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Fitness: After a fairly rigorous lifting session last night, I’m right where I thought I’d be at 195 even. As long as I keep lifting, doing cardio regularly and eating right I should get to where I want sooner or later. I’m where I want to be, so unless I hit another milestone, I’m going to knock it off with the fitness update. On to more Mouse! |
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I can’t believe the amount of pictures that I had of my old buddy. I’m going to tell a couple of stories and have a bunch of candid shots from over the years at the end. There is still one more blog to do after this, as these shots chronicle from 2005 to mid-2007. After that, I’ll do from the latter half of 2007 to his final day. That one’s going to be really hard to do. In any event, on with the stories! Punk Rock Kitty I remember in the summer of 2005, Mouse had a couple of abscesses from fighting with other creatures outside. The first one he got was on his back, which was easy enough to clean up and take care of, but the second one was on his forehead right over his left eye. I cleaned it up right before leaving for a weekend in Portland to hang out with my WCS buddies and thought nothing of it while I was gone. When I returned, the abscess had come back and needed to be drained again. Instead of doing it manually like before, he was taken to the vet and they took care of it. It required surgery, stitches, and a tube in his head for the fluid to drain. Mouse was never really the same after that and he also never went outside again unless it was supervised or if he ran out when the opportunity presented itself. In a way, I still feel kind of bad about that because he loved being outside, but I know all the risks involved with letting a cat run around outside. He had already been attacked by cats and raccoons (which likely caused the abscesses), but there are a lot of people that drive too fast down the street out in front, there’s an arterial nearby, and I found one of the neighbor’s cats in the driveway with a pellet hole in its head. It was shot right between its eyes and it was so horrible to see something like that happen to such a beautiful female cat. I know one of the juvenile delinquents that used to live across the street and up a few houses shot her, but there was no proof other than speculation and circumstantial evidence. It simultaneously angers me that it happened and it hurts me to think that could have happened to Mouse (he was still indoor/outdoor at the time). To return to the original topic, here are some pictures from right after the surgery and after he’d gotten the tube out of his head.      Mouse vs. Pink Godzilla I’d come home from a shopping trip to Pink Godzilla in April of 2006 (about three weeks before I started working in the area) with a fair share of things and a rather large pink bag to bring them home with. I had emptied the bag and left it on the bed, thinking nothing of it at the time. A few minutes later, I came back in the room to the sound of rustling – Mouse had taken it upon himself to climb in the bag and start playing in it! He was still a playful cat at the age of 14, but I didn’t expect this. Luckily, I had my camera handy and he spent quite a while in there playing with the bag and rustling around.      Candid Shots from 2005        Candid Shots from 2006          Candid Shots from Early 2007  Final Chronicle Next Week The pictures are starting to run out, so it’s time to finish things up with the next blog. It’ll be sad to put all these pictures to rest, but there’s only so much more I can say and show about a cat that’s been gone for almost a month now except that I miss everything about him and that I love him a lot. Barclay and Bootsie have helped with the pain quite a bit, but it’ll never fully go away. It’s tough coming to terms with that. Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on April 23rd, 2010. |
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[A Farewell to Mouse] [Preparing to Lose an Old Friend] [The Chronicles of Mouse, Part One] [The Chronicles of Mouse, Part Two] [The Chronicles of Mouse, Part Three] [The Chronicles of Mouse, Part Four] [The Chronicles of Mouse, Part Five] [The Chronicles of Mouse, Part Seven] |
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