Lynne,

Thanks for asking! This Saturday Nakita will get her stitches out. Unfortunately, Nakita still has to wear the "collar from hell" and she hates every minute of it. I take it off for short periods during the day so she can go through her grooming sessions.

She is now full of kitten energy. It is quite funny watching her run around with the collar, she has to do a type of gallop. She proved her energy last night when she unexpectantly jumped from the floor onto my partner's shoulder. She is quite the shoulder rider and I guess misses her daily shoulder rides!

I've been faithfully giving her the eye cream. I am so lucky to have a kitten with such a wonderful temperment. She doesn't fuss that much, just gives one of those kitten meows that says "Don't do that anymore mommy". She sounds exactly like a kid taking her medicine. I've had Nakita for 2 months now and I have never seen her hiss, bite or use her nails. Even when she was small and tried climbing our legs, she would try to "paw" her way up. She is extremely gentle when she plays with us, but she is just deadly when she goes after the "immortal" black shoelace! What can I say? I just lover her to bits!

This weekend I thought I would experiment on finding her something that could replace the collar. So I took the advice of another poster and used a "tubesock" type material on her. I thought this was perfect, I cut a hole for her tail and so she could use the litterbox. Nakita, though, did not think it was wonderful!! I guess the constant friction made her "batty". After this episode, which looked exactly like something from the Three Stooges, she didn't mind going back to the collar.

So she is tolerating it for now. Only 5 more days to go and Nakita will be free!