Louis Catorze scratched up his face again, right after I said to someone, “Thank God he hasn’t scratched up his face again.”
Luckily it didn’t seem to be bothering him; right after doing the evil deed he went absolutely psycho, racing around, pouncing on random objects, leaping onto the shutters and so on. He even knocked this picture wonky after trying to pull it off the wall – yes, he actually reached out with both his paws and pulled it:
The little sod was due to see the vet anyway for his steroid shot, so I thought I may as well try to squeeze some value for money out of the pips by asking them to check his scar too. As it turns out, that was the least of our worries; the more pressing matter was the fact that Catorze is now down to 2.73kg.
He has been on and off his food for a few weeks, but recently it’s become more off than on. There’s nothing wrong with his teeth – the vet said they looked good, which you’d bloody well hope, too, after £1,000 worth of dental treatment. There’s nothing wrong with his abdomen, either. So I finally decided to bite the bullet and do the dreaded blood test, just to make sure Catorze isn’t on the brink of that awful kidney thing that happens to old cats.
Anyway, after scaring the shit out of an already-nervous chihuahua with his screaming in the waiting room, Catorze took both his injection and his blood test like a gentleman (which surely means that Armageddon is nigh). And he is now proudly strutting around sporting a stylish bald patch on his chest, from where they extracted his blood, looking, from a distance, like a tuxedo cat.
Now, £348.49 lighter (consultation plus blood test plus Felpreva plus steroid shot), I am wondering what on earth Cat Daddy will say, all the way from America, when this transaction shows up on his phone.
*EDIT: the results came in the same day. Apart from one reading indicating that his thyroid might need checking (at a further cost of £67, of course), there’s absolutely bugger all wrong with him.
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