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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Clutzy Cat

Rumble, my poor little guy, is a mite accident prone, me thinks. I began to have this idea when he first, as a very young kitten, managed to pull an entire cake off of the counter, smashing plate and cake all over everything. This idea was then confirmed when he smashed his knuckle on something and destroyed his claw on the one paw (it has since regrown healthily), and now my belief in this idea has been reaffirmed once more.

Rumble came in the house last night with a GIANT BULLET HOLE in the side of him. No, wait, upon closer inspection it looks as though he has fallen off of the fence and caught his side, right below his shoulder blade, on the corner of a post. The result is a long scrape about 10 cm (4 inches) long culminating in a puncture hole about the size of a quarter. There were no copious amounts of blood, just a pretty red ugly spot that he wouldn't stop licking.

This morning he is at the vet, where he will get cleaned and stitched, and be back home again this afternoon.