Back again!

Posted on July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged abscess, Black and white cat, came back, Cat, getting better, Gone, Injured, Tuxedo cat1 Comment

After 17 hours sleep yesterday my cat asked to be let out. He won’t use a litter tray so I had no choice. That was late last night. By lunchtime today he hadn’t come back so I went looking for him again. I called in the local vets and rang two more practices up. No sign.

Tonight as the sun started to set he sauntered in. He’s currently asleep in my armchair and I’m relegated to the one next to him. But I don’t care! He’s back again and I don’t have to post him missing again! The relief is so great. He’s like a lost lamb returned. I can’t tell you how much better I feel. And his abscess is looking a lot better too!

He’s back!

Posted on July 22, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, Found, Garden, Time, Today, Tuxedo cat, vets, Yard2 Comments

The yard my cat was in. They clearly were trying to look after him. I’ve been round and left a note explaining he needs medication daily for the abscess under his chin. Left my number. When I checked where the yard is today I found there is a gate we could have gone through. What do people think about me going in and grabbing him if he goes there again? The other two photos are of him in his carrier while I was waiting to see the vet. He’s eating and drinking but very quiet. (last photo, asleep).

Home!

Posted on July 21, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged antibiotics, Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, Found, Home, Missing, Safe, Tuxedo cat, vetsLeave a comment

After another sleepless night I got up and tried calling my cat again. I whistled and shouted but nothing. I had been concerned because when I saw him on Thursday night his chin looked strange and slightly swollen. I had decided to take him to the vets but now it was two days later and him going missing made this impossible.

A woman had contacted me to say she was his previous owner. She had not abandoned him but he had gone astray and although they had searched for months after leaving they had not found him. It was only when I put a missing post on Facebook about him that she spotted him and realised it was her old cat. With her and her husband’s help we managed to walk over rough ground round the backs of houses and flats. It was actually this lady who spotted the cat in a little hutch in a back garden. There was a bowl of water and some food nearby. When we called to him “our” cat came out but was very lethargic and just sat staring at us. It was clearly our (both of us) cat. At that point another neighbour came round the corner and climbed the fence to get the cat. It leapt over the fence and scurried off and into my garden through the hedge.

Off I went to try and catch him. The woman and her husband followed and together we got the cat into a cat carrier. I told them I would take him to the vets as he was looking really poorly. We all agreed that he should stay with me as I’d been looking after him for the last 6 years but I realised she was really upset to part with him again. I don’t think I would have been able to find him without her and her husbands help.

Eventually I made an emergency vets appointment. The vet saw he had an abscess in his jaw and gave my cat a shot of long lasting antibiotics. I also have painkiller liquid to give him. Now it’s just a case of keeping him in for a while. At the moment he’s fast asleep!…

Waiting

Posted on July 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gone, Lost, Missing, Poem, Poetry, preoccupied, strayed, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He’s still not home

I’ve been out and looked

Fed up and sad

I feel so bad.

Where has he gone?

I’ve called and looked

Rang up the vets

I’m going mad

Where has he gone

He’s gone astray

My heart will break

Please bring him back

I hope and pray

Missing cat

Posted on July 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gone, Lost, Missing cat, Sad, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat, where is he, Worried3 Comments

My cat has gone missing. He’s a large cat with a distinctive smudge on his nose. He might have got shut in somewhere if he’s found a place to sleep in the shade. I’ve looked round the garden, round the back of the house. I’ve knocked on neighbours doors. I’ve been down to the pdsa but they haven’t had him handed in. I rang the local vets, but they are closed till Monday so I rang their emergency vets but they are in Nantwich. He was abandoned by his previous owners who would not speak to the cats protection league so I was never able to get his microchip changed over. He’s a very loving cat, very big, he might have gone up to someone. All I can hope is he might be asleep somewhere because of the heat. But then he comes in for a drink and food? I don’t know what to do. Posted to Facebook.

Old golden eyes

Posted on July 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Food, Golden eyes, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Look at you with your golden eyes

Staring at me, whiskers engaged,

Ready to pounce, or yawn, or sneeze

You just do what you please.

Golden eyes, not green or yellow

But gloriously strong in colour

You know what you want

As you stare at me

Food and cuddles

Clearly!

Squashed

Posted on July 7, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged arm, Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, numb arm, Poem, Poetry, Sleeping, Tired, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He slept on my arm.

I awoke feeling squashed

Basically squished by a cat

I had to move, but arm was numb

It took ages to wake up

Then ages for my arm to wake up.

Meantime I put him on the settee

But he didn’t stay

Instead he’s gone out in the rain…

Miffed!

Cat drawing

Posted on June 29, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, companions, Friends, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sitting, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

My friend

Sitting on the chair arm

Next to me.

Staring into space

Front paws shuffle

Finding comfort

Whiskers alert.

Another cat

On the other chair arm.

Lies down

Looks at me

Where’s my tea?

Whiskers

Posted on June 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Learning, My cat, Tuxedo cat, vibrassae, Whiskers, WikipediaLeave a comment

Whiskers, white and pointed, scientific name Vibrassae they pick up on vibrations in the air, see Wikipedia :

This vibration gives whiskers their scientific name, vibrissae, from the Latin word vibrio, meaning “to vibrate.” Detecting subtle changes in air currents, cat whiskers transmit information about the size, shape, and speed of nearby objects, which helps cats navigate the world.

They are also used to express the cats emotions. When I try and stroke my cars cheek the whiskers pull backwards. When they are interested or annoyed the whiskers come forward, especially when sniffing something. And they are supposed to stick out sideways to measure the size of a gap they can get through (although cats are thinner than they look, you can see that when they get very wet!). And don’t forget the whiskers above their eyes too..

Took my cat to the vet.

Posted on June 13, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1968, Inoculations, notable event, Tuxedo cat, VaccineLeave a comment

What notable things happened today?

Inoculations time. Luckily I managed to get my cat in his carrier without a fight. I took him in the car, I always secure the carrier with the seat belt in the car because you never know what will happen if someone hits your car.

I struggled in through the door then the vet came and carried my cat box from the waiting room into the examination room. After a quick check up where the cat wanted to scramble back into the carrier, he got his injection of vaccine and the vet carried him back to the car (a lot of carrying went on in this tale). We drove back home and the cat didn’t make a sound. Home again and he was out of the basket like a shot, happy to be back.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Tuxedo cat