How Sidney’s Week Went

He was a good boy all week. On Tuesday he cut his leg.  We came home and there were spots of blood everywhere.  So I did the “front and center” check on all the cats and Duke included.  I did not see any cuts or bleeding on any of them.  I went and cleaned up all the blood spots on the floors.  I thought it was one of the other cats that might have had an abscess and it opened up.  It was not.

Then I went to my computer to do something and Sidney jumped up on my desk.  I still didn’t see anything until he got my attention and got up on the cabinet that my printer is on.  He never does that and so I knew that he needed a much better look-see to his legs and whatever.  I saw the blood on the cabinet and knew it must have been on one of his paws.  During the last few months since Sidney has come to live with us he has had a problem with me touching any part of him without playing or biting.  I was a bit hesitant, but surprising he let me take a better look.  Yep, he had cut himself.  The only thing that we could think of, and where the most blood was that he could have gotten cut, was on the half open door on the fireplace. 

All I could do was hold a paper towel on the cut and squeeze so that it would stop bleeding.  He was not going to let me put anything on it such as triple anti-biotic ointment.  I go through that a whole lot around here with all these animals that I take care of.  I was just hoping that it would at the very least get a scab over it quickly so that he would stop licking it.  It did and there was nothing else left for me to do.  He is fine today.    An unexpected behavior from this is now he loves me up and rubs my legs in the morning or as I walk through the house.  He is becoming a very nice and relaxed cat now.  I am glad that I could get him to become that way.  He really does enjoy it around here, even with the other cats.

I got one of those lazer lights that they love to play with.  Well if I even touch the thing he comes running.  LOL!  I got that in hopes of getting Charlie a bit more active.  He is to some extent but the greater thing about that is that he and Sidney seem to have a better relationship now too.  I find it strange though that the girls do not even acknowledge that this lazer light even exists.  It is only the boys that play with it and run around the house chasing the red ball of light.  I like to do that around bedtime.  It gets them exercise and they sleep better.  I sleep better too!

He is closer to becoming a lap kitty.  He gets up on the table between the couch and chair and just stands there.  We do not like him on the tables or the kitchen counters and so we push him off.  He is almost in our laps though and I take this as a very good sign. 

Oh, I got to tell you though, he sleeps on the bed now, with me or when I am not in there and with any other cats. 

That is all for this week on Sidney’s progress.  Come back next week for more.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

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