This fine gentleman is Mr Fu:
He is friends with Louis Catorzeโs frรจre-from-another-mรจre, Antoine, and Antoineโs usurper stepbrother, Boots.
Well, I say โfriendsโ but, in actual fact, theyโre only friends in the same way that Catorze is friends with Cocoa the babysit cat and his sister, Chanel. Itโs the humans who are friends. The cats have never met and Iโm pretty sure that, if they did, there would be carnage and bloodshed. But itโs nice to pretend, non?
Most places in England, including vet practices, are closed today for the Queenโs funeral. (No doubt the corgis asked for this; I bet theyโre overjoyed that their most hated place in the world is closed.) So, naturellement, Mr Fu thought this would be a good time to go out scrapping and end up with a fight wound that required medical treatment. A lump appeared on his head on Saturday afternoon and had deteriorated by the evening but, luckily, by that time, his humans had managed to bag one of the last available slots on Sunday.
One prescription (Metacam and antibiotics) and one bill later, Mr Fu is doing fine. Pulling a stunt like this when the whole country is closed for the long weekend is beyond evil, yet also utterly typical of cats and what they do. I bet the little sod had been planning this for months.
I wish there were an option for those of us with, erm, untrustworthy cats, which allowed us to book vet appointments for inconvenient times and cancel at the last minute in the unlikely event of the cats behaving themselves. Itโs my birthday next month and the whole family are coming over for lunch, and I am giving serious consideration to booking such an appointment for Catorze. He doesnโt need the vet (at the moment). But it would be just like him to do something stupid on that day, leaving us scrabbling around for the last remaining appointment right in the middle of our main course. And, if you donโt believe Catorze would stoop that low, have a look here.
So โฆ do I book the appointment, with the fear that I might forget to cancel 24 hours beforehand and end up being charged and/or blacklisted as an infidel no-show? Or do I leave it and risk Catorze crawling in from the Zone Libre, bleeding from the eyeballs, drooling black vomit and dragging his lifeless back legs behind him, just as we are all leaving for the pub?
I suspect that whatever we do will end up being the wrong thing. Bastard cats.
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