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Spats is still causing a problem here. Sometimes the resident Furral boys allow him to eat at the far edge of the porch and everyone is happy. Sometimes they have a full on brawl (at horrible hours of the night) and I end up cleaning up a mangled Orange Boi (who is always proudly victorious) in the morning. It makes me sad because Spats does not at all seem to be a bad cat. He talks a lot. Like a whole, whole lot. And I know he is just doing what his boy-cat-junk is telling him to do. Actually, truth be told, this entire situation makes me sad. I did not ask for this at all (even though I dearly love all cats). But it now constantly burns in the back of my mind that some of these sweet animals were PETS, that were just tossed out and left because they did not matter enough to their caretaker. I know they at least have better, healthier lives now, it is just stressful (and pricey, lol) trying to manage it all. But anyways, to get back to the story at hand, Spats is a butthead and he and Orange Boi keep tangling and it needs to stop. Dr. Hillary offered to try to snip him Monday if I could catch him, so I got up at a ridiculous hour and attempted to trap him. Alas, Spats is too smart for the traps and I was not able to get him at all. (I saw him, and he was limping, and very shy of me. He even ran away into the woods instead of meeting me at the shed where I can feed him by himself.) I was, however, able to grab Daddy who has been limping very badly since before Christmas. For the past two weeks he has been hanging close to the porch, down in the juniper bushes. He only comes out to visit me and to eat. No prowling or hunting at all and that had me worried about his pain levels with whatever the injury is. He is so gentle with me I was able to easily crate him to make the long drive to the doc. He was SO good at the vet! This is a cat who may never have been inside, and who definitely has not been inside in 3 years. He was gentle and so easy to handle. He got x-rays that showed nothing wrong, so I have some anti-inflammatories in the event it is soft tissue damage. He has full range of motion and lets you touched the entire arm and his back so now it is a matter of doing what we can to let him rest and heal up. As you can see below, Orange Boi is happy to have his buddy back!
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