Who is this gold-and-white boy, who laid stretched out on the vet’s table on his back, playfully batting the vet’s kind hands away? Who is this male kitty who accepted all the annoying treatments and examinations without once fighting back? I don’t know where Cyclone went, but the vet after hearing his story seemed just amazed that this cat once destroyed a whole room! He laughed and told me that Cyclone needs a new name, but I don’t think so. He earned that name long-ago. I’ll keep it as a reminder that there is hope for the “unsociable ones.”

Cyclone tested negative for all the nasty stuff and he doesn’t have cancer. Thank You God, but instead, the vet surmises that years ago, he either ran into a car, a hoof, or a bicycle and hurt himself pretty badly. He tenses up when he is being touched because of the pain. It is the body’s defense. Vet suggests that the broken canines likely hurt him more. So I am going to start treating his gum disease holisitically, until such a time that the gums calm down and I can afford to get him in for a tooth extraction.

He is back in his cage right now, and in a few days, I will let him out into general population and see how that goes.

Fiona who also went to the vet (she has a growth in her ear) does not have an ear tumor, but she does have a bad yeast infection and the overgrowth is the result of her always scratching. I have been treating (almost endlessly) for ear mites and the vet said I can stop torturing her now because she has a yeast infection! Sorry Kitty, my other vet told me it was ear mites. So that is why the gunk kept forming and the ear stayed inflamed. He put her on Synotic Otic Solution and DMSO. She’s hiding right at the moment, she dislikes going to the vet.

The good news is I got paid today (such as it is) but the bad news is after paying today’s charges, I have twenty dollars left from my check!