Snafu Update.

[linden_jay]

My catten is home.

He's still walking funny, he's got shaved patches where he had to have IVs put in, and he keeps following us from room to room, chirping and purring and looking worried that we're going to send him away again. He's never been a lap cat, ever, and we can't sit down without him trying to jump onto our laps... and then usually falling down again, because he's on kitty valium (and prednisone), and it makes him walk like he's failing a sobriety test on the side of the road. Technically, I suppose, he would be considered unsafe to drive with the drug levels he's on, even without the whole being a cat thing.

I'm never going to hear the end of it from my dad for paying $700 in vet bills for an eight year old cat that I adopted from the SPCA. And yet he's the one who's always scolding me for letting them be indoor only cats... despite the fact that when I was eight and we lived in this exact same duplex, my cat was killed by a car in our cul-de-sac. We'll manage. We always do. Snafu's a member of the family. He's traveled back and forth from Vancouver with us when we lived there, he and his sister made the trip across Canada in a moving van when we moved to London, ON, and then he made the flight back. And my dad might not like to hear it, but I'd have paid more, if it meant getting him back healthy and alive.

I'm probably also never going to hear the end of it over giving the cats filtered water (on the vet's advice) instead of tap water, and for the wet food that we need to give Boo for the next month (hi there, gooshy food, forty dollars a freakin' case good GOD). That's just too bad. If it keeps this from happening again? It's worth it.

Thank you so much for all your good thoughts and wishes, and for listening to me worry and fuss about my kittyboy. I know he's "just" a cat... except he's not. He's my cat.

Comments

[anorienparker.livejournal.com]

Glad he's okay!

IMO there's no such thing as "just a cat". I have an aunt who says that all the time. She's a cat owner too, but to her, her cat (named Puss-Puss incidentally (?) ) is as valuable as a throw pillow.

Hope he continues to do well and is back to his old snafu self asap. :)

[linden-jay.livejournal.com]

He is finally doing okay. He's still kind of tired and not quite his old self, and he thinks that his new food sucks, big time, but he's gonna be all right.

Definitely no such thing as 'just a cat'. And you do not stop loving your pets when kidlet people come along. Not that it's ever going to be an issue for you, just, like, countering things my dad has said.

mwah!

[bunnysummers.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! YOur beautiful kitty is back home! I totally understand where you're coming from and have myself spent buckets o' cash on my various cats. In fact, I had 2 cats (litter mates) who were diabetic and had to have insulin shots twice a day for 10 years. lol There's little you can tell me about $$ spent on the 4-legged babies because over the years, I have spent a truckload on all of them, but the joy I experience from their companionship is a more than fair trade-off.

[linden-jay.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, diabetic kitties. That'd be a hard one. The way I figure it is that if it was an issue of prolonging his suffering, but not 'healing' him, or making him be able to be healthy in some way (like managed diabetes), I couldn't do it... I'd have to make the hard decision. But when we're talking something fixable? No brainer.

And thank you for the yays! I'm finally feeling like I got my brain back from worrying so hard.