Macky, Mowie, and Sunny

We thought that Mac had a rough 2006 even though he wasn’t born until the end of April. In those 8 months he was near death, had an eye infection, had an abscess, broke his leg which needed surgery and mysteriously bled all over the place one day.

Last night I noticed that the side of Macky’s mouth was red and black. His lips and nose are normally very pale pink.. almost white, but only one side of his mouth was discolored. When I took a closer look, the corner of his lip looked unbelievably raw. Sunny often gets chapped lips that get scabs, but that was nothing compared to this. We thought his abscess didn’t heal properly or something was wrong with his teeth, though they looked fine to us.

We brought him to the vet as soon as we could today. Mac put up such a fight. I should have never bragged about how he walked right into the carrier last time. He squirmed out of the carrier about 5 times…and the times that I was actually able to pick him up were seldom compared to my attempts. He hid under the bed, behind the chair and bit me when I tried to get him out. I have never felt so horrible in my life. I had to bribe him with treats and toys. Luckily he’s still naive enough to fall for it and trust me (which made me feel even worse). Sunny made out like a bandit and actually went in the box to earn more treats. Since he never goes to the vet, he didn’t understand that the carrier = bad.

Mac was diagnosed with ulcers on his mouth. Luckily nothing was wrong with his teeth, although a part of his bottom gum was covered as well. The vet said it’s very painful, so he got an anti-inflamatory shot while he was there, and his favorite antibiotics to go home with. I wasn’t being sarcastic about that, Mac loves Clavamox.

He is only 8 months old and everyone at the vet’s office knows him… and he hasn’t even had the chance to be neutered yet! Maybe its just this cute face of his…

Luckily as I sat here writing about him, he came over to forgive me with some kitten kisses.

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