Whitey Wound

Kitties!

Sweet Pea here.

I have some disturbing news to report--I almost vent to the vet!

See how my fur is a little manky behind my ear?  I had an abscess that I didn't tell anyone about which drained.

Last week Mommy noticed that I was glued to the sofa for a couple of days (not my usual spot), and that my eye was a little runny.  She told Daddy that I was perhaps due for an Unpleasant Excursion if I didn't perk up.  Well the next day I was all crusty and gooey behind me ear and right away they knew what had been going on.  It's hard to say how I got punctured; I wrassle with several of my housemates daily and we are a pretty rough-and-tumble bunch when we play.

I was back to my usual sunny purrsonality as soon as I got cleaned up (thank you Daddy!), and Mommy put a warm compress on my ear off and on for two days to hiss me off encourage it to heal.

My other ear is just fine...

All the better to discharge my Guard Duty:

Making sure that this Cat Grass is eaten responsibly!

We all have been producing some spectacular green yaks...everywhere.

Happy REAL Caturday!

XX  Sweet Pea  XX

What the Heck!?

Kitties!

Every picture tells a story...and here's the story behind this image:

Daddy is a nutjob.

The longer version--Daddy's wallet wore out so he got himself a new one, and realised that the old flabby one would make a great pair of Cat ears.  It takes a Very Special sort of person to see stuff like this and believe us, our Daddy is EXTRA Very Special.

Mommy's not too far behind him, either.  Not only couldn't she wait to take a photo, she had to blog about it too!

Do you see what we have to put up with around here?

We are saints, kitties, SAINTS.

Happy Thursday!

XX  The Katnip Lounge  XX

Oh NOES! The Ebil V*E*T visit

Kitties!

The Baby here.

The past year I have had especially bad allergies.  I get tons of eye goobies and nose boogers and my ears fill up with wet wax.  Of course the Peeps do maintenance on me; Mommy uses her thumb nail to pick evict the bats from my caves and Daddy cleans my eyes and ears (and always lets me smell my Cat Wax, he's good like that).  I've been to the vet this year for a couple of steroid shots, and an antibiotic shot the time before last because my white count was high.  I also get Zyrtec when the sneezing gets out of hand.  It's just something I have and actually I'm just fine...sassy and bitey and opinionated.  And occasionally, sneezey.

Anyway, Daddy was performing his Cat Wax Removal duties Friday and decided that, this time, my ears were just a little out of hand, and I should go to the vet to have 'em looked at...and Mommy, that dirty rotten traitoress, packed me up and whisked me off to the vet Saturday morning!

I was quiet in the car--I like riding around looking at things.  I know, crazy but true.

Mommy took a little video of me waiting to see the vet.  If you turn up the sound you'll hear my grizzled croaking dulcet tones as I "meow" THREE times!

view it on YouTube HERE

And you know what?  Daddy cleaned my ears so well on Friday that there wasn't enough wax for the vet to take a sample!

::sheesh::

So now I "get" to have a broad-spectrum antibiotic antifungal anti-itchy ointment squirted and massaged into my ears once a day for the next week, which sounds worse than it is, I actually found it pretty soothing and quit scratching my ears afterwards.  Plus the peeps make a huge fuss over me when it happens, so that's good.  Hopefully this will be the last of my problems for a while--at least long enough for Mommy to stop calling me her little "Head Case"!

Insufferable Wench.

Happy Sunday!

XX  The Baby  XX