Happy Bachelor day!
I’m late with this post because we have a 2100 mile snowstorm going through the US and I work in transportation.
My week is going GREAT.
Pudding’s week is going better and she’s excited about the progress she’s making in her TBR.
In true Siamese fashion she has decided she no longer likes wet food, only kibble, which isn’t great for a 16 year old cat with kidney disease because she’s not getting as much liquid SO THANKS FOR THAT, MA’AM.
I have tried every flavor combo and enticement ever short of just giving her wagyu beef and caviar mixed in with it and she’s like “LOL no.”
Also causing drama is Shanae. Last week she went after Elizabeth again and also accused other women of bullying her, which they aren’t.
It’s the pre Dreaded Rose Ceremony cocktail hour. A bunch of the women are sitting on the drinking couches and Shanae says, “Some of you guys don’t acknowledge me when I talk to you in general, and it makes feel a type of way.”
Then she says she doesn’t want to talk about it, while continuing to talk about it.
Oh, hey, I have a Whiteclaw sitting right here.
Clayton arrives and asks to talk to Shanae and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth says that she offered to talk to Shanae after the last date and Shanae told her to “fuck off.”
Shanae accuses Elizabeth of lying, bullying, being fake and toxic. Elizabeth asks for an example of bullying. Shanae brings up how she made shrimp, and no one said no thank you to her they just ignored her. Elizabeth points out she wasn’t even there at the time. Shanae says, “You were literally in the hot tub.”
Clayton is staring into the middle distance like he’s praying for death to find him.
Elizabeth asks how she’s responsible for other people treating Shanae.
Shanae replies, “The fact is, you’re a liar and I want to tell Clayton about it, and I don’t like it.”
Clayton gets up, probably to look for an Excedrin. “We’re not trying to resolve conflict, we’re talking about shrimp.”
“My shrimp was better,” Shanae tells the camera. “Elizabeth’s was terrible. I think she put poison in it because I was shitting the next day like really bad.”
Elizabeth goes back to the drinking couch and relays the shrimp drama.
Shanae gets a plate of shrimp sushi and goes back to the drinking couch as well.
“Was Elizabeth in the hot tub when I offered you guys shrimp?” she asks.
“It’s not about the shrimp!” someone yells.
So then Jesse comes out and says that Clayton is “exhausted” and we are going straight to rose.
Clayton comes out and says he didn’t feel he could “mentally continue on with the night” and same dude.
Shanae tells the camera, “I swear to god if he gives [Elizabeth] a rose, I’m going shove that rose all the way up his ass, it’s going to be coming out of his mouth.”
He sends Elizabeth home, but keeps Shanae. He also sends home Kira and Melina.
The next day they all go to Houston. One of Clayton’s sportsball friends is there and they reunite.
The first one-on-one date goes to Rachel, and they go horseback riding because of course.
Then they crash a BBQ and eat food that looks friggin amazing. Then they make out on a dock.
During the dinner Clayton thanks Rachel for being “present” which is weird.
Also do you think Clayton knows there’s a theory that all time is happening at the same moment and we only experience past, present and future because of our limitations in perception?
Then he says the more he talks to Rachel the more confused he gets.
Hate to say it, but Clayton doesn’t have a lot going on upstairs. He’s like that Labrador retriever you had as a kid that’s big and lunky and stupid, but still loveable. He is a himbo.
“I’m wondering how a woman as beautiful as you with this bad ass job (she’s a pilot), like I’m wondering how you’re here,” he says.
Yeah, me too, honestly.
She says her last boyfriend wasn’t supportive of her having to travel to work all the time.
Anyway she gets the date rose.
Back at the hotel the women have a secret meeting about how Shanae is awful while she listens at the door.
We have 30 minutes left.
So for the group date they tailgate at some football stadium. Then two football players, Jonathan Greenard and Kamu Grugier-Hill, arrive. They’re going to play tackle football. Marlena is a former Olympian and is super excited.
Shanae’s team is named Shrimp Stampede. Marlena’s team is the Purple Pushers.
There’s tension between Sierra and Shanae and they keep tackling each other. Then Marlena tackles Shanae and it’s brutal. We end with the purple team winning 21-0.
During the cocktail hour Sierra tells Clayton she was shocked he sent Elizabeth home. She says that Shanae is deceiving him. So does Genevieve.
Shanae isn’t included in the after party because her team lost, but she gets dressed up and crashes it. Clayton isn’t impressed, especially when she says, “I deserve to be here.”
Sierra says, “I feel like I deserve a million dollars. Do I have a million dollars in my bank account? No.”
Same, girl, same.
Shanae tells Clayton she heard the other women talking about her behind closed doors. Then they make out. IDEK.
Sierra calls Shanae a Karen. Marlena says, “Do you want to marry her? Till death to us part? It’s really gonna be death.”
Shanae approaches the other women on the drinking couch and tells Sierra and Genevieve to keep her name out of their mouths. Then she picks up the winning team’s trophy and throws it in the bushes.
Ed.note: it’s 9:30 am and I wish I were drunk after reading this. What the hell.
And that’s where we end. Are you watching?
So they were allowed to eat? real food? wow ….
Just so you know: I would tune in weekly for Pudding posts.
Always curious about other readers’ books, I spent time trying to find the titles in Pudding’s TBR stacks.
Really only here for the Pudding updates. My sympathies! I have an almost-18-year-old ginger tabby with kidney disease who only wants to eat kitten kibble, no matter how many times we tell him he is not a kitten. He turns up his nose at the senior kibble, at all wet food, at tuna, salmon, etc. (we keep buying things trying to get him to eat). We think he’s both too old and too dumb to know he’s sick.
I am proud that Pudding and I both own a copy of When Bad Things Happen to Good Knitters.
Pudding is looking like a playful little kitten in today’s photo. A different side of her than the serene and/or snarky looks she usually graces us with.
Re: cat feeding – not sure if this might help but hey it’s worth a try for under 10 bucks – a textured feeding mat called Licki Mat, you spread their wet food on it and they lick it out of the ridges. It’s supposed to make feeding more fun. I did not know this existed until recently when my kid found it on tiktok.
Helloooooooooo Pudding!!
Elyse, I am very concernd about Pudding. I had a cat with kidney disease, almost inevitable in male cats who are given the commercial cat food available in the supermarkets, I learned to my deep dismay. I was able to buy special kidney diet dry cat food from the vet. So I recommend that.
In the mean time, maybe pour sone asking temperature chicken broth over the dry food ot given him chicken broth to drink? Just some ideas.
As for Clayton, I would have kicked Shanae out the dor as she sounds like the kind of person who rhymes with twitch.
Brutal, but … water in a needleless syringe and squirt it into Pudding’s mouth just as you would do with medicine? For dogs, I add a bit of milk to the water to encourage drinking.
I think it says something that we are all far more concerned with Pudding’s health than we are about this toxic show.
Do you think if you put the kitten kibble in a bowl with some water, like a bowl of cereal, she might be willing to eat that?
Pudding! With the caveat that lots of things that work for dogs don’t work for cats (and vice versa) I will say that my dog with kidney disease loved kibble, so I just added water to his kibble?
I too am more invested in the kitty drama than the sh*tty drama. Best I can do is say, my cats like their water bowls better when they’re in multiple places around the house, especially if I fill it up right then & there like I’m giving them a treat. Also, if it’s put somewhere that suggests it’s “not for them,” like by the dog’s food, I put one cat’s bowl by another cat, or I put it up on a counter or something so they can “steal” it.
Why am I not surprised Shanae is still here. I think the real love on this show is how all the other women have unified against her & her shrimp-based agenda.
So some answers on Pudding: her current dry food is a prescription kidney food. She will not eat it if I add water, broth, or juice from canned tuna.
I have to give her pain meds with a syringe (squirting it in her mouth) and she hates it so I don’t think she’ll eat that way.
She does drink water and right now is doing fine, I just want her to stay that way. I know eventually I’ll be giving her subcutaneous fluids a few times a week and I’m fine with that too.
Thank you all for loving her so much.
My senior cat also hates her kidney care wet food. We switched to dry and I add what I call “yum yum juice” to her bowl (water), and she seems to like that.
“Himbo” I’m gonna use that one. This series is insane.
My grandmother had an elderly and cranky Siamese when I was a child – she fed him a beaten raw egg every morning.
@Susanna her farts are already toxic. Can’t imagine what an egg would do
@Elyse, I’ve done subcutaneous fluids with two of my cats who were in renal failure. I’m happy to provide tips on that when you get to that point, if you haven’t done it before.
I am certain that Pudding is being well cared for, by a devoted and experienced cat owner. Elyse, hope you don’t feel that the suggestions are implied criticism of your cat caretaking abilities. Some cats are just stubborn, but we love them anyway.
On a separate note, is it me or does the way Clayton is sitting in that “make-out” photo look incredibly uncomfortable?
@the other Kate, don’t worry I don’t feel any criticism. Like 50% of fostering and working in the rescue community is asking online “well wtf do I do now.” I just wanted people to know she’s not in imminent danger or anything like that.
@LisaM, same! Please give us Pudding’s TBR list!
I am also here for the Pudding updates! I had a Siamese cat who looked very like Pudding who also had kidney disease. Her favorite food was low sodium tuna fish but it sounds like you’ve tried that. I also eventually gave her subcutaneous fluids and that helped a lot.
Two weeks ago was a very sad cat week in my house as we had to put my 10 year old Lilly to sleep because she had a brain tumor which couldn’t be treated. Today, we met a kitten who will be joining us next week and I felt very at peace with her in my arms this morning.
@ValencyS I’m so sorry for your loss
Thank you, Elyse. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around losing Lilly because it happened so fast, and I had thought I had years more with her. I’m relieved she’s no longer confused and scared, and I miss her.
And my husband says thank you for the Pudding updates- he is another of her many fans.
I had a cat with similar issues. Have you tried any of the freeze-dried raw foods? You can put warm water or broth on them to moisten them. Another possibility: the frozen raw foods. My cat did so much better on food that did not have a lot of extra filler in it. There are companies that make powders with taurine and other things cat need to mix into raw meat. You can go down a rabbit hole by googling “cat obligate carnivore.” I am highly suspicious of those veterinary-sold foods ever since my current cat had urine crystals and the “scientific” expensive food they wanted him on addressed the problem simply by adding a bunch of salt so he’d drink more. Feh.
Elyse! I have an older cat with kidney disease, and on pain meds. She too has suddenly decided she’s too good for wet food, and only eats the THAT IS VERY EXPENSIVE KIBBLE from the vet. And then? We found churu. They’re these squeeze tube paste things that all our cats will cut a bitch over. They are so powerful they have taught two of the cats basic commands like sit, stay, and come.
Inaba Churu on Amazon—they’re Japanese. Harley will also deign to slurp Haartz SqueezeIts, and has a new passion for the Tiki Cat Stix. They’re all basically the same thing tho, and our vet say “let her eat as many as she wants.” She generally gets 2-3 ounces a day, plus her kibble and water, and it’s definitely made a difference.