Taz_Zoee
04-09-2012, 01:08 PM
We went to Bruce's brothers house for Easter. They recently had to put the cats outside in a "cat house" (basically it's a childs playhouse they converted for the cats...it's actually a nice set up) outside because years of living with the cats Bruce's brother had a serious reaction to them. His throat was all scarred up from years of breathing cat hair. He was allergic when they first met (like 25 years ago), but she had 3 cats when they got married so he just dealt with it and eventually didn't show any signs.
Bruce's SIL LOVES her cats, don't get me wrong. She loves them so much she wouldn't think of rehoming them so they could live inside. That just doesn't make sense to me, but anyway. :confused: So it was very nice outside and I went out to see the kitties. Only one is a people kitty, Willy. Josie is 18 and is losing the use of her backlegs and Scooter...........well, I've never actually seen Scooter. He hides all the time. I got Willy to jump up in the window so I could pet him. That's when I noticed his front paw was bloody. I told Brad and he came to look. He couldn't see anything and when he walked away I gently took Willy's paw and carefully pressed on the pad to extend his nails. That's when I discovered one of his nails had grown around and into the pad. Brad went and got clippers and peroxide and I helped him by holding Willy while he clipped. Willy was such a good boy, he didn't flinch or squirm at all. He was loving the attention he was getting even if it meant getting his nail clipped. All the rest of his nails were fine, not too long AT ALL.
Not only is it sad to see them out like that, but Willy is a long-hair and his coat is just nasty. :( It's not matted at all, but just dirty and not pretty like it used to be. It makes me so sad, but there's nothing I can do about it. At least I was there to discover his paw. Brad claims it wasn't like that the day before. But it had obviously been that way for a while. Willy had been licking at it because the fur was missing from the toe next to the ingrown one.
Anyway, that was my good deed for yesterday. :)
Bruce's SIL LOVES her cats, don't get me wrong. She loves them so much she wouldn't think of rehoming them so they could live inside. That just doesn't make sense to me, but anyway. :confused: So it was very nice outside and I went out to see the kitties. Only one is a people kitty, Willy. Josie is 18 and is losing the use of her backlegs and Scooter...........well, I've never actually seen Scooter. He hides all the time. I got Willy to jump up in the window so I could pet him. That's when I noticed his front paw was bloody. I told Brad and he came to look. He couldn't see anything and when he walked away I gently took Willy's paw and carefully pressed on the pad to extend his nails. That's when I discovered one of his nails had grown around and into the pad. Brad went and got clippers and peroxide and I helped him by holding Willy while he clipped. Willy was such a good boy, he didn't flinch or squirm at all. He was loving the attention he was getting even if it meant getting his nail clipped. All the rest of his nails were fine, not too long AT ALL.
Not only is it sad to see them out like that, but Willy is a long-hair and his coat is just nasty. :( It's not matted at all, but just dirty and not pretty like it used to be. It makes me so sad, but there's nothing I can do about it. At least I was there to discover his paw. Brad claims it wasn't like that the day before. But it had obviously been that way for a while. Willy had been licking at it because the fur was missing from the toe next to the ingrown one.
Anyway, that was my good deed for yesterday. :)