And I thought I'd had a bad week or two

[cjsmith]

Lately I've been noticing Duchess, the largest of my cats, clicking when she walked. Time to clip her claws. She doesn't love it, but she permits it. I started in on her a half hour ago.

I was way, way too late.

Ever seen an ingrown claw? A badly ingrown claw? On a forepaw, which the cat uses to dig in the sandbox?

I just doctored one.

She is the sweetest, most patient cat in the universe. I am not speedy with this type of thing. I am positive that it hurt, probably badly, at more than one stage in the "treatment". But she didn't do more than twitch and make a little vocal complaint.

Poor Duchess! She's been walking on that thing for ages like this. And she just had it pulled out, by an amateur, with (forgive me here, folks, it's the best thing I had for the job at hand) a pair of pliers. I can only imagine how much it's been hurting. I am such a bad kittymom, letting it go that long :-( :-(. At least it's out now.

Comments

oh no!

[maxling.livejournal.com]

poor duchess. (and she was the nicer, and therefor smarter of your two cats when i stayed with you. she didn't attempt to defy my rulership of the world...)

cj-human, you aren't a bad cat mommy. you learned and won't do it again and duchess, it sounds, is all good. tell her i'm sorry for her ouch, and heal quickly.

'member, you are a good human. and *i* don't lie.

Re: oh no!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Duchess says "Don't let maxling see me like this! I have a HORRID FLOPPY THING on my foot!"

Poor girl. It's open and bleeding, thus she really needs to keep kitty litter out of it (or it out of kitty litter, whichever). What she's going to the vet for tomorrow is... wait for it, see the wonder that is Murphy's Law... a UTI. You can imagine how often she's in the litterbox. So she's got a bandage!