Last Monday Genghis decided to sneak out the door and have a night on the town. We tried and tried to call him back, but he was determined. We finally had to go to bed and leave him to it. I went out in the middle of the night to see if he was interested in coming back in and he came trotting over to me ready to come back to the house cat life. In the morning we found him to be very sore on his right shoulder and found a little puncture wound. We cleaned him up and he seemed to feel better in a couple of days. Then the infection set in and on Monday next he had to make a visit to the vet and get fixed up. He had an abscess and has to wear the "cone of silence" for the next 10 days so he won't mess with his wound while it's healing. It has some stuff hanging out of it to keep it open while it drains. The "cone of silence" is doing part of the job, but not the silence part. He also has a hard time navigating around things and is always banging into stuff while he walks around. He loves to have you scratch his head and neck since he can't do any self scratching. He's getting a little used to it, but he looks quite dejected. We are hoping for a speedy recovery and no repeats of the night on the town activities in the future.
Poor kitty.
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