Killer's Home!

Dear Doll-face,

I wanted to give you a quick update on the small gray cat.  He still has some inflammation from his UTI, so the vet gave him a shot with one more strong dose of antibiotic.  He will need to finish this first bag of prescription cat food, and then move to a different food indefinitely. He can no longer be fed with the other cats, our days of free feeding are over. They will have to eat at certain times for the rest of Killer's life.

The vet is also strongly against him being allowed to be outside, for fear of him supplementing is diet with game. This is also because the vet explained that just yesterday he had to give major surgery to a pet who got into a fight with a stray.  For now Killer can't be outside because his wound needs more time to heal, but Michael and I will have to discuss what we think is best for him soon.

He's also going to need to keep the cone on for a while longer. He keeps picking at his scabs, and he needs to let it heal, so cone for at least a few more days.  We're also going to have to keep treating his tail with the antibiotic cream until it heals up, to keep out infection from when he does manage to get to it and rip off a scab.

In the end, this is how it came out.

First vet trip:
Urine Analysis $20
Actual vet visit $20
Overnight $40
Medication $40
Special food $40

Second trip:
Stitches, cone, cream: $210

Third Trip:
Original surgery covers repeat stitches due to cat being dumb, thank goodness.

Fourth Trip:
Overnight $40
Urine Analysis $20
Vet Consultation $20
Shot: $20

Our total cost of Killer getting sick, then hurting himself because he was so desperate to get his food because he didn't like not being free fed:


$470.


I'm now going to look into how to get him into the cat food/pet med/animal care commercial business... and with any luck maybe a sitcom director will choose him to be a character's pet.  Killer needs to pay his debt.