radio-cat-tive

[jazzfish]

Chaos went nuclear on Tuesday afternoon. The vet's called us a couple of times since then: he's doing fine, he loves everybody, he's about the most friendly and laid-back cat they've seen in there, etc etc. No real surprises. He's always been a pretty chill beast. Except for the time we moved into a place with a ceiling fan and he hid from it under the bed for two days, or when he got out once and just kind of huddled at the edge of the house because the outside was way too big.

He's likely coming home on Monday, which is all to the good. Kai, being a highly routine-oriented cat, is kind of freaked out by the lack of Chaos. She's been telling me about it most afternoons, and also at one in the morning a couple of nights. I love her dearly but one in the morning is not the time to have long yowly discussions about how she's cold because the big white cat isn't around to look put-upon while she curls up with him.

Anyway, per discussion with the vet it sounds like we'll each get half an hour a day of Chaos-cuddling apiece for a couple of weeks. This is less than he'll want but it should be enough to keep him from getting too irritable. I am very curious to see what his reaction to coming home will be. Probably "oh yes, this place, i will now spend the next twelve hours in my box and then demand that you pet me."

It'll be good to have him back.

(Also and unrelatedly, the problem with getting really good solid critiques back on a story is that it takes time and effort to absorb them, and to figure out what to do with them. There are worse problems to have.)

Comments

[northboundtrain]

A long time ago, we had one of our cats irradiated, too, for the same thing, I think. Cats can tolerate it way better than humans can; he should be good as new in a jiffy.

[jazzfish]

Seems to be! I did ask the vet if it was okay for Kai to keep curling up with him and she basically said "yeah, the expected lifetime exposure for cats is way lower than for humans, so the brief heavy dose will be fine."

[nixilated.livejournal.com]

D'aww, poor kitteh. I hope he'll be fine.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that your kitty has been ill, but glad to hear that he seems to be doing better now. It's hard to have them sick and at the vet. I hope he does well upon returning home.

Do you have any opposing critiques? Or are they at least along similar lines? That sometimes makes assimilating them a little easier.

[blairmacg.livejournal.com]

Glad kitty will be coming home soon.

I do love the notion of a cat who likes routine to so miss Chaos. :)

[jazzfish]

Thanks! He seems to be. He's gone back to lounging in the middle of the floor and otherwise demanding to be petted and cuddled, so I think we're good. :)

[jazzfish]

Yeah, he's fine. Slept all day when he came back and was more or less back to normal immediately after.

None of the critiques are contradictory this time! Which is a huge relief; part of why I froze up so hard on my VP story was that I had twelve people read it (seven VPers, five instructors) and got about five wildly divergent responses: no consensus at all. This is WAY better.

[jazzfish]

:) Chaos is perhaps the most misnamed cat I have ever met. The closest to 'trouble' he ever got was climbing on the counter to look at / play with Emily's parakeets, and he never got very far with that because he kept stepping on the answering machine and making it beep, so we knew to yell "Chaos, get down from there!"