Calamity Kitten
I guess there’s always one in every litter! In our case it’s the largest male, the first born. We’ve nicknamed him Uno in honour of that. He’s the one who’s always the first to stick his nose in to see what you’re doing. The first to greet us in the morning. If I feel a kitten sitting on my foot while I’m at the computer, it’s Uno. If there’s one climbing up my back - Uno again. If there’s a crash, it’s him. First to the dinner bowl - Uno. He’s usually the first to wake up when they’ve all had a snooze too, then he’ll nibble on the nearest kitten’s ears and the back of it’s neck until he or she wakes up and plays with him. N
eedless to say we’ve all got a really soft spot for him. He might not have the best Classic pattern but he’s a very handsome boy nonetheless and a superb colour.
On Sunday there was a clatter and crash coming from the conservatory. We went to investigate, only to find a bowl of biscuits scattered to all four corners of the room. We just assumed it was Uno…….. Probably aiming to jump on one of his sibling’s backs and landing on the bowl instead. After clearing up he proved us right by limping very badly. He’d obviously had a bad landing and done himself a mischief. He had a nap, and when he woke up he wouldn’t put any weight on one of his front paws at all. It didn’t seem to worry him, he still dive-bombed the others and made it first as usual to the food bowl. Later we noticed he was sitting with it at a very strange angle and it seemed to be limp from the joint downwards.
He was still limping in the morning so I took him to the vet. He thought it could be a folding fracture above the joint, one of the two bones he could feel was fine but he wasn’t sure about the other without an x-ray. Two hours and £93 later I was told he didn’t have any broken bones at all and to let nature take it’s course! I was also told he’d been sedated and that he’d be sleepy and wobbly on his legs for a while. As soon as he got home I placed him on the beanbag where the others were napping expecting him to curl up with them and sleep of the sedation. He had other ideas, a few nips of ears and jumping on unsuspecting kitten’s backs he soon had them all tearing around the house again. He was even putting some weight on the bad leg - Monkey! He couldn’t have done that a few hours earlier and saved me £93 !!! I watched him for a while for wobbliness but gave up after he’d jumped in and out of the waste paper basket waiting for another kitten to walk by and get jumped on, he was going to be just fine!