Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Cat Pee

Flavour Description of a very cute lip balm:
Cat Pee: A funny name- but a yummy blend of pink grapefruit, orange, & lime.
Sounds good? It smells good too.
Well, what's the occasion for this title? You'll soon find out.

Basically, my very cute cat recently got his tail banged up, he probably got into a fight with another cat, and the bottom half of his tail is now bald, with wounds in it which got infected and stuff, so we bought antiseptic powder, cleaned and bandaged his tail. It got better, so we removed the bandage. Wrong move. Sunday nite (it was raining the entire afternoon) he came back, his tail dripping blood. It was like he was having his period. Yes it was that gross. Worse of all, he had this huge deep gash on his tail. Sigh, the cat that never learns. So we washed it (hearing his cries really make my heart melt, but serves him right) and bandaged it again. And made plans to visit the vet the next day.

After a lack of sleep due to the World Cup, mum, cheryl and i made our way after work/school to bring kinky (my very cute cat) to the vet. the vet was recommended by my cousin, but we've never been there before. so after going round in circles in the back seat of a van with a cat who obviously hates travelling in a car, we got tired trying to calm him down... so i was just stoning, and cheryl was absentmindedly patting him. next i felt a warm liquid on my pants and shirt sleeve. split second later i heard cheryl shout, "ARGH! Kinky PEED!!!" cue jumping out of seat. after which we frantically tried to dry the seat with his towel and newspaper (thankfully we were smart enough to bring some)

Have you smelt cat's pee? It starts off like normal pee smell, then probably because of some bacteria in it, it starts to stink to high heaven after a while, not good if you're in an enclosed van with a semi-deranged cat. and even worse if you have some on your clothes. super gross. and we haven't even reached the vet yet! arghz. so finally we reached the place before cheryl and i suffocated from the stink (my mum refused to wind down the window).

The vet was very nice, he came out to help us get kinky into the clinic. somehow kinky seemed soothed by the vet and his assistants, who were cooing over him, patting him and calming him down. all three were young and obviously loved animals... awww... after examination, he told us that the wound was slightly infected so he can't stitch it up, so we had to take him home, feed him antibiotics and clean the wound regularly to clear it up before stitching. the fee was reasonable and he even lent us a cage to take kinky home! so nice. luckily the place kinda stank already, so nobody noticed (we hoped) that cheryl and i stank of cat pee.

And yes, we went home and i rushed to the toilet to bathe. Gosh I hope we never have to do that again, but sigh, we have to return to the vet on saturday! wish me luck!

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