The Anatomy of a Nap

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Looks like the first activity of the Hurricane Season

will be visiting Florida this weekend.

😒

 

C'mon Mom

I'm not sure I like what I'm hearing!

 

Feline Follies

I have to do something with this towel.

Let me see.

How can I get it to go where I want it?

Scratch scratch....

Scratch.

I can't get it in the right spot.

But I'm going to keep trying!

 

Sunday afternoon naps

Ahhhh this is how I roll!

 

Feline Friday

She has such a beautiful angelic face.

 

Feline Friday

I've got her attention!

 

Fluffy

I look like I'm on a puffy cloud.

And I look very fluffy.

Believe me it's ALL fluff too.

Mom is doing all she can to fatten 

me up, and I'm not complaining!

 

Frisky Friday

You're getting a little too close Mom!

 

Sunday Quiet

Can we now get back to some regularly scheduled programming?

Like naps and squirrel watching?

 

Is It Over Yet?

It's been a wild two weeks for Miss Annabelle.

But, it's probably longer than that because we all

know how well cats hide their pain.

I say that because of the amount of weight she had lost.

I believe she had cut back on her eating by a lot

 because her mouth was bothering her with that

abscessed tooth. I won't ever know but that's what I

suspect.

But the Vet (unscheduled) visit was April 11th and 

then all the fall out from the antibiotics or pain meds or

both gave Annabelle a gastro upset which made her

feel awful. Then her Dental work wasn't able to be

scheduled until April 21.

I had to take her in at 7:30 am but the dental didn't begin

until after 1pm. HUH?

To be expected she's sore and swollen and eating

little meals. I know she's miserable but I keep

hoping for that morning where she turns the corner.

She has dissolvable stitches. Does anyone know

(I read that it can take up to a month)

how long they take to dissolve?

My interaction with the actual "Vet" has been

a big fat "0".

Even when the dental was done it was the tech calling

me. The tech has been great but I've only spoken to

a Vet once for about 3 minutes when Annabelle was

first looked at. I don't like this approach,

especially since I had called and asked to directly

speak to the Vet because I had questions.

The tech apologized and gave me the excuse

that the Vet had emergency surgery and couldn't call,

so that's why she was calling me.

Ummmmm....really?

Sounded like an excuse.

But that's all water under the bridge and the only

thing I can do is find another Vet.

Always something. Always.

At this point I just want Annabelle to feel more

like herself again, and be healthy.

 

Sweetness

*Resting*

UPDATE:

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It was a rough day for Miss Annabelle yesterday.

She lost three teeth on both sides of her mouth.

She has dissolving stitches and it's bothering her.

She was very uncomfortable when she came home.

She wanted food but couldn't eat it.

No matter how watery I made it.

She is swollen more on the left side of her jaw this morning.

I was able to give her the pain meds.

She struggled but finally I got it in her.

I again offered her watered down food.

She has eaten. But I think the small meals are

probably a better option for her today.

I will keep trying to give her small amounts.

She is grooming and going potty.

As worried as I am I think she is doing OK.

I just want to help her so badly and there's not 

a lot I can do..

***

Just send her some purrs.

 

Purrs for Annabelle

Please keep Annabelle in your thoughts today.

She will have her Dental procedure today.

***

I'm going to be a wreck.

 

Our Not So Good Lousy Week

Annabelle and I had a time of it last week and well,

to be honest this week probably won't be a whole lot

better.

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Last weekend I noticed she was 'off' and not wanting to

eat. So I called on Saturday to talk with her Vet office.

They didn't have an opening until the following Friday,

so I said I knew they had "emergency" visits that had an

additional "FEE" and what was the availability of that?

I was told it was a first come first serve from 9-12 and 2-4.

(To be honest with you I think this is a way for them

to make an additional $20 off of you)

Anyway I took her in on Monday.

***

It was a strange visit but then it was an emergency visit.

They took her to the back but let me sit in a room by myself.

The Vet came in briefly to see me and told me Annabelle 

had a bad tooth and to schedule a dental as it needed to be

removed. Gave me antibiotics and metacam for pain.

***

Dental couldn't be scheduled until April 21st.

Yeah nearly two weeks at that point.

All I could do was schedule it and hope the pain 

in Annabelle's mouth subsided. 

***

It did.

BUT.....she got very sick with diarrhea.

I mean it was awful.

For her and for me.

I had to put her in the bathroom overnight

and when I got up the next morning.

Let's just say it was a disaster zone.

Her bottom was caked so I had no

choice but to give her a bath to her bottom.

Welp there was blood shed.

Mine.

It was a low point.

She was soaking wet and I was wounded.

But she got her butt washed.

***

I tried to call the Vet office, left a message.

She continued to have issues.

I stopped both antibiotics and pain meds.

She needed to get her system back in line.

I had to put her back into the bathroom that next

night.

***

I set up cameras both nights to keep an eye on her.

She managed to knock off one of the 

cameras into her water bowl so I'm one 

camera down now.

*sigh*

***

But she nearly back to her normal self on Friday.

It felt like such a (short term) relief.

I called the Vet office BACK because I had

 called from the day before & not heard back.

The techs were real nice, and it turned out

that the Tech called me back not the Vet as I

requested. I mean c'mon. I know it's not the

Tech's fault, and I didn't even suggest it was

to her or even now, but I needed to talk to

the Vet. I had questions about the Dental.

I wanted to make sure they knew no more 

metacam. Annabelle can't tolerate it.

***

So even though the Vet said to keep up the antibiotics

I didn't. I will start her up on them again

next week prior to Thursday when she goes in

for the Dental. I don't know how good I feel 

about this, but she's got to get this done.

***
I may be shopping for a new Vet.

BTW this Hospital, has 5-6 Vets. You never know

who you'll see. I mean if you have plenty of 

time you can request a certain Vet but you'll wait for

a few weeks to get an appointment.

I understand if it's just a routine appointment,

but most of the time a pet becomes sick

and you need to be seen as soon as possible.

So I can see ASAP means an additional $20.

Which is on top of their $75 normal "wellness check".

***

I don't know about anyone else but it's hard budget 

wise right now and I'm not saying I won't give my

girls their medical care, but between all of this and the Dental

(which is four figures depending on the # of teeth they pull)

I'm about tapped out.

I mean there goes the cushion.

***
Big huge sigh.

Just want my baby to be OK.

 

These Are My Toys

Do you think you have enough toys in there Annabelle?

 

Crashing the Toy Box

Is anyone watching?

 

It's Already April!

Mom says it's the First of April.

And I say so?

What April?

It's April Fool's Day!

I'm no fool though!

 

SHOCK

Call us shocked!

***

I've had some problems with some neighbors.

Minor things since they've moved in.

What they say doesn't match what they do.

Those kind of folks.

***

A few weeks ago after a skirmish with some underbrush

being removed between our properties, (and since finding out

that it isn't their property -- it's a utility easement)

from what they deemed was their property, they came

over and fussed and fumed and issued a dire

warning NOT TO DO IT AGAIN!

They also stopped the people I PAID to do the work.

This is the underbrush. It's thick and had lots of thorny vines.

There was problems with bees building their nests,

snakes, and debris falling all the time.

Last year one of their medium sized trees fell into my yard.

Did they help?

No I had to hire someone to cut it up and remove it.

***

Anyway....

Last week they came over and asked if we'd

seen their rooster??? I hear their rooster

I've never seen it.

They have an 8 foot privacy fence.

So the rooster was missing. Feathers had been 

found by their cars on the other side of their property line

from mine. But they had seen some cats.

Of course they were accusing the outdoor

cats of taking off with their rooster.

Ummmm....

***

I honestly do not believe the cats had anything to do 

with this.

I know I'm being biased with my thinking,

but the cats that were seen were probably alerted to the smell

of the kill. These cats do no go hungry and the chicken coop

has been in existence for over a year.

The missing feathers were over on the other side of their

property.

***

I have tried to just not have any interaction

with these people as they are not very likeable.

I imagine they think the same of me. 

I just hope they don't try to do anymore 

to those innocent cats.

Two of them have been shot with bb's.

When I mentioned that fact to them they were

quick to deny it was them.

Strange though that this only happened

after the chicken coops were put up.

But, I don't know for sure it was them,

just like them I have my suspions.

***

But, since they have a free roaming cat I was

warning them.

Someone shot two of my cats.

I didn't go over and ask them when it happened.

I didn't go over and insinuate it was them.

Like they did with me.

I didn't go over and ask for assistance.

I just dealt with it.

***

If you have a chicken coop,

make it so other predators can't get in.

We have all kinds of predators in my wooded

neighborhood.

Raccoons, possums, foxes, snakes, bears...

I mean it could be any type of predator.

***

I know cats could be the culprit, but I doubt

the ones I feed were.

 

What IS that?

She's on top of the mattress which was being adjusted and it's near 

the ceiling fan which she is noticing for the first time.

***

She's thinking can I swing from this thing?

 

Happy Spring

Oh look what today is!

It's the first official day of spring.

Our weather has been up and down,

and really we've had very little 'spring'.

It's more like summer-light.

But after having freezing conditions last weekend

we hope for the sake of all the new blooms

that is all as far as freezes go.

 

Naptime

Sometimes a good yawn is all it takes..

Think I'll take a nap now.