{"id":4241,"date":"2021-07-12T21:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2021-07-12T21:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:21:03","slug":"imprisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4241","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an old joke<\/a> that takes the form of a cat’s diary vs a dog’s diary. We didn’t have to do over 700 days: only 10, but it felt longer.<\/p>\n

Following the boy’s expensive trip to the vets last year<\/a>, it was Kitty’s turn. She’d had a lump appear an inch or so from the base of her tail, and last year a visit to the vets had it needle sampled and tested, and the test was that it wasn’t cancerous, and also, it disappeared.<\/p>\n

Then came back. We weren’t terribly worried, but it grew a bit larger and she started to bite and lick at it, so this obviously needed attention, so no food for either cat from 10pm, and a morning trip to the vets.<\/p>\n

Collecting her later, she was still anasthetic-drunk, but starving hungry, having shoved her head into a packet of Dreamies, and then gobbled down nearly a whole tin of tuna. Early hopes that she might not lick at her (reasonably-sized) wound evaporated as the drugs wore off, so on went the cone of shame.<\/p>\n

I felt like the worst kind of monster; she was stressed, depressed, and kept bumping into things, spending much of the time on a bed, and one afternoon virtually on my laptop while I worked. <\/p>\n

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Kitty, obstructing my work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Additionally, she couldn’t go out- the stitches and the disorientation of the cone, ensured that, so her brother was only allowed limited access, as it seems the catflap<\/a>‘s vet mode, supposed to allow cats in but not out, failed.<\/p>\n

Positive news after a day or two when the lump is confirmed as non-cancerous after a lab test.<\/p>\n

All in all, a stressful time for her and us, as well as expensive<\/em>, but she’s recovered well, and the only current tell-tales are a scar that is healing well, and a bit of missing fur, our furry child being happy and relaxed again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an old joke that takes the form of a cat’s diary vs a dog’s diary. We didn’t have to do over 700 days: only 10, but it felt longer. Following the boy’s expensive trip to the vets last year, it was Kitty’s turn. She’d had a lump appear an inch or so from the … Continue reading Imprisoned<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1,4],"tags":[44,51,52],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-general","category-life","tag-cat","tag-kitty","tag-vet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}