This is my lovely cat relaxing in the garden last year. Right now she is at the vet having blood tests and scans because she seems to have ‘lost her mojo’. She’s getting on a bit – in her mid-teens, but has been very healthy until the last few days.
So now I have to wait and worry – and hope. We invest so much time and love into our pets, and they give us so much in return – not least, unconditional love and acceptance.
Sitting in the waiting room at the vet’s surgery I looked round at the other ‘patients’. One very young and enthusiastic spaniel wanted to make friends with every other dog there – including a VERY large labrador/retriever who wasn’t quite so keen… The spaniel was obviously a novice at the vet’s and hasn’t yet learned to be terrified of going! Others, more experienced, sat and shivered under their owner’s legs as if waiting for a call to the gallows. Yet I have been told that once in the surgery, most dogs become compliant and soppy and let the vet do whatever he/she needs to!
Cats, on the other hand, are usually much calmer and more laid back as they wait their turn. They sit in their carry cases and usually look bored or go to sleep – until they are called into the surgery where they become vicious, spitting, almost rabid, feline monsters as they try and fight the vet!
Contrary creatures.
So I sit and wait for a call from the vet to say when I can collect my poorly cat, and I just hope they have found the problem and more importantly, a solution – preferably one that doesn’t involve too many tablets. Administering tablets to a cat is a whole new blog!
ALIVE AND CREAKING 