver! It should do what I want it to; I don't want to take the hammer out of my pouch to do this every time I have to drive a nail. Why can't you guys figure out how I can do this easier?
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*Me drinking cheap vodka a few hours later*
 
Wooow! I'm sorry to hear that you have to deal with such stupidity... That sounds exactly like 99% of the customers I deal with at work except with pet/aquarium products.
 
Well, in reality, most people are like that. Honestly, we are all probably like that in one form or another. I try really hard to think about that when (a) dealing with users/clients and (b) when I'm the user/ client. :)
 
You do have a point there but when we're the ones then you tend to feel really stupid. :lol: Maybe I should try and keep that more in mind when dealing with customers. :)
 
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