Cat tales
So my cat Scampers had an incident this week that is just too funny not to share. To me it sounds like a fourth-grader's creative writing piece so I am going with that.
Scampers is a domestic long haired cat. Every time we try to brush him he tries to eat the brush so to eliminate the need to brush and to avoid hair matting we decided to get him shaved. Saturday morning I took him to the groomers and they shaved him down to a lion cut (floofy mane, bushy socks, and his fluffy tail). He looked a little funny but mostly cute and much more scrawney than I would have thought. we decided against bathing him figuring that the funny haircut was torture enough. Jump forward to Sunday evening: I came home after visiting a friend to Justin telling me that Scamp got up on a counter that to our knowledge he has never been on. Justin herd crying and saw Scamp limping. It turned out that Scamp had gotten caught in a fly strip that we had hanging from a cabinet and had managed to hobble both of his hind legs in it. Justin set him free and tried to clean the glue off his hind legs. Justin said Scamp needed extra love so I went to pick him up. This was when we discovered that he was Head to tail(no exaggeration) full of fly paper glue. We immediately took him into the bathroom to try and wash the glue off. After one bath we were unsuccessful so we got out the scissors. We cut what we could out of his mane and tail but on must his body he was shaved too close to even try. Meanwhile, my asthma decided to pick that moment to attack me. I went off to do my nebulizer and Justin let Scamp out of the tub and wrapped him in a towel. After nebulizing, I read the fly strip box which said that the non-toxic glue could be removed with peanut butter or vegatable oil. Unwilling to smear my cat with peanut butter (we only had chunky anyway) we grabbed the oil and headed back to the tub. The oil worked fabulosly and apparently was tasty to Scamp. After the oil got the glue out it and we conviced Scamp not to clean up the oily tub, came time for bath #2 (or 3 if you count the oil bath) My asthma flared up again and I went back to my nebulizer. I could hear Scamp yowling sounding very much like a baby because he was so tramatized by his bath. Justin finshed up a very unhappy Scamps' bath and wrapped him again in a towel. When Scamp became too restless Justin put him down and locked the catbox away to eliminate the need for yet another bath as the wet kitty inevitably visits the catbox. Scamp seemed to take forever to dry. It turned out that his fur had retained the oil and he was sporting the "wet look" Looking like a drowned skinny rat Scamp sulked around trying to groom out the oil. It wasn't happening. We gave him a day to try but Tuesday morning we went BACK to the groomers for an emergancy bath with a degreaser. Poor Kitty! So many bad things happening in such a short space of time. The groomer said that Scamp yowled and cried the enitre bath except for when she would hug him close to her chest. Scamp is doing much better, the oil is gone though his hair cut looks a bit more silly from where I cut out glue. He is very very clingy and I am betting he won't poop solid for a month with all the oil he ingested. The End.
Scampers is a domestic long haired cat. Every time we try to brush him he tries to eat the brush so to eliminate the need to brush and to avoid hair matting we decided to get him shaved. Saturday morning I took him to the groomers and they shaved him down to a lion cut (floofy mane, bushy socks, and his fluffy tail). He looked a little funny but mostly cute and much more scrawney than I would have thought. we decided against bathing him figuring that the funny haircut was torture enough. Jump forward to Sunday evening: I came home after visiting a friend to Justin telling me that Scamp got up on a counter that to our knowledge he has never been on. Justin herd crying and saw Scamp limping. It turned out that Scamp had gotten caught in a fly strip that we had hanging from a cabinet and had managed to hobble both of his hind legs in it. Justin set him free and tried to clean the glue off his hind legs. Justin said Scamp needed extra love so I went to pick him up. This was when we discovered that he was Head to tail(no exaggeration) full of fly paper glue. We immediately took him into the bathroom to try and wash the glue off. After one bath we were unsuccessful so we got out the scissors. We cut what we could out of his mane and tail but on must his body he was shaved too close to even try. Meanwhile, my asthma decided to pick that moment to attack me. I went off to do my nebulizer and Justin let Scamp out of the tub and wrapped him in a towel. After nebulizing, I read the fly strip box which said that the non-toxic glue could be removed with peanut butter or vegatable oil. Unwilling to smear my cat with peanut butter (we only had chunky anyway) we grabbed the oil and headed back to the tub. The oil worked fabulosly and apparently was tasty to Scamp. After the oil got the glue out it and we conviced Scamp not to clean up the oily tub, came time for bath #2 (or 3 if you count the oil bath) My asthma flared up again and I went back to my nebulizer. I could hear Scamp yowling sounding very much like a baby because he was so tramatized by his bath. Justin finshed up a very unhappy Scamps' bath and wrapped him again in a towel. When Scamp became too restless Justin put him down and locked the catbox away to eliminate the need for yet another bath as the wet kitty inevitably visits the catbox. Scamp seemed to take forever to dry. It turned out that his fur had retained the oil and he was sporting the "wet look" Looking like a drowned skinny rat Scamp sulked around trying to groom out the oil. It wasn't happening. We gave him a day to try but Tuesday morning we went BACK to the groomers for an emergancy bath with a degreaser. Poor Kitty! So many bad things happening in such a short space of time. The groomer said that Scamp yowled and cried the enitre bath except for when she would hug him close to her chest. Scamp is doing much better, the oil is gone though his hair cut looks a bit more silly from where I cut out glue. He is very very clingy and I am betting he won't poop solid for a month with all the oil he ingested. The End.