Using up all nine lives....

My cat wookie is determined to use up those nine lives of hers. Last year around this time she went missing for a week and then finally came home with one of her eyes so badly damaged (hanging out of her head) that she had to have it removed. There have been several "locked in the neighbors shed for days till mom heard her howling" episodes; and of course the 45 minute trip out to Jamye and Adrianna's up underneath my truck. I still don't know how she survived that one. But the she seems determined to top even that one because this past Sunday night around 10:30pm she came home with a big fluid sack hanging from her stomach and several small abrasions one her face and one of her feet. So we rushed her to the emergency room thinking that she had been hit by a car or something. The vet thinking the same thing and fearing internal bleeding took x-rays right away only to find that she had been shot. Yes.... shot! There the pellet was lodged in her chest clear as day and the path it had taken through her side had sliced clean through her deep muscle creating an internal pocket that was filling with fluid, and air. There was however no internal bleeding and after two days at the emergency clinic and a trip to our regular vet this morning her diagnosis is looking good. She will have to be confined and on antibiotics for a few weeks but should heal without the surgery that we originally thought would be necessary to repair her damaged muscle. So we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Wookie of course thinks she is just fine and is none too happy about being locking our little tiny bathroom. Poor kitty :( We are now trying to decide what to do once she heals since we are afraid that letting her outside might mean a repeat of our current situation.. We may build her a little outdoor enclosure or something since she does like to get fresh air, but then again...she may not want out for a while after all of this!