This morning, poor Slider found herself trapped when Mike transferred from his wheelchair to his electric lift recliner. As he was lowering the chair to the floor, I heard the most heart-wrenching screams of anguish from a cat and realized one of them was under his chair. I grabbed the controller and started lifting the chair peering behind it as seeing Slider squashed on her midsection near the floor. The minute the chair eased the pressure, Slider scrambled under the bed dragging both her hind legs behind her. My first thought was oh God, she must have a spinal injury.

She was shaking and trembling and drooling and of course in the farthest corner away from me so I couldn’t reach her right away. I just laid down next to the bed and started talking to her, praying she would come over and see me once she recovered her breath. I was able to finally pick her up and looked her over up and down and sideways. I didn’t see visible injuries but I put her inside one of our cages, gave her food and water and about an hour later, she came out and ate a bit and used the pan. I didn’t see any blood being passed, but she was shaky on her back legs and hyperventilating. Right after she ate, she vomited it back up and in the next few hours she started chuffing and choking.

I called my vet and got her in and he examined her and did films. She is bruised on her tummy and her legs although not broken are tender as well. We gave her a pain shot and she has pain medication to take for the next three days. But thankfully, she did not break any bones or crack a vertebrae. No internal bleeding although she has a bit of air bubbles in her belly that the vet said she should pass on her own once they travel through her small intestine.

I am just grateful she is okay because it could of been so much worse. I detest that chair because of the danger it poses and although I know that Mike needs it- I’ve been stuffing the underneath parts with quilts blankets and pillows since it arrived here hoping to deter the kitties from crawling underneath. Guess I didn’t stuff it good enough though.

Adding to the vet bill- but their welfare comes before anything else. She is my pillow sleeper- neck snuggler kitty in the night and I love her bunches! Although she is 8 months old, she weighs only 5 pounds. She was the runt of 7 and is going to be a very petite kitty when she finally grows up.