Monday, October 15, 2007 , the wee hours

Carlo is doing well

Sorry I didn’t update this sooner—Carlo is doing much better as of today (Sunday), and I think he’ll be back to his normal self within the next day or so.  Earlier this evening he made a huge jump from a tall cat tree to the top of a piece of furniture, so he’s obviously comfortable moving and stretching.  He just has a couple of moments in a day when he gets a bit glassy-eyed and spacey, and I think it’s when he’s having twinges of pain.  It took him a very long time to settle down after we brought him home from the vet (the second time), and Flippy sat up with him until almost 8am Saturday morning, waiting for his pain meds to kick in and for him to relax.  Carlo had more discomfort from his neuter than I’ve ever seen a female cat have from a spay.

I’m glad it seems that this event has come to a close.  I desperately want another “inexpensive” surgery when we have Bunny spayed, but I don’t want to pay the emotional price.  We have a low-income cat clinic in town which only charges $25, and I could get her into that, but I’d again worry about shortcuts and mishaps.  I guess we’ll take her to our regular vet, and pay over $250, but we’ll know that she’s in hands we’ve trusted for many years.  We would have normally had both Bunny and Carlo taken in for surgery at the same time, but we chose to have Carlo done first because we couldn’t afford to pay for both right now (especially with Dobby needing shots and TJ being ill).  We figured that with Carlo as the only unneutered male in the house it made the most sense to have him fixed first, but Bunny’s day will come before the end of the month.  At least for now, she and Carlo have stopped doing what Flippy referred to as, “sexy wrestling”. 

TJ has had a sinus infection (just one nostril) for the last couple of weeks, and he started to feel better this weekend.  He’s eating normally, but is still a bit weak.  Dobby exhibited no adverse affects from her disastrous veterinary visit, but today she was in a foul mood and didn’t want to eat.  She was eating well by the evening, so I think she might have a tooth/teeth coming in, and her mouth was sore.  I have scratches on my face because I dared to try to pick her up earlier today.  She wants to be a sweet cat, and she likes to be touched and petted, but only on her terms.  Sometimes she runs up to us for attention, and other times she runs from us like we’re going to try to eat her.  That’s just silly, because she’s not nearly big enough to eat yet.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 10/15 at 02:23 AM
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