Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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The Cage Fighters
by admin - 23:59 on 17 January 2013
The surgery was successful and without complications, you'll be relieved to hear; The Fearless Ones are now the end of their genetic lines.
Pandora was snipped just in time, we were told – our tabby kitten was almost in season. We'd already guessed that by her urgent desire to be outdoors.
They returned home woozy, sporting Regency bonnets and holes in their fur. Poor Pandora's is particularly large, although both kittens' incisions were less than a centimetre. Willow had begun to perk up by the time I left The Rural Retreat (I did offer to stay) for a Strawdogs rehearsal but Pandora, after an impressive bid for freedom which saw her hide under the bed, the stairs and the dining table, relapsed into a druggy doze.
Both were placed in the puppy crate last occupied by a convalescent Tess, which should have kept them safe and quiet, but an even more perky Willow had to be separated from her sister by a fraught Matchgirl. Maia, unnerved by too much activity and strange vet smells, was banished upstairs after one hiss too many at the kittens. I reckon she took the opportunity to get her own back when they couldn't respond.
I came home to find both back in their cage after brief spells outside for a light supper and the opportunity to use the litter trays. Occasional scuffles suggest that both are feeling better and that full recovery won't take long. They return to Dr Death's in ten days to have their stitches removed.
Today's Snapathon shot features two woebegone kittens in their carriers, but as my Mac lives in The Kittenry I'm currently unable to process the picture, which I suspect is a happy snap rather than an example of photographic excellence.
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