Hawking: Post-Gutting

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Hawking was pretty much the most pathetic thing ever when I brought her home.



Look at her, trying to be dignified with her little half-shaved leg. Awwwwwww.



I don't think I've ever seen a cat sit with their legs splayed like that.



Leaning Tower of Kitty
Makes you feel lopsided if you look at her too long, doesn't it?

The condensed version of events:

• When I dropped her off at the vet, the lady had to literally peel Hawking off of me. Seriously. At one point, there was a claw stuck in the skin of my neck. Hawking kind of panicked.


• The vet himself called me to say she was out of surgery and doing okay. I still can't get over that. That is super cool. Usually it's just an assistant or something that makes calls. I really like that the vet called. I love this Banfield place.


• Yeah, I left work early to pick up rescue my kitten. What of it? She is my little baby, after all.


• She whined the whole. way. home.


• When we got home, she wanted to lay in her carrier box, but Tesla wanted to sit on it and kept flattening it. I fixed it with tape. That poor box.


• Tesla is being downright mean! I think Hawking probably smells different, either like the vet's office or like the meds she's on or something. Tesla is having nothing to do with her.


• They gave me a small bottle of kitty pain meds for her. I have never had a vet send home pain meds. I'm considering changing her name temporarily to House while she is on her kitty drugs. But not really.


• Hawking is sleeping a lot. Poor thing. But she is doing fine! She's moving normally, if a bit slow and clumsy still. Also, her stitches are those cool "inside stitches" or whatever, so she can't chew on them. This is a huge relief. I was really worried about how I was going to keep her from chewing on stitches, given her tendency to chew on everything else.


• The new Notwist album is really good

(And I promise that after this I'll start putting pictures under cuts again.)