Unimpressed

[smokingboot]

My dreams were strange and unpleasant. I have decided to blame worry and last night's bottled beer.

The hospital bods have not been able to take Monty's bloods yet, because somehow they managed to ignore my endless warnings about him being a semi-feral un-neutered tom carrying a wound now described to me by the RSPCA as 'horrific'. I suppose I should thank them for admitting this latter, but as the damn thing looks like someone tried to saw his head off from one side, then turned him over and tried again from the other, I don't feel they deserve praise for observing the fecking obvious. However, having ascertained this much, it never occurred to them that a cat with these characteristics would attack when cornered by a gang of larger predators who tried to stick needles in him. He fought. He's had to fight for months.

So now they are saying that he may be harder to home if he is an 'aggressive' cat. He's not aggressive, he was as gentle as a lamb with a whole bunch of handlers, he just did what any of us would do if we were terrified and seemingly attacked for gods sake.

He will be sedated for cleaning the wound and bloodwork tests today. If he's got Feline HIV/Leukemia, it's the end for him, but they won't know that til next week.So far they can't even identify what caused the wound.

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[mallorys_camera]

Oh, I'm sorry about Monty!

I had a vet at a "no kill" shelter once tell me that my cat, the Meezer, is among the 10% of animals that they would put down I passed her along to them. Because she's aggressive.

She is aggressive. Or rather - You can never tell when she's going to attack. But that's not really her fault: She had a very traumatic kittenhood. In some ways I feel that providing her with a home has been one of the great mitzvahs of my life. :-)

[smokingboot]

I'm glad you kept the Meezer. It is indeed a grand mitzvah :-)

I would like to keep Monty, if my cats will accept him, but it's not what the RSPCA want. Their hope is that once he is neutered, stitched up and properly healed, they can find a totally new start for him and he can become a different character, possibly living indoors with people. For that, they need to sunder him from all his old haunts and ways, or, they say, he'll just go back to the way he was before. I understand them, but if he was happy before, excepting the wound, why not go back to it? If he wants to live outside and come to me for food/water/shelter in bad weather, why not let him? Their answer is that if they do that, its just a case of waiting for the next wound/catastrophe. I am not convinced.

[mallorys_camera]

I'm not convinced either.

But you can only do what you can do.

[smokingboot]

True unfortunately. But I cannot bear my efforts not to be enough...

I am back on FB now that Lent is done, and have sent you a friends request as we mentioned :-)