Cats
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:24 am
i love dogs, and mrs humbucker is dog mad as she always had a dog when she was growing up, but due to the amount of time we're on the road it would be unfair for us to have one. we'll be wandering through town and i'll turn around to find mrs humbucker missing, and when i retrace my steps i find her playing with some dog or another. most people don't mind but you do get the odd sour faced old bat that takes great offence and thinks their dog is about to be stolen! especially if it's some poor mutt tied up to a bench while its owner pops off to buy some new blue rinse!
so instead we have one of the world's coolest cats, 'willow'. she was essentially a rescue cat. we have been through quite the ordeal with her this week as she went missing for four days, presumed brown bread. 6 hours a day of searching every outhouse, barn, shed, field, dyke, road, hedgerow and river bank (we live in the middle of nowhere, very rural). nothing. until yesterday morning when she returned home battered. i thought the river had taken her as it's very close to the house and tide has been very high this week (it's a huge river) so you can imagine my surprise when she limped up the garden path. i genuinely thought i was hallucinating. we'd been through such an ordeal, but nothing compared our little feline friend. we rushed her to the vet, it seems she's been hit by a car. possible fractured pelvis, or hip damage, either way may require surgery (good job she's insured). she can't put much weight on her rear legs at the moment but i'm taking her back to the vets on monday for x-rays to determine the damage.
the vet said its amazing that she came home at all, has probably been in some kind of pet-trauma enduced shock for a couple of days, lying in the neighbouring turnip field, and then dragged herself home. good job someone (me) was here upon her arrival. the funny thing was that i went out to speak to one of the farm hands to say 'oi oi if you happen to see my cat...' which i have been doing to every resident between here and the nearest town (admittedly that amounts to four houses) and it was at the point i was walking over to see them that i heard this weak 'meeeeow'. turned around and there she was! it was quite an emotional moment, as any cat or dog owner knows, they really are a part of the family.
so in response to planetc's DOG thread here's the CAT thread. let's see pics of your feline friend, and of any stories of note you have to tell!
willow:
when we first got her (how could we resist?!):
so instead we have one of the world's coolest cats, 'willow'. she was essentially a rescue cat. we have been through quite the ordeal with her this week as she went missing for four days, presumed brown bread. 6 hours a day of searching every outhouse, barn, shed, field, dyke, road, hedgerow and river bank (we live in the middle of nowhere, very rural). nothing. until yesterday morning when she returned home battered. i thought the river had taken her as it's very close to the house and tide has been very high this week (it's a huge river) so you can imagine my surprise when she limped up the garden path. i genuinely thought i was hallucinating. we'd been through such an ordeal, but nothing compared our little feline friend. we rushed her to the vet, it seems she's been hit by a car. possible fractured pelvis, or hip damage, either way may require surgery (good job she's insured). she can't put much weight on her rear legs at the moment but i'm taking her back to the vets on monday for x-rays to determine the damage.
the vet said its amazing that she came home at all, has probably been in some kind of pet-trauma enduced shock for a couple of days, lying in the neighbouring turnip field, and then dragged herself home. good job someone (me) was here upon her arrival. the funny thing was that i went out to speak to one of the farm hands to say 'oi oi if you happen to see my cat...' which i have been doing to every resident between here and the nearest town (admittedly that amounts to four houses) and it was at the point i was walking over to see them that i heard this weak 'meeeeow'. turned around and there she was! it was quite an emotional moment, as any cat or dog owner knows, they really are a part of the family.
so in response to planetc's DOG thread here's the CAT thread. let's see pics of your feline friend, and of any stories of note you have to tell!
willow:
when we first got her (how could we resist?!):
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