Category: Cats

Poverty is caused by cats (postscript)

Actually, Kyoku hid in a closet for more than twenty hours after he got his shots. He didn’t even miaow, he just crouched quietly. We worried about him and called his name, but he only blinked his eyes in low spirits.

He was already tired because of stress (i.e., Kuro), and we gave him a bath because he looked itchy, then he got carried off to the animal clinic and got an examination, and finally he got a vaccination shot. It sounds terrible for him. (We thought we might have made a big mistake.)

Even at night we worried about him and looked in the closet, but there was no change, and it continued until the next morning.
But around 8:30, I heard a small miaow and Kyoku came up onto my computer desk to look out the window with more energetic steps than I expected. Maybe he felt all right, and he went to the toilet. We heard wet food is not good for his mouth, so we only fed him dry food. The trouble is, how do we feed him the liquid antibiotics? Chris tried to feed it to him using a syringe, but he didn’t open his mouth. (Kuro easily ate not-tasty looking wet food mixed with powdered medicine and syrup: he was easy about it.)

It was still early morning for the supermarket so there wasn’t much bread selection, so I bought a bag of six slices of bread, called hotel bread. He didn’t like the bread as much as we expected he would, but anyway he licked the syrup part. When we tried to make him eat the part of the bread soaked in antibiotics and syrup, he gave us a suspicious look. He sneezed, and indeed white medicine syrup came out from his nose. Hmm.

Kyoku is energetically sneezing on my desk again. There is a pile of tissue. We feel it’s better than hiding in the dark closet. It’s dirty, though.

Kuro is chasing Icchan and being noisy outside.

We are heaving sighs, but life has been like this these days.

–YS, 5 July 2006

5 July 2006