Not very clever... but brave.
Aug. 20th, 2008 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerI've been fooling around in an old-ish computer game called Sacred, and there's a character who has that line as an occasional blow-off after defeating an enemy. "That was brave. Not very clever, but brave."
Yesterday, I decided that, given the difficulties of herding cats, I'd take both of my cats to the vet the same day. Skitty had problems with her teeth, and Chibi had to be re-evaluated for his nose.
Well, I was right to be concerned about Skitty; her teeth problems were more serious than I thought, and they had to do an extraction on one molar that had some kind of lesion that was affecting her jaw. I thought she'd been hiding more than usual, and figured it might be because of sickness. She's on a course of antibiotics and painkillers.
Chibi... alas, last time I was there, they'd suggested he might have an autoimmune issue, but they apparently changed their minds about that. They sent me home with these capsules full of powder that I'm supposed to give him. I'm starting to hope he can swallow them whole, because other than that, I can't think of any other way to get the powder inside him.
You see, my cats graze all day on dry food, so when there's canned food out, they don't come running to gobble it up. If they did, I could sprinkle the powder on his food. But they don't have consistent eating patterns, so I'd never know which cat ate the powder.
Then again, that might change. Skitty is on a canned-food restriction for two weeks, so maybe I can train them to eat when food is set out.
(BTW: does anyone know how long it's safe to leave canned food out in the bowl?)
Anyway... wrangling two cats, with various illnesses and sensitivities is not my idea of a good time. But, it's done, and Skitty is healing and Chibi is... well, still stuck with frequent sinus infections. But maybe this powder will help. (See? This is me, being pessimistic. I think I'm going to have to push them to search him for tooth fragments.) And it's another vet visit done with, for a while at least.
Yesterday, I decided that, given the difficulties of herding cats, I'd take both of my cats to the vet the same day. Skitty had problems with her teeth, and Chibi had to be re-evaluated for his nose.
Well, I was right to be concerned about Skitty; her teeth problems were more serious than I thought, and they had to do an extraction on one molar that had some kind of lesion that was affecting her jaw. I thought she'd been hiding more than usual, and figured it might be because of sickness. She's on a course of antibiotics and painkillers.
Chibi... alas, last time I was there, they'd suggested he might have an autoimmune issue, but they apparently changed their minds about that. They sent me home with these capsules full of powder that I'm supposed to give him. I'm starting to hope he can swallow them whole, because other than that, I can't think of any other way to get the powder inside him.
You see, my cats graze all day on dry food, so when there's canned food out, they don't come running to gobble it up. If they did, I could sprinkle the powder on his food. But they don't have consistent eating patterns, so I'd never know which cat ate the powder.
Then again, that might change. Skitty is on a canned-food restriction for two weeks, so maybe I can train them to eat when food is set out.
(BTW: does anyone know how long it's safe to leave canned food out in the bowl?)
Anyway... wrangling two cats, with various illnesses and sensitivities is not my idea of a good time. But, it's done, and Skitty is healing and Chibi is... well, still stuck with frequent sinus infections. But maybe this powder will help. (See? This is me, being pessimistic. I think I'm going to have to push them to search him for tooth fragments.) And it's another vet visit done with, for a while at least.
