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Buster, our Croydon tom, at leisure. He's what happens when you take a nice puss and put it on the street for years, so poorly developed body, scars and missing teeth. We took him in and had his impressive balls snipped after years of having him fighting and fucking around the neighbourhood. He sent a neighbour's cat to the vet so we decided it was retirement time for the old boy, especially after we saw a festering wound on his head. He sent me to hospital on the verge of blood poisoning after he bit me when I tried to pick him up once. I now read his moods much better and we play and cuddle and do all the things he missed out on as a kitten. Don't eat fried chicken around him-he'll take it in a flying leap and get really fucking feral.

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I got in the other evening to see Missy fast asleep on the sofa. I had a shower and got changed, got myself a drink and sat down to read, and still she hadn't moved. I started to get a bit paranoid, stupidly (think "Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest" in Father Ted), so I touched her back and she eventually woke up. That must've been one seriously deep sleep.
 
Our other rescue, Edward, rescued from Edward Street which is around the corner from us. He was in a terrible state when they first got him but he has become a loving, gentile, tactile cat who we find under the covers when we go to bed. The other cats let him pretend to be the boss, feigning alarm as His Royal Highness enters the room. Often has a stinky head. When we got him his inner eyelids were almost always half over (stress?) but now he sees all.

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Our other rescue, Edward, rescued from Edward Street which is around the corner from us. He was in a terrible state when they first got him but he has become a loving, gentile, tactile cat who we find under the covers when we go to bed. The other cats let him pretend to be the boss, feigning alarm as His Royal Highness enters the room. Often has a stinky head. When we got him his inner eyelids were almost always half over (stress?) but now he sees all.

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Perfectly coordinated brickwork and cat there :)

Sunny and Moony now like each other so much they snuggle together and groom each other. I'm sure it helps that Moony is very much top cat and Sunny is happy to be subservient.

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Impressive for adult cats. Ours were all adults when introduced and we're down to one punch up a day after a few years. Two if they've been too lazy to go outside.

I'm amazed. And they're both so very good with the baby - perhaps it helps that I take the baby down to "help" feed the cats every day, so they associate her with good things. The baby has also heard "no eating cat food!" so much that she automatically shows me her empty mouth when sitting with them at their bowls. :D
 
Because I am entirely without financial support from income or benefits, I’m already relying on charity from friends. They’ve set up a GoFundMe campaign for me which is basically saving me from penury. So I can’t ask for any more help. But this vet bill, even with the discount, punches a huge hole in the fund.

I may have to reinstate the credit card I think.


An update on this situation...

The lovely wonderful locum vet who took pity on me set up the GoFundMe campaign, which went live yesterday morning, and has now made the target for my One-eyed-cat’s dental bill!

I’m just amazed, and so delighted, and so very grateful. He is now booked in for the pre-surgery checks next Tuesday morning.

It turns out that all the animal care charities ask to see documentation to prove that you’re on benefits, so that wasn’t possible in the end.

And I wanted to say a huge Thank you on here to the poster who topped off the campaign and brought it up to the necessary amount.

What on Earth would we do without Community...
 
And they're both so very good with the baby

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The lovely wonderful locum vet who took pity on me set up the GoFundMe campaign, which went live yesterday morning, and has now made the target for my One-eyed-cat’s dental bill!

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We appear to have two baby elephants running up and down the landing, and have had for a goodly while now. This running up and down has been interspersed with bouts of some play fighting and some not-so play fighting both on the landing and either side of the bedroom door.

They now are running up and down and are managing to bounce on the slightly loose floor board with unfailing regularity

Mrs Voltz has managed to get back to sleep
 
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