Emergency vet - my cat is an arsehole

[Ratonastick]

Yesterday I got up as normal and my beloved Midnight was asleep on a kitchen chair. Didn’t so much as open an eye as I pottered around so I gave her a bit of a poke and no response. I had to really shake her awake and even then she was lethargic and didn’t want to move. She didn’t glance at her breakfast so I got one of her treat sticks which she ate out of my hand while laying in my arms.

It was all horrendous, she was just not responding to me, so dashed her to the emergency vet. She didn’t even meow in the car, though she did eat the dreamies I put in the carrier. £120 later, nothing wrong with her and the vet concluded that she fancied a lie in and likes treats for breakfast. My cat is a small furry arsehole.

Sorry I realised that the second I posted! So often I internally grumble at people online taking things literally, and I fell into that exact trap 🙈😂

To be fair, she is built for comfort rather than speed! She’s a rescue who was used as a breeding machine by unscrupulous bastards for the first 4-5 years of her life. She has a very baggy tummy and a slightly dodgy pelvis as well as a marked tendency to laze around and avoid exercise. We are well suited!

@titchy in our house you only need rustle the packet 🤣

One of mine spent 3 weeks going backwards and forwards to the vet, only to finally be told after ££££ in tests that she was fine, no digestive issues, no pancreatitis, no FIP, in fact she was the picture of health but was playing up because in my worry I was slow cooking chicken drumsticks to try and get her to eat and she had decided it was far better than cat food!

Cat’s are total arseholes at times!

said cat still refuses wet cat food in case there is chicken on offer later btw! She eats huge amounts of James wellbeloved biscuits instead and is twice the size of her sister as a result 🙄

I thought it was just mine that pulled the limping til she was hauled to the vet’s trick.

Same cat also required urgent treatment one New Year’s Day. Yes, you can imagine the call out bill for that 😱 she was wasting away at the time - I tried fresh salmon, trout, prawns, double cream you name it. Turns out what she wanted was to be hand fed individual flakes of haddock from a chippy supper, because my best mate’s husband had done it 🤬

Current inhabitant is an asshat for different reasons. It’s a cat thing.

How on wrath do they know what that tiny tube is!

@Toddlerteaplease because the back door is shut, and they can also see the look in your eyes as you bend down to clamp them between your legs and ruffle the back of their necks.

@TroysMammy we don't have any of that. I wait till they come for a cuddle and do it then. Magic was about to sit next to me then saw the tube and ran!

Haribo doesn't come for cuddles or laps so he's clamped between my knees I'm afraid. At least he's not a spitting, snarling ball of nastiness like the Siamese from my childhood.