Busy playing

Just in case you were wondering: No, Snowball didn’t savage me during his first night here. He just quietly slept – mostly in the lounge – and mipped to be let out in the morning. He did venture onto the bed a couple of times, but whenever he saw me looking he ran off – no clue why.

I haven’t written this weekend, because I’ve just been so caught up playing the Elvenar Adventure, which I’m leading the fellowship, and trying to keep up Metropolis play at the same time – with three to five cats being a tad difficult.

On Friday Mewly started dragging his leg along, rather than picking it up. No more clonk, clonk, but lots of zzzzzt zzzzt on the carpet. This worried me quite a bit, as his leg also felt cold to the touch. I thought about taking him to the vet Saturday morning, but then decided to wait till Monday. He also seems to really struggle to sleep, and he’s getting rather cranky as a result. He’ll come up to me, put his paw on my leg, and if I don’t jump to his attention, he’ll throw over the waste bin and stalk off in a huff! Or he’ll come mewling non-stop and not really wanting anything just sharing his unhappiness. He won’t let me pick him up, he won’t come and play, he doesn’t want to be stroked … he just walks around mewling. Until I give up and bribe him with food – that always works! I know, I know, he’s already chubby and it’s bad parenting. Well, he’s not really chubby, just a bit overweight for his current size, but he’s still got a lot of growing to do, and he’ll be wanting less food once I switch over to the Royal Canin.

I took him to the vet early this morning. The vet really would have preferred to keep the splint on a bit longer, but she asked how he was coping with it and when I told her that he’s not sleeping well and is now dragging the leg – although his appetite is normal, his activity levels are down, she decided to take it off – at least for a while. As is normal with a bandaged up paw, he developed some gunge between his paw – it’s from sweating without airing. She asked me to keep her updated on his progress, specifically whether he’s putting weight on that leg. She’s keeping the splint for now, in case we need it again. She also mentioned that he may need surgery further down the road, if his leg doesn’t grow properly, they may have to fuse … I think his wrist, but I hope I remember that wrong.

When I got him home, he just sat cleaning his paw – which is a bit swollen now. He wouldn’t let me help clean it, though. He did go out for a bit of a stroll, but spent most of the day upstairs, sleeping. Ai ai, he worries me that little one. The bandage rubbed some patches hairless, and it looks sore. But he seems happy enough, I saw him put his weight on that leg on a few occasions.

Our gardener was here today. He had wanted to come on Friday, but since it rained all day, he couldn’t. He did trim the hedge nicely, but it still needs to be leveled a bit more on the one side.

It rained last night and looks like rain again tonight – let’s hope it does! So far the rain hasn’t had much impact on the capacity of our dam, still under 10%.