Friday, November 12, 2004

The Kitty Is Surviving

Well, the cat has officially made it an entire week without destroying anything or having anything bad happen. The day after we got him he had a blown pupil, but that's almost healed. His one eye was completly dialated. It was huge. It still detected light, because he would squint, but it wouldn't contract. Weird.

The vet said that happens sometimes, though. Apparently they have a long optic nerve, and things like trauma or infection can inflame it and cause these kinds of problems. He didn't really know the cause, but he pulled the standard doctor trick: He gave us some antibioitics and said to check back if it didn't get better. We wonder if it was just a side effect of the anisthetic from the surgery. Who knows? At least it's getting better though.

We also put some "soft paws" on Mosby. He was scratching us quite a bit. Not on purpose, just when he lays down he likes to alternate stretching out each of his paws. It's actually kind of like a mini massage, but it can hurt when he gets you just right. We didn't want to get him declawed yet because, frankly, we don't want to spend the cash until we know he isn't going to keel over on us from his eye thing. So we got these little caps to glue onto his claws. It was a fairly easy thing to do.

The funny part has been watching Mo get used to not having claws. He likes to walk along the back of our chair, stand up on the back, and bat at the blinds. Well, since he doesn't have claws he can't hold himself up. He keeps wiping out and falling off the chair. It's pretty hilarious. And now the little mini-massages are quite nice. Of course, they aren't nice at 5:30 in the morning like today, but they're nice at other times.

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