The Kat House

You’re not going to believe this.  I spoke way too soon in my last post when I told you how well Cruella was doing.  Later that same night I had to take her to the Pet ER – again!  It wasn’t the Addison’s Disease or any of her other ongoing afflictions.  It was all Molly’s fault!

Molly has been on a diet for a while now, and she’s not handling it well at all.  She gets plenty to eat, but she’s never satisfied.  She is constantly trying to breaking into the garbage can or steal Cruella’s food – and sometimes she tries to steal mine too!  On Wednesday night, I had been munching on sunflower seeds while sitting at the computer.  I got up to get ready for bed, and I made the mistake of leaving the bag of sunflower seeds unattended.  I walked out of the room for just a second, and Molly took the opportunity to grab it.

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here before, but Cruella is my shadow.  She goes everywhere I go.  When I walk from one room to another, so does she.  I started to walk back into my computer room to turn out the light, and that’s when I saw Molly with the sunflower seeds.  She growled and snarled her teeth at me, and before I could even react, Cruella jumped her.  The two got into a terrible fight, and I had to pull them apart.  Once I got them separated, I guarded Cruella and rushed her into another room.  That’s when I saw a large gash just below her left eye – the same eye being treated for a corneal ulcer!  There was blood all around the eyeball too, but I couldn’t tell if it was also injured.  So I called the Pet ER to tell them I was on my way, and then I rushed out there.

Cruella was very lucky.  The doctor closed her wound with surgical glue and stained the eyeball.  The corneal ulcer was back, but there were no new injuries.  I am continuing to treat the ulcer with an antibiotic and pain medication.  Hopefully it will be healed in a few more days.  As for Molly, I am still upset with her.  The only “treats” she will be receiving in the near future are appetite suppressants!