Home this afternoon. Took Baubles the Cat in to the vet this morning to have an ingrown toenail seen to, and decided she may as well get her annual haircut at the same time. It’s always a traumatic exercise for all concerned – especially the veterinary staff – as Baubles the Cat loathes them and refuses to cooperate. She usually growls, spits, bites, scratches, drools and pees – and that’s before you even get her out of the cat carrier. Needless to say she has to be sedated for the whole exercise, a process that usually leaves her quite groggy afterwards.
She looks quite funny with her ‘poodle’ haircut and is rather more placid than usual at the moment (at least until the sedative wears off).
“I’d like a drink please.”
Favourite water dispenser. Guaranteed fresh.
Grooming after some lunch.
The vet didn’t seem too traumatised by the experience (I think he left the nurses to do most of the handling after she woke up), and commented that Baubles the Cat is “pretty robust” for her age (almost 15).
Turns out Baubles had not one, but two ingrown toenails – one on each front paw – and the left paw was a bit pus-ey (how do you talk about pus around cats? “The cat was pussy”?). We’re going to have to give Baubles antibiotics in tablet form for the next week or so. This could be fun painful. I rejected the idea of getting the meds in a paste because Baubles refuses to cooperate with medication given in the Smear-the-paste-on-cat method – she doesn’t lick the spot and ignores it, letting it go all crusty. I swear she thinks we are trying to poison her or something.
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First you get your hair cut and then Baubles eh? Number 3 all over? At least she’ll be cool for the summer. She looks so peeved! LOL!
At least Baubles demonstrates equal disdain for all vet personnel. My mum’s cat is racist and loathes Indian vets. It’s so embarrassing.
I HATE pilling cats.. I’m scared I’ll get it down their bronchial tubes.
Hi Penny, yes, Baubles the Cat needed a haircut – more than me! She gets very matted because she refuses to allow us to brush her. That peeved expression? It’s her regular face!
One of the vets Baubles sees blanches when he sees it’s her. I don’t know why she hates vets so much – she’s always been like this.
I woke up several times in the night thinking about the next week – we have to give Baubles a quarter of a tablet twice a day, and there are FOUR tablets. The whole household is going to be so traumatised…
A friend of mine has a female dog who hates men. Both her humans are females and the last time they had to travel, they booked someone to come in to feed her each day, but instead of the woman they thought they’d booked turning up, a bloke did. The dog went nuts, wouldn’t let the man anywhere near the door -he had the keys, but the huge dog behind the door was too much. He ended up ringing the owners and saying, “What do i do? she won’t let me in the door!!” I think they had to wait for his female colleague to show up.
Did the dog have a bad experience with a guy or something? How does she react when she sees guys out and about on a walk, or something like that??
Watch out M. How long is your hair now, and how long will it stay that way?
Nougat was knocked out by the vet last week to have a grass seed removed from her ear. For the rest of the afternoon, I had a groggy cat staggering all over my desk.
Did Baubles do that “spooky cat eye skin” thing? Nougat’s muscles were so relaxed that she couldn’t keep the bottom fold of skin from covering half her eyeballs. Freaked me out.
BTW, this post hasn’t shown up for me in Bloglines yet. Nothing from Ruminations since 24 Nov.
Thanks for mentioning the feed, Kathryn – your comment must have unstuck it, because not long after the feed appeared updated in Bloglines! I’d noticed that it wasnt updating and was pondering my options.
M’s hair is independent of any other decisions that affect the hair in the rest of the household, I think, although he has been growing a wee beard lately.
Oh, and no, this time around Baubles didn’t get so much sedative that her inner eyelids went wonky – it has happened before though. Always weird when that happens!!
Hi CW! I used to give my cats oral medicine using a syringe. I would pull on the extra skin on their scruff (that somehow calms them down a bit) and insert the syringe in from the sides of their mouth. Maybe it wont work with the new generation cats 🙂
Hi Israd! Syringes don’t work very well with Baubles – she fights and won’t stay still. Holding her scruff just makes her angry… and Baubles is scary when she gets angry…