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Vet bill for a further inspection, over and above my finding, opening, and disinfecting two punctures - they found 4 more including one on a toe - plus a 14 day antibiotic shot, and a blood test. $ Au 232.76.
The silly old bastard doesn't get that he's not up to it anymore.
It gets worse. He needs dental work - stage 2/3 problems! Next Thursday the 5th he goes in. $Au $400 to $ 700 depending on what they find.
Irony is that I'll be trying to persuade a general surgeon to do a fix on my LHS inguinal hernia that AM, myself.
Good things? Just like last time he didn't make a fuss on the way there or back, or while I was filling the car. Thankfully it was not a hot nor even sunny late Summer's day.
He is now worth over $Au 6K.
IF you look closely you can see a handful of earlier scars, but no more than a quarter of them.
Life, eh?!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/26/15 02/26/15Follow Ups:
My old kitty, Renfield by name, never lived long enough. He had a fatal confrontation with a BUICK and lost.
But until than? He was head cat, pretty much.
Don't forget (your vet knows) that cats abcess like crazy. My guy came home with some deep wounds and I would trim all the hair away and use Hydrogen Peroxide 2x or 3x daily until healed.
Cat put up with it without complaint.
Too much is never enough
don't I know it.
That's why I was pulling hair off him when he came back inside before 5.
But I couldn't fund them all.
see more recent post above.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
It's a multi-species trait.
;-)!!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Maybe time to keep it in the house ?
Hey, he's getting his ass kicked all time time. What ya think ?
If you like vet bills, well OK. Carry on.
He has been an outdoor cat with a big range, and is nearing 15 years, so it will be difficult to get him to accept it.It might be a little more smelly inside, with him using the tray all the time.
But he will be safer. He is very good at getting out, very determined.
Extract from a post in 2010?
"BLOODY cats - 'Brown snakes', and now the grand cat-fight and vet bills saga looms again, insect screen upgrades /repairs. All against his new escape plan I! PLUS a temporary fix* and a redesign for the 'cat-flap/laundry door system'. %^$#@@!*&&!!!!, against new escape plan II!!
* a line of milk crates which fit very tightly across the door way, and thus block access to the plastic swinging flap now cracked and re-glued. More? Yes! the milk crate across the flap has a hardboard (masonite?) base glued in. ? To obviate body charges and paw punches!
He's a determined old boofhead of a cat, isn't he?! ;-)
Permanent solution to method II will be 3 sides of 3mm slot guttering (like a J in profile?) about 25mm wide in alloy strip, two 45degree joints, and a 3mm MDF rectangle to slot down into it from the open side, plus a locking bolt at the top, so he can't dig his claws in and lift it up and out.
All fixed (by 6 or more screws thru the wider edge of the strip) to the inside of the existing timber surround for the pet-flap. In fact one of the versions of the material I used to hold the insect screens into the aluminium window frames is ideal. You remember? the two strips per screen screwed in on either side - to discourage George from popping them out a year or so back?
Maybe I should add spikes on the inside surface? Like the anti-elephant spikes on the outsides of the armoured gates to old castles in India?
Next is how to stop him breaking out via method 1, by ripping the wire mesh out of the bottom corner of insect screens. And the hot weather is coming? Sliding windows! Upgrade the mesh / the long retainer of ribbed push-in rubber strip. Or electrify the mesh? Rods to control the width of opening and reinforce just that part of the mesh? Ugly."
I eventually had to put special mesh on some windows and screw the screens down with aluminium strips so he couldn't pop them out. which was the next thing he learned to do.
We will not be getting any replacement cats, so all this will be in the past in a few years, and we want to travel.
I confess this is a bit of a wrench for us both, but we are over the worrying.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/26/15
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