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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[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...