He’s getting old, but he’s hanging in there. So far.
Leo had a nasty fang-wound from Jim. They both went to the vet about a week and a half ago; Leo to see how the antibiotic course is coming, Jim to get a rabies shot.
(Posted since: Leo is nearly healed, Jim’s owners have agreed to hand him over — and a bag of cat-food once in a while — Hector’s feeling better, at least for now.)
Halloween: We’ve got the candy. I will put on the blinking red devil horns I got at the Quarter Store (SHHH! It doesn’t exist), and we will watch Disney’s “Sleepy Hollow” cartoon and “Arsenic and Old Lace” and hand out candy. When we run out of cavity crud, we will turn off off the lights and walk in the wooded dark over two otter-haunted rivers to the Clallam Bay Inn for Mac n’ Jack, fish and chips, then come back home in starlight (or rain). Glorious Nomlish Candy Holiday!
What a treat to see Hector! And to know that Jim’s situation is stabilizing.
Hector’s problem was a kidney infection, but it’s part of the old-age process. From now on it will be lots of spoiling and careful end-of-life care. Jim still thinks he has to go out at night to find a warm place. From experience with Spuds, we know the realization that he has a bed to sleep on can take months; survival behaviors do not expunge easily.
Donna, it felt like the Halloween of the Perfect Storm tonight. Happily it’s calmed down now, but it brought back memories.
It woke Dan up in the early morning. I guess I just snored straight through it. We could both do without the kind of wind storms we’ve had in the last few years.
Your Hector looks in good shape. I’m sure he was trying to persuade you he was starving and abused five minutes after the plate was clean (mine does, and she has dry food on demand).
Actually, Hector’s never acted starved, has always nibbled and not finished. He’s had a gippy tummy his whole life (which is amazing, considering his has been extremely lively and happy for 18 years).
If he can still bat at string like he’s 18 months old instead of 18 years old, he’s ahead of the game (I have a 22 year old “kitten-about-string” myself).
I am totally gleaning these longer conversations for the Ka-Blam reprints. Inc.uding the pictures…