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Poorly kitten
Weaver:
Pangur Bàn has been bitten on his back in a fight with Tom we presume. He has puncture wounds and his leg has a wound on it and seems stiff and awkward. A few nights ago he was on the bed, I touched him and he growled at me. This was so weird I immediately knew something was very wrong. Janet examined him and I think I and she could see a swelling on his back, although the fur was obscuring things. I said that the growling was like the noise that Caoimhe makes when she has been scared by a fight with Beileag, who hates her and used to be bullied by Caoimhe, things used to be the other way round until Beileag got the confidence to chase Caoimhe. Gave the kitten a dose of loxicom straight away. Very lucky we had some in. Took him down to the vet in the morning, shaved his back and gave him an anti-biotics injection.
He still isn’t ready to play yet even a couple of days later. Somhairle cannot understand why his friend make miserable noises instead of wanting to play. Tonight Pangur Bàn tried to jump from the bed onto the bookshelves at the side where there is a bowl full of cat crunchies, ‘the snack bar’, but due to his leg simply missed and fell to the floor in a heap. At least tonight he looks comfortable, sitting in my lap while I am in bed. He is smiling and even allowing me to stroke him a little.
burakkucat:
Considering that Tom is almost a permanent resident I am surprised that he is assumed to be the guilty party. :-\
Hopefully Pangur Bàn will make a good recovery and not loose his confidence to be with all the other residents.
Weaver:
The thing is, Tom might well have got into a fight without having started it. In fact, I don’t think he ever starts one, but gets trapped sometimes, and might be fighting out of fear. We only suggest Tom because there is no other possibility. Tom tries to creep into the house and get to his warm sleepy places, one is in a box, behind a coat that is hanging on the wall, in the corner of the kitchen. Another favourite place is the spare room upstairs. This means having to risk climbing the stairs and he could meet another cat, in which case he could be trapped and either a lot of noise or a fight ensues. Somhairle’s tail was bitten some months back, became infected and swelled up to be enormous.
Tom just wants to be left alone. He will sit in the kitchen with other cats looking at him and they will just behave themselves now. But it’s when a cat is on the move that the trouble happens.
Janet suggests that little Pangur Bàn might have gone outside and then encountered Tom. I think that outside is Tom’s world: in his mind, he owns it and I suspect might be aggressive about his top cat status out there, yet indoors he is frightened because he knows he is an intruder in ‘their’ world.
Weaver:
Pangur Bàn is back to purring, very loudly. And playing games, slightly less wild still, and he goes up his climbing pole. He is on the bed purring his head off right now. Janet thinks Tom was not involved. This is because Tom came into the kitchen and Pangur Bàn was not at all afraid of him.
burakkucat:
That's good to know. Thank you for the update. :)
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