Jahar is doing fine.

Jahar is doing fine.  We had a bit of a scare yesterday afternoon, when he managed somehow to pull out 3 or 4 cm (an inch and a half or so) of his suture.  The incision looked fine, but all that suture hanging out didn't.  We ran him down to the animal ER in Kearney Mesa, where we discovered that he hadn't actually pulled any suture out – he had just managed to unravel the loose end.  The vet there tucked it all back in and we brought him back home.


He doesn't much like the “cone of shame” – none of the animals do when they have to wear it.  Without it, though, he'd be worrying away at the incision, and there's no way we could stop him.  He's managed to get it off twice, so we have to keep a close eye on him to make sure it's still on.  Last night Debbie slept down on the floor to keep an eye on him.  She dozed off for a few minutes, and when she woke the little so-and-so had pulled it off!

Here's our souvenir from the surgery – about 20 cm of narrow ribbon.  We have lots of ribbon around the house, but it's all put away now.  We have no idea why on this day (as opposed to the past two and a half years) Jahar decided to eat this particular ribbon.  We've had cats in the house for over 30 years, and had never had anything like this happen before.  There may have been something about this particular ribbon (maybe an odor in the coloring?) that attracted him, or maybe it was just plain chance.  I don't think there's any way we're going to figure that out...

Update: there's something weird going on with the two photos on this post, and I haven't figured out what it is.  They both show up briefly when I reload the page (in any browser), but disappear a few seconds after the page is completely loaded...