First of all, hi! I've not posted here for ages. Still living with Nikita and we're good buddies 
I didn't really know where to put this thread but figured it'd fit here. Now where to start.. ok so 2.5 years ago Nikita got an impacted anal gland, it's relatively common in dogs, rare in cats and we just got unlucky. Anyway back then the vet could empty it out then and there without any sedation etc and that was that. Then a few days ago I noticed she was licking her bum a fair bit. I went to have a look and omg it was really swollen and sore gland, right ok then. So first thing monday morning I rang the vet and got an appointment that afternoon.
Took her in and it turned out that it was too sore for the vet do deal with in that appointment, he'd have to put her under to be able to rinse it out properly etc. and she'd have to stay overnight. Nikita's vet is absolutely amazing and he said because she was clearly very uncomfortable and because it had gotten this bad really quickly he'd stay late and sort her out that same day after seeing all the scheduled patients. He'd then phone me both this evening and then tomorrow morning to update me on how she was doing.
I went home and had a fairly nervous evening, it's never fun when your cat is spending the night at the vets. I got a phonecall later on when she was coming to and everything had gone really well. Ok so far so good.
Then I got a phonecall very early on Tuesday morning where the vet has two key things to tell me.
1. When he went to check on Nikita this morning she was fine
2. When he went to put her back into her kennel after checking on her she flipped out, savaged his arm, escaped from the room and was currently trapped INSIDE A WALL at the vet clinic.
Basically she's a ninja, or that guy from the mission impossible movies. Maybe Jason Bourne?
Now lets move into a full on story telling mode:
Our protagonist wakes up in an unfamiliar place after a minor surgery, random parts shaved that shouldn't be. Quickly discovers that unfamilar place is a cage, there are several other prisoners in similar cages in the room.
A prison guard comes and opens the cage and takes our protagonist out to do more medical checks, protagonist goes meekly along while plotting escape plan.
When the guard has finished the examination and attempts to put our protagonist back into the cage the escape plan is put into action.
The guard is attacked and temporarily incapacitated, this is followed up with a fast run into the next room through a door left ajar
In the other room there are no escape routes either. No wait, there's an unfinished air vent at (human) shoulder height, and roughly the size of a palm. Yes! That'll do.
Our protagonist then manages to leap up the wall and disappear down a small hole barely bigger than her head while guard who has by this point gotten over the initial shock can do nothing but watch as our protagonist disappears from view into a wall.
Unfortunately the narrativium cuts out at this point and there's nowhere to go from inside the wall.
The vet had to take bricks out of the wall at the bottom to create an opening for her to come through. When I came to pick her up he was busy re-bricking the wall back up, and blocking off the hole she'd dived down.
Nikita's fine back at home now, very dusty with plaster dust and brick dust but I'm not giving her a bath there's been enough trauma so far. Just wiping her with a damp towel every now and then.
That unfinished airvent hole thing has been in the wall for 10 years and Nikita's the first cat to go through it and it was the size of a human palm (not counting the fingers) and at roughly shoulder height. Nikita's not a small cat either, almost 13 lbs.
I didn't really know where to put this thread but figured it'd fit here. Now where to start.. ok so 2.5 years ago Nikita got an impacted anal gland, it's relatively common in dogs, rare in cats and we just got unlucky. Anyway back then the vet could empty it out then and there without any sedation etc and that was that. Then a few days ago I noticed she was licking her bum a fair bit. I went to have a look and omg it was really swollen and sore gland, right ok then. So first thing monday morning I rang the vet and got an appointment that afternoon.
Took her in and it turned out that it was too sore for the vet do deal with in that appointment, he'd have to put her under to be able to rinse it out properly etc. and she'd have to stay overnight. Nikita's vet is absolutely amazing and he said because she was clearly very uncomfortable and because it had gotten this bad really quickly he'd stay late and sort her out that same day after seeing all the scheduled patients. He'd then phone me both this evening and then tomorrow morning to update me on how she was doing.
I went home and had a fairly nervous evening, it's never fun when your cat is spending the night at the vets. I got a phonecall later on when she was coming to and everything had gone really well. Ok so far so good.
Then I got a phonecall very early on Tuesday morning where the vet has two key things to tell me.
1. When he went to check on Nikita this morning she was fine
2. When he went to put her back into her kennel after checking on her she flipped out, savaged his arm, escaped from the room and was currently trapped INSIDE A WALL at the vet clinic.
Basically she's a ninja, or that guy from the mission impossible movies. Maybe Jason Bourne?
Now lets move into a full on story telling mode:
Our protagonist wakes up in an unfamiliar place after a minor surgery, random parts shaved that shouldn't be. Quickly discovers that unfamilar place is a cage, there are several other prisoners in similar cages in the room.
A prison guard comes and opens the cage and takes our protagonist out to do more medical checks, protagonist goes meekly along while plotting escape plan.
When the guard has finished the examination and attempts to put our protagonist back into the cage the escape plan is put into action.
The guard is attacked and temporarily incapacitated, this is followed up with a fast run into the next room through a door left ajar
In the other room there are no escape routes either. No wait, there's an unfinished air vent at (human) shoulder height, and roughly the size of a palm. Yes! That'll do.
Our protagonist then manages to leap up the wall and disappear down a small hole barely bigger than her head while guard who has by this point gotten over the initial shock can do nothing but watch as our protagonist disappears from view into a wall.
Unfortunately the narrativium cuts out at this point and there's nowhere to go from inside the wall.
The vet had to take bricks out of the wall at the bottom to create an opening for her to come through. When I came to pick her up he was busy re-bricking the wall back up, and blocking off the hole she'd dived down.
Nikita's fine back at home now, very dusty with plaster dust and brick dust but I'm not giving her a bath there's been enough trauma so far. Just wiping her with a damp towel every now and then.
That unfinished airvent hole thing has been in the wall for 10 years and Nikita's the first cat to go through it and it was the size of a human palm (not counting the fingers) and at roughly shoulder height. Nikita's not a small cat either, almost 13 lbs.
