May 24, 2009
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If it's not one thing, it's another, as Joe consolingly noted this afternoon.
Now Magellan's all squared away, Zeus had to go back to the vet today. Fortunately the PetsMart vet is open on Sundays from noon til five so a highly unhappy Zeus-in-a-box and I were there right at twelve. Yesterday she'd begun limping due to her left hip, and holding her right front paw up (this made walking quite the challenge), meowing, wanting to eat but then refusing to, etc.
After a thorough examination - under light sedation - and a couple of x-rays, it turns out one of the joints where she was declawed a dozen or more years ago has begun growing bone again, causing her chronic pain. It may eventually have to be removed. The hip looked fine on the x-ray, so the suspicion is she pulled a tendon the other night when weaving and falling down due to having been put out. She's got a cyst and a gum infection (along with a tooth so bad it's about to fall out), and that's probably why she's been off her feed the last day or two.
She's on antibiotics and a painkiller, scheduled to go back for a recheck and shortly thereafter have her teeth worked on.
Considering how little the cat's cost us over the last eleven years, I suppose I shouldn't complain too much. Truth is, I'm vastly relieved that it wasn't anything awful. Zeus may be a bad-tempered, unfriendly cat, but she's MY bad-tempered, unfriendly cat and I love her dearly.
It's just a pity Zeus dislikes Magellan so intensely. Last night she was feeling poorly enough she'd just be laying, and here'd come Magellan to attack her tail. Zeus did not find that amusing. She was also unenthusiastic when I brought her home and took her back to the bedroom, leaving her in the carrier as I mulled over how to enclose her in my bathroom (it's one of those two-parters, with the toilet and tub area having a door, while the sink and linen closet area doesn't). Not only did she want out of the carrier PDQ, Magellan scampered up and sat bang in front of its door, staring at her like an exhibit in a zoo.
Zeus did not appreciate being stared at in that manner, growling fiercely at the kitten. Finally had to just dump Magellen outside in the hall and close the door. He's not much for taking "no" for an answer or respecting other's space.
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well, ferpetesakes...when I got this in my email, the order in which these two posts was reversed, with this one coming on top, while the lolcat picture was on the bottom, so I could just see the ears. As I read about poor Zeus and silly rascally Magellan, I assumed those ears must belong to him...the picture just fits perfectly with the part of your story where he parked himself in front of the cat carrier and gazed at Zeus as if at a zoo exhibit!!! hahahha! kittens. What fun.
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