Cat health update.

[curiouswombat]

Shaka is almost back to normal. The vet is happy that he is now using the left front paw, and doesn't need to see him again. He still limps a little on it, and this may never go away totally, but generally speaking he is back to his normal, weird, self -
For picture of very silly cat,

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[maddeinin.livejournal.com]

Yay Shaka!

I'm happy he's recovered - I bet giving up on the human lift thing must've stung though!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

S2C is soft enough to still carry him when Shaka looks at him and meowls plaintively.

[jerusha]

He's such a cutie!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Isn't he? He is probably the world's softest cat!

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

Awww, such cute silly paws.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Aren't they? He actually sits like that from choice!

[syderia]

He's so pretty.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd better let him read these - he'll get big-headed!

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

Stoopid! And also typical cat! So sweet!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Isn't he stoopid? He is probably the stoopidest cat we have ever owned.

[dreamerjules.livejournal.com]

OMG! What a cutie! I'm so happy he's doing better.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

He is just a big softy really. We could tell he was improving when he started being bouncy again - then yesterday he actually presented Daughter-dear with his catnip mouse to throw for him - not that he chased it - he just kept waiting for her to throw it again so that he could watch - but at least he was wanting to play.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Glad Shaka's better! I have to take a meeting with my SU on the matter of getting a kitten here, stat, since we are experiencing the fall mouse migtation (fun fact about living on a farm: there are mice!). The kitten is at my sisters, but it's not moving here without being vaccinated and given flea and worm treatments.

Julia, and no outside time for the new cat, ever!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You definitely need a cat! I can't actually imagine a farm without at least half a dozen cats. This one can catch mice - but there is less call for it in town.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that Shaka is better! :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

He's back to sitting in as many silly and non-useful places as ever - I have just had to wrestle him off my keyboard which is one of his favourite places to sleep!

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! So happy he's better -- and what a handsome boy!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Isn't he handsome - even though he is just a cross-breed! I think that this will hopefully be the last Shaka health update I'll need to do now that he is more or less back to being himself.

[kathyh]

Glad to hear he's doing better. He looks the picture of health in that picture and as if he's waving at us *g*.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

as if he's waving at us
Only that is one of his back legs he's waving with - the two front ones are resting down on his white 'bikini pants'!!

[desdemonaspace]

Such a pretty boy! Re: I bet giving up on the human lift thing must've stung though... Frank says that Shaka got used to having a chauffeur! Glad he's doing better. ::pets him::

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think it took S2C about a week longer than D-d and I to realise that he could weight-bear on the paw again!

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

Aww, he's so cute. I wish I had room for a cat box and the desire to clean it. Gladf he's doing better.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

He refuses to use a cat litter box - he has a cat-flap, and sometimes goes right outside of our yard, or sometimes in a big pile of leaf-litter in the yard - fortunately he was able to make it out into the yard even with his bad paw.

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

Smart cat!I have a train track on one side and a interstate on the other. A indoor-outdoor cat would soon be a flattened cat.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

A indoor-outdoor cat would soon be a flattened cat.

Yes - Shaka is lucky - just behind our house is a piece of open ground. The road at the front is reasonably busy for a residential street, but he mainly stays out the back, and seems to be fairly car-savvy when he comes around to the front.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Kitty toes! He looks like he's giving us the Vulcan sign. Kitty toes!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ha! I said to my daughter that it looked like the Vulcan sign as well!

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed that but it does!

[talesofspike.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! He looks quite like Stick, but in that position you can see the differences (no, not those differences) as she has a white tummy as well as the white front paws, back legs, chest and moustache. Toon cats are very cute. She wouldn't sit like that though. She's Little Miss Squirm-a-lot. Our dopey old white and tabby tom cat with the fake leopard skin patch on his stomach would though.

Glad Shaka's made an almost full recovery.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Toon cats are very cute

Yes aren't they? Stick as in Spender?

[talesofspike.livejournal.com]

Officially, so far as the vet's concerned her name is Siouxsie, but when we got her from the shelter she was so skinny (and had so little fur) that Brad started calling her Stick because of her little twig legs and, of course, it stuck.

They said they thought she was about six months old and she'd had a litter of kittens but was too small to be able to provide milk for them so they'd died and she'd ended up in need of TLC. She's still only about half the mass of the other two cats and far more delicate in build. Whether it's just genetics or whether it's down to not getting the proper nutrition when she was young is anyone's guess. It didn't take too long to discover that the sedate, sweet natured cat we picked at the shelter was actually a total loon when she was healthy, though.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Shaka is also a rescue cat - he was dumped as a kitten and we got him from the MSPCA. He was about 10 - 12 weeks old, and the girl said of him - 'Well you won't want that one.' which she may well have said knowing that it would make me go 'Oh yes I would!'. He was scrawny, had enormous out-of-proportion ears, and a voice that sounded like a duck quacking through a megaphone! He has a lot of Siamese in him, hence the voice - which has not got any quieter over the years!

[talesofspike.livejournal.com]

That sounds familiar. We were looking for a kitten but all the kittens had to be passed by the vet the following Monday, so we looked at the slightly older cats having been told that no, Stick wouldn't be too old for our adult cats to accept her. (Ha!) Then they said that she had to be passed by the vet, too, and the final nail in the coffin was when I asked if we'd be able to reseverve her and the attendant commented that we could, but since no one else had even looked at her... It wasn't her fault she was half bald, poor thing. But as you can see...

[cindershadow.livejournal.com]

It is the Vulcan peace sign! I love it!

I'm so glad your kitty is better; it's always so upsetting when they are unhappy and in pain and can't tell us why.

Barn cats can indeed be adorable--we have two brown speckled youngsters (no longer babies, but not fully grown--all long and stretchy and unintentionally comical, like teenage boys) out where I keep my horses. They are very smart and calm, incredibly snuggly and loving, and yet are boldly learning to catch mice (though tackling the gopher was overly ambitious, even one-on-each-side, so we broke that up).

And I've always been a dog person! But I think it will be cats from here on out . . . just too much easier for a single working gal.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hurrah - you've figured your icon out - isn't he/she gorgeous?

'Teenaged' cats are great aren't they? Been a while since Shaka was a teenager - he's nine now. I can just imagine two teenaged cats trying it on with a gopher!

[cindershadow.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, I can't take the credit for the icon--shadowlass made it for me, and zandra and starwatcher and you all explained how to load it up . . . I didn't even take the original picture! But he is lovely, isn't he? And as sweet and good as he is beautiful--just like a prince in a fairy tale!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

He actually sits like that from choice!

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear Shaka's better - and am I glad I don't have to sit like that with my legs in the air.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We really don't force him to sit like that - he does it from choice!

[gillo]

Oh how cute!

I'm very glad to hear he's more or less back to (ab)normal!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

He really is more or less himself now - which is great after the vet suggesting only a month ago that he might have to have that front paw amputated. And yes - he majored in 'Cute'!

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

What a handsome cat! Glad to hear he's doing better.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Handsome - but stupid!