Recent Content by gunggung

Well Skittish is doing as well as you could hope given his situation.  Other than not understanding that a litter box is for his business and not a bed (which made a couple of messes that needed to be cleaned up, and the fact he is growing so fast I'm very lucky he gets his bandages off Thursday...

We named him Skittish from the time he was a baby in the yard, and he lived up to the name.  Of his litter of four he was the last one to let me pet him (minus his one brother that still refuses to be touched) but he was also the most affectionate once he got used to us.  That trademark...

We had him neutered, given advantage for fleas, and vaccinated while he was there.  Our vet was really good with him.  We brought him in between 10:30 and 11:00 in the morning, literally minutes before I had to leave for work, and we got a call just before 2:00 that he was out of surgery and...

Our little amputee...  

I will admit to a bit of selfishness in that he was born in my yard so I feel responsible for him and he reminds me quite a bit of a cat I had years ago that has since passed on.  

Well we caught him with a humane trap and got him to the vet.  The leg will have to come off as we expected and bill will be... unpleasant to say the least.  He will also have to stay pent up for three weeks during recovery, but the doctor seems confident he will be alright.  

Well I've been trying to catch him after getting advice from here, but it's like he knows.  The second I go out there, with or without food, to catch him he runs off and hides.  If I just want to pet him he's fine.  I just had the little stinker run off on me again and I only have another hour...

The problem is I have two dogs inside, a German Shepherd and a Chihuahua.  It's just not feasible to bring him in not just because of the dogs, who are relatively cat-friendly, but because he is frightened of them.  We were going to take him to the vet before the holiday weekend but we could not...

Okay, I have a cat that is somewhere between feral and stray that was literally born in my yard.  On Friday afternoon I noticed that he had a horrible compound fracture that had to come from either a dog bite or being run over and I did my best to catch him and take him to the vet to know...