Some cats are never satisfied.
I brought home the $1000 Cat today. Ripley the Wonder Cat has been sulking, not eating, for the entire time he's been gone. And when he shows up in an e-collar, she runs away, completely freaked out. (This is the cat, who, when she sees Slinky through the window or the screen door, growls, because that is not the same cat, damnit! She's such a little freak.)
I am watching Slinky get used to the e-collar. He'll have to have it on for TEN DAYS. I have to dose him with pain meds for 3 days and give him ear drops for the nice yeast infection he had going in the ear with the growth for TEN DAYS as well. This will be annoying for both of us, as he is most emphatically not a touchy-feely-friendly cat at all. Just as well I'd decided not to go anywhere for the 4th...
I had to take the cover off of the cat box and I've put food and water on top of risers, and I just moved the bed away from the headboard by almost a foot so he can get back there and "hide" in his comfort zone. *sigh* i'm such a pushover.
Good news? The growth was barely held on with a little bit of skin, and they have held the surgical site together with a cautery/styptic pencil. I should hear about the growth itself in a few days; but since his bloodwork was normal and I haven't noticed any change in behavior as to eating, etc., I am optimistic. Annoyed as hell at the expense, but optimistic.
And how was your weekend?