Cat Owie
June 30, 2017 9:39 AM Subscribe
In February 2017, a scared and badly injured stray cat walked up to Anelida, the compassionate human belonging to Santi the angora cat and Walter the golden retriever. The vocal feline then let out a series of plaintive meows that indicated he was in a great deal of pain and needed help (cw: fresh cat injury). Don't miss the forty-day-update video at the bottom. [h/t Miss Cellania]
That led me to this story of a lynx kept as a pet, which is a bit happy-sad. She's now in a better situation at a sanctuary, but who the heck keeps a lynx as a indoor pet? Well, a pet at all, but especially an indoors one.
posted by tavella at 10:16 AM on June 30, 2017
posted by tavella at 10:16 AM on June 30, 2017
i see what you did there, JW
posted by cortex at 10:22 AM on June 30, 2017 [19 favorites]
posted by cortex at 10:22 AM on June 30, 2017 [19 favorites]
Periodically I think there should be a "Best FPP title" competition; posts like these are a reminder that there's something in that.
posted by Wordshore at 10:24 AM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Wordshore at 10:24 AM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
I saw this in my YouTube recommendations a few days ago, maybe because I subscribe to Vet Ranch which has lots of stories like this (always with happy endings). Watching it has made me a little less squeamish about cutting and blood.
posted by Bee'sWing at 10:28 AM on June 30, 2017
posted by Bee'sWing at 10:28 AM on June 30, 2017
I'm not crying! You're crying!
posted by Megafly at 10:47 AM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Megafly at 10:47 AM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Like some sort of bondage device? I think having caring hands holding a nervous animal still for such a thing is probably the BEST way to do that.
Like lead-lined gloves?
posted by showbiz_liz at 11:03 AM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
Like lead-lined gloves?
posted by showbiz_liz at 11:03 AM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
That's pretty much how we ended up with Sylwester. I came home from work and there was a strange cat on the fence by my door who put a paw on me and looked me in the eye -- There was a Ship, quoth he -- and yelled at me because he was dying and didn't have time for pleasantries. He was so thin you could just about grab him around the stomach with one hand and touch your middle finger and thumb together on the other side, and there was pus and blood oozing from his face. The doctors wired his jaw back together, stuffed him full of drugs, took all my money, and didn't play any twee music, but now I have a huge fat slobbery toothless gummy cockeyed loudmouthed fearless cat beast who is friend to all the children and old women on our street.
posted by pracowity at 1:35 PM on June 30, 2017 [42 favorites]
posted by pracowity at 1:35 PM on June 30, 2017 [42 favorites]
A couple of years ago, a neighborhood kitten, maybe 12 weeks old, tried to follow us on a walk. He had a limp. We shooed it away. Saw it on various porches the next couple of days. Then he was at our door, asleep, too tired and hurt to walk three feet to a food dish we set out. We took him to the vet; his limp was a bad infection in his shoulder, requiring surgery. Now Tommy is a fat and sassy tomcat who knows his place in a 3-cat household. He finally found the right porch.
posted by Miss Cellania at 2:57 PM on June 30, 2017 [24 favorites]
posted by Miss Cellania at 2:57 PM on June 30, 2017 [24 favorites]
I just let two formerly feral kittens/now sleek cats outside because they've eaten and napped and IT'S SUMMER AND WE HAVE CAT THINGS TO DO. And in the winter they get fat and purr, lordy do they purr.
Bless all who rescue and give homes and shelter to those who have no voice.
posted by Ber at 5:00 PM on June 30, 2017 [8 favorites]
Bless all who rescue and give homes and shelter to those who have no voice.
posted by Ber at 5:00 PM on June 30, 2017 [8 favorites]
You would think there would be a better way to do that.
There is. Chemical restraint AKA sedation and creative use of various devices. It's pretty old-school to hold pets for x-rays (not to mention often inhumane, since it can be uncomfortable and scary to downright agonizing to position an injured pet correctly), and doing it without proper protective equipment (which I was using back in 1989 for crying out loud!), is just stupid.
That said, nice story.
posted by biscotti at 5:00 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
There is. Chemical restraint AKA sedation and creative use of various devices. It's pretty old-school to hold pets for x-rays (not to mention often inhumane, since it can be uncomfortable and scary to downright agonizing to position an injured pet correctly), and doing it without proper protective equipment (which I was using back in 1989 for crying out loud!), is just stupid.
That said, nice story.
posted by biscotti at 5:00 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
All y'all commenting with stories about your rescued strays with no links to pics of aforementioned furbabies are going to hell. We currently live in the Most Bad Universe and by God I will have whatever meager joys are left to me.
posted by tzikeh at 5:47 PM on June 30, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by tzikeh at 5:47 PM on June 30, 2017 [13 favorites]
What tzikeh said.
posted by thivaia at 6:37 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by thivaia at 6:37 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Pictures.
Five years ago, Sugar came to our back yard begging for food. She was so tiny, we thought she was just out of kittenhood, and we decided to TNS her. We took her to the neighborhood vet, who told us they had been feeding her too, and she turned out to be four years old and already neutered, someone's pet who had been adopted, chipped, and abandoned (the phone number and name associated with the chip was no longer working). She has only one fang and has something wrong with her back end, and tends to slide sideways if she goes too fast, but she's happy. She is now a thoroughly spoiled, adorable, chubby fuzzball who adores us.
posted by Peach at 7:59 PM on June 30, 2017 [6 favorites]
Five years ago, Sugar came to our back yard begging for food. She was so tiny, we thought she was just out of kittenhood, and we decided to TNS her. We took her to the neighborhood vet, who told us they had been feeding her too, and she turned out to be four years old and already neutered, someone's pet who had been adopted, chipped, and abandoned (the phone number and name associated with the chip was no longer working). She has only one fang and has something wrong with her back end, and tends to slide sideways if she goes too fast, but she's happy. She is now a thoroughly spoiled, adorable, chubby fuzzball who adores us.
posted by Peach at 7:59 PM on June 30, 2017 [6 favorites]
Okay, here's Tommy after recovering from surgery, and a picture taken recently.
posted by Miss Cellania at 8:27 PM on June 30, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by Miss Cellania at 8:27 PM on June 30, 2017 [6 favorites]
Miss C, flickr says your pics are Adult Content and wants me to sign in to my nonexistent account.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:03 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:03 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Cat in labor meows at local family health center's door to ask for help
A pregnant cat in southeastern Bitlis province meowed for help in front of the local family health center as her contractions became too hard to endure.posted by sebastienbailard at 2:31 AM on July 1, 2017 [6 favorites]
According to local news website Bitlis 13 Haber, the heartwarming and astounding incident took place on Wednesday as a cat in labor started to meow at the door of the No.2 health center in Tatvan district when she realized she was having complications in giving birth to her kittens.
Oh dear. I haven't used my own Flickr account much at all. I just discovered you have to set a "safety level" for each picture, or it defaults to "moderate." These pictures are now "safe," but I'm not going to go through the entire account and change the others.
posted by Miss Cellania at 3:40 AM on July 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Miss Cellania at 3:40 AM on July 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
I'm sitting here freshly amazed by the digital photography revolution. The old classic instamatic had fixed focus, tiny aperture, slow film, developing expense, and animals don't hold still long enough for you to run and find the camera. When I look through old boxes of family photos, there aren't that many shots of our pets...maybe walking around the lawn or in a family xmas morning shot. The last time I looked through my full laptop iPhoto library, I think the ratio of dogs to people was closing on 50/50.
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:13 AM on July 1, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:13 AM on July 1, 2017 [4 favorites]
So sweet, I love seeing an injured animal helped. That cat met the right person to help him out. I follow a sweet kitty on facebook who was found on a forest road badly hurt and now lives very well with the man who found her, his wife, and a menagerie of other cats & dogs, minus one front leg that couldn't be saved. Her name is Shadow, a Special Kitten.
posted by RichardHenryYarbo at 12:48 PM on July 1, 2017
posted by RichardHenryYarbo at 12:48 PM on July 1, 2017
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One thing that confused me in the original video is there appears to be hands in the x-ray holding the cat. Hopefully that's the person caring for the cat, and not the vet's, as repeated exposure is probably not a good thing. You would think there would be a better way to do that.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:48 AM on June 30, 2017