Ugh.
This has been an awful week
The internship fell through because it turned out to be less than legit. Awesome. Back to the job search.
On top of that, tonight, while I was sitting at the kitchen table one of my two cats started howling at me and nudging my leg. I follow her to the door and hear a cat fight going on outside. I flip on the porch light and see that it isn't a fight, but rather, my other cat has gotten her paw stuck in the slats of our fence and is dangling by a paw. I run over to free her and she attacks me, clamping her jaw on my wrist and leaving massive holes. Not knowing what else to do, I thwap her over the head to get her to let go and then, hand cradled in hand, I run frantically around the neighborhood in search of someone who can pull the boards apart and get her down.
Neighbor one yells at my cat and tells her to shut up.
Neighbor two is asleep.
Finally, neighbor three comes to the rescue and breaks the fence, sending my cat running. Unfortunately, I can see as she disappears into the dark that her back leg is dangling behind her.
Also unfortunately, she has chosen to hide under my parents king size bed.
Unfortunate fact #3 Oh yeah. I don't drive. Or have a car. So even if I can pull her out from under the bed, I don't have a means of getting her to a late night vet.
After tearing apart the bed and boxsprings, I call friends, family, and anyone else I can think of and no one is available. My mom gets ahold of a friend of hers who comes and picks me up and we finally get to the vet, only to find out that Birdie (my cat) will likely need surgery. Which I can't afford.
I pony up $300 for tests, xrays and overnight stay, get home and the doctor calls. Finally some good news. It turns out that her hip was dislocated so all they needed to do was pop it in place, give her some meds, and she could come home the next day.
She'll be coming home, but I can't sleep because all I see is the look on her face as she hung there and the sight of her paw dangling on the other side of the fence. I don't think I've ever felt so ridiculously helpless in my life.
So yeah. Bad week.
The internship fell through because it turned out to be less than legit. Awesome. Back to the job search.
On top of that, tonight, while I was sitting at the kitchen table one of my two cats started howling at me and nudging my leg. I follow her to the door and hear a cat fight going on outside. I flip on the porch light and see that it isn't a fight, but rather, my other cat has gotten her paw stuck in the slats of our fence and is dangling by a paw. I run over to free her and she attacks me, clamping her jaw on my wrist and leaving massive holes. Not knowing what else to do, I thwap her over the head to get her to let go and then, hand cradled in hand, I run frantically around the neighborhood in search of someone who can pull the boards apart and get her down.
Neighbor one yells at my cat and tells her to shut up.
Neighbor two is asleep.
Finally, neighbor three comes to the rescue and breaks the fence, sending my cat running. Unfortunately, I can see as she disappears into the dark that her back leg is dangling behind her.
Also unfortunately, she has chosen to hide under my parents king size bed.
Unfortunate fact #3 Oh yeah. I don't drive. Or have a car. So even if I can pull her out from under the bed, I don't have a means of getting her to a late night vet.
After tearing apart the bed and boxsprings, I call friends, family, and anyone else I can think of and no one is available. My mom gets ahold of a friend of hers who comes and picks me up and we finally get to the vet, only to find out that Birdie (my cat) will likely need surgery. Which I can't afford.
I pony up $300 for tests, xrays and overnight stay, get home and the doctor calls. Finally some good news. It turns out that her hip was dislocated so all they needed to do was pop it in place, give her some meds, and she could come home the next day.
She'll be coming home, but I can't sleep because all I see is the look on her face as she hung there and the sight of her paw dangling on the other side of the fence. I don't think I've ever felt so ridiculously helpless in my life.
So yeah. Bad week.