update on cats and monkeys
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woolymonkeyThanks to the 2nd antibiotics, I'm now recovered from both the kidney infection and the backlog of work that built up as a result.
So I can update you on my cats, and possibly even on my children...
Leicester is much perkier, indeed perky enough to be pretty fed up with his tiger cage. He's taken to scritching the blankets into a pile and generally fidgeting around. He still doesn't want to put weight on the bad leg, partly because it must be still sore, but mostly because the muscles are so wasted that it doesn't actually bear weight. He has a full range of movement in it when he's just waving it in the air though, and he's allowed to come out of the cage as long as he sits on laps like a good kitty and doesn't try to run or jump, so we sit and do his leg excercises together. Any day now the vet will give him the all clear to try a little very gentle standing and walking.
He and Humbug went through an odd spell where they would stand close together with all the body language saying 'We is friends' except that Humbug would hiss. He'd still act friendly and Leicester wouldn't react, but Humbug would hiss quietly. This has stopped now. We think it was all about Humbug insisting that he gets to be Chief Cat now that he's doing all the work and Leicester is helpless. Apparently Leicester agrees because he's started neatly burying his poo, something he wouldn't have been seen dead doing before: he always left it proudly on a mound of litter. Sometimes Humbug would come and bury it for him. But he says Humbug is only Acting Chief Cat. It's a temporary arrangement. Got that?
Spider is enjoying geeky A levels at Long Road and getting to work with real glass blowers for his Medical Research Council artwork. (It's weird and complicated.). He'll also be singing at West Road in the first part of this. Come and listen if you think you're hard enough. We'll all be there.
Squirrel has managed to get himself onto an extra GCSE course and also joined the band for the latest Monkey Federation Academies musical, Little Shop of Horrors. He's the trumpet so you'll hear him. Even if you're not going to the show.
So I can update you on my cats, and possibly even on my children...
Leicester is much perkier, indeed perky enough to be pretty fed up with his tiger cage. He's taken to scritching the blankets into a pile and generally fidgeting around. He still doesn't want to put weight on the bad leg, partly because it must be still sore, but mostly because the muscles are so wasted that it doesn't actually bear weight. He has a full range of movement in it when he's just waving it in the air though, and he's allowed to come out of the cage as long as he sits on laps like a good kitty and doesn't try to run or jump, so we sit and do his leg excercises together. Any day now the vet will give him the all clear to try a little very gentle standing and walking.
He and Humbug went through an odd spell where they would stand close together with all the body language saying 'We is friends' except that Humbug would hiss. He'd still act friendly and Leicester wouldn't react, but Humbug would hiss quietly. This has stopped now. We think it was all about Humbug insisting that he gets to be Chief Cat now that he's doing all the work and Leicester is helpless. Apparently Leicester agrees because he's started neatly burying his poo, something he wouldn't have been seen dead doing before: he always left it proudly on a mound of litter. Sometimes Humbug would come and bury it for him. But he says Humbug is only Acting Chief Cat. It's a temporary arrangement. Got that?
Spider is enjoying geeky A levels at Long Road and getting to work with real glass blowers for his Medical Research Council artwork. (It's weird and complicated.). He'll also be singing at West Road in the first part of this. Come and listen if you think you're hard enough. We'll all be there.
Squirrel has managed to get himself onto an extra GCSE course and also joined the band for the latest Monkey Federation Academies musical, Little Shop of Horrors. He's the trumpet so you'll hear him. Even if you're not going to the show.
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Date: 2012-10-05 06:03 pm (UTC)I am so glad Spider is enjoying his new courses. And I look forward to hearing about the artwork and about Squirrel's band.
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Date: 2012-10-05 10:54 pm (UTC)Your sons sound like remarkable young men. *g*
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