Friday, July 13, 2007
Crazy week!
I somehow haven't made a lot of progress on the pic pages from our trip. Maybe I have been trying to do too many things at once this week.
Tuesday was All Cats to the Vet day. Paws had an appointment for his operation, and on our trips to first take him and then get him back we carried the other cats along to get their shots, per the new county health mandate after the Case of the Rabid Coyote, which I told you about recently. (They happened to have a picture of the coyote at the vet's, and it was scary! It had practically no fur, so it looked like a mummy zombie dog or something!)
The last lingering bit of weird coincidence from the trip caused poor Paws a little trouble. It just so happened that there was another cat scheduled for surgery at the vet's that morning, which looked enough like him to be his clone. Unfortunately, THAT cat was in to be spayed.... So he came home with a few more stitches than we anticipated, but he's bounding around cheerfully now, so no harm done.
The only family members who haven't had some kind of medical intervention this week are me and the dogs (and their turn for shots is coming.) Caro had to go in for an eye exam (haven't told you that story yet, but the short version is, she needed new contacts) and Mike went to the dentist for a teeth cleaning. Despite my ongoing maternal misgivings about how good a job he actually does brushing those teeth, he had no cavities. And Caro got her new contacts today. So all that went well.
Both Paws and Sandy are settling in nicely. There have been a few unexpected dust-ups when a new cat meets one of the house regulars coming around the corner, but things are mostly settling down. The worst problem is that our oldest cat Jenny seems to be stressing out a little. She MIGHT have had a spat with the new cat, because she's limping a little, but I can't find any bites or scratches on her. Her only physical signs are a sudden eruption of extreme shedding and her nictating membranes being visible. Plus when she is out walking around and sees one of Her People (me or the clone) she does a very credible feline version of Teh Vapours. The only thing it lacks is pasting the back of her paw against her forehead, and I'm sure she would if she could. But if you snuggle her, her muscle tone is fine, and the offer of canned cat food is happily accepted. So yeah, I'm thinking she just needs a little extra babying for a bit.
I have Plans to get caught up with a bunch of stuff this weekend. We'll see how that goes.
Tuesday was All Cats to the Vet day. Paws had an appointment for his operation, and on our trips to first take him and then get him back we carried the other cats along to get their shots, per the new county health mandate after the Case of the Rabid Coyote, which I told you about recently. (They happened to have a picture of the coyote at the vet's, and it was scary! It had practically no fur, so it looked like a mummy zombie dog or something!)
The last lingering bit of weird coincidence from the trip caused poor Paws a little trouble. It just so happened that there was another cat scheduled for surgery at the vet's that morning, which looked enough like him to be his clone. Unfortunately, THAT cat was in to be spayed.... So he came home with a few more stitches than we anticipated, but he's bounding around cheerfully now, so no harm done.
The only family members who haven't had some kind of medical intervention this week are me and the dogs (and their turn for shots is coming.) Caro had to go in for an eye exam (haven't told you that story yet, but the short version is, she needed new contacts) and Mike went to the dentist for a teeth cleaning. Despite my ongoing maternal misgivings about how good a job he actually does brushing those teeth, he had no cavities. And Caro got her new contacts today. So all that went well.
Both Paws and Sandy are settling in nicely. There have been a few unexpected dust-ups when a new cat meets one of the house regulars coming around the corner, but things are mostly settling down. The worst problem is that our oldest cat Jenny seems to be stressing out a little. She MIGHT have had a spat with the new cat, because she's limping a little, but I can't find any bites or scratches on her. Her only physical signs are a sudden eruption of extreme shedding and her nictating membranes being visible. Plus when she is out walking around and sees one of Her People (me or the clone) she does a very credible feline version of Teh Vapours. The only thing it lacks is pasting the back of her paw against her forehead, and I'm sure she would if she could. But if you snuggle her, her muscle tone is fine, and the offer of canned cat food is happily accepted. So yeah, I'm thinking she just needs a little extra babying for a bit.
I have Plans to get caught up with a bunch of stuff this weekend. We'll see how that goes.
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