Tuna Time
I am such a softy of a furmom. I had to take Clio to the vet this morning. It was the first time she has left the house in 11 years, when we got her as a kitten from the local rescue. The claws on one paw weren't growing right, and had curved back into the pads of the paw, piercing them. Poor baby, she couldn't put any weight on that paw. She didn't cry on the way to the vet-she yelled. She yelled in the waiting room. She didn't yell, or swipe at the vet, though, she was too scared.The vet took her off, clipped those claws and cleaned the pads of that foot, since they were infected. Then, she was given an injection of antibiotic and given back to me, along with a bottle of antibiotic to give her. She yelled all the way home. When we got back to the house, I opened the cat carrier, and she leaped out and vanished. Eventually, I found her hiding under my daughters bed, angry and glowering at me. (the cat, not the bed)
I went and opened a can of tuna fish, not cat food, but tuna, packaged for two leggers. I put a bit on a saucer and put it near the bed. Clio came out just far enough to eat the tuna, and then she scooted back under the bed. A little while later, I put a bit more fish on the saucer and put it in the doorway to my daughters bedroom. Clio wouldn't come out while I stood there, but when I came back 2 minutes later, the saucer was clean. I went and got a bit more fish and brought it upstairs. Clio came out from under the bed and looked at the plate. I told her that she had to come downstairs for it, and took it back down, and put it near the bottom of the stairs. She came down and ate the fish. Finally, I put a bit more on the saucer and put the saucer next to her bowls of regular food and water, and she came over and ate the fish and drank some water. Then, she came over to me, purring. I had been forgiven. Phew!
Of course, one of the things the vet wants me to do is to soak that paw in warm water and epsom salts twice a day. Take a cats paw and put it in water???? Can you do a kitty pedicure without getting raked by the rest of her claws? I think that I will that to my daughter!