Re: Percy

My other cat was named Spot, so Spike just seemed a natural name for the next one. Later we got a little all-black kitten. I wanted to name him Spade, but my husband thought that sounded bigoted. I also wanted to name the dog Jammer so we would have the Cats & Jammer Kids, but he thought Jammer sounded crude. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:21 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Percy



Is that when you named him Spike? :-) Or did he just live up to it.
Mine fall off the coffee table regularly but that's because I
absent-mindedly leave the paper there with the edges hanging over. They
walk on the paper but suddenly there's no table under it. You'd think
after a while they would stop walking on the paper.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Kitty
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:15 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy

I had a cat named Spike who used to walk the edge of the clawfoot
bathtub.
Fell in with me one day.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy



After watching our two, I've become convinced that in spite of their
incredible strength-for-weight and athletic abilities, they are quite



clumsy.

On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:


Me neither...cats are such trapeze artists..I've never heard of one
falling through like that.  But I'll remember that from now on...

Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com> wrote:  Wise of you darling. Good
heads up for everyone, I never heard of this
happening before.

On 9/17/07, Zemuly Sanders wrote:


Percy is doing great. The crate he is in is huge, and there is room



for
his
bed, his food and water and a small litter box. The vet agreed that

it

would be a good idea to leave him in there until the stitches are
removed
on
the 27th. I just don't want to run the risk of his sustaining an
injury.
All his friends are visiting through the bars. Incidentally, I have



put a
heavy throw over the top so nobody else gets a leg caught.
zem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Bell"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 2:17 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Percy



Me too....ya'll have been on my mind a lot.


Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
Poor baby, hope he's doing okay.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]

On

Behalf Of Zemuly Sanders
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:47 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy

I picked him up from the vet this afternoon. She suggested I try to
slowly
reintroduce him to the colony since he is now "different." You

should

have
seen the look on his face with his blue Elizabethan collar in

place.

I
must
say I was thoroughly cursed by him. At any rate I have put him in
Otis's
huge (and now unused) crate with his own food, water and litter

box.

He
is
in the middle of all the other cats, but nobody can bother him

until

he
is a
little more sure of himself. I'll probably keep him corralled until



his

stitches and collar come off in two weeks. I'm going to give him

his

antibiotic and pain medicine now.
zem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Bell"
To:
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy



Ohhhhh...I'm so sorry to hear that Zem. My vet has a three-legged



cat



named "Tripod" and I have a friend who also had to do that to

their

cat.

It was an outside cat and it was on the roof and tried to jump

from

the

gutter of the house to a tree and got it's leg caught in the space

between

the roof and gutter (gutter was in need of repair I would say) and

was

hanging upside down with a broken leg. Poor baby. But after the
amputation, they both get around just fine. Tripod is an awesome
cat.


Zemuly Sanders wrote:
Thanks, you all. I'm sure he'll do fine. His best friend is Fleur,

and

she
has never missed have four operable legs. He'll be relieved, I'm
sure,

to

no longer lugging around that heavy cast.
zem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Evans"
To:
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Percy



I've read some remarkable stories about how well they can adapt

to

a
missing
limb, but I do hate it for him and for you. Thank goodness he is

an

indoor
baby. Poor lil' ol Percy! And poor Zem's bank account!

On 9/13/07, Kitty wrote:


Oh, I am so sorry for the little guy and you. I suppose it will



take
some
time getting used to losing the leg, but he'll adapt, but what a

shame.


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zemuly Sanders"
To: "gardenchat"
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Percy



I took Percy to have his leg checked today. The vet called and



said

the

leg
was not healing properly at the point where the skin had been

broken. He

suggested amputation was the best route to follow in this case,



so



that

is

what was done. I had to also consider the cost factor, and

amputation

at

$800
was less than half the cost of having the ankle "pinned" and

frozen in

place.
In addition pinning was not going to be guaranteed because of

the

large
open
wound. At any rate, Percy will be fine since he never goes
outside
anyway.
I'm sorry he has been through such an ordeal, and I'm sorry

it's

costing
me so
much! We will both adapt, I'm sure. I will pick him up tomorrow
afternoon.
zem





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