It’s the school holidays! And look at the tote bag that Willow the miniature dachshund’s human brother gave me, as part of his “Merci et au revoir” present:
Cat Daddy and I are preparing to leave at the end of the week for our annual trip to the Scottish Highlands. So, naturellement, Louis Catorze has chosen now to start limping.
It’s not a “thorn stuck in the paw” type of limp. It’s more like a wobbliness in walking, something that’s coming from the knee or the hip. It’s not stopping Catorze from doing any of the things that he wants to do – in fact, on the first day of my holidays he was chasing a moth in the bedroom and woke me at bastard o’clock by bouncing around on the bed, doing the bird-chatter sound – so we will deal with it, if, indeed, it needs to be dealt with, when we return.
I have been trying to video the limp, since I would bet Le Château on the little sod pretending to be fine in front of the vet. But, of course, he won’t perform in front of the camera, either. I need to catch him walking away from me to get the best shot, but he won’t do it. As soon as I start recording, he either stops walking, or starts coming TOWARDS me instead.
Yesterday I threw a ball of scrunched-up paper down the stairs, hoping that he would waddle away after it, but he hurtled down the stairs so fast that I wasn’t able to start recording in time. Which didn’t particularly help us, but at least it reassured us that it wasn’t a “Vet, now!” emergency.
So, walking normally through the house, he places his back feet carefully. But chasing a paper ball down the stairs, he suddenly forgets his ancient, creaky body and is a rambunctious kitten again. I know, that’s Catorzian logic for you.
We were very sad upon receiving his blood test results, indicating that he probably has chronic kidney disease. But he neither knows nor cares, as you can see from this picture:
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