Owchies Abound

[snicks_chan]

It's not toxoplasmosis and it's (probably) not heartworm.  Both tests came back negative.  So it's on to poking about for neurological causes.  I have an appointment with the Vet School on Wednesday morning, and we'll just have to go from there.

They must have siphoned off a sizeable amount of blood, because they drew from the foreleg and blew the

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[adifferentdrum]

Oh Rick you poor tiny. Good to know it's not heartworm! :D

And holy crap. D: That's a nasty little scratch. You have to come up with some awesome story of how you got it to impress your friends. Like the time you were acting as an FBI informant and the Russian Mafia tried to give you a Bermuda Necktie. Mmm hmm. Honestly. Totally happened. :o

[snicks_chan]

After some of the things I found out about how Not-Treatable heartworm is...yes, I am very grateful for that. By the time it's causing seizures, you are in a bad, bad place. Not that neurological crap is any more reassuring, but at least it's a safe unknown at this point.

It was actually way uglier in person, believe it or not! My whole neck went red. *ponders* I had planned to say that Nick was secretly a werewolf and I'd had to fend him off with a pair of silver earrings, but it hasn't been a full moon for a while!

[halofire]

I'll say it again for the poor little boy: D'awwwww!

I was holding Kaisier over my shoulder once, when the shelves in the pantry chose to spontaneously collapse in the laundry room. So he kicked off from my chest (It looked just like that!), but he hooked my back to pull himself away from all the scary.

Yay for negative tests!

[snicks_chan]

He is the saddest of pandas...

It's not like it's Renault's fault, but he knew I was Not Pleased. He flinched when I picked him back up to check his feet for necklace-snapping damage. It's a DAMN good thing I keep his nails blunt; I don't want to think about how bad that could have been if he had Zuzu-talons.

[halofire]

I need to throw her under a towel and clip her nails. Last night she was playing Mighty Hunter with my feet again (it's so cute because she's tiny. It would be scary if she were 10 lbs bigger). I had to curl up in a ball to hide because she could still draw blood through three blankets.

I actually went out and tracked down a made-for-cats chew toy, thinking she wanted something to really get her teeth into. No, no she likes my bedding and my feet just fine.

[snicks_chan]

Let me know if you need an assistant cat-wrangler. It's been a while since Frankie or Alex (and even longer since Sean) but I still know how to mummify a cat!

Those automated nail-sanders look like they'd be much less traumatic to the nailbed itself, but they also seem LOUD and SLOW, so I don't know about them.