More cats and avoiding rabies

Working with the cats every day, I definitely have my favorites. I'm actually going to tell a story about one that isn't my favorite, but still good.

Anna Banana, a cute little long-haired kitten, is seriously the cutest thing in the building at the moment. She has a deposit and should be getting spayed any day now so she can go home.

Last week I went to clean out her kennel and saw that she had two poops in her cubby. I closed it off, cleaned it and put her in there so I could clean out the rest of the kennel. Not 5 minutes later, I looked over at the cubby window and saw that there were droplets of liquid on it.

Little Anna Banana had pooped in her cubby and peed in the corner, then somehow managed to spread it all over every surface, 360 degrees of pee. I was shocked and disgusted, and had to clean her cubby all over again.

She's gotten better about using her litterbox since then and yesterday sat nice and patiently at the window while waiting for her kennel to be cleaned. And whoever cleaned her up after than debacle said that she loves getting baths. How about that.

My favorite cat at the moment is another 5 month old kitten, the only other one we have right now. She's a little calico and she's just the sweetest thing. I want to take her home. Her name is Tinker, but I call her Tink.

Tinker

My other favorite is Johnson. He's sick right now and in isolation, but of all the cats I've had to pick up at work, he was the easiest. And he was by no means the smallest. It may have been because he was sick and lethargic, but he gave no resistance and was just as sweet as could be. I go visit him whenever I can. He still has a few days of treatment yet. His photo is terrible.

I also met the owners of one of the cats in quarantine. At a big group dinner, one couple was talking about how their cat had been taken because she scratched someone trying to give her a rabies shot at the rabies clinic.

Sure enough, I saw her yesterday and the KA who cleaned her kennel said she was not very nice. One of her owners said she was a "heinous bitch" to strangers, but actually "very cool" once she got to know you. I overheard people talking about her the day she went in, and she has quite the reputation for being crazy.

Since she was getting her rabies vaccination, she is now on rabies bite hold. Which leads me to my next topic.

I got my first of three pre-exposure rabies vaccinations Friday morning. And, as a freebie, I got one for tetanus, too. It actually might not be free, but the nurse assumed the county would pay for it and gave it to me, and I had no reason to think otherwise. A coworker told me later that they offered it to her but said she had to pay for it. I better not have to, because I wasn't informed that it might cost me money.

Tetanus didn't hurt going in, but it was sore until yesterday afternoon. Rabies burned a little but felt fine by Saturday evening. I got them in different shoulders, so both arms were not happy Friday and Saturday. Two more to go!