My Sickbed

Don't let the smile fool you--I was feeling like crap, just getting over the worst of my week-long illness. All I could bring myself to do was sit on the couch and watch hours upon hours of Law & Order. Really--it's my healing regimen. I guess the cats thought that what I really needed was to be smothered to death. (There are four here. . . Sam's hiding by my feet under the blanket.) Shortly after this was taken I began flinging them around the room in fear for my life.

I Swear I'll Do It

I'm having one of those can-I-get-away-with-killing-all-my-cats-without-
PETA-hunting-me-down? moments.

We're Not Crazy. Really.

But we did shave the cats. When there are five, there are very few alternatives.

This Guy is a Genius

There is no better way to get me to donate a WHOLE DOLLAR than by having a kitten as your mascot. It helped that when I bent to pet her, she climbed into my lap and purred. SO sweet.

Feeding Time

The five monsters, a.k.a. the Thunder Cat Army.

Oh the Trauma

Augh. We had a vet emergency today. An expensive one. So yeah we have five cats (I know, I know) and the (three) boys fight once in a while. We usually let them duke it out, our logic being that maybe one day they'll realize just how silly they've been putting so much energy into being enemies and they'll start loving each other, as cats should. Well. Apparently Jonah was bitten on his back by one of the evil boys the other day and last night, Nate discovered that a huge lump had developed in the area of the wound. After a bit of Internet research I discover that it's an abscess, and that yeah, we should probably go to the vet (DAMNIT). So we go to a vet's office in Park Slope, one that Nate researched out when he got a couple of his cats' shots updated, and learn from our vet that the abscess has to be lanced. So lance it they did and poor Jonah had to be drained. Poor thing. He was so terrified and in so much pain that he peed in the cat carrier on the way home, so Nate tried his best to clean him up in the tub before we gave him his first round of pain meds and antibiotics. This was extremely difficult, you know, what with the large gaping wound that we weren't supposed to touch on his back. We were instructed to place him in solitary confinement for a few days, so he's in the guest room with his own litter, food, and bed. I feel awful for Jonah, but ohmygod, what a pain in the ass.Jonah in his sickbed. The wound is on the other side. Believe me, you don't want to see it.

Cutie

Jonah, my 20-pound monster of a cat, dreaming of pirouhettes.