Cat wrangling
Dec. 30th, 2020 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anefWe got back from my mother's on Sunday afternoon, to a warm welcome from Izzy, who trompled backwards and forwards over my legs, and a lukewarm one from Raffles: "You left me - where is my fuss? No, I want proper fuss in the proper place, on the cat tree, not just where you happen to be."
It was only a couple of hours later that I noticed that Izzy had a large weeping hole in her skin under her tail, just beside her rectum. I rang the emergency vet and asked if I should bring her in now or whether it would be better to wait until the following morning when I could take her to the usual vet. "That would be Bank Holiday Monday" said the receptionist, "and your vet will be shut." Fortunately they could fit us in that evening.
Vet said he thought it was probably a bite, and it would be better not to put in stitches in case they tore, but he would clip the area round the wound and clean it out. Sent me home with antibiotics and metacam. Fortunately she will take both in cat soup, as I can't pill her (it is only by use of strategy and two humans that we can even get her into the cat basket). So at the moment she is occupying the spare room, as this is the only way I can make sure she gets the medication and Raffles doesn't, but also so she doesn't go outside. She seems quite relaxed, as under the bed in the spare room is one of her safe places anyway, and she seems happy for fuss when I go in there.
I am assuming that the bite was actually delivered by an alien cat and not Raffles. He and Izzy have always seemed to get on well, (apart from his eating most of the cat food when he gets the chance) and she wasn't particularly bothered by him being around after the incident. Also there is a large black and white cat from two doors down who is in a stand off with Raffles and whom I run off with menaces when I see him, so I'm blaming him. Though it could be one of the cats from next door who used to harass Tabitha, when she was alive, but that was over ten years ago so I'm not sure they're up to much harassment these days.
It was only a couple of hours later that I noticed that Izzy had a large weeping hole in her skin under her tail, just beside her rectum. I rang the emergency vet and asked if I should bring her in now or whether it would be better to wait until the following morning when I could take her to the usual vet. "That would be Bank Holiday Monday" said the receptionist, "and your vet will be shut." Fortunately they could fit us in that evening.
Vet said he thought it was probably a bite, and it would be better not to put in stitches in case they tore, but he would clip the area round the wound and clean it out. Sent me home with antibiotics and metacam. Fortunately she will take both in cat soup, as I can't pill her (it is only by use of strategy and two humans that we can even get her into the cat basket). So at the moment she is occupying the spare room, as this is the only way I can make sure she gets the medication and Raffles doesn't, but also so she doesn't go outside. She seems quite relaxed, as under the bed in the spare room is one of her safe places anyway, and she seems happy for fuss when I go in there.
I am assuming that the bite was actually delivered by an alien cat and not Raffles. He and Izzy have always seemed to get on well, (apart from his eating most of the cat food when he gets the chance) and she wasn't particularly bothered by him being around after the incident. Also there is a large black and white cat from two doors down who is in a stand off with Raffles and whom I run off with menaces when I see him, so I'm blaming him. Though it could be one of the cats from next door who used to harass Tabitha, when she was alive, but that was over ten years ago so I'm not sure they're up to much harassment these days.
