Yet Another Kitten Update

[ladysprite]

It's been a little while since I've updated Moxie's adoring fan club with her status, and I figure those of you eagerly waiting on the exploits of your favorite brain-damaged kitten are due for another hit. For the rest of you... um... cute pictures ahead?

She's nine months old, now, almost ten. Developmentally, she's still somewhere around 12 weeks, give or take. She's grown to a whopping four pounds, she's figured out (more or less) how to eat from a bowl, how to actually find her food when she's hungry, and (mostly) how to use the litterbox - as long as we put her in her room when it's time for her to go.

She can jump over barriers, and managed to climb one step once, though she then got very confused and couldn't make it any further. She plays with toys, and thinks my other cat's tail is the most awesome thing in the world; luckily he can escape her by hopping onto the sofa. She doesn't seek out human contact, but we've found she likes to be in line-of-sight with us. She'll tolerate being picked up, if she's tired; otherwise she squirms or yowls.

She scared the bejeebers out of us a couple of weeks ago when she started having seizures again, but that seems to have been an isolated episode or two - any tests I can do myself have all come back normal, and I have neither the money nor, to be honest, the inclination to pursue an MRI or CT - it's not like the results would change my plans or my love for her; brain surgery isn't in what I think are her best interests. She's happy, and that's enough for me.

The biggest change, at the moment, is her haircut. Last week, at the request of the staff, I brought her to one of the clinics I work at, where the groomer promptly whisked her out of her carrier and into her Groomer Cave, from whence she emerged about an hour later clean, whiter than she's been since I weaned her, angry as hell... and shorn almost to her skin.




Before - see how big she got?


And after, with extra bonus angry-face

I love my little special-needs baby....

Comments

[joannahurley.livejournal.com]

Hehe. She does look pretty annoyed. :) Glad she's doing well.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

How lucky you both are to have found each other.

[aries-walker.livejournal.com]

I can attest first hand that this adorable little cat is adorable.

[serakit.livejournal.com]

How do you MRI a cat? When I had mine, there were several periods of "now don't even breathe for the next thirty seconds" and you can't really do that with an animal.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

General anesthesia.

[udalrich.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have minded anesthesia the last time I had an MRI.

"Now lay here in the most uncomfortable position possible given your current state, and don't move for half an hour."

Fortunately, 2/3 of an MRI still showed enough to confirm the expected problem.

[mamatiger.livejournal.com]

Aw. Such an adorable angry face! So glad she is chugging right along.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very glad she's doing well!

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Like the demon-kitty looks.

Glad she's doing well.

[auntiemame67.livejournal.com]

I had a longhair for almost 20 years. She should probably have died several times over, and was crazy, to boot. She actually looked a lot like Moxie, only without the mooshed-in face. Poor thinng just *could not* keep her fur clean without swallowing 2/3 of her own fur, so we had to get her cut at the beginning of summer, so by winter, she had grown back enough fur to be warm. She, also, hated that lion cut, though the *worst* was this woman in CA who yanked about an eighth of an inch amount of fur from her forehead and pulled it into that stupid bow at the front. I had to chase the cat around the bedroom for 25 minutes to get it out, after which she calmed right down.

I'm kind of sad that we didn't get to see your kitties the other Sunday. Scritch them for me?