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05/22/2003 Archived Entry: "Zoey update"
Zoey update
Welp, our cat got released from the animal hospital today, and K and I (and our dog) are all damned happy to have him or her home (we refer to Zoey as 'her' half the time and 'him' the other half). Here's how things stand in the world of Zoey the cat and the people she lets live in Casa Zoey:
Zoey now sports a shaved front left leg, with a bandage that she's been trying to chew off ever since her arrival at home. The leg looks suspiciously like that of a French Poodle (or Freedom Poodle, if you must), and K noticed that the color of her skin under the fur matches our living room couch perfectly.
Her butt has been shaved as well, which I didn't even notice until after a couple of hours. The sight of naked kitty butt is shocking to say the least.
The nice veterinarian supplied us with 10 cans of cat food that is supposed to balance the acid/alkaline of her urine, which was the reason this whole saga took place. The dog has decided that the ph-balacing cat food id just about the yummiest thing she's ever tasted.
And Zoey, in an effort to keep her from gnawing off the bandage on her shaved leg, or biting the stitches out from around her penis (okay, I'm dizzy now), is now wearing a clear plastic collar that makes her look like a sattelite dish with a cat head stuck in the middle of it.
To top it all off, she's got a couple of weeks' supply of antibiotics and pain-killers which we spent the better part of a half-hour trying to get her to swallow, until we realized that we could wrap them in blobs of the ph-balacing kitty food and she'd eat them without a problem. I'd never experienced the joys of feeding pills to cats before today. Now I can die happy.
As a result of the drugs, she's wandering around the house with a glazed look in her eyes, bumping into furniture and us with the edges of her kitty sattelite dish headpiece. K and I spend our time stifling our laughter, because everybody knows that you really fuck up a cat's self-esteem if they catch you laughing at them.
So let me just thank everyone who sent emails and posted comments wishing Zoey well. She's doing fine, for a drugged-up, partially-shaved, plastic collar-wearing cat. And we still love her more than we can possibly put into words. It's good to have that little furball back home with us.
Replies: 3 people speak up
cats rule! as long as zoey doesn't receive any murdoch and cable news (state tv)channels on his dish, it will be fine.
Posted by ariella @ 05/22/2003 04:05 PM NY
Glad to hear she's okay!!
Poor Egon was walking around with shaved balls for a while - it was hard not to laugh at the poor little bugger.
Posted by Maru @ 05/22/2003 09:23 PM NY
All the best to Zoey. We recently went through an episode with one of our Scottish Terriers who appeared to be emulating Rush before the draft board: anal cyst or some such ugliness. He, too, got to wear the satellite dish collar, which is actually called an 'e collar'. I asked what the 'e' stood for and they said (no bullshit!) 'Elizabethan'. I laughed; the dog was not amused.
Posted by lonestar @ 05/23/2003 01:41 PM NY
