More vets who have never met a cat

[susandennis]

No Stitches No More!

I killed as much time as I could and still got there 40 minutes early. They didn't care one bit. I probably could have just dropped in on Monday and they would have taken the stitches out.

The usually mute Biggie bitched the entire time he was in the car and in the vets. He was clearly not enjoying the adventure.

I barely had time to shoot an Instagram photo before they came to get him. And they didn't even have him long. The woman (vet?) who took him and brought him back told me to keep the collar on for two more days. And keep him quiet.

Ok, I said. NFW, I thought.

They emailed the follow up info and there's a section that is pretty hilarious.

(Almond Joy is Biggie's real name.)

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Discharge Instructions:
Activity:
• Almond Joy can resume normal activity in 1 week. Until that time please continue to limit running, jumping and playing.
Incision care:
• The incision has healed and the sutures were removed.
• Almond Joy may want to lick the incision for the next 2-3 days. If this is the case, please use the E-collar to prevent her from licking or chewing at the area.
• No bathing for another 7 days.

Thank you for bringing Almond Joy to see us. He is a very sweet cat and was a pleasure to work with.

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No bathing for another 7 days?????? No bathing????? What about appearances on Jeopardy and taking up the cello? I mean if we are going to start listing things that are never going to happen ever anyway.

So, yeah, we got home and The Smalls was so excited. It was adorable. Once everyone was on the couch, I pulled the pillow collar off and let him lick around. He licked all over everywhere EXCEPT his scar. And he and The Smalls licked each other.

So I put his real collar on him and declared it good. And this is the current state of us.



I feel like we have been broken for two weeks and now we're fixed. And it feels pretty excellent,

gracegiver did a very cool 1 Sec a Day video and posted it today. I gave that up after a month last time and now I'm sorry I have not done 1 Sec a Day of Cats! So I redownloaded the app and Friday we will begin November's edition. Better late than never.

Now I am going to move my butt from this couch to the sewing room and get to work.

Comments

[galebird.livejournal.com]

I want to see either of them take of the cello. I would pay actual cash money for that show. That is strange how they gave so many instructions that are exactly as you describe, like they've never met a cat! It's nice to see everyone whole and happy. May this be the last (mis)adventure for a very, very, very long time!

[susandennis]

Thanks. Sounds like a great plan to me.

[annabelle50.livejournal.com]

Jeopardy and the cello, haha!

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

I laughed, as well, over Jeopardy and the cello :)
Truth be told, I have never kept a cone on a cat as long as they've told me to, it just seems so uncomfortable.
I'm sure Biggie is happy to have his normal old life back!

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

They look so cute all snuggled together. : )

[opakele.livejournal.com]

kitty had a cone after abscess surgery. It damned near broke us it was so horrible.

I don't blame you one little bit.

Freedom!

[sweetmeow]

Personally I think you did very well keeping that cone on for as long as you did!

Almond Joy?! 🤣 I can't help it -- I laughed out loud! What a fabulous name!!

Bathing? *more hilarity* Oh yeah, that's something I do for my cats even though handle that just fine all by themselves!

Maybe they'd do just fine on Jeopardy -- the "Cat Knowledge" edition, of course.

[susandennis]

Their names - assigned by the Humane people, I guess - are Almond Joy and Mars Bar. They asked me, when I adopted them, what I was going to change their names to. I said change??? Heck no! Those names are adorable. But then I got them home and Biggie was so big and The Smalls was so small that they just got nick names. But all their paperwork from Humane and at the vets says Almond Joy and Mars Bar.

I'll trim nails all day long but give a cat a bath???? NFW. Of course, my cats never go outside so really they don't need baths.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, who bathes a cat? Unless they get into something really yucky, I guess.

(I have actually seen intstructions for bathing a cat. Long, strong gloves are recommended.)

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

Well, shoot. So much for the bubble bath. Hahahahahha

[susandennis]

what a great visual!!

[subzerorefriger.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Sounds like a great plan to me.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why people bathe cats anyway. As far as I'm concerned that's a built-in function and it works perfectly. Loving the two of them washing off the entire experience!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

limit running, jumping and playing. Oh, hahahahaha.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I'm glad he is freed!
I've never used a preventative collar or cone on any of my cats and the world hasn't ended.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

No bathing. Lol