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Day 5: felinious mysteries
Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:30 amI had to break lockdown today to take the cat to the vet, Jyn has, yet again, developed an abscess. In the same place, even: behind her ear. (She misdirected me very neatly by scratching persistently at the other ear, the one that wasn't abscessed, as a result of which I didn't find the damned thing until last night on account of looking in the wrong place). This is, what, the third or fourth time? she really seems exceptionally prone to them.
The vet said darkly, "She's been fighting", but really: I have been at home for the better part of the last three weeks. If she was bitten in a catfight, it would have been in the last week, during which time I have not left the house at all. The cats have been in the back courtyard, but the walls are high and they are ridiculous dweebs about jumping, i.e. they don't. I have heard only one catfight, distantly, over the wall, and Jyn was safely in the courtyard at the time. I am beginning to fear that Pandora is seriously biting her while I'm not looking. Perhaps a nannycam?
Graeme the Splendid Vet, the one who makes me think of the more friendly sort of goblinoid, possibly something like a hob, says he is seeing almost nothing except cat abscesses since lockdown started. His theory is that having all their pink blobs at home all the time is seriously messing with cat social structures, and they're all acting out. Mine have been fine, possibly more affectionate than usual if anything, but it's a compelling theory.
The vet said darkly, "She's been fighting", but really: I have been at home for the better part of the last three weeks. If she was bitten in a catfight, it would have been in the last week, during which time I have not left the house at all. The cats have been in the back courtyard, but the walls are high and they are ridiculous dweebs about jumping, i.e. they don't. I have heard only one catfight, distantly, over the wall, and Jyn was safely in the courtyard at the time. I am beginning to fear that Pandora is seriously biting her while I'm not looking. Perhaps a nannycam?
Graeme the Splendid Vet, the one who makes me think of the more friendly sort of goblinoid, possibly something like a hob, says he is seeing almost nothing except cat abscesses since lockdown started. His theory is that having all their pink blobs at home all the time is seriously messing with cat social structures, and they're all acting out. Mine have been fine, possibly more affectionate than usual if anything, but it's a compelling theory.
