We know this because like CJ and myself… George is a klutz.
Yesterday he got caught between the front door and the screen door, and his tail got caught in one of them.
As soon as we heard his screech I got the door back open and he took off. In the time it took us to follow him he was playing again. But five minutes later when Criss picked him up it was clear that his tail had been at least partially severed a couple of centimetres from its tip. There wasn’t much blood, but you could tell by the way it was, well, hanging there.
So off we went to the vets where they found that the severed tip was only hanging on by a few threads of nerve and blood vessels, and not repairable, so they finished the job.
George didn’t even flinch when they finished what the door had started, but he didn’t like it much when they applied the skin glue to his tail to try to close the wound and he liked it even less when the vet injected him with a long lasting anti-biotic.
He was so indignant over the needle in fact, that he complained loudly and swatted at the vet.
She laughed at him so he swatted her again. lol
Mr George in Boots is okay, you’d never know anything was wrong in fact, but he will need to have another operation in a few months to fix his tail properly – unless they surgically amputate another couple of cm’s he won’t have a skin flap to cover the tip leaving bone exposed. But at this stage, they want to wait until he’s grown more to do it so they don’t have to take as much of his tail to fix it. Apparently the thicker his tail grows the less they’ll need to take off. AND if we leave it until we have him desexed in three or four months time then it can all be done during the one operation saving us a shitload of money in surgery fees!
So yeah. He’s a klutz.
Definitely belongs with us. lol
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Wow! Bit of a drama….
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Beet (33 comments.) Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 1:12 am
It was definitely a bit of drama we could have done without… the wallet didn’t like it too much either!
Awww, poor George.
But kudos on saving surgery fees later.
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Beet (33 comments.) Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 1:13 am
Its a huge saving, we were very pleased at the vet’s suggestions
Poor widdle George.
But, yeah, he’s found his rightful home lol.
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Beet (33 comments.) Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 1:14 am
We should make klutz everyone’s middle name… or clan name. Clan Klutz! Works for me
AWWWW. What a cute kitty. I want one.
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Beet (33 comments.) Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 1:14 am
well you’ll have to find your own
lol
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