Freakin' cats.

JCbride2015 · February 2014

So Jack is finally better after his mystery illness. Today we were sitting in the living room eating brunch, and we hear a cat YOWLING in the bedroom. We run in and see Stella, dangling really high up from my clothes in the closet, by her front claws. I have no idea how she got up there, but she was stuck. I picked her up to take the pressure off her paws and Fi went to disentangle her claws from the fabric. He moved a dress and her whole left paw was completely twisted around, like 360 degrees. It was really gruesome. We had to take the clothes out of the closet along with her, to get her untwisted.

I immediately assumed she must have broken at least one little bone in her leg with the way it was so twisted. I followed her around the house and it looks like she is putting weight on it, so hopefully she's okay. If it swells up or she starts limping, we'll take her to the vet.

Fi got lightheaded and almost threw up. He said after these two weeks with the cats, he doesn't know if he can have kids.

flyingfoxes · February 2014

Cats are something else. I have 2 - one of which was supposed to be just a foster, but I never heard from the shelter again so she's mine (won't foster again and make that mistake, lol). FI has one cat too so when we merge households in June it should be an adventure. They were here over Christmas and his fought with one of mine, but hopefully since we'll be in a new house none of them will be territorial. He also has a dog. This is gonna be a good time, lol.

JCbride2015 · February 2014

qmda76 said:

Cats are something else. I have 2 - one of which was supposed to be just a foster, but I never heard from the shelter again so she's mine (won't foster again and make that mistake, lol). FI has one cat too so when we merge households in June it should be an adventure. They were here over Christmas and his fought with one of mine, but hopefully since we'll be in a new house none of them will be territorial. He also has a dog. This is gonna be a good time, lol.

It should really help to be in a new house so nobody is on "home turf." Cats get really territorial. Good luck!

AddieCake · February 2014

Poor kitty. I hope he is ok.

mrsbanany · February 2014

Oh no! I hope she's ok. We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. We just got our puppy 4 months ago and started peeing all over the puppy's stuff. It's awful. His bed, all his toys, everything he uses smells terrible. It must be a territorial thing because they never did that before and I don't know how to get them to stop.

Ven&Radio · February 2014

I hope your kitty is ok! Cats are pretty good at doing stupid shit and bouncing back just fine though. Case in point, I have a very adventurous, athletic cat. She was downright dangerous as a kitten (thankfully her adult size precludes her from getting into some of the same trouble she used to). We have lamps with a pull-chain to turn them on/off and there's a big ball at the end of the chain with an opening that lets it slide on the chain. Once my cat was batting at the ball, got one claw stuck in the opening, scrambled in panic, and ended up suspended by the one claw. Luckily I was home and able to grab/disentangle her almost immediately. If she was alone when it happened or bigger, I'd be afraid she'd have lost the toe.

jdluvr06 · February 2014

I hope the poor kitty is alright.

Jells2dot0 · February 2014

Poor baby! I totally understand. We have four cats. It's always something with one of them. I guess that is why they say that curiosity killed the cat. They get themselves into the oddest situations.

jessiray · February 2014

Oh no! I hope your kitty is okay

You might want to take her to the vet, regardless... cats are very good at hiding injuries.

pinkcow13 · February 2014

Awww poor kitty! I really hope she's fine. They really do get themselves into some situations. Over the summer, Kapuchee got himself stuck under the couch somehow. FI could not find him anywhere, and he got really worried when he clinked the food dishes and Kap didn't come running. He finally heard a faint little meow from under the couch and saw that he somehow wedged himself in there and couldn't get out smh. He was fine after, and luckily has not gotten stuck in there since then.