Patch Update Part Deux
Black cats are really hard to photograph. Either that, or I have set my camera so all my pictures look fuzzy. I never have been able to figure out my Panasonic DMC Lumix.
Anyway, Patch has been with us 10 days. I give him his antibiotic once a day through an eyedropper, along with some water, because he doesn’t seem to be drinking much. He does eat, though. In this picture, he’s chewing through the bottom of that bag of cat food. I think Molly got him started on that, because, boy, does she know how to self serve! Patch spends most of his time in his closet nest, or under Mom’s bed. In the evening sometimes he sleeps under the dining room table, or on the living room rug, and that's about as much as he does. He's still emaciated and his fur is thinning. I would like to see him come out more during the day and get some sun; the heat might really help him.
One thing Patch hasn’t been doing is grooming. I have been wiping him down with baby wipes and brushing him. Tonight, I gave him a warm bath. Do. Not. Want. He cried a bit, but was incredibly docile, though, and let me wash him. Secretly, I think he sort of liked being wrapped in a pink towel afterward and rubbed down, because he started purring halfheartedly. He even let me use the hairdryer on him a bit.
Molly is being a very good girl. She doesn’t interact much with Patch, but isn't hostile, either. She’s indifferent, rather, and spends an hour or two each evening at the back door looking for that little troublemaker Ru.