Zima, being stealth cat.
The droopy tail? Turns out to be soreness caused by a cat bite! It is a tossup whether it was Silvio or the neighborhood bully that did it. She'll be OK.
Update! Zima's dramatic tail has another chapter. This morning she was sitting on the pile of newspapers to recycle, minding her own business, when Silvio attacked her and she backed up... right into a gas burner on our stovetop. A burner that was on high at the time. I pulled her away before her tail actually caught on fire, but there was some smoke and the strong scent of burnt hair is permeating the kitchen. Zima has a big patch of singed fur on the underside of her tail now.
I wish I could tell you that this is the first time she's nearly set her tail on fire. It's not. There have been several unfortunate incidents involving her tail and candles over the years. I know from experience that within an hour, Zima will have cleaned up the burnt area so well you wouldn't even know it was there. She never seems to realize how close she comes to actual, painful physical damage and/or burning down our house.
18 comments:
Aw, poor cat.
I always thought it was chicken in a basket...
Glad to know Zima will be OK. I was getting all worked up over droopy tail disease BUT then realized that is something that strikes hamsters NOT cats.
Skittles sounds a bit like my Siren but Siren stays inside. He doesn't mean to fight, he just doesn't know any better.
Stealth cat photo is beautiful.
Hi! Making my way aroudn the internets...finally abreak from stoopid work. Yay fro not-hurt kittehs!
She's thinking "Just take the damn picture."
wa11z - cats think?
tiff - yay for kitteh!
dianne - her tail is much less droopy today.
ll - there was once chicken (curry) soup mix (among other things) in that basket.
jeni - she's feeling better today.
You know, I came really, really close last nite to tagging you for that book meme! Don't you usually have a book in your sidebar and a "what I'm reading now" or something like that there? Or could be someone else that has that too and their blog is maybe close to yours.
But Statistics? Oh my God! How does anyone ever understand that stuff? I took that class in college by correspondence course - took me 7 months to complete it, and I sat in a summer class for the one I was taking, observing, in hopes it would help me grasp the concept. That fall, I had the 4 credit stat class by correspondence, in addition to six 3-credit courses, mainly in my major so theoretically "easier" (ha ha), and my fall semester classes were began at 9:05 a.m. and ended at I think 4 p.m. -3 days a week, after which I headed off to work till 11 p.m. By November, I was just praying please let this semester end! Preferably now! But obviously I survived it all -a little the worse for wear at the time, but I passed all 7 of those classes and even got a lovely big fat C in the stats! Math was never my strong point.
Yes, I'm the one who keeps the book I'm reading in my sidebar. Some of them stay there for a scary long time...
That statistics book is back on the shelf now. All I remembered from the course is that there was a way to do what I wanted to do, but I had to look up the specifics.
Usually the "nearest book to me right now" would be something more interesting! It just didn't happen that way when I read your post.
I was at the pharmacy one day a couple of years ago. There had been a misundestanding over a prescription, so I had the pharmacist call Mrs. S. to explain. While the pharmacist was on the phone, a puzzled look came over her face. She looked up at me and said, "Your wife says your cat is on fire???"
Tara had gotten upon the coffee table and stuck her tail over a lit candle. Since Tara consists mostly of hair, the only damage was a singed spot on her tail, more embarrassing than painful to her.
Hmmm, maybe the fire hazard mishap potential of the cat tail is more common than one would think. Funny story, Dr. S!
Now I know I won't light my candles. I haven't done that since I got KiKI over a year ago cause I was afraid she would either burn her tail or light the house on fire.
Awwwwww poor kitty. Im glad that shes feeling better but I think you need to get those stove guards that they sell in baby stores.
minnesotablue - I still light candles, but don't leave them unattended, and votives are safer than candlesticks.
bc - she usually won't go near the stove if a burner is on. This was unusual.
She was probably just surprised. Either way, ouch.
I know I was surprised...
My cat Gables jumping on the wood stove while it was burning was Mach 5 kitty...she licked her paws for a while and stayed *just* out of reach under the bed for about an hour...then walked (normally) nonchalantly out like nothing had happened. Resilient animals when it comes to heat I guess. She was fascinated by candles and burned a whisker once when I didn't shoo her away fast enough... Thanks for the laugh, fermicat
Oops...forgot when she jumped on my new flat top stove while it was cooling down, too. Learned to leave my full tea kettle on the hot burner after that day. That time I made her put her feet in ice water. That was back in MA.
Wow, I guess I'm lucky my cats have never caught themselves on fire with the candles I light around the house.
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