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[Epona]

The poor sod is trying to groom right now - he has his back leg in the air and his tongue is doing licking movements - there is no way he can bring leg and tongue together with that collar on, but I reckon he still thinks he's managing it ok. Our Jakes is not the brightest bulb.

 

[fucthest8]

Just got back from the vet - Jakey's tumour was benign and won't recur (just a small harmless fatty lump that had caused some inflammation because of where it was situated). So I am currently celebrating and having a bit of a relief-cry.

Fantastic news, really glad to hear it.


However, really shit news for colacubes, I'm really, really sorry to hear it. Feels like a lot have gone since this thread started. Just had our one with the heart condition checked up recently and whilst he's fine as far as it goes, it was a timely reminder that there's a really high chance we'll lose him early

 

[Mogden]

Does anyone else offer the end of their own cat's tail to their felines to clean?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Does anyone else offer the end of their own cat's tail to their felines to clean?

only if it's still attached to the cat...

 

[Mogden]

only if it's still attached to the cat...

I should hope so. I don't need any more vet visits Despite now having the freedom of the whole house Sachin is glued to my side and while he was having a scrub up I offered the tail end for him to groom which he duly did. I do this quite often being aware that they often can't keep hold of it long enough to give it a good ptfzz.

 

[Epona]

Does anyone else offer the end of their own cat's tail to their felines to clean?

When Sonic was little and playing he would sometimes catch sight of the end of his own tail and hunt it. Whenever he grabbed hold of it in his mouth he would start some fearsome growling with all his fur standing on end.

It was a bit "ooh, what's that, must catch it! OK, someone has grabbed my tail, not good, deploy defence mechanisms"

 

[Epona]

Radar is going for his checkup and vaccinations today.
I'm dreading it because of Jakey's tumour and surgery, you go in expecting your cat to be weighed and vaccinated and come out with a cat that needs urgent surgery.
OH told the vet on our last visit that he is not allowed to find anything wrong with Radar today. Vet held his hands up and grinned and said "just doing my job". I really like the new vet Dr Patel, he is thorough and easy to talk to, and a specialist in feline care.

 

[Cribynkle]

Radar is going for his checkup and vaccinations today.
I'm dreading it because of Jakey's tumour and surgery, you go in expecting your cat to be weighed and vaccinated and come out with a cat that needs urgent surgery.
OH told the vet on our last visit that he is not allowed to find anything wrong with Radar today. Vet held his hands up and grinned and said "just doing my job". I really like the new vet Dr Patel, he is thorough and easy to talk to, and a specialist in feline care.

Hope it all goes Ok for him - here's to a super fast and uneventful visit

 

[Epona]

Hope it all goes Ok for him - here's to a super fast and uneventful visit

Thank you, that's exactly what we want - completely routine visit: weight, ears, eyes, teeth all checked, stethoscope to listen to his heart, thermometer up the bum, vaccinations and then back home. He's 8 now so might have some blood taken to test for thyroid and kidney function and diabetes. Time goes by too quickly, it only seems like yesterday that he was a little kitten!

 

[moonsi til]

My old cat..guessing about 23/24 is still with us..I inherited Gypsy cat so not had her all this time, she was BFs dad cat so has been in the family. She went a bit loopy for a bit but that seems to have calmed down. Currently she likes to sleep on the laptop and yesterday I left a basket full of clothes half hanging out on a shelf and she was in there. Also tries to sleep on CD piles plus we have a cardboard box that is a fave too. We bought pate cat food for her as she has minimal teeth which is helping her intake but then someone suggested kitten food which is chunks but softer and that seems a hit too so we are alternating between the 2 with daily cat milk. She went missing in September and we really thought that was it..she was gone for about 2 days. BFs son got really upset although this may have been further compounded by the fact that we had all just walked in the Shropshire Hills to bury my friends cat! I'm glad she is still here & but how much longer can she really have?

 

[Epona]

Radar's checkup was drama-free (except that he tried to bite the vet!!!!)

The removal of Jakey's inflatable collar this afternoon was slighty more fraught though, as soon as it came off of course he had to have a thorough groom and scratching, and has scratched the eyelids of his right eye so now that's all sore and inflamed. I think the eye itself is fine, but it's something I will need to keep an eye on to make sure it doesn't get worse over the weekend. Anyone would think that he wanted me to put the collar back on!

 

[CRI]

Radar's checkup was drama-free (except that he tried to bite the vet!!!!)

The removal of Jakey's inflatable collar this afternoon was slighty more fraught though, as soon as it came off of course he had to have a thorough groom and scratching, and has scratched the eyelids of his right eye so now that's all sore and inflamed. I think the eye itself is fine, but it's something I will need to keep an eye on to make sure it doesn't get worse over the weekend. Anyone would think that he wanted me to put the collar back on!

Great news about Radar (and bites are an occupational hazard I'd imagine!) and sort of good news about Jakey but ouch the eyelid!

 

[Epona]

Great news about Radar (and bites are an occupational hazard I'd imagine!) and sort of good news about Jakey but ouch the eyelid!

Yeah I imagine so, and I know him, he wouldn't have bitten hard enough to break skin, it would just have been a warning nip (he's a little sod and I've been bitten by him more times than I can count, but it's never like really aggressive or anything) - even so, it's not something you want to happen when you go to the vet, and Radar can move awfully fast at times! After he tried it I kept his front end under control, which largely meant letting him put his head under my arm for comfort and holding onto him around his chest to keep him immobile!

 

[William of Walworth]

Missed all of this until now Epona -- really hope Radar is better now -- and that you are!

 

[toggle]

When Sonic was little and playing he would sometimes catch sight of the end of his own tail and hunt it. Whenever he grabbed hold of it in his mouth he would start some fearsome growling with all his fur standing on end.

It was a bit "ooh, what's that, must catch it! OK, someone has grabbed my tail, not good, deploy defence mechanisms"

ours did that when we'd first moved. i have a feeling that for a cat who had been living outdoors for a couple of years, she was going a little loopy being cooped up inside a house for a few weeks.

 

[Epona]

Jakey's eyelid is a lot better today, he has a small scratch and a small bald patch right above his eye, but the swelling and redness are gone, and his eyes are no longer watering (seriously last night his entire face was bright pink and his eyes were streaming, I was quite concerned that we would be back up the vet surgery this morning).
He's also grooming normally and not bothering the scar or the bald (shaved) area around it, so it's all good. Massive long scar though (because of where the tumour was located he pretty much had a triple mastectomy just in case), nearly as bad as Radar's from where he had an umbilical hernia fixed as a kitten.

 

[CRI]

Breeze in the back window yesterday. I love her squishy face so much.

 

[Epona]

CRI - Breeze really is gorgeous! I particularly love the expression on her face in pic #3.

 

[campanula]

Our border collie died in March, 2 months shy of her 17th year.......but I think we have turned a corner because the word 'puppy' and even 'new dog' has been heard in the campanula household in the last few days. I have already warned the ingrate offspring to expect cut-rate Xmas presents this year as we are saving for a canine indulgence of our own....

 

[Epona]

Our border collie died in March, 2 months shy of her 17th year.......but I think we have turned a corner because the word 'puppy' and even 'new dog' has been heard in the campanula household in the last few days. I have already warned the ingrate offspring to expect cut-rate Xmas presents this year as we are saving for a canine indulgence of our own....

I'm sorry to hear about your dog campanula, that's a good long life even for a border collie though! I am sure the kids will be delighted with a new dog, and any reigning in of xmas excess will be forgiven.
(Should point out however that this is the cat thread and there is a dog thread somewhere, as well as a general pets thread, but we welcome you dog-loving poster nonetheless, I think most of us love all animals).

 

[campanula]

Oh, obviously dogs really are on my mind.....I read it as 'your daily cat and dog news' (not looking terribly clearly, I confess.

I love cats too but had 2 sad episodes within 2 years and have not recovered confidence that cats can thrive in urban places but mostly because I am still too bereft.

 

[CRI]

CRI - Breeze really is gorgeous! I particularly love the expression on her face in pic #3.

Oh thank you. You'd think by now I'd just think "it's a cat face," but I think I fall in love with her again every day!

But she can also do a pretty withering side eye.

And I think still pondering if Charlie is just a really thick kitten

 

[CRI]

Our border collie died in March, 2 months shy of her 17th year.......but I think we have turned a corner because the word 'puppy' and even 'new dog' has been heard in the campanula household in the last few days. I have already warned the ingrate offspring to expect cut-rate Xmas presents this year as we are saving for a canine indulgence of our own....

Sorry to hear about your loss, but prospect of a new dog is SO exciting. I waited 30 years before I was in a position to get a dog again. Well, the cat we got 18 months ago was meant to be a dog (long story) and actually IS more like a dog and the dog is quite like a cat so well, I never know what thread to post on!

And then there are the guinea pigs of course!

 

[Epona]

Oh thank you. You'd think by now I'd just think "it's a cat face," but I think I fall in love with her again every day!

I'm like that with mine - Jakey has such a friendly and loving face and such big ears (and is an unusual colour, and monumentally clumsy and a bit daft), Sonic is so small and serious and so intense in his facial expressions (he is small but lanky with long gangly legs, he turned 8 today but still looks quite kittenish in a way, I call him kitten and little 'un), and Radar is just so bloody pretty with his irregular facial markings and huge round green eyes (and the fact that I swear he laughs regularly, he's a cat with a sense of humour and is a bit of a prankster) - every time I look at them I am taken aback by the things I love about each of them.

 

[Cribynkle]

Oh thank you. You'd think by now I'd just think "it's a cat face," but I think I fall in love with her again every day!

But she can also do a pretty withering side eye.

And I think still pondering if Charlie is just a really thick kitten

oh this was how I was with my Tallulah, she had the weirdest most squashed up face (not that Breeze does) but after I got used to it I just used to gaze at her, loving her expression. And my mum and sister in law were the same, they both exclaimed to her more then once ' oh I just love you' sounds ridiculous but she was lovely

 

[eatmorecheese]

This weeks death tally: Three pigeons and a mouse, all lovingly presented to me in the kitchen. Moz you fucker

 

[Epona]

oh this was how I was with my Tallulah, she had the weirdest most squashed up face (not that Breeze does) but after I got used to it I just used to gaze at her, loving her expression. And my mum and sister in law were the same, they both exclaimed to her more then once ' oh I just love you' sounds ridiculous but she was lovely

My parents are like that with Jakey, largely because he is SO friendly, whenever we have visitors he will take a turn on everyone's lap, he's a large (big and muscular, not fat) and loveable cat and to be honest he's not very bright, everyone who meets him remarks about how friendly he is. Sonic doesn't really endear himself to visitors, because he spends the entire time clamped onto me, he's very much a 1 person cat (and I am his person). And people who have been exposed to Radar for more than 30 seconds are typically terrified of him, because although we love him, he is actually a complete git towards other people. I once had to prise him off my dad's head, it was like a scene out of Alien.

 

[Geri]

Breeze is so beautiful! Mind you I think Sophie is a really pretty cat. I've loved all my cats but she is definitely the prettiest I've had. Spook was an evil genius, and Geri I loved dearly but she was very tomboyish. Jimmy is handsome, but not pretty.

 

[CRI]

Breeze is so beautiful! Mind you I think Sophie is a really pretty cat. I've loved all my cats but she is definitely the prettiest I've had. Spook was an evil genius, and Geri I loved dearly but she was very tomboyish. Jimmy is handsome, but not pretty.

Oh thanks! How are inter-kitty relationships going tween Sophie and Jimmy btw?

 

[CRI]

Trying to tidy with Breeze - not easy.

I think I mentioned before her habit of dragging ugly dolls from the sofabed in the spare room up the hall and into our bedroom, usually in the middle of the night, wailing like a banshee. Well, we put two boxes (like the ones in this photo) at the threshold of the spare room to keep Charlie dog out, so that can be "her" space. Somehow, she still manages to drag either Ghostie or Brip Drip up and over the boxes and down the hall. This was Ghostie's position this morning. I have no idea how she does it. They're not heavy, but they are pretty large.