Felix is recuperating

Thank you to everyone expressing concern about Felix. After an early visit to the vet this morning, he is much better – and so am I! The vet found what is probably a cat-fight wound on Felix’s back and gave him two shots: antibiotics and anti-inflammatory. Back home, Felix ate some food and is now settled on Mum’s bed.

This whole episode reinforces how important it is to keep Felix in at night. I’ll be more alert when we come in the front door at night – managing Mum’s slow progress with her walking stick, closing doors to keep him in, pursuing him straight away if he does get out, and not expecting that he will come back inside any minute now. That would avoid all that worry, and the trepidation that I felt when I opened the sitting room door this morning; was he still alive?

I also discovered from the website last night that The Cat Vet is open in the weekends and that clients are encouraged to ring if they are concerned about their cat out of hours. (But there’s that thing where you don’t like to bother people.) I can’t praise the vet enough for giving Felix an appointment at such short notice, doing a careful and lengthy examination, testing his urine (he’d peed in his carrier), eliminating the possibility of toxins or a blockage, taking his weight and temperature (which was up, indicating a fever), explaining everything to me, and even cleaning up his carrier (well, the vet nurse did that). I have more syringes of anti-inflammatory to give him and am advised to keep him inside – not difficult on this rainy day.