February 12, 2020 - 152 - "Playing Cat and Mouse"

     ...with my cat.

     So it's 7:42 a.m. and I'm sitting on the couch with my laptop pretending not to be trying to corner Ella.

    I made the mistake of brushing my teeth after I'd gotten out her cat carrier.  She heard the sound the plastic hardware against the metal dryer made, flew past the offending gear...and up the stairs.

     Now she won't let me come near her.  I don't even know where she is at the moment.

    She's no dummy.

    She knows that it's Vet. day.

    That's not Veteran's day... but Veterinarian Day:  two of Ella's least favorite days of the year.

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     I'm supposed to drop her off at 7:45 a.m.,  The vet's office is only about 15 minutes from us, but she's been hiding in one of her 8973 places, and I can't find her.  She peeked out at the top of the stairs as I came up, but then tore off again to find another place to hide.

     I should have shut all of the bedroom doors before I got out the carrier.  I should have gotten the carrier while I was holding her.

     But that's all useless information now.

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     So now I'm sitting here typing away.  Playing the waiting game.

     I put on the standard  'I'm-writing-music/....music-for-not-stalking a kitty' on the computer, along with the background music for writing (.../-and-definitely-not-for-taking-cats-to-the-vet.')

     Ella, of course, is not buying any of it.



     She knows.  She always knows.  She freakin' knows when it's the 1st of the month and I'm going to put her flea/heart worm medicine on her.  Of course she knows when I'm going to bind her, abduct her, and throw her in a vehicle bound for all manner of veterinarian discomfort and humiliation.  (Do you know where they put that thermometer???!!!)

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All's Well That Ends Well/Trouble Ahead

     So now I'm back many hours later to report she did fine at the vet.  As usual.

     She did not do fine on the car ride to the vet.  As usual.

     Which is bad.  Worst than normal kind of bad.

     Besides the normal check up stuff today:  I also asked about Ella traveling with us to Mexico. 

     What could go possibly go wrong? 

     Yeah.  Plenty, that's what.

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    The vet gave her something to 'calm her nerves'. 

     But, cooler, than giving her good drugs...I learned (along with the vet, I think) that as of December 16, 2019 - cats no longer need special state-issued forms to enter the country.)

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      It's almost midnight, gotta get my post done and go to sleep ASAP, so I'll end with this newsflash...

     You heard it hear first:

     Ella will soon become an international traveler!  (Heaven help her fellow passengers).

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"A cat has absolute emotional honesty:  human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings but a cat does not."

-Ernest Hemingway

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