Louis Catorze’s second, and hopefully last, dental surgery went well. He is now minus two more teeth: his last remaining lower canine and the small incisor next to it. And we are minus £435.
The timing has turned out to be less than optimal, to say the least. We are barely out of the monetary dearth that is January AND we’ve just got back from a country where a double vodka-cola and a pint of beer cost £26 AND both our roof and our car need repairs. It’s not the best time for little sods and their private health care to kick us in the wallet, but tant pis.
When we collected Catorze from the TW3 branch of the vet, he had just come round from the surgery and was beating the sides of his pod and trying to unzip it from inside, all the while screaming his guts out. However, after a chillingly silent car ride home, he then escaped out at The Front within minutes. So clearly all was well.
He has a couple of dissolving stitches in his mouth (although no Cône has been prescribed, so I hope we can trust him not to mess with them), and we are to give him a dose of Loxicom every day until his next vet visit at the end of the week.
It was hard to take a good picture at this time (the morning after he came home), with the feeble living room light struggling to illuminate him and the unsightly backdrop of our coffee table with rubbish all over it, but somehow his chin and cheeks seem to sit differently. And, sadly, his trademark fangs don’t appear to protrude as much as they did before. Hopefully, as the swelling subsides, they will realign and he will look a bit more like the Roi that we all know and love. Right now it’s almost as if they swapped him for another cat, and the only reason I know they didn’t is because nobody in their right mind would swap him in rather than out.
Thank you for all your good wishes. We will keep you updated.
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The eyes are there and that look but the teeth, nope, they look gone.
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I really hope that when his snout swelling goes down, they will return. 😢😢😢
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❤️
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Don’t worry. Even if his fangs no longer appear, we will carry on loving Louis.
😺
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Aww. That’s so sweet. We will love him, too, but his fangs are such a big part of his character. I’m hoping that it’s just temporary swelling which is making his snout hide the fangs.
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Poor beast. Cats do suffer from their teeth
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Yup. And it’s hard to see whether they’re in pain or not. I’m not even sure Sa Maj knows that pain is something he shouldn’t have. He’s had it most of his life and I fear he might just accept it as normal. 😢😢😢
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And so do we…!
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Le Roi without fangs is … a fangless Roi. 😢
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Do you mean that poor Louis looks like a seal instead of a walrus?
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Hahaha, yes! A rather grumpy seal. 🦭
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My roof also needs repairs after the 2 storms from last weekend. But hey, I’m glad Louis is doing fine!
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Thank you! I must say it’s very different this time around. He’s making progress but it’s very slow. 😐
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Poor boy, hope he returns to “normal” soon xxx
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Thank you! He doesn’t look like my boy at the moment. It’s very strange.
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:’-(
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It’s a fangless task…….
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Glad he made it through the surgery and seems on the road to recovery,
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Thank you. He’s not as sprightly as he was the last time, though. 😐
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Poor baby, he looks so sad! I hope he feels (and looks) more like himself very soon. But even if the fangs don’t come back, he’ll remain our favourite Louis Catorze for all eternity ❤
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Aww, thank you! The swelling has given him a really downturned mouth. He does look sad. 😢😢😢
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Poor baby! Glad he seems to have come through no worse for the ordeal.
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Merci! He’s doing all right for an old boy.
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