Re: 3/26 Tugger AMPS 131 +2.25 88
Tugger's been through some stuff, poor guy, but yeah he is very tough stuff and very cool and relaxed about it pretty much. There were issues when we moved to Germany at first and we had to leave the three cats behind with a good friend. Not long before I was due to come get him and fly him to Germany, he got sick. His first UTI and it had him on death's door in no time flat. He was in the hospital for a while on IV's and then he spent some weeks living in a boarding facility before I could bring him home with me. At the Norfolk airport, they made me remove him from his carrier (nowhere had I read that would be asked or I'd have been prepared for what came next,) they ran his carrier over the roller thing into the xray machine and I walked through the standup one with Tugger, terrifed, in my arms. The carrier came out of the machine and hit the rollers on the other side and all hell broke loose. After serious attempts on my part to restrain him, resulting in cuts on my hand and arm that are still scarred today, the cat escaped. In the airport. Thank Bast I was able to get him back into his carrier, after several minutes of trying to herd him (on my own, bleeding) into some sort of corner. On the eventual return trip back to the States, his carrier got dropped and he was flipped upside down. Thank Bast this time that hubby used good zip ties as backup clips to hold it together in case of rough treatment and it did not fall apart.
Needless to say, any other cat would have just jumped off a bridge or maybe gone postal on all beans forevermore. Tugger? Purrs and headbutts as soon my voice cut through the terror of the situations. He was a bit skittish of beans for a while after our return, but he's ok with them now. Especially if they skritch his ears and speak to him in a deep sexy voice :lol:
The most resistance I get out of him is one single attempt to get away if he's reeeeeeeally not in the mood but when I say "no, we have to do this" and put my hand on his back he just flops over with a grunt. And sometimes when it's shot time he'll try to kick his leg up while I'm pulling up skin but a firm "Aah-aah" puts a stop to that. If not, I give him The Look. Which does not do anything, but gives us both a chance to calm down while we're staring at each other. Then he gets his shot ;-)
He's my special boy that's for sure =) He's been through hell, got the tshirt, hoarked a hairball on the tshirt and now he'd rather just sit in the window and chill with the birds
That's for sure! Feel free to point people to it. I regret not keeping better records earlier on, but I'm honest enough to admit there's no way I could have handled this level of attention and dedication to it all before now either.
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Then I didn't have enough brain cells to update while trying to listen to what he was saying so I had to wait till he was ready to go back to work. 