Lap dances, strippers and punch-ups - the Excellent Cats arrange a stag party

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Well, the boys among them are making plans.

The lady cats are having a spa fortnight in Italy.

Bills for flights, accommodation, food, booze, medical insurance and legal fees (not to mention a fund for bribing officials at Ljubljana Prison) are allegedly being sent to an unmonitored email address.

Kettle is feeling much better now the effects of the anaesthetic have worn off. But he says this stupid sock is very annoying and he would really like to lick his foot.

How old is Agatha, Shouty?

@ShoutyCatSlave Poor Agatha- would she eat some of that hellishly dear cat soup?

Agatha is nearly 6. I gave her "tuna soup", i.e. tuna in spring water, with extra water, but she just looked at it and walked away. She wasn't even interested in sniffing her webbox stick treats! At least she got up and down the stairs to shout at me today, which is better than yesterday.

Same age as Kitty. I’m glad she’s feeling up to shouting, at least!

Definitely! Yesterday was very sad crying (except at the vets, when she rallied to scream non-stop for 15 mins).

Oh dear.
😂

Herbie sends his best wishes to Kettle and Agatha and hopes they both have a speedy recovery.

Someone is trying to look sweet and innocent.

Adding my best wishes for a speedy recovery to Agatha.
Sybil is currently behaving in a very unseemly manner for a 14 year old by having a mad half hour involving belting up the stairs trying to trip Mrs G up and then launching herself up the loft ladder. Photos of her descent enclosed.

We had another houseplant crisis this morning - Stripey found the big plant we'd hidden in the spare room behind a pile of stuff, and had a lovely time scattering soil everywhere.

The plant is going on holiday to my DM's house, until such time as she loses interest in playing with soil.

Did she descend faster than Mrs. G did?
🤣

Sybil is like a tulip with a tail from that angle. Her nickname is Fluffybottom, isn’t it.
As Cat Four is not lying on my neck holding my right hand in her paws, I am able to tell you about the exciting times here.
Cat Two bit Cat Three, who got a horrible infection from it. He also developed an abscess in his neck from a scratch during The Altercation. He had to have antibiotics and metacam three times a day. Vets breezily say “3 times a day” almost as if they have never met a cat.
Confident in my ability to drop a tablet down a cat’s gullet because I can dose Cat One that way, I took tablets. Went back for drops after trying to give him the first dose. Not only was he clamping his jaws shut, he would limp away desperate to escape. I resorted to smearing squeezy treat on his paws when he was sleeping. It was several days before he stopped running away from me when the course finished.
We also discovered Cat Three is FIV+. So everyone else has to have blood tests and 3 courses of vaccine.
Cat One has to have two tablets of Gabentin before a visit to the vet. He will take one tablet down the gullet, but really doesn’t want the second one. If you smear the gabentin on his paw mixed in a squeezy treat, he won’t lick it off and you will have to wash it off him after the vet visit. Immediately after the vet visit the gabentin will kick in and he will fall into a deep sleep for 4 hours. The vet was too afraid to take him out of the carrier for his blood test, so he was sedated completely for that.
We still have one more shot for everybody.
Cat Two is not sorry and is having the audacity to complain about going to the vet.
I could make this post even longer by telling you how it all happened because the person I am still married to (but it was touch and go) left the back door open at night.
Here is Cat One sleeping the sleep of Gabentin.

@RumNotRun your picture of Frank (hope that's correct!) keeps coming up as 'sensitive content'!
Guess that means he is a sensitive cat, he seems it anyway!

Sybil is like a tulip with a tail from that angle. Her nickname is Fluffybottom, isn’t it.

Yes - we have indeed been known to comment on her very fluffy bottom. 😁

@learieonthewildmoor dramatic times

Haha, she's clearly a frustrated horticulturalist.

@learieonthewildmoor Just reading that stressed me out. One cat is definitely enough for me - God knows Kettle has been enough trouble so far, I'm not sure I could cope if I had more! And he's an angel about taking his drugs. I hope your lot are feeling better soon.

Oh that sounds so worrying 😟 I hope Agatha is eating again soon. She must be feeling poorly if she doesn't want tuna.

Kettle is in high spirits despite his conefinement. I found him in the basement enjoying himself batting a piece of lego around the floor and then he helped me change the sheets on the spare bed.

It's Frankie but he is a sensitive little soul.

Good for Kettle!

@Esgaroth you may be right but she’s crap at it! Poor plant is looking sad

I had a foster who was obsessed with plants & I ended up covering mine with netting or upturned baskets while I had him.

@learieonthewildmoor my vet gives me 4 tablets for Tobias whenever he needs to go to the vets, with the instructions of 2 the night before and 2 about 2 hours before he'd due to go in.. He is uncatchable otherwise and has been dubbed "the man-eating tiger" by my boss after she saw the wounds from the only time I tried (the 2 worst ones were splashing big puddles on the ground until I finally got them to stop bleeding).

He is highly suspicious of Gabapentin, or most additives in his food anyway, but is a great fan of sliced cooked chicken. I grind the pills up to powder with 2 spoons then dip ends of the strips of the chicken in the powder. He doesn't gobble that down like he usually does with chicken, but eventually eats most of it especially if I keep him away from any other food for a while.

Last time he needed this he was having a scan of his belly in the morning and needed a mostly empty stomach, so I shut him in the cat's bedroom on his own over night with some of the dosed chicken. Got up a good couple of hours before it would be time to catch him and fed him the rest - it takes him AT LEAST 2 hours to get properly dozy!