Help - did I hurt Otis UPDATE

Hi the

Thank you all for your concern. I felt just nauseated after doing that to
Otis.

He appears to be totally completely fine. In fact, the little monster got
up at 3 AM and raced around the house, running over our heads, clawing at
the window screen, and creating his usual scene. I never did get back to
sleep.

I've prodded him all over and there are no spots that seem to cause him
discomfort so I'm going to leave it for a some more time. I'll keep poking
him to make sure that something doesn't develop. He's just so ridiculously
healthy looking and acting that I don't really want to take him into TED.

Thank you all for worrying about him with me!

Susan M
otis and chester
Who now has experience to point to when I tell the kids never to slam their
doors

ACHHHHHHHHHHH! I mixed my verb tenses.

The paragraph should read:
He appears to be totally completely fine. In fact, the little monster got
up at 3 AM and raced around the house, ran over our heads, clawed at
the window screen, and created his usual scene. I never did get back to
sleep.

Susan M
Otis and Chester
blushing


"Susan M" smawdsley remove @shaw.ca wrote in message
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Hi the

Thank you all for your concern. I felt just nauseated after doing that to
Otis.

He appears to be totally completely fine. In fact, the little monster got
up at 3 AM and raced around the house, running over our heads, clawing at
the window screen, and creating his usual scene. I never did get back to
sleep.

I've prodded him all over and there are no spots that seem to cause him
discomfort so I'm going to leave it for a some more time. I'll keep
poking him to make sure that something doesn't develop. He's just so
ridiculously healthy looking and acting that I don't really want to take
him into TED.

Thank you all for worrying about him with me!

Susan M
otis and chester
Who now has experience to point to when I tell the kids never to slam
their doors

I'm glad to hear it, but not terribly surprised. Cats are both tough and
resilient.

Joy

"Susan M" smawdsley remove @shaw.ca wrote in message
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ACHHHHHHHHHHH! I mixed my verb tenses.

The paragraph should read:
He appears to be totally completely fine. In fact, the little monster got
up at 3 AM and raced around the house, ran over our heads, clawed at
the window screen, and created his usual scene. I never did get back to
sleep.

Susan M
Otis and Chester
blushing


"Susan M" smawdsley remove @shaw.ca wrote in message
news:1vZ%d.759501$8l.166245@pd7tw1no...
Hi the

Thank you all for your concern. I felt just nauseated after doing that
to
Otis.

He appears to be totally completely fine. In fact, the little monster
got
up at 3 AM and raced around the house, running over our heads, clawing
at
the window screen, and creating his usual scene. I never did get back
to
sleep.

I've prodded him all over and there are no spots that seem to cause him
discomfort so I'm going to leave it for a some more time. I'll keep
poking him to make sure that something doesn't develop. He's just so
ridiculously healthy looking and acting that I don't really want to take
him into TED.

Thank you all for worrying about him with me!

Susan M
otis and chester
Who now has experience to point to when I tell the kids never to slam
their doors

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:32:35 GMT, "Susan M" smawdsley remove
@shaw.ca yodeled:

ACHHHHHHHHHHH! I mixed my verb tenses.

The paragraph should read:
He appears to be totally completely fine. In fact, the little monster got
up at 3 AM and raced around the house, ran over our heads, clawed at
the window screen, and created his usual scene. I never did get back to
sleep.


That's um, great news! Well, that he's feeling better, anyway.



Theresa
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My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
That's um, great news! Well, that he's feeling better, anyway.


Yep - that's my boy He's lucky I'm his mom - not a lot of people would
put up with him :-)

Susan M
Otis and Chester

"Susan M" smawdsley remove @shaw.ca wrote in message
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
That's um, great news! Well, that he's feeling better, anyway.


Yep - that's my boy He's lucky I'm his mom - not a lot of people would
put up with him :-)

Susan M
Otis and Chester




I remember the posts we exchanged a few weeks ago, when I was so presumptous
(sp?) as to try and tell you how to manage Otis.
Please forgive me.
I had no idea how difficult he was, and yes, kudos to you for tolerating it.
Sorry, Susan.

Tweed

LOL - thanks Christina. No worries. He's a bit of an outlier but you're
right that he has to have some limits. Problem is that we physically didn't
have the ability to get enough space between us and him when he was removed
from the bedroom before this new house. He slept in the basement lastnight
since we're so zonked and we closed both doors so could only hear part of
it. When my husband got up at 5 AM to go to work, he let Otis up. He
charged around for a while, discovered the heat was *way* down for the night
and immediately snuggled under the covers until 7:30 AM. He just *so* loves
to be with his people :-)

This is a classic Otis story from the rpca archives:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=Sus...com&rn um=567

Enjoy!

Susan M
Otis and Chester


"Christina Websell" wrote in message
I remember the posts we exchanged a few weeks ago, when I was so presumptous
(sp?) as to try and tell you how to manage Otis.
Please forgive me.
I had no idea how difficult he was, and yes, kudos to you for tolerating
it.
Sorry, Susan.

Tweed

Susan M wrote:


I've prodded him all over and there are no spots that seem to cause him
discomfort so I'm going to leave it for a some more time. I'll keep poking
him to make sure that something doesn't develop. He's just so ridiculously
healthy looking and acting that I don't really want to take him into TED.

There's a reason why they say cats have nine lives. They manage to come
out of what would seem like terrible accidents without a scratch. So
glad to hear otis is doing well. Good idea to keep an eye on him though.

--
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"Marina" wrote in message
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There's a reason why they say cats have nine lives. They manage to come
out of what would seem like terrible accidents without a scratch. So glad
to hear otis is doing well. Good idea to keep an eye on him though.

Thanks Marina! He actually started purring while I was prodding him and did
the elevator butt thing so I think he's okay. I will keep watching him
though.

I keep thinking about this nine lives things though - he's used up six that
I know about - yikes! I was thinking of Frank and Otis last night when I
was reading The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats. He talks about how quickly
cats go feral when they get lost or leave their homes. I remember you
describing how Frank switched back to housecat after you got the harness on
after he was lost and I remember the look in Otis' eyes when I sweet talked
him after he was lost. It was like something coming back to light from a
distant past.

*really* off this topic, I know.

Susan M
Otis and Chester

Susan M wrote:

I keep thinking about this nine lives things though - he's used up six that
I know about - yikes! I was thinking of Frank and Otis last night when I
was reading The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats. He talks about how quickly
cats go feral when they get lost or leave their homes. I remember you
describing how Frank switched back to housecat after you got the harness on
after he was lost and I remember the look in Otis' eyes when I sweet talked
him after he was lost. It was like something coming back to light from a
distant past.


That's right. It was like something suddenly clicked in Frank's head -
'Hey! Don't I know this person? Hey, this is *my* person!' I'm so happy
we both got our darling boys back.

--
Marina, Frank, Nikki, and coming soon: Mere!
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki