Bad Manners and Brimstone

We had a cat diagnosed with irritable bowel.  Her main symptom was that she threw up all the time.   The vet put her on a steroid and she lived a happy life for many years.  I hope the same for your kitty.

Maybe you could say something like "I appreciate your thoughtfulness, but I'm not an adventurous eater so most of what you have gifted me has gone to waste, I'm afraid".  Because she is your landlord, this is probably a thorny issue for you.  I'm actually not sure what I would do, if this happened to me.

Thanks for the update.  I'll be hoping for a good outcome for your furry family member.

Putting the carrier on end does work.  We also find that opening the carrier and sitting it on the floor so that the cat can be around it for a day or so before trying to put him in seems to help.

Have you actually spoken with a vet about this?  I've always had indoor cats through the years.  On several occasions I've spoken to my vet about a, maybe, serious problem with a cat.  I've never had a problem with doing this.  Maybe your cat's problem is just that she/he has taken a dislike to the litter.  Maybe the box needs to be washed out and new litter put in.  But, maybe they have a health problem.  I'd try to get your cat into a vet as soon as possible.  Does the poop still look normal?  Is she/he eating normally?  Please let us know how things turn out.

OP here.  This household member (my son-in-law) only does household chores if he is asked.  Such as washing up the pots or taking out the trash.  It is extremely rare that he does anything like that on his own though.  What I'm mainly talking about are things that occur in a household randomly and must be taken care of in a timely manner.  When a problem is brought to his attention he will usually acknowledge it but waits to see what the other two of us says about it.  We try not to have him take care of anything important like this because he is slow to take care of it and usually doesn't seem to care if it is done right, or completed.  An example of what I'm referring to would be if, say, the fridge stopped working.

 Or, as occurred this week, one of the stations of our in ground sprinkler system would not turn off.  He left it up to me to turn off the valve in the in ground box and that only slowed down the flow.  I informed him of that and he said it would most likely stop after the pressure got low enough.  That didn't happen and he left for work soon after.  Well, the water continued all day and when he returned in the late afternoon he informed me that there is a main shut-off located under the control box for the system. (It's located in a big brown box).  I had already located that and couldn't turn the levers.  I didn't know about this shut off until I googled the problem and found out that all systems have this main shutoff.  He had to use a wrench to turn it off.  [ Sorry to run on so long.]

Apparently nobody but him actually knew about this main cutoff.  I sure didn't know about it, much less knew what kind of tool to use to turn it off.  If he had taken a few minutes to show me the shutoff, or even mention it the immediate problem would have been solved.  Over the years we have experienced this kind of thing many, many times with him.  Sometimes at big expense.  This is typical of him.  He doesn't tell us what he knows about things when he should.  Sorry it this seems to be a rant.

What does anyone think about an older adult male (or even a younger one) going to their doctor appointment with their bare toes hanging out the front of a pair of sandals? The person that I witnessed had long, unkempt toenails too.  This is a family member, but I'm sure it's not my place to comment on his choice of clothing.  I think, though, that he should have had socks on with his sandals.